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 Are you longing for a change? Have you got used to saying about life, that is just the way it is.

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 Some of us have been round the block a few times, some of us more than others, to know that even though life does offer new and exciting prospects,

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 what the writer to the book of Ecclesiastes says is true, that under the sun there really is nothing new.

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 Maybe we've lost the idealism of youth and we've become a bit more realistic, maybe a bit more cynical.

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 Well John says to you though, have you not heard of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?

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 As we approach Easter time, we're going to spend three lunchtimes in this chapter and the first section that we've read this afternoon,

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 which is a glorious but deceptively simple portrayal of the events two weeks, in the two weeks after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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 And in this chapter John speaks to us on many levels.

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 He wants to get us thinking not just about whether the resurrection actually happened,

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 for him that is a given actually, but why the resurrection of Jesus Christ matters.

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 He doesn't want to just ask us the question, do you believe that it happened?

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 But he wants us to think why we'd want to believe it happened.

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 And in the chapter we get three moments, three separate occasions where the once dead, now living, Jesus Christ appears to different people.

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 And this afternoon we're going to look at his appearance to Mary.

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 And we see that in Mary there is someone who is used to things in the world as they are.

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 And she meets someone who is going to breach the same old, same old of the world as it is in her life.

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 The risen Jesus Christ is going to break all of the rules that she is so familiar with.

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 Mary's story is important, isn't it?

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 Because Mary's world is the same as our world too.

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 And first of all we see that Mary's world is a world where some things never change.

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 Where some things never change.

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 It's true, isn't it?

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 Much of life is routine and repetitive and familiar.

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 And that's okay, isn't it?

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 That's just what life is like in the world.

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 There are the everyday things that we have to do again and again.

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 The light things, the ordinary things, the mundane things of life.

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 And somehow we get through them, don't we?

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 Going to work, changing nappies, buying food.

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 Whatever it is, routine stuff.

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 But some stuff in this world is routine and it really shouldn't be.

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 Some routine stuff is far more serious.

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 The same old, same old stuff of the world that really is quite disturbing.

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 Even though it may become normalised in our minds.

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 And we see here, don't we, Mary, deal with the routine and familiar experience of death.

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 Just look at verse 1.

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 Mary Magdalene came to the tomb.

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 Those words say it all, don't they?

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 She comes to cope with this routine and changeless grief of the world that she knows.

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 Same things that you and I have been dealing with ever since.

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 The common experience of visiting a grave.

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 John tells us that it was dark when she visits the tomb of Jesus Christ.

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 It's early in the morning.

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 She wants to get there, doesn't she, to mourn.

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 To mourn the loss of her friend.

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 Of her loving Lord.

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 Of her master.

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 But for John, darkness actually is very significant.

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 This is the darkness of the world as it is.

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 The ordinary world.

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 In subjection to frustration and to death.

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 A world where visiting a grave is routine.

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 It happens every day.

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 I don't know if you noticed in the reading, the word tomb.

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 Keeps coming again and again, doesn't it?

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 It comes twice.

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 Once in every two verses on average.

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 In the passage.

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 We're constantly reminded as Mary comes to the tomb.

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 Of the presence of death.

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 And the reality of it.

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 The world that she knows is one characterised by this one journey.

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 From the cradle to the grave.

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 You know the manufacturer of computer games, Xbox.

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 The machine, Xbox.

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 They did an advert a few years ago.

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 Trying to advertise their games console.

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 And the advert showed a woman giving birth.

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 And in the moment of birth.

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 The child in comedic fashion.

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 Is kind of launched out of the womb.

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 And through the hospital window.

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 And flies like a bullet.

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 Through the air.

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 And we watch as this baby.

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 Flies through the clouds.

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 And in a matter of seconds.

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 Grows.

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 To be a little boy.

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 His scream.

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 Eventually deepens.

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 To a man's yell.

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 And within seconds.

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 As he's flying through the sky.

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 Over the English countryside.

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 He changes.

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 He grows older and older.

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 It's as if a lifetime flashes before us.

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 In a matter of seconds.

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 The boy becomes a teenager.

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 And a man.

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 And then he loses his hair.

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 And his teeth.

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 And his skin gets wrinkly.

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 And suddenly he takes his last breath.

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 Before landing to perfection.

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 In a pre-prepared grave.

