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 Well, good morning, everyone. My name is Graham. I'm the pastor here at the church,

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 and it's a real joy to welcome you to our Easter Sunday service, the day that Christians around

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 the world and down the ages know and celebrate as being the greatest day in history. Now,

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 you might be wondering why on earth would somebody think that? Well, why don't you grab a Bible and

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 come with me to the Gospel of John and to chapter 20. This is where we're going to be this morning.

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 John chapter 20. And as you're turning there, let me read to you some lyrics taken from one of the

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 best-selling songs that was on one of the best-selling albums that came out in the UK in 2005.

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 And see if you recognize the song. The lyrics go like this. When the tears come streaming down your

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 face, when you lose something that you can't replace, when you love someone,

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 but it goes to waste. Could it be worse? Fix You by Coldplay. 1.25 million people in the UK

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 apparently bought that single when it first came out. Many more bought the album as well.

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 1.25 million people. That's a lot of people. Which tells you something, doesn't it, about something of the song.

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 1.25 million people. That it was resonating deep within human hearts. Let me just ask you as you

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 maybe think on that today. When was the last time that tears came streaming down your face?

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 We cry for all sorts of reasons, don't we, as human beings? The person who cries tears of

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 jubilation when their team have just won the Premier League. The child who cries tears of pain when they

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 fall off their bike. The parent who cries tears of joy when they have just witnessed the birth of

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 their first child. There's all sorts of reasons that we cry in life.

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 but I guess the thing to see is that that song is talking about another type of tears isn't it

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 you know rumor has it that Chris Martin wrote that song to help his wife at the time Gwyneth

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 Paltrow process the death of her father and we know that to be true don't we that's a pain that

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 we all know in our own lives and I imagine it's a pain that that many people around our world at the

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 minute know for themselves right now and maybe it's a pain that you know in your life even as you watch

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 this the tears that we shed when death so cruelly takes from us somebody that we love and we're left

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 with that feeling deep down in our souls that this isn't the way it was supposed to be

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 now whoever you are here today wherever this video catches you whatever you believe about this God

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 the God of the Bible let me just pitch you a question one question to take us through the sermon today

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 and it's in those moments where do you run

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 where do you go as the tears come streaming down your face you see the thing is about

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 the original Easter Sunday just as we tap into John chapter 20 today the curtain opens on this

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 chapter the first Easter Sunday morning and you see how we see a woman who's crying her eyes out

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 in fact you might notice we're told four times if you've got your Bibles there four times in

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 these verses that this lady is weeping she's heartbroken she's distraught she's confused

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 she's inconsolable here is Mary Magdalene now Magdalene's not her surname okay Magdala is the

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 name of the little fishing village where it's most likely she comes from so Mary Magdalene's kind of

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 like her nickname the one that the disciples gave her to differentiate her from the other Marys who were on

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 the scene Mary Magdalene there's all sorts of trashy rumor mill stories that are circulating even

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 today about Mary Magdalene we don't know an awful lot about her and her past but there's one thing we

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 know about her past and it's the fact that she has a very troubled past you see when we first meet this

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 woman in the gospels we're told that demons previously tormented her now whatever that means

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 what we can say is that she was a really poor soul right she was a really troubled soul

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 there was no glittering career prospects ahead for Mary there was no Mr. Darcy coming over the hill to

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 pick her up to take her to the prom there's no provision of a health care system that's going to

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 help her in her time of need there's no knight in shining armor who's coming over the hill who can

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 make things better for Mary that's what she doesn't have but you know what she probably does have she

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 probably does have people in her village thinking that she's the crazy lady every time they see her

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 crossing the road

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 and while the world turned away from Mary from Magdala

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 in her life Jesus turned toward her in compassion and love

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 while the world walked by Jesus reached out and he lifted this woman up he freed Mary from her demons

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 and he forgave Mary of her sin Jesus gave Mary life

