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Crossing Nation happy Easter 
man. 

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It's so good to be with each and
every single one of you, my name

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is Clayton Hansel. 
And for those of you who don't 

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know me, I have the opportunity 
to be one of the pastor's here, 

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on staff at the Crossing, and my
parents raised me in a good 

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Christian home. 
They took me to church on a 

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regular basis. 
But over time I realized that 

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there were some questions that I
had that I didn't have a really 

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good answer. 
Answers to questions, like can I

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actually trust the Bible 
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Like did Jesus, really died on a
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Like if Jesus really died on a 
cross, was putting a grave on 

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Friday and then somehow on 
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How did that happen? 
I had questions and I needed 

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some answers because I'd also 
heard some teachings about 

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Jesus, that there was an eternal
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were in a relationship with him,
and then there was eternal 

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punishment. 
Hell for those who didn't and 

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when you think about eternity 
and you think about the glories 

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of heaven or the horrors of 
hell, I figured I probably need 

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to get this thing figured out 
because there's an awful lot 

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that hangs in the balance. 
I had heard teachings about 

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Jesus teachings, that I love. 
That were very appealing to me 

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teachings, like forgiveness, 
Peace, Hope. 

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But was it, reliable? 
Was it trustworthy? 

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I'd heard about all the love 
that Jesus proclaimed in the 

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standard of love that. 
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that. 
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But was it reliable? 
Was it trustworthy? 

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And so I went on a search for 
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And this journey took me down 
one of the most life-changing 

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roads. 
It changed my identity. 

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It changed my purpose and it 
changed my outlook on this life 

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and in the life that is to come.
So today at the Crossing we are 

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beginning a seven-week sermon 
series called if because we all 

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have questions and I think we 
all deserve some answers. 

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It is designed to help people 
who already have a relationship 

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with Jesus Christ to strengthen.
There's to give you a firmer 

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Foundation, but it's also 
designed for those of you who 

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have lost your faith. 
To those of you who are seeking 

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your faith. 
For you to be able to find it 

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for you, to be able to start it.
I want to welcome those of you 

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joining at all of our different 
locations. 

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Those of you here at 48th 
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part of our Macomb location, 
Kirksville, and 929, and Pike 

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County and Hannibal. 
Those of you joining us in Lima,

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Mount Sterling, Keokuk, Monmouth
Jacksonville. 

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To those of you who are part of 
our inside family, at the 

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Western Illinois, correctional 
center, Pike, County Jail, 

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Adams, County, jail. 
And those of you gathering at 

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the Vandalia women's prison and 
the thousands of you joining a 

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online and I all. 
Yeah, that's great. 

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I also want to welcome all of 
you joining us for the very 

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first time, or maybe the first 
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We are so thankful that you are 
here, and I want you to know 

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that there are campus pastors at
every single one of our 

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locations and staff at every 
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difference makers at every 
single one of our locations that

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are rooting for you and have 
been praying for you as a 

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church. 
We are in your corner and we To 

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help you find an intimate, 
personal relationship with Jesus

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Christ. 
And I know in a room, this big 

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at all of our different 
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There are some of you here today
that are just here to make 

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somebody else happy We get it. 
So we're going to get you out of

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here as soon as possible. 
We know that there are some of 

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you Gathering here today that 
don't believe in God. 

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And I want, you know, you picked
one of the coolest places to 

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hang out if you don't believe in
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There are some of you here today
you believe in God, you're just 

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mad at him and I want you to 
know, it's okay to be here. 

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If you're mad at God to, there's
some of you who you are going 

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through the Thrills of life and 
you think you don't need God, 

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and there are some of you who 
are going through, Through the 

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lows of life and you can't seem 
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There are some of you who you 
have questions that you 

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desperately need answered. 
And there are some of you 

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listening to my voice right now.
That have questions you're too 

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afraid to ask for the first 18 
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This is what I thought it meant 
to be a Christian and meant to 

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close your eyes. 
Cover your ears, ignore all 

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human thought. 
All human reason and just take a

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blind leap of faith. 
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I needed something that could be
evaluated something that could 

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be examine something that could 
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I was in a conversation with a 
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God was like, and he was saying,
you know, God's whoever you want

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him to be, man, there's no 
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doesn't matter what you do here 
on Earth, it's all going to turn

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out well, in the end. 
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and then I said, well, how do 
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just know man okay, I'm 
exaggerating a little but that's

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pretty much what he was. 
Now we all have a little bit of 

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that. 
I said, well how do you know he 

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goes? 
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Okay, I'm that sounds cool. 
Make a good card but I give you 

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needed. 
Open heart surgery. 

