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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Good morning everyone, and

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welcome to the Bible guys. Yeah. I always say good morning or whatever.

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I need to change that. Welcome, Welcome to the Bible guys.

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Everyone. My name is Chris,
this is Jeff, and here we are.

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That's right. So this is like
the biggest event in history is what

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we're going to be talking about.
The biggest event is the whether people recognize

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it or not. That's right all
the most do it changed the world?

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Yes? Yes, changed our future, changed eternity, change everything everything that's

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right, everythang. Yes. But
before we get into that, Jeff,

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we have a segment that Desiree wants
us to do. Okay, and we

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do everything Desiree tells us to do. We sort of do, that's right.

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And this segment is how well do
you know them? Chris, Let's

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see how well Jeff knows you.
So I'm going to give you two truths

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and a lie. And this is
she. She said that it's supposed to

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be about some hidden talents that I
might have. Talent's kind of like when

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I did the video game talents.
Yes, okay, so is how we're

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going to do it. So this
actually is going to be three things that

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I'm supposedly good at, but only
one two of them are going to be

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true, and one of them is
going to be false. Okay, here

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we go. You ready. False? Number one. I was sort of

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famous among my friends and coworkers for
going down the stairs so fast that it

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looked like I was sliding, and
yet my feet were hitting every single step,

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and I would go so fast that
people couldn't believe it. And then

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they would literally say, Chris,
do that thing. Do that thing,

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and I would have to perform it
for everybody, and I would go up

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and down the stairs extremely fast.
That's number one hidden talent, if you

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will. Yeah, wow, so
impressive. Number two. Your mom must

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be so proud. Number two.
I am famously good at cleaning things.

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So I do deep cleaning organizing and
actually quite enjoy it, and then you

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know I'll do it and then you
know, be super proud of it.

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That's number two. And then number
three. I am exceptionally good at Uker,

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although I don't necessarily like the game, but I'm good at it and

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I've actually won Ukur tournaments. I
didn't know Yukker until I got to Michigan,

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but when I got taught it,
I found out that I was actually

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good at it. So I'm a
sought after Uker partner. Okay, So

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I also share the talent of being
able to touch every stare on the way

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down without making it look like you're
just sliding rather than Yeah. Yes,

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so that is a legitimate talent.
I don't know if you have it.

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I think it's always a mistake to
tell Liz that you know how to clean.

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Well, that's a mistake unless less
I know, but now you're bragging

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about it, which takes it to
the whole level. So that's a mistake.

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I mean. So, I mean, I hate it. I would

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much rather pay to have somebody.
Yeah. Yeah, so I'm going to

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say that the first two are true
and Uker is a lie. There your

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final answer, Yes, that is
correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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The reality I was like, why
would a kid from Ohio need to

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learn how to play Yuker? Right? Oh, that is only a Michigan

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thing, I know, That's what
I'm saying. Yeah, yeahh so Michigan

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Uker is a Michigan game, right, But when you live here for twenty

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years. Yeah, of course you're
going to teach people who moved here.

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That's okay. So that part you're
absolutely wrong. So the history of Yuker

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is is that I've been, uh
in so many scenarios where they play cards

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and it's Yuker, and I'm the
guy that says, no, no,

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no, let's play you know,
regular poker or Texas hold On or something,

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and they'll say, no, no, no, it's Yuker. And

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so I've I've played ucre dozens of
times and I've had to learn it every

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time, right, even though I'm
decent at it, but I have there's

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so many but I'm not good,
right, And to be honest with you,

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I don't know why I should like
it, but I don't. I

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don't like it at all. So
I'm from Michigan and I don't care for

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ker. I don't know why.
I feel ashamed to say it, I

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know, right, but I feel
like all the Yuker lovers are like,

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come on, there's more luck to
that game. And I think that's part

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of it. To me, Oh
is I like the games they have less

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luck and more strategy. Right,
But so cards in general are luck too.

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Sure, there's a lot of strategy
to it, but it's luck of

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the draw yep, primarily. So
anyways, well, there you go.