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 Smash.

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 The screen goes dark.

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 And it's followed by the strap line.

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 Life is short.

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 Play more.

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 Buy an Xbox.

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 The advert got banned.

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 Because it was tasteless.

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 But actually it got banned.

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 Because in reality.

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 It was true.

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 It was too close.

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 To the truth.

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 Of the reality of.

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 Things in this world.

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 From the cradle.

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 To the tomb.

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 And Jesus has been no exception.

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 Has he?

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 Life is short.

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 And death is routine.

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 In Mary's world.

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 Even for Jesus.

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 And his friends.

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 John tells us.

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 It's the first day of the week.

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 And it's been.

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 Hasn't it?

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 One hell of a weekend.

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 Literally.

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 But the disciples have seen.

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 Their new hopeful.

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 Butchered.

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 And executed.

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 The son of God.

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 Killed.

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 And now the new week comes.

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 Doesn't it?

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 The Jews have had their day off.

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 On the Saturday.

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 The day of rest is over.

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 And now it's back to the same old.

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 Same old.

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 It's like our Monday morning.

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 Isn't it?

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 Back to business as usual.

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 Normal things in the world.

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 That Mary knows.

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 Resume after the weekend.

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 Normal work.

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 The work of anointing bodies.

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 The work of rolling stones away.

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 The work of tomb visits.

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 Back to the work of dealing with death.

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 Life.

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 And what Mary expects is entirely normal in that world that she knows.

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 Isn't it?

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 She expects to come to the tomb.

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 To get the stone rolled away somehow.

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 And to anoint the body.

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 Back to the routine.

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 To the routine of darkness.

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 And of death.

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 And a graveside visit.

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 The writer Quentin Crisp said.

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 Life was a funny thing that happened to me.

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 On the way to the grave.

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 And this is.

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 This normal world.

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 Where some things never change.

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 From the cradle to the grave.

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 The apostle Paul says that ever since the time of Adam.

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 Death has reigned in this world.

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 And so normal is that reign.

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 Is that dominion over us.

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 So normal and ordinary now in a sense.

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 Is that dark.

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 That for Mary she cannot imagine or dream of anything else.

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 Can she?

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 Mary is conditioned by this world.

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 You see.

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 When she sees the stone rolled away.

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 What's the reason she gives?

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 She's not thinking resurrection life.

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 Is she?

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 No.

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 Verse 2.

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 They've taken the Lord out of the tomb.

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 She thinks foul play.

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 Grave robbers.

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 That wasn't uncommon.

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 By verse 11.

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 She is still weeping at the tomb.

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 She'd love it to be different.

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 Wouldn't she?

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 But that's just the way it is.

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 In this world.

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 A world where death is routine.

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 Where life is short.

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 In this old world.

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 And like Mary.

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 We have been shaped by it.

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 We have been moulded by it.

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 You have been moulded by it.

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 Pain has shaped you.

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 Stunted by the changeless.

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 On and on and on.

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 Of loss.

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 And of death.

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 And that kind of change that Mary is about to witness.

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 Is too good to be true.

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 Isn't it?

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 In the world where some things never change.

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 Our same old world of tombs and spices and mourning and grave time.

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 It is why the resurrection of Jesus Christ is just so hard to believe.

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 Isn't it?

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 It's just out of the ordinary.

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 It is a world where some things never change.

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 But then as she meets the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

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 Secondly.

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 She witnesses a brand new day.

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 There is a brand new day.

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 For John.

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 It is literally a brand new day.

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 Isn't it?

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 On the first day of the week.

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 It's the morning.

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 Early morning.

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 It's Sunday.

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 And she is shaped by pain.

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 She comes with behaviour that is fitting for the world that she knows.

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 She comes mourning.

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 The first day of the week.

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 In verse 1.

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 That is a loaded phrase.

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 In John's mind.

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 Because John isn't just thinking that.

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 I need to write down the date here.

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 For posterity.

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 Like a newspaper.

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 John is thinking about the week.

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 As it is in God's plan.

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 And where the week features.

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 The plan for God's creation.

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 Remember how he starts his gospel.

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 You might know how he starts his gospel.

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 In the beginning was the word.

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 And that is an echo, isn't it?

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 Of an even more famous line from the Bible.

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 The first line of the Bible.

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 In the beginning God created.

