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Our Bible reading is taken from 
Luke's Gospel chapter 24 and 

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we're going to read the first 12
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Luke chapter 24 verses one 
through to 12. 

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Let's hear the Word of God. 
The words will come up and 

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scream for those online. 
Now upon the first day of the 

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week, very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulchre, 

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bringing the spices which they 
had prepared, and certain others

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with them. 
And they found the stone rolled 

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away from the sepulchre, and 
they entered in, and found not 

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the body of the Lord Jesus. 
And it came to pass, as they 

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were much perplexed thereabout, 
behold, 2 men stood by them in 

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shining garments. 
And as they were afraid, and 

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bowed down their faces to the 
earth, they said unto them, Why 

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seek ye the living among the 
dead? 

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He is not here, but has risen. 
Remember how He speak unto you 

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when He was yet in Galilee, 
saying, The Son of Man must be 

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delivered into the hands of 
sinful men, and be crucified. 

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And the third day rise again. 
And they remembered his words, 

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and returned from the sepulchre,
and told all these things unto 

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the 11 and to all the rest. 
It was Mary Magdalene, and 

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Joanna, and Mary the mother of 
James, and other women that were

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with them, which told these 
things unto the apostles, and 

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their words seemed to them as 
idle tales, and they believed 

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them not. 
Then arose Peter, and ran unto 

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the sepulchre, and stooping 
down, he beheld the linen 

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clothes laid by themselves, and 
departed, wondering in himself 

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at that which was come to pass. 
Amen. 

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We know the Lord will stamp with
His own approval and blessing 

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this reading of His own precious
and infallible Word. 

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Now this is Remembrance Sunday 
2025 and this morning, along 

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with 10s of thousands of other 
churches throughout the United 

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Kingdom, we have observed a 
period of silence and honour and

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memory of all who have fought 
and died in two world wars and 

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other conflicts since we have 
stood in silence, we've stood in

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solidarity to remember the 
bravery and sacrifice of those 

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who've served. 
We've mentioned the Royal Navy, 

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the British Army, the Royal Air 
Force and all the reserve 

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forces, especially those who 
fought and died to preserve our 

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cherished freedoms that we all 
enjoy today. 

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We've also remembered the 
members of the Royal Ulster 

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Constabulary, all 319 of them, 
members of the UDR, the PSNI and

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all the emergency support staff,
and all other innocent victims 

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of terrorism who paid the 
supreme sacrifice in the causes 

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of our freedom, in the cause of 
truth and righteousness. 

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Truly they gave their day for 
our tomorrow and it is right and

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proper that we remember them. 
We have said we will remember 

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them. 
Do you know that it is biblical 

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to remember? 
The word remember is used 210 

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times in the Bible. 
Genesis 8 and one is the first 

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reference. 
Revelation 18 and five is the 

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last The theme of remembrance is
used 51 times in the Bible. 

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Exodus 17 and 14, Revelation 16 
and 19. 

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We can think of the words of the
Lord Jesus that the Lord's 

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Supper this do in remembrance of
me. 

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Now every year on Remembrance 
Sunday, we have taken up this 

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theme of remembering. 
We have called upon you to 

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remember something. 
Now, therefore, my text today is

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found on the same theme. 
If you look with me at Luke 

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chapter 24 verse 8, it says this
and they remembered His words. 

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Here's a short verse, only 5 
words, and they remembered His 

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words. 
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entitled is remembering the 
Redeemer's words. 

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Let's remember the context. 
Devout women coming very early 

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in the morning to anoint the 
dead body of the Lord Jesus. 

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Three days earlier they had 
witnessed the awful death of 

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Christ by crucifixion, a most 
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Now upon their rival at the 
empty tomb, they discovered that

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the stone was rolled away. 
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something that was on their lips
as they drew near the garden 

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town and with the stone rolled 
away from the mouth of the tomb,

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they went and looked inside. 
They discovered the tomb was 

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empty, the body was not there. 
They were confused, they were 

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perplexed, they were troubled. 
And in that moment 2 angels and 

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shining garments stood by them. 
And the angels asked this 

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question in the midst of their 
fear, as they bowed their heads 

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to the earth. 
Why seek ye the living among the

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dead? 
He said in verse 6, He is not 

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here, he is risen. 
And then they added, Remember 

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how he spake unto you when he 
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And here's the words, verse 7, 
saying the Son of Man must be 

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delivered into the hands of 
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And the third day, rise again. 
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What do we read? 
What followed? 

