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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: The Sign of Jonah
Publishing Date: 2015-04-12T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/the-sign-of-jonah/

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Am I good to go, Wayne?

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Okay, last week here's what we said.

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We said Good Friday,

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or the day Jesus died,

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is like a wound called death

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that was broken open.

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That's what happened.

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We talked about it last week.

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If you want to hear more about it,

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just pick up CD number 463E,

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or was it F?

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Okay, so just ask for it.

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So we said on Good Friday what happened was

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when Jesus died,

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what actually happened was

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this wound called death

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that has ravenously eaten up millions of people.

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Because there's no human being that is born that does not die.

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Everyone is born under this sentence of death.

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Because the Bible says that

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since we can't meet God's perfect standards,

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because we decided to choose other pathways,

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it's impossible for one not to die.

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So everyone is born in the womb of death,

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or born out of a mother called death.

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And what is death?

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Death is the wages or the currency that you're paid in if you sin.

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And why are you paid in that currency?

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Because God is super holy,

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to the point where nobody can approach him,

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because he lives in unapproachable brilliance,

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not because he's got gases surrounding him that are inflamed,

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or flammable, but simply because just his purity is so ridiculous

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that there's a brilliance about him.

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And that God, because he's just and holy,

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sent his son Jesus to die for your sin and my sin.

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And so what he does when he dies is he breaks open the womb called death.

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And so out of that come stillborns like you and I.

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That's what we said last week.

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And then we said, not only does he break open the womb of death

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and releases that which has been trapped inside the womb,

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remember you're stillborn.

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I gave this example.

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I said if there's a mom and a pregnant mom caught in an accident,

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rush her to the hospital, find out that she's dead,

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but in her womb is a baby and the baby is dead too.

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You operated, the baby is lying there,

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both the mother and the baby are dead.

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That's the condition of our lives on Good Friday.

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But here's what happens on Easter or Resurrection Day.

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That stillborn is suddenly given life,

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where God now raises the dead, just like Jesus was raised.

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So you and I who've been delivered from death forever are now raised to life.

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That's what we talked about last time.

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And I think the miracle on resurrection is ridiculous.

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It's greater than sometimes what happened on crucifixion.

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Crucifixion, you died to death, but on resurrection you rose to life.

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And we talked about the quality of life.

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Guys, pick up that CD. It's really worth listening.

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And so that's what we talked about last week.

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But here's the thing, guys.

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Just see how it was symbolically illustrated in Matthew 2752.

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Matthew 2752.

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Here's what it says in Matthew 2751 onwards.

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And so it says,

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And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

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And what did that symbolize, guys?

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What did that symbolize?

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Sorry?

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Okay, so one of the things, the tearing of the curtain,

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and remember the curtain was pretty thick, and it was pretty wide.

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It tore not from the bottom, it tore from the top.

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So it wasn't a man who tore it.

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It was torn from the top.

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God tears that curtain that was in the temple. Why?

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Because you said?

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He would keep people from the center of the holy.

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Yeah, so the curtain kept people from seeing the ark of God,

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which in those days was symbolic of the power of God.

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So the curtain tears.

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And so one of the things that it signifies is that

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finally people could go into the presence of God,

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like a child walks into his father's study.

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What else?

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What else does it symbolize?

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You'll have to define it more.

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Yeah, but freedom from what?

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Okay.

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May I suggest that one of the things that symbolized is

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the end to temple worship.

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No more going to the temple and bowing down and offering prayers.

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That was done.

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The old way of sacrifices and temple was done.

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That is another thing it signified.

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And now in 2752, here's what it says, starting from 51.

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And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom,

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and the earth shook and the rocks were split.

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And this is on Good Friday.

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And rocks, and the earth shook and the rocks were split.

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The tombs also were opened.

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The tombs also were opened.

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So Jesus is dying on the cross.

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And suddenly, outside of the city of Jerusalem,

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because people used to be buried outside the city,

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outside of the city of Jerusalem,

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suddenly tombs that held dead bodies broke open.

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And guys, that symbolizes exactly what we were talking about.

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Remember we talked about the womb being a womb of death

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that Jesus delivered us out of.

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And so that's what's happening in verse 52,

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where tombs that held the dead broke open.

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That happens on Good Friday.

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But listen to what happens next.

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And the tombs were opened,

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and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

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Meaning dead people actually came out of the grave the day Jesus died.

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We'll talk about that later.

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But in the tomb opening, what's it symbolic of?

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What is it symbolic of?

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In the tomb's opening?

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Not yet.

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Farhan?

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Yeah.

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One of the things that this represented,

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imagine you're outside,

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you're at the cemetery at Frasier and 41st on Good Friday,

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and the day Jesus died, suddenly these cemeteries start breaking open.

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I mean that's what actually happened.

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And it symbolized the destruction of death.

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The destruction of death.

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That's what it symbolized, guys.

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I mean just think, hey,

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if you believe in Jesus Christ, you don't stay dead.

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Death is a fraction of a second where your heart stops,

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and you're immediately, immediately alive.

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You never die.

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Yes, your physical body stops, your heart stops beating,

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but your life continues.

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Where? In the presence of God.

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It's a micro-fraction of a second where you leave this body behind.

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That's it.

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That's what death is about.

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Man, it's such a relief, eh,

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because the Bible says that people live in the fear of death.

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The best way to deal with the fear of death is to pretend that we're going to party after this,

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or that we'll return and become a cockroach,

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or that we'll seize being and become manure in Joan's garden.

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That's not how this works.

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No, sorry, Joan, what I meant.

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You brought up the garden, so that's not how it works.

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And so in the tomb's opening,

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you knew that death had been destroyed.

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That death had been destroyed.

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And here's what else it means.

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It means the devil's hold on death was broken.