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So you shouldn't have confessed that to
your wife, being, you know,

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so enthusiastically about enjoying cleaning so much. Well, to be fair, I

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haven't cleaned on a rampage in quite
a while. Which, stop talking is

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worse. Just stop talking. She's
listening right now. Liz is like,

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you know, he hasn't. I
bet I can guess how your weekend is

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gonna go. You're absolutely right,
Yeah, I've done it. Now I

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stepped out. Oh no, okay, not that it's just Liz's job to

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clean. No, no, no, no, no no, Now we

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have to walk back the other for
all the people we just triggered. Well,

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well, keep keep in mind deep
cleaning is what I said. That's

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different than doing the dishes every day, Okay, right, because you know

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we hopefully I'd like to think that
we share that job, right right,

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even though that I'm pretty certain that
Liz does it more than me. Okay,

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but in my mind, do you
hear did you ever hear Jeff Foxworthy

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talk about husbands who don't participate he
goes, He goes, yeah, he

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goes, I opened the door and
he and he says, and my wife's

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out there tarring the driveway, and
he goes, hey, honeys want to

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let you know empty that a stray
back then I picked up those socks.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's hilarious. You missed a

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spot, right, that's hilarious.
It's terrible, it's terrible. Yes,

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okay, well there you go.
It was once again another riveting episode of

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yeah, yeah, yeah. What
is Chris star Ball like? Yeah,

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well it's the enigma of me.
Yes, it's incredible. Hey, listen,

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So today we are dealing with the
resurrection of Jesus here on this episode of

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the Bible Guys, and this is
in all four Gospels Matthew, Mark,

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Luke, and John, and is
the pivotal event in human history. And

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so let's just start. Matthew,
chapter twenty eight, verse one. It

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says, early on Sunday morning,
as the new day was dawning, Mary

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Magdalene and the other Mary went out
to visit the tomb. Suddenly there is

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a great earthquake, for an angel
of the Lord came down from heaven,

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rolled aside the stone and sat on
it. His face shone like lightning,

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and his clothing was as white as
snow. The guards shook with fear when

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they saw him, and they fell
into a dead faint. Then the angel

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spoke to the women. Don't be
afraid. He said, I know you're

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looking for Jesus who was crucified.
He isn't here. He's risen from the

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dead, just as he said would
happen. Come and see where his body

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was laying. And so and now
go quickly and tell his disciples that he

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has risen from the dead, and
he is going ahead of you to Galilee.

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You will see him there. Remember
what I've told you. And the

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women ran quickly from the tomb,
and they were very frightened, but also

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filled with great joy, and they
rushed to give the disciples the angel's message.

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In Mark Chapter sixteen, verses one
through eight. It says Saturday evening

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when the sabbath, and did Mary
Magdalene marry the other mother of James.

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And Salome went out and purchased burial
spices so they could anoint Jesus's body.

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Very early on Sunday morning, just
as sunrise, they went to the tomb.

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On the way, they were asking
each other who will roll away the

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stone for us from the entrance to
the tomb. But as they arrived,

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they looked up and saw that the
stone, which was very large, had

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already been rolled aside. When they
entered the tomb, they saw a young

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man clothed in a white robe sitting
on the right side. The women were

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shocked, but the angel said,
don't be alarmed. You're looking for Jesus

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of Nazareth, who is crucified.
He isn't here. He has risen from

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the dead. Look this is where
they laid his body. Now go tell

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his disciples, including Peter, that
Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee.

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You will see him there, just
as he told you before he died.

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And the women fled from the tomb, trembling and bewildered, And they

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said nothing to anyone, because they
were too frightened. Many of the manuscripts

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of the bookmark and right there,
and others add a few exits, and

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so says. Then they briefly reported
all this to Peter and his companions.

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Afterward, Jesus himself sent them out
from east to west with the sacred and

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unfailing message of salvation that gives eternal
life Amen. And then Luke twenty four

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one through eleven, it says,
But very early on Sunday morning, the

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women went to the tomb, taking
the spices they had prepared. They found

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that the stoneman rolled away from the
entrance, and so they went in,

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but they didn't find the body of
the Lord Jesus. As they stood there,

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puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to
them, clothed in dazzling robes.

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The women were terrified and bowed with
their faces to the ground. Then the

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men asked, why are you looking
among the dead for someone who is alive.

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He isn't here. He's risen from
the dead. Remember what he told

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you back in Galilee, that the
son of Man must be traded in the

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hands of sinful men and crucified,
and that he would rise again on the

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third day. Then they remembered what
he'd said this, or that he had

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said this, so they rushed back
from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples

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and everyone else what had happened.
It was Mary Magdalen, Joanna, Mary,

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the mother of James, and several
other women who to the apostles what

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had happened. But the story sounded
like nonsense to the men, so they

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didn't believe it. And then John
twenty verses one and to us. As

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early on Sunday morning, while it
was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to

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the tomb and found that the stone
had been rolled away from the entrance.

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She ran and found Simon Peter and
the other disciple, the one whom Jesus

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loved. She said, they've taken
the Lord's body out of the tomb,

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and we don't know where they've put
him. So there you go. Well,

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that's it. Well you read all
four. I was and thinking that

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there was one more. That was
it. There's not five gospels, Jeff,

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No, there's only four. Last
I checked. So there it is.