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 As John writes about the first day of the week here.

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 He is thinking in creational terms.

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 He is thinking about the whole world.

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 As it is now.

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 Or as it once was.

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 And how it is about to be transformed.

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 In a new creation.

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 In the beginning God created.

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 All things in six days.

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 And then he rested.

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 And so when a new week comes.

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 On the day of Jesus' resurrection.

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 It is not just a new day.

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 It is not even just a new week.

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 It signifies a new creation.

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 Notice the questions that Mary is asked.

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 The angels seem quizzical.

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 Don't they?

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 In verse 13.

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 Woman.

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 Why are you weeping?

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 And we think, don't we?

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 Well duh.

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 Isn't that obvious?

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 Yes.

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 But that question.

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 Is a good question.

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 Because weeping.

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 Is appropriate.

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 Only in the old creation.

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 That Mary knows so well.

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 In that world.

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 There are old time habits.

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 And ingrained behaviours.

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 That now are no longer required.

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 And needed.

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 Because now.

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 It is a brand new day.

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 It is a brand new creation.

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 And there is this cradle to the grave man.

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 Who has breached.

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 Into a new world.

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 And brought it into this creation.

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 He has literally risen.

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 Through the wrappings.

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 Of the old creation.

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 Hasn't he?

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 Through the world of the tomb.

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 And he's left those things behind.

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 The things of the world that Mary knows.

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 And there is something otherworldly.

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 About the risen Jesus Christ.

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 Isn't there?

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 Mary doesn't recognise him at first.

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 And can you feel the irony of verse 15?

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 Just look down there.

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 Jesus said to her.

00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:21.720
 Woman why are you weeping?

00:14:21.800 --> 00:14:22.600
 Who are you seeking?

00:14:23.500 --> 00:14:25.180
 Supposing him to be the gardener.

00:14:25.300 --> 00:14:25.759
 She said.

00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:27.180
 Sir if you've carried him away.

00:14:27.300 --> 00:14:28.560
 Tell me where you've laid him.

00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.919
 Do you feel the irony there?

00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:34.299
 The one that she's asking for an explanation.

00:14:34.299 --> 00:14:35.679
 Of the empty tomb.

00:14:35.839 --> 00:14:37.459
 Is the one who was in it.

00:14:38.419 --> 00:14:40.659
 But she can't see that.

00:14:41.819 --> 00:14:43.179
 That reality.

00:14:43.419 --> 00:14:45.799
 That reality that is broken in.

00:14:46.299 --> 00:14:47.759
 To the world that she knows.

00:14:47.839 --> 00:14:49.819
 Is so out of the ordinary.

00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:50.839
 So opposed.

00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:51.799
 So alien.

00:14:51.799 --> 00:14:54.639
 To the same old same old world.

00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:55.459
 That she knows.

00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:57.659
 To our world.

00:14:59.120 --> 00:14:59.620
 But.

00:14:59.939 --> 00:15:01.339
 It is a brand new day.

00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.419
 It is the beginning of a new creation.

00:15:04.699 --> 00:15:06.019
 In Jesus Christ.

00:15:07.359 --> 00:15:08.719
 And his appearance.

00:15:08.979 --> 00:15:09.740
 Marks.

00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:11.819
 A complete shift.

00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:13.939
 In the way of things.

00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:16.599
 In the way of creation itself.

00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:19.580
 It's one of the reasons why.

00:15:19.779 --> 00:15:21.060
 The writer John.

00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:22.340
 Is so adamant.

00:15:22.460 --> 00:15:23.320
 That the resurrection.

00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:24.899
 Is an historical.

00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:26.960
 Physical.

00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:27.759
 Tangible.

00:15:27.940 --> 00:15:28.379
 Reality.

00:15:30.060 --> 00:15:32.340
 It's not a metaphorical story.

00:15:32.340 --> 00:15:32.659
 Is it?

00:15:32.700 --> 00:15:33.740
 With a nice meaning.

00:15:33.860 --> 00:15:34.759
 To kind of think about.

00:15:35.580 --> 00:15:36.840
 It's not folklore.

00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:38.120
 It is real.

00:15:39.019 --> 00:15:40.200
 These things happened.

00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:42.000
 In creation.

00:15:43.379 --> 00:15:44.540
 And this is important.

