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 Well folks, great to see you this morning and happy Easter. It's lovely to have you with us.

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 Great to have those who are joining us online with us as well.

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 Let me invite you to grab a Bible and come back with me to John chapter 11

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 and to one of the most magnificent chapters in the Bible.

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 As you're turning there, let me tell you about one of the most famous Americans in all of history.

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 You might have heard of him. A man by the name of Benjamin Franklin.

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 A man famous for a number of things. I guess famous for being one of the founding fathers of the United States.

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 He's one of the team that did the Declaration of Independence. Huge moment. Birth of a nation.

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 Famous for his work as a pioneer and as an inventor. Famous for being the face that's on a $100 bill.

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 If you're ever privileged enough to have one of them in your possession, that's the face that you'll see.

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 Also famous for an observation that he once made about life.

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 Put it on the screen. This is what he said about life.

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 He said, there are only two certainties in life. Death and taxes.

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 Right? A cheery note to strike. I think you'll agree on this Easter Sunday, but bear with me.

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 Only two certainties in life. Death and taxes.

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 Let me ask you, how does his observation strike you?

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 Tell you what, let's put his comments on taxes to the side for just a moment.

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 Okay, we'll leave that with Rishi Sunak and Kate Forbes.

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 And you can have your say on that as you go to the polls in Sixth of Me.

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 Agreed?

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 To the side, the taxes.

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 What do you make about his comments on death?

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 Heard it described recently as the taboo subject of our day.

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 Okay, generation previous, no one wants to talk about sex.

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 Everyone wants to talk about death.

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 Our generation, no one wants to talk about death.

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 Everyone wants to talk about sex.

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 Isn't it interesting?

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 The taboo subject of our day.

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 What is it that we've been hit with in these daily coronavirus briefings every day?

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 What have we been hit with?

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 Numbers.

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 Numbers.

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 Numbers.

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 This is the amount of positive cases.

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 This is the amount of positive cases that have led to people being in hospital.

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 This is the amount of people who have died.

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 And fair play to her, Nicola Sturgeon.

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 She reads out those numbers every day.

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 She says that she does it because she wants to honour the fact that these are real people

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 with real friends and with real family who are all shedding real tears.

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 And let me ask you, as you maybe watch this today or maybe as you're here,

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 how have you processed all of this stuff?

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 Maybe some of you read, I don't know if you're a Guardian reader, I'm not sure.

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 John Harris, last week in The Guardian, who himself, a self-confessed atheist,

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 who ticked the no religion box in the recent census.

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 He said this,

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 Like millions of other faithless people,

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 I have not even the flimsiest of narratives to project onto what has happened,

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 nor any real vocabulary with which to talk about the profundities of life and death.

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 Now, do you hear what he's saying?

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 And do you feel maybe what he's saying?

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 What is he saying?

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 He's saying that he doesn't have a story.

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 What is his phrase?

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 He calls it the flimsiest of narratives.

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 He doesn't have a framework for understanding this.

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 He has no way of understanding the world

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 that can make sense of life and death,

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 let alone hold the enormous weight of it.

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 So let me ask you on this Easter Sunday,

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 do you have a story?

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 Do you have a story?

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 Come with me to John 11

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 and let Jesus give us a story.

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 And not just our story,

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 the story.

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 Okay, so we pick up the narrative,

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 if you have it there, at verse 1.

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 And we learn that one of Jesus' friends is badly sick,

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 this man called Lazarus.

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 And Lazarus has two sisters called Mary and Martha.

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 And this family lived together in this little place

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 just outside of Jerusalem called Bethany.

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 And this is a family,

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 as you read the Gospels through,

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 that is full of individuals

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 who are clearly close to Jesus' heart.

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 He loves this family.

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 He loves these people.

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 Now, let me just pause there for a minute

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 because we so often just pass over that observation.

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 Isn't it striking

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 that the Son of God,

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 isn't it striking that God in the flesh

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 gave himself to people?

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 You know, he's not strutting around like

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 Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey, is he?

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 He's kind of seated in his high horse and carriage.

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 Although Lord Grantham did this,

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 but you know what I mean.

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 He's looking down on the poor people saying,

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 can you just keep the riffraff away from me?

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 That's not Jesus.

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 Sharing his heart with people.

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 Loves people.

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 Love that about Jesus.

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 But one day,

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 while he and his disciples are somewhere else,

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 news reaches Jesus

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 of Lazarus' predicament back in Bethany.