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And they remembered his words. 
What clarity, what tremendous 

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comfort and joy flowed and 
followed when we read and they 

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remembered his words. 
And it was a words about the 

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facts of the Gospel, a simple, 
yet supernatural and yet 

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sovereign message. 
A word about his arrest, his 

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unjust trial and horrible death 
by crucifixion, and a word about

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his resurrection on the third 
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From the day you see, the 
resurrection of the Lord Jesus 

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Christ is a glorious truth. 
It's the bedrock of the 

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Christian faith. 
It's really the Waterloo of all 

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the modernism, liberalism and 
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This is one of the great 
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belief in Christianity. 
And here, our holy woman, they 

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come to that tomb, and they 
haven't anticipated or thought 

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about the doctor of the 
resurrection. 

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And they come to that tomb in a 
spirit of mourning, and they're 

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sad in their heart, and they 
come with their spaces to anoint

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a dead body. 
And now they're told He is not 

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here, He has risen. 
Remember how He speak unto you 

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when He was yet in Galilee. 
And when they heard what He 

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said, we read, and they 
remembered His words. 

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I want you to think about that. 
And they remembered His words. 

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Think with me of the problem 
that was experienced under 

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underline the word remembered. 
We'll ask the question, what was

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the common problem of these dear
holy woman that they experience 

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in their heart and mind? 
The common problem was this they

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were prone to forget the words 
of the Lord Jesus. 

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Now picture the sea woman come 
with her spices to anoint a dead

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body. 
Woman filled with a sense of 

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mourning, a spirit of weeping. 
They've got heavy hearts. 

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They're sad, They're full of 
doubt. 

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They're filled with a sense of 
tragedy that has unfolded 

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outside the city of Jerusalem. 
They're on a journey, a literal 

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journey. 
And on that journey, their 

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hearts and minds are not filled 
with the words of the Lord 

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Jesus. 
On this journey they have not 

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anticipated or expected the 
resurrection of Jesus Christ 

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from the dead. 
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tomb is empty, they're directed 
to what? 

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By the angels? 
And what does the Angel say? 

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Remember how he speak unto you 
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In other words, the angels 
directed the woman to the words 

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of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
Word of God. 

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Can you get the picture? 
These women, upon entering the 

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tomb, were perplexed. 
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stolen. 
They were not thinking, that 

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they were not concluding. 
In their mind, He has risen. 

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They're asked a question. 
Why seek ye the living among the

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dead? 
He is not here, but has risen. 

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Remember how He speak unto you. 
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them has identified here, Mary 
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etcetera. 
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They're full of worry and fear. 
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words of Christ. 
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Directs them to the words of the
Saviour. 

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It's as if the angels are 
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Lord, that message about 
Christ's arrest and unjust trial

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and cruel death by crucifixion. 
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He has risen bodily from the 
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And what are we told? 
And they remembered his words. 

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They they recalled them to mind.
They got insight and light. 

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You see, faith in Christ is the 
only true and only basis for a 

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right relationship with God. 
Faith in Christ is the basis for

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all the help that we need in the
midst of all our grief and all 

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our distresses and all the 
darkness of our soul. 

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It's faith in the sayings of the
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Christ. 
A great comfort. 

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What tremendous clarity. 
Notice it wasn't the angels 

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themselves that was the focus of
their attention. 

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It wasn't the angel's vision or 
the angel's voice. 

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The Angel said, remember how he 
speak unto you when he was yet 

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with you in galley, and they 
remembered his words. 

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Let me ask a question this 
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Maybe you're here in the House 
of God in this Remembrance Day 

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service and you're full of 
worry, you're full of pain and 

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woe. 
Maybe you're away from the Lord 

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and you're thinking, how do I 
get back to the Lord? 

