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Rick Warren - The Answer Is Easter (Part 2)

April 27, 2025 | S25:E17

Rick Warren - The Answer Is Easter (Part 2)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - The Answer Is Easter (Part 2) | April 27, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor rick warren: jesus's death, burial, and resurrection
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  • Happened over three days.
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  • Friday was the day of pain and suffering and agony.
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  • Saturday was the day of loss and grief and confusion and misery.
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  • Sunday was the day of joy, celebration, and victory.
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  • Now, here's the thing; in your life, you're going to go through
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  • All three of those days, over and over and over again.
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  • And, when you do, you're gonna ask three questions:
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  • What do i do in my days of pain?
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  • How do i get through my days of doubt and confusion?
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  • How do i get to my days of victory?
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  • I imagine the disciples did a a pretty good amount of "what
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  • If-ing" on saturday.
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  • "what if we had stopped judas from leaving the last supper?
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  • Maybe we could have prevented this.
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  • What if we'd done that?"
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  • And they probably had a lot of self-recrimination.
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  • They say, "you know, we all walked away from jesus."
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  • Once he was arrested, the bible says, they all scattered.
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  • "we wimped out, we went awol, we left him, we deserted him, we
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  • Abandoned him."
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  • They're all embarrassed.
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  • Peter goes, "lord, i'll never deny you" and that night denies
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  • Him 3 times.
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  • There's a lot of self-recrimination going on.
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  • Then there's probably some fear mixed in there, going, "hey,
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  • Wait a minute, they killed jesus, they coming after
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  • Us next?
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  • Are the romans gonna come after us now?
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  • I mean, we're the next of kin.
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  • I mean, we're the--we're his closest followers.
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  • They killed jesus, they gonna kill us?"
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  • So they're afraid.
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  • And then, of course, there's confusion.
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  • "what in the world do we do now?"
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  • When you're in that saturday of life, you're in limbo.
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  • You've been there many times.
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  • You went out, and you accepted a new job, or you started a new
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  • Business, and you had so much hope that it was gonna be so
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  • Good and so great and maybe even felt like god led you to start
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  • That business or go that job.
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  • And then it didn't work out, and you get fired, or the company
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  • Goes belly up and you go bankrupt.
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  • And you go, "now what am i supposed to do?"
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  • Or you go into a marriage with the greatest of hopes, thinking,
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  • "this is gonna be heaven on earth."
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  • And then the marriage fails, and it falls apart, and you go,
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  • "okay, what's my identity now?
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  • What do i do now?"
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  • There are 1,000 ways you go through the saturdays of life,
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  • The days of doubt, the days of confusion, the days of loss
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  • And grief.
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  • Now, jesus had warned them that this was gonna happen.
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  • Let me show you some verses, look up here on the screen.
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  • The bible says, in matthew 26, that very night, the night he
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  • Was arrested and and killed, it said, "then jesus told them,
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  • 'before the night's over, you're gonna fall to pieces because of
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  • What happens to me.'"
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  • In fact, look at this next verse.
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  • The bible tells us that, that night, jesus said, "all of you
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  • Will desert me."
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  • Jesus told them.
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  • "for the scripture says, 'i'll strike the shepherd, and the
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  • Sheep will be scattered.'"
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  • And that's exactly what happened.
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  • Every one of the disciples went awol, absent without leave.
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  • They all deserted, they all abandoned him.
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  • Look at this verse.
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  • The bible says, "at that point," when jesus was arrested, "all
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  • The disciples abandoned jesus and ran away."
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  • Every single one of them ran away.
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  • Now, let me ask you a very pointed personal question.
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  • Have you ever deserted god out of pain?
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  • Maybe you were praying for something to happen, and it
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  • Didn't happen that way, so you walked away from church many
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  • Years ago.
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  • Or, maybe you thought, "it should happen this way," and it
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  • Ended up being a massive disappointment, and you lost
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  • Your faith, and you walked away or you ran away from god.
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  • Do you ever let pain move you away from god instead of to god?
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  • It's time to come home.
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  • It's time to come back home.
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  • I want you to write this down.
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  • You need to remember the promises of god.
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  • You need to remember the promises of god.
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  • Never doubt in the dark what god has shown you in the light.
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  • And, when you're going through those days--and you're gonna go
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  • Through them many times in life--when you can't put one
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  • Foot in front of the other, and you don't even know--it's so
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  • Dark you can't even see ahead of you 1 foot.
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  • You haven't the slightest idea what to do next with your life.
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  • Everything's just kind of turned to ashes, it's thrown up in the
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  • Air, all of the plans have gone down the toilet, and you don't
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  • Even know what to do.
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  • And, when you are in that situation, you're in the
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  • Saturday of life, you're in the day of confusion.
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  • You never doubt in the dark what god has told you in the light,
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  • And you never doubt his promises.
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  • Right before jesus was crucified, he gave his disciples
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  • A huge promise to hang onto in the dark days of saturday.
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  • Let me show it to you; it's up here on the screen, john chapter
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  • 16, "jesus said, 'here's what's going to happen.'"