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He had a friend who's like, just
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I'll figure it out. 
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surgeries. 
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know? 
And they said to you? 

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Well, I just know how to do 
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you're gone. 
No, I need something on a wall. 

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I need something better than 
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What I want to tell you is when 
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comes to your salvation when it 
comes to your soul, But it's 

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infinitely more important than 
open, heart surgery and I think 

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we need something a little bit 
more than I just know in my 

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heart. 
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to love him with all of our 
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What I'm trying to tell you is 
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God is through a reasoned faith.
Not a blind one. 

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Now, listen to me, I don't want 
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personal relationship with Jesus
Christ is definitely more than 

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just intellectual assent. 
It's way more than just deep 

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critical thinking but it is 
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And today I want to take you on 
the journey, the end up being 

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life-giving to me and hopefully 
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Journey. 
Here's the bottom line, the 

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centerpiece of Christianity is 
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I know some of you are like oh 
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church was crazy and here it is 
on Easter weekend, but listen to

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me, it's just not lots of people
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In fact, Jesus was only one 
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cross on the day, that became 
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the Christian bumper stickers, 
for all the crosses on churches,

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for all the really cool cross 
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It's not the cross. 
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Something different. 
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a historical factual literal 
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In fact, one of the biggest 
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years after this event rights to
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this is what he says. 
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raised, your faith is futile. 
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If only for this life, we have 
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We are of all people, most to be
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The resurrection isn't true. 
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our time back. 
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differently than we spend it. 
We've have different standards 

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different measurements. 
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there are four historical facts 
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Now when I say everybody has to 
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gonna saying whether you're 
Republican or Democrat, you have

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to agree on these four, whether 
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your you don't believe in God, 
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You can't get around these four 
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Fact. 
Number one, Jesus of Nazareth 

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died on a cross executed by 
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Now this is not just the 
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writers, of Matthew, Mark, Luke 
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It's also of Josephus and 
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Josephus was a Jewish historian,
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And given the fact that both of 
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nations were hostile to the 
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They included this stuff as a 
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Yeah, this guy died. 
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was a man by the name of Jesus 
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Pontius Pilate. 
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the grave was empty. 
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that one in a second. 
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that Jesus's early followers 
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tangible, resurrected, Jesus and
this event transformed their 

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lives. 
This experience shifted who they

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were, they went from being 
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and distraught followers to 
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gospel message, and leaders of a
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Society. 
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from the grave. 
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that the Christian church was 
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Ended because of this belief in 
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And these, this event was 
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Here's what it did to the 
religious calendar, for fifteen 

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hundred centuries, Jewish people
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Saturdays. 
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But these early followers of 
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resurrection to honor and 
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fact that Jesus rose from the 
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from Saturday to Sunday. 
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that big of a deal but I said 
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momentum. 
Imagine what kind of event would

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have to happen today in our 
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1250 years into the future, 
where we no longer celebrated 

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Independence Day on July 4th We 
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Who would have to occupy us what

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would have to happen on our 
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That would make us as an entire 
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Go, hold on a second here. 
Forget about independence from 

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the Brits. 
We've got a whole different 

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Independence that we need to 
celebrate and we be letting off 

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fireworks at some other time of 
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No seismic. 
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didn't just shift the religious 
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It shifted every calendar. 
In fact, every event in human 

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history and every event that 
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is measured off of this event. 
Everything before Jesus is BC 

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before Christ. 
Everything after is a D, in the 

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year of Our Lord, we are 
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Our Lord 20. 
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These four events. 
Regardless of where you find 

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yourself on the spiritual 
Continuum, whether you hate God,

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barely believe in God or been 
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All four of us have these four 
fact, are all of us have these 

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four facts in Colin. 
Now, let's Circle back to the 

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empty tomb. 
It is a historical fact that the

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tomb was empty and people have 
put forth a couple of theories 

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as to how the grave was empty 
because it was empty. 

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The first one is that everybody 
went to the wrong tomb. 

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Now, the problem with that is 
the first people that went to 

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the tomb were women And women 
pull over and ask for 

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directions. 
Had the first people been guys, 

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we never would have found Jesus.
We never would have known, he 

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could have risen from the dead 
but we never would have found 

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out. 
But women will pull over the 

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second problem inside of this is
we know who's Kim. 

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It was, it was Joseph of 
Arimathea. 

