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Gregory Dickow - Victory NOW: What Jesus' Resurrection Means For You

April 19, 2025 | S

Gregory Dickow - Victory NOW: What Jesus' Resurrection Means For You
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Gregory Dickow: Power to Change Today | Gregory Dickow - Victory NOW: What Jesus' Resurrection Means For You | April 19, 2025
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  • Gregory dickow: the boldness with which i stand here is for
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  • One reason and one reason only.
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  • Because i know my god.
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  • Because he is my savior.
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  • Because he took my life and he gave me a reason to live.
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  • He is real. he is real.
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  • He is real.
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  • There is no greater evidence than your life and my life and
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  • Her life and her life and his life and your life and your life
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  • And--glory be to jesus.
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  • The lamb of god is worthy to be praised.
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  • Gregory: i want to encourage you that the resurrection of jesus
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  • Is a fact.
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  • It is not a religious belief, it is a fact.
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  • How do we know it's a fact?
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  • It's a fact based on the evidence that is overwhelmingly
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  • A demonstration that this is not something that could
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  • Become--this is not something that could be a hoax.
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  • And if i could say it to you this way, how do we know
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  • Resu--the resurrection is a fact?
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  • Well, how do we know anything is a fact?
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  • It must be provable.
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  • I want to debunk, dispel the myth that your faith is blind.
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  • We are not called by god to have blind faith, we are called by
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  • God to have provable faith.
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  • In fact, hebrews chapter 11 says faith is the substance of things
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  • Not seen, the evidence of things not seen, the conviction, the
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  • Assurance, the convincing.
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  • My faith is not built on some raving maniac's hoax trying to
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  • Prove to the whole world--trying to trick the whole world and
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  • Fool the whole world that somehow jesus resurrected when
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  • In fact he didn't.
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  • In fact, the ones who told us about his resurrection are the
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  • Very ones that ran for their life at his death.
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  • What could make the men that ran for their lives, what could make
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  • The man who denied jesus three times before his
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  • Crucifixion--what could make these men turn from a place of
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  • Fear to a place of faith?
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  • It was and only was the resurrection of jesus.
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  • It was only the resurrection.
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  • It wasn't even anymore about what jesus said would happen,
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  • It was everything about what happened.
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  • Our faith is not built on blind belief, hopeful myths
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  • And fables.
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  • It is built upon the absolute assurance and the absolute
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  • History of a man who said he would rise and did.
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  • Amen.
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  • There must be--for something to be a fact, there must be
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  • Evidence; and for something to not be a fact, there must be
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  • Just--listen, listen.
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  • For something to not be a fact, all you need--listen, all you
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  • Need--for something to not be a fact, all you need is one piece
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  • Of evidence that it didn't happen.
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  • Search the universe and you will never find one shred of evidence
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  • That jesus did not rise from the dead.
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  • There's not one shred of evidence.
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  • Guess what?
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  • With all of the power of the internet, everything about
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  • You--you know, the internet knows everything about you.
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  • How many know the internet don't lie?
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  • You got to know this.
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  • If it could be debunked, it would be.
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  • Every myth is debunked.
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  • Everything that is not a fact is debunked in this world.
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  • I don't know what the website is that you go to that you find out
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  • If something's really true or not.
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  • There are several, i'm sure, that are out there, but you know
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  • What i'm talking about.
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  • You know how easy it would be to find one shred of evidence that
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  • Jesus did not rise from the dead?
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  • If he didn't rise from the dead it would be simple and easy to
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  • Find evidence that he did not, but instead we have the
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  • Overwhelming evidence that he actually did rise from the dead
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  • So that you don't have to field
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  • Around your family members they're like, "how could you
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  • Believe that the god that--that's a fairy tale."
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  • Blankety-blank blank blank blank.
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  • Put your chest out, take a firm bold stand, and say, "my faith
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  • Is built on nothing less than jesus christ and righteousness,
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  • And my faith is built on the fact that he rose from
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  • The dead."
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  • It is not some silly religious myth, it is a fact.
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  • It is more a fact than trying to prove that you and your
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  • Great-great-great-great grandparents were apes.
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  • Try to prove that.
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  • You are not cro-magnon man, you are made in the image of god.
