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 okay good morning everyone lovely to be part of Easter Sunday with you all even

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 though remotely so we've seen again this week that death is very much a part of

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 life now that's a cliche I know but it's a true cliche I googled it this week and

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 apparently more than 157,000 people in our world die on average every day that's

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 about 57 million people a year and when you put that in the context of 5,000

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 years of history and that gets to be an absolutely staggering figure a staggering

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 death toll and of course the death toll is very personal thing isn't it because

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 that includes countless unique people amazing people and people in who in

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 their day were larger than life people whose influence in the world continues

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 long after they died but in the end death got them all but this morning I want to

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 talk to you about the person who defied the great equaliser that death the

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 person who reversed the finality of death by coming back from the grave the

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 person of whom we must say life was very much a part of his death so today we

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 celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is the person who so

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 altered the course of history that we still talk about him 2,000 years later we

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 still mark the event on our calendars 2,000 years later and most importantly we

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 continue to be confronted by the consequences of his death and

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 resurrection more than 2,000 years later we pick up the story in John chapter 20

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 and the first point if you're following through in the notes King Jesus is dead and

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 you can't argue about the finality of death or can you well we all know that words

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 of impact words are very very powerful Jesus had a rousing message that attracted

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 so many over three years of his ministry but we all know that what people see

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 impacts us far more than what we hear and so the issue we're confronting is

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 dead means dead and here's the here's the problem for us Jesus said he was God

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 that Jesus said he was God's Messiah God's King coming to the world to

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 re-establish God's rule and establish a kingdom which would never ever end that

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 Jesus said he was God's long-awaited Savior come to rescue God's people by

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 dealing with a sin giving them new hope for the future rising word rising message but

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 if we pick up the story this morning the king is now dead beaten humiliated

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 ridiculed crucified as a common criminal bayoneted or speared and finally taken down

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 dragged away and buried David Butt took us through that awful story on Friday

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 now surely that has to be the final criteria for evaluating everything Jesus said and did

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 a rising message over three years but the king is dead and you can't argue with death can you

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 it's not as if it's just a mistake because these Roman soldiers they dealt with death

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 they had blood on their hands and these Roman soldiers knew Jesus was dead

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 at the Roman governor pilot he was used to executing people he was satisfied that Jesus was dead and

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 actually released his body for burial at two reputable Jews

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 Joseph and Nicodemus knew that Jesus was dead they actually embalmed his body and put it in a tomb and

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 sealed it with a large rock that that final symbol of separating those who are dead from those who are

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 living that large rock sealing off that tomb the tomb of the dead and even as most loyal disciples knew

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 that Jesus was dead they just went home to grieve now whatever way you read that story you have to say

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 what an anticlimax what an anticlimax a rising message over three years

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 but the king is dead and you can't argue about the finality of death or can you

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 well according to John the death and burial of Jesus was not the end of his story

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 we pick up in verse one Mary Magdalene is at Jesus tomb before dawn in the darkness on what we would

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 call Sunday morning three days after Jesus was crucified and she discovers the tomb open and Jesus body gone

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 now understandably she's upset and confused and immediately reports back to Peter and John who

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 in turn immediately went to the tomb to see for themselves and the question we have to ask and look at

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 carefully carefully then is what did they see well traditionally and historically we've said talked

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 about the empty tomb but of course that's not right because it wasn't quite empty so Peter and John see

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 the not quite empty tomb yes the body of Jesus was gone but his grave clothes immediately took their

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 attention and actually become the focus of the story because they saw the grave clothes lying undisturbed and

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 intact but in those days when a person died their body was wrapped from head to shoulders in from

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 feet to shoulders rather in linen strips and the linen strips were soaked in a solution of aloe which

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 was a powdered sweet smelling wood and another product called mirror and my double r h and that was a sort of

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 sweet smelling rosin or gum which actually solidified when went hard then back in chapter 19 we're told that

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 about 34 kilograms of this stuff was used to wrap the body of Jesus and essentially it made a cast

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 around the body a bit like a modern plaster cast around a broken limb

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 and then also the naked head was wrapped with a separate turban like a piece of cloth

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 so what Peter and John saw was the empty cast and the head cloth neatly folded and put to one side

