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He is risen!

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Yay!

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Yeah, much better than the first service.

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Okay.

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Alright, hey, if you got a Bible, turn to Matthew chapter 22.

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My message is, "Do you believe in the resurrection?"

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And in Matthew chapter 22, I'm gonna kinda get after this.

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I went on a long last time, and I gotta get a boy to the airport.

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Or my wife does, but...

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In Matthew chapter 22, some questions start coming at Jesus.

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And I don't know if you got questions. I got questions.

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Scott questions? I got questions.

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And a good teacher, I think, is always ready to field some questions,

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especially when they come with a tone of desiring to learn,

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and desiring to know the truth.

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A lot of people ask questions, and they could care less,

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and we'll see some of that today, but...

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Here in Matthew chapter 22, Jesus first gets hit by the Pharisees

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when they ask him about taxes.

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A political question, right?

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Should we pay taxes?

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I don't know. What do you guys think?

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Not! No.

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Sorry, it's coming, like it or not.

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And anyway, so they try to trip him up.

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They said, "Should we pay taxes to Caesar or no?"

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And Jesus, in his classic being full of knowledge and wisdom,

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addresses them in Matthew 22, 18, and says,

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"But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said,

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'Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

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Show me the tax money.'

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So they brought him a denarius, and he said to them,

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whose image and inscription is this,

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and they said to him, 'Caesars,' and he said to them,

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'Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,

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and to God the things that are God's.'"

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And when they heard these words, they marveled,

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and left him and went their way.

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Right? He shuts them up, because hey, if Jesus says,

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"Yes, pay taxes," right, then he's basically against the Jews,

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and the Jews believe that their money could be spent on something

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much better than giving it to Caesar.

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So they felt like he would be against God if he said,

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"Yes, pay taxes to Caesar."

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But if he said, "No, don't pay taxes to Caesar,"

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then he would be in trouble with Caesar.

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So they really thought they had him over a barrel.

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But he goes right to the heart of the issue,

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and that's what I love about the Lord,

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is he will put his finger right on your heart,

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right where you're at in your life,

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and he'll convict you, and he'll whisper in your ear,

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"The Lord's gentle. He doesn't kick the door of your life,

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and go, 'I'm here, you know, Lambo, you know, Lambo, God, Lambo.'"

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Okay, never mind.

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But he says, "Whose image? Whose image is on the coin?

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It's Caesar's image. Well, then give it to Caesar.

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It's his."

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But what he suggests, but he doesn't necessarily say,

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is whose image is on you?

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Whose image is on you?

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The Bible says that we are created in the image of God.

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Then you need to give to God what's his.

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"Our life is not our own," the Bible says.

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"You and I have been bought with a price,

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the precious blood of Jesus."

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We heard the question this week

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when we were in Costa Rica, what's more important,

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the death of Christ or the resurrection?

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Well, other people have died before,

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but I'm really thankful for the death of Christ

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because the Bible says that his blood that was shed there

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on Good Friday cleanses me from my sin,

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but nobody's ever risen from the dead never to die again.

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And not only does he have eternal life,

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he offers eternal life to you and I.

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So which is more important?

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It's kind of like saying what's more important,

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the lock or the key, right?

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And both are powerful, but the resurrection is the pearl.

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It's the completion of the gospel, the resurrection.

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And do you really believe in it?

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Now, if you really believe in it,

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it totally affects the way you live your life.

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If you truly honestly believe in the resurrection

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of the Lord Jesus Christ and his promise

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that you and I will be resurrected as well.

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So we automatically should give to God that which is his.

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And I've found that when you do, life is so much better.

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And so that was the first question.

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The next question is more of a doctrinal question.

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We read it, read along with me in verse 23 of Matthew chapter 22.

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"And the same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,

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his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.

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Now there were with us seven brothers.

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The first died after he had married and having no offspring,

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Likewise the second also the third, even to the seventh.

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Last of all, the woman died also.

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Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of the seven shall she be,

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for they all had her.'

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Jesus answered and said to them,

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'You are mistaken not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God,

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for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage,

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but are like angels of God in heaven.

