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It's wonderful to be with each 
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Today, we have a wonderful crowd
for which we are thankful. 

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We have some visitors from other
places, good friends and are 

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with us and family. 
We also have some folks from the

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community and we would hope that
you would feel as you are. 

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And that is an honored guest 
today. 

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You know, today's the day that 
the world considers to be 

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significant, this is the day 
that the world recognizes the 

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resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
And, you know, we do that every 

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Lord's Day. 
In fact, today is the most 

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important day of our week. 
Because it's the first day of 

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the week, it's Sunday, is the 
Lord's day and every Lord's day.

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We appreciate the resurrection 
of Jesus in the communion where 

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we commemorate his death, his 
burial and his resurrection, 

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very significant every Lord's 
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But all of that being said, 
let's talk about the event. 

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The greatest miracle that ever 
happened, the greatest 

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interaction that God had with 
His son in a miraculous form in 

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a supernatural form to raise him
from the dead. 

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We want to talk about the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

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For a little while this morning,
may, I say, also in introduction

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here, all the critics in the 
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discount or tried to try to 
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with the resurrection. 
Have to answer the question. 

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Why was the tomb empty at the 
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28 and beginning there in verse 
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earthquake for an angel of the 
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Descended from heaven and came 
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the door and sat on it. 
His countenance was like 

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lightning and his clothing as 
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shook for fear of him and became
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But the angel answered and said 
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for. 
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was crucified If I'd, he is not 
here for, He Is Risen as he said

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come. 
See the place where the Lord lay

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just a few foundational things 
before we begin with the 

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resurrection part. 
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we go back to the crucifixion 
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the last few minutes on the 
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Okay. 
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series on the last week in the 
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Let's just go maybe for the last
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Jesus was hanging on Mount 
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calvary's Cross. 
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he said it is finished. 
It is accomplished. 

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I have done it. 
I have fulfilled. 

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What you sent me to do. 
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thy hands, I commend my spirit. 
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gospel account, he literally 
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the ghost. 
The King James says, so Jesus, 

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freely gave his life, his life 
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Understand this. 
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preparation. 
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This was Friday. 
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or at the beginning part of the 
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that's 3 p.m. and at 3 p.m. 
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Now, that means that in order to
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order to count part of Friday. 
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He has to be taken down from the
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before 6 p.m. at 6 p.m. 
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It was the next day. 
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and the Bible says, his name was
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secret disciple for fear of the 
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The Bible says, he was also won 
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That was a member of the 
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to the death of Jesus. 
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grave nearby. 
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In Isaiah chapter 53, it says 
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wicked man. 
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So here comes Joseph of 
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the courage Just a little side 
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And by the way, there is no such
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fear. 
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the courage and went and begged,
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Jesus. 
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that. 
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of Jesus and he takes the body 
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And the Bible says, he wraps him
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new Tomb. 
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I didn't know maybe you've heard
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it was quite an honor to be laid
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I didn't know anything about 
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was something of honor. 
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Jesus is crucified between two, 
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criminal. 
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buried he was buried like the 
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How do I know that? 
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John's account says Nicodemus, 
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he comes with 100 pounds of 
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myrrh and alloy, right? 
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it was wrapped in those spices, 
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the only time. 
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Jesus was crucified between two 
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His grave was to be assigned 
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be with a rich man in his death,
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Like, the king that he is, he is
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lords. 
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took the stone and they rolled 
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opening of the grave. 
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for that. 
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animals out. 
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grave and they have to keep the 
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the reasons they roll. 
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Sepulchre. 
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reason grave robbers. 
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was but people coming in. 
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going to steal, but the two 
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rolled a stone in front of the 
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in also, Graves clothes are 
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What else? 
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too. 
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Why the Mary's were there. 
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day of preparation. 
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There's three hours before it 
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From the time, he was crucified 
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Ever wondered why they went 
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You know, I think about somebody
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visit somebody's grave, I think 
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We're not talking about public 
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private tomb. 
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In fact, one that was newly hewn
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ever been there or in it. 
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there. 
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Because in Luke's account, it 
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the Sabbath for the purpose. 
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even more. 
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that grave was no doubt. 
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Sepulchre to find out exactly 
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They would be coming back after 
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together with the same problem. 
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The only thing they've got to do
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to be able to talk away or do 
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risen and all they were worried 
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That's it. 
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Sadducees because they were 
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the chief priest and he got the 
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And incidentally, this is the 
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Pharisees and the Sadducees 
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The first time was on Tuesday 
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day of questions, when they came
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the three groups of men tried to
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questions and couldn't do it. 
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Either consider this, the 
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Resurrection. 
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that at all. 
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afterlife. 
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that's it. 
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the Resurrection, The Fair. 
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resurrection, okay, but they 
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Here's the problem. 
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that he's going to be raised to.
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disciples to come in and steal 
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Okay, that's the Sadducees, the 
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possibility of it, but they 
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Son of God, they didn't 
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They didn't recognize the deity 
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So, they also think, wait a 
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possible to rise and have an 
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going to be Jesus, so they would
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fabricate it, and this is what 
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27, they said remember sir. 
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alive when he was alive. 
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rise again. 
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this more than once, In fact, on
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Matthew chapter 12 and verse 39 
and 40, remember that was a very

