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Looks like you need help. Looks like you need a savior. Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Thank you

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You need a savior because you can't save yourself

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You've got to be perfect to get into a perfect heaven. You need a savior who will present the perfect sacrifice

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Take away all your sin and then allow you to be born again to have a brand new spirit

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Which now you can go and meet the Lord in heaven hallelujah

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Welcome to the City Light Church podcast. Thanks for joining us today as we look into God's Word and discover the hope and

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Truth that he has for us. If you want to connect with City Light Church, feel free to visit us at CityLightNYC.com

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That's CityLightNYC.com

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Pastor Boyan Jansik and his team believe that the power of the Holy Spirit is already working in our hearts and minds

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As you listen to today's teaching

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Remember that you are deeply loved by God that you are surrounded by his grace and that he has a real hope and a future for you

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I want to open up this morning and just read to you the account of the resurrection. It's in all four of the gospels

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My favorite one happens to be in John and so we'll begin

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John chapter 20 and verse 1

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Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early

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While it was still dark and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb

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Then she ran and came to Simon Peter

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And to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to them they have taken away the Lord out of the tomb

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And we do not know where they have laid him

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Peter therefore went out and the other disciple

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And we're going to the tomb

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So they both ran together and the other disciple who knows who the other disciple is

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John the one writing this

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It's just interesting because the Bible wasn't written by man

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These were holy men that were inspired by the Holy Spirit and God spoke through them

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But you still see their personality there. They're still the echo of what makes them them in their personality

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Turns out John was a little bit of a

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competitive guy

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Because even though he leaves his name out of it

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He makes sure to point out that when two bros went for a run

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He beat Peter

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And the other disciple I read Peter and came to the tomb first and there it is forever immortalized in the holy scriptures

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I have friends like that

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Maybe I'm your friend that's like that

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And he's stooping down and looking in so the linen cloths lying there yet he did not go in

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Then Simon Peter came

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following him and

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And went into the tomb and he saw the linen cloths lying there, you know

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Driving in this morning

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I was I was going over the message in my spirit and just recounting the story of the resurrection in my spirit

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And I began to weep as I was driving

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I was overwhelmed

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I was overwhelmed because I thought of my relationship with the Lord

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I became a Christian gave my life to Christ when I was 16

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So it's been 34 years of walking with him

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And then as I'm thinking of my relationship with the Lord 34 years

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I was overwhelmed at how messy it was

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Downs me crying out to the Lord for mercy him always being faithful and just to extend it

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Him making a way where there didn't seem to be any way me falling him picking me back up

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I have to say that because when you just hear me preach on Sunday you you get the highlight real

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And you get me at my best

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When I look back at 34 years my mother's sitting in the front row

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She knows

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And you know what God's not afraid of the mess

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It's messy

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He's been a lot lot better to me than I've been to him

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I haven't always been faithful. He's always been faithful. I haven't always been consistent

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He's always been consistent. I haven't always been strong in my love

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He never wavered once in his love toward me. He'll never ever waver once in his love toward you

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I felt like I had to say that again because there's people here this morning

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And and you think of how messy your life has been and maybe you've made a commitment to the Lord

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sometime in the past

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And it's been ugly and it's been shit god loves the ugly he gets in the ugly

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He loves the ugly so much that god came in the person of Jesus in the person of a man

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To ugly earth

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Left the perfection of heaven

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He's not put off by the messiness and ugliness of your life 34 years

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I didn't wasn't driving a wild lord. It's been a wild ride

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You know and I let you use me to plant the church and you know lord

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I always pray lord you know. I always pray. I'm so devoted lord

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I think lord that you must call me past your bow in heaven. I think you use the appropriate I'm I'm quivering

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I'm white knuckling that steering will go oh god

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You're so good and thank you for the resurrection because you live

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I will live also. I made a live right now when I will live forever

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And you will live forever if you place your faith in Christ

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hallelujah

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Sam and Peter came following him and went into the tomb and he saw the linen cloths lying there and the handkerchief

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Look at the details there and the handkerchief that had been around his head

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Not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself

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Why is that in the Bible to show that Jesus was so tidy that even at his resurrection