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But concerning the resurrection of the dead,

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have you not read what was spoken to you by God,

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saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

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God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

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And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at his teaching."

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Amen.

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Jesus just knows how to shut people up.

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Right?

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He lands base these guys, these Sadducees, right?

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The Sadducees were the religious liberals of their day.

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There weren't many of them, but they were very wealthy and very influential,

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these Sadducees.

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And this group accepted only the authority of the first five books of the Bible.

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The Sadducees did not believe in the spirit world, in the doctrine of the resurrection.

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Acts chapter 23 verse 8 says,

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"For Sadducees say there is no resurrection and no angel or spirit,

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but the Pharisees confess both."

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And so the Sadducees, the old saying in Christendom, right,

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is, "Say there's no resurrection. That's why they are sad, you see."

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And, and, that would be very sad, would it not?

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I don't know about you, but if this is all there is, it's terrible, right?

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If this is the only hope you got, you don't have hope, life after death,

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do you believe in the resurrection?

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I mean, really believe.

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Because when you do, it does, it totally changes your life.

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So this second question, this question that the Pharisees come with are,

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you know, there's one political, one doctrinal, Gino Grassi,

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the pastor of South Denver, Calvary Chapel, he said this,

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"Now we know that politics do divide and doctrines do divide.

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The fact that politics divide does not eliminate the need to be governed,

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and the fact that doctrines divides does not mean that there is no such thing as truth."

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Politics divide, right?

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Got some Dems and some Republicans in the room?

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Just wondering.

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But they're divided, are they not?

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And there is the left and the right,

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and there is light and darkness, and there are fools,

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and there's those who are wise, and you see all in the political realm.

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My old buddy said, "Politics is a compound Greek word that means 'poly',

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which means 'many', and 'tix', which means 'blood-sucking parasites'."

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Those of you in politics, no offense, right?

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Hopefully you're doing it God's way, right?

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But neither one of these groups could care less about the truth, right?

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When they came to Jesus with these questions, they didn't want the truth.

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They simply wanted to get rid of Jesus or embarrass him or humiliate him,

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which is pretty hard to do against God.

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You're not going to overcome him.

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You're not going to be more wise than him.

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The Bible says the foolishness of God is more wise than the greatest wisdom of mankind,

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and it's so true.

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But people ask sometimes questions, not because they want to know the answer.

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A lot of times it's just because they want to start an argument.

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I get people talking to me all the time about stuff,

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about things that I've said from this pulpit,

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and I've said some things from this pulpit

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that probably aren't overly popular, and that's okay.

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I'm a big boy. I guess I can take my lumps.

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But a lot of questions are just really stupid.

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Stupid questions.

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And I've heard people say there's no stupid questions.

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I have to disagree.

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There are some stupid questions, right?

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You know, in Christendom, you hear all these growing up in your Christian walk, you know,

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"Can God make a rock so big that he couldn't carry it?"

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Now, the people who ask that, they don't really want to know the answer, right?

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They just want to try to fumble somebody up to come up with some stupid answer.

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And really, when you think about the character of God,

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the answer would be obviously no, because that would be a stupid thing.

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Why would he do that?

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Or how about this one?

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Where did Cain get his wife?

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Well, we all know that one.

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He went to FarmersOnly.com.

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Because Cain was a farmer.

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Founding some chick with covered oils.

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Did Adam and Eve have a belly button?

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That's a good question.

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Not.

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They didn't have an umbilical cord because they were created, right?

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But who doesn't know that God didn't go, "Goo, goo, goo, there's your navel."

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Some debate on whether it's an innie or an outie.

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I don't know.

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It's a stupid question.

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So, the Sadducees are right in vain with those stupid questions.

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They talk about this woman who married seven brothers.

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My first question is, "She must have been a bad cook."

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But it's actually ridiculous when you think about it.

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Now, they're alluding to a law that was actually in the Old Testament law in Deuteronomy 5 verses 5 through 10.

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It talks about God so loves the family and He loves the airship of family and it's His design.

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That's why this same-sex transgender stuff is such a stench in the nostrils of the Lord.