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significant event. 
You've got those that were 

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rejecting Jesus, you have those 
religious leaders, and they said

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the Jesus show us a sign, give 
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Give us some kind of a magic 
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And Jesus said, the only sign 
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sign of the prophet. 
Jonah, for as Jonah was three 

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days and three nights in the 
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So shall also be Son of man, 
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the heart of the earth. 
So we're worried about three 

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days, right? 
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three days. 
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said remember when he was alive 
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third day. 
We have to do something about 

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that. 
All right? 

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So what they said is to Pilot, 
they said command that the stone

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or the tomb be secure until the 
third day, lest the disciples 

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come by night and steal the body
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You know, I thought about this 
the other day. 

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Have you ever stopped to 
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The way that we often times? 
Judge somebody else is based on 

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her own character Let me show 
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If I'm a dishonest person if 
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I'm dishonest. 
I expect other people to behave 

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the same if I'm deceptive. 
I expect other people are going 

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to behave the same way if I'm 
evil. 

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And mean, spirited, I would 
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mind, other people are going to 
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So here are the disciples, 
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And in their mind, because 
they're deceitful, they're 

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deceptive, they're Liars. 
They're all of those dishonest 

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things. 
They think the disciples are 

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going to do the same thing. 
They don't view the Disciples as

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a bunch of honest, good men, 
that just lost their leader and 

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they're heartsick about it. 
They think that this way, oh no,

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they're going to pull off the 
greatest hoax known to man ever 

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done. 
They're going to pull off the 

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greatest hoax in history. 
Here's pilot solution. 

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And by the way, think about all 
the decisions pilot made When 

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Jesus was before him, he said I 
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right? 
And that didn't work Herod. 

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Sending back. 
Did your problem deal with it. 

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He looked upon him and six 
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He said, I find no fault in him.
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and he brings him out and 
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Surely, they'll choose to 
release Jesus, over Barabbas 

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know. 
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either. 
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I got it. 

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I'll just beat him and they take
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scourgings, and all of that. 
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That didn't work. 
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the only thing pilot did that 
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was hanging on the cross, and it
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world. 
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that is this is Jesus of 
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Here's the decision. 
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Don't say he's the king of the 
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Say he said, I'm the king of the
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Pilot made the choice. 
Know what I have written. 

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I have written. 
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didn't, right? 
He is the king king of kings and

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Lord of lords. 
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solution that pilot says, he 
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can. 
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the stone and set the watch. 
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about. 
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something up, you might think 
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Like from a painting standpoint 
seal something together, cock it

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together, okay? 
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carpenter Like Glue things 
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is sealed together. 
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that's not what they meant. 
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did not make it impossible to 
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cord by the way, and the cord 
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of the Tomb and also be placed 
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placed there with wax and kind 
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it was placed on one side with 
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other side with the wax and 
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chord. 
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impossible to open. 
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That's what that meant. 
Make it as secure as you can. 