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How do you know that?

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Turn to Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14 and 15.

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Hebrews 2, 14 and 15.

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Hebrews 2, 14 and 15.

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What does it say there?

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Hebrews 2, 14 and 15.

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And here's what it says.

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Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood,

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as in since you and I are made of flesh and blood,

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Jesus himself took on the same thing,

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as in he was flesh and blood too.

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And then look at what it says.

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And through death, and why did he do it?

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So that through his dying, he might destroy the one

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who has the power of death, that is the devil,

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and deliver all those who through fear of death

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were subject to its lifelong slavery.

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That's what happened when these tombs opened.

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That's what it represents.

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That's what it represents.

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Ask yourself this question.

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Are you scared of death?

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Don't answer it now, because you'll have to say,

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nah, I'm not.

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But ask yourself this question.

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Are you scared of death?

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I'm scared of dying painfully,

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because I've got a very low pain threshold.

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I mean, I wouldn't survive on the ice

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when the guys hit each other on hockey.

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Like, that's painful, man.

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But here's the thing.

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Are you afraid of death?

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And if you are, you need to rework your thinking

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based on what God is saying.

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Look at what he's saying here.

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He's saying that, listen, I became flesh and blood

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like you, and I became like you.

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I became flesh and blood like you, Jacob,

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so that I could partake of the way you live life,

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and through my death, I wanted to destroy,

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I destroyed the one who has the power of death.

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Who is that?

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That's the devil.

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To do what?

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To deliver you, who through the fear of death,

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were subject to lifelong slavery.

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Is that Hebrews 2, 14, 15?

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Yeah.

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Ask us a question.

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Are you afraid of death?

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And then the second question should be why.

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And embrace a new way of thinking.

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Matthew 27, 53.

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Matthew 27, 53.

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So now we know the tomb's open,

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so we are at Fraser and 41st,

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and we just see a whole lot of cemeteries

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suddenly breaking open, and you think, oh, shucks,

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I heard a noise and the cement's cracking,

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and now the tomb's have opened,

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and now there's another problem.

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The tombs were open,

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and many of the bodies of the saints

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who had fallen asleep were raised,

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as in these tombs lay open,

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and suddenly people who had been buried for years

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started popping up.

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But look when they popped out.

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They didn't.

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The tombs are broken open.

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You can perhaps see them if you looked inside,

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but they don't come out till Jesus rises.

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Look at the next verse.

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I don't know why we don't see some things.

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At least I didn't.

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Verse 52.

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The tombs were open,

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and many of the bodies of the saints

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who had fallen asleep were raised,

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and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection,

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they went into Jerusalem or the holy city

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and appeared to many.

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So the tombs are open,

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and on the third day, as soon as Jesus rises,

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guess what happens?

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These guys who are in the graves get up.

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Not only do they get up,

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they actually get up, and they don't say,

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let's stay in the cemetery.

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No, let's go into the city.

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And so they come from Fraser and 41st down Main Street

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into your home.

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I mean, that's what happened, guys.

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That is what happened.

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So first, like we said earlier on,

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I just love having read this,

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because we said the womb of death is broken,

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and then what happens?

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Life is given to the stillborn

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who has been delivered from death,

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to the stillborn delivered from death.

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We talked about this last time.

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This is what is happening.

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This is what is symbolically happening here, too,

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where the graves open,

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and the womb of death is broken.

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The graves open, and the ones who are dead

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stay dead for two days,

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and when Jesus rises, suddenly life comes back.

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That's what happened to you guys.

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The moment you receive Christ, that's what happens.

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The old you that was bound to all kinds of addictions,

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bondages, ways of living, sin,

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suddenly ceases to exist,

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and God gives you a brand new life,

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which allows you to live the way you're living.

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And that actually happened.

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These guys then went into the city.

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They actually went into the city.

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If you look at Isaiah 26, 19,

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Isaiah 26, 19, this was already prophesied, man.

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Isaiah 26, 19.

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Isaiah 26, 19.

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Here's what it says.

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Isaiah is prophesying about a future time,

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and he says this,

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Your dead shall live,

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their bodies shall rise.

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You who dwell in the dust,

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awake and sing for joy,

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for your dew is a dew of light,

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and the earth will give birth to the dead.

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Wow.

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It's talking about what happened, man.

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Let me read it again.

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Isaiah 26, 19, it says there,

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Your dead shall live,

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their bodies shall rise.

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You who dwell in the dust,

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awake and sing for joy,

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for your dew is a dew of light,

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and the earth will give birth to the dead.

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That's what happened.

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And this event that happened that day

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was also kind of what,

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it was almost like a prototype

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of John chapter 5, verse 28,

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turn to John 5, 28,

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where Jesus says these words,

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and that's kind of what's happening.

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It's a prototype, meaning it'll,

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it was a first installment.

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It'll happen again.

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John 5, 28.

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And here's what it says,

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For as the Father has life in himself,

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so he has granted Jesus the Son

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also to have life in himself.

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Verse 28,

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Do not marvel at this,

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for an hour is coming,

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when all who are in the tombs

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will hear his voice and come out,

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those who have done good

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to the resurrection of life,

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and those who have done evil

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to the resurrection of judgment.

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God is just giving us a taste of it,

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that they will hear.

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Do not marvel,

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because they will hear my voice,

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and the dead will actually rise to life,

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some to the resurrection of,

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some to the judgment of,

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some who will be judged correctly

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will have resurrection,

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and some to damnation.

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But I just wanted to show you that.

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And guys, when they rose,

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they didn't rise as spooky Casper's

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or something, like,

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some of you won't know who Casper is.

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It was before your time, Jason.

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Oh, it was your time? Okay.

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Yeah, so these guys didn't rise

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as spooky apparitions or something.