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  • Now, this is--he's telling them this that very night that he's
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  • Going to be arrested.
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  • "jesus said, 'here's what's going to happen: soon i'll be
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  • Gone and you'll be without me, but after a while, you'll see
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  • Me again.'"
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  • He's predicting his resurrection; he knows what's
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  • Gonna happen, they don't.
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  • "'you'll see me again.'"
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  • He says, "'you will weep and you will mourn and you will grieve,
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  • But your grief will eventually turn into joy.'"
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  • And then he says this, "'it will be like a woman going through
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  • Labor pains.
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  • When her child is finally born, her anguish--'" that labor
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  • Pain--"'turns to joy because the new life wipes out the
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  • Memory of the pain.'"
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  • And then he says, ''in the same way, you'll go through sorrow
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  • Now, but i'll be back and you will rejoice--'' and i love this
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  • Part--"'and no one will be able to rob you of that joy!'"
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  • All right, because he said, "when i come back, you're gonna
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  • Be fearless because you know that i can handle anything."
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  • It was all planned; it was all part of the grand scheme.
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  • You can't see it in the days of pain, and you can't see it in
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  • The days of confusion.
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  • But it's all part of the plan, and it's a good plan.
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  • And, when that come--when you see that plan--you will rejoice
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  • In ways nobody ever imagined.
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  • And nobody can tell that--tear that joy away from you.
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  • Now, i don't know what you're going through right now, but i
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  • Will tell you this: you need to become a promise person.
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  • What's a promise person?
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  • You need to know and claim the promises of god.
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  • Now, in this book, the bible, there are over 7,000 promises of
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  • God to you.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • You don't even know them.
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  • And, if you don't even know them, you can't claim them.
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  • And, if you can't claim them, they're like checks that have
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  • Been sent to you and they're piling up in your mailbox, and
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  • You can't even use them.
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  • How do you know when you don't know the promises of god?
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  • Oh, it's real simple.
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  • There's a warning sign, and it's real common.
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  • When you don't know the promises of god, you know what you do?
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  • It's called worry.
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  • Are any of you familiar with this word?
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  • Because, when you don't know what god has guaranteed to take
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  • Care of in your life, you act like it all depends on you.
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  • And then you worry, and you stress out, and you have panic
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  • Attacks, and you get upset, and you get anxious, and you get
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  • Over pressured and stressed out in every kind of way, and you're
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  • Worried because you don't know what's covered in the
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  • Owner's manual.
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  • A couple weeks ago, i had surgery on one of my feet, and i
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  • Didn't know if the surgery was gonna be covered by my insurance
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  • Or not.
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  • So, you look it up on the insurance, and you go, "oh,
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  • Well, yeah, this kind of surgery is actually covered."
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  • Once you know what's covered in the policy, what do you do about
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  • It, you keep worrying?
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  • No, you forget it, you forget it.
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  • The reason why you're worrying is, you don't know what's
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  • Covered in the policy for you.
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  • There are 7,000 promises, and the way you get through the days
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  • Of confusion and doubt is you hang on to the promises of god.
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  • I said, in the dark, you never doubt what god's told you in
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  • The light--what do we know about god in the light?
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  • Well, we know that god sees everything you go through.
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  • We know that god cares about everything you go through.
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  • We know that god grieves when you hurt.
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  • The only reason you're able to have sorrow and grief is because
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  • You're made in god's image, and god grieves, god sorrows.
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  • The bible tells us that god weeps.
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  • And, when god sees inhumanity done by humans to other humans,
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  • God weeps 'cause he doesn't like it, and he's sorrowful by the
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  • Way people treat each other.
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  • And the bible says, god grieves.
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  • We know that god loves you unconditionally; he will never
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  • Stop loving you; you can't make him stop loving you.
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  • We know that god is close.
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  • We know that god wants the best for you.
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  • We know that god can bring good even out of bad, even out of
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  • Evil, when we give him the pieces.
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  • Anybody can bring good out of good, that's no problem.
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  • It's no big deal; anybody can bring good out of good.
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  • God specializes in bringing good out of bed.
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  • He loves to turn crucifixions-- it's over--into resurrections--
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  • No, it's not; no, it's not.
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  • When you don't remember the promises of god, you worry.
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  • Now, let me just talk to you personally for a minute.
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  • Some of you maybe recently have gone through a major personal
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  • Train wreck.
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  • Maybe at work, maybe in your marriage, maybe in your health.
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  • And it's a personal train wreck.
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  • And it looks like everything has turned to ashes in your life.
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  • There's nothing to show for it.
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  • And you go, "i don't have anything to show for it.
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  • I put all this work in it.
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  • I've got nothing to show for it."
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  • If that's the way you feel, god has a promise for you; it's one
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  • Of those 7,000.
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  • It's isaiah 61, there on your outline, god promises this, "to
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  • All who mourn in zion, i will give--" i will return--"beauty
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  • For ashes, joy instead of mourning, and praise instead
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  • Of despair."
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  • That's a good promise to hold on to when you're in the darkest
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  • Days of your life.
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  • Now, i could give you 10,000 examples of that verse.