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I, I, I want to have a place of 
power and victory, a place where

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I can enjoy the Lord, a place 
where I can know and love and 

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serve them. 
How can you spiritually journey 

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from a place of doubt and 
tragedy to a place of delight 

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and triumph? 
A place where you experience 

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darkness in your soul to a place
of light in your soul? 

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And the answer lies here. 
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See, we're all prone to this 
now. 

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We're all prone and apartment to
forget His words. 

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We're all prone and apartment to
forget even the Gospel in its 

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simplicity, in its 
supernaturalness, in its 

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supremacy and superiority, that 
was a failure. 

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The problem that they 
experienced was a failure to 

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recall to mind his words when he
was yet with them about his 

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arrest, his crucifixion, death 
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So I'm asking this, is that a 
picture of you this morning? 

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You're here. 
You're not in victory. 

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You feel your life is empty. 
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you're full of doubt, fear. 
Maybe you're at the point of 

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despair. 
You're living on uncertainty. 

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You're filling your heart and 
mind with what? 

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Here's the answer to your 
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Get back to the book. 
Come back to the words of 

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Christ. 
Think of this phrase. 

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Remember how they speak unto 
you. 6 words and link it up with

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verse 8. 
Five more words and they 

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remembered His words. 
The Christian needs to remember 

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God's word. 
Remember what we read in 

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Revelation chapter 1 and verse 
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Blessed is he that readeth and 
they that hear the words of this

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prophecy and keep those things 
which are written therein for 

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the time is at hand. 
Three things, reading, hearing 

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and keeping all linked together.
And as Christians, we need to 

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remember, there's a need to read
and to hear and to keep the 

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words of the prophecy of this 
book. 

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And as Christians we need to 
remember especially the doctrine

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of the resurrection. 
As I've said, it's one of the 

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fundamental doctrines of the 
faith. 

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They, they think with me here 
are two angels. 

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They could have used heavenly 
language to convince them of the

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truth of the resurrection. 
They didn't. 

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They could have talked about, 
now you've seen a vision of two 

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angels and you've heard our 
voice. 

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They didn't. 
They pointed the woman to the 

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word of God. 
Imagine meeting not one, but 2 

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angels from heaven, and you're 
having a conversation with them 

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and you're telling it to 
something. 

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And you've been asked, well, 
what did the angels say? 

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And remember, in the context, 
they're full of doubt and fear 

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and discourage, full of despair.
Things are going badly for them.

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And now you meet an Angel. 
And what would you expect the 

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Angel to say? 
At the heart of what these 

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angels said was nothing about 
themselves, Not where they'd 

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come from, not what they were 
doing in heaven, not about their

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shiny garments, not even about 
their voice. 

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No, at the heart of all they 
say, they direct you to the word

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of God. 
They declare unto you the word 

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of God. 
They're not pointing you to a 

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vision. 
They're not pointing you to a 

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strange ecstatic utterance. 
They're not pointing you to some

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weird dream. 
No, they direct these women. 

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They direct us to the word of 
the Lord. 

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They think of it pondering. 
I know I'm labouring the point, 

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but I want you to get the point.
The angels took these sorrowing 

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woman full of doubt and fear and
trouble. 

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They took them to the word of 
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It's as if they were saying take
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mind. 
Be not faithless but believing. 

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Back to the 11. 
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to teach and tell them what the 
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These women were convinced by 
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remembered his words. 
You know the apostle Peter who 

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was one of these. 12 Remember 
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chapter 1. 
He said this in verse 16. 

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Second Peter chapter one, verse 
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For we have not followed 
cunnally devised fables, when we

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made known unto you the power 
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but for eyewitnesses of His 
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For he received from God the 
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there came such a voice to him 
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Glory. 
This was my beloved Son, in whom

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I'm well pleased. 
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heaven, verse 18, we heard when 
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mind. 
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We have also a more sure word of
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They ponder that. 
Peter says we're not engaging in

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silly stories. 
Our message is not based in myth

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and legend. 
It's not the stuff of folklore. 

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No, it's it's based on the word 
of God, which is true. 

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Young people, the Bible's not a 
meaningless book. 