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I'll get some emails on that.

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Got a smoking one while I was gone on the whole supporting Israel thing.

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God so loves this idea of family that if a man was to die without having any sons, that his brother had the duty to raise up a son with the dead man's wife,

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that he would have an heir and that his name would continue on.

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That's God's heart.

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But these guys are just ludicrous in thinking, you know, a lot of Bible scholars think that they were kind of snickering back and forth thinking they were really going to get Jesus to come up with some kind of a silly answer.

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But they didn't even believe in the resurrection.

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And they had this skewed view that life, if there was in fact a resurrection, that life would continue like we experience it now.

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Who would want that?

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Who would want life to continue like we experience it now?

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Trouble, heartache, sickness, death.

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I mean, no, I'm looking for something much better.

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And I'm thinking there is something much better.

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But this wasn't a new idea.

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Even in the law of Moses, it went clear back to Genesis chapter 38.

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You guys remember the story, right?

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When the family drama was getting too much for Judah, you know, after they sold Joseph.

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And he's just like, ah, and he throws in the towel and he leaves and he marries a cane to that woman.

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He has a son named Ur and he takes a wife for him and Ur dies.

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Actually, God kills Ur because he's wicked.

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And but, but Judah had another son named Onan and he gave him to that to that wife to raise up an heir to his brother.

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But this dude was just as wicked and actually in the sex act, he admitted his semen on the ground.

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And so that he didn't have to raise up an heir to his brother.

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He hated the whole, it's a lever rate bow as how it's spelt or a lever rate marriage.

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It means brother-in-law that he was supposed to do that.

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Because the Bible says in Malachi that God seeks, listen, God seeks godly seed.

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That's why he loves this whole holy matrimony between a man and a woman.

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Because from a man and a woman can come godly seed.

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That's God's heart.

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That's his love.

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That's his focus is us.

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He loves us.

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So when people come along and say that the same sex thing is okay, that's a lie right out of the pit of hell.

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It is a lie because it does not produce life.

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It does not produce life.

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It only produces death.

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And that's what sin produces, right?

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The wages of sin is death.

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They come together with this ludicrous story and Jesus answers them.

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And in verse 29, Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God."

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He says, "You're mistaken."

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Actually the word for mistaken there is deceived.

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You have deceived yourself.

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Have you deceived yourself?

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Do you know what truth is?

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Or should I ask you this?

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Do you know who truth is?

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Because ultimately truth is a person and his name is Jesus, right?

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He said, "I am the truth."

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And basically he says, "You don't know what you're talking about."

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Now many people don't understand the Bible.

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They are ignorant of the scriptures.

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Not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God, what Jesus is saying here, their mistake was rooted in two causes.

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First, they did not know the scriptures because obviously they didn't read the entirety of the Old Testament.

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They only held on to the first five books.

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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And so they didn't, they hadn't read about a lot of the things that the prophets talked about and that were prophesied in the Psalms.

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They weren't embracing these things and in the book of Isaiah, they were talking about a future life and a future kingdom known as the Millennial Kingdom.

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They didn't know of these things.

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They were ignorant.

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They didn't know God's Word.

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They didn't believe in the supernatural.

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And no wonder they're sad.

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This was true of them even though their religion, in their religion, they were highly trained.

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They were very knowledgeable in what they knew and what they supposedly believed.

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It is possible for a person to have much Bible knowledge and yet fundamentally not know the scriptures.

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Right? I talk to people like that a lot.

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In fact, I got chastised here.

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Like I said in an email while I was gone and they were quoting scripture to me.

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But you have to take the entirety of the scripture.

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You can't just single out one thing and make your own doctrine from it.

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And they said that the Jews were condemned in this email.

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The Jews were condemned because in John chapter 8, Jesus said they were liars and of their father, the devil.

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But when you take the entirety of the strict scripture, you look at Romans, right?

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It says that all men are liars.

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So the Jews must be worse liars than you and I. Let God be true and every man a liar.

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It says they're in Romans.

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And so they also alluded to the verse that says you must hate evil.

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So we must hate them.

