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We are a few weeks now into the 
series, called the Jesus story 

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is, and we've been I'm not going
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That's too much. 
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You need to go into the video 
casts or the podcaster catch up,

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but hopefully this is talking 
itself will stand alone and make

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some sense. 
But we have said in this that as

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Luke the author of Luke's gospel
or account, has told the story. 

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There's a subtext in the 
subtext. 

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Is this who is Jesus, he is 
inviting us to engage with with 

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an investigation. 
He's telling stories, but 

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they're specifically designed to
draw out this question and 

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inquiring heart, you know, in 
us, who is Jesus. 

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And what we've said thus far is 
that we've said that Jesus is 

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Lord over Evil Jesus is Lord 
over sin over creation. 

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Over sickness last week. 
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death and that's a biggie. 
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Transitions from from being a 
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which, you know, there are many 
you tracked that that, you know,

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once he starts forgiving, sins 
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we're in a completely different 
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So that's where we got to last 
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the story as it were. 
We're going to be looking at a 

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few texts this morning, but I 
want to pick up the story in 

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Luke chapter 9 where the 
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that question themselves, you 
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Jesus challenging them. 
So let's pick it up. 

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Luke chapter 9, beginning at 
Verse 18, lovely. 

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Little passage here. 
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they're on a journey and they're
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know, they're just chatting as 
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suddenly, you know, Jesus turns 
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It says here in verse 18, once 
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private and his disciples were 
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He asked him. 
He said, who do the crowds? 

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I am, who is Jesus? 
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And they replied some say, John 
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and still others. 
That one of the prophets of long

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ago, has come back to life. 
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think about death, to life and 
Life to death and all this kind 

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of stuff. 
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But what about you? 
He said, who do you say I am? 

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Who do you say? 
I am? 

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Maybe Jesus is asking you that 
this question this morning. 

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Who do you say that? 
I am. 

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Doesn't matter what Chris Lane 
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Or anyone else for that matter? 
The big question is, who do you 

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say Jesus is? 
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and it's a brief answer in Luke.
I'll let you read some of the 

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other accounts of Jesus, you 
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Mark where there's a bit of an 
interaction there which we could

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spend time on. 
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in and it's very brief in the in
the NIV. 

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It says, Peter answered God's 
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I remember how a few weeks ago. 
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was, this was this, it wasn't a 
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The Messiah was somebody who the
Use while waiting for who was 

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going to be a great deliverer. 
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the in the mold of King, David. 
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started off as a Shepherd boy, 
but he ended up as as one of the

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most in most amazing Kings of 
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The second king, but in his 
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for one and Israel really began 
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land. 
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Many stories. 
They're all in the book, you 

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know, enjoy. 
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somebody in the same mould. 
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looking for. 
Great warrior, great king. 

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Yes. 
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human failings as well that 
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God the Messiah. 
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that question, no to Jesus. 
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That is huge. 
Absolutely huge. 

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Now, you know, I'm not going to 
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There's more we could say there 
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yourself. 
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moment in Luke's gospel, the 
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Jesus goes on. 
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He says this. 
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Not to tell this to anyone. 
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Once again, he's trying to keep 
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Keep it under the radar as much 
as he can because there's stuff 

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he needs to do and he can't do 
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So he asked them to keep that to
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And then he says this verse 22, 
the son of man must suffer, many

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things and be rejected by the 
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the teachers of the law, and he 
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On the third day and Raised To 
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Now, Jesus at this point, you 
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along to this this point in time
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They've been journeying 
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beginning to move beyond great 
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If we stick around long enough, 
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famous, you know, they've moved 
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They're beginning to get it that
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wonder-working preacher teacher.
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the Messiah a whole kind of slow
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davidic stories and straight 
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Jesus wants to recalibrate that.
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once again his favorite title 
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This is reference to the 
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He said the son of man is going 
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The son of man is going to 
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persecuted, and he's going to be
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that ultimately is going to be 
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He's going to, he's going to 
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Doesn't actually say crucified 
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will rise from the dead. 
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sort of comment at that point. 
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has three of these kind of pre 
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tellings of his death and 
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There's only two in In Luke's 
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flip onto that, Luke 18, if 
you're following in, on your 