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And John chapter twenty. Isn't it
interesting that it's only a few verses?

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Yes? Right, So John twenty
one and two. Is that what

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it says? Yep? Wow,
we're oh there it is right there.

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You know, it's interesting how John
is honestly just so different from the other

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gospels. He really is, yep, and in this case obviously very different.

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So you know what I love that
stands out. What's the first thing

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that stands out to you? The
women? Does it? Really? Yeah?

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The thing that stood out to me
was he said, go and tell

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the disciples, including Peter. Oh
yeah, they're in Book of Mark.

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Yeah yeah, I mean, you
know, think about it. I mean,

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that's a you can build a whole
sermon around that, the idea that

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you know, here Peter denies Jesus. Jesus calls him out on it,

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even though that we know that the
other disciples all fled, right, and

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Peter's the one that says, Lord, surely we're gonna die with you.

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And you know, he takes out
his dagger and he cuts off Malcus's ear

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in the Garden members several podcasts ago, and so Peter is definitely willing to

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demonstrate his you know, his ability
to die with Jesus. But then Jesus

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says, hey, surely I tell
you this before the rooster crows twice,

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you're gonna dine me three times?
What Peter does? And then what does

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it say? The last time we
heard from Peter was he went out and

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wept bitterly. Right, So then
here's Jesus dying for the sins of humanity,

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you know, conquering sin and death
rising again. And then he says,

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my mind's on Peter. So he
tells the angels make sure that when

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the women come, right or whoever
comes, make sure that Peter's included.

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Yeah. Right, So it's just
incredible how it's a reminder that, like,

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hey, no matter your biggest mess
up and the thing that you feel

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the most guilty about, because we
can carry around guilt like a badge of

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honor, and God never intends us
to do that. He does use guilt.

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Guilt's a good thing because if guilt
returns us to repentance, guilt could

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be a good thing. But once
we've repented, and once we understand that

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our sins are forgiven, then God
does not intend for us to hang on

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to guilt at all, So that
guilt for that particular sin is gone.

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And yet we just beat ourselves up
and we just consider ourselves unworthy, and

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we don't believe that God still loves
us. Sometimes we believe that, you

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know, God's opinion of us has
been tainted because after all, we've promised

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something and then failed and promised again
and went back and we failed fifty times,

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and so we're just a worthless piece
of you know, cow dung or

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whatever it is. But that's not
the case. So God's mind, Jesus's

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mind is on Peter. Yeah,
And I just think it's a great sermon.

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It's a great reminder for all of
us. Yeah. So when we

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sin, there's between our relationship with
God and our position with God. Right.

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And so it's the same way with
your children. When your children disobey

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you, their position with you is
the same. They'll always be your child,

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but the relationship can be affected in
that now there's consequences to their behavior,

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right. Or it's the same way
in a dating relationship or in a

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marriage relationship. The position of being
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relationship ship can be intention right.
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not about the guilt thing. It's
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that we would repent, and so
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because it's it's an assault against God. That's a good side of grief.

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That's right. And then we were
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of that, and it drives us
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thing is that our relationship is right, you know, not that your position

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changed. Right. God's keeping you
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you now, it's up to him. So that's the difference. Anyways,

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you know. I think it's also
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that Mark very likely was writing Peter's
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Mark was Peter's secretary, so he's
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Mark may have been Peter's narrative of
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blunt, he's so quick, he's
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gospel right, just get to the
point the miracles were pretty amazing whatever,

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would be another indicator. And it
makes sense. Yeah, it never never.

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to make sure that Jesus wanted to
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would be very memorable to Peter,
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John or Matthew, who were also
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that he made it up though either. No, no, because because it's

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in quotes, that's right, right, No, no, No. What

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I was saying is it would be
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that's why he would have The other
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he did say that, didn't Yeah
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that's pretty amazing. So here it
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then Jesus was not who he claimed
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didn't matter, The shedding of the
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took in his body didn't matter,
none of the rest, the miracles that

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he did didn't matter. The good
words he said didn't matter. Nothing mattered

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if the resurrection doesn't happen. So
this is the lynch pin in all that

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was necessary for the salvation of humanity
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none of the rest of it matters, and so we've staked eternity.