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But in the entirety of the scripture, in Luke chapter 8, Jesus calls his disciples evil.

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So we're supposed to hate the disciples too?

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This person who wrote this email to me, if you're here, you do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

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Because the power of God can actually convert a Jewish soul.

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He did it.

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Right? Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, they were saved men.

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They were part of the same hedon.

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They were Jewish men.

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They were religious Jews that got saved.

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And Jews are continuing to get saved.

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When you hate,

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you're very possibly disqualifying yourself.

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So, the power of God.

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The Sadducees denied supernatural truth just as the existence of angelic beings and the bodily resurrection.

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They had a fundamental doubt of the power of God to do beyond what they could measure and understand in the material world.

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Many today are like the Sadducees in this respect.

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Right?

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I believe it if I see it.

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And yet God calls us to believe without seeing.

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You remember Jesus, right? When he had his little encounter with doubting Thomas at the resurrection.

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Thomas says, "Unless I put my hand in his side and I stick my finger in the hole of his hands, I won't believe."

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And you guys remember the story Jesus shows?

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Hey, Thomas, look here. Go ahead. Stick your hand in there. Right here.

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Here. Right? Let's see.

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Can you hit the hole? Let's go.

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He said, "Blessed are you, Thomas," and he falls down. You remember what he says?

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"My Lord and my God."

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And Jesus says, "Blessed are you, Thomas, for saying you believe, but more blessed are those who believe without seeing."

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And so that's where faith comes in.

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That's where believing in the resurrection.

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Now, when I came to faith in Christ,

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I was still young and death still had a little bit of a hold on me, but not nearly the grip that it had on me before.

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I was still competing in rodeos and I had some friends get killed riding bulls and I continued to do it knowing that it could be.

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And one of them big boogers step on your noggin, it's kind of like a zit.

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Pop that, baby. Pop your head wide open.

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And, um, but I had put my faith in Jesus and I was walking by faith knowing that if I did die, which some had, I was okay.

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Because I believed. I believed that this life wasn't it, that there was more.

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Matthew Poole, the Bible scholar says this, he says, "If you knew the power of God," speaking of the Sadducees,

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"If you knew the power of God, you would know that God is able to raise the dead.

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If you knew the scriptures, you would know that God will raise the dead."

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He going to do it. He's going to raise the dead, righteous and unrighteous.

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And we need to believe that. We need to be ready for that.

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Job asked the age old question, right? In Job chapter 14, verse 14, "If a man dies, shall he live again?"

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And then he kind of answers his own question. "All the days of my hard service, I will wait till my change comes."

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The Bible says that when Jesus comes, you and I are going to be changed in the twinkling of an eye, like that we're going to be changed.

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We're going to receive a new body.

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And as hard as Job's life was, he had hope of something better.

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And we know that at the end, holy cow, he gets it all.

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The Lord increases, doubles everything that he had lost.

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His patient faith kept him there.

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But in chapter 19, he says, "For I know that my Redeemer lives, that he shall stand at the last on the earth.

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And after my skin is destroyed, this I know that in my flesh I shall see God."

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Job knew of the resurrection.

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He believed it.

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Do you honestly believe in the resurrection?

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Do you know that God has the power to raise you?

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If you don't, I would like to give you that opportunity today.

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You can know that you're going to be raised from the dead.

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You can know that you possibly may be able to escape death and take part in the rapture of the church.

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First Thessalonians chapter four, read it and get excited.

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Then in verse 30, Jesus says this, "For in the resurrection..."

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This is suggesting Jesus believes in the resurrection.

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Is there a greater authority on God's word than Jesus?

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In fact, in Revelation, when he comes back, isn't it written on his thigh, the word of God?

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He is the word of God, the living word of God.

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Jesus believed it. He says, "For in the resurrection, they neither marry or are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven."

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But this new body that we get is, it's different.

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It's different than this body.

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One pastor said, "God gives us a body appropriate to where we are."

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Right? With this body's appropriate on the earth.

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We love procreation. God loves his image. Right?

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And we get to be a part of that.