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 just like you'd expect if someone took it off because they no longer needed it

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 something really unusual had happened both John and Peter recognized that

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 if thieves had stolen the body they would have taken the cast with them that would have been the

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 quickest and easiest way to make an exit or if they wanted the body without the cast they would have

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 had to cut all those wraps off and chances are left chunks of flesh or at least left the cast and the

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 strips and pieces or again if Jesus had simply been unconscious and somehow or other come around after

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 a period of time and got himself out even if that's possible then again the wrappings would have been broken

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 anyway the point of the story is that the tomb was undisturbed except that Jesus body was gone

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 and it's interesting the way John writes it because the significance of this

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 is highlighted by John in the words he uses the different words he uses for saying

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 so what did John and Peter say well verse 5 you look in there

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 um stooping to look in John saw the linen cloths lying there

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 the word there is to say or blepho that's the Greek verb and it means just to observe in other

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 words he just roamed his eyes around and took in what his eyes could see he observed the grave clothes

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 with no body and verse 6 Peter goes right into the tomb typical Peter he just rushes in John was a

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 little bit hesitant a bit nervous maybe I don't know but Peter just rushes in no surprise there

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 and he sees but the word there is the or oh oh in other words the same word as we use for theorizing

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 Peter's looking around observes the intact tomb except the body's missing and he's trying to theorize or work

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 out the significance of intact grave clothes but no body and then verse 8 finally John joins Peter in the tomb

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 and sees and the word there is orato in other words it's a saying that reaches a conclusion an understanding

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 so Peter and John see with understanding finally he concludes or they conclude that something really

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 supernatural has happened Jesus had left his burial cast somehow or other come through the burial cast

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 without damaging or disturbing it now verses 9 and 10 are also important um and it's it's a difficult

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 verse to understand verse 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture that he must rise from the dead

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 then the disciples went back to their homes so the immediate impact of the facts on Peter and John

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 were that they believed they saw they theorized and they came to conclusion they believed the evidence

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 for Peter and John was mind-blowing but compelling and it pointed to one conclusion Jesus was no longer dead

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 Jesus somehow or other had come back to life and left his tomb in the most supernatural way not even disturbing

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 the grave clothes

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 now I think that the emphasis of verse 9 is that they didn't understand everything but they understood enough

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 to know that the grave of Jesus was no longer their focus

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 they didn't understand everything but they knew where he wasn't he was no longer in his grave

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 and so verse 10 they did what you'd expect they went home to think further about the matter

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 no longer was the grave the focus of their attention

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 and I think the point that John's making is this that John's emphasis is that the disciples

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 belief in the resurrection of Jesus came first based on the physical evidence before their eyes

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 they didn't manufacture a resurrection story to agree with expectations they already had from

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 Old Testament scriptures I think that's the point of verse 9 it wasn't as if they already knew and had

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 clear understanding from the Old Testament that Jesus would rise from the dead no they didn't understand

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 that that was that only came later with prompting for Jesus from Jesus only then did they understand

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 that various Old Testament scriptures which they had read previously without understanding

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 now became clear and added to what they'd seen physically with their own eyes the evidence that Jesus

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 had come back from the dead Jesus had risen from the grave

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 so that's the story at this point but the story continues and we switch focus to a very incredibly personal

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 experience for Mary and the experience builds around the point King Jesus is alive and she says I've seen

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 the Lord King Jesus is alive I've seen the Lord and this changes everything

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 now when you look at verse 11 it's just sad isn't it Mary stood weeping outside the tomb remember

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 it's it's pre-dawn it's in the darkness no lights you can just imagine the scene Mary was a deeply

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 troubled woman now we know from other parts of the record of John that she was known she was a woman

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 with history she was known for her sexual sin she was one of the ladies about time to use a sort of

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 modern term she was a woman who therefore was condemned by her her fellow Jewish citizens condemned

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 and rejected by the Jewish religious leaders condemned by God's law Mary had only a bleak future of

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 hopelessness to look forward to but Mary had found new hope of salvation and belonging in the teaching of

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 Jesus it's interesting that you might recall only a few days earlier the extent of the hope that Mary