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They rose in recognizable bodies.

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Recognizable resurrected bodies

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is what they rose up in.

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Because if you look at Matthew 27, 53,

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it says, they went into the Holy City

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and appeared to many.

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Meaning, they actually met people

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in Jerusalem.

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So they had recognizable

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resurrected bodies,

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and were familiar to those that they appeared to.

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So Jesus rises up,

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but he doesn't show himself publicly in Jerusalem.

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But he did show himself

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to more than 500 people.

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1 Corinthians 15, verse 6 says

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that Jesus appeared to more than 500 people

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after he rose again.

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But he didn't publicly go into Jerusalem

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and say, here, I have risen.

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But even though he didn't go into Jerusalem,

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the rest of the city woke up that Sunday morning

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to the fact that

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some kind of resurrection had happened.

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Because here comes...

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I mean, and here's the thing, guys.

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If you read Leviticus 23,

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it says that the Sunday after

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that Passover and Sabbath

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was the Sunday when

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they go out to cut

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sheaves of barley.

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Because it was...

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They were supposed to celebrate

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this Jewish festival called

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First Fruits.

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So you can imagine, eh,

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they get up on Sunday,

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because the Jews kept these festivals

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passionately.

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So they get up on Sunday because it was the

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festival of First Fruits of the barley harvest.

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And so they're walking into the fields

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to harvest their

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sheaves to offer to God

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as a first fruit.

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And they see people coming down the road.

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Because the graves would always be

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outside the city.

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And they see people coming down the road.

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And these are guys who some of them recognize.

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Because these were people who were dead

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and buried. And now they're walking towards them.

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Imagine that meeting, eh?

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You can imagine people

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leaving the city of Jerusalem early that morning

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to cut sheaves. And as they walk towards the barley fields,

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they see people approaching them,

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heading towards Jerusalem,

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ones that had died and had been resurrected.

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And in a sense, it fulfilled what was written

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in 1 Corinthians 15, 20,

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where it says that now

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Jesus Christ is risen from the dead

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and he becomes the first fruits

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of those who have fallen asleep.

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It must have really messed up the Sadducees.

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Because the Sadducees were a bunch of teachers

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who didn't believe in resurrection.

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And there is Uncle Jim standing at the door.

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And they must have been scratching their head.

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But we don't believe in resurrection.

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But here I am.

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That's a cool thing about the truth.

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The truth will eventually bear itself out

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in evidence. And it doesn't have to be

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It doesn't matter what you believe.

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I always say,

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jump out of a 50-story building

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believing that gravity doesn't exist

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and see what happens.

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You look like you want to know what happens.

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Don't try this at home.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the Sadducees were still arguing

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about the fact that

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resurrection is not real.

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And yet, they just saw

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guys coming back.

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So it must have really messed up their theology

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because they didn't believe in the resurrection of the body.

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In Acts 23, 8, it talks about it.

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And here's the thing, guys. These guys who were

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resurrected, were resurrected

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or raised to

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everlasting life.

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They were not raised to die again.

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So, let's assume

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that I had died 20 years ago, before Jesus

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died. And then Jesus

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rises up and I rise up too.

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And so I turn up at Jason's

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house and I knock on the door.

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And Jason can't believe it because I've just come back

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from the dead. I've been dead for 20 years.

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He remembers singing at my funeral. And there I am.

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And now

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he looks at me

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and I have a resurrected body. I can be recognized.

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And

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I am not going to die again.

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It is a life that is now everlasting life.

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So what happened to them?

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I'd suggest to you that when Jesus ascended,

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they ascended too.

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40 days they were on earth, man.

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They were raised to everlasting life.

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Sounds like a science fiction movie,

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but it's true, man.

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Beam Me Up Scotty came

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much later.

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So these guys who were resurrected

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were raised to life everlasting.

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They probably,

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and I say probably only because

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the story

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ends there. Matthew doesn't continue there.

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But they probably continued

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on earth until Jesus' ascension

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and went with him to heaven.

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What was the purpose of all this?

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Guys, the purpose is so cool.

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This was a public display

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that sin, death,

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Satan and the grave

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had been completely defeated.

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And it was also

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proof that

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1st Thessalonians 417

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will happen because it's happened

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once before.

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What does it say in 1st Thessalonians 417?

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That a day is coming

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when Jesus

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will come back

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and the dead in Christ will rise

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first and meet him in the air

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and then those that are still alive

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will too.

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Read it, read it, read it.

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Either this entire book is true

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or the whole thing is a falsehood.

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And Paul put it this way,

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man if Jesus didn't rise from the dead

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we Christians should be pitied

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because we are the greatest fools alive.

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1st Thessalonians 4.

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Here's what it says.

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1st Thessalonians 416.

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And here's what it says, for the Lord Himself

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will descend from heaven with a cry

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of command, with a voice of an archangel

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and with the sound of the trumpet of God.

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And the dead in Christ will rise first,

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then we who are alive who are left will be caught up

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together with Him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air

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and so we will always be with the Lord.

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Therefore encourage one another

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with these words.

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Guys, the crazy thing is, this being caught up

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with the Lord is a reality that has already happened before.

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Any questions, comments,

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challenges, disagreements?

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Could you repeat that bit about

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sin and death and Satan?

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Yeah, in them

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rising up and then at one point

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ascending, which I believe is what happened

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because they were raised to

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everlasting life,

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not life that would die again.

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Because it is appointed to man to die

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once and then.

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Yeah, so

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in that

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happening, you saw the

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end of

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death, life,

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sorry, death, grave,

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sin and the devil.

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Because if those guys' sins

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were not paid for, they cannot rise.

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Why? Because the wages of sin is

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death, you've got to be paid in the currency of death

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if you sin.

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So had Christ not paid for their sins,

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they couldn't have risen.