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Sit was a brand new Tomb, he 
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He had it made for himself so he
would have had to go to the 

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wrong tomb. 
Not only that the religious 

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leaders would have had to have 
gone to the wrong tomb and the 

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Roman authorities who put a seal
on it. 

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And Put guards out in front to 
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to the wrong tomb. 
In other words, the women went 

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to the wrong tomb, the men went 
to the wrong tomb. 

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The religious authorities went 
to the wrong tomb. 

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The Civil Authorities went to 
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Arimathea who bought it, forgot 
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Highly unlikely. 
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well that Jesus didn't die. 
He swooned everybody say swim. 

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You'll never use that word again
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What they're saying is that 
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Now let me walk you through what
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he was beat, then he was flogged
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people. 
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the point of failure and Simon 
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The rest of the way then to help
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already sustained. 
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Nails in his hands and strung 
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hours to help him get a little 
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Then the Roman officers 
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to make sure that people died 
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dead, but just to make sure they
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pierced his heart and it says 
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which is pretty interesting. 
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you guys have ever stab somebody
in the heart, but that's like 

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one of the new policies we have 
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No stabbing. 
And if I were to stab you right 

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now, You're living. 
Just blood would come rushing, 

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out of your heart. 
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over here. 
If I were to stab you, it all 

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that would happen, but if you 
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happens when you die your blood 
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When you go to give blood, your 
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blood will separate the red 
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bottom and your plasma, which 
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water. 
The clear substance will float 

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to the top. 
It's like oil and water in a 

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jar. 
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comes out first, what's at the 
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The blood and then what comes 
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The only way you would get that 
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before, he was stabbed, but he 
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And then all the blood drained 
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Then they don't, you know, they 
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I see you also known as a grave.
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they wrap them up and then they 
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there. 
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No food, no water, no care. 
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he rises up and he makes his 
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That's why women love Jesus. 
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folds his clothes, make some 
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Then from inside the tomb, he 
rolls the stone back, which is a

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pretty Herculean effort because 
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tomb, they said, who's going to 
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from everything that he's been 
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than willing to be able to move 
are more than able to move the 

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stone and then he goes out and 
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That's what they're proposing 
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The Swoon Theory, I wasn't 
buying it. 

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I'm guessing neither. 
Are you other people have said, 

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well, it was just a 
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Everybody was just hallucinating
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dead. 
The problem with that is people 

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who usually hallucinate have 
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they're going to have a severe 
mental illness and rarely do 

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people have the exact same 
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I mean, some of you You. 
You know, somebody who's had too

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much. 
And you were having too much 

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till and you probably didn't. 
Do the. 

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Are you seeing this too, man? 
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happen. 
The women at the tomb, the 

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disciples at the tomb Thomas 
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The two on the road to Emmaus, 
those who went fishing with 

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Jesus and over 500. 
People would have all had to 

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have the exact same 
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40 days. 
The other problem is it still 

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doesn't account for the empty 
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is go. 
Hey, you hallucinating crazy 

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people. 
Here's dead, Jesus. 

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But they didn't do that. 
So then what they said is, maybe

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maybe someone stole Jesus. 
Okay, maybe his enemies did it. 

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Well, that doesn't make sense. 
Why would you use his enemies? 

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Steal his body. 
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this infant movement. 
They're trying to stop it before

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it got big, they were 
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If they had stolen the body, all
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So, here is that Jesus and have 
been over. 

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Well, maybe maybe the disciples 
stole it. 

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They believe so much in his 
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stolen his body to keep the myth
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The problem with that is that 
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guards and they were never 
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for stealing the body. 
The other problem is Their lives

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were completely transformed by 
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All of them were committed to 
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To the point of death. 
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everybody who saw Jesus alive, 
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it. 
They were severely punished or 

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killed for the belief that Jesus
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But Rose from the grave in a 
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People die all the time. 
People die for causes all the 

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time but people don't die for 
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lie. 
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would have had to have stolen 
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hearts. 
That Jesus did not rise from the

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dead and then spend the rest of 
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Proclaiming. 
And Offering for what they were.

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Proclaiming that Jesus rose from
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They received no comfort for 
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No social standing, no monetary 
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And for me I couldn't buy it. 
This left me with sufficient 

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evidence to believe that Jesus 
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And that means that Jesus is who
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that what he taught has. 
Value and implications for me 

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that I can look through and 
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And I can see the cross. 
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he left for you. 
And for me, that means that hell

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is real and so is heaven. 
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this figured out and have a life
that reflects it, in my opinion.

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It means at least four things. 
A resurrected. 

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Jesus means one that. 
God loves you. 

