Lawson Perdue - Grace Is Alive

April 25, 2025 | S25:E1606

Pastor Lawson Perdue from the Charis Christian Center outreach speaks to viewers across the globe about the practical message of Jesus Christ.

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Grace for Today with Lawson Perdue | Lawson Perdue - Grace Is Alive | April 25, 2025
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  • - friends, did you know the prince of this world,
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  • The devil thought he had won
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  • When jesus was crucified.
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  • But sunday is coming.
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  • And thank god i'm gonna tell you
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  • About something that's changed everything.
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  • It's the death, burial, and resurrection
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  • Of jesus christ
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  • And the sending of the holy spirit.
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  • If you don't know jesus,
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  • You need to get to know jesus.
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  • And if you've never received the holy spirit,
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  • Receive him today.
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  • If you have your bible,
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  • Open to john chapter 20.
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  • I'm gonna be talking about grace is alive.
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  • - amen. - of course you know
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  • That jesus is the embodiment of grace.
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  • I'll begin hearing john chapter 20,
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  • Verse 1 through verse 10.
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  • It said, "the first day of the week,
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  • Came mary magdalene early,
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  • When it was still dark to the sepulchre,
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  • Seeing the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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  • She ran and came to simon peter,
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  • And to the other disciple whom jesus loved,
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  • And said to them:
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  • They have taken away the lord out of the tomb
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  • And we know not where they've laid him.
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  • Peter therefore went forth,
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  • And that other disciple came to the sepulchre.
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  • So they both ran together,
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  • And the other disciple did outrun peter,
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  • And came first to the tomb.
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  • So he stooping down,
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  • Looked in and saw the linen clothes lying;
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  • And yet he went not in.
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  • Then came simon peter,
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  • Following him into the tomb
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  • And seized the linen clothes lie,
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  • And the napkin that was about his head,
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  • Not lying with the linen clothes,
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  • But wrapped in a place by itself.
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  • They went in that other disciple
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  • Who came first to the tomb,
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  • And he saw and believed.
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  • For as they yet knew not the scripture,
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  • That he must rise again from the dead.
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  • Then the disciples went away again to their own home."
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  • Now, to have a little bit more clarity,
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  • I wanna go to mark chapter 16
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  • And read the first nine verses,
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  • Which gives more clarity into this same instance.
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  • "when the sabbath was past, mary magdalene,
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  • And mary the mother of james and salome,
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  • Had brought sweet spices
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  • That they might come and anoint him.
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  • And very early in the morning,
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  • The first day of the week,
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  • They came to the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
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  • And they said among themselves,
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  • 'who shall roll away the stone
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  • From the door of the tomb?'
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  • And when they looked,
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  • They saw the stone was rolled away
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  • For it was very great.
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  • And entering into the tomb,
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  • They saw a young man sitting on the right side,
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  • Clothed in a long white garment and they were afraid.
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  • And he said, 'be not afraid;
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  • You seek jesus of nazareth who was crucified,
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  • He has risen, he is not here.
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  • Behold the place where they laid him.'
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  • But go your way and tell his disciples
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  • And peter that he goes before you into galilee.
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  • There you will see him as he said to you.
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  • And they went out quickly
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  • And fled from the tomb
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  • For they trembled and were amazed.
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  • Neither said they anything to any man
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  • For they were afraid.
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  • Now, jesus was risen early on the first day of the week
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  • And he appeared first to mary magdalene,
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  • Out of whom he cast seven devils."
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  • Grace is alive.
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  • Now, when we look at this,
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  • There's a number of things that stand out to me,
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  • A number of firsts.
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  • The first thing was who was the first witness
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  • Really of the resurrection of jesus?
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  • Mary magdalene, out of whom he cast seven devils.
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  • So you know, she certainly had suffered
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  • From severe emotional trauma,
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  • From severe emotional disorders,
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  • Different things being associated
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  • With this demonic attack.
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  • And jesus had delivered her.
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  • And when she comes the tomb,
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  • She finds that jesus is not there.
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  • And then she hears this message from the angel,
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  • "go tell my disciples and peter," specifically peter.
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  • Well, why peter?