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His cloths of linen worn one paw, but the napkin was distinct and put somewhere else

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No, it's because in Hebrew tradition there was a sign

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If you were a guest in another place if you were never ever coming back

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If you were going to say I'm never gonna eat here again

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I'm never coming back. There was a particular way you fold to the napkin and left it on the table

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And I believe that's exactly what Jesus did with the faith cloth that was our I'm never coming back

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I'll never be in this tomb again

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Then the other disciple who came to the tomb first went in also and he saw and believed

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For as yet they did not know the scripture that he must rise from the dead

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Then the disciples went away again to their own homes

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But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb

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And she saw two angels in white sitting one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had laying

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Then they said to her woman why are you weeping and she said to them because they have taken away my lord

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And I do not know where they have laid him

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Now when she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know that it was Jesus

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He was disguised and Jesus said to her woman

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And why are you weeping remember Jesus is the resurrected Christ now and he's in a glorified body

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And there's other accounts where he walked through walls and obviously he was able to hide his appearance

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There's not too many details about the glorified body in the scriptures, but it seems pretty cool to me

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She's supposing him to be the gardener

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He was disguised as the gardener why

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I believe it's because this whole problem that he came to south started in a garden

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And now he's coming as the gardener

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To fix the problem that originated in the garden

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She said to him sir if you have carried him away tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away

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And Jesus said to her Mary

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You know he calls her name and her eyes are open

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Today some of you are going to hear him call your name

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There's nothing like when he calls your name

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Some of you even right now. I haven't even started really preaching

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But your heart is beating inside your chest because the weight of eternity is in this room

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And he's calling you out by name

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He knows you he knew you before you were in your mother's womb

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He's counted every hair on your head

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And he's calling you

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He's calling you to himself

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Jesus said to her Mary should turn and set to him rebony

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Which is to say teacher

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And Jesus said to her do not cling to me

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For I have not yet ascended to my father

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But go to my brethren and say to them I am ascending to my father and your father

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And to my God

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And your God

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Now when Mary goes to touch him in the Old King James he says touch me not

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And the new King James he says don't cling to me

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In every version of the Bible what he's saying is don't touch me

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There was a spiritual reason I believe something a reason why she could not physically touch him in that moment

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But something interesting happens just a few verses later 10 verses later

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The disciples come and Thomas is one of the disciples. We've now nicknames him doubting Thomas

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But he wanted to see with his own eyes

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And Jesus at the time is to reach your finger here to where the spike

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Had pierced him reach your finger here and look at my hands and reach your hand here

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And where where he was cut with the spear in his side and put it into my side

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Do not be believing

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So I want to ask you a question what happened in between those 10 verses

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Because he tells Mary don't touch me but then a short while after he's telling

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Thomas go ahead and touch me

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Put put your hand into my side put your finger through the hole in my hand

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The answer is found in Hebrews chapter 9

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Starting in verse 11

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When God created this planet when he created mankind he created this world perfect

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He created man perfect and he put him in a perfect place the Garden of Eden

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And he said you may eat of every fruit of the garden

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But just the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil don't eat of that fruit

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Of course man

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ate of that fruit and that's when sin entered in

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And sin like a viral disease was passed down

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From generation to generation to generation if Adam or Eve could see the fruit of sin

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If they could see the poverty the wars

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The disasters

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The envy the strife that would come for generations in generation

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And I would afflict the whole world out of course they wouldn't have done it

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But that sin spread

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And there is a universal law echoed throughout the entire Bible from Genesis to revelation

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And that's simply this that the penalty the punishment the wages the payment for sin

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Is death

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There must be a blood sacrifice to take away sins

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There has to be because sin must be punished

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So when you actually understand that the whole Bible comes alive and begins to make sense

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And you see the thread from Genesis right on into the New Testament

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Of the sacrificial system that was God gave the Hebrews that they would come

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And this would happen every day and then especially on the day of Atonement the high priest would do it himself

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They would take a bull or a goat or a heifer or a lamb

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Unspotted without blemish it had to be perfect not a handicap to animal

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And and sacrifice it to the Lord

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But the Bible was clear that that would not take away sins that that merely temporarily covered them