00:15:44.700 --> 00:15:46.420
 Not just that we might have evidence.

00:15:46.419 --> 00:15:47.360
 For the resurrection.

00:15:48.599 --> 00:15:49.539
 It is important.

00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:50.319
 So that we know.

00:15:50.599 --> 00:15:51.719
 Christ's resurrection.

00:15:52.059 --> 00:15:52.899
 Is about this.

00:15:53.079 --> 00:15:53.939
 Real world.

00:15:54.779 --> 00:15:56.939
 It is a creational moment.

00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:58.019
 It is a shift.

00:15:58.179 --> 00:15:59.379
 In the real world.

00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:02.219
 A day has come.

00:16:02.339 --> 00:16:03.099
 At the resurrection.

00:16:03.099 --> 00:16:03.819
 Where God.

00:16:04.139 --> 00:16:06.259
 Hasn't just done something new.

00:16:06.259 --> 00:16:07.159
 In the world.

00:16:08.019 --> 00:16:10.199
 He is making a new world.

00:16:11.839 --> 00:16:14.099
 Notice Mary goes to grab him.

00:16:14.219 --> 00:16:14.779
 Doesn't she?

00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:17.139
 He is touchable.

00:16:17.939 --> 00:16:18.659
 We learn.

00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:19.379
 Later in.

00:16:19.459 --> 00:16:20.720
 In John chapter 21.

00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:21.079
 That.

00:16:21.079 --> 00:16:21.259
 That.

00:16:21.659 --> 00:16:22.759
 The resurrected Jesus.

00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:23.819
 Cooks breakfast.

00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:25.519
 And eats it.

00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:27.299
 He has a real physical body.

00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.159
 The resurrection.

00:16:32.379 --> 00:16:33.620
 It takes the stuff.

00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:35.360
 Of real physical things.

00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:35.600
 And.

00:16:35.699 --> 00:16:37.299
 And creates them anew.

00:16:37.299 --> 00:16:40.159
 In the same old world.

00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:41.979
 Mary meets the risen Jesus.

00:16:41.979 --> 00:16:44.339
 And is shown a brand new creation.

00:16:45.379 --> 00:16:47.879
 A new creation breaking into this world.

00:16:47.979 --> 00:16:49.099
 In a brand new day.

00:16:51.179 --> 00:16:51.559
 And so.

00:16:51.859 --> 00:16:52.279
 Thirdly.

00:16:52.419 --> 00:16:53.079
 And lastly.

00:16:53.179 --> 00:16:54.099
 A new day.

00:16:54.199 --> 00:16:55.139
 A new creation.

00:16:55.299 --> 00:16:56.939
 Means a new message.

00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:58.399
 For Mary.

00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:59.519
 A new message.

00:16:59.519 --> 00:16:59.679
 Which.

00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:02.620
 You know the TV show.

00:17:02.740 --> 00:17:03.679
 This is your life.

00:17:03.860 --> 00:17:04.599
 It's coming back.

00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:06.779
 So Michael Aspel.

00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:07.920
 Used to get the red book.

00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:08.319
 Didn't he?

00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:09.019
 And.

00:17:09.859 --> 00:17:11.900
 Bring back people from the past.

00:17:12.059 --> 00:17:13.359
 That the celebrity knew.

00:17:14.500 --> 00:17:15.839
 Don't worry if you haven't seen it.

00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:16.699
 You're not missing much.

00:17:17.199 --> 00:17:18.079
 But at the end.

00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.099
 There is always one person.

00:17:20.099 --> 00:17:21.639
 Who means most.

00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:23.139
 To the celebrity.

00:17:24.500 --> 00:17:24.759
 And.

00:17:24.980 --> 00:17:25.720
 Michael Aspel.

00:17:25.859 --> 00:17:26.799
 He has the line.

00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:27.119
 Isn't it?

00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:27.839
 This is a voice.

00:17:27.959 --> 00:17:29.500
 You weren't expecting to hear.

00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:30.559
 A face.

00:17:30.659 --> 00:17:32.099
 You weren't expecting to see.

00:17:33.379 --> 00:17:34.339
 And there is this.

00:17:34.659 --> 00:17:35.220
 Personal.

00:17:35.659 --> 00:17:36.220
 Reunion.

00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:37.699
 In.