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Had the devil's power not

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been destroyed, they couldn't have risen. Why?

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Because we just read in Hebrews chapter 2, verse 14 and 15

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that Satan had

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the power of death that he began to exert as a

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weapon against humans because we

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sided with him instead of siding with God.

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Grave,

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you bury someone,

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can't come out.

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The graves broke open.

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So it was

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a display of victory

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over sin,

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Satan, death and the grave.

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I mean this whole idea of, I mean, whenever

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someone dies, we preach from 1 Corinthians

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15 and we say, death, where is

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your sting? And we are always thinking of the future.

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And this is just to let you know, guys,

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it's also happened in the past and it's going to happen

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again in the future too.

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The other thing is, guys,

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so what happened to Jesus when he died?

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I mean there are all kinds of theories

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on what happened to Jesus when he died.

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One of the

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pet theories is that Jesus

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descended into hell.

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And

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it's

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really not that way.

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So here's what

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happened.

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Some of us have heard this before and some

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of us need to hear it so we

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don't have

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others telling us

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otherwise.

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See, in Hebrew, there's a word

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called shiol

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and in Greek there's a word called

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hades. Both are just

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the place of

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the dead. That's what

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its basic definition is.

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The place of the dead.

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And so if you read Luke 16,

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Luke 16,

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22-26, Luke 16,

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22-26,

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Luke 16,

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22-26,

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Luke 16,

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22-26.

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So there's a story about Lazarus.

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So we'll start from verse 22.

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So the poor man died and was carried

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by the angels to Abraham's side or Abraham's

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bosom, whichever word

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your Bible uses. The rich man

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also died and was buried. And in

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Hades, being in torment,

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he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham

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far off and Lazarus at his side.

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And he called out, Father Abraham, have

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mercy on me and send Lazarus to

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dip the end of his finger in water and cool

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my tongue for I am in anguish in this

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flame. And Abraham said, child,

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remember that you in your lifetime received good

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things and Lazarus in like manner

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bad things. But now he is

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comforted here and you're in anguish.

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And then verse 26, and besides all this,

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between us and you is a great

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chasm, chasm, that has been

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fixed in order that you,

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in order that those who would pass

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from here to you may not do so.

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None may cross from there to us. So guys,

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basically,

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Hades

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was made up of

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two parts. One was called,

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one was still called Hades.

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And the other one was called

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Abraham's

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side by the Jews or

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another word for it was

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Paradise.

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And so, this was

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the temporary

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abode

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of

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the unrighteous.

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And this was the

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temporary

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abode of

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the

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righteous.

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And so anyone who died

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would either, would go to Hades and would

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either go to Paradise or to

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Hades. And so this is

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why, I mean if you notice,

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Jesus didn't say to the thief on the right,

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I'll see you in hell today. He didn't say that.

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That sounds like a Hollywood movie.

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No, he said I'll see you in

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Paradise. He didn't say I'll see you

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in hell. Because whether we like it

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or not, hell is empty. There's nobody

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in hell.

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And we'll talk about that at the end. There's no one in

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hell. Hell is a

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place that was only prepared for Satan and his

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demons. It was not even supposed to be occupied

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by humans. And at present there is

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nobody in hell.

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So,

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Jesus said that today

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you will be with me in

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Paradise. So the only

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place Jesus went to was to

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Paradise.

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Where he awaited the resurrection

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of his body.

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He did not go to hell. He did not

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have to wrestle the keys of death

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and hell from the devil as some of the

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songs teach or some preachers preach.

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It sounds really dramatic and with music

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it can really sound good.

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But the thing is

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it's not biblical.

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The moment he

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said it is finished on the cross,

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it was finished. He didn't now need

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to go down to hell to suffer

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more or to pay a price

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or to teach the devil or to

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take the keys from him.

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It is finished was it is

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actually finished.

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Dundee. So Jesus

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went to

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Paradise.

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Jesus went to Paradise.

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And so even when you read 1 Peter

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3 19

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and we won't talk about it today. I'm just

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referring you to that scripture and we'll talk about it some other day

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because it will take another hour.

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In

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1 Peter 3 19

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3 18 and 19.

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It says

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Christ also suffered once for sins

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the righteous for the unrighteous that he might

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bring us to God being put to death in

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the flesh but made alive in the spirit

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in which he went and proclaimed

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to the spirits in prison before

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they formally did not obey when God's

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.000
patience waited in the days of Noah while the ark

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was being prepared in which a few that is eight

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persons were brought safely through water.

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That happened not in hell

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but here. But we'll talk about that another

00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:16.000
day.

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What it means we'll talk about it another day.

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So here's what happens guys. This is where

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Jesus went after he died.

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And then when he rose again

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and ascended the Bible

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says in Ephesians 4 8 that

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he took captivity

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captive. As in

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now when Christ

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rose

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and ascended

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and went

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to

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heaven

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he took with him

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those that were in paradise

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to

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heaven.

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So today there is no place

00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:56.000
called paradise today there is only a place called

00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:58.000
Hades. There is no place

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called paradise. You don't go to

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paradise when you die you go to heaven.

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Because

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those in paradise could not be justified

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till Jesus had died.

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They were righteous according to the law but not

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:12.000
righteous according to the standards of God's holiness.

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In Christ's death they are now

00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.000
made righteous.

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.000
And so when he ascended he took captivity

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.000
captive.

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It says he who descended

00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:24.000
also ascended.

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Sorry he who ascended also descended. That's what

00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:28.000
it says in Ephesians 4 8. And he took captivity

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captive. He takes them

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now that they have been fully made

00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.000
righteous from paradise

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.000
to heaven. So today there is no

00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.000
thing called paradise. You don't go to paradise.

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You only go to heaven.

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If you believe

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who Christ is.