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  • Monkeys can see and monkeys can do, but we're not monkeys.
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  • We believe.
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  • I really want you to get this, folks.
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  • The evidence of jesus's resurrection is overwhelming.
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  • You sitting here today is one piece of evidence.
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  • The hope you have when you wake up every morning is one piece
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  • Of evidence.
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  • The fact that god said as long as the earth remains there will
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  • Be summer and winter, there will be day and night, there will be
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  • Seedtime and harvest, that is a fact and that is a piece of
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  • The evidence.
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  • But if you need more evidence to what you believe and what your
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  • Belief is built upon, may it be remembered in your soul for all
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  • Eternity that evidence--the next evidence that jesus truly rose
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  • From the dead is prophecy.
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  • Prophecy is evidence that jesus rose from the dead because just
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  • As jonah was in the belly of the whale, on the third
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  • Day--somebody's got to say amen here.
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  • Jesus said in mark chapter 8, verse 31 and in matthew, i
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  • Think, chapter 12 or 13, 16, somewhere in that neighborhood,
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  • Jesus said he would rise from the dead.
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  • There's piece of evidence.
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  • A stone over his tomb 20 men could not roll away.
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  • Mark chapter 16 it says jesus was buried in a rich man's tomb
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  • And the only way that it could be rolled down to the tomb--the
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  • Stone that covered the tomb, the only way that it could be rolled
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  • Down was by removing a wedge underneath it because 20 people
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  • Could not move that stone.
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  • And so they removed the wedge so that the stone would go down in
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  • Front of his tomb, and the only way out of that is the power of
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  • God, power of god.
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  • A roman guard of men between 4 and 16 could not have rolled
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  • That stone away.
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  • There weren't 16 roman soldiers there, but however many there
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  • Were they could never have rolled the stone away and they
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  • Would never want to because it would be their death for
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  • Allowing this criminal that was buried to get out.
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  • A fake, a false.
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  • You realize how silly people that argue against
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  • The resurrection?
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  • You know how silly that is?
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  • That takes more blind faith than what the evidence proves.
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  • The stone was removed.
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  • The tomb was empty.
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  • The roman guards ran away.
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  • There was empty grave clothes neatly folded.
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  • There's an evidence.
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  • You know, we're being conformed to the image of jesus, but i'm
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  • Not there yet on the neatly folding stuff.
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  • I try to fold something and it's never neat.
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  • But the bible says jesus folded that grave clothes, that shroud
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  • Of turin that is actually still in existence today and can be
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  • Found in a church in--outside of milan in the city of turin
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  • In italy.
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  • The shroud of turin is there, and the overwhelming evidence is
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  • That it took electricity of some kind to burn into that shroud
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  • The image of jesus.
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  • And if anyone was around here in the early days of this church,
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  • We used to have columns.
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  • We do have columns still, but on this we used to have columns you
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  • Could see.
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  • You can't really see this column.
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  • It's in black, but it was--remember when it was cream,
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  • Beige color?
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  • And someone took a picture one day in 2009 of this church and
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  • On this column was a picture of jesus's face.
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  • Do you guys have that?
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  • Like, i have that on my phone and i would have been more--if i
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  • Would have thought i had to convince you today, i would have
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  • Brought it.
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  • I mean, i would--i don't want to search for it now.
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  • I already was searching for which translation to read
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  • Out of.
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  • Dear lord, your pastor is definitely--i'm definitely hip,
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  • A happy, imperfect pastor.
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  • But some of you saw.
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  • Some of you might have seen jesus's face on that
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  • Co--was--does anybody remember that?
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  • You remember that?
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  • Anybody else remember that?
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  • You--gary, you remember that.
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  • Those who stay know.
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  • But if you were there, you would have seen and you would have
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  • Fallen on you--we didn't even know what he was--jesus was,
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  • Like, looking over at everything and he was saying--i don't know
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  • What he--i'm assuming what he was saying.
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  • "i'm proud of you.
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  • I'm here.
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  • You did good to believe in me.
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  • You did good to tell the story.
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  • You did good to tell others.
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  • You did good to preach the gospel."
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  • Like i told you the other day, i know i'm going to get to heaven
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  • And i'm going to wish i had been more generous on earth.