00:17:37.919 --> 00:17:38.599
 Verse 16.

00:17:38.679 --> 00:17:39.299
 And 17.

00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:39.980
 Isn't there?

00:17:41.339 --> 00:17:41.939
 Between.

00:17:42.299 --> 00:17:42.659
 Mary.

00:17:42.959 --> 00:17:43.299
 And.

00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:44.579
 Her risen Lord.

00:17:44.579 --> 00:17:46.639
 And sometimes.

00:17:47.159 --> 00:17:48.179
 Less is more.

00:17:49.419 --> 00:17:50.500
 Because each of them.

00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:51.199
 Just say.

00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:52.359
 One word.

00:17:53.159 --> 00:17:54.039
 In this meeting.

00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:56.159
 Mary.

00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:58.559
 Rabboni.

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 We just pause there.

00:18:01.779 --> 00:18:02.220
 Don't we?

00:18:02.399 --> 00:18:03.819
 To take in that moment.

00:18:05.579 --> 00:18:06.399
 The anticipation.

00:18:06.399 --> 00:18:07.639
 Has been building.

00:18:07.859 --> 00:18:08.879
 Throughout the passage.

00:18:09.919 --> 00:18:10.679
 And suddenly.

00:18:10.899 --> 00:18:11.299
 Mary.

00:18:11.659 --> 00:18:12.299
 Sees.

00:18:13.240 --> 00:18:14.079
 The newness.

00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:14.759
 Of this.

00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:15.399
 This day.

00:18:17.159 --> 00:18:17.799
 John.

00:18:17.919 --> 00:18:18.399
 Gives us.

00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:19.319
 Her words.

00:18:19.500 --> 00:18:20.099
 In the language.

00:18:20.240 --> 00:18:21.299
 That she would have spoken.

00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:22.359
 In Aramaic.

00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:23.399
 Just.

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 It just brings out.

00:18:24.639 --> 00:18:25.240
 The depth.

00:18:25.399 --> 00:18:25.919
 Of emotion.

00:18:26.059 --> 00:18:26.519
 Doesn't it?

00:18:27.379 --> 00:18:29.199
 And the personal nature.

00:18:29.199 --> 00:18:30.059
 Of this love.

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 Shared.

00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:31.819
 And she goes.

00:18:31.899 --> 00:18:32.779
 To embrace him.

00:18:34.579 --> 00:18:35.279
 What seems.

00:18:35.379 --> 00:18:35.679
 Odd.

00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:35.939
 Then.

00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:36.299
 Is that.

00:18:36.379 --> 00:18:36.699
 Jesus.

00:18:37.159 --> 00:18:37.599
 Refuses.

00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:38.740
 That embrace.

00:18:38.939 --> 00:18:39.500
 Doesn't he?

00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:41.179
 Do not cling.

00:18:41.179 --> 00:18:41.579
 To me.

00:18:41.659 --> 00:18:41.980
 Mary.

00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:42.099
 Mary.

00:18:43.099 --> 00:18:44.740
 And he explains why.

00:18:44.819 --> 00:18:45.539
 And we see that.

00:18:45.660 --> 00:18:46.880
 It isn't that Jesus is.

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 Kind of cold.

00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:49.099
 And standoffish.

00:18:49.299 --> 00:18:49.480
 Or.

00:18:49.900 --> 00:18:50.819
 Sort of emotionally.

00:18:51.299 --> 00:18:51.860
 Unintelligent.

00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:52.940
 About what's going on.

00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:53.779
 In the situation.

00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:56.619
 That he tells us.

00:18:56.619 --> 00:18:57.539
 That there is something.

00:18:57.539 --> 00:18:58.220
 Greater.

00:18:58.220 --> 00:18:59.579
 That he must do.

00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:01.599
 Than being here.

00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:02.599
 In this world.

00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:03.460
 As it is.

00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:04.920
 That he must.

00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:05.460
 Ascend.

00:19:05.579 --> 00:19:06.319
 To the father.

00:19:06.460 --> 00:19:07.319
 To your father.

00:19:07.399 --> 00:19:08.379
 And to my father.

00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:09.440
 He says.

00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:09.759
 Mary.

00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:10.399
 Mary.

00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:10.639
 No.

00:19:10.899 --> 00:19:11.099
 This.

00:19:11.220 --> 00:19:11.420
 This.