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But that that animal sacrifice was pointing to the ultimate sacrifice

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God coming in the flesh and going to the cross as our substitute

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And the punishment for sin that we deserve he would take it on himself

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This is why blood is so important

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This is why Satan always wants to minimize and belittle the blood

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We just celebrated Passover for past over he said

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When I see the blood I will pass over you the curse was that every first board of the Egyptians

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Every first born would be smitten

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But he told the Hebrews take the blood apply it to the doorpost

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So when destruction comes it's not looking at have you been a good person have you been kind have you been nice

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It's when I see the blood I will pass over you some of you are hearing this for the first time. Yes, Christianity is a bloody faith

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Because that is what's necessary. That's how awful my sin is your sin is that it must require a perfect blood sacrifice to take all that sin away

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So what happened in between Jesus saying touch me not and then

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Telling time is go ahead and touch me

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Hebrews nine happened there was an ascension and the great high priest Jesus appeared in heaven and presented his blood

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You see the resurrection is proof

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Now let me let me just stop right there

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The the resurrection is proof that the blood sacrifice has been received the resurrection is proof that it's been paid and full

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But I had actually a choice when I was going to preach this message

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I the the the one other angle I could have gone down is that the resurrection

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Is one of the most attested events in human history

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And I was going to just kind of go and prove that I've tried that once before like going into how the resurrection is actually one of the most attested to

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Events in history it was written about it wasn't just written in the gospels other historians wrote about it

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They wrote about Jesus and other historians wrote about that who wrote about that and there's countless manuscripts

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And I was going to preach that I preach it a long time ago even a little bit like that and it was crickets

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People were snoring, but I understand some people are very very intellectual

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They're very logical and so you need something like that you're not going to get that for me today

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But the good news hey, there's good news now you can do research

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Now whenever somebody tells you I did research that means they spoke into chat or grok for 10 seconds into their phone

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So go up and grok it quad it chat it whatever and say show me how the resurrection is the most attested to

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Event in history and

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You'll get a list upon list upon a list

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That this is no fairy tale

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This is real

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How many of you here you've had your lives absolutely transformed by Jesus Christ

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You were one way and now you're another way wave your hand at me

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Fables don't transform lives fairy tales don't transform lives

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Every single one of the disciples gave their lives as a martyr

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People don't die for a lie

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Amen

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But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands

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That is not of this creation

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Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood

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He entered the most holy place you seen the Old Testament the Hebrews had a holy place within the temple

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God was clear when he gave instructions on building that holy place that this was a shadow of what's in heaven

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This was an earthly representation of what actually is in heaven

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So there is a holy place in heaven under the old covenant the Hebrew high priest who come in with that animal

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That was sacrificed and he would sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat

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And he would even sprinkle the blood on the people

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Jesus did the same thing

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But for the whole world he entered in not with the blood of bulls and goats and calves

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But with his own blood he entered the most holy place once for all having obtained

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eternal redemption

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For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh

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How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God

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Cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God

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Hallelujah

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So what happened in between touch me not and you may touch me is Jesus went up into heaven briefly

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Christ the savior of the world

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That's why when John saw Jesus he said behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world

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Jesus has cleansed the world, but is the whole world cleansed

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So potentially speaking because he's done all the work

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I believe I believe that when you were on that cross you actually saw me and he did

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Even though you were born two thousand years later. He saw you he knew your name and every single sin

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You have committed or you would ever commit fell upon him

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For you that's how much he loves you

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Hallelujah

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So I just want to read you several things that you have as a result of

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The resurrection number one what I just read was confirmation of the sacrifice

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The resurrection is confirmation that the sacrifice was well received and isn't that good news

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Today's ago was good Friday

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Good Fridays in the Bible somebody called it good Friday. They should have called it great Friday

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Like really great Friday

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He paid the price and said paid in full it is finished

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As a result of the resurrection you have something called the new birth

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The new birth is available to you

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And this discussion concerning the new birth is found in John chapter three

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This is one of the first passages of scripture I ever read when I was 16 years old

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I didn't read it alone, but the people who were witnessing to me and trying to lead me to the Lord