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Seal the stone, it wasn't an 
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away. 
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So that's what pilot says that's
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a watch Fowler said this do this
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The seal means that non 
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to bring the astounding news to 
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precautions have been futile. 
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tamper with the tomb or the 
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arose now, the Sabbath is over. 
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All that being said, the Sabbath
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Matthews account again in 
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and behold. 
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an angel of the Lord. 
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and rolled back the Stone from 
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Have you ever seen the painting?
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Okay, the depiction and the 
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A guy shows an angel brilliant 
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it looked like and it shows him 
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inside the tomb the entrance of 
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That's got this light coming out
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triumphantly walking out alive. 
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Is that why the stone was rolled
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Listen, the stone was rolled 
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Not to let Jesus out. 
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the others in. 
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You think the Lord needed that 
he could walk right through that

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rock? 
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a little later on that night, he
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need that. 
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And by the way, picture, this no
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seal. 
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rolled the stone away, he 
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later said, look, the seal is 
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No an angel, did it? 
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was sitting on it. 
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In verses 3 and 4. 
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lightning and his clothing as 
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guards shook for fear of him and
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In other words, they were 
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Sometimes people, you know, you 
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man, I'm scared stiff. 
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petrified. 
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You're almost paralyzed. 
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They were paralyzed as in fear. 
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some commentators saying. 
I don't think this is right at 

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all some say wait a minute. 
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because they feared their own 
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because it was a crime if you 
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If something happened to the one
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away. 
It was worthy of death 

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Philippian Jailer okay 
Philippian Jailer that's what 

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the Philippian Jailer was afraid
of. 

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That's not what this says. 
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shook for fear of him, that's 
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presence of a an event. 
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powerless, folks. you know, it's
kind of like this member in the 

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Garden of Gethsemane when they 
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Jesus walks out. 
He sees them and it says he goes

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out. 
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goes out and then it said there 
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that is that's a Roman cohort. 
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recently, I think I might have 
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cohort was 500 men. 
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a Galilean Carpenter and his 
friends because that's all they 

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considered him to be. 
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Jesus sees them out in front. 
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Judas is leading the mob. 
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said, what he said, who are you 
looking for? 

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And they said Jesus of Nazareth.
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says, in the original. 
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presence, they drew back and 
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Powerless, that's the point. 
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was happening in the face of or 
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show that these that these men 
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They all fell. 
That's kind of what happened 

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here. 
It became like dead, man. 

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I don't know how long they were,
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Stiff. 
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The next two verses, but the 
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woman Do not be afraid for. 
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was crucified? 
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He Is Risen as he said come. 
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lay. 
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women can stand with courage 
that God only has the very best 

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in store for them. 
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not dead He's alive. 
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seeking a dead leader. 
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and their hearts were full of 
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verses 7 and 8. 
And then they're told this go 

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quickly and tell his disciples 
that he is risen from the dead 

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and indeed, he is going before 
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You will see him behold I have 
told you. 

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So they went out quickly from 
the tomb with fear and great joy

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and ran to bring his disciples 
were verse 9 and as they went to

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tell his disciples, notice 
behold, Jesus, met them saying 

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rejoice. 
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him by the feet and worshiped 
him. 

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Now, it's brilliant that they 
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eyewitness testimony to the 
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That they would have that. 
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by the feet. 
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we have to go to John. 
Got to go to John's account. 

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Okay. 
Jesus said to her, do not cling 

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to me. 
For I have not yet ascended to 

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my father, but go to my brethren
and say to them, I am ascending 

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to my father and your father and
my God and your God in the King 

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James version, it says, touch 
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It says Stop clinging to me. 
So what the Lord said is, stop 

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clinging to me, I have not yet 
ascended to my father. 

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Now, there's all kinds of 
explanations that you will read 

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and commentaries about what he 
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Not for I have not yet ascended 
to my father, all kinds of 

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explanations. 
Okay? 

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Now, we know that it wasn't a 
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I haven't gone up to my father, 
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want that because later on, he 
said to touch him eight days 

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later. 
He told Thomas touch me so it's 

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entirely possible. 
It fits the prophetic type. 

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The high priest went into the 
holy of holies is sway, Linwood 

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used to preach it. 
The high priest went into the 

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holy of holies once a year to 
the presence of God and took the

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blood sacrifice of the lamb and 
was given there for the people 

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in the presence of God. 
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that it's entirely possible. 
Jesus, fulfilling the type went 

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to heaven. 
Ascended to heaven, and brought 

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the sacrifice before God in his 
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Testament, high priest would do.
Now I'm just suggesting that is 

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a idea that could be doesn't 
really matter. 

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Here's all that matters. 
They were clinging to him and he

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says, stop, stop clinging, to 
me, touch me, not now. 