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  • Well, peter was the one who was so bold and so outspoken.
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  • And you know, many times people criticize peter,
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  • But i love peter.
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  • Because praise god, peter ought, you know,
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  • He had enough faith to get out of the boat.
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  • Praise god, he had enough faith
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  • To say some things sometimes.
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  • But anyway, i love peter so much.
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  • I named my son peter, praise god.
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  • And i love this example.
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  • But it tells us in if we go to matthew chapter 26,
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  • We can read just before jesus went
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  • And was crucified about peter
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  • And the rest of the disciples in verse 31 to verse 35,
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  • "then jesus said to them,
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  • This was at the last supper:
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  • 'all of you will be offended
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  • Because of me this night.
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  • For its written: i will smite the shepherd
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  • And the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.
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  • But after i'm risen again,
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  • I will go before you into galilee.'
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  • And peter answered and said to him:
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  • 'though all men shall be offended because of you,
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  • Yet i will never be offended.'
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  • Jesus said, 'verily, verily i say unto you
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  • This night before the cock crows,
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  • You will deny me three times.'
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  • And peter said unto him, 'though i would die with you,
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  • Yet i will not deny you.
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  • Likewise, all the disciples.'"
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  • So not only peter said that he would not deny him,
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  • But all of the disciples said
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  • They would not deny him.
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  • And so sometimes how quick we are to change
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  • When we're under pressure,
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  • When we're under persecution,
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  • Different threats, different things happening.
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  • But you know, the first thing
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  • That really stands out to me
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  • When we're talking about grace is who is the first?
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  • Who is the first witness of this resurrection?
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  • The first witness of this resurrection
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  • Is mary magdalene,
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  • Out of whom he casts seven devils.
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  • Not like unlike one of the first witnesses of eternal life
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  • And salvation in john chapter four,
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  • The woman at the well.
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  • And jesus meets this samaritan woman at the well,
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  • And the jews considered the samaritan's dogs,
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  • Women in that society where many times looked down upon.
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  • And jesus meets her and he speaks to her,
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  • Asks for a drink.
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  • And she says, "well, who are you to ask me
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  • A samaritan, you know, of a drink?"
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  • And jesus said, "well, if you knew
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  • Who was speaking to you,"
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  • In john chapter 4, "you would ask me
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  • And i would give you, you know, living water
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  • And you would never thirst again."
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  • She said, "you know, lord, give me that water
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  • That i may never thirst again."
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  • And he said, well, "first go and tell your husband."
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  • And she says, "well, lord, i have no husband."
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  • And jesus said, "well, that's right.
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  • Really, you don't have a husband,
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  • You've had five before.
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  • Now the marriage deal hasn't really working out
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  • Very well for you,
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  • And now the man you're living with is not your husband."
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  • She goes, and she not only gets her husband,
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  • She tells the whole city,
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  • And she brings the whole city to christ.
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  • Praise god?
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  • You know, some people think that women
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  • Can't be preachers of the gospel,
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  • But here the first witness of the resurrection is a woman
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  • Who jesus cast out seven devils.
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  • One of the first witnesses of salvation is a woman,
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  • You know, who was living with a man
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  • And now, you know, had been married five times
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  • And just had a lot of struggles.
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  • But she goes and shares the message of eternal life.
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  • She shares the message of jesus.
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  • Many times, you know,
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  • Liberals look at conservatives
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  • And say, you know, they're against freedom for women.
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  • They're against equality for women.
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  • I want you to know that jesus christ
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  • Has done more to elevate the position
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  • Of a woman than any other man on earth, praise god?
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  • And it is only really in christian nations
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  • That women are honored like they are, praise god?
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  • And so we see that.
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  • We see not only, you know, that mary magdalene,
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  • Out of whom jesus cast seven devils,
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  • Is a witness of the resurrection.
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  • We see one of the first people to receive.
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  • You know, the angel says, "go and tell my disciples
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  • And specifically peter."
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  • And so they go tell peter,
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  • I'm sure it was john with him.
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  • John ran on ahead of peter.
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  • John gets there, and then they go into the tomb
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  • And they are witnesses of the resurrection of jesus.
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  • But what does this mean?