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Because you've got to believe God to go into a place

00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.000
where God lives right. If you say he doesn't

00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:50.000
exist might be a little difficult.

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Hebrews 11

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says that.

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That you need to first believe that

00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:58.000
God exists and that is a rewarder of those that

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seek him.

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Any questions on that guys?

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.000
And

00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:06.000
so today one who lives

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:08.000
unrighteously, one who decides that God

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.000
does not exist, one who does not want to recognize

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.000
who Christ is

00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000
still goes to Hades. And Hades is

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:16.000
just a temporary abode. It's not a

00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.000
pleasant place. It's a temporary abode.

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.000
Why? Because in Revelation chapter

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.000
20 verse 11 to 15

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it actually says

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:26.000
that a day is coming when Hades

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:28.000
and death will be cast into hell.

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Hell is the

00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.000
final place of judgment and that

00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.000
is empty right now.

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Pardon?

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At present

00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.000
hell is unoccupied.

00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.000
Anyone who dies without

00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.000
rejecting God still

00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.000
does not get thrown into hell

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:50.000
because still judgment happens.

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.000
I mean read Revelation 20

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11 to 15.

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Revelation 20, 11 to 15.

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It says there

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and then I saw a great white throne

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.000
and him who was seated on it.

00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:04.000
This is John seeing a vision.

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.000
From his presence earth and sky

00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.000
fled away and no place was found

00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.000
for them. And I saw the dead, great and small

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.000
standing before the throne and books

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.000
were opened. Then another book was opened

00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.000
which is the book of life. And the dead

00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:18.000
were judged by what was written in the books

00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.000
according to what they had done. And the sea

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.000
gave up the dead who were in it. Death

00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.000
and Hades gave up the dead

00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.000
who were in them.

00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.000
And they were judged each one of them

00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.000
according to what they had done. Then

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.000
death and Hades were thrown

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.000
into the lake of fire. That's where

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.000
we hear of hell first.

00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.000
This is the second

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.000
death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:42.000
name was not found written in the book of life

00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.000
he was thrown into the lake of fire.

00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.000
So that's a bit about where did

00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:50.000
Jesus go after he died. And here's the other

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:52.000
thing. Here's another theory that

00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.000
I've heard throughout my childhood

00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.000
not throughout my childhood, yeah actually

00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.000
from when I was a kid. Which is so many

00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.000
years ago now. And so

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.000
here's what happened. Jesus rises

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.000
from the dead and

00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.000
Mary sees him.

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.000
In John 20 it says

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Mary saw him

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.000
and she goes

00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.000
and grabs

00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:16.000
Jesus and Jesus says, do not touch

00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:18.000
me. And out of that has come this

00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.000
new theory that Jesus said do not

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.000
touch me because he had not

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:24.000
yet risen to the

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.000
father. You'll hear this all

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:28.000
over the place. Guys who are better than me

00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.000
teach this.

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As in better than me in every respect.

00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.000
Teach this. And so

00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:36.000
you need to understand that

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.000
I'll tell you where it comes from.

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When Jesus

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rose from the dead he did not need to go

00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.000
to heaven

00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.000
to place before the father

00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:50.000
his sacrifice of blood saying

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:52.000
I have taken care of

00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.000
their sins. He didn't need

00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:56.000
to do that. That comes from a flawed

00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.000
understanding of Hebrews

00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.000
chapter 9 verse 12

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Hebrews 9 12

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Hebrews 9 12

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In Hebrews 9 12 it says

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Let's start at verse 11

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But when Christ appeared as a high priest

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:18.000
of good things that have

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:20.000
come, then through the greater and more perfect

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:22.000
and it's not made with hands, that's not of

00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.000
this creation. Okay, verse 12

00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:26.000
He entered once and for all into the

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.000
holy place, not by means of the

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.000
blood of goats and calves but by means of

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.000
his own blood, thus securing an eternal

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.000
redemption. So what people have

00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.000
done is they've taken the scripture and they've said

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:38.000
that when Jesus rose from the dead

00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.000
he literally had to go to heaven before

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.000
the father and lay before the father

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:44.000
the sacrifice of his blood

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.000
and say I have paid for the sins

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:48.000
of mankind.

00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:50.000
It's a flawed understanding.

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.000
He didn't do anything of that sort.

00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:54.000
And so people say that when Mary

00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.000
went to touch him and he said do not

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.000
cling to me or do not touch me

00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.000
what he was saying is do not contaminate

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.000
me by your touching because I have to first go to

00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.000
the father and offer a sacrifice

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.000
before I come back.

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.000
Guys, when you read John

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.000
chapter 20 verse 17 he says do not touch

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:12.000
me. But John 17

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.000
John 20 verse 27 he actually goes

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.000
to Thomas and he says touch me, touch me, touch me.

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.000
So in a matter of seven

00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:20.000
verses Jesus moves from do not touch

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.000
me to touch me.

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.000
So surely it's got nothing to do

00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:26.000
with contamination.

00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.000
But we've come up with this theory.

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:32.000
The natural

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:34.000
explanation would be

00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.000
him saying listen

00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.000
don't touch me right now

00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:40.000
because I got, don't cling to me right now

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:42.000
because I got places to go and go tell

00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:44.000
my brothers and sisters that

00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.000
I'm going to

00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:48.000
my father and your father.

00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:50.000
I mean

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:52.000
Mary would have clung on to him

00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.000
for dear life because she had never thought

00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:56.000
he'd come back and he's come back and she was

00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.000
so excited to see him and so she naturally

00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.000
clung. I mean I remember this scene

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.000
when Marcus

00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.000
was lying out there and he comes back

00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.000
to life. What was the first thing

00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.000
Marcus did?