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 Did you see that in the text?

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 And it's not looking good.

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 But incredibly,

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 Jesus, when he hears the news,

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 he doesn't drop everything and run.

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 Does he?

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 Verse 5,

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 he's staying put with his disciples,

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 and he's staying put two more days.

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 Now, does that not strike you?

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 At verse 5,

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 does it not strike you as being a bit odd?

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 We would expect Jesus to drop everything and go,

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 would we not?

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 But according to him,

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 the reason,

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 the reason is that his glory might be displayed.

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 The reason is,

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 according to Jesus,

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 that his disciples and those watching

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 might look at this episode

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 and learn something utterly life-transforming

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 about who this man is.

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 two days he's staying,

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 another 48 hours pass.

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 And by this time,

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 by the time that Jesus and his disciples

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 eventually get to Bethany,

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 four days have come and gone.

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 Now, you know what it's like

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 when you're in one of those

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 heartbreaking moments.

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 How long do the days feel?

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 How long does every hour feel?

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 Four days.

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 Four days,

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 Lazarus is dead

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 and Jesus knows this.

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 He knows this.

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 Verse 14,

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 he knows Lazarus is dead.

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 And when Jesus and his disciples

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 eventually get to Bethany,

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 they encounter a sorrowful scene.

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 What do they see?

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 People are weeping.

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 People have come from Jerusalem

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 to Bethany

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 to console this family,

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 mourning the loss of Lazarus.

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 And Jesus encounters two sisters

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 who are utterly shell-shocked

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 as they come to terms

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 with the painful reality

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 that their brother is dead.

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 And both sisters,

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 you see it,

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 when they eventually meet Jesus,

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 they both say exactly the same thing.

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 This was clearly what was going on

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 back in the house,

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 what they're discussing.

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 Do you see it?

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 Martha says it at verse 21

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 and Mary says exactly the same thing

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 at verse 32.

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 Lord, if you had been here,

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 my brother would not have died.

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 Now enter into the pain

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 of their question.

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 What are they asking?

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 Where were you, Jesus?

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 What is going on?

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 Who are you, Jesus?

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 Have we got it right?

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 Do you really love us?

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 Where are you, Jesus?

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 Maybe that's a question

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 that's in your mind today.

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 Maybe as you're here,

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 maybe as you're watching this.

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 Who is this Jesus?

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 You know, it might be Easter Sunday,

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 but let's not pretend,

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 given the last season of life

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 that we've been through

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 that has been so hard

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 for so many of us

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 in so many different ways,

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 let us not pretend

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 that we've come in here this morning,

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 all of us,

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 dancing in like Easter bunnies.

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 life's been so hard.

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 And if you're sitting there this morning,

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 you're watching this,

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 you're feeling the weight of that.

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 Let me just say,

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 that is why all of us

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 need to take a deep breath

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 of Jesus

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 and inhale what is going on

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 in the text here

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 and allow our souls

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 to be strengthened

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 by the victorious Christ.

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 Not about who we are,

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 all about who he is.

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 Let me just give you,

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 in the 10 minutes

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 that we have remaining,

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 five words from John 11.

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 Five words,

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 it's a two and a three.

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 It's a bit of maths

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 for you this morning as well.

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 Five words

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 that help us understand

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 who Jesus is from this text.

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 Okay, come and see,

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 first of all,

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 two words that reveal his heart.

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 Verse 35,

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 if you've got it there,

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 for the eggheads in the room

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 watching,

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 here is the shortest verse

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 in the Bible.

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 Okay, you can play that one

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 whenever you want in conversation.

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 Shortest verse in the Bible,

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 verse 35,

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 and yet,

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 make no mistake,

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 it is one of the most profound.

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 In response to seeing

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 the utter devastation

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 which Lazarus' death

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 has brought to those he loves,

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 here are our two words

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 and get these,

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 Jesus wept.

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 Jesus wept.

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 Is that not incredible?

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 When you think about it,

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 is that not incredible?

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 God cried.

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 Now,

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 why is he crying?

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 That's the question.

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 Why is he crying?

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 Is it because he is deeply moved

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 by what he saw?

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 Absolutely.

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 Does Jesus know the sorrows

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 and the pains

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 of his people?

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 Definitely.