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smart devices or on your Bible 
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you know, the Christ must 
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that. 
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Another one of these for 
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Of Jesus's forthcoming death. 
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Jesus says this Jesus Took The 
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going up to Jerusalem now. 
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by the prophets about the son of
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quick call. 
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everything that is written by 
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man will be fulfilled and he 
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Gentiles. 
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insult him as spit on him, and 
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Verse 34, we get a little bit of
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reaction, which is where it's 
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It's like, you can imagine him 
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again? 
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Got up that morning, was feeling
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Further study for the disciples 
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its meaning was hidden from them
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was talking about. 
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Jesus. 
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So that's where we're getting 
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Not just of Jesus's death, but 
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from the dead. 
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over death. 
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Now, one of the difficulties as 
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preconceived idea what the 
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that lovely song that we're 
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You know, I will, I will rejoice
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One of the lines is there. 
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You know, I'm repenting of My 
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I'm taking God out of a box. 
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great challenges for us. 
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disciples with the benefit of 
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the silly idiots, you know, but 
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We all put God in a box. 
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when I first became cry, a 
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Jesus was gonna bless my family 
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and find me parking spaces. 
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Unfortunately, he wasn't a kind 
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like that. 
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I'm like that God is God and he 
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So I found out here, I am up 
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God has his own agenda and but 
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He knows how we come to him. 
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parent in a particular way and 
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nothing wrong about that if 
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There's nothing wrong with it. 
Enjoy it. 

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Enjoy the parking spaces that 
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This enjoy, but as we go on in 
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grow up and we begin to see who 
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And as we can take it, and we 
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called to Eternal Venture. 
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We are called to make sacrifices
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one another of its, as I've 
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I said, in Nottingham yesterday,
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This good news. 
This Faith. 

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This religion will inconvenience
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probably not trying hard enough.
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inconvenience. 
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Now, that may be bad news. 
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Christian. 
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Enjoy. 
Enjoy the ride. 

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Enjoy it. 
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It's a blast, really. 
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problem. 
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in a box. 
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scriptures. 
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scriptures since their earliest 
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various parts of scripture that 
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So I mean, for example, we have 
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this, but if you turn back with 
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Old Testament, that sort of 
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Bible, I would say Isaiah 53. 
This is a prophetic. 

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Hundreds of years, before Jesus 
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Jesus is the Messiah. 
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In Isaiah 53, who has believed 
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arm of the Lord been revealed, 
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like a tender shoot, and like a 
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Ground up our own people, but 
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No Majesty about him verse 5. 
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It says, and he was pierced. 
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was crushed. 
For our sins, our iniquities. 

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What you be the Messiah. 
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I will surely know the Messiah. 
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wanted to believe, then. 
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about God is that he'll just 
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Rescues Me Everyday. 
Truly does still one of my 

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favorite both just rescue me. 
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Myself, you know, I'm a danger 
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Let alone anybody else. 
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kind of go now and then and then
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see, that's it was said of him 
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his people and not just died. 
He would die, you know, in such 

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a way. 
That their sins, the punishment 

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we deserve was laid on them. 
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scriptures, he was like a lad 
who would be like a lamb to the 

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slaughter. 
A lamb to the slaughter, a 

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little innocent lamb in a 
skipping around, not knowing 

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that Round. 
The Corner was a butcher 