00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:10.000
He just looked for

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.000
Laurie and grabbed her

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.000
and then

00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.000
just wouldn't let go. I've never seen a grown

00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.000
man cry like a child like I saw that day.

00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:20.000
Not like a baby, like a child.

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.000
He was so happy to be back and the first

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.000
thing he did was grab her and hold

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.000
on to her

00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.000
as if he had seen her for the first time.

00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.000
I remember that scene.

00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.000
Some of you were there, you saw that.

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It's the same thing that's happening here.

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:40.000
So Marcus was perhaps

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not breathing and didn't have a pulse for two and a half

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minutes. Jesus was not breathing and didn't have

00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.000
a pulse for three days and he comes out

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from the grave and what do you think Mary will do?

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She goes, grabs him and says,

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:52.000
it's so good to have you back and she doesn't want to let

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go and in that not letting go

00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:56.000
Jesus says do not cling to me right now.

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It wasn't a theological

00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:00.000
statement of contamination. It was

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just

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yeah, I need to go.

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So it's been taught that Jesus told Mary not to touch

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him because he had not entered the holy place in heaven

00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:16.000
to offer his blood and that touching

00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:18.000
him would have contaminated his

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.000
blood offering but surely that can't be

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because seven verses later or a few hours

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later he's telling Thomas, hey, go feel

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.000
free to put your hand in those nail

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scarred holes in my hand.

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So it can't be that.

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So Mary held on to Jesus as anyone

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would when their grief turned to joy

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just like Marcus did with Lorian.

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So here are a few

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things we can

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take home almost as a Rhema word

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and what's a Rhema word?

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While the Bible

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doesn't define it like this, I'm defining

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it this way. Rhema word

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is when God

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even in times of

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preaching like this will release

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a word that is

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specific to your situation and

00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.000
will have in it all that you need for what

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lies ahead. That's what

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I'm defining it as.

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It's more a Pentecostal definition than a

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:12.000
Biblical definition. So

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in loosening Mary's

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grip, Jesus

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conveyed a few things that perhaps

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we need to hear today and for

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many of us it will mean different things but

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that's fine.

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Okay, so the first thing

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is

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it's

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odd, eh?

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That with

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Mary, she had to let go.

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With Thomas, he had to

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let Jesus in.

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Jesus saying

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with Mary, she had to have faith

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to let go. With Thomas, he needed faith

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to let Jesus

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in. Both had different

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reactions. So here's the first

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statement.

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Some of us

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need to

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trust God

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to

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let go

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of people,

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past,

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and

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circumstances.

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Some of us need faith

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or some of us

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need to trust God and let go

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of people,

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of past, and of circumstances

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over the next few weeks.

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We've held on

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to them for too long and it's to

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our detriment. And so some

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of us need to trust God to let go

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of people, of past, and

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of situations and circumstances.

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That's statement one.

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Statement two.

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And the only

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one you don't let go of is your spouse.

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So don't,

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you can't use the statement to

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do that.

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In the sense, you can't say, ah,

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.000
the pastor said I could let go of you, so

00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.000
let's file for divorce. You can't do that.

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Some of us need to,

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these are very simple statements, but

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if it at any point, as I'm saying,

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strikes you or just

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hooks you for a second, go examine

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it further at home. Some of us need

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to trust God

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to let him

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in

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and believe

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for the impossible again.

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In the sense you have

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trusted God nothing happened

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and so you've kind of kept him at a distance

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because you're scared of being disappointed.

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And so you've kept him at a distance.

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Some of us need to trust God to let him in again

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so that we can start believing for the impossible.

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It's a trick of the enemy

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:02.000
where you trusted God for something

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:04.000
it didn't happen and so you keep him at a distance

00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000
because you don't want to go through that

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.000
process again where you trusted him with everything

00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.000
you have and you feel let down

00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.000
and you're scared of being disappointed again.

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You don't want to

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engage with God.

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But hey, always know that

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God is just and fair and

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perfect. He never lets anybody down.

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It's not in his character. He does not know how.

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And therefore when

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I'm disappointed with what God has not done

00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.000
I always go back and say to him

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listen I'm really disappointed and

00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:34.000
really sucks but I just want you to know

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that I know that you're fair

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and that you're not someone who knows how to let me down

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and you're my father.

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And then you start over again

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and that's something you need to do.

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Third,

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you need to trust God

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even though

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you want everything

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to be the same again

00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:08.000
that's what Mary wanted today.

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Mary wanted the physical Jesus

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to be there forever now.

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And Jesus is saying

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don't hold on to me.

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I am going to the Father and to your Father.

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She wanted things to be the same

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and he's saying

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I am going and I won't leave you as an orphan.

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I will send the Spirit of God so I can be with you forever.

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What I'm trying to say is this guys

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even though you want everything to be the same as before

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even though you want everything to be the same as before

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know that

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know that

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know that

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know that

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know that

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things are going to change

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know that things are going to change for the better

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know that things are going to change

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for the better.

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Know that things are going to change

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for the better.

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And

00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.000
you need

00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:06.000
you need

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.000
to upgrade

00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.000
your relationship with

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your relationship with God.

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Your relationship with God.

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You need to upgrade

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.000
your relationship with God.

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To handle those changes.

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Guys this is so crucial.

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It's going to happen to some of us

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over the next few weeks and months.

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Handle

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handle what?

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Handle those changes.

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Thanks.

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Guys, Moses had to do this.

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Moses had to first

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change so that he can lead a people out of Egypt.

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So he sees the burning bush

00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.000
and there's a heart change and Moses says

00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.000
great, I now have some kind of courage

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.000
to lead these people out of Egypt.

00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:58.000
Then Moses brings them to Mount Sinai.

00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000
He's brought them out of Egypt

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.000
but these people are harder to deal with

00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.000
than the Egyptians because they are stiff necked.