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 But let me just say,

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 if the only reason

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 that Jesus cried

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 was because he was missing his friend,

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 then he knows

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 he's only got five more minutes

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 to go,

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 I imagine,

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 and then he's reunited

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 with his friend Lazarus.

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 And if that was the case,

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 if that was the only reason

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 he was crying,

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 does that not strike you

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 as a bit of a case

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 of crocodile tears

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 from Jesus?

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 Got to see that there's

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 more going on here.

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 More going on.

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 You see,

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 as Jesus watched

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 death

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 get its teeth into,

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 another person,

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 death,

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 yield,

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 its power,

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 the death

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 that's in the world

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 because of our sin,

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 our rebellion

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 against our creator,

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 causing chaos

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 in people's lives.

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 Jesus looks on death

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 and he is incensed.

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 These are tears

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 of anger and outrage

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 that this is not

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 how it's supposed to be.

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 Now let me just

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 pause at that moment

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 and just ask you,

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 are you not grateful

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 that Jesus is like that?

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 That he's not stone cold

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 at this moment?

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 Okay,

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 he's not some kind of

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 James Bond type figure

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 from above

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 who's got orders from M

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 not to get too emotionally

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 involved in the situation

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 because emotion

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 is a weakness

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 better to be detached

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 from the situation.

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 Jesus isn't like that.

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 Friends,

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 would you want to worship him

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 if he was?

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 If the truth was

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 that God didn't give

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 two hoots

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 about the pain

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 in this world?

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 Jesus wept.

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 Jesus wept.

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 His tears are proof

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 of the truth

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 that this is not

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 the way

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 that it is supposed

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 to be.

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 And I guess

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 the problem

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 for us today

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 is that we have

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 got so used to it

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 being the truth

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 pretending that it is.

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 You know there are

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 many stereotypes

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 of British people.

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 One of them

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 is that they're

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 really,

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 really good

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 at the stiff upper lip.

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 You heard that phrase

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 before?

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 The stiff upper lip.

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 Some of you

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 may be of a generation

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 the 80s

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 you might remember

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 the singing sensation

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 jewel

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 Chaz and Dave.

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 Right?

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 What did they have?

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 What was their song?

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 The lyrics to it?

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 Mustn't grumble

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 mustn't grumble.

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 Yeah?

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 Not looking at anyone

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 in the room here at all.

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 Mustn't grumble.

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 Mustn't grumble.

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 It's about their song,

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 right?

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 Another fact

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 only if you want

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 quoted by Wallace

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 from Wallace and Gromit

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 and Gromit

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 another British sensation

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 who,

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 what was his famous line?

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 All's well that ends well

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 that's what I say.

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 That was Wallace

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 wasn't it?

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 From Wallace and Gromit.

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 It's what we Brits do.

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 We're good at this.

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 We just pretend it's okay

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 and we just get on with it.

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 And yet here is Jesus

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 giving us permission

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 to know

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 that it's not.

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 What we instinctively

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 know to be true

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 at every funeral

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 we attend,

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 what we instinctively

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 know to be the case

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 when we watch

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 people that we love

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 go through

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 the most horrendous

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 moments of suffering

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 and it's what we know

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 to be true

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 as we try and process

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 every tragedy

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 that we've been through

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 that this

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 isn't right.

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 It's almost like

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 you know when you're in the car

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 and a little warning light

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 comes on your dashboard

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 just there

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 as if they say

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 the car trying to tell you

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 is how I think of it

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 the car trying to tell you

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 something's not right here

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 something's not right.

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 It's like that

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 in our consciences

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 isn't it?

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 And the thing is

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 at this point

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 the car conscience

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 lines up with the Bible.

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 This is not right.

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 Death according to the Bible

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 is an unwelcome intruder

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 in God's good creation.

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 It is

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 what Paul would describe

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 as the great and last

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 enemy.

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 And Jesus' tears

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 tell us

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 that Jesus has

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 in his heart

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 to do something

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 about it.

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 And so from two words

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 that reveal his heart

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 let me just give you

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 three words

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 that show his power.

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 Verse 43

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 So Jesus

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 in a spirit

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 of defiance

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 he calls

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 for the stone

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 in front of

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 Lazarus' tomb

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 to be

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 rolled away.

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 and I love

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 Martha's instinctive

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 response at this point

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 particularly as you

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 read it in some of

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 the older translations

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 of the English Bible

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 the good old KGV

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 reports Martha

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 saying

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 Jesus surely

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 by this time

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 he stinketh.