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  • I know i'm going to get to heaven.
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  • I'm going to wish i would have told more people about jesus.
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  • I--believe me, i'm going to do my best to tell more and i'm
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  • Going to do my best to be more generous, but i know in my own
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  • Humanity there's going to be some regret that jesus is going
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  • To wipe away from me and wipe away from you.
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  • But let us mitigate and minimize the amount of regret that we'll
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  • Have 'cause either jesus is a liar or a lunatic or he is lord.
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  • Take your pick.
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  • I'm going with the facts.
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  • I'm going with the evidence.
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  • Jesus is lord.
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  • Amen.
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  • There were 500 eyewitnesses, 50 hours of eyewitness testimony
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  • And in a trial or a court of law anywhere in this world it would
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  • Have been the most lopsided trial in all of human history
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  • Proving and verifying and validating the resurrection of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • But most of all, the evidence of a changed life is the greatest
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  • Evidence of all.
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  • Try to find buddhists.
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  • Try to find radical religions of other kinds.
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  • I don't mean to pick on the buddhists.
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  • God bless you if you--you know, if you came today.
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  • But there--buddha can't change your life.
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  • Muhammad can't change your life.
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  • Only jesus can.
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  • Only a resurrected, only a resurrected--next time someone
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  • Says you have blind faith, tell them, "no, i have
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  • Intelligent faith."
  • 00:14:26.344 --> 00:14:29.480
  • It does not mean a leap into the dark believing against all other
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  • Evidence or against reason; it means our faith is in what jesus
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  • Said would happen but also it was confirmed by historical
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  • Facts, evidence, and 500 witnesses.
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  • The greatest scholars of their day professor thomas arnold,
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  • Author of three volumes of the "history of rome" and holder of
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  • The chair of modern history at oxford university in england,
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  • Said, "i know of no other fact in the history of mankind which
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  • Has been proven by better and fuller evidence than the great
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  • Sign that god gives that jesus christ died and rose from
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  • The dead."
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  • English scholar brooke foss westcott said, "taking all the
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  • Evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no
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  • Historic incident better or more variously supported than the
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  • Resurrection of jesus christ."
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  • Dr. simon greenleaf, royal professor of harvard law at the
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  • Time, harvard law, people, not harvard, illinois, examined the
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  • Entire value of historical evidence of the resurrection of
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  • Jesus and came to this conclusion, quote, "according to
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  • The laws of legal evidence used in the courts of law, there is
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  • No--there is more evidence for the historical fact of the
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  • Resurrection of jesus than any other event in human history."
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  • Please remind people that your faith is not blind.
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  • It's intelligent.
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  • God does not ask you to deny your intelligence for
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  • Your faith.
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  • He wired you to use your intelligence for your faith.
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  • Eight is the number of new beginnings.
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  • Eight times jesus appeared to his disciples and to people
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  • After the resurrection.
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  • The first time that jesus appeared after the resurrection
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  • Is, and i'll give it to you, mary magdalene in mark chapter
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  • 16, verse 9. "now, after he had risen early on the first day of
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  • The week, he first appeared to mary magdalene, from whom he had
  • 00:17:03.568 --> 00:17:06.971
  • Cast out seven demons."
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  • You see, mary was weeping at the tomb, wasn't she, until
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  • Jesus rose.
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  • She thought she had lost jesus forever, and jesus appeared and
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  • Brought her something.
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  • He brought her victory over despair.
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  • What was she feeling?
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  • The human emotion of despair 'cause jesus was dead.
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  • But what did he give her through his resurrection?
  • 00:17:36.767 --> 00:17:39.804
  • He gave her victory over despair.
  • 00:17:39.804 --> 00:17:44.041
  • You know, one of my favorite verses is in psalm 27, verse 13.
  • 00:17:44.041 --> 00:17:48.613
  • David said, "i would have despaired unless i believed that
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  • I would see the goodness of god in the land of the living."
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  • And despair is a very dark emotion.
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  • It's a very lonely, hopeless emotion.
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  • And mary was grieving with deep despair.
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  • This is a man who'd cast out seven demons from her.
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  • Imagine being demon-possessed.
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  • You know, if you've been demon-possessed and jesus
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  • Delivered you, you know who delivered you.