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And we'll never stop loving you.
He loved you before you ever 

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took your first breath. 
He loved you before you ever did

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anything wrong. 
Because before you existed, he 

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sent his son to die on the cross
on your behalf. 

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And you can tell how much 
somebody are how much something 

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is worth by how much someone is 
willing to pay for it. 

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Some of you right now, you may 
be experiencing an increase in 

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the appraisal of your home and 
you're looking around and you're

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going, our house keeps going Up 
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And some of you are excited 
about it because you're ready to

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sell others of you are 
frustrated by it because you 

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know, that the accessor of the 
the county assessor is looking 

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at the same thing that you're 
looking at your like we haven't 

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done anything to our house, but 
the value keeps going up. 

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Well, it's because your house 
value is going up because other 

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people are willing to pay more 
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Your value is based on what 
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for it. 
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how much you're worth, all you 
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because God sent his one, and 
only son to die on the cross to 

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rescue you, to purchase you to 
redeem you to buy you. 

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And it cost him the life of his 
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That's how much you're worth. 
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is that you have purpose because
God created you, you are not an 

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accident, your parents might not
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You might be the result of a lot
of country music and a lot of 

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alcohol on our really long 
night, but that does not mean 

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that God did not want to bring 
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That means that God believes 
that you have something to offer

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and God has something to offer. 
You three, it means that you can

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be made new. 
I wonder if there's anybody 

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gathering at any of our 
locations who could use a 

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do-over who would like to be 
made new, who would like a 

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restart? 
Who would appreciate a mulligan?

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The Gospel of Jesus Christ, is 
not just that he changes us, but

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he makes you knew. 
Point for the fourth thing that 

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are resurrected. 
Jesus means is you have been 

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completely forgiven. 
If I were right now to pass the 

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microphone around and say, 
everybody tell us your darkest 

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sin, I would walk off the stage 
and then all of you would go to 

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the bathroom and that would be 
the end of our church. 

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Okay, everybody be doing 
burnouts and the parking lot. 

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We got to get out of here 
because there are certain sins 

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that we would tell people that. 
We wrestle with. 

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And there are some sins, we 
don't ever want anybody to find 

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out. 
And Jesus paid for them all. 

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Jesus came for all of it. 
Well, how does God make this 

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happen? 
How does all of this take place 

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second Corinthians. 
Chapter 5 tells us? 

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Therefore if anyone is in Christ
to be in Christ, is to have an 

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intimate personal relationship 
with Jesus Christ. 

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So these statements are true. 
If you are in an intimate 

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personal relationship with 
Christ, the new creation has 

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come the old has gone. 
The new is here, when you come 

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into an intimate personal 
relationship with Jesus Christ, 

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when you are in Christ, you are 
made new. if you are not in an 

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intimate, personal relationship,
with Jesus Christ, You are still

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in your sins. 
Let's keep going. 

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All of this is from God. 
This wasn't our idea. 

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This was his idea. 
He loved us so much that he came

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up with the idea to reconcile us
to himself through Christ. 

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So, you get a right relationship
with God, that reconciliation 

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means a right relationship. 
He came up with it, that it 

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happens through Christ. 
It doesn't matter how many 

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friends you have, it doesn't 
matter if your parents believed,

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it doesn't matter if you make 
enough money or how poor you 

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are, doesn't Don't matter how 
connected you are. 

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How cool your job is, how 
fashionable you are. 

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How you look in the mirror, none
of that matters. 

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What matters is are you in 
Christ? 

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Because it is through Christ 
that we are reconciled and those

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of us who get reconciled, he 
gives us the ministry of 

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reconciliation to go out and 
help other people find this 

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relationship with God. 
Let's keep going in the text. 

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That God was reconciling the 
world to himself in Christ. 

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How is he doing that? 
By this, by not counting 

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people's sins against them. 
Single one of us are relational 

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struggles with friends, family 
members, spouses, co-workers 

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bosses has everything to do with
the fact that they are counting 

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our sins against us and we are 
counting their sins against them

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but God chose not to count your 
sins against you. 

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Well how does he do that? 
We're going to find out in a 

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couple of verses that God was 
reconciling the world to 

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himself, not counting people's 
sins against them and then he 

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has committed. 
To us. 

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Those of us who are in Christ, 
the message of reconciliation. 

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Let's keep going. 
We are. 

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Therefore, Christ's ambassadors.
As though, God, we're making his

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appeal through us. 
We implore you on Christ's 

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behalf be reconciled to God. 
Come into an intimate personal 

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relationship with him and 
experience the purpose and the 

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forgiveness. 
And the love that you were 

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destined for that. 
You were created for well how is

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God not counting our sins 
against Us. 

