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| 5 Minutes With Jesus - Finding Hope Again | July 16, 2026
- He is grace.
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- He is love.
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- He is hope.
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- He is the cleft and the rock.
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- And to which you can retreat when broken and weary.
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- You'll find understanding in his shelter.
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- And you'll find hope in his presence.
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- Because he will wrap his arms around you.
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- He will hold your faint heart with his nail scarred hands.
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- So don't worry.
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- And don't be afraid.
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- Hope has a name.
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- His name is jesus.
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- What do you do when your difficult circumstances
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- Seem to be overshadowing your faith?
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- I mean, you know something to be true,
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- But what you're experiencing at the moment
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- Doesn't really back it up.
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- Like, i know that jesus is the way i feel lost.
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- I know that he is my healer, but i'm struggling with sickness.
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- I know that all things work together
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- For good to those who love god
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- And are called according to his purpose.
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- But i'm just not seeing how certain things can.
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- I know that christ promises peace, but i'm anxious.
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- Our experiences with pain and struggle, trouble
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- And hardship don't diminish the promises of god at all.
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- Too often in christian circles, we seem obliged to act
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- As if we are like god's pr agents.
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- You know,
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- We're confronted
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- With a hard reality, and god's promise to help us to
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- Never leave suddenly feels far away, but
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- We pretend otherwise.
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- We smile and say, yep, things are great.
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- We profess that the promises must be true
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- When in our hearts were angry and confused, hurt
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- And feeling more alone than ever.
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- Because how could we think such things about the lord?
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- How can we feel this way?
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- The truth is that god doesn't want us to pretend our faith
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- Or give lip service to his promises. no.
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- He calls us to live with questions draped in assurance.
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- Or as one of my friends said, god wants us to be restless
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- On the journey and confident in the destination.
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- If ever there was a woman who needed god's presence
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- And christ's comfort, it was mary from magdala.
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- Now, there's been a lot of
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- Understanding as to which mary mary magdalene was.
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- Some bible readers suggest
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- She was a sinner who anointed
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- Jesus feet and wiped them with her hair
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- As he reclined at the home of simon the pharisee.
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- Read that in luke chapter seven.
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- Scripture does not support that.
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- Other bible readers say mary is the woman caught
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- In the act of adultery in john eight,
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- But there is nothing in the biblical canon
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- That supports that, or the notion
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- That she was a prostitute either.
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- What we do know when we first meet her in luke's
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- Gospel is that mary magdalene had been a tormented soul.
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- We read after this, jesus traveled about from one town
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- And village
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- To another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of god.
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- The 12 were with him and also some women
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- Who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases.
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- Mary called magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out.
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- Joanna, the wife of cusa, the manager of herod's household.
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- Susanna, and many others.
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- These women were helping
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- To support them out of their own means.
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- When heaven invades your hell, it wins your hearts allegiance.
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- You know, i've often wondered what christ's cry
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- From the cross of my god.
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- My god, why have you forsaken me?
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- I wondered what that did to mary magdalene.
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- And surely when jesus uttered that heartrending cry
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- From the cross,
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- No one would understand that desolation more than her.
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- John's gospel tells us that on that resurrection morning,
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- Mary was there.
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- She wept and bent over to look into the tomb, and saw
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- Two angels in white seated where jesus body had been.
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- One angel
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- Is at the head of the place and the other at the foot.
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- They asked a woman, why are you crying?
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- They've taken my lord away,
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- She said, and i don't know where they've put him.
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- At this she turned around and saw jesus standing there,
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- But she did not realize that it was jesus.
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- Woman.
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- He said, why are you crying?
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- Who is it you are looking for?
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- Thinking he was a gardener, she said, sir,
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- If you've carried him away,
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- Tell me where you've put him and i will get him.
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- Jesus said to her,
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- Mary!
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- She turned toward him and cried out in aramaic,
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- Rabbi, which means teacher,
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- There's nothing more beautiful than your name
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- On the lips of the one you love.
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- How much more so do here christ utter your name when you
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- Thought you'd lost them forever, just as he was for mary.
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- He is for you.
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- He is grace. he is love.
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- He is hope.
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- He is the cleft and the rock.
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- And to which you can retreat when broken and weary.
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- You'll find understanding in his shelter.
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- And you'll find hope in his presence.
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- Because he will wrap his arms around you.
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- He will hold your faint heart with his nail scarred hands.
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- So don't worry.
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- And don't be afraid.
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- Hope has a name.
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- His name is jesus.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, we can only imagine what that moment
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- Must have been like for mary to suddenly hear you speak.
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- Her name changed everything.
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- And lord, i ask right now for anyone
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- Who is struggling to know that you see them,
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- That by your holy spirit they would hear in their heart
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- You speak their name, that you see them,
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- That you love them, that you are with them.
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- I ask for your comfort and i ask for your presence,
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- And i ask it in the powerful name of jesus.
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- Amen.
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