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 had now placed in Jesus was expressed in her pouring a super expensive oil on him we're told in the text

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 that it cost about a year's worth of wages to buy the stuff and there was Mary just pouring all over Jesus

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 it was a demonstration of her total commitment to Jesus and her total trust in Jesus in Jesus she saw

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 something that gave her hope when the Jewish religious system when her own religion left her hopeless and

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 despairing but Mary before us again this morning in this story here she is standing in the darkness

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 weeping bitterly her hopes had died and were buried with Jesus

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 that's an incredible statement in her hopes had died and were buried with Jesus and she's left weeping

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 despairing engulfed by both physical and spiritual darkness as she recognizes that with Jesus body gone she can't even

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 grieve probably not only is is the hope that she had in Jesus cause gone but the body's gone she can't even

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 grieve she can't touch him she can't do that process that we all know to be such an important part of of relational

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 things even at the end of a relationship well at that very point

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 Mary's

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 Mary's darkness and despair is dispelled

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 first

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 two angels appear to her

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 and then Jesus himself appears and speaks directly

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 so that she knows he is alive

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 and it's just a very very moving

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 story that John records

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 here's this woman and you wonder why she's even there because

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 if any woman was going to be there and that's quite countercultural for a Jewish story to record a woman as a

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 as a focus

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 but if any woman was going to be there you might expect a Jesus mother to be there but no

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 this

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 woman with history with dubious character

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 this woman who had put so much hope in Jesus

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 is here in despair and weeping

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 and yet when Jesus speaks to her we can just sense the renewed hope and joy surging through our body

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 and becomes a confident statement to the disciples

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 I have seen the Lord

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 so what Peter and John had derived from physical evidence

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 Jesus

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 Mary learned directly both as revealed truth

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 and experiential truth

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 used both those terms last week when they speak

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 Jesus engages Mary relationally

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 Mary he speaks to her

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 he calls her by her name

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 and her troubled dark heart

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 is filled with truth

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 and light

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 and life

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 not only

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 is Jesus

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 not in the grave anymore

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 but he's alive

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 he's out there

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 he's on the loose

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 and he's engaging Mary

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 and replacing

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 dispelling darkness

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 and despair

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 with hope

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 and light

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 and life

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 look at verse 17

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 a wonderful verse in there

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 Jesus said to her

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 do not cling to me

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 I guess she must have thrown herself at his feet or something like that

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 do not cling to me for I have not yet ascended to the Father

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 but go to my brothers

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 and say to them

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 I am ascending to my Father

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 and your Father

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 to my God

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 and your God

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 now that's a

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 that's a chock-a-block full of wonderful things type verse

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 go to my brothers

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 says Jesus

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 tell them

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 go to my

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 I am ascending to my Father

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 and your Father

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 your Father Mary

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 your God Mary

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 the significance of this verse

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 well

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 so many things can be said about it

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 Jesus

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 is confirming

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 that he has done

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 what he said he would do

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 as God's King and Saviour

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 just a week earlier

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 remember back to chapter 14

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 and that was only a few days earlier

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 five or six days earlier

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 chapter 14

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 Jesus said to his people

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 do not be troubled in heart

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 I'm going away in death

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 to prepare a place in heaven for you

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 and then verse 6 of that same chapter

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 over that meal that night

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 only six days earlier

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 Jesus also said

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 I am the way

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 the truth

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 and the life

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 no person comes to the Father

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 but through me

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 now

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 in the words of a

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 Colby Cannon song

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 what Mary

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 the lost

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 and despairing

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 needs most

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 is to find the way

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 back to God

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 what Mary

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 the confused

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 and deceived

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 needs most

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 is the truth

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 that will set her free

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 from sin and death

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 what Mary

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 the dead

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 in her sins

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 needs most

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 is life

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 eternal

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 abundant life

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 and verse 17 here

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 tells us that

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 Mary had

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 all her needs

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 met

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 in Jesus'