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Of course, this is one of the first chapters in the Bible. They opened up to

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There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews

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I used to have this joke when I first started city light

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Nicodemus I like to call him Nick. He came to Jesus by night. I called that Nick at night

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Ha ha in the whole place with laugh now no one laughs as you see

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And I realized I'm not gonna say the joke anymore because it's told nearly 25 years later

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You got youngins in the front row never even watch Nick at night

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So this is probably the last year. I'll leave in a reference it

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That was a good one while it lasted. We had that for a good decade

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The man came to Jesus and said to him rabbi

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We know that your teacher come from God for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him

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unless one is born again

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He cannot see the kingdom of God and in a few verses you'll read the only must Jesus ever gave

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Man in religion puts a lot of must you must you must you must there's only one must that Jesus gave you must

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I let my mom and father to the Lord after I became a Christian to say you one of those born again Christians

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We're going oh and I was offended they would think because in my mind the born again Christian was a

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But I am born again. I'm not a born again because this isn't a sect. This isn't a denomination. This isn't a

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A particular church if you're a Christian a true Christian you're born again Jesus just said you have to be born again

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How can you be a Christian and I be born again

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Oh your confused your cultural Christian

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You were born in a family that said oh, we're Christian and they only said that because they weren't Buddhist

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They weren't Muslim. They weren't Jewish. They weren't Taoist. So yeah, we're Christian

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You can't be a cultural Christian. It's actually be something you got to go through

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Come on now. I can go set up a sleeping bag in my garage spend the whole week there doesn't make me a car

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So I've been to church all my life. Yes, but are you born again?

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Nicodemus said to him he's hearing Jesus completely in the natural

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How can a man be born when he is old?

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Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born

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He cannot enter the kingdom of God

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That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit

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So don't marvel that I said to you and here's the one and only must from Jesus. Don't marvel that I said to you

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You must be born again

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A great question to ask after hearing a must from Jesus like this is

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How can I be born again?

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It's so much easier than most people realize

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We complicate things Jesus simplifies things

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So I'm going to say it as simple as I possibly can when you believe on Jesus

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Believe on his crucifixion on his burial and his resurrection

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And you trust him with your life and you surrender your life over to him and you tell him that out loud

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You will be born again many people when they actually do this they sense something happening

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I I felt like I was turned inside out and he said a brand new spirit will I put in you that's what being born again is

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Your old spirit stained with sin. It's not just refurbished. It's not just patched up

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He doesn't just take the sin out

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He cleanses you of all your sin, but he takes your spirit and the Bible calls it a new creation

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He puts a brand spanking new spirit on the inside of you. That's the new birth

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That's being born again, and that's available to whoever will call upon the name of the Lord

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I highly recommend it

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If you highly recommend a clap right now

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First Peter one three

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So because of the resurrection we have the new birth

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The new birth is necessary

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Because in order to go into heaven you know you have to be perfect to get into heaven

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I didn't make that up that's in the Bible

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Made a lot of new friends lately living in Long Island

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People a lot more chatty over there

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You know people in NYC they're guarded they're rigid

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And I've really I mean I always knew this because I shared my faith everywhere I went

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But it really is so true that your average person really thinks that they're really really good

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Because we'll talk about eternity they've asked everyone of the first questions people ask you's what do you do

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Which is a real treat

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Because everybody has their own idea of what a pastor is and what he should be like

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Then they start telling me about how good they are

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People who trust in their own goodness. It's because they're comparing themselves to Hitler

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Have you ever noticed if you've ever gotten into these conversations

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You know someone why do you deserve to go to heaven? Well, I'm a pretty good person

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I mean the whole generally. I mean I'm not Hitler right

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Like like Hitler is the standard for goodness

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I mean you compare yourself to Hitler and you go wow. I really you know, I won up Hitler

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I'm more moral than Hitler God's gotta let me in

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Listen God isn't gonna compare you to Hitler

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God is gonna compare you to himself

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He's gonna compare you to Jesus Christ and you're gonna come short

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And when I share that with people in it

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Well who then who then can get in well, that's the whole point. I'm so glad you asked