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It's not a book full of vian 
empty stories. 

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Peter was an eyewitness. 
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Father. 
This is my beloved son in whom I

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am well pleased. 
He was an eyewitness, he said We

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saw, He could say, we heard, he 
could testify. 

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We were an eyewitness. 
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we also have a more sure word of
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tales, a more sure word of 
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even an eyewitness. 
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How did the angels get through 
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How did the angels get them? 
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triumph, a mindset of despair to
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gladness. 
Remember how He speak unto you, 

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and they remembered His word. 
And I tell you this morning, the

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battle for the Christian life is
here. 

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You face temptation. 
You face trials and troubles. 

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You battle inordinate lust, peer
pressure. 

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You have many tears and 
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You fight worries. 
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Not with fables, not with idle 
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stuff of folklore, but back to 
the living Word of God, back to 

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the Bible. 
And in fact, if you read Luke 

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24, and I encourage you to do 
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24. 
Even the Lord Jesus directed the

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two in the road to Emmaus back 
to the Bible. 

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He required them to listen, to, 
read, and to keep the Scripture.

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Luke chapter 24, verses 25 to 
27. 

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Read it for yourself. 
Remember, they were heartbroken,

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they had gotten away from the 
Lord, they were ready to quit, 

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they were sad, and they had 
given up. 

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And a stranger comes to talk to 
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And the stranger expounded to 
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things concerning himself. 
The same example like the holy 

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angels. 
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disciples in the upper room when
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verse 44 and 45. 
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And He said unto them, These are
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you, while I was yet with you, 
that all things must be 

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fulfilled, which are written in 
the law of Moses, and in the 

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prophets, and in the Psalms 
concerning me. 

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And you see, we're prone to 
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The problem the woman 
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words and we're prone to do the 
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We're prone to forget that we're
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we've got a mortal soul. 
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need to be saved and repent of 
that sin and trust in Christ. 

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We were prone to forget that 
we're loved by God from eternity

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past. 
We we're prone to forget that we

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were forgiven on the ground of 
the blood. 

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We were prone to forget that 
God's our heavenly Father and 

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Christ as our Saviour. 
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things. 
Let me move on very quickly. 

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Not only the problem that they 
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that were expounded. 
If you look again at the text 

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that says in Luke chapter 24 
verse 8 and they remembered his 

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words. 
Underline the word words the 

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Angel said, Remember how he 
speak unto you. 

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Link it up verse 6 and they 
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You see, the heart of the gospel
centres in the veracity of the 

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Redeemer's words. 
His words are true. 

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There's no words like the words 
that fell from the lips of the 

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Lord Jesus, of Him. 
It has written, Never man speak 

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like this man. 
All that he said were words of 

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truth. 
All He ever said was true. 

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He never told a lie when he 
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beginning, when he spoke of Noah
and the flood, when he spoke of 

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Daniel, when he spoke of that 
Moses wrote of me. 

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When he talked about the 
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true. 
He spoke of Himself, His birth, 

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His sin, this life, His atoning 
death, His arrest, His trial, 

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His death on the cross, His 
bodily resurrection. 

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You see, He alone could say in 
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truth, because He could say, I 
am the truth. 

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The veracity of the Redeemer's 
words. 

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Quickly think about the value of
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One of the most precious verses 
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Thy word is a lamp unto our 
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What does a lamp do? 
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out there underneath the uniform
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Constabulary. 
It's a miner's lamp for the 

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railway. 
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It gives illumination, and the 
word of God shows us our 

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sinfulness. 
It teaches what sin is it. 

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It cheques us in our sin. 
It reveals to us also God's 

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remedy from human sinfulness 
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Christ. 
First, John one and seven, the 

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blood of Jesus Christ his Son 
cleanseth us from all sin. 

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The power of the precious blood 
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direction. 
It gains our feet in the right 

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path. 
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We're prone to go our own way 
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Sheep have gone astray. 
We've turned everyone to His own

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way. 
That's what we're like. 

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And yet the Word of God don't 
engage our feet, but guards our 

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feet. 
Our steps are ordered. 

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Psalm 119, verse 133. 
They're ordered in Thy word. 