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  • What does that grace is alive,
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  • That jesus is alive really mean to us?
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  • Well, the first thing i believe
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  • Is that jesus calls us into intimacy.
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  • So i wanna go a little bit farther
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  • In this story into john chapter 20
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  • And read verse 11 through verse 18.
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  • It says, "mary stood outside at the tomb weeping
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  • And she wept and she stooped down
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  • And looked into the tomb.
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  • And she saw two angels in white,
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  • One sitting at the head,
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  • The other sitting at the feet,
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  • And where the body of jesus had laid.
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  • And when they said to her woman, 'why do you weep?'"
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  • They asked her this question.
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  • Why are you weeping?
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  • No doubt that she was suffering.
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  • Jesus meant so much to her.
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  • Jesus meant really everything to her.
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  • She struggled with, you know, demonic oppression,
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  • Demonic possession, psychosomatic trauma,
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  • Emotional pain, like maybe almost no one in her time.
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  • And jesus had cast the devil out of her and freed her.
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  • And now she feels like she's lost this one.
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  • This one, she was so close to this one,
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  • Jesus who meant so much to her.
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  • "'why are you weeping?'
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  • 'because they've taken away my lord;
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  • I don't know where they put him.'
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  • When she said this,
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  • She turned herself back and saw jesus standing;
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  • And she didn't know that it was jesus.'"
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  • I asked you this question,
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  • How many times are we suffering?
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  • Are we struggling?
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  • Are we dealing with the issue?
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  • Are we dealing with loss?
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  • Are we dealing with difficulty?
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  • And yet jesus is right there beside us
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  • When we don't even know it.
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  • - amen. - amen.
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  • - you know, jesus said to this woman,
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  • He says to her woman, "why are you weeping?"
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  • He asked her this same quick question,
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  • "who are you seeking?"
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  • Praise god, why are you weeping?
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  • You see, the bible says
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  • That he will never leave us or forsake us.
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  • And many times we may feel like we're alone.
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  • We may feel like, you know,
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  • That we're really suffering from this loss.
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  • And yet we don't recognize that jesus is right there.
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  • - amen. - amen.
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  • - he's right there beside us.
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  • He's right there to help us.
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  • He's right there to heal us.
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  • She supposes him to be the gardener in verse 15.
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  • "and she says unto him, 'sir,
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  • If you have taken him from here,
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  • Tell me where you have laid him
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  • And i will take him away.'
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  • And jesus says to her, mary,"
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  • When he says to her mary,
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  • She all of a sudden recognizes his voice.
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  • She recognizes that he's there with her,
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  • That he hasn't left her, that he's there.
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  • And he's speaking to her.
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  • "and she says unto him, 'rabboni,
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  • Which is to say unto him, master.'"
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  • She recognizes this one.
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  • This one who's freed her.
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  • This one who's healed her.
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  • This one who's helped her.
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  • "jesus says unto her," in verse 17,
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  • "'touch me not
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  • For i'm not yet ascended to my father.
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  • But i go to my brethren and i say to them,
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  • And i'm ascending to the father and your father,
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  • To my god and to your god.'"
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  • Touch me not, do not cling to me.
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  • I've gotta yet ascend.
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  • Now what what's jesus gonna do when he ascends?
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  • (light bright music)
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  • Learn to listen to the holy ghost
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  • And listen to the, i love what barbara said
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  • When she came up today.
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  • Turn up the word and turn down the news.
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  • Start believing what the word says about you.
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  • And if you start believing it,
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  • You might start and you better watch
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  • What you're believing.
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  • You better watch what you're saying.
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  • You might get it.
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  • (light bright music)
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  • So the first thing the resurrection means to me
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  • Is that we have a right to intimacy with god.
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  • You know, we have a right to a relationship with god
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  • Because of what jesus has done.
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  • The second thing that the blood of jesus
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  • And that his resurrection means to me
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  • Is that jesus has secured
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  • For us a place of peace before the father.
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  • Verse 19, as we read through verse 21,
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  • "the same day at evening,
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  • Being the first day of the week,
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  • When the doors were shut
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  • And when the disciples were assembled
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  • For fear of the jews
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  • Came jesus and stood in the midst
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  • And said unto them,
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  • 'peace be unto you.'"