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Looks like you need help

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Looks like you need a

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Savior yeah, that's what I was looking for. Thank you third row. You need a savior

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Because you can't save yourself. You got to be perfect to get into a perfect heaven

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You need a savior who will present the perfect sacrifice

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Yeah, take away all your sin and then allow you to be born again to have a brand new spirit

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Will which now you can go and meet the Lord in heaven? Hallelujah

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Hallelujah first Peter one three blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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According to his great mercy he has caused us to be born again

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To a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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From the dead because of today because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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If you're to give your life to the Lord and he's knocking on the door of your heart right now

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You will experience the new birth you will experience being born again

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And then your brand new life and relationship with God begin

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Been serving him 34 years now

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There was never a minute where I regretted it. There's never a time worth. Oh, I shouldn't have said yes

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It's the greatest decision I've ever ever made

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Hallelujah

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Let's look at John

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11 verses 25 through 26

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The resurrection is confirmation that you will live forever

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Is this important to anyone?

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Because it's really important to me

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But talking to people it doesn't seem like it's that important like you just need to have above a room temperature IQ

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To realize that you're an eternal being

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Just put your phone down for 10 minutes and go into your infinite mind spend some time with you

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And you'll realize you're conscious and that you're an infinite being

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And what do you think is going to happen when you go

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What do you really think are you gonna you know and I hear you well?

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I think so and so why I think so like aren't you terrified to just ever you got an opinion

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Everybody's got an opinion

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Well, I think God at the end of the day well

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Well, I just I and I believe all religions and all the boats, you know

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They all get to the same side of the lake

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So you're kind of like just guessing you worked 50 hours a week to keep your lights on but when it comes to your eternal soul

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You spent five minutes thinking about it

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There's a heaven to gain and a hell to shun and eternity is real

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Now again, if you don't know my history, I was raised in New York City since I was five years old

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In four still queens that moved to Manhattan for a few years and until recently spent 15 years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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I didn't realize when I was in my 20s or 30s that NYC is so young

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Like age-wise only as you get a little older do you realize you know like as I entered into my 40s in Williamsburg

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I'm like, you know, I'm not like one of the cool guys around here anymore

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You know somebody rushed to help me cross the street. I was like oh, I must be becoming a man of a certain age all of a sudden

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And then we had a flood and we have two children my wife and I we moved to Long Island and Long Island is really old

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Right, I know there's some Long Islanders here Long Island just like I think the average age is 58 there

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Like that's a problem Long Island has so a lot of the people I'm meeting are older and I they know what I do

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We talk about the things of God but

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So few talk about eternity and I'm going how you got one foot in the grave another foot on a banana peel

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Does it never cross your mind? Where will you spend eternity?

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I want to live forever. Amen

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Jesus said to her I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me though he may die

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Yet shall he live the resurrection is confirmation of eternal life

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The resurrection is confirmation that you and you know when you just even honest with yourself

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You know that you're an eternal being you know there's something more going on inside of you than a bunch of what you came from primordial

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Lose in your collection of random molecules and chemicals and when you feel what what a Christian calls faith and love

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That's just your neural receptors picking up on different happy chemical what I'm sorry. I don't have faith for that

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I tried to be an atheist. I did. I really tried. I didn't have enough faith for it

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As an atheist that have to believe that the big bang theory happened and that's to me that's like

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Taking a grenade throwing it into a junkyard and now comes a complicated thing like a Rolex watch

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I'm sorry. That's such a fantastic thing. I can't believe it

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As much as I try to have faith. It's too much faith. I can't I can't do it

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I just believe that there's amnipotent. I'm nepresident. I'm nishant

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loving God and he made you

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Hallelujah

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First Corinthian 64 worship team you can come on up

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First Corinth 614

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And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by his power

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Hallelujah

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Hallelujah

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Amen. I want to give you an opportunity

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To receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior

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He said behold I stand on the at the door and knock if any man open the door

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I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish

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But have everlasting life

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Everlasting life is what he came to give you ever lasting life is why he was resurrected

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What is the enemy? What is the problem here? Well Satan is trying to blind you

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Satan is trying to keep you complacent

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Satan and he's succeeding so many people going about I jokingly said one foot on the grave one foot on a banana peel

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Ignoring what how do you ignore tic-tac tic-tac tic-tac you have a finite amount of time on the surface

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How do you ignore that like what kind of denial do you have to live in?