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Also in John chapter 20 in 
John's count and the 

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handkerchief that had been 
around his head. 

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Not lying with the linen cloths,
but folded together in a place 

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by itself. 
Now interestingly there was a 

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custom and Eastern custom and 
when they would have a meal, 

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okay? 
If you were going to get up from

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the table and you were finished,
what they would do is they would

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take the napkin and they would 
throw it down with the other 

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Linens and another words, you 
are throwing it down there. 

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Saying I'm not coming back. 
I'm done. 

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I'm finished. 
You know what? 

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It says here also from the 
standpoint of if you We're going

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to come back and what they did. 
They took the napkin and they 

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folded it neatly and they put it
by itself significant, That's 

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History. 
I didn't make that up. 

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Okay, let's just read what the 
word of God says. 

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Just so we can say we did look 
and the handkerchief that had 

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been around his head not lying 
with the linen cloths, but 

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folded together in a place by 
itself. 

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That is the Eastern custom or 
the Oriental custom of leaving 

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the meal. 
I'm coming back. 

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I know, one thing for sure. 
He's coming back. 

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And why would the word of God 
specify that the napkin was 

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folded separate from the rest of
the Linens? 

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If it wasn't significant? 
He's coming back. 

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And we are so grateful. 
Matthew 28 10 again. 

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Then Jesus said to them do not 
be afraid. 

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Go tell my brethren to go into 
Galilee and there you will see 

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me. 
Now, interesting about this, the

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Lord Echoes the words of the 
Angel, exact, with one 

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difference. 
One difference, the angel said, 

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go tell my disciples. 
Jesus says, go tell my brethren.

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You know what's interesting 
about that one commentator said 

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he said and there's really two 
theories here. 

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One said, because the word 
brethren means Brothers, it 

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means a kin relationship, a 
kinship relationship. 

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So, one commentator said that it
was possible. 

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This is just one idea it's 
entirely possible that he was 

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talking about his own half 
Brothers. 

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In other words, tell them that I
have risen, so that they 

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understand my mission. 
I don't think that's what he's 

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talking about it all. 
I think what he's talking about 

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is exactly what the angel said. 
The angel said go tell my 

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disciples. 
You know what the Lord is 

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saying. 
Not only tell my followers, you 

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tell, Mike in you. 
Tell my spiritual kin, you tell 

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my brethren. even though you 
left me, even though you forsook

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me, Even though you off sweat 
and fear. even though you were 

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nowhere to be found, you're my 
brethren. 

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Go tell my brethren. 
Go tell I think that's exactly 

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what the Lord saying there. now,
his spiritual kin and then in 

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verse 11, Now while they were 
going to hold some of the Guard,

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came into the City and reported 
to the chief priests all the 

450
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,900
things that had happened. 
You know what's interesting 

451
00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:33,700
about this, you got the women, 
okay? 

452
00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:38,200
You got the women, you got the 
soldiers, and if you ever 

453
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,800
stopped to consider the women in
the soldiers, they're going to 

454
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,300
tell the same story. 
Please get that they're going to

455
00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:49,700
tell the same story. 
It's good news from the women. 

456
00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:53,100
It's bad news from the soldiers 
but it's the same story. 

457
00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:55,600
There's no fabrication. 
Do you want to know what the 

458
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,300
story was from the get-go? 
Their story was this. 

459
00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:03,100
He's risen. 
That's the story, The Women 

460
00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:05,600
bring the good news the 
soldiers, bring the bad news of 

461
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:11,000
that specific factual event. 
He is risen. 

462
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,600
But you know, something people 
from all cultures in every era 

463
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,300
of History, they tried to deny 
the resurrection. 

464
00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,500
Let me suggest 7 theories really
quickly. 7, theories. 

465
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,400
These are seven theories that 
people have actually had. 

466
00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:26,200
And you know what? 
You're going to find when I show

467
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,000
you these theories, you're going
to find. 

468
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000
It's so much easier, just to 
read the word of God. 

469
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:34,200
He's risen, he's not here. 
He has risen easier to do that, 

470
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,000
but not Society. 
Let me tell you what man has 

471
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,700
done over time. 
The first theory that we talked 

472
00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:43,900
about is the Swoon theory. 
That was the semi-coma theory. 

473
00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:46,400
Now this was really a theory by 
the way. 

474
00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:48,900
And in this Theory, this is what
it said. 