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In the life to come, when we get our new body, right?

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God's going to give us a body appropriate to where we are.

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We're going to be in his presence.

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We're going to actually be able to see him face to face, to see the full essence of God.

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Has any man ever seen the full essence of God?

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I don't think so.

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Because the Bible says you can't and live.

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Right? Jesus said no one has seen God at any time in the full essence.

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Jesus was, yes, God in human flesh, but he was veiled by flesh.

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The God of heaven.

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That you and I couldn't stand in his presence being a sinful, fallen creature.

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But there's a time when we're going to be.

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Not all about you, but I get a little giddy when I start thinking about it.

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Warren Wiersbe says this, "Jesus did not say that we would be angels when we are glorified in heaven.

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He said we would be as the angels, in that we would be sexless and not married or given in marriage.

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The foolish stories we hear and the cartoons we see about people dying and becoming angels are certainly unbiblical.

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And that's so true.

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When people tell me when their loved one dies, well, they're an angel.

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No, they're not.

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You know, if they're with Jesus, they're a glorified human being.

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And the Bible says that we get to judge the angels.

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Right now, we're lower than the angels.

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And the Bible says that angels desire to look into these things, this whole salvation thing.

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It kind of behooves them.

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That you and I have a choice.

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You have a choice today, whether you're going to believe in the resurrection or not.

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You have that choice.

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Have you made it?

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I can't wait.

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Because God gives us those bodies.

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1 Corinthians 15 tells us all about it.

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Right?

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The difference between the body here on earth, like taking a kernel of corn and putting it in the ground.

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And then the plant that comes up from that corn, does it resemble anything like that kernel?

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Inside it, you see it.

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Because then you get all kinds of questions about how it...

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Well, will we know each other or nothing?

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Well, Charles Spurgeon said, "Well, I sure hope we're not more stupid in heaven than we are here."

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I would hope we would know each other.

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It's going to be incredible.

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I always read this passage.

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If you have a Bible, turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 5.

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I'm going to be kind of quick here.

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2 Corinthians chapter 5.

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Always read this at funerals.

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And as you get older, this becomes more...

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Has more substance to it.

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It says, "For in this we groan," chapter 5, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 2,

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"For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven.

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If indeed having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.

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For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed,

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that mortality," that's this carcass, "may be swallowed up by life.

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Now he who has prepared us for this very thing is God."

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Jesus said what?

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"I go to prepare a place for you."

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Right?

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"And if I go, I'm going to come and I'm going to receive you unto myself.

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In my Father's house are many dwellings."

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Dwelling place.

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He's making me this dwelling place.

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I'm thinking it's going to be about 6, 10.

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I'm just kidding.

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But I know this is going to be good.

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It's going to be so different, right?

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The Bible talks about that there's no sorrow there.

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There's no pain there.

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There's no tears.

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There's no need for sleep, right?

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The light is the lamb.

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You can read about it in Revelation chapter 21.

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Powerful stuff.

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David Guzik says, "The glory of heaven will be on you, and you will be on your own."

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David Guzik says, "The glory of heaven will be a relationship connection with God that

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surpasses anything else, including present family relationships."

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You're going to have a relationship with God that

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is like nothing you've ever experienced

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when you believe in the resurrection,

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when you taste of the eternal life that Jesus has for us.

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Maybe you haven't tasted that yet because it's obvious that we get a little taste of it here.

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When you know the Scriptures and the power of God.

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Or could I say, when you know the Scriptures, you know the power of God.

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Because Hebrews 4-12 says that the word of God, it's living and it's powerful.

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It infuses you and I with power when we partake and we put it in our hearts.

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So many people, they've never read the Bible.

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Listen, I am a bonehead when it comes to studious stuff.

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I'm not a very good reader.

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I barely graduated high school.

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There are a couple girls helping me get through special ed.

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But I've been reading the Bible now for over 30 years.

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I think I've read through the Bible probably about between 25 and 30 times.

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And I receive more life now when I read God's Word than I did 25 years ago.

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That's the word of God.

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If you're not reading the word of God, you're not going to experience the power of God.