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 death and resurrection

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 all her needs

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 were confirmed

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 as being met

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 in this one encounter

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 Jesus' resurrection

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 had changed

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 everything for Mary

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 and the first disciples

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 Jesus

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 in speaking to her

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 in being there

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 confirmed that he is God

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 who else

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 has power

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 and authority

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 to come and go

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 in his world

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 as he needs to

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 death could not

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 hold him

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 and now he says

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 he will go back

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 to his father

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 and to his throne

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 in heaven

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 having completed

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 his salvation task

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 powerful

00:19:31.779 --> 00:19:33.099
 irrefutable

00:19:33.099 --> 00:19:34.619
 compelling evidence

00:19:34.619 --> 00:19:35.700
 that Jesus

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 is God

00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:38.339
 and Jesus

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 confirms that

00:19:39.159 --> 00:19:40.179
 Mary was right

00:19:40.179 --> 00:19:41.319
 to put her

00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:41.879
 confidence

00:19:41.879 --> 00:19:42.679
 and hope

00:19:42.679 --> 00:19:43.200
 in him

00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.119
 both she

00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:47.759
 and the disciples

00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:48.659
 are now

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 in new

00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:50.379
 relationship

00:19:50.379 --> 00:19:51.159
 with the fathers

00:19:51.159 --> 00:19:51.919
 through Jesus

00:19:51.919 --> 00:19:53.559
 they have new

00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:54.179
 family

00:19:54.179 --> 00:19:54.899
 with Jesus

00:19:54.899 --> 00:19:55.960
 my brothers

00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:56.879
 says Jesus

00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:58.300
 they have new

00:19:58.300 --> 00:19:58.820
 family

00:19:58.820 --> 00:19:59.480
 with Jesus

00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:00.720
 your father

00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:01.820
 your God

00:20:01.820 --> 00:20:03.320
 he speaks to Mary

00:20:03.320 --> 00:20:06.300
 she who was distant

00:20:06.300 --> 00:20:07.340
 and cut off

00:20:07.340 --> 00:20:07.840
 from God

00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:08.760
 because of our sin

00:20:08.760 --> 00:20:10.160
 is now

00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:10.660
 in new

00:20:10.660 --> 00:20:11.300
 relationship

00:20:11.300 --> 00:20:12.680
 with the father

00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:14.120
 personal relationship

00:20:14.120 --> 00:20:14.660
 with the father

00:20:14.660 --> 00:20:15.740
 through Jesus

00:20:15.740 --> 00:20:17.700
 new family

00:20:17.700 --> 00:20:19.660
 new security

00:20:19.660 --> 00:20:21.360
 which guarantees

00:20:21.360 --> 00:20:22.240
 they will go to be

00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:22.820
 with the father

00:20:22.820 --> 00:20:24.080
 as Jesus will

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 as he ascends

00:20:25.099 --> 00:20:26.460
 so they will

00:20:26.460 --> 00:20:26.799
 ascend

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 and enjoy

00:20:27.579 --> 00:20:28.859
 a resurrection

00:20:28.859 --> 00:20:29.839
 with Jesus

00:20:29.839 --> 00:20:32.679
 now friends

00:20:32.679 --> 00:20:35.299
 there's the evidence

00:20:35.299 --> 00:20:37.359
 compelling evidence

00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:39.259
 and the evidence

00:20:39.259 --> 00:20:40.220
 that King Jesus

00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:40.939
 has risen

00:20:40.939 --> 00:20:42.119
 and is alive

00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:43.500
 and is on the loose