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:06.000
So now how do you take them through the desert?

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.000
So now Moses has to have an upgrade.

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And what's an upgrade?

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000
An upgrade is when you catch a glimpse of God afresh.

00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000
And so he catches a glimpse of God

00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000
on Mount Sinai and it changes him.

00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000
Now he can take them through the desert.

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I'm saying to you that even though you want

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.000
everything to be the same as before

00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.000
know that things are going to change

00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000
for the better.

00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.000
And you need to upgrade your relationship

00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.000
with God to handle those changes.

00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.000
Otherwise when they happen

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.000
you will be

00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:36.000
stiff necked and grumbling.

00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.000
I wish it was the same.

00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:40.000
That thing will come up.

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Any questions on that?

00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:46.000
You understand that one?

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Yeah, let's put it this way.

00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.000
Let's say

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.000
God wants me to live the rest of my life

00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:54.000
in Mongolia.

00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.000
Which I have no desire to do.

00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.000
But if he is saying Jacob

00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:00.000
I'm bringing that change into your life

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.000
I will have to quickly get

00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.000
a fresh understanding of

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.000
God as a whole.

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.000
A fresh understanding of God

00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.000
as in don't worry Jacob I know you hate the cold

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.000
but I'll be there for you. I know it's not like

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:14.000
Canada but I'll be there for you. And as

00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.000
I get an upgrade of God and my relationship

00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:18.000
with him gets better. Now my heart

00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.000
will begin to change

00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.000
to accommodate Mongolia.

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.000
And if I don't do that

00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.000
I'll complain bitterly

00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.000
even in summer

00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.000
in Mongolia.

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This is going to happen to some of you.

00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.000
I said a rehmah word that's what I meant.

00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:38.000
That is a word packed with the grace you need

00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.000
for the coming weeks and months.

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:44.000
And this upgrade is necessary

00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.000
because otherwise it will leave you

00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.000
it's like a bride

00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:50.000
who says ah don't worry

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.000
when's your marriage? Wednesday.

00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.000
Have you gotten your bridal gown yet? Nah

00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.000
there's a weekend.

00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:00.000
That's what I mean. You've got to prep for it.

00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:02.000
A guy can pull it off

00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:04.000
but not a bride.

00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:10.000
Do you know that you surrender to God's will?

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:12.000
Not exactly.

00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.000
It's one thing to surrender

00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:16.000
to God's will and sometimes when we

00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:18.000
think of the word surrender we think of this resigned

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.000
ah your God what choice do I have?

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.000
Here I lay my life down.

00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.000
No this is

00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:26.000
I want to be able to

00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:28.000
see who you are so my heart is

00:46:28.000 --> 00:46:30.000
prepared for the next phase

00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.000
of this journey and if I don't see who you are

00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:34.000
I'll surrender but boy

00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:36.000
will I be an unwilling surrender.

00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000
It'll be like

00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.000
a goat

00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:42.000
placed on the altar that's struggling to leave.

00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:48.000
Be willing but not obedient.

00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:50.000
Yeah, yeah that's the word. In Isaiah

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.000
chapter 1 it says this brilliantly. It says

00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000
if you want to eat the good of the land you have to be

00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.000
obedient and willing.

00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.000
Sometimes Christians are

00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.000
obedient but they're very unwilling and you can

00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.000
make out immediately.

00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:04.000
When someone says you can make it out with your children

00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.000
go do this. I don't want to eat this.

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.000
Eat it otherwise you won't be able to go out. Okay.

00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:14.000
I wasn't thinking of you Tavis.

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Next one.

00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.000
He promises to be with

00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.000
you. He promises to be

00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.000
with you 24 7.

00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.000
He promises to be with you

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000
24 7 by his spirit.

00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:40.000
I'm not making statements

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:42.000
that are statements of truth

00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.000
so that we understand it. I know you know this.

00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.000
I'm making this statement so that you're prepared

00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.000
for the weeks and months ahead

00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:50.000
because like I said

00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.000
God is just giving those words

00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:54.000
that will have enough grace in it to help us live it

00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:56.000
not survive it but live it.

00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.000
He promises to be with you 24 7 by his spirit

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.000
so stop

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:04.000
walking by sight

00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:12.000
and feelings

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.000
but start walking by faith.

00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:18.000
Start walking by faith.

00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.000
Stop walking by sight.

00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.000
If you know he's...

00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:28.000
Yeah.

00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.000
So stop walking by sight

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.000
start walking by faith

00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:34.000
because he's going to be there 24 7.

00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:36.000
He will be there.

00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.000
Remember one of the solidest promises he's given

00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.000
is

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.000
to be with you 24 7

00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.000
by his spirit.

00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.000
He promises he's given is

00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.000
I will never

00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:50.000
forsake you or leave you.

00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.000
I will be with you and I am

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.000
your helper.

00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.000
So do not be afraid.

00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:58.000
What can man do to you?

00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.000
So he promises to be

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:06.000
with you by his spirit 24 7

00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.000
so stop walking by sight

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as in show me proof, show me proof, show me that you love me

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tell me that you love me, give me a promise

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give me a prophecy. No, no, no, no, no.

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All that is taken care of. What I was going to say

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because I didn't know how to word it is

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I'm going to Vernon to deal with something

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and trust me it's not Eric or any person

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I'm going to Vernon to deal with something tomorrow

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and

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part of me was kind of scared and this morning

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I woke up and God reminded me

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that when Joshua came to Jericho

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Jericho was shut up because Jericho was scared.

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I first thought I'd

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wake up this morning

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and it was so reassuring because now I don't

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need assurances of God you'll be with me

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you'll be my helper, you'll be my protector

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it's taken care of. Now you can walk by faith

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not by sight.

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Fifth one.