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sharpening his blade all 
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lamb to the slaughter, the 
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we might have life. 
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Jesus is agenda. 
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curve, that believe it or not is
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have take less time than that. 
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Just help me with this. 
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went to the Cross, he died upon 
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He was an innocent man. 
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one on either side of him. 
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Skipping on in Luke's gospel. 
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you or smart device and we shove
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sort of culmination of that. 
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Let's see if I can find it here 
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Luke 23, beginning, at first 44.
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His disciples that are all over 
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Some of hung around, some have 
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in in in hours. 
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falling apart. 
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know, the campaign other like, 
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be feeling this week months and 
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travel and all the rest and 
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pinching herself. 
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like what And so, all those who 
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going, what? 
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cross at Calvary bleeding to 
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Verse 44. 
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This is sorry, Luke 23 verse 44,
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afternoon for the sun. 
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of the temple was torn in two. 
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that separated the holy of 
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go except one priest once a year
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The holy of holies, the curtain 
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dust ridden to be honest. 
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inner sanctum from the rest. 
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symbolism there of the barrier 
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being ripped apart. 
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Our present progress into his 
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The curtain is torn in two and 
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It says, Jesus called out with a
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Said, father, into your hands. 
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At this, he breathed his law, 
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And the story. 
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Jesus is Lord over death? 
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over death. 
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death. 
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Stay in the scriptures, same 
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were in the 24:36. 
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So, where I want to be? 
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That's what I want to be chapter
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on the first day of the week, 
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Jesus died. 
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Thing kind of a supporter, a 
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man's tomb a very expensive to 
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the first day of the week, very 
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took the spices. 
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the tomb. 
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the burial rites and they found 
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tomb. 
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not find the body of Jesus. 
Where's Jesus? 

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Yes, Jesus. 
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Excuse me. 
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away, Great Big Stone. 
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clothes that gleamed like 
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in their fright, the women bowed
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ground, but the men said to 
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living? 
Among the dead? 

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Whoa, what a question. 
Why do you look for the living 

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among the dead? 
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Here. 
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Risen. 
Remember how he told you when he

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was still with you, in Galilee? 
The son of man must be delivered

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over to the hands of Sinners, be
crucified. 

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And on the third day, be raised 
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words. 
They can hardly believe what 

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they're hearing. 
Can it be true. 

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They're full of, you know, this 
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Expecting when they woke up that
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Clinton's waking up that 
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It was not her reality. 
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This was a huge shock but as 
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and try and work out what has 
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Suddenly these two angelic 
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here He Is Risen Lord over 
death. 

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Lovely, I love the way that that
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read. 
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day, appearances. 
Luke 24, 36 to 43. 

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While they were still talking 
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Now, they've heard the news that
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marry, and there's various 
things that's going to rumors 

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flying around and they gather 
together and they've locked the 

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doors because they're wondering 
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sound of, you know, soldiers 
feet on the steps and rattling 

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at the door there, they're 
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So they're talking about this. 
You know, what on Earth is going

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on? 
What has happened? 

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You know, what do you know? 
What did you hear? 

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What do you say? 
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while they were talking about 
this verse 36, Jesus himself, 

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stood among them and said peace 
be with you. 

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Whoa. 
Can you imagine it? 

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I bet he had a twinkle in his 
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I mean, you've got a really 
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know, he's going to freak them 
out. 

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Peace be with you. 
And I love the commentary here. 

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They was. 
It's so real. 

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They were startled. 
Yep, and frightened, thinking 

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they saw a ghost. 
Will you work? 

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When you I love it? 
They're not saying. 

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Oh, yeah, of course, Isaiah 
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That this was going to happen. 
We always expect welcome. 

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Jesus, do take a seat. 
And, you know, nobody was gonna 

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say, yeah. 
Well, I knew it was gonna 

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happen. 
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It was like, wow. 
There was startled, and 

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frightened, terrified thinking, 
they were seeing a ghost but 

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Jesus knows our hearts. 
He knows what we're like, he 

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knew what they were like in you 
what they were thinking. 

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There's a 38 he said to them. 
Why are you troubled? 

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Why do doubts, arise in your 
mind? 

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Isn't that lovely? 
There were doubts there? 

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There were doubts. 
Look at my hands and my feet. 

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Yeah, he's got the mail 
imprints. 

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There it is. 
I myself. 

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Touch me and see a ghost does 
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As you see, I have I wonder how 
many rushed forward to touch 

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him. 
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I wonder. 
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showed them his hands and his 
feet. 

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And while they were still, did 
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and amazement. 
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Do you have anything to eat? 
What? 

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They gave him a piece of broiled
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it in their presence. 
Can you imagine that Jesus picks

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it up? 
And they're all going. 

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Gulp. 
Jesus is Alive. 