00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:45.839
 still demands

00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:46.399
 a verdict

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 from you

00:20:46.980 --> 00:20:50.000
 in 2020

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 that's John

00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:52.779
 purpose

00:20:52.779 --> 00:20:53.200
 in writing

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 the biography

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 we'll see that

00:20:54.579 --> 00:20:55.160
 next week

00:20:55.160 --> 00:20:56.460
 John's purpose

00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:57.000
 in writing

00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:57.660
 this biography

00:20:57.660 --> 00:20:58.299
 of the life

00:20:58.299 --> 00:20:58.720
 of Jesus

00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:00.180
 is to present

00:21:00.180 --> 00:21:00.980
 the evidence

00:21:00.980 --> 00:21:02.779
 that he believes

00:21:02.779 --> 00:21:04.160
 will cause people

00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:04.759
 to believe

00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:05.500
 that Jesus

00:21:05.500 --> 00:21:06.299
 is God

00:21:06.299 --> 00:21:06.880
 and Savior

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 and as a result

00:21:09.500 --> 00:21:10.440
 find eternal life

00:21:10.440 --> 00:21:11.500
 John's convinced

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 that if people

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 will only give

00:21:12.619 --> 00:21:13.140
 the evidence

00:21:13.140 --> 00:21:13.779
 a chance

00:21:13.779 --> 00:21:15.299
 then they will

00:21:15.299 --> 00:21:16.019
 be brought

00:21:16.019 --> 00:21:18.139
 they will theorize

00:21:18.139 --> 00:21:18.879
 like Peter

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 and they'll be brought

00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:21.359
 to a position

00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:22.559
 of understanding

00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:23.579
 that conclusion

00:21:23.579 --> 00:21:24.500
 that Jesus

00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:25.599
 is alive

00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:26.980
 Jesus is God

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 Jesus is God's Savior

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 and that

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 therefore

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 everything

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 is changed

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 now

00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:37.259
 here's a problem

00:21:37.259 --> 00:21:39.420
 the evidence

00:21:39.420 --> 00:21:40.259
 is compelling

00:21:40.259 --> 00:21:43.019
 yet so many

00:21:43.019 --> 00:21:44.200
 refuse to believe

00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:46.940
 why is that

00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:47.460
 do you think

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 well

00:21:49.980 --> 00:21:51.420
 it's very common

00:21:51.420 --> 00:21:52.360
 to blame

00:21:52.360 --> 00:21:53.500
 a lack of belief

00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:54.519
 on a lack

00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:55.059
 of evidence

00:21:55.059 --> 00:21:57.180
 but that's

00:21:57.180 --> 00:21:58.200
 just not right

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 the evidence

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 is compelling

00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.100
 more likely

00:22:03.100 --> 00:22:04.000
 in reality

00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.319
 they don't believe

00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:07.340
 because they don't

00:22:07.340 --> 00:22:08.819
 like the implications

00:22:08.819 --> 00:22:09.980
 of the evidence

00:22:09.980 --> 00:22:10.880
 they don't like

00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:11.660
 the implications

00:22:11.660 --> 00:22:12.600
 of belief

00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:14.399
 see here's how

00:22:14.399 --> 00:22:14.759
 it works

00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:15.839
 because if you

00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:17.000
 believe in Jesus

00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:17.719
 if you believe

00:22:17.719 --> 00:22:18.859
 that Jesus is God

00:22:18.859 --> 00:22:19.519
 that he really

00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:21.259
 did beat death

00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:21.959
 that he really

00:22:21.959 --> 00:22:22.919
 came back

00:22:22.919 --> 00:22:23.879
 that he's now

00:22:23.879 --> 00:22:24.980
 alive

00:22:24.980 --> 00:22:26.099
 and on the loose

00:22:26.099 --> 00:22:26.919
 and at large

00:22:26.919 --> 00:22:27.879
 in his own world

00:22:27.879 --> 00:22:29.219
 ruling as God's

00:22:29.219 --> 00:22:29.879
 King and Savior

00:22:29.879 --> 00:22:31.859
 then that

00:22:31.859 --> 00:22:33.740
 must force

00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:34.419
 an admission

00:22:34.419 --> 00:22:35.000
 from you

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:36.299
 the admission

00:22:36.299 --> 00:22:37.279
 must be

00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.639
 that I am not

00:22:38.639 --> 00:22:39.419
 a good person

00:22:39.419 --> 00:22:40.519
 that I

00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:41.240
 of my own

00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:41.759
 character

00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:42.859
 my own nature

00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:44.400
 I'm entitled

00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:44.940
 to heaven

00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:48.079
 and that I can

00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:48.579
 sort of do

00:22:48.579 --> 00:22:49.140
 some sort of

00:22:49.140 --> 00:22:49.500
 bargain

00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:50.099
 with God

00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:50.779
 saying well

00:22:50.779 --> 00:22:51.259
 of course

00:22:51.259 --> 00:22:52.119
 I'm not as good

00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:52.799
 as I could be

00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:54.140
 but I'm not as bad

