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did to bring you to a point that you can remember now the promise of God and he

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says I will take that which is broken and I will restore it. I will take that which

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is dead and breathe life into it. I will take what man engineered to destroy

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your life I will use to bring about a great blessing in your life.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Suddenly their grief was being challenged. I like this. Listen to this on the screen

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Matthew chapter 28 verse 1 Matthew 28 1 the Bible tells us now in the first day of the week

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very early in the morning remember that they insert another women with them so the women ladies

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the women were the according to the Bible Matthew Mark Luke and John the women were the first

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ones to the town did you know that and all the women said and look I love the guys I'm a guy

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here's the thing the Bible tells us that all the men were in hiding for fear I'm just telling

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you straight up guys we need to step it up Jesus has risen from the dead so we need not hide

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in fear anymore we are men and God's called us to be godly men and we need to be dynamic men for

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God but uh two thousand years ago the the ladies got us they got us beat they came to the tomb

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bringing the spices which they had prepared that's a whole nother story but they found the stone

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rolled away from the tomb then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus you what

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are what are we saying to this that suddenly their grief was being challenged what's going on here

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we've got the women on a Saturday working hard to prepare right Mer fragrances oils

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Cassia there's a list of these perfumes that were used for embalming not embalming like the

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Egyptians are like we do but this is outer fluids they put the oils around the rapins of the body

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you're they're not allowed to work hard on that on that day but the Bible says in Luke's gospel I

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believe it's chapter 23 around verse 56 the Bible tells us that they prepared the spices and

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rested according to the commandments that is absolutely impossible but there's only one thing that

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can make that verse possible and it's this that if they're forbidden to do any menial labor

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whatsoever in in according to the commandment then what were these women doing working so hard to

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prepare the fragrance oils it was all down out of love they went to the tomb to put those

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ointments on his dead body you got that did you see that let me ask you a question did they go

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to the tomb expecting him to be resurrected from the dead nope they expected him to be dead

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they're faith as it were had been lost the one that we believed in and thought of the one that

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did all of these amazing things turns out he couldn't do it for himself it turns out this didn't

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turn out the way that we are expecting and we are going to go first thing Sunday morning and we

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are going to wrap his body with oils it's what we would have done hadn't he been taken down from

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the cross so fast he's dead and they're grieving and suddenly a big question mark is introduced

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into their grief but the resurrection of Jesus Christ challenges grief suddenly number two we see

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suddenly that there's a collision taking place a collision a collision of truth and reality

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verse 24 or chapter 24 verse two and three I think it is yes it says there but they found the

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stone rolled away from the tomb then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus

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suddenly they're starting to take place a collision of truth and reality that's happening right

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in front of them the Bible tells us that they found the stone rolled away from the tomb now it should

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be stated for the record Jesus did not need the stone to be rolled away for him to get out okay you

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need to read your Bible carefully the stone was rolled away for the people to get in Jesus was

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gone before the stone was rolled away he said how do you know because the Bible says so

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and then number three is this awestruck suddenly they became awestruck and that's a word we don't

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use much anymore awestruck it's a pretty fun word to look up it depends on the quality of your

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dictionary I've found out but you need to go back to like like Noah Webster's dictionary the one

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that Noah Webster wrote awestruck is something that most often is reserved for like experiencing

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a miracle or something unexplainable something that is beyond fantastic it leaves you speechless

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and behold there was a great earthquake for an angel of the Lord descendant from heaven and came

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and rolled back the stone from the door and I love these four words and sat on it oh that's sassy

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stuff man that is this is one this is an angel with an attitude this is cool I'll come back to this

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in a second his countenance was like lightning excuse me hello what you've got an angel who rolls back

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the stone and then sits on it and his face is like lightning what does that look like I have no idea

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and as clothing as white as snow but you got it met he rolls back a stone and then sits on it he

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he could have leaned on it that's pretty sassy but he sits on it and I don't know in my mind when

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they start showing up at the tomb he's sitting there I see a little sparkle in his eye our little

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gleam comes off his teeth like or how about this the angel rolls it back sits on the stone

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like nothing or he could have said you're welcome because from that moment on there's a