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And they just throw a hand in a glove.

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So start reading.

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Yeah, we got that thing, you know.

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And I got it with me, it was my other Bible, that hang on thing.

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It's fascinating the scriptures that we read through while we were in Costa Rica.

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It was just like it was spot on.

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You know, the old saying, wherever you're at in the scriptures is where you're at in life.

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It was just like, bam, bam, bam.

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Wow, God's really speaking to us.

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And we're experiencing the power of God.

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When we went there, we worked a lot, right?

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We worked a lot. We got tired.

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But we had some people praying that on the way, the people that we would encounter,

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the people we encountered on the way there and the way back,

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I sat with a little boy and his grandma when we flew back from, I flew from Atlanta to Bozeman.

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And he told me his name.

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He says, "My name is Ian Grandpre Hurst." Right?

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So his grandma started telling, it was a Christian, they were Christians.

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His grandma started telling me, he said, "This little boy," he said, "several years ago, his dad died."

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His mom remarried this incredible Christian man that he has an older brother and older sister.

473
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
He said, "After that, she got cancer. She died, my daughter.

474
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Now this man, this stepdad is raising these three kids, these three kids."

475
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:13,000
And she said, "It is amazing to see what God has done in this family."

476
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Christmas day, their house burnt to the ground.

477
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Yeah, this little boy, he's nine years old and he looks at me and he says,

478
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"Everything happens for a reason."

479
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Nine years old.

480
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
I'm going, "You're my new hero. I think I love you.

481
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000
Can I change my middle name to Grandpre?"

482
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,000
I'm just thinking, this boy's got it. Right?

483
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000
He's got it. He's not tripped up by death.

484
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
He knows his dad and his mom are in a good place.

485
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,000
They're with Jesus and he can't wait to get there at nine years old.

486
00:33:51,000 --> 00:34:01,000
These guys are bringing this whole marriage thing to Jesus and he's going,

487
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000
"You don't even get it." Right?

488
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
There's no need for that.

489
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
I know some people are bummed about that.

490
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Now I'm not really.

491
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000
I mean, I am crazy about my little bride.

492
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,000
We've been going on 37 years now.

493
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Everywhere with my Connie is sweeter than the year before. Right?

494
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:27,000
But she has had to put up with me for those 37 years. Right?

495
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:34,000
It's kind of like the Mormon missionaries that went and was telling this woman about eternal marriage.

496
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,000
"You can be sealed to this man for time and eternity."

497
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000
She goes, "You get out of my house. Don't you ever come back."

498
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:46,000
And the missionaries were taken back. They're going, "Ma'am, we're so sorry. What did we do?"

499
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:52,000
She said, "I've been married to this bum for 25 years. I dang sure ain't going to be married to him forever."

500
00:34:52,000 --> 00:35:05,000
So finally, verses 31 and 32, Jesus takes them to their own scriptures.

501
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:10,000
He said, "But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read?"

502
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Jesus Christ is indicting these religious people for not reading the Bible.

503
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,000
What would he do to you if you stood before him today?

504
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Have you not read what was spoken to you by God saying,

505
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,000
"I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

506
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,000
God is not the God of the dead, but the living.

507
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Now get it. This is New Testament times. This is the time of Jesus.

508
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
They're back there a couple thousand years.

509
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

510
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:47,000
He said, "I am their God." He did not say, "I was their God."

511
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000
He is their God right now because they are alive.

512
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Right? And Abraham is speaking in Luke chapter 16 when you see Abraham is alive and well.

513
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
He's in paradise. He's speaking to the rich man.

514
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:07,000
He says, "You guys, I'm not the God of the dead."

515
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Right? "Only the God of the living."

516
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,000
Souls, listen, souls do not die.

517
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000
They get a new body.

518
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,000
So there's two resurrections.

519
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000
The first one is the one you want to take part in because you get a new body.

520
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000
It's as the angels, the Bible says, right?

521
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Man, you get to go to and fro, you know, travel at, I don't know, Mach 10, maybe.

522
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,000
You get this new body.

523
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:47,000
But listen, the second resurrection, they get a body that seems to burn for all eternity.