00:22:54.140 --> 00:22:54.859
 as I could be either

00:22:54.859 --> 00:22:56.099
 and so I'm entitled

00:22:56.099 --> 00:22:56.500
 to heaven

00:22:56.500 --> 00:22:58.900
 now belief

00:22:58.900 --> 00:22:59.599
 in the resurrection

00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:00.099
 of Jesus

00:23:00.099 --> 00:23:01.019
 forces us

00:23:01.019 --> 00:23:01.640
 to admit

00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:03.420
 that that's not

00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:03.940
 the case

00:23:03.940 --> 00:23:06.859
 Jesus died

00:23:06.859 --> 00:23:08.920
 to bring

00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:09.759
 people like you

00:23:09.759 --> 00:23:10.119
 and me

00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:10.879
 into heaven

00:23:10.879 --> 00:23:12.359
 and then

00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:13.420
 this belief

00:23:13.420 --> 00:23:13.799
 in Jesus

00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:14.460
 forces the

00:23:14.460 --> 00:23:15.079
 recognition

00:23:15.079 --> 00:23:15.819
 that if

00:23:15.819 --> 00:23:16.140
 Jesus

00:23:16.140 --> 00:23:16.839
 is King

00:23:16.839 --> 00:23:17.379
 and Savior

00:23:17.379 --> 00:23:19.240
 then I

00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:19.759
 must live

00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:20.759
 all of life

00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:21.920
 under his

00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:22.379
 authority

00:23:22.379 --> 00:23:23.660
 and that

00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:24.039
 means

00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:24.400
 and this is

00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:24.900
 the really

00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:25.440
 hard bit

00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:25.839
 for most

00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:26.079
 people

00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:26.720
 that means

00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:27.940
 giving up

00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:29.079
 my autonomy

00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:30.339
 there can't

00:23:30.339 --> 00:23:31.059
 be two kings

00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:32.460
 I can't be

00:23:32.460 --> 00:23:33.059
 king of my

00:23:33.059 --> 00:23:33.460
 life

00:23:33.460 --> 00:23:34.879
 and be

00:23:34.879 --> 00:23:35.440
 autonomous

00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.220
 and at

00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:37.640
 the same

00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:38.019
 time

00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:38.519
 claim

00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:39.920
 to live

00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:40.320
 under

00:23:40.320 --> 00:23:41.600
 the rule

00:23:41.600 --> 00:23:41.860
 of the

00:23:41.860 --> 00:23:42.039
 Lord

00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:42.299
 Jesus

00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:42.740
 Christ

00:23:42.740 --> 00:23:45.880
 and that

00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:46.519
 is so hard

00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:46.900
 for us

00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:47.440
 we don't

00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:47.980
 want to

00:23:47.980 --> 00:23:48.299
 give up

00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:48.759
 our autonomy

00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:52.000
 and the

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:52.380
 irony

00:23:52.380 --> 00:23:53.100
 of the

00:23:53.100 --> 00:23:53.799
 Easter story

00:23:53.799 --> 00:23:54.440
 is in the

00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:54.960
 words of

00:23:54.960 --> 00:23:55.299
 Jesus

00:23:55.299 --> 00:23:55.779
 in verse

00:23:55.779 --> 00:23:56.259
 15

00:23:56.259 --> 00:23:57.200
 he says

00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:57.940
 who are

00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:58.440
 you seeking

00:23:58.440 --> 00:23:58.880
 whom

00:23:58.880 --> 00:23:59.380
 are you

00:23:59.380 --> 00:23:59.720
 seeking

00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:02.180
 and here's

00:24:02.180 --> 00:24:02.559
 the problem

00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:02.960
 for us

00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:04.620
 we long

00:24:04.620 --> 00:24:05.140
 to be

00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:05.640
 accepted

00:24:05.640 --> 00:24:06.299
 with God

00:24:06.299 --> 00:24:07.980
 we are

00:24:07.980 --> 00:24:08.500
 seeking

00:24:08.500 --> 00:24:08.960
 someone

00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:09.420
 who will

00:24:09.420 --> 00:24:10.100
 make us

00:24:10.100 --> 00:24:10.579
 acceptable

00:24:10.579 --> 00:24:11.039
 with God

00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:11.539
 who will

00:24:11.539 --> 00:24:11.920
 take us

00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:12.380
 home to

00:24:12.380 --> 00:24:12.660
 heaven

00:24:12.660 --> 00:24:13.740
 we long

00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:14.019
 to have

00:24:14.019 --> 00:24:14.460
 security

00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:14.940
 and hope

00:24:14.940 --> 00:24:15.900
 given that

00:24:15.900 --> 00:24:16.299
 we're so

00:24:16.299 --> 00:24:16.819
 fragile

00:24:16.819 --> 00:24:17.259
 and given

00:24:17.259 --> 00:24:17.819
 that death

00:24:17.819 --> 00:24:18.400
 is a

00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:18.660
 certain

00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:19.160
 part of

00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:19.500
 life

00:24:19.500 --> 00:24:23.620
 but we'd

00:24:23.620 --> 00:24:24.480
 rather miss

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:25.039
 out on the

00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:25.360
 way

00:24:25.360 --> 00:24:26.680
 the truth

00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:27.079
 and the

00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:27.420
 life

00:24:27.420 --> 00:24:28.980
 rather than

00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:29.440
 give up

00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:30.019
 our autonomy

00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:31.400
 rather than

00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:32.200
 totally commit

00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:32.720
 to Jesus

00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:33.220
 as Mary

00:24:33.220 --> 00:24:33.559
 did

00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:34.840
 so often

00:24:34.840 --> 00:24:35.940
 people turn

00:24:35.940 --> 00:24:36.900
 and walk

00:24:36.900 --> 00:24:37.740
 away from

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:37.980
 Jesus

00:24:37.980 --> 00:24:38.920
 even though

00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:40.200
 he's the

00:24:40.200 --> 00:24:40.620
 one that

00:24:40.620 --> 00:24:41.200
 they've been

00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:41.960
 seeking all

00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:42.580
 their lifetime

00:24:42.580 --> 00:24:46.140
 so friends

00:24:46.140 --> 00:24:46.720
 Jesus'

