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Want to tell you one of my 
favorite stories this morning. 

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I have to do a condensed version
of it because it's too long to 

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tell. 
When I start the story. 

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Amy might actually get up and 
leave, but you'll understand by 

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the time I get to the end of the
story. 

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Why, it's the story of a corn 
flake who was, who was actually 

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the greatest little corn flake 
in the world. 

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Has anyone ever heard the story 
of the greatest little corn 

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flake? 
Amy's heard it so many times 

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it's painful for her. 
So the greatest little corn 

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flake, you know, he, he, he, he 
was born in the corn flake 

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factory and he was the first 
corn flake out of the chute into

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the box. 
And so he was at the bottom of 

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the box, and all those corn 
flakes were piled up on top of 

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him. 
And so he pushed and he shoved 

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and he shoved and he pushed and 
he pushed and he shoved and he 

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pushed until he got to the top 
of the box, being the great 

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little corn flake that he was. 
Now that box went down the 

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conveyor belt and it came to the
end of the conveyor belt. 

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And when it went to the end of 
the bin after that, it fell off 

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the end of the conveyor belt and
it landed upside down in the 

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bin. 
And so the corn flake was back 

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at the bottom of the box. 
So we pushed and he shoved and 

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he shoved and he pushed and he 
pushed and he pushed and he 

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pushed till he got to the top of
the box, being the great little 

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cornflake that he was. 
If you feel like you're learning

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a rhythm, feel free to join in. 
As he was riding in that cart 

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through the warehouse, he was 
taking the place where they were

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going to be the crated up to be 
placed on the truck. 

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And as they were lifted out of 
the bin and placed in the crate,

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the person turned it back over 
again and said, little cornflake

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found himself back on the bottom
of the box. 

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So he pushed and he shoved and 
he shoved and he pushed and he 

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pushed and he shoved and he 
pushed till he got to the top of

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the box, being the great little 
cornflake that he was placed in 

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the back of the big truck he was
driving down the road. 

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And it was bouncing and banging 
and bouncing and banging and 

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bouncing and banging. 
And and as he shook up and down,

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he settled all the way down to 
the bottom of the box. 

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And so he pushed and he shoved 
and he shoved and he pushed and 

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he pushed and he pushed and he 
pushed until he got to the top 

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of the box, being the great 
little cornflake that he was. 

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Now at this point, I'm going to 
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might I tell the story? 
I typically tell it until 

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someone says, is this story ever
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My longest to date was 3 1/2 
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So, you know, very polite 
friends of mine many years ago 

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on a car trip, 3 1/2 hours until
someone says, is this story ever

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going to end? 
And then I say, no, it never 

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ends. 
It's a cereal I see there. 

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That's how it goes. 
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the great little cornflake is in
some respects a good image for 

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us of what Jesus has done at the
resurrection, because Jesus 

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turned the whole world upside 
down at the resurrection. 

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And everything that was on top 
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everything that was on the 
bottom is now on the top. 

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Jesus, after the resurrection 
has turned our whole world 

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upside down. 
We've been talking all through 

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Lent about how do we, how do we 
live faithfully? 

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How can we be faithful in 
systems that are stacked against

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us? 
And we do live in systems that 

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are stacked against us. 
But at Easter, God has turned 

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the world on its head. 
The fact that systems have been 

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stacked against us ultimately 
does not matter because God up 

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ends all of those systems just 
to breeze through a few 

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different ways He did that. 
And some of this we already read

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Hunter red for us this morning. 
He's not here. 

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He is risen. 
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Actually, Brandon read that one.
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supposed to be dead. 
He was supposed to be in the 

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tomb. 
He was supposed to have been 

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killed. 
And he was killed by the mighty 

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and powerful Roman Empire, which
was the strongest force anywhere

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in the world in that day. 
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slave. 
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They mockingly wrote the charge 
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Here's your king of the Jews. 
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This is how much power your king
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But the woman arrived at the 
tomb and the tomb was empty, and

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Jesus wasn't there. 
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here. 
He has risen just as he said. 

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The world turned upside down. 
The world turned upside down. 