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  • I could easily call 10,000 members of our church to come up
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  • Here and tell you how that verse has been true in their lives,
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  • That he says, "i will give you beauty for ashes, joy instead of
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  • Mourning, and praise instead of despair."
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  • Devotionals, bible teachings, scripture, and engaging
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  • Exercises to help you discover the secret to answered prayer.
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  • When you give a gift to "daily hope" to help take the certain
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  • Hope of jesus to people around the world, we'll send you
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  • "experience god's power through prayer" to say thanks.
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  • Pastor rick: one of those 7,000 verses, the 7,000 promises that
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  • Really helped me is in isaiah chapter 43,
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  • And it says this, "when you go through deep waters and great
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  • Trouble, i will be with you.
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  • And when you go through rivers of difficulty, you will
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  • Not drown!
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  • And when you go through fires of oppression, you will not be
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  • Burned up--the flames will not consume you!
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  • For i am the lord, your god and savior!"
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  • You need a savior.
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  • The only way you're gonna get from the days of pain, the
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  • Fridays of life, and get through the days of confusion, the
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  • Saturdays of life, and get to the sundays, the days of victory
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  • And joy, you need a savior 'cause you can't
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  • Resurrect yourself.
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  • Sorry, you don't have that power.
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  • You need to turn to him, and, if you trust him, then you will get
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  • To sunday, which is the day of joy.
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  • On sunday morning, a couple of the women go to the tomb because
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  • They're going to go to mourn the tomb, at the tomb.
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  • And it says, as dawn was coming up--so, the sun is just rising,
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  • But the son had already risen, if you get my drift.
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  • And, when jesus shows up--and he starts showing up first to
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  • The women and then he shows up to the disciples and then he
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  • Shows up to a bunch of other people, and over the next 40
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  • Days he shows up over and over.
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  • He has meals with people, he goes fishing with people.
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  • One time he sat down and had a several hour discussion with
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  • About 500 people at one time.
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  • When the disciples saw jesus, "okay, game changer, we're not
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  • Afraid anymore.
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  • We are fearless," why?
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  • "because you can kill us, but we're coming back to life.
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  • We're not even worried about this anymore."
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  • And these 11 guys start spreading the good news that
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  • Life can be changed, and there is power in god's name, and it
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  • Starts spreading all over the roman empire, and 11 guys start,
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  • And 300 years later, it's become the faith of the roman
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  • Empire, and caesar's a christian.
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  • Why, because they were fearless and confident, because they had
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  • Seen the lord, and their joy was contagious.
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  • Now, how do you get to those days of joy?
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  • Would you write this down?
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  • You rely on the power of jesus.
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  • You see, you can't get there on your own.
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  • It takes far more than self effort.
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  • When your life has turned to ashes, when your life has fallen
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  • Apart, when you're in a chronic problem, a chronic pain, a
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  • Chronic state of conflict, and you can't do anything about it,
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  • It's not, "i think i can, i think i can, i think i can, i
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  • Think i can."
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  • That doesn't work, like the little train going up the hill.
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  • You can't resurrect yourself; you need a savior.
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  • God has to do it for you, that's why it's called salvation.
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  • See, if you could do it on your own, then jesus coming to earth
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  • And dying on the cross is a total waste.
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  • Believe me, if there was any other way you could get into
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  • Heaven without somebody having to pay for your sins, don't you
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  • Think god would have chosen the simpler way, rather than letting
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  • His son die a humiliating death on the cross?
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  • There was no other way.
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  • I want you to listen very closely 'cause i'm gonna
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  • Summarize everything i've shared with you.
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  • To get through the worst days of your life, you're gonna have to
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  • Do three things.
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  • You're gonna have to reach out to the presence of jesus.
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  • You're gonna have to remember the promises of jesus, and you
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  • Gotta learn them.
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  • And you're gonna have to rely on the power of jesus.
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  • When you do those three things, it's a game changer.
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  • Everything and anything is possible now.
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  • Jesus said it like this, in john chapter 11, here on the screen,
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  • "he said, 'i am the resurrection and i am the life!
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  • Whoever believes in me, even though they die, they will
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  • Live again.
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  • And i give them eternal life for believing in me and they will
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  • Never perish!'"
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  • What that verse says is death is not the end of the story, and
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  • That gives me a lot of hope.
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  • You know, if my son could contact me from heaven--and he
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  • Can't--but, if he could, i'm sure he would say to me from
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  • Heaven, "dad, you were wrong.
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  • You were really wrong."
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  • And i would say, "matthew, what are you talking about?
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  • Where was i wrong?"
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  • "dad, it's so much better than you explained it.
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  • It's so much cooler, and i can't wait for you to get here."
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  • You see, our minds are limited.
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  • We only see three dimensions because we're here on earth.
  • 00:19:09.106 --> 00:19:13.044
  • There are far more dimensions than just three dimensions.
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  • There are dimensions you and i don't even know about.
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  • It's like an ant trying to understand the internet.
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  • You don't have the brain capacity to understand heaven,
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  • And neither do i, it's a whole another level.
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  • And jesus says, "i am the resurrection and the life."
  • 00