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Jesus is Alive. 
You know, if you've just done 

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the alpha course. 
A few weeks ago, you will know 

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that there is a whole session on
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Jesus being alive, you know, 
things about who moved the stone

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things about the grave clothes 
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them, was sort of to sucked out 
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theological and philosophical 
debates about that. 

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Do you know, one of the things I
have myself always found and it 

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may not work for you, but I'll 
share what works. 

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Me always found the most 
convincing. 

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Was that something happened to 
these guys? 

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Post Jesus death, that turned a 
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thought they were seeing ghosts.
Into an army of people. 

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That changed the face of the 
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And were willing. 
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really gets me. 
Willing to die for it, you know 

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all these disciples. 
Died. 

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A martyr's death. 
And the question I ask myself is

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if you were just kidding along, 
if we were just saying, if you 

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were just sort of, you know, 
cynically saying, well, Jesus 

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was such a great, you know, a 
great teacher. 

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Maybe we can publish his Memoirs
and maybe we can sort of keep it

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alive, and maybe we can have a 
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four followers of Jesus. 
And we can all have a reunions 

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once a year. 
And we can sort of a little 

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money spending, we can make some
sort of bubbling, gz, Jesus, 

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head, souvenirs, and stuff like 
that, you know, we can really 

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make this work for us. 
No, no, no, it wasn't like that 

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at all. 
Something galvanized these guys 

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something absolutely 
extraordinary so that they were 

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willing to die themselves for 
the truth of it. 

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If it was a lie, there would 
have been, you know, they would 

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Ben would have been torture room
confessions. 

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No, not sorry. 
It was just a big joke. 

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It was such a big scam, you 
know, was Peters. 

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I didn't know it was actually, 
and people say was not my idea. 

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It was your idea James accepted.
Yeah. 

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No, we were just trying to make 
a bit of money, you know, you 

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know, we'd given up there was 
none of that these Eyes went to 

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the Lions, went to the Cross. 
Luke was Luke. 

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Was he shot in the back, know 
that was Thomas. 

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It was shot in the back with 
arrows and stuff like this. 

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You know, these guys died the 
death. 

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Would you die a death for Ally 
something? 

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You knew to be a lie, a 
conspiracy, would you? 

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No. 
To a man to a woman, they died. 

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Terrible deaths to establish the
freedoms that we today. 

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Enjoy. 
Because they went absolutely 

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convinced beyond all shadow of a
doubt that Jesus is Lord. 

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And Alive. 
Our man, let's have the band up.

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This is price. 
Could you please stand? 

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No, I said right at the 
beginning that. 

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I wanted all of us including 
myself are. 

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Agenda, if you will. 
Is that we all have a greater 

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real Revelation and 
understanding of who Jesus is? 

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That we go beyond Jesus, the 
comforter and Helper, and I need

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Jesus, the comforter and Helper 
and provider of parking spaces. 

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I truly do. 
But that we go beyond that to 

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Jesus is Lord. 
Because if Jesus isn't lord, 

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well then we can keep him in 
this box. 

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We call church. 
But if Jesus is Lord, wherever 

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you are in the community at work
at the school gate, wherever he 

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is Lord there too, and that is 
going to impact you and affect 

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you and give you a whole 
different way of doing life 

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because you will know and you do
know, God bless you. 

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That if Jesus is Lord over all 
nothing is hidden from him. 

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It's not just an hour and a half
on a Sunday morning. 

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It's what we do out there and 
it's as we witness in our life, 

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and our work to him being Lord 
in our lives and Lord over 

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everything that we find 
ourselves, really beginning to 

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gain some Traction. 
In this thing. 

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We call the kingdom of God, 
bless you. 

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Let's pray, Lord God I ask you, 
Holy Spirit to help me. 

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I said I would do my best and 
I've done my best. 

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I pray Lord. 
Holy spirit, that you would. 

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Write this on our hearts that 
you'd open our eyes. 

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Lord, if we're blind, if we've 
got you in some kind of a box, 

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some whatever, that might mean, 
just pray that you break that 

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office that you would be, you 
would be who you are to us. 

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And that Lord, God, we would 
find ourselves living and moving

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and having our being in the 
presence and under the watchful 

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and loving, I of the Living. 
God. and everyone said,