00:24:46.940 --> 00:24:47.380
 resurrection

00:24:47.380 --> 00:24:48.600
 changes

00:24:48.600 --> 00:24:49.500
 and it

00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:50.140
 demands

00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:51.059
 we change

00:24:51.059 --> 00:24:51.539
 how we

00:24:51.539 --> 00:24:51.960
 think about

00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:52.140
 him

00:24:52.140 --> 00:24:52.700
 how we

00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:52.980
 think about

00:24:52.980 --> 00:24:53.420
 ourselves

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:55.640
 I started

00:24:55.640 --> 00:24:56.039
 by saying

00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:56.779
 that death

00:24:56.779 --> 00:24:57.440
 is very

00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:58.059
 much a

00:24:58.059 --> 00:24:58.400
 part of

00:24:58.400 --> 00:24:58.900
 our life

00:24:58.900 --> 00:25:01.340
 well

00:25:01.340 --> 00:25:02.019
 I end

00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:02.380
 by saying

00:25:02.380 --> 00:25:02.960
 that Jesus

00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:03.800
 backs the

00:25:03.800 --> 00:25:04.160
 trend

00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:06.000
 and offers

00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:06.360
 us

00:25:06.360 --> 00:25:07.380
 the life

00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:08.580
 that is

00:25:08.580 --> 00:25:09.280
 very much

00:25:09.280 --> 00:25:09.700
 a part

00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:10.000
 of his

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:10.420
 death

00:25:10.420 --> 00:25:13.720
 this is

00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:14.120
 why

00:25:14.120 --> 00:25:14.780
 Easter

00:25:14.780 --> 00:25:15.200
 is so

00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:15.720
 offensive

00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:17.920
 because there's

00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:18.440
 not room

00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:19.540
 for King

00:25:19.540 --> 00:25:19.960
 me

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:20.860
 and King

00:25:20.860 --> 00:25:21.360
 Jesus

00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:24.159
 but there's

00:25:24.159 --> 00:25:24.859
 also why

00:25:24.859 --> 00:25:25.819
 Easter is

00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:26.719
 so wonderful

00:25:26.719 --> 00:25:27.419
 at the

00:25:27.419 --> 00:25:27.979
 same time

00:25:27.979 --> 00:25:28.299
 Jesus

00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:29.319
 says to

00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:29.539
 Mary

00:25:29.539 --> 00:25:30.359
 why are

00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:30.539
 you

00:25:30.539 --> 00:25:30.939
 weeping

00:25:30.939 --> 00:25:31.619
 in despair

00:25:31.619 --> 00:25:31.959
 Mary

00:25:31.959 --> 00:25:34.099
 there is

00:25:34.099 --> 00:25:34.799
 no

00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.199
 nothing

00:25:36.199 --> 00:25:37.059
 so out

00:25:37.059 --> 00:25:37.579
 of place

00:25:37.579 --> 00:25:38.379
 as weeping

00:25:38.379 --> 00:25:39.000
 in despair

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.439
 in the

00:25:40.439 --> 00:25:40.799
 presence

00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.119
 of the

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:42.619
 resurrected

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 Jesus

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 who brings

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 life

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 and light

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 and hope

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 and security

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 so

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 Easter

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 is it

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 something that

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 will be

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 offensive to

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 you

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 or something

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 that will be

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 wonderful to

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 you

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 hopefully

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 it's something

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 that begins

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 as an offence

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 to you

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 and challenges

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 you

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 and then

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 reshapes you

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 so it becomes

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 wonderful to

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 you

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 but the question

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 remains a very

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:12.960
 simple

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 bland but

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 profound question

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 what will

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 the Jesus

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 who came

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 back from

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 the dead

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 be to

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 you

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 thank you

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 very much

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 for listening

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 I'm going to

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 pray

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 and hopefully

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 you'll join me

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 in prayer