524
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Where Jesus said, "Their worm does not die," speaking of torment,

525
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:58,000
"and their fire is not quenched," speaking of the heat and punishment of hell.

526
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Which body do you want?

527
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Listen, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are alive.

528
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Why? Because Jesus is alive.

529
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Amen?

530
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Jesus Christ is the cure for death.

531
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Have you taken the cure?

532
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000
He's the death eater. He's the death conqueror.

533
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000
James chapter, excuse me, John chapter 11, 25, "I am the resurrection and life.

534
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000
He who believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."

535
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Hebrews chapter 2, verse 9, "He tasted death for every person," Jesus did,

536
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000
"everyone who would accept him."

537
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Hebrews chapter 2, verse 15, "That he came to release those who through the fear of death their whole life have been shackled."

538
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Are you set free from the fear of death?

539
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000
That's what the resurrection brings.

540
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,000
Right? You can't be defeated.

541
00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:01,000
This body is actually invincible until God's done with it.

542
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:11,000
My closing question to you is, do you believe the word of God and the power of God?

543
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Because if you do, you will resurrect and receive that new body.

544
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Because the word of God is living and it's powerful, sharpening a two-edged sword, right?

545
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Able to divide against bone and marrow and against soul and spirit.

546
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:36,000
In the last verse, it says, "And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at his teaching."

547
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:41,000
This is an astonishing thing, this resurrection.

548
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
It's a glorious thing.

549
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:51,000
More Costa Rica, they shut down from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday to celebrate the Passion Week.

550
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:57,000
And yet, so much of it, so much of them there are like the Sadducees.

551
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,000
They don't really believe it.

552
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
They think they know, but they don't really know.

553
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:11,000
I want you to know that you can know, but it comes with the words of your mouth as you confess the Lord Jesus

554
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
and believing in your heart that God has raised him from the dead.

555
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000
That's the conversion experience, right?

556
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:23,000
That you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead.

557
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:27,000
And I want to give you that opportunity now as the band comes up to play this last song.

558
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,000
The prayer team is going to be over here as these guys are singing this song.

559
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:39,000
I want to invite you, if you've never, if you've never received the Lord Jesus Christ,

560
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,000
if you want to believe in the resurrection, the resurrected Christ is a person,

561
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000
then come forward and these guys will pray with you during this song.

562
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Just come on up.

563
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000
It doesn't matter who you're with.

564
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,000
They'll wait for you.

565
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Don't be embarrassed, right?

566
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Jesus was not embarrassed to go to the cross for you.

567
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,000
And he hung there absolutely totally and completely naked on your behalf and mine.

568
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,000
So please don't be embarrassed.

569
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
You just come and you receive him.

570
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Let's pray.

571
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Lord, we thank you for resurrection Sunday.

572
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Lord, will we focus on the fact that you went into that grave and you conquered it, Lord.

573
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000
You overcame, Lord.

574
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:28,000
You offer us life and hope and peace, even the midst of turmoil in this life.

575
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:33,000
And so Lord, I just pray for those who need to just make that commitment.

576
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Lord, they needed to just come to you and bow the knee because of how great you are.

577
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:47,000
You did what no one else has ever done in the history of humanity.

578
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:58,000
You're the greatest hero who has ever lived and died only to come back to life and offer eternal life to all of your subjects.

579
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
We love you.

580
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
That's you today.

581
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
Just cry out to him.

582
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:13,000
Like I did when I was 23, I said, "Oh Lord Jesus, I'm such a mess.

583
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:20,000
I need you to come into my life and take it over.

584
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:27,000
I've hurt people. I've hurt myself. I've done things that are just so shameful.

585
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,000
Forgive me.

586
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Calm and indwell me.

587
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Fill me with the power of your Holy Spirit to live this life that you're calling me to."

588
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
That's your prayer. He's going to hear you.

589
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:51,000
He heard this fool and he's filled me with life now and forever.

590
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000
May that be the case for you today.

591
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,000
In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen.

592
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
Let's all sing.

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00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:12,000
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