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To just ignore that and to go you know

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No one's really that good the people have the silliest things that they say and I get it because I used to be one of those people

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No one's really we're not even comparing you to anyone else forget about other people

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This is about you and God and he knows you have a problem

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He knows your stuff and the good news is he came from heaven to earth to solve your problem to fix your problem

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And he's calling you right now

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Every head bowed every eye closed

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I want to ask you the most important decision anyone can ask you and that's if you were to die today

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Do you know for certain that you would go and have eternity with God?

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I'll ask it again if you were to die today

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Do you know for certain that you would go to heaven?

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If not I want to say a prayer with you and for you

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I'm not going to ask you to get up out of your seat

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But I'm going to ask you to lift up your hand in acknowledgement of your need for a savior

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If that's you right now you want to have your sins forgiven you want to experience the new birth

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You want to know Jesus

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You want to be heaven bound and the count of three. I want you to raise your hand one two three

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Lift your hand up in the sanctuary right now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I see those hands

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Thank you who else keep your hand up. Thank you

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

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Who else?

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Do not resist the Holy Spirit

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I sense the way to eternity in this place

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God is after you. He wants you. He wants you forever with him

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Who else

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Who else

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All right every hand down

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I want you those of you who raised your hands to say this prayer out loud and we're all going to say it out loud

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We're all going to pray this together, but those of you who raised your hands say it extra loud

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That's important

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Don't mouth this

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Why am I stickler for it because the Bible says if you confess

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If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus

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So you got to confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead

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You will be saved. So it's not actually enough just to believe in your heart. There's something about saying it out loud

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So say this with me right now say dear Lord Jesus

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I believe in you

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I believe you died on the cross

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in my place

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For me

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I receive you

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As my Lord and Savior

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I repent I ask your forgiveness

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Fill me with the Holy Spirit

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I put my trust in you

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You are my Lord and Savior

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I am now forgiving

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I'm a friend of God

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And I am cleansed and heaven bound

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In Jesus name

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Shot a big hallelujah

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hallelujah

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hallelujah

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I've asked the worship team up

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Because I want them to lead you in a song you can stay seated

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But I want you to just have a moment with the Lord

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I

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Focus on salvation today because there's people who come on Easter Sunday. That's the only time they'll come

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That's the only time we'll see them

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When you actually get saved you'll come more

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I mean if someone told me I had to go to church

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Did you come from that background? I had to go to church. Is that what you guys were?

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Yeah

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No fun, right now I see both you smiling ear to your every Sunday now. It's not religion. You have to come right?

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I want to come I get to come

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And if you don't come you don't get a call from you're going to where have you been

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Yeah, there's freedom in the camp

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Hallelujah

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So just just open your heart up

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The Holy Spirit wants to come and minister to you now

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You can do so much more than any man than the best of old men. They'll come and talk to you

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He'll give you what you need

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The resurrection is yes about eternal life

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But the resurrection also

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Opens the doorway for the Lord to solve our problems right here on earth

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You were not created to suffer to crawl through life trying to just survive

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He did actually create you to be blessed to have a victorious life and to thrive. Yes

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Because

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The resurrection is a story of victory and that victory has been transferred over to you from Jesus

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Lord I bless your people lord may heavens rain come upon them this week

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Show yourself strong on their behalf

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Lord, I thank you that if any are going through a trial or something difficult you will come in and you will help them for your words

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Says you're a very present help in a time of trouble

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Nothing is too difficult for you you conquered death hell and the grave

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You live and we live also and I thank you for the victory of the resurrection made manifest in every person's life this week

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And if you believe it shot a man

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Hey man

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This is the city light church podcast if you've missed any part of today's message

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Or if you would like to find out more about pastor boy on jansik and city light church

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Visit us at city light NYC dot com that's city light

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We pray that you have been encouraged today

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That you have been reminded how much god loves you and that you are surrounded by grace

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