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You see, we can all walk up 
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We can walk righteously. 
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Because the lamp of God's Word 
gives us direction, it also 

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gives us restoration. 
Do you know the last thing at 

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night the shepherd did when he 
come to the sheepfold was count 

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the sheep then? 
And if one was missing, he left 

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Porter in charge, took his 
light. 

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He's called the shepherd's lamp,
and he went into the night and 

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he called for his sheep. 
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and in the verse 3. 
The Saviour said this in John 15

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and verse 3. 
Now you're clean through the 

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Word, which I have spoken unto 
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The word has a saving, 
sanctifying effect upon our 

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hearts and upon our lives. 
John Westerly said I'm a Bible 

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Becket. 
Think only of the veracity and 

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the value of the Redeemer's. 
Think of the victory of the 

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redeemer's words. 
You see the lamp that's lit in 

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the darkness speaks of 
jubilation in the darkness. 

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You can say I've got a light. 
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Maybe you're here this morning 
and you're suffering mentally in

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your mind, and you've no peace 
and you're full of worry and 

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fear about yourself and your 
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Maybe you've even seen a loved 
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brutally murdered. 
You're here today and remember 

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on Sunday, and you can remember 
the horrors of war. 

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And here's these women and they 
had seen and could remember the 

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horror of the crucifixion and 
they can't get the scene out of 

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their mind. 
And it's not easy when you're 

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suffering mentally. 
And yet, here's the answer. 

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Fill your heart and mind with 
the Word of God. 

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We live in a day when many pay 
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God, but God's people cannot be 
indifferent. 

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We have got the words of Christ.
Christ's word is the final word 

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on every subject, and it's the 
word of Christ that drives away 

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our fear. 
It's the word of Christ that 

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establishes our heart and mind 
with a firm grip in relation to 

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assurance. 
It's the word of Christ that 

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judges our life, even our sin. 
It's the word of Christ that 

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guides our steps. 
Young people have said this is 

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not a meaningless book. 
This is not a an ancient 

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doctrine that this is not a book
of fables. 

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No, this is the living, true 
word of God. 

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And it's this book, as we read 
and here and keeping our hearts 

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and minds that convicts us of 
our sin and converts us to the 

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side of the Saviour and comforts
us with God's salvation. 

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There's no book like it. 
It's not like a book in other 

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literature. 
There's a book out there, you 

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can look at it. 
It's called Lost Lives. 

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It's a record of those that were
murdered during the killing 

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times here in Ulster. 
But this book is unlike any 

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other book because this book is 
the living God, braved Word of 

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the living God. 
It's not like secular or even 

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religious books. 
Read to understand. 

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Read to hear. 
Faith cometh by hearing and 

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hearing by the word of God. 
Read to embrace. 

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Read to receive all that he has 
to say. 

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Read to keep remember Job said 
in Job 23 verse 12, I've 

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esteemed thy word more than my 
necessary food. 

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If we receive this book into our
hearts and minds, we can recall 

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things and we can rejoice over 
things because the word of 

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Christ is most suitable to us. 
As I've said, it cheques our 

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sin, comforts us in our in love 
it it it it conquers our fear. 

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It consoles us in our trials. 
It challenges us to live a life 

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of holiness and faith unto God. 
Let us treasure the word of 

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Christ. 
Let us meditate on His words. 

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Here's the precepts that were 
expounded. 

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Let's love these words. 
Let's be much in prayer over 

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them. 
Let's walk by them. 

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If He has given His ears to 
hear, let's remember what He did

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say in John 14 and 23. 
If a man love me, He will keep 

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my words, and my Father will 
love Him, and we will come unto 

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him. 
And they got abode with Him. 

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One final thing, You've been 
very patient. 

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The person that was exalted, 
notice the word His, and they 

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remembered His words. 
What did the angels say unto 

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them in chapter 24 and verse 6? 
They said this. 

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He is not here, but as recent. 
Remember how He speak unto you 

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when He was yet in Galilee? 
The emphasis is on He. 