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Back in Luke, that hunter read, 
he's brought down rulers from 

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their Thrones, but has lifted up
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This was a prophecy that Mary 
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her, her kinswoman Elizabeth. 
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pregnant at the time. 
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the Spirit revealed to Mary 
about Jesus, who she was 

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bearing, that he's brought down 
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lifted up the humble. 
Jesus came from the very 

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beginning to turn the world 
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After Jesus's birth, Simeon told
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destined to cause the falling 
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Jesus is turning the world 
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People that are on the bottom in
these systems, in the world that

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are stacked against them, 
they're going to find themselves

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in Christ and in the Kingdom of 
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And, and we cannot miss the 
reality here that the people 

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that are on the top are going to
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That's just as important. 
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that everyone get raised, gets 
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The people on the top are now at
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The people on the bottom are now
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God has turned the world upside 
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We see that in a number of 
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The crucified slave triumphs 
over the Roman Empire and the 

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local authorities and the 
religious elite in Roman, in the

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Roman Empire, they crucified 
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It was the punishment for 
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It was the way the Roman Empire 
said you are the lowest of the 

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low, the the least powerful of 
the least powerful, that we can 

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strip you naked, beat you near 
to death and hang you on a cross

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to spend days dying for all the 
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are. 
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people that were Roman citizens 
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according to the authorities, 
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them, they stripped them of 
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slaves. 
Jesus hanging on the cross was a

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display from the Roman Empire 
saying Jesus of Nazareth is not 

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the King of the Jews. 
Jesus of Nazareth is not the 

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Messiah. 
Jesus of Nazareth is not the Son

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of God. 
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He's our slave and we have 
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But the crucified slave one, the
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dead. 
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stay dead. 
The crucified slave was not a 

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victim of the mighty Roman 
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The crucified slave was a 
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restore people to God and God to
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The world turned upside down. 
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death, death ends in life. 
Anyone here hate clowns? 

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Got one or two people that hate 
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I don't know whether it was 
Stephen King, but someone has 

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really ruined clowns for the 
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If you hate clowns, I've got 
good news and bad news for you. 

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Do you have do you know where 
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In the church? 
How about that? 

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If you hate clowns, there's 
another reason to hate church. 

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You know, if you love clowns, 
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church. 
The clown started in the church.

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Believe it or not, there were 
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when preachers preached too long
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No, seriously, it, it happened. 
It's hard to believe, but it 

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happened. 
And, and I'm telling you, this 

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is God's honest truth. 
The people were designated as 

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clowns and they would come out 
from a doorway in the back of 

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the, you know, the narthics at 
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They would come out and do 
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They didn't speak. 
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Do something in mime to wake the
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attention back to what the 
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And and they, the white face 
that they wore, they put on, 

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they put on white face and then 
covered the white face with 

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bright colors. 
And that was an intentional 

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symbol because from very ancient
times on people to acknowledge a

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death and to acknowledge their 
mortality, we acknowledge they 

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were in mourning, would take ash
or other things and paint their 

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faces white as a symbol of 
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And by putting on the white and 
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of that, those Christian clowns 
were saying we're not moving in 

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this world from life to death. 
We're moving from death to life.

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So the next time you watch it, 
remember Jesus. 

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Remember Jesus. 
It's hard sometimes, I know. 

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But even in it, we're not moving
from life to death. 

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We're moving from death to life.
We're moving from death to life.

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The world has been turned upside
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Another big thing that happened 
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in much of the ancient world and
much of the world today, women 

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are considered second class 
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If the resurrection of Jesus is 
a lie that was told by his 

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followers after his death in 
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something after that and, and 
start a movement, you know, on, 

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on the shoulders of a dead guy. 
It was a bad lie for a number of

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different reasons, but one of 
the reasons it was a bad lie, if

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it was a lie, is that if you're 
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ever made women the first 
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resurrection. 
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considered credible and valid in
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We see that in other gospels 
where the women go back and tell

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the disciples they're like, 
yeah, I know you're crazy. 

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We'll go look for ourselves. 
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Yes, the women were right. 
We should remember that. 

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That should be a mantra. 
The women were right. 

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Jesus turned the world on its 
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The first evangelists, the first
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sent out to share the good news 
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were not the men who had 
followed Jesus for all those 

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years. 
It was the women who had 

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followed Jesus for all those 
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The world turned upside down. 
The Angel said to the women, Go 

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quickly and tell his disciples, 
he has risen from the dead. 

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He's going ahead of you to 
Galilee. 