00:19:11.539 --> 00:19:12.639
 Is not the point.

00:19:12.639 --> 00:19:13.799
 Of my resurrection.

00:19:15.379 --> 00:19:16.180
 The point.

00:19:16.299 --> 00:19:16.680
 Is not.

00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:17.619
 That you.

00:19:17.980 --> 00:19:18.940
 Might bring me.

00:19:18.940 --> 00:19:19.380
 Back.

00:19:19.500 --> 00:19:20.220
 Into your.

00:19:20.420 --> 00:19:21.640
 Same old world.

00:19:22.900 --> 00:19:23.299
 Into.

00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:24.320
 The creation.

00:19:24.320 --> 00:19:25.299
 As you know it.

00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:26.160
 That is not.

00:19:26.259 --> 00:19:27.019
 How it's going to be.

00:19:27.120 --> 00:19:27.460
 Because.

00:19:27.860 --> 00:19:28.779
 I am going.

00:19:28.779 --> 00:19:29.799
 To take you.

00:19:29.940 --> 00:19:31.140
 Into a new creation.

00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:33.539
 The resurrection.

00:19:33.539 --> 00:19:34.400
 Is not just.

00:19:34.500 --> 00:19:35.000
 For you.

00:19:35.100 --> 00:19:35.840
 And the disciples.

00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:36.519
 As lovely.

00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:37.279
 As it may be.

00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:38.120
 To have me around.

00:19:38.180 --> 00:19:38.480
 For a bit.

00:19:38.580 --> 00:19:39.220
 A bit longer.

00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:40.720
 Jesus.

00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:41.860
 Has more in mind.

00:19:41.900 --> 00:19:42.140
 Doesn't he?

00:19:42.140 --> 00:19:43.320
 He will not stay.

00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:44.759
 In the old world.

00:19:44.900 --> 00:19:45.300
 Order.

00:19:46.580 --> 00:19:47.420
 With us.

00:19:47.520 --> 00:19:48.620
 But he will bring.

00:19:48.840 --> 00:19:49.259
 Us.

00:19:49.380 --> 00:19:50.520
 Into a new one.

00:19:50.600 --> 00:19:51.120
 With him.

00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:52.780
 And so.

00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:53.400
 Rather than.

00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:53.960
 Stay.

00:19:54.100 --> 00:19:54.780
 And embrace.

00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:56.100
 The command to Mary.

00:19:56.280 --> 00:19:57.180
 In verse 17.

00:19:57.420 --> 00:19:57.660
 Is.

00:19:58.400 --> 00:19:58.700
 Go.

00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:00.460
 Go.

00:20:00.460 --> 00:20:01.180
 And say.

00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:02.140
 To the brothers.

00:20:03.780 --> 00:20:04.259
 This.

00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:05.040
 New day.

00:20:05.180 --> 00:20:06.020
 This new creation.

00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:06.660
 It means.

00:20:06.840 --> 00:20:07.640
 A new mission.

00:20:07.780 --> 00:20:08.180
 For Mary.

00:20:08.300 --> 00:20:08.960
 A new message.

00:20:10.600 --> 00:20:11.800
 And she leaves.

00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:12.339
 Saying.

00:20:12.539 --> 00:20:13.180
 I've seen.

00:20:13.180 --> 00:20:13.740
 The Lord.

00:20:14.779 --> 00:20:15.299
 Do you see.

00:20:15.419 --> 00:20:15.819
 What Mary.

00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:16.659
 Is trying to do here.

00:20:16.740 --> 00:20:17.319
 She is trying.

00:20:17.399 --> 00:20:18.759
 To recapture.

00:20:18.899 --> 00:20:19.419
 Isn't she.

00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:20.220
 Something that.

00:20:20.379 --> 00:20:21.159
 That she knew.

00:20:21.159 --> 00:20:21.779
 Of Jesus.

00:20:21.980 --> 00:20:22.339
 In his.

00:20:23.139 --> 00:20:23.619
 Incarnate.

00:20:23.619 --> 00:20:24.180
 Ministry.

00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:26.359
 In the life.

00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:26.799
 Of Jesus.

00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:27.720
 And the relationship.

00:20:27.899 --> 00:20:28.220
 They had.

00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:29.159
 In the old.

00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:29.899
 World order.