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 and flowing from that deep sense of gratitude and love deep within her heart Mary joins the

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 the close circle of disciples who traveled with Jesus on his long journeys and so as we come to

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 John 20 Mary Magdalene here's what we need to take in about what she's seen

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 she's seen Jesus triumphantly enter Jerusalem on Palm Sunday she's standing there by the cross as he's

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 crucified on Good Friday she witnesses his body being taken down and placed in a tomb and she sees the

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 stone that's rolled in front of it and to compound her misery

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 she goes to the tomb early on Sunday morning and that same stone

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 has been rolled away

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 now what Mary probably thinks has happened is that a band of grave robbers have been and gone

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 not uncommon in this day for people to try and rob tombs to try and get the clothes off the body

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 to make a really quick buck

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 so here's Mary and this is where we kick into our verses today at verse 11

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 right it's early on the first Easter Sunday Mary's outside the tomb

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 and she's bawling her eyes out do you see how she's right there in those cold play lyrics

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 truly she has lost somebody who she can't replace this is her this is where she is

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 and she looks into the tomb and there's two angels inside now notice in the text that they are at either

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 end of where Jesus's body was now given that on the Friday Jesus is crucified with two men on either

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 side of him as he dies on a cross maybe we get a little taste here of what's going on

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 as God the Father is vindicating the work of his son on the cross

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 but Mary sees these angels they ask her why she is crying they've taken my Lord she says

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 and she turns around and she sees the risen Jesus in his resurrection body

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 and it seems that she doesn't recognize his face

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 and verse 15 Jesus asks her do you see it why are you weeping

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 who is it that you are looking for

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 now here's the thing is if you pause and think about it the thing about those questions

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 it's not as if Jesus doesn't know the answer

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 oh it was me you're looking for oh why didn't you just say

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 he knows the answers to these questions

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 so what's going on

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 well here is Jesus lovingly drawing out Mary's heart here

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 and allowing her in this moment to see the earth

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 shattering significance of this moment

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 she doesn't recognize him here's what I love

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 what does she think who does she think he is

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 she thinks he is the gardener

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 which I always think is quite funny

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 right I wonder if if Jesus was carrying a pitchfork and wearing a John Deere tractor sweatshirt

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 I doubt it

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 on one level maybe so wrong why would she think this

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 and why would it be recorded but on another level

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 whether she meant this or not

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 what she thought was so utterly profound

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 you see the Bible story begins in a garden

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 it's a garden full of abundance and goodness

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 it's a beautiful place which tells us

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 everything that we need to know about the God who created it

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 God put Adam and Eve there to work it

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 to enjoy it

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 to develop it and to steward it

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 for his glory

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 all the while living in that perfect relationship with their creator

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 things are great

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 in fact the things are more than great

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 they are very good

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 and God gives them one rule

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 he says don't eat from that tree

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 and yet the bully

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 the Adam and Eve buy the lie of Satan

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 and they do

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 and chaos reigns

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 as sin enters the human condition

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 sin

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 spreads to every human heart

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 sin

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 is more than just bad behavior

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 the things that you and I

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 do and don't do all the time

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 is deeper than that

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 it's an inner disposition

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 that we all have

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 that wants to reject God

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 doesn't love him

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 doesn't honor him

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 as he deserves to be loved and honored

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 and instead forces our own way

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 and our sin

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 it offends God

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 and it's separated us from him

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 and it's left us deserving to be

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 on the wrong end of his righteous judgment

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 our sin

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 humanity's sin

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 has put us

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 out of the garden

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 separated from God

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 away from him

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 that's mankind's predicament