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series of visitors to the tomb and it ranges from different people and they're mentioned either by

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name or by group and of course the women were the first ones they were the first ones to announce

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as I said earlier but they're all struck absolutely amazing number four is this suddenly they remembered

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what he had said suddenly now you see now they're starting to things you're starting to happen the

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Bible tells us that in Luke 24 verse 4 that had happened that as they were greatly perplexed about

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this that behold two men these are angels again stood by them in shining garments or shining

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apparel then as they were afraid listen they were afraid they bowed their faces to the earth and

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they said to them so the angels speak to those that are bowing down those that are terrified

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what what I think is an amazing but but almost a hilarious question why do you seek the living

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among the dead now now one of us might have said at that moment because we're in a graveyard

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the angels are not falling for it why do you seek the living among the dead he's not here but is

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risen remember how he spoke to you when he was still with you in Galilee and you can see the

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little lights come on over their head right oh right saying the son of man must be delivered

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into the hands of sinful man and be crucified and on the third day rise again verse 8 what does it say

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they remember his words remembering suddenly they began to remember is God doing things in your life

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where now you are starting to put pieces together maybe that's what has brought you here today

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have there been things and dynamics and issues of life that's brought you to this moment

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listen it doesn't make you feel any better but honestly it's not the feelings that's important

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it's what you conclude your life and what you've gone through throughout your entire life

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I know the human experience is God why me but did you know that God is in this for the long

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home and that it makes sense to God knowing you that your life suffered what it did to bring you

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to a point that you can remember now the promise of God and he says I will take that which is broken

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and I will restore it I will take that which is dead and breathe life into it I will take

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what man engineered to destroy your life I will use to bring about a great blessing in your life

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I'm telling you right now I would not change a thing about being a failed abortion I would not

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change a thing about being somebody who stuttered all of their life even to the point of trying to

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ask my wife to marry me I stuttered all over myself until the day that God in 1983 supernaturally

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touched my mouth in an instant listen I wouldn't regret anything of the rejection the pain

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and the hilarity I brought to people in school when I was the funny one in the class because the

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brunt of it was on me they thought it was great to have me stand on top of the desk and try to read

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a book out loud while everybody laughed let me tell you something I wouldn't change a thing stop

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leaning on the things that you say I can't do this because of this I can't do this because of that

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let me tell you something Jesus Christ takes this stuff that you think crippled you and he

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makes them the biggest strengths of your life I'm a failed abortion I what nobody had a plan for me

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to be here anyway but God did listen I couldn't talk but he touched my tongue I haven't shut up since

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listen I'm not I'm not gonna whatever whatever's going on here well my dad didn't hug me enough

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get over it I'm telling you right now come on let's grow up we got to get over it because God's

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word tells us I love you for God so love the world that's you that he gave his only begotten son

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gifted his only son to us gifted you think about that and number five you need to be doing this

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and that is seen seeing like you've never seen before suddenly they were seeing him for the first

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time the Bible shows us in Luke 2412 he that is Peter saw the linen cloths lying by themselves and

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he departed marveling to himself what had happened I love this about Peter and somebody has wisely

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said seen is not believing but believing is seen it's not blind faith it's not dumb it's not

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make believe which leads us to number six and that is realization suddenly they came to a realization

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and this is precious and I don't need to go along on this it's simply this on that new morning when

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that day dawned the tomb was empty and the Messiah of Israel the Messiah of the world was risen from

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the dead and you know what happened in that second a new day dawned realization waking up to the

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fact that God wants you to understand that he transforms lives number seven suddenly they had

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an unstoppable hope you couldn't stop them by the way hope is built on a promise you know that

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the only reason why you have hope in anything is because you believe in a promise regarding

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something somebody gave you a promise and the promise cannot fulfill itself the promise maker

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must be someone who's faithful thus you have hope it's kind of like somebody cheating on you

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right your wife or husband cheats on you and says I'm sorry it just happened once it never happened

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again the cloud is over your head all the rest of your life it's going to be a struggle you'll make it

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but there's a struggle why hope was dashed are you with me we don't want to talk about it