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Every Christian has staked all of eternity
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the dead or did not. And
this is where and we've talked about this

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before. Our staff right now is
reading a book by Chuck Colson, right

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and it's called The Faith. It's
really great. It's a fairly short book

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but deals with systematic theology and proofs
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they believe. It's not very big
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Chuck was the right hand man to
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right, So, Nixon has essentially
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quiet, he can go ahead and
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He Alfred depict everybody, and Chuck
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this investigation, and in like ten
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throws the president under the bus,
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and eventually Chuck Colson winds up going
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years, three years, I think, And he said, think about that

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for a moment. You're only talking
about the ruining of your reputation and a

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couple of years in jail, and
the most powerful man in the world was

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offering to protect you, and the
second most powerful man in the world got

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scared and rolled on everybody because he
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so we wind up going to prison
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all of the followers of Jesus.
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ten of the eleven wind up dying
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the risen lord, right that Jesus
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the lynchpinned to all of Christianity.
If this didn't happen, then nothing else

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did. And so so many people, even atheists, who are debaters and

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trying to disprove Christianity, this is
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far, this is the thing they
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the resurrection. And by the way, ten out of eleven died, but

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the eleventh also get boiled in oil. Yeah, boiled alive. He just

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didn't die. He just didn't die, which, by the way, I

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wonder how he looked after that.
It'd be pretty rough. So yeah,

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so even though that he didn't die
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certainly didn't. He certainly paid the
price, right he died. He was

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over one hundred years old when got
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died on the isle of Patmos,
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so this is a really substantial thing
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death and never recanted, and the
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is being protected by the most powerful
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less than two weeks, right,
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we love life application study Bible,
and there's a little chart here that

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talks about the evidence that Jesus actually
died and rose and what it does,

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excuse me, is it gives us
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five. Yeah, I'm hurting today. It's the first podcast, its first

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recording. There's five proposed explanations for
the empty tomb that aren't you know,

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based on the fact that he rose. But then there's evidence against these explanations.

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theory that says maybe Jesus was only
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scriptural evidence and recorded evidence that says
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In Mark fifteen, the Roman soldiers
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because he had already died. In
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wrapped his body placed it in the
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you want to read the next one. Roman soldiers were experts on death.

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exactly what they're looking at. The
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mistake and went to the wrong tomb, So that would be some of the

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arguments that the resurrection didn't really happen. But Mary mag only to marry,

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the mother of Joseph, saw Jesus
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our podcast last week. Ye,
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Nicodemus, and then it kept mentioning
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and so should they say that he
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tomb, So those would be the
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that's not a legitimate right, it's
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winds up being Matthew, Mark Luke, and John. I'll do with those

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issues. And then the other theory
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body. Well, number one,
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Roman soldiers Matthew twenty seven, which, by the way, this doesn't even

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talk about the fact that Jesus appeared
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people, and he had and he
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in this little defense. Yeah,
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then those eyewitnesses, well, the
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you know, rabbel rousers to steal
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executed, right, but they were
not executed. Hey, not to mention

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the let's not forget the zombies,
right right, Let's not forget the fact

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that there are people resurrected from the
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Jesus who later on after the resurrection
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again if you're a new listener,
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Yea. The disciples stole Jesus body
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it was unknown thieves or maybe the
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die for their faith. Stealing Jesus
body would have been admitting that their faith

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was meaningless. Right, we'll think
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then the thing that they were dying
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that's what I was trying to highlight. When the vice president wouldn't lie for

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the president, right, just in
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he was afraid, and that's natural. Humanities respire, humanity's naturals sponds

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to danger like that. So anyways, and then the last theory is perhaps

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the religious leader stole the Jesus body
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produced the body, so there's no
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disadvantage for Jesus to have vacated the
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to produced the body, and they
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that is the angels are there.
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so that's why you get a difference
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whatever. One speaks up, and
his first thing is always don't be afraid,

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because when God sends his messengers to
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don't be afraid. You know,
I think humanity carries a lot of fear

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all the time, especially if anything
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don't be afraid. God wants to comfort

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them, he wants to calm them
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the person you're looking for among the
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greatest proclamations, I guess, the greatest

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poculation. We're looking for Jesus among
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He's the reason. Well, last
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who is it that you're looking for? And that's what they asked them.

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the living or the dead among the
living. And you know, and that

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is the question for all of us
today, which is who is it that

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you're looking for? You're looking for
the you know, the Jesus that they

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expected to find, because they expected
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the non living Jesus, the Jesus
who obviously didn't have the ability to

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back up every promise that he had. Right, But you know, the

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question of the angel is valid for
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for the resurrected Jesus, the one
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sin and death, but also to
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and defeat and the worry and anxiety
and the problems and everything else in our

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lives. So it depends on who
we're looking for. And they clearly had

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forgotten the promise that I'm going to
rise again. So their fear and their

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despondency came from the fact that they
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playing close attention to God's promises,
we would walk around with way less fear

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in our lives. And so,
yeah, it's really powerful. Well,

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hey, that is our time,
so wow, the Resurrection of Jesus,

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we did it. There you go, so there's more to go. So

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we'll see you next time on the
Bible. Guys,