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 outwith

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 faith

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 in the person

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 and in the work

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 of Jesus

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 and yet here in John 20

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 what is Mary

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 thinking

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 what is going on

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 the dots are being joined

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 Mary

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 maybe identifying

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 Jesus

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 as the one

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 who is making a way

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 for there to be

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 as it were

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 a new garden

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 where we can know

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 God's presence

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 through his

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 work

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 knowing the

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 peace

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 of being right

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 with our creator

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 basking in the joy

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 of fully knowing him

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 as we were designed

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 to know him

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 you see

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 Adam's life

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 brought death

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 and guilt

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 for us

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 Jesus' death

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 paid the penalty

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 for our sin

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 and brought us

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 life

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 and forgiveness

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 and so as he rises

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 and as God

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 installs him

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 as heaven's king

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 the one to whom

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 all

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 knees will one day bow

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 so the sun rises

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 on a brand new world

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 where all those

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 who in faith

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 would take

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 this Jesus

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 to be their savior

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 and their king

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 would know life

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 eternal

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 with this great

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 God

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 yes now

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 but gloriously

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 fully one day

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 in this new creation

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 and in that sense

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 Mary's

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 bang on the money

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 Jesus is

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 the gardener

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 par excellence

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 and so it's time

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 for Jesus

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 to reveal himself

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 to Mary

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 and let me just draw

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 out in the remaining

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 time we have left

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 three quick things

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 from these verses

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 which I hope

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 encourage your heart

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 no end

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 this Easter Sunday

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 and so here's the first

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 of these

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 firstly

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 notice how

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 Jesus calls

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 Mary out

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 and I love this

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 this is wonderful

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 see what Jesus

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 calls

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 her

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 do you see

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 how Jesus

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 doesn't go casual

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 he doesn't say

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 hey

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 oi

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 look

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 he doesn't go

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 generic

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 he doesn't say

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 woman

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 he goes

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 personal

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 you see it

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 goes personal

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 Mary

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 he uses

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 her name

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 so

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 lovely in life

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 isn't it

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 when people

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 use our names

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 like in Starbucks

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 when they

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 take your order

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 and they write

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 your name

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 on the side

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 of the cup

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 seeking to add

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 just that little

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 personal touch

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 to it

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 and I've had

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 all sorts of

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 weird and wonderful

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 spellings with

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 Graham

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 down the years

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 let me tell you

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 one time

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 it just said

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 on the cup

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 G-R-I-M

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 Grim

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 which if I'm honest

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 perfectly

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 captured my mood

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 that day

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 but they write

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 your name

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 on the cup

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 but as nice

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 as it is

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 they don't know

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 you

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 they don't know

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 me

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 no that's true

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 in life isn't it

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 just because

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 somebody uses

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 your name

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 doesn't mean

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 that they know

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 you

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 but that is

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 not the case

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 with Jesus

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 what's going

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 on here

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 here is the

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 good shepherd

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 in action

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 John chapter 10

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 Jesus called

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 himself

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 the good

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 shepherd

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 here he is

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 how is he

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 the good shepherd

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 well he knows

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 and he calls

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 his sheep

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 each

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 individually

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 by their

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 name

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 and so

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 contained in

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 this one

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 word

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 is Jesus

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 saying

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 Mary my

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 child