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Jesus has freed you for adoption

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Jesus has freed you

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for adoption.

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Remember your mom's name was Death.

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Thank God

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you understand how I meant that right?

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Yeah.

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Jesus has freed you for adoption

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your mom's name was Death

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your dad's name was Sin.

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He's freed you up for adoption

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and guess who's adopted you? His father.

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His father's adopted you.

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Guys

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if his father

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is your father

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and my father now

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then understand this that you have the same access

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you have the same access.

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You have the same access.

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Matthew 11, 27

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beautiful words. Here's what Jesus says

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Jesus says no one knows the father

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except the son.

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But it's changed

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because I am

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the same kind of son now.

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I have access to the father

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and for those

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for some of us all we need to do

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over the next little while

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what I want to do is enter

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deliberately every morning

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into the same affection

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same intimacy

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and same trust

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that Jesus has

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with the father.

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And the crazy thing is

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you can do it

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cause you have

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you have

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the same

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ability

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and access.

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You can do it cause you have the same ability

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and ah that doesn't

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and access.

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Seek this out every morning

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Father I want to be as affectionate

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with you as Jesus was when he

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walked the earth and right now.

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I want to have the same intimacy with you

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and I want to trust you like he did.

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Every day you can increase in it.

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Next Sunday when you come to worship

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on tomorrow morning when you're worshiping God

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or singing to him in your room

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or there you start again

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you begin to

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connect with him affectionately

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as in not with many words

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but your heart ties up with his man.

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To enter into the same kind of intimacy

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with the father. Why do you think

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Jesus would call him Abba?

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Partly because that was what they did

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in Aramaic. But partly

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because he knew

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God had his own dad man.

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And then there was a thing of

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trusting him

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as Jesus trusts the

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father. That would be brilliant

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when we trust him like Jesus

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trusted his father.

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And the last one since some of you are looking at the clock

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and don't think I didn't notice

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and if you're feeling guilty just put your head down

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and I won't look at you right now.

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And you know who you are. Should I look at you? No I won't.

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I'll finish before 12.30.

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Leanne in case they didn't warn you

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some days it goes kind of 12.30

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but most other days it's 12.12.

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I heard a comment from the peanut gallery.

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See you guys are delaying my time. I've got to finish.

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Guys the last one is

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Jesus who knows the father

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is willing to make

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the father known to you.

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If you learn from him. Jesus who knows the father

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Jesus who knows the father

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is willing

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to make the father

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known to you.

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You guys didn't know Eddie right?

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Before?

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Not before he came.

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But I did.

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And so I knew Eddie and I made Eddie known to

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you and it did affect your life.

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Same principle guys.

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Jesus knows the father.

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I must have a desire to know the father more.

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Where I'm at is not good enough.

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Where I'm at is not good enough.

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The more you know somebody the easier it is to trust him.

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The more you know somebody and you find out that he's really good

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The more you know somebody and you find out that he's really good

00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.000
the easier it is to like him.

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And the more you like somebody the more easy it is

00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.000
to do whatever you want for him.

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We don't even ask things like this.

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Where we say father want to know you more.

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There's this old song

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which we won't sing.

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But it says

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the greatest thing in all my life is knowing you.

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The greatest thing in all my life is knowing you.

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I want to know you more.

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And occasionally in your prayer

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say to Jesus you know the father

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like nobody else does.

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So by your spirit

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show me more.

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Let me see more of what the father is like

00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.000
because I know it will change my life.

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How does he do it?

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He does it through, Jesus teaches you

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how? Through the word,

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through the spirit and through people guys

00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.000
and through people.

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You knew Eddie because

00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:44.000
a people called Jacob introduced Eddie

00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:46.000
to you. Same thing.

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We learn through people, we learn through his spirit

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and we learn through the word.

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And Jesus is so willing to introduce his father.

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Jesus is passionate about this.

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Like I always say the Holy Spirit points towards

00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:58.000
Jesus and says, hey Jacob

00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:00.000
you want to know the father? Look at Jesus.

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And then Jesus is

00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.000
standing in the center and Jesus says

00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:06.000
hey Jacob you want to know the father? Look at me.

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And you will see the father.

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And the father is standing on the right side

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and he says, hey Jacob you want to look at

00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:14.000
me? You want to know me more? Look at Jesus.

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:16.000
And they work in such perfect harmony

00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:18.000
pointing to each other.

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Pointing to each other.

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So the father says look at Jesus

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and you will know me. Jesus says you want to look at the

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father, look at me and the Holy Spirit

00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:28.000
will teach me and it goes on so well.

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Make these things

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desires of yours.

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This week, ask God.

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And take home some of the stuff that

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has been said and if it has

00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:40.000
kind of gone

00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.000
click in your heart when some of these things

00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.000
were spoken or if the words spoken

00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.000
prophetically over you this morning

00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:48.000
did something to you, go write it down

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and then if you have any questions

00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.000
feel free to ask me. Otherwise we are done.

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So let's just pray.

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Father thank you.

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Crazy what you did that day

00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.000
on resurrection.

00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:02.000
What happened there? That was just amazing.

00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:04.000
Where the graves actually broke up

00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.000
and dead people came out

00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:08.000
and they then ascended with you.

00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.000
That's going to happen to us too.

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.000
That was just like a taste of what's going to happen.

00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:14.000
So thank you for life.

00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.000
Thank you for life.

00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:18.000
I've got to know how to live it here on earth father.

00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:20.000
And some of these words that have been spoken

00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.000
let it click and let it help.

00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000
Let's explore it more.

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Father I've got to go.

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This 12.30 thing is bothersome here

00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:30.000
but that's how it works here.

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So we bless you. We thank you.

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And yeah, that's it.

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In Jesus name. Amen.

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Amen.