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There you will see him. 
They were sent to tell the 

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disciples the good news. 
The disciples heard the gospel 

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first from the women. 
A beautiful thing, a beautiful 

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reversal. 
Jesus said to them, do not be 

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afraid. 
Go tell my brothers, go to 

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Galilee. 
There they will see me Jesus 

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himself. 
We didn't read that part. 

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We just stopped at the Angel. 
But a few verses later Jesus 

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himself appeared to the women. 
Jesus himself renewed their 

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their calling and status as 
apostles and evangelists and 

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said that's what the word 
apostle means is sent one who's 

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been sent out and sent them out 
to be the first sharers and 

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bearers of the good news in 
human history. 

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Jesus turning the world upside 
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In Jesus resurrection, we see 
that the strategies of the 

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powerful are powerless to stop 
the tactics of the crucified. 

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Slave strategy is for the for 
folks in power, for folks that 

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can look down the road and make 
accurate predictions or 

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reasonably accurate predictions 
about what circumstances and 

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what actions will produce what 
results and to make decisions 

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based on those predictions that 
will yield the best results for 

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them. 
That's how corporations work. 

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That's how governments work. 
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many churches operate with 
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That's the thinking of the 
powerful. 

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Jesus came among us as one who 
had no power. 

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He was a nobody from a nobody 
family in a nothing town in a 

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nothing part of the world. 
Even other Israelites didn't 

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think anything of Nazareth. 
It was a proverb that nothing 

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good comes out of Nazareth. 
Think if you're, you know, 

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Michigan, right? 
Sorry. 

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Sorry, Steven, but what else can
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Easy target. 
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world with strategy. 
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He came in with tactics and his 
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have been cast out, reach out a 
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the bottom. 
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when the people with powerful 
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We've got this prophet. 
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authority and make us look bad. 
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have him crucified to show 
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we are everything. 
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bet, Crucify me. 
Do your best. 

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It's part of the plan. 
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the plan, and Jesus allowed 
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turned the world upside down. 
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himself to be beyond the power 
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government, the mightiest 
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Jesus turned the world upside 
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when God does these things that 
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down, he's restoring order to 
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Those systems that are stacked 
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common folks, the poor folks, 
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know, just not the wealthy, not 
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top, and not the ones in charge.
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few people on top and in charge 
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mercy, that is a world that's 
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It's a system that's disordered 
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by things like pride and greed 
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control and, and an obsessive 
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and, and all of these kinds of 
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that's out of order. 
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things back in order, turning it
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It's not really upside down. 
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these years. 
I'm going to turn it back right 

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There's a great story that it's 

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not a great story. 
Cancel that. 

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It's a sad story, sorry. 
Dallas Willard tells in one of 

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his books. 
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So I don't want to, I don't want
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Air Force pilots. 
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fighter jets and, and they were 
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practicing flying on 
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Problem was her plane was upside
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and when she pulled up, she flew
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that going down is going down 
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the order that God intended for 
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that were a bottom back to the 
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This is my theological take and 
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Hate me if you will. 
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curse is Easter's blessing. 
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Cinematic Universe until they 
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they're doing the whole new 
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back, and Captain Eric is coming
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All these dead people are coming
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There's no tension anymore in 
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because no one ever really dies.
That's Easter for us. 

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There's no tension. 
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Makes a really boring movie in 
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I think that's my phone 
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Oh, it is. 
Oh, I really wish it said God on

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there. 
That would have been. 

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And I got a doctor's appointment
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It's good that I get the calls 
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last one. 
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cursed for entertainment. 
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ruin the tension that if you 
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hope and hope and hope and hope 
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They're out of the story. 
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this death does not remove 
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No one who is a follower of 
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by death, because death isn't 
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We're not going from life to 
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We are going from death to life.
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think one of my seminary 
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I argued with him about it at 
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was stupid. 
I was young then and Dumber than

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I am now. 
I'm still not smart, but I was 

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Dumber even then. 
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said we really mess up. 
He was very good at saying we, 

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we don't know what we think we 
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promised Adam and Eve. 
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knowledge of good and evil, you 
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And then they ate and they 
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At least that's what I've always
they didn't actually die. 