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 And she's right

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 isn't it?

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 But four days

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 have gone past

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 this body

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 will be decomposing.

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 And you have to say

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 this is a hugely

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 strange request

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 from Jesus

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 as it not

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 roll the stone

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 away

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 but it's more

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 than a strange

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 request.

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 Surely it's an

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 insensitive one.

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 And we talk about

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 things that you

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 do not say

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 at a funeral.

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 This line

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 has got to be

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 right at the top

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 has it not?

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 Imagine calling

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 for proceedings

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 to be stopped.

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 How about we

00:15:24.079 --> 00:15:25.559
 pop the coffin lid

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 and we'll see

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 if it is actually

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 the case

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 and if we can do

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 something about it.

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 We do not say that.

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 And yet Jesus

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 is deadly serious.

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 Friends none of us

00:15:38.379 --> 00:15:38.619
 would

00:15:38.619 --> 00:15:41.000
 want a God

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 who didn't care.

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 Can I suggest

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 isn't it wonderful

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 news

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 that Jesus

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 is also one

00:15:48.619 --> 00:15:48.959
 who can do

00:15:48.959 --> 00:15:49.779
 something about it?

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 You know

00:15:52.439 --> 00:15:52.759
 what would be

00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:53.239
 the case

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 if he couldn't?

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 You know

00:15:55.560 --> 00:15:56.020
 as if he was

00:15:56.020 --> 00:15:56.420
 some kind of

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 lucky mascot.

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 Do you remember

00:15:57.460 --> 00:15:58.040
 those days

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 when you used

00:15:58.360 --> 00:15:58.960
 to take stuff

00:15:58.960 --> 00:15:59.700
 into your exams

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 thinking that

00:16:00.200 --> 00:16:00.720
 would help you?

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 What use was that

00:16:01.420 --> 00:16:02.240
 looking back at it?

00:16:04.460 --> 00:16:05.460
 Very much in keeping

00:16:05.460 --> 00:16:06.420
 with how it started

00:16:06.420 --> 00:16:08.340
 at the beginning

00:16:08.340 --> 00:16:09.360
 of the Bible story.

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 In Genesis 1

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 the one through

00:16:12.980 --> 00:16:13.700
 whom all things

00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:14.280
 were made

00:16:14.280 --> 00:16:16.380
 here he is

00:16:16.380 --> 00:16:17.460
 speaking once again

00:16:17.460 --> 00:16:18.160
 into the darkness

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 into the chaos

00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:23.160
 into the abyss

00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:25.519
 and life

00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:26.919
 comes.

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 Here's the three

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 words.

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 Ready for them?

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 Really simply

00:16:31.339 --> 00:16:32.419
 Lazarus

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 come

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 out.

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 And the man

00:16:36.939 --> 00:16:37.839
 who after four

00:16:37.839 --> 00:16:38.259
 days

00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:39.579
 was verifiably

00:16:39.579 --> 00:16:40.079
 dead

00:16:40.079 --> 00:16:41.620
 and I take it

00:16:41.620 --> 00:16:42.439
 that's the reason

00:16:42.439 --> 00:16:43.259
 Jesus waited

00:16:43.259 --> 00:16:44.559
 those four days

00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:45.500
 to help the people

00:16:45.500 --> 00:16:46.199
 understand

00:16:46.199 --> 00:16:47.500
 that this wasn't

00:16:47.500 --> 00:16:48.600
 a case of Lazarus

00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:49.759
 needing resuscitation.

00:16:50.139 --> 00:16:50.879
 This was a case

00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:51.500
 of Lazarus

00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:52.659
 needing resurrection.

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 Lazarus

00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:56.439
 his hands and feet

00:16:56.439 --> 00:16:57.319
 you see in the text

00:16:57.319 --> 00:16:59.179
 still bound with cloths

00:16:59.179 --> 00:16:59.600
 because this is

00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:00.659
 an eyewitness account

00:17:00.659 --> 00:17:03.519
 hobbles out.

00:17:05.180 --> 00:17:05.480
 And so

00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:07.240
 here is the top story

00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:08.680
 in the Bethany news

00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:09.240
 at six.

00:17:10.180 --> 00:17:10.779
 Lazarus

00:17:10.779 --> 00:17:11.559
 lives.

00:17:12.819 --> 00:17:13.879
 He lives.

00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:14.460
 Death

00:17:14.460 --> 00:17:15.159
 has given

00:17:15.159 --> 00:17:16.839
 way to life.