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 I'm here

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 take heart

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 be comforted

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 know that I

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 hold your

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 life in

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 my hands

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 you see that

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 is the kind

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 of relationship

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 that Jesus

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 has with

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 his people

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 he calls

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 us by name

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 and we

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 respond to

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 his voice

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 we know

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 his voice

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 in our

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 lives

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 do you

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 notice

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 that while

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 Mary doesn't

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 recognize his

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 face

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 she knows

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 his voice

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 here is the

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 good shepherd

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 calling to

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 one of his

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 sheep

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 and saying

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 I'm here

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 and friends

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 you and I can

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 know his voice

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 today as we

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 open the pages

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 of our

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 Bibles

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 and I

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 wonder if

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 some of

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 us need

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 to take

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 great comfort

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 from that

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 truth

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 this Easter

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 Sunday

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 Jesus

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 calls

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 her out

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 secondly

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 notice very

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 quickly that

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 Jesus welcomes

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 her in

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 you see her

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 life might

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 in many ways

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 look insignificant

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 but Jesus

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 wants her to

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 grasp the

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 truth that

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 because of

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 him

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 she is now

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 part of

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 something truly

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 magnificent

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 verse 17

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 and notice

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 in this little

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 section and

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 what Jesus

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 says here

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 notice the

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 vertical and

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 the horizontal

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 dimensions to

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 what he's

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 saying

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 because Jesus

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 explains to her

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 doesn't he that

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 he's going to

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 ascend and hear

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 the language in

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 his voice he's

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 going to ascend

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 to his father

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 and her

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 father

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 he's going to

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 ascend to his

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 God and

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 her God

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 and so Mary

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 who was once a

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 stranger to

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 God

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 because of

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 her sin

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 because of

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 what Jesus

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 has done on

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 the cross

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 for her

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 is now

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 beckoned to

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 come and

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 know this

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 wonderful

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 privilege of

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 knowing her

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 creator God

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 as her

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 father

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 in the same

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 way that

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 Jesus knows

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 him as

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 his father

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 what an

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 incredible

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 blessing

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 one that

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 is the

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 right of

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 every single

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 Christian

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 the world

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 over down

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 the ages

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 how dare we

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 use this

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 how dare we

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 call God

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 our father

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 yes because

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 of Jesus

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 Christ and

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 his work for

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 us

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 oh what a

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 wonderful

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 privilege and

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 then you see

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 Jesus telling

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 her that she

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 has to go

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 tell his

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 brothers

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 Jesus'

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 brothers

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 there's a

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 new family

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 relationship

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 being established

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 here

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 so Mary

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 is now part

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 of this

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 new global

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 family of

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 faith

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 as Jesus

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 gathers for

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 himself

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 through the

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 ages a

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 people from

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 all corners

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 of the earth

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 a people from

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 all walks

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 of life

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 a people doing

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 all sorts of

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 different jobs

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 a people with

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 all sorts of

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 different interests

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 a people from

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 all different

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 generations

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 a people from

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 every tribe

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 tongue and

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 nation called

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 to be Jesus'