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  • Praise god.
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  • The blood means to me, praise god.
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  • Jesus resurrection means to me
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  • That we can be at peace with god.
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  • "and when he had so said, he showed to them,
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  • His hands and his side.
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  • And then were the disciples glad when they saw the lord.
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  • And jesus said to them, 'again, peace be unto you.
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  • As my father has sent me even so send i you.'"
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  • Now when we look at this,
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  • This gives us a little glimpse
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  • Into the resurrection of jesus.
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  • Jesus, you know, the disciples are there together
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  • At this first meeting when jesus comes to be with them.
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  • And they have the doors closed, praise god?
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  • And jesus walks in, praise god?
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  • And jesus said, "peace to you."
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  • Jesus has been raised from the dead.
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  • And jesus not only is raised from the dead
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  • In a physical body,
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  • But he's raised from the dead in a glorified body.
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  • Praise god, i remember this story from r. w. schambach.
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  • R. w. used to have this saying when he was on the radio,
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  • Great preacher of faith years ago.
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  • And he'd say, you know, "at the end of his program,
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  • You don't have any problem.
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  • All you need is faith in god."
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  • - [congregation] amen.
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  • - and you know, we all think,
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  • "well, how'd you get that r. w.?"
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  • We all face problems.
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  • We all face difficulties.
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  • We, you know, and sometimes we're so overwhelmed,
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  • But r. w. used to have great healing crusades
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  • And he had a tent
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  • That would actually hold thousands of people.
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  • And it took, you know, a hundred people
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  • At least just to run his team.
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  • And he told this story about how he got that saying.
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  • He was in new york and he was holding a crusade.
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  • And there was a man that said, "listen,
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  • Now when you come and you have your crusade."
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  • He said, "i wanna take care of the team.
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  • I wanna provide all the food for them every day.
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  • I want to take care of them."
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  • Now, it was a lot of work
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  • Because they'd have these crusades
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  • That would go on for a week or two weeks
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  • And they would literally have many, many people healed
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  • And saved and filled with the holy spirit.
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  • And this man just said, "no, i really wanna do this."
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  • Probably cost him, you know, a lot of money.
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  • And so this man happened to tell r. w. his story.
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  • He said, "you know, i was a catholic."
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  • And he said, "i was lying in the hospital
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  • And i was dying.
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  • And they said i would be dead before daybreak.
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  • And the priest came in black
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  • To give me my last rights."
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  • And he said, "that priest came in black
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  • And he walked out after he gave me my last rights."
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  • And then he said, "another priest walked in.
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  • He was dressed in white."
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  • And he said, "r. w. you don't have any problem.
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  • All you need is faith in god."
  • 00:17:03.765 --> 00:17:06.501
  • He said, "you get up and you shave yourself
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  • And you dress yourself."
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  • And he said that, "i shave myself and i dress myself
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  • And i walked out of that hospital healed," praise god?
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  • And so many times people would give r. w. a problem
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  • About saying that, you know, talking about how, you know,
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  • Saying this saying, "you don't have any problem.
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  • All you need is faith in god."
  • 00:17:28.456 --> 00:17:30.191
  • But he told how jesus walked through the wall
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  • And raised him up really from the dead.
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  • And told him that, and praise god.
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  • Now he's telling many people this story.
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  • You don't need have any problem.
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  • All you need is faith in god.
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  • And you need to realize
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  • That jesus is resurrected from the dead, amen.
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  • You need to realize that jesus is alive.
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  • You need to realize that jesus
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  • Is greater than any problem that you have,
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  • That jesus is greater than any difficulty that you have,
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  • That jesus is greater than any sin that you have.
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  • That jesus is greater.
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  • That jesus christ is alive today.
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  • And because jesus is alive,
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  • His life gives us hope today.
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  • But not only does jesus life give us hope today,
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  • Jesus life gives us hope throughout eternity, praise god?
  • 00:18:15.170 --> 00:18:20.475
  • And so jesus is not only resurrected
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  • In a glorified body,
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  • But he's also resurrected in a physical body.