475
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,800
Jesus never really died. 
He was never actually dead. 

476
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,500
In fact, he was just 
traumatized. 

477
00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:02,300
Seriously. 
Seriously, traumatized. 

478
00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:05,000
That's it. 
He was traumatized. 

479
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,700
But when he was buried in the 
Tomb, there was the coolness of 

480
00:28:08,700 --> 00:28:12,300
the Tomb and there was The 
Fragrant spices. 

481
00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:14,500
And when they wrapped the body, 
with those spices, you don't 

482
00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:17,400
happen to him, he revived 
himself and he got up. 

483
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,300
Come on. 
Do you remember this? 

484
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:23,700
You know, the Romans were very, 
very good at crucifixion. 

485
00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,400
They're very good at execution. 
They knew you remember, when 

486
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,100
Jesus was hanging on the cross, 
the Bible says, they didn't 

487
00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:32,100
break his legs and you, and I 
know why they didn't break his 

488
00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:33,800
legs. 
We know that they didn't break 

489
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,600
his legs because that's exactly 
what God Said. 

490
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,200
Would happen. 
Not a bone in his body would be 

491
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,800
broke. 
We know that soldiers know that.

492
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,200
Nope. 
You know, why they didn't, he 

493
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,100
was already dead and then they 
did what they took the spear and

494
00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:48,000
then came the Deathstroke and 
they took it. 

495
00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:51,900
It and thrust it into the side 
of Jesus and from his side flow 

496
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:54,300
of blood and water which showed 
two things. 

497
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,500
Number one, he was human. 
Number two, he was dead. 

498
00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:03,300
Oh and by the way, Chris come 
preach on this. 

499
00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:07,100
Tonight's gonna preach on the 
road to Emmaus and if this is 

500
00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,800
true, then Jesus just walked to 
that village with holes in his 

501
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,300
feet. 
It's impossible. 

502
00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:18,200
That's the Swoon Theory and by 
the way, interestingly about it,

503
00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:22,500
this Theory, it took sixteen 
hundred years to come up with 

504
00:29:22,500 --> 00:29:25,000
that theory and a man by the 
name of venturini. 

505
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,000
He came up with it, 1,600 years,
what else? 

506
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:30,300
Here's another theory that no 
burial Theory. 

507
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,200
Remember, we've already 
established that his grave was 

508
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,900
to be assigned among wicked men,
but he would be with the rich 

509
00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:39,900
man in his death, okay? 
Where wicked men were taken was 

510
00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,700
in the valley of hinnom, a City 
Way. 

511
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,900
Stop a real place. 
It was called gehenna, and they 

512
00:29:46,908 --> 00:29:50,400
would take the bodies of those 
wicked men and throw them on a 

513
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,100
pile where fires burn 
constantly. 

514
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:55,100
That's where wicked men were 
supposed to go. 

515
00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:58,000
Bible says, it wouldn't happen. 
He'd be with a rich man in his 

516
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,800
death, so the no burial 
theories. 

517
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,500
This, he died, but he was never 
buried. 

518
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,200
He was just thrown onto that 
Heap. 

519
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,700
And his body was burned, but he 
was not. 

520
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,200
Risen. 
If that's the case, then that 

521
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,000
means nobody was in the grave. 
Nobody was in the Tomb, right? 

522
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:23,900
Why steal it? 
It means nobody was in the Tomb.

523
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:26,700
If that theory is, right. 
Nobody was in the Tim. 

524
00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:29,400
What else? 
Why put a guard out there. 

525
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,000
Why guard the temp of the white 
guard? 

526
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,200
The Sepulchre up. 
There was nobody in it. 

527
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,900
Here's another one. 
This is the get ridiculous. 

528
00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:39,300
This is the hallucination 
Theory. 

529
00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:43,000
Yeah. 
Hallucination. 

530
00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:46,600
In other words the disciples 
they didn't really see the Lord.

531
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,400
They just hallucinated. 
Let me tell you that's a whole 

532
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:55,500
lot of hallucinate and going on.
Cuz they hallucinate for 40 

533
00:30:55,500 --> 00:31:01,000
days, 40 days of hallucinate all
hallucinating the same thing. 

534
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:06,100
And by the way, by the way, this
Theory said they hallucinated 

535
00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:09,300
that, but he really hadn't risen
from the dead. 