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 and then we'll

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 throw back

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 to Rob

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 Lord

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 we echo

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 your words

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 to Mary

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 why are

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 you weeping

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 we identify

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 with Mary

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 Lord

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 caught up

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 in

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 sometimes

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 the despair

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 of life

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 sometimes

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 Lord

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 we're just

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 reduced

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 by our

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 fragility

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 to

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 sadness

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 and weeping

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 we thank

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 you Lord

00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.039
 at that

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 very point

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 of need

00:27:00.420 --> 00:27:02.319
 you spoke

00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:03.019
 into Mary's

00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:03.399
 life

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 dispelled

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 her despair

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 and

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 made hope

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 new hope

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 and confidence

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 and security

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 and life

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 surge

00:27:12.339 --> 00:27:12.779
 through her

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 body

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 and I

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 pray

00:27:14.639 --> 00:27:14.899
 Lord

00:27:14.899 --> 00:27:15.159
 that you

00:27:15.159 --> 00:27:15.359
 might

00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:15.819
 do that

00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:16.399
 for each

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 one of us

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 listening in

00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:18.440
 today

00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:19.019
 that you

00:27:19.019 --> 00:27:19.319
 might

00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:21.639
 re-energize

00:27:21.639 --> 00:27:22.179
 us for those

00:27:22.179 --> 00:27:22.779
 of us who are

00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:23.099
 ready

00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:24.440
 committed to

00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:25.099
 serving you

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 fill us again

00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:27.259
 Lord with the

00:27:27.259 --> 00:27:27.839
 admiration

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 of your love

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 for us

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 and the desire

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 to serve you

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 better

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 and for those

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:33.839
 Lord who might

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 be listening

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 this morning

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 who still

00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:36.679
 want to be

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 king

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 in their own

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 lives

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 Lord

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 confront

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 and break

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 down that

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:43.080
 opposition

00:27:43.080 --> 00:27:43.460
 so they

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 might seek

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 you

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 the living

00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:46.259
 Lord

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 and know

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 life

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 life eternal

00:27:49.560 --> 00:27:50.340
 life abundant

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 pray this in

00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:52.440
 Jesus name

00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.200
 Amen

00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:54.819
 Amen

00:27:54.819 --> 00:27:54.940
 Amen

00:27:54.940 --> 00:27:56.140
 Amen

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 drum

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 up

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 есте

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 Holy

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 beams

00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:02.220
 through

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 march

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 health

00:28:02.820 --> 00:28:03.320
 amen

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