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but hope was dashed why do you reel your heart back in because you were broken

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you were abused or hurt so you reel your heart and you won't give it out why because you don't

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believe anybody anymore and you don't even believe God and God says listen I want you to hand me

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your unbelieving doubting fearful terrified heart put it in my hand I'm afraid you're going to drop

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put it in my hand and my friends I want to make it very clear God is not asking anyone of us to put

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our hands in the hand of any man or any system ever it's Jesus only that's why he came to hold

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our hearts to cleanse our minds from guilt and shame when you understand that truth and that

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reality that the power of the gospel brings to you on this day you'll have an unstoppable hope

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and you need that right now number eight is suddenly they're motivated to say the least

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12 people turn the world right set up with the gospel news I find it interesting church that if

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you kind of dissect what's behind motivation and you think about this for a moment you can either

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be motivated by the love of God the gospel of God or you can be motivated by Tony Robbins you got

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to take your pick based on this let this be the test I'm going to go to a course they're going to

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motivate us what we'll see depends on what is said listen because motivation is a reaction

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to a discovery of evidence motivation is the discovery to a bit of evidence what is it that you've

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discovered what have you found out what do you now know guess what that does it creates confidence

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listen the reason why you're motivated is because you've had a reaction to a discovery that you've made

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and what that does is build confidence and the end-used result is joy joy let me ask you have you

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been convinced regarding the evidence of who Jesus Christ is are you convinced of the empty tomb

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you should be produced evidence that discredits that you'll never find it motivated by God's grace

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were motivated in this verse this verse and I will have to bring this to an end but I got to tell

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you guys mark 168 I can't think of a more this is so fun this is one verse in the Bible

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so they went out quickly and flabbed from the tomb how come they trembled and they were amazed

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and I love this they said nothing to anyone they were afraid that is one pregnant verse of action

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can you imagine reporters there excuse me are you guys coming back excuse me you guys

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they went out quickly they fled from the tomb for they were trembling and were amazed and they

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said nothing to anyone for they were afraid sanctified emotion they couldn't even talk to others

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the other day she's not here right now I can say this

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Lisa was watching a portion of the Passion of Christ and I was just as early morning a modern

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mountain business sitting with my books she comes walking out and she's crying I thought

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somebody died she had her phone on her hand and she's crying and she can't you know that

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and she'll watch this well I had just been reading about it in my Bible but Mel Gibson made it

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graphic and it just got her you've seen it a hundred times but it may get you or may not get you

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but it got her and she couldn't talk she became speechless right

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let's be careful we don't we do not remove ourselves too far from what these people experienced

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because they're just like us number nine suddenly they came to life who did the disciples

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and Jesus is already alive we're not talking about him we're talking about them

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Jesus is because I live you can live also is that awesome talk

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Jesus said I'm the way the truth in the life nobody goes to the Father but through me is that wild or

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what Jesus said if a person dies believing in me they won't see death they immediately pass from

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death to life you know who had a problem with that he said it was insane see us Lewis said

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cuckoo this Bible says not see us Lewis the great thinker the great Oxford professor see us

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chronicles of Narnia line in which the wardrobe mirror Christianity the great divorce you name it

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probably quite possible to the greatest mind of the 20th century

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and his buddy J. R. R. Tolkien says you need to fix something here

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you need to do with something Jesus said if a man dies believing in him yet he lives Jesus said

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that he was going to be beaten and crucified on the third day be resurrected from the dead

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see us Lewis's nickname was Jack he said Jack you need to deal with this

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and see us Lewis struggle with that because he wound up hearing the words echoing

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Tolkien had said Jesus is either a liar or a lunatic or the Lord because he's not good if he's

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just a great prophet then you would have misled people think about it those who believe in him come

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to life it's suddenly they had a message to share I said it earlier now say it again you can

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shut your Bibles the Bible tells us that God did not send his son into this world to condemn this

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world read the fine press because the world is already condemned God didn't send his son into

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this world to condemn this world but that this world might be saved for God so loved the world

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that he gave his only begotten son that who's so ever would believe in him would not perish but

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have everlasting life it's a decision that you make to an offer he extends

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