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How are we coming into this 
reconciled state with God verse 

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the next verse tells us? 
God made him. 

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That's Jesus. 
Who had no sin to be sin for us.

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So that in him in Christ and 
Jesus, we might become the 

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righteousness of God. 
Here's what happened. 

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God looked at you and took all 
of the sins that you have ever 

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committed and all the sins that 
you will ever come in, and he 

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placed them on the perfect 
person of Jesus, And he took all

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of the Perfection of Jesus and 
he placed it on us. 

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And so he still punished the 
sins. 

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He just didn't punish us. 
He punished the ones who bore 

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our sins. 
And so when you and I look at an

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empty grave and we look at the 
cross. 

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We see Jesus suffering on our 
behalf so that you and I could 

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have a right relationship with 
God. 

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Here's what I'm trying to say. 
If you are needing rescued, I 

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know where to find it. 
If you're looking for Mercy, I 

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know where you can get it. 
If you need a restart, if you 

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need to be made new, if you need
someone to take care of your 

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past and give you a future, I 
know where you can get it. 

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If you're the kind of person 
who's need to be made or 

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righteous, if you want the 
promise of Heaven if you're 

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looking for Hope, if you're 
needing some help. 

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If you're looking for a miracle,
if you want some comfort, some 

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direction or peace, I know where
you can find But don't go to the

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tomb because he's not there, and
don't go to the Cross. 

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He's not there either, but it's 
because of an empty tomb. 

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And it's because of a cross that
I can come into a relationship 

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with a risen savior. 
He is alive, and he wants a 

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relationship with you. 
And the worst thing you could do

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is put it off. 
We're moving to a decide time of

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decision. 
There's some of you in here 

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today, you've never started an 
intimate personal relationship 

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with Jesus Christ. 
And I want you to hear me say 

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this for me and for thousands of
people all across this region, 

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we would tell you two things. 
It was the greatest decision we 

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ever made and our biggest regret
is we didn't do it sooner and I 

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know there's some of you in here
going Clayton I still have a lot

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of questions and I'm going to 
encourage you to ask him. 

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Don't hide from them. 
Pray through them. 

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But there is some of you in this
room or watching online that you

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know enough, here's what I mean.
Most of you don't know 

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everything there is to know 
about a car. 

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But, you know, enough that you 
don't want to walk. 

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Some of you you don't know 
everything there is to know 

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about a house but you signed all
56 legal documents that you 

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didn't read when you bought one 
and you walked away so proud of 

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yourself and I get to put in 
your Banker could have put in 

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that contract, bring Clayton, a 
Snickers every day for the rest 

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of your life and like it's right
there. 

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Like I didn't know it because I 
wasn't reading so you didn't 

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know everything but, you know, 
enough men Be cool here. 

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How many of you know everything 
there is to know about a woman 

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Yeah, we have a support group 
that meets on Tuesdays and how 

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many of you would say that? 
What you knew about your wife 

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last month? 
No longer applies this month. 

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But, you know, enough. 
To know that you wanted her in 

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your life forever. 
I get the desire to know God and

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00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,400
understand everything about him,
but I need you to know you will 

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never understand everything 
about an infinite god with your 

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finite bring but you can know 
enough. 

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You can know enough to know that
you need him and you don't want 

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to spend another day of your 
life without him. 

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And you can be made new today. 
You can be reconciled to God. 

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Today, you can get your restart 
today. 

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00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,700
You can experience forgiveness 
today. 

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You have to make a decision and 
no decision is a decision and if

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you have questions about what 
that is or what that looks like,

508
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there's me somebody right over 
there by the bastard. 

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Who would love an opportunity to
talk with you about what that 

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looks like to the rest of you to
the Christians, to those who've 

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been made new been given our 
loved have been reconciled. 

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God has given you. 
And I a Ministry of 

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reconciliation and why would you
settle for living for anything 

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less? 
There is no grander purpose for 

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your life. 
No better mission to submit 

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00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,300
yourself to No Greater message 
to display and God is calling us

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to bring his lost children home 
and will you join us in that 

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mission? 
Would you stand with me? 

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Heavenly Father, do something in
this church in this service. 

520
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,700
This right now do something that
only you can do. 

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00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:55,400
Stir Hearts change Hearts, 
altered Destinies, change 

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Eternal, destinations God. 
We believe that you can do it, 

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and we're begging you to do. 
So, and your name, I pray. 

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Amen.