536
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:13,200
And remember this. 
Why would they hallucinate 

537
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,900
something? 
They didn't even think was going

538
00:31:14,900 --> 00:31:17,500
to happen. 
Do you remember one time when 

539
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,900
Jesus talking to his disciples? 
He said to his disciples he said

540
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,000
I'm going to die. 
And on the third day, I'm going 

541
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,100
to rise again. 
Remember what one of them said, 

542
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,400
ask him what he meant. 
They never clue. 

543
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:32,200
Why would they hallucinate 
something? 

544
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:33,600
They didn't think was even going
to happen. 

545
00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:37,600
Doesn't make any sense. 
They didn't expect one. 

546
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:41,300
Oh, and by the way, and then die
as Martyrs for a hallucination 

547
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,000
and by the way, he'd still be in
the grave. 

548
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,100
If that's true. 
Here's another one. 

549
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:51,900
Again, they get ridiculous. 
That the telepathy Theory In 

550
00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:56,400
other words, it was a matter of 
telepathy or they were given 

551
00:31:56,500 --> 00:32:01,400
telepathic pictures from God. 
In other words, he never really 

552
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,800
rose from the dead. 
It was just telepathic pictures.

553
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,600
No, you don't have to be a 
telepathic movie. 

554
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,600
It went on and on, and on, and 
on. 

555
00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,300
Ridiculous. 
And again, what about the tune? 

556
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,900
Tomb was empty. 
What else? 

557
00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:21,700
Oh, this is a good one. 
How about the Seance Theory? 

558
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,400
Yeah, and this Theory actually 
believed. 

559
00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:30,500
That a medium. 
Conjured up, the spirit of the 

560
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:36,000
Dead Jesus by a cult power. 
And it really wasn't Jesus being

561
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,600
raised from the dead again, 
though, how is the tomb empty? 

562
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400
Where was the body and how could
they touch him? 

563
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:49,500
13, the next maybe this one, the
mistaken identity Theory, Come 

564
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:52,000
on. 
In other words, there were 

565
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000
somebody just looked like Jesus.
They said o hero Heroes, how do 

566
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,300
you walk through a door? 
How do you spend 40 days of his 

567
00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:02,100
disciples? 
How did he ascends in Acts 

568
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,600
chapter one up toward the 
heavens? 

569
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,800
How do you do that? 
And again, if that's the case, 

570
00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:10,800
if the mistaken identity theory 
is correct, you know what that 

571
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,600
means? 
The body of Jesus would still be

572
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,400
in the Tomb. 
It's not He's risen. 

573
00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:22,400
Okay, there's one more. 
It's the last one and it is I'll

574
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,000
just call it this. 
I'll call it. 

575
00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:30,800
This is the best of the bad. 
Here it is the theft Theory. 

576
00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:36,800
So another words, somebody stole
the body of Jesus who did that? 

577
00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:41,700
Soldiers. 
No religious leaders, absolutely

578
00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:45,500
not. 
So the only other people could 

579
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:50,600
have been the disciples if you 
believe in the theft Theory, how

580
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,200
could they have done it? 
How could the disciples have 

581
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,700
overpowered the soldiers, roll 
the stone away, unraveled? 

582
00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:01,900
Jesus and furthermore, by the 
way, you wouldn't steal the body

583
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:04,000
fabricator. 
Resurrection and then die as a 

584
00:34:04,008 --> 00:34:07,500
martyr for you wouldn't do that.
You know what we find? 

585
00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:12,100
And we find the actual ly proves
the resurrection ice, have a 

586
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,300
sermon on that, he's to call it.
The lie that proves the 

587
00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:17,000
Resurrection, the LIE actually 
proves it, let me show you what 

588
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,500
I mean. 
In Matthew 28 12 through 15 when

589
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:25,500
they had assembled with the 
elders and consulted together, 

590
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:31,500
they gave notice get this, they 
gave a large sum of money to the

591
00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:35,400
soldiers saying. 
Tell them his disciples came at 

592
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,500
night and stole him away while 
we slept. 

593
00:34:37,699 --> 00:34:41,100
And if this comes to the 
governor's ears, we will appease

594
00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,800
him and make you secure. 
So they took the money and did 

595
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,600
as they were instructed. 
And this saying is commonly 

596
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,699
reported among the Jews until 
this day. 