00:20:31.399 --> 00:20:32.139
 She wants.

00:20:32.139 --> 00:20:32.759
 That back.

00:20:32.879 --> 00:20:33.759
 And we understand.

00:20:33.919 --> 00:20:34.200
 That.

00:20:35.220 --> 00:20:35.740
 Because.

00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:36.419
 Pain.

00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:37.680
 Has shaped her.

00:20:38.299 --> 00:20:39.180
 In this world.

00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.139
 But Jesus.

00:20:41.140 --> 00:20:41.800
 Says.

00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:41.980
 No.

00:20:42.060 --> 00:20:42.340
 There is.

00:20:42.340 --> 00:20:42.860
 Much.

00:20:42.860 --> 00:20:43.420
 Much.

00:20:43.420 --> 00:20:43.920
 More.

00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:45.280
 And he will.

00:20:45.500 --> 00:20:45.980
 Ascend.

00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:46.720
 And he will.

00:20:46.820 --> 00:20:47.280
 Pour out.

00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:48.180
 His Holy Spirit.

00:20:48.420 --> 00:20:48.500
 And.

00:20:48.780 --> 00:20:49.660
 And foreigners.

00:20:50.180 --> 00:20:51.060
 And outsiders.

00:20:51.060 --> 00:20:51.900
 Will be brought.

00:20:52.040 --> 00:20:52.840
 Into the church.

00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:53.759
 And the old.

00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:54.720
 Will pass away.

00:20:55.180 --> 00:20:55.960
 And the new.

00:20:56.080 --> 00:20:56.520
 Will come.

00:20:56.660 --> 00:20:57.500
 New creation.

00:20:58.380 --> 00:20:58.759
 Go.

00:20:59.080 --> 00:20:59.780
 Says Jesus.

00:21:01.420 --> 00:21:01.860
 This.

00:21:02.040 --> 00:21:02.380
 Moment.

00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:02.880
 For Mary.

00:21:03.080 --> 00:21:04.060
 Is not at all.

00:21:04.140 --> 00:21:05.060
 What she expected.

00:21:05.060 --> 00:21:05.540
 Is it?

00:21:06.420 --> 00:21:07.120
 Because it was.

00:21:07.220 --> 00:21:07.980
 Back to business.

00:21:07.980 --> 00:21:08.740
 In the old.

00:21:08.820 --> 00:21:09.180
 World.

00:21:09.180 --> 00:21:09.780
 In the world.

00:21:09.780 --> 00:21:10.480
 Of dark.

00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:11.819
 In the world.

00:21:11.819 --> 00:21:12.460
 Of death.

00:21:13.500 --> 00:21:14.740
 But the appearance.

00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:15.339
 Of Jesus.

00:21:15.620 --> 00:21:16.319
 Resurrected.

00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:16.920
 From the dead.

00:21:16.980 --> 00:21:17.579
 Is a glimpse.

00:21:17.579 --> 00:21:18.779
 Of a new world.

00:21:19.620 --> 00:21:20.660
 Breaking in.

00:21:22.220 --> 00:21:22.680
 And because.

00:21:22.860 --> 00:21:23.519
 That moment.

00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:24.680
 Is not just.

00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:25.460
 For her.

00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:27.779
 Not just.

00:21:27.860 --> 00:21:28.599
 A new day.

00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:29.160
 For her.

00:21:29.259 --> 00:21:29.660
 He says.

00:21:29.740 --> 00:21:30.059
 Go.

00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:30.920
 Go and tell.

00:21:33.299 --> 00:21:33.839
 Perhaps.

00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:34.440
 Pain.

00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:35.599
 Has shaped you.

00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:37.400
 In this world.

00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.019
 Visiting graves.

00:21:42.580 --> 00:21:43.480
 Maybe you can't.

00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:43.980
 Imagine.

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 This to be true.

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 John tells us.

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 This happened.

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 And it was the first day.

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 Of a new week.

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 The first day.

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 Of a new creation.

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 Mary.

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 Went.

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 To the tomb.

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 But she.

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 Came away.

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 Telling her brothers.

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 I have.

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 Seen the Lord.

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 Some things.

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 Never change.

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 Do they?

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 The dark things.

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 But the resurrection.

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 Tells us.

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 It is a brand new day.

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 Let's pray.

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 Amen.

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