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  • You know who delivered you when you've been delivered from
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  • Demonic power.
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  • You know.
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  • You know it was jesus.
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  • You know it's nothing else.
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  • It wasn't what you ate.
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  • It wasn't what you drank.
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  • It wasn't psychiatry or psychology.
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  • It was a savior.
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  • It was a miracle worker.
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  • Let's leave today with these historical gifts of victory
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  • Through the people that jesus appeared to.
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  • So he appears to mary magdalene and gives her victory
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  • Over despair.
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  • He appears to the other women who were leaving the tomb in
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  • Matthew chapter 28, verse 9 and 10.
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  • They thought he was dead, but he appeared to them and they
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  • Worshiped him there.
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  • The bible says they came up and took hold of his feet and
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  • Worshiped him.
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  • You see, the second victory that jesus gave through his
  • 00:19:19.136 --> 00:19:22.473
  • Resurrection was victory over dead religion and he gave us the
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  • Power to worship a living god.
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  • The third people or person that jesus appeared to was he met up
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  • With two disciples on the road to emmaus in luke chapter 24.
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  • You know, these two guys they were talking about jesus and
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  • Then jesus shows up and starts talking with them.
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  • And he's talking and they're talking to him, but they don't
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  • Even recognize him until they go inside and they convince him to
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  • Stay and they--and he takes the bread at the table and when he
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  • Breaks the bread the bible says it was then that they realized.
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  • It was then that he made himself known.
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  • It was then that they recognized him and then he disappeared, and
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  • I want you to know the victory that jesus gave them that day
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  • Was victory over stupid.
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  • Sometimes we're so stupid yet jesus is standing right next
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  • To us.
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  • And we're like, "god, where are you?
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  • God, where are you?
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  • God, where are you?"
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  • And he's like, "over here."
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  • Victory over stupid is what we can walk out of here with.
  • 00:20:33.110 --> 00:20:39.150
  • "what did you learn on easter sunday?"
  • 00:20:39.150 --> 00:20:40.484
  • "i got victory over stupid."
  • 00:20:40.484 --> 00:20:41.886
  • Because it's stupid to whine and worry and complain when jesus's
  • 00:20:45.890 --> 00:20:51.262
  • Presence is in our lives; and jesus's presence manifests by
  • 00:20:51.262 --> 00:20:58.803
  • Living inside of you, that's his indwelling presence; by being
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  • Everywhere in this world at one time, that's his omnipresence;
  • 00:21:03.040 --> 00:21:07.812
  • And by manifesting himself in the presence of god's people in
  • 00:21:07.812 --> 00:21:13.818
  • The church where jesus said, "where two or three are gathered
  • 00:21:13.818 --> 00:21:16.921
  • In my name, there i am in the midst of them."
  • 00:21:16.921 --> 00:21:20.157
  • That is the manifestation of jesus's presence.
  • 00:21:20.157 --> 00:21:22.860
  • So there's his indwelling presence, he lives in you;
  • 00:21:22.860 --> 00:21:25.363
  • There's his omnipresence, he's everywhere; and there's his
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  • Manifest presence, he shows himself strong in the presence
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  • Of his people.
  • 00:21:32.570 --> 00:21:33.938
  • And this is why we need to experience all of those
  • 00:21:33.938 --> 00:21:36.273
  • Dimensions of god's presence.
  • 00:21:36.273 --> 00:21:37.942
  • His omnipresence, we need to know wherever we go god is
  • 00:21:37.942 --> 00:21:41.746
  • Always there.
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  • We also need to know that he is dwelling--he has
  • 00:21:43.080 --> 00:21:45.182
  • Indwelling presence.
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  • Wherever we go, he's always with us.
  • 00:21:46.517 --> 00:21:47.885
  • He's always inside of us.
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  • And when we come together, there is a manifestation of his
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  • Presence that will heal you, that will deliver you, that will
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  • Comfort you, that will strengthen you, that will give
  • 00:21:55.092 --> 00:21:57.695
  • You purpose and meaning and reason to be connected.
  • 00:21:57.695 --> 00:22:01.499
  • It will give you connection and community.
  • 00:22:01.499 --> 00:22:03.734
  • The church gives you connection.
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  • The church gives you community.