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 one church

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 and who Jesus

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 says brothers

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 and sisters

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 to incredible

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 privileges

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 Jesus calling

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 his people out

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 with the

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 express purpose

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 of living for

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 and worshipping

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 him and

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 thirdly notice

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 how Jesus

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 sends Mary

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 on

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 you know

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 there are many

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 privileges in

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 life

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 Maggie who was

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 on just a

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 few moments

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 ago

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 I always remember

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 got chosen last

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 year to go and

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 meet the queen

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 at Buckingham

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 Palace

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 what an

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 incredible

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 privilege that

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 is

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 but even the

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 greatest privilege

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 is nothing

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 compared to

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 the one that

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 is bestowed

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 on Mary

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 here

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 as she

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 becomes the

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 first witness

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 to the

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 risen Jesus

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 what an

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 honor

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 what a

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 privilege

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 and you have

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 to say what a

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 surprise in many

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 ways that

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 Mary would be

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 the first

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 witness

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 but then again

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 this is the

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 God of the

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 Bible

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 he is the

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 God who is in

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 the business of

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 lifting up

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 the humble

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 and casting

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 down the

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 proud

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 the God

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 who uses

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 the weak

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 and the

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 seemingly

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 insignificant

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 things of

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 this world

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 to shame

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 the strong

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 and so the

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 God who

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 chose the

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 shepherds to

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 be the first

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 messengers of

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 the news about

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 the birth of

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 his son

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 now chooses

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 this Mary

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 who if we're

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 honest has not

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 got a lot going

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 for in many

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 ways except a

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 devoted and a

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 loving heart

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 to be the

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 first herald

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 about the

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 news of his

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 risen son

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 and she

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 runs and she

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 proclaims the

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 theme that has

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 been the anthem

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 of the church

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 down the ages

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 and the one

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 which fuels

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 Christian mission

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 across the

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 globe that

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 Christ is

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 risen

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 he is risen

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 indeed and

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 that is great

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 news

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 that is the

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 gospel that is

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 that the the

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 message that's at

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 the heart of the

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 Christian faith

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 Jesus lived

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 he died

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 he rose

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 and one day he

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 will return

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 the famous words

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 of Christian

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 missionary Jim

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 Elliott

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 he is no fool

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 who gives what

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 he cannot keep

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 to gain that

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 which he cannot

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 lose

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 and so here is

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 Mary Magdalene

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 and we don't know

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 what happened to

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 her after this

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 point you go on

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 Google you'll find

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 all sorts of weird

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 and wonderful

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 attempts at it

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 but the truth

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 is we just

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 don't know

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 but what's

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 almost for

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 certain is

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 that life

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 wouldn't have

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 been all

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 rainbows and

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 unicorns for

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 Mary after this

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 point I mean if

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 you're carrying

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 this message to

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 a world about

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 the guy who the

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 world wanted

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 dead it ain't

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 gonna go well

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 for you I'd

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 imagine imagine

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 that life for her

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 would have been

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 the same as it

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 was for the

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 other disciples

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 who took the

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 message of the

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 risen Jesus to

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 the world

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 it's funny I

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 was reminded of

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 this the other

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 night as I

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 was reading

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 do you know

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 what I was

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 reading I was

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 reading where's

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 Wally with my

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 kids a lad but I

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 was reading where's

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 Wally on one of

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 the pages she had

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 to find Wally in

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 the in the

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 Coliseum in

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 Rome so we're

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 sitting there the

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 three of us looking

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 for him and the

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 girls say to me

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 daddy daddy what

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 does it say at

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 the top and I

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 read to them the

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 caption at the

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 top and it

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 simply read here

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 in Rome are the

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 Christians being

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 thrown to the

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 lions and so

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 they they're off

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 they're trying to

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 look for Wally

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 they're trying to

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 look for the

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 wizard and I'm

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 struck by that

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 comment and I'm

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 led to think of

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 the first disciples

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 I'm led to think of

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 my brothers and

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 sisters who first

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 carried the torch

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 for Christ because

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 that was the reality

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 for those who

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 follow Jesus sure

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 that would have

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 been the reality

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 for Mary but

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 what's for certain

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 is that Mary

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 would have known

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 pain in her life

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 she would have

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 known the loss of

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 loved ones she

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 would have known

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 herself what it

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 is like to feel

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 that you are on

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 your way out of

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 this world that

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 you are dying she

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 would have died

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 let me ask you

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 where do you run

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 in those moments

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 when the tears

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 come streaming

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 down your face

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 when you lose

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 someone something

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 thing you can't

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 replace when you

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 lose someone but

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 it goes to waste

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 what could be

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 worse where do

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 you go answer

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 the invitation as

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 we look at Mary

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 here and as you

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 look at the risen

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 Jesus is we have

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 got nowhere else to

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 run but to the man

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 who has defeated

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 death and is alive

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 forever more we

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 are called to run

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 to the risen

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 Jesus Mary's

00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:44.639
 saviour lives he

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 lives you see

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 Mary's not got

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 hope Mary's got

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 Christ and Christ

00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:52.119
 is her living hope

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 and because he

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 died and because

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 he now lives she

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 one day too no

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 matter what happens

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 to her even though

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 she dies will one

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 day live with Jesus

00:23:04.619 --> 00:23:06.659
 forever he is our

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 living hope he is

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 the hope of every

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 single Christian

00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:11.500
 down the ages in

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 this world

00:23:12.259 --> 00:23:14.719
 Jesus Christ

00:23:14.719 --> 00:23:16.039
 crucified

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 risen

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 returning the one

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 who we read at the

00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:20.459
 end of the Bible is