00:17:17.139 --> 00:17:17.559
 The man

00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:18.579
 who was dead

00:17:18.579 --> 00:17:19.960
 is walking

00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:21.659
 and he's talking.

00:17:21.660 --> 00:17:22.880
 And this is why

00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:23.320
 people

00:17:23.320 --> 00:17:24.180
 if you read on

00:17:24.180 --> 00:17:24.540
 the Jews

00:17:24.540 --> 00:17:25.500
 want to kill him

00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:26.259
 because of

00:17:26.259 --> 00:17:27.480
 his witness

00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:28.460
 that people are

00:17:28.460 --> 00:17:29.000
 coming to know

00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:30.080
 Jesus for themselves.

00:17:30.560 --> 00:17:31.279
 And I love the point

00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:31.840
 in the story

00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:33.360
 where he finds out

00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:33.940
 that the Jews

00:17:33.940 --> 00:17:34.480
 are after him

00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:34.960
 to kill him.

00:17:35.019 --> 00:17:35.480
 Can you imagine

00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:36.060
 that one?

00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:37.080
 They're going to what?

00:17:37.820 --> 00:17:38.940
 They're going to kill me?

00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:40.820
 Because I know

00:17:40.820 --> 00:17:41.400
 somebody who's got

00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:42.000
 the power to bring

00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:42.900
 me back to life.

00:17:42.900 --> 00:17:46.660
 But you've got to see

00:17:46.660 --> 00:17:47.120
 in the context

00:17:47.120 --> 00:17:47.820
 of John's gospel

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 what was wonderfully

00:17:48.540 --> 00:17:49.620
 foreshadowed here

00:17:49.620 --> 00:17:50.280
 in this incident

00:17:50.280 --> 00:17:51.240
 with Lazarus

00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:52.540
 is Jesus'

00:17:52.740 --> 00:17:53.580
 own resurrection.

00:17:55.060 --> 00:17:55.960
 This is what's coming.

00:17:56.120 --> 00:17:56.500
 Jesus

00:17:56.500 --> 00:17:57.880
 himself

00:17:57.880 --> 00:17:58.900
 verifiably

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 dead

00:17:59.560 --> 00:18:01.300
 crucified

00:18:01.300 --> 00:18:02.759
 on the cross

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 hands

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 nailed

00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:05.100
 side

00:18:05.100 --> 00:18:05.920
 pierced.

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 We have to understand

00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:08.100
 in terms of history

00:18:08.100 --> 00:18:09.560
 that Roman soldiers

00:18:09.560 --> 00:18:10.560
 didn't miss

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 they didn't miss

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 but we've got to understand

00:18:15.099 --> 00:18:16.059
 in terms of theology

00:18:16.059 --> 00:18:17.619
 that neither did

00:18:17.619 --> 00:18:18.339
 God's wrath.

00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:22.559
 As Jesus took

00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:23.619
 our sin on himself

00:18:23.619 --> 00:18:24.679
 the very sin

00:18:24.679 --> 00:18:25.980
 that brought death

00:18:25.980 --> 00:18:26.539
 into the world

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 in the first place

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 and meant

00:18:27.940 --> 00:18:29.319
 that we were deserving

00:18:29.319 --> 00:18:30.200
 rightly

00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:31.539
 of eternal death

00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:32.559
 and separation

00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:33.440
 from God

00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:34.519
 Jesus took

00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:35.559
 the full weight

00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:36.119
 of that

00:18:36.119 --> 00:18:37.200
 and we just cannot

00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:38.980
 comprehend that.

00:18:38.980 --> 00:18:41.000
 he took the full weight

00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:41.360
 of that

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 on himself

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 and three days later

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 he verifiably

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 rises

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 bodily

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 and physically

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 not a mere

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 hallucinatory

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 experience here

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 from those who saw it.

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 The risen Jesus

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 was seen

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 touched

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 talked to

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 and ate with

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 multiple people

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 on multiple occasions

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 over a lengthy period

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 of time

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 40 days.

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 In other words

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 there are witnesses

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 to back this up

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 and where we stand

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 2000 years later

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 we have thus

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 written down

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 in our language

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 and we can trace it

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 all the way back

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 to the original witnesses.

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 In other words

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 Christianity

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 rests on a bedrock

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 of evidence

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 as God sends

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 a message to the world

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 publicly

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 that my son

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 has done it.