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  • And when jesus comes in the presence of his disciples,
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  • He shows them his hand.
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  • He shows them his side.
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  • Thomas wasn't with them.
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  • Later, jesus comes in,
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  • They're meeting again later in this same chapter,
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  • And thomas is there.
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  • And thomas says, "well, i won't believe
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  • Unless i see the print in his hand
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  • And i see, you know, the hole in his side."
  • 00:18:46.768 --> 00:18:50.605
  • And pete, jesus comes in and says,
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  • "thomas, put your thumb in my hand
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  • And put your hand in my side
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  • And don't be faithless but believing," praise god?
  • 00:18:57.045 --> 00:19:01.182
  • And he says, "thomas, blessed are those
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  • Who've seen and believe,
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  • But much more blessed are those who have not seen
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  • And who've yet believed," praise god?
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  • Thank god today that we believe
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  • In the resurrection of jesus.
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  • That we believe in what jesus did for us.
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  • But jesus tells 'em twice in this portion of scripture,
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  • Peace be unto you.
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  • And i believe today that we can have peace
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  • Because jesus has shed his blood.
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  • Because jesus' blood has made peace between god and man.
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  • And i wanna go to the book of ephesians chapter 2,
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  • And i wanna read a couple of scriptures
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  • In ephesians chapter 2,
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  • Beginning in verse 12 on down through verse 14.
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  • "we can be at peace with god
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  • Because of what jesus has done for us."
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  • Notice what it says.
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  • He says in verse 12 through verse 14
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  • Of ephesians chapter 2,
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  • "at that time talking about before we came to know christ,
  • 00:19:56.471 --> 00:20:00.508
  • You were without christ.
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  • You were aliens from the commonwealth of israel.
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  • You were alienated from the people of god."
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  • He said, "you were strangers
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  • From the covenants of promise."
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  • We were estranged from the covenant of promise.
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  • He said, "you had no hope
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  • And you were without god in this world."
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  • You know, many of you don't know me.
  • 00:20:23.164 --> 00:20:24.799
  • Before i really got filled with the holy spirit
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  • And my life was really changed.
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  • I was a young child and i was very, very honorary.
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  • And my mom prayed to prayer to jesus.
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  • And she said, "jesus, could you help me with lawson?
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  • I can't do anything with him at all.
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  • He is hopeless."
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  • And my mom prayed for me.
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  • But you know what?
  • 00:20:47.488 --> 00:20:48.323
  • My mom baited me.
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  • You know, we lived way out in the country.
  • 00:20:50.191 --> 00:20:51.659
  • My mom baited me to go to a spirit filled meeting
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  • Where andrew wommack was teaching in a bible study.
  • 00:20:55.530 --> 00:20:59.100
  • And she said, "if you'll go with me to this meeting,
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  • I'll buy you some fish bait."
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  • So you know, i was a good country kid.
  • 00:21:04.238 --> 00:21:06.307
  • That was a good deal.
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  • My parents didn't have a lot of money.
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  • We didn't spend a lot of money.
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  • So my mom promised to buy me fish bait
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  • If i'd go to a bible study with her.
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  • So i went to this bible study, praise god?
  • 00:21:15.450 --> 00:21:18.519
  • And you know, she took me to kmart first
  • 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.022
  • And she bought me some fish bait.
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  • But then she took me to the bible study.
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  • I still remember the time
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  • I was sitting over in the corner
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  • Of this little ranch style house
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  • On oak street in lamar,
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  • Bobby and jane apple's house.
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  • And i was sitting over-
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  • There was so many people,
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  • You know, andrew was standing by the door.
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  • There was a living room over here and a dining room.
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  • I was sitting over here in the dining room.
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  • Andrew, in those days, you know,
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  • He was his own song leader.
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  • And so he had a 12 string guitar
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  • And he'd tell us, "turn to this scripture.
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  • And we'd sing these little songs
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  • Like 'thy loving kindness'.
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  • And this is the day the lord has made."
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  • That's from psalm 118 actually talking a prophecy
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  • Of the resurrection of jesus.
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  • We'd sing those songs.
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  • But when he got done, he had a little mic,
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  • And he plugged this mic
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  • Into a single cassette deck.