597
00:34:53,500 --> 00:35:01,300
You know what's amazing to me? 
The LIE cost, more than the 

598
00:35:01,308 --> 00:35:06,900
Betrayal. when Jesus was 
crucified, he was betrayed for 

599
00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:13,400
30 pieces of silver, the price 
of a Slave, When the light came,

600
00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:19,000
it was a large sum of money. 
You know, I got to thinking 

601
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,900
about this morning, actually. 
Have you ever seen this Ally? 

602
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:25,900
Always cost more? 
Ally is always worse. 

603
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:29,500
I remember growing up if you 
tell a lie, it's worse than 

604
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,300
standing there. 
Even though you're wrong about 

605
00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:33,500
something, but you admit it, you
don't lie. 

606
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,600
It's always better than when you
lie. 

607
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,200
If you lie, it's worse, it's 
always worse. 

608
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,800
The lies have always been worse.
And you know what they did, they

609
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:49,500
gave large sums of money. to 
protect the lie and I'm almost 

610
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:54,200
finished but listen to me please
nothing explains away the fact 

611
00:35:55,700 --> 00:36:00,400
That the tomb was empty. 
The only answer is he's risen. 

612
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:04,400
And because he is raised, we 
have hope. 

613
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:10,300
We have hope. 
It's the only reason we have 

614
00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:15,200
hope. 
Jesus, cheated death. 

615
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:22,000
God raised him from the dead. 
He is risen and the tomb is 

616
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,900
still empty. 
I don't know where that is. 

617
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:26,900
By the way, you can go there and
no save the garden tomb. 

618
00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:29,500
You know, Catholicism says, I 
don't know where that was didn't

619
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,500
even matter. 
Whatever it was it was Joseph of

620
00:36:32,508 --> 00:36:34,300
Arimathea his new Tomb. 
That's all we know. 

621
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,300
And you know what? 
He didn't stay in there longer 3

622
00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:40,000
days, he's out. 
He's out. 

623
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,800
Now why is it a blessing? 
Why is it important for us to 

624
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,900
believe in the resurrection? 
I'ma give you this passage and 

625
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:47,600
I'm done. 
Here it is. 

626
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:49,900
This is why you have to believe 
in the resurrection. 

627
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:56,400
But now Christ is risen from the
dead and has become the 

628
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,100
firstfruits of those who have 
fallen asleep for Since By Man 

629
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:04,500
Came Death by man also came the 
resurrection of the Dead for as 

630
00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:07,900
in, Adam all die. 
Even so in Christ shall all be 

631
00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:10,800
made alive. 
But each one in his own order 

632
00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:14,700
Christ, the firstfruits 
afterward those who are Christ's

633
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:20,600
at his coming. 
You know, what's great about 

634
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,400
that? 
This world is not as good as 

635
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,300
it's going to get. 
What if this was it? 

636
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:34,200
What if this was it? 
We are of all men. 

637
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,400
The King James says, most 
miserable, if there is no 

638
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,000
resurrection. 
And by the way, if there is no 

639
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,600
resurrection, that means Christ 
did not die Christ, didn't was 

640
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,200
not raised. 
If that's the case we're of all 

641
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,100
men, most miserable. 
Got no hope. 

642
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:50,100
But we do have hope. 
And the first thing you have to 

643
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:53,700
do in order to have this, hope 
you have to obey the gospel. 

644
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:57,700
You got to obey the gospel, you 
have to assimilate what Jesus 

645
00:37:57,700 --> 00:38:00,000
did with the death burial and 
resurrection of Jesus. 

646
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,500
That's it. 
Baptism, when you go down into 

647
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:05,800
the watery grave of baptism and 
you die to sin, and you're 

648
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:10,000
raised to walk in newness of 
life, then you have hope then 

649
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,800
you are accessing the great, 
hope that we have in Christ. 

650
00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:17,000
If you're here and you're not a 
child of God, please become one 

651
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:17,900
today. 
This is how you doing. 

652
00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:23,700
Come, believing in Jesus, repent
of your sins confess, his name 

653
00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:26,100
as the Son of God. 
Say those words, I believe that 

654
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:30,300
Jesus Christ is the Son of God 
and then be baptized in water 

655
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:33,500
for the remission of your sins, 
and rise to walk in newness of 

656
00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:36,600
life, just like Jesus did in the
long ago. 

657
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,100
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