  • 00:22:05.369 --> 00:22:06.837
  • The church gives you power.
  • 00:22:06.837 --> 00:22:08.339
  • The church is the agent on earth with which the gates of hell
  • 00:22:08.339 --> 00:22:11.876
  • Cannot prevail against.
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  • It is the greatest gift to this earth.
  • 00:22:13.277 --> 00:22:15.513
  • After jesus and the holy spirit, the greatest gift that god gives
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  • To this earth is the church.
  • 00:22:20.451 --> 00:22:25.156
  • To be disconnected from the church is to be disconnected
  • 00:22:25.156 --> 00:22:28.559
  • From the power source with which the gates of hell cannot even
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  • Prevail against.
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  • Sometimes by myself i feel a little heavy, disappointed,
  • 00:22:36.367 --> 00:22:41.672
  • Discouraged, defeated, depressed, fallen, broken; but
  • 00:22:41.672 --> 00:22:47.478
  • As soon as i walk into this place and as soon as i come
  • 00:22:47.478 --> 00:22:51.816
  • Amongst the believers, as soon as i get around some worshipers,
  • 00:22:51.816 --> 00:22:57.421
  • Some people that know his name is jesus all of a sudden i have
  • 00:22:57.421 --> 00:23:02.993
  • Hope, all of a sudden i feel strong, all of a sudden i feel
  • 00:23:02.993 --> 00:23:07.064
  • Like 1 can put 1,000 to flight but 2 can put 10,000 to flight.
  • 00:23:07.064 --> 00:23:13.037
  • Glory to god.
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  • He is the living god.
  • 00:23:14.405 --> 00:23:20.878
  • There--i am the mo--one of the most introverted people as a
  • 00:23:16.307 --> 00:23:27.751
  • Child growing up.
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  • One of the most introverted, shyest people that you would
  • 00:23:29.086 --> 00:23:31.355
  • Have ever met.
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  • So make no mistake about it, the boldness with which i stand here
  • 00:23:32.690 --> 00:23:36.393
  • And proclaim to you and spit on you and shout in your ears and
  • 00:23:36.393 --> 00:23:41.532
  • Offend some, the boldness with which i stand here is for one
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  • Reason and one reason only.
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  • Because i know my god.
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  • Because he is my savior.
  • 00:23:49.206 --> 00:23:51.075
  • Because he took my life and he gave me a reason to live.
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  • He is real.
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  • There is no greater evidence than your life and my life and
  • 00:23:56.113 --> 00:24:01.886
  • Her life and her life and his life and your life and your life
  • 00:24:01.886 --> 00:24:04.722
  • And--glory be to jesus.
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  • The lamb of god is worthy to be praised.
  • 00:24:08.792 --> 00:24:12.396
  • Somebody's got to say, "i got victory over stupid."
  • 00:24:16.500 --> 00:24:19.570
  • The lord your god is in your midst.
  • 00:24:23.407 --> 00:24:28.012
  • Zephaniah chapter 3, verse 17 says, "the lord your god is in
  • 00:24:28.012 --> 00:24:31.649
  • Your midst.
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  • The mighty one will save.
  • 00:24:33.250 --> 00:24:35.753
  • He will rejoice over you with gladness."
  • 00:24:35.753 --> 00:24:38.889
  • New king james says, "he will quiet you with his love.
  • 00:24:38.889 --> 00:24:45.062
  • He will rejoice over you with singing."
  • 00:24:45.062 --> 00:24:49.033
  • Jesus is singing over us.
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  • He's singing over you.
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  • I can't wait to hear the voice, the singing of jesus.
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  • Can you imagine how awesome it's going to be?
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  • Jesus, forth, appeared to the ten disciples who were
  • 00:25:13.457 --> 00:25:15.726
  • Hiding together.
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  • Luke 24, john 20.
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  • We don't have time to go over these verses, but this
  • 00:25:18.963 --> 00:25:24.468
  • Hiding--the disciples were hiding and jesus's resurrection
  • 00:25:24.468 --> 00:25:30.741
  • Gave them victory over shame, victory over fear,
  • 00:25:30.741 --> 00:25:40.484
  • Victory over having to hide from god
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  • The way adam and eve hid from god.
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