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And then it says, and they 
remembered his words time and 

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time again. 
When you read the New Testament,

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we discover that the Lord Jesus 
told his disciples, I'm going to

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be arrested, I'm going to be 
tried, I'm going to be put to 

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death, I'm going to rise again 
from the dead. 

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Remember in Matthew 1621 when he
told that Peter, Peter says not 

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so Lord, it's not going to 
happen. 

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The Lord Jesus rebuked him and 
said get thee behind me Satan, 

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for thy saver is not the things 
of God, but the things that be 

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of man. 
Matthew 16 and 23. 

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Peter was not listening. 
Peter was not listening, and 

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therefore Peter didn't receive 
his words. 

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Peter couldn't recall them to 
mind even after they were told 

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about the resurrection. 
Peter was dull of listening, 

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dull of understanding, dull of 
thinking, dull of applying. 

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See, everyone today has an 
opinion. 

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Everyone today has a word. 
Everyone today is speaking, but 

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very few are listening to God. 
Very if you're listening to the 

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word of God. 
But God is speaking and speaking

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to us out of His Word. 
And the question is, are we 

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connected? 
Sometimes we have no signal on 

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the television. 
Sometimes we have no signal for 

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the Internet. 
Sometimes there's no signal for 

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the radio. 
Even in the car, you maybe had a

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dead spot, but it's still been 
broadcast on the television, 

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it's still been broadcast on the
radio. 

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It's still the Internet 
connection still there. 

453
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,360
It's just you've had a dead 
spot. 

454
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,320
And what is true, literally, 
it's also true spiritually. 

455
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,840
You could be listening to a 
service. 

456
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,960
You could enjoy the 1st 10. 
You could be saying Amen to the 

457
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prayer and you could be begin to
listen to the preaching and then

458
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,120
all of a sudden it cuts out. 
It's not that the service has 

459
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,360
stopped, it's just you've had a 
dead spot and you've missed out 

460
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:16,440
in that piece of information. 
How many are missing out in 

461
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:22,360
Christ because they're in a dead
spot spiritually and they 

462
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,880
haven't received all that he has
spoken and they can't recall all

463
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that he has spoken because they 
haven't received it and 

464
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therefore they can't rejoice in 
the word of Christ? 

465
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,960
I want you to understand this as
we finish. 

466
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,200
Christ was arrested. 
Christ was the man of sorrows. 

467
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,720
Think of him being being beaten 
up. 

468
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:50,040
And what the soldiers did to 
Christ was terrible, was 

469
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unjustifiable. 
They, they, they, they tried him

470
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,320
like a common criminal. 
And then he died, that horrible 

471
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death of crucifixion naked on 
the tree. 

472
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,120
And you can imagine the tears 
and the sadness and the anguish 

473
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,080
of the heart and mind of his 
disciples. 

474
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,920
And yet we're told Christ has 
risen. 

475
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:18,440
Christ is alive. 
Christ was born for sinners, 

476
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,600
lived a sinless life for 
sinners, died for sinners, rose 

477
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,520
again for sinners. 
And if we were to ponder this 

478
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morning, the majesty of His 
Person, the Son of God who loved

479
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me and gave Himself for me, 
pondered the meaning of His 

480
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passion. 
He did it all for me. 

481
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,560
Think of the mercy of His 
provision, the the grace of 

482
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Christ that reaches us, the 
blood that was shed. 

483
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,560
Think of the majesty of His 
power. 

484
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,400
He has risen bodily from the 
dead, and He is able to 

485
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:53,520
resurrect us in Christ. 
Think of the mystery of His 

486
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,840
Person. 
He meets with us day and daily. 

487
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:03,840
He speaks to us day and daily. 
He feeds us day and daily. 

488
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,199
He strengthens our stay and 
daily with His word. 

489
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:14,760
It's a word of revelation. 
Are you satisfied with Christ 

490
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:19,440
and his Word, His message, His 
merit, His mercy, His mind? 

491
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:24,520
It's it's all here. 
The person that they exalted in 

492
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,480
their minds was he, It was his 
word. 

493
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:34,320
So I leave this thought with you
today and this resurrection 

494
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,719
theme on this Remembrance 
Sunday. 

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00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,840
And they remembered his words.