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 the one who will make

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 all things new

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 the one who will

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 wipe away every

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 tear the one who

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 will banish death

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 forever for we will

00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:30.679
 be in God's perfect

00:23:30.679 --> 00:23:31.619
 kingdom

00:23:31.619 --> 00:23:32.619
 kingdom

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 here is Jesus

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 standing victorious

00:23:36.959 --> 00:23:38.179
 having conquered the

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 grave having atoned

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 for our sin here is

00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:43.019
 the lamb that was

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 slain and here is

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 the roaring lion of

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 Judah who has

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 defeated the power of

00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:50.279
 sin and death

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 and so even in our

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 darkest moments and

00:23:54.159 --> 00:23:54.959
 friends we don't know

00:23:54.959 --> 00:23:55.599
 what's going to happen

00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:56.439
 over the next few

00:23:56.439 --> 00:23:58.459
 months but what we

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 can know is that even

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 in the shadow of the

00:24:00.919 --> 00:24:02.339
 valley of death here

00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:03.379
 is a shepherd who

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 walks close with his

00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:07.299
 people and here is a

00:24:07.299 --> 00:24:08.379
 shepherd who has given

00:24:08.379 --> 00:24:10.099
 his life so that his

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 people could go free

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 and here is a shepherd

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 who even in our

00:24:15.539 --> 00:24:16.959
 darkest moments invites

00:24:16.959 --> 00:24:17.819
 us to come and put

00:24:17.819 --> 00:24:20.599
 our faith in him and

00:24:20.599 --> 00:24:22.179
 join in the chorus the

00:24:22.179 --> 00:24:23.179
 one that's been the

00:24:23.179 --> 00:24:24.679
 anthem of the church

00:24:24.679 --> 00:24:25.899
 down the ages and with

00:24:25.899 --> 00:24:27.059
 this we close it goes

00:24:27.059 --> 00:24:29.279
 like this God sent

00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:31.679
 his son they called

00:24:31.679 --> 00:24:34.279
 him Jesus he came to

00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:36.139
 love heal and forgive

00:24:36.139 --> 00:24:38.440
 he lived and died to

00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:40.500
 buy my pardon an empty

00:24:40.500 --> 00:24:42.339
 grave is there to prove

00:24:42.339 --> 00:24:44.399
 my savior lives because

00:24:44.399 --> 00:24:46.099
 he lives I can face

00:24:46.099 --> 00:24:48.480
 tomorrow because he

00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:50.500
 lives all fear is gone

00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:53.619
 because I know I know he

00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:56.379
 holds the future and life

00:24:56.380 --> 00:24:58.380
 is worth the living just

00:24:59.100 --> 00:25:03.600
 because he lives let me

00:25:03.600 --> 00:25:05.260
 pray for us as we close

00:25:05.260 --> 00:25:11.860
 heavenly father we thank

00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:15.660
 you so much for today and

00:25:15.660 --> 00:25:16.680
 that even as we journey

00:25:16.680 --> 00:25:18.520
 through the uncertainty of

00:25:18.520 --> 00:25:21.660
 this life that as we look

00:25:21.660 --> 00:25:24.200
 at the crucified risen and

00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:26.059
 one day returning Jesus we

00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:29.460
 can have hope and so

00:25:29.460 --> 00:25:31.240
 father we ask that you

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:32.620
 would help us to look to

00:25:32.620 --> 00:25:34.380
 him and have our eyes

00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:37.840
 fixed on him father thank

00:25:37.840 --> 00:25:39.400
 you that you love us and

00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:40.480
 we pray these things in

00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:41.759
 Jesus's precious and

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:43.519
 perfect name amen

00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:46.119
 sight of him and

00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:47.299
 three

00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:48.240
 words point

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 I

00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:50.460
 think of

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 him for

00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:52.779
 me

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:52.819
 for

00:25:52.879 --> 00:25:55.859
 long

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 H