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God had mercy on them so that 
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And then my professor said, you 
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life is. 
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is really death? 
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That the world really has been 
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cannot even tell with any degree
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between life and death. 
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is that in and through Jesus we 
see that even when we die, life 

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is ahead of us and it's a new 
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It's a better life. 
It's a life in glory with Jesus 

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forever. 
It's a life free of manipulation

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and corruption and death. 
It's a life free of, of the 

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heartache caused by the abuse of
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group over another. 
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It's a life free of, of the 
brokenness that causes so much 

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pain and suffering and heartache
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worldwide level that as we pass 
through death, we will for the 

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first time experience true and 
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And Jesus's resurrection is the 
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The MCU's curse is Easter's 
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There's still pain and death. 
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sequel, and we know the ending. 
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There is a time coming. 
There is a day coming when Jesus

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will return just the way he 
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in Christ will rise again. 
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Ghost, but with bodies like 
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Bodies that might be scarred 
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but bodies that have a new and 
eternal life that they can share

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with God and with each other 
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A life where every tear is wiped
away, where every heartache is 

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healed, where every wound is 
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And the scars remind us less of 
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and the joy that we have in 
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Now, if you don't know the 
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don't know the why not take care
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Why not offer yourself to Jesus 
and say, you know what? 

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I've heard about this before, 
all of this business of life in 

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you forever. 
I if you're not sure about that,

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I'm not going to do. 
We're not going to do in every 

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head bowed, every eye closed. 
I got that a lot when I was a 

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kid. 
It drove me nuts. 

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I got saved like 12 times. 
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that we all need to make to 
surrender our lives to Jesus, to

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be willing to live as he called 
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to the top, but doing like Jesus
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denying ourselves, following 
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And if we're taking up a cross, 
we are a slave, but we're not a 

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slave to the people in power 
down here. 

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We're a slave to God, who has 
promised us that even death ends

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in life if we follow Jesus. 
If we follow Jesus, this takes 

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us back to the it's my first 
gift I've ever made. 

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If you pronounce it jiff, you're
wrong. 

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First gift. 
That's harsh, I know, but it's, 

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you know, I got to preach the 
truth. 

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I was proud of that. 
It doesn't take much to impress 

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myself. 
The good news is our situation 

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is so much better than the corn 
flake. 

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The corn flake, every time that 
box was turned upside down, he 

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had to push and shove and shove 
and push and push and shove and 

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push so we could get to the top 
of the box, being the great 

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little corn flake that he was. 
Jesus says the world's turned 

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upside down. 
It's been turned upside down and

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disordered by sin. 
If you're on the bottom, chill, 

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relax. 
I'll turn it back over. 

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I'll put you on the top. 
I'll put you on the top. 

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You don't have to struggle for 
it. 

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You don't have to strive for it.
You don't have to step on anyone

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else or push them down to get to
the top. 

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Just settle at the bottom and 
let me turn things over. 

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Let me turn things around. 
This is living the Easter life. 

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Living the Easter life is 
remembering that God has and 

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will mate. 
He already has. 

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In the rection, resurrection 
turned the world right side up 

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where it's been upside down. 
And in our resurrection we'll 

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see the reality of that with our
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Let's live that way today. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Let's stand and sing together. 

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Majesty #176 We're going to sing
it two times. 

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Majesty, worship His Majesty 
unto Jesus, be your glory, honor

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and praise Majesty. 
Kingdom authority flow from his 

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throne unto his own. 
His anthem rays so exalt. 

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Lift up on high the name of 
Jesus, magnify, come, glorify 

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Christ Jesus the King. 
Majesty, worship His Majesty, 

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Jesus who died now glorify King 
of all kings. 

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Majesty, worship His Majesty, 
unto Jesus be all glory, honor 

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and pray. 
Majesty, Kingdom authority flow 

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from His throne unto his own. 
His anthem raise so we exalt, 

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lift up on high the neck of 
Jesus, magnify, come glorify 

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Christ Jesus the King. 
Majesty, worship His Majesty 

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Jesus, who died now glorified 
King of all kings. 

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The thing to remember is that 
the crucified slave is the one 

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with the majesty, the one 
hanging on the cross naked is 

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the one with the glory. 
The one who whose life was taken

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by the powers that were stacked 
against him is the one who is 

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the King of all kings. 
And our call is not to pursue a 

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life of struggling to get to the
top of the box. 

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Our call is to follow Jesus to 
the bottom. 

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And we forgot to turn everything
upside down. 

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In Jesus name, Amen. 
Amen.