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  • You know, andrew's giving away millions
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  • And millions of cassette tapes.
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  • But you know how that started?
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  • People started requesting these tapes,
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  • And they would make 'em one to one at real time.
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  • And then eventually, he got one that would make 'em
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  • And make 'em fast speed.
  • 00:22:25.987 --> 00:22:27.555
  • But he was not only was his own sound leader,
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  • Our own song leader,
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  • He was his own sound person.
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  • But he started that cassette recording
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  • And then he held his bible in his hound just like this.
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  • And i was born again.
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  • I wasn't baptized in the holy spirit yet,
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  • But i was born again.
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  • And i heard the holy spirit
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  • Speak up to me on the inside.
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  • "listen to this man.
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  • He knows what he's talking about."
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  • Well, that was 45 years ago
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  • That i started listening to andrew wommack.
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  • And i've been listening for 45 years,
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  • And i'm here to tell you
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  • That my life has gotten better and better and better.
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  • The word of god is working.
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  • We've had a few challenges,
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  • But i started believing.
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  • And you know, the lord just spoke to me in my spirit
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  • And said, "you don't have to be sick
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  • And you don't have to be poor
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  • And you don't have to be defeated by the devil."
  • 00:23:13.067 --> 00:23:15.470
  • Now we had a lot of opportunity for failure.
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  • My parents were struggling in their marriage.
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  • They were struggling in their finances,
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  • They were struggling in their health.
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  • They were struggling in so many areas,
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  • But we started believing god.
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  • And if you'll start believing god,
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  • I'm here to tell you
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  • That the word of god will change your life.
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  • I'm here to tell you that you don't have to be sick,
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  • That you don't have to be poor,
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  • That you don't have to be defeated by the devil.
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  • I'm here to tell you that jesus is alive.
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  • And he's the same yesterday, today and forever.
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  • I'm here to tell you that the word of god works.
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  • I'm here to tell you that the holy spirit is real.
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  • When jesus died on the cross,
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  • The veil in heaven was rent from the top to bottom.
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  • God was saying, "listen,
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  • You can come into my presence.
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  • You can enjoy my presence.
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  • You don't have to stay alienated.
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  • You don't have to stay away,
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  • But you could come into my presence.
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  • You can live at peace with god."
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  • He's saying number one, "you could come in;"
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  • Number two, he is saying, "listen,
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  • I don't wanna live here separated.
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  • I want to go live in the hearts of man."
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  • And that brings me to my third point.
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  • Number one, intimacy with god is available
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  • Because of the resurrection of jesus christ.
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  • Number two, peace with god
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  • Is available because of the death
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  • And resurrection of jesus christ.
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  • But number three,
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  • Being born again is a living reality
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  • Because of the death and resurrection of jesus.
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  • Let's read on when we go into john chapter 20.
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  • These last couple of verses here,
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  • John chapter 20.
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  • Jesus said this in verse 21,
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  • "peace be unto you as my father sent me
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  • Even so send i you.
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  • When he said this,
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  • He breathed on them
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  • And said, 'receive ye the holy ghost.'"
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  • I believe this is the first time
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  • That people ever were born again.
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  • I believe this is when those disciples
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  • First received the holy spirit
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  • When they were born of god.
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  • And he makes this statement
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  • And says, "whoever sins you remit,
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  • They are remitted.
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  • Whoever sins you're retained,
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  • They are retained."
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  • You see, i believe that jesus
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  • Made a born again relationship with god a possibility.
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  • Praise god in his resurrection.
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  • Friend, thank god.
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  • Jesus provided peace for our mind,
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  • Healing for our body,
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  • Restoration in fellowship with god,
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  • And forgiveness for our sins.
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  • It's already been done.
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  • The work is already finished.
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  • And i want to pray with you right now
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  • If you need to walk in that at a new level.
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  • So just pray with me.
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  • Heavenly father,
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  • I believe that jesus christ is your son.
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  • I believe that he died for my sin
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  • And you raised him from the dead and made him lord.
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  • And right now, jesus,
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  • I surrender my life to you.
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  • Friend, i wanna invite you today,
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