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 He's done it.

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 My king

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 who I've installed

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 Psalm 2

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 this is where it connects

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 Psalm 2

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 the king who's seated

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 I have seated

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 on his holy hill

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 I've done it

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 because he has

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 completed the mission

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 for which he came

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 to save his people

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 from their sin

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 those who would look

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 to him in faith

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 could have their sins

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 forgiven

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 and could be right

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 with God.

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 And this same Jesus

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 the king

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 will one day return

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 in the same way

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 that he came

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 to put all wrongs

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 to right

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 to judge the living

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 and the dead

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 according to how

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 they have responded

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 to him.

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 He will put all wrongs

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 to right friends

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 understand that

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 no more pain

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 no more tears

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 no more sickness

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 no more caught deaths

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 no more workers

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 exploitation

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 no more slavery

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 no more abuse

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 no more sin

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 banished

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 distant memory

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 because the king

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 has dealt with it.

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 So Aslan said

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 of himself wasn't it?

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 Because of his work

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 death itself

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 was beginning

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 to work backwards.

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 The old tale

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 that's going around

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 Narnia

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 about Aslan

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 wrong will be right

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 when Aslan

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 comes in sight

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 at the sound

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 of his roar

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 sorrows will be no more

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 when he bares

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 his teeth

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 winter meets

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 its death

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 and when he shakes

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 his mane

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 we will have spring

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 again.

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 Jesus Christ

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 our only hope

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 in life

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 and death.

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 There is no bigger news

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 there is no greater news

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 than Jesus Christ

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 crucified

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 and Jesus Christ

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 risen.

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 And friends

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 today

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 let it strengthen

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 our souls

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 and may it just

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 kindle our affection

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 for Jesus

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 once again

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 and maybe

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 if you've wandered

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 maybe you're watching us

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 you don't know him

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 would today be the day

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 when you come to love him

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 and know him

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 and trust him

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 as your saviour.

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 You know let me ask you

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 just as we close

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 do you have a story?

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 Do you have a story?

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 Well on this Easter Sunday

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 let Jesus give us all

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 a story

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 not just a story

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 but the story

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 and in the words

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 of C.S. Lewis

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 I realise I've quoted him

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 three times there

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 in a minute

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 but go with me

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 okay

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 you guys got things to say

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 come and believe

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 the myth that's true.

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 Benjamin Franklin said

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 there are only two certainties

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 in life

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 death and taxes

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 Jesus thunders

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 I am the resurrection

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 and the life

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 the one who believes

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 in me will live

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 even though they die

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 and whoever lives

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 by believing in me

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 will never die.

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 Here is Christ

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 risen from the grave

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 let's pray together.

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 And let me just read

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 these words from

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 John chapter 20

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 and let's

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 make this our prayer.

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 Now Jesus did many

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:36.579
 other signs

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 in the presence

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 of his disciples

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 which are not written

00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:40.420
 in this book

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 but these are written

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 so that you may come

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 to believe

00:22:44.460 --> 00:22:45.980
 that Jesus

00:22:45.980 --> 00:22:47.319
 is the Messiah

00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:50.079
 the Son of God

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 and that through

00:22:51.859 --> 00:22:52.579
 believing

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 you might have

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 life

00:22:55.439 --> 00:22:57.220
 in his name.

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 And so Father

00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:00.559
 our prayer today

00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.240
 is that you would

00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:04.579
 lift our souls

00:23:04.579 --> 00:23:08.039
 to the glorious Christ.

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 Father thank you

00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:11.480
 that you love us

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 and thank you

00:23:13.259 --> 00:23:14.299
 that our King lives

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 and so we make our prayers

00:23:16.740 --> 00:23:17.980
 in his wonderful name.

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 Amen.

00:23:20.079 --> 00:23:20.859
 Father

00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:21.460
 Father

00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:21.799
 Father

00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:23.519
 Father

00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:24.500
 Father

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 Father

00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:25.759
 Father

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 See you

00:23:26.399 --> 00:23:26.419
 through

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 and

00:23:38.639 --> 00:23:40.379
 Father

00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:41.119
 God

00:23:41.619 --> 00:23:43.439
 And so

00:23:43.659 --> 00:23:44.500
 we placed

00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:44.899
 in water

00:23:44.899 --> 00:23:46.579
 for a

00:23:46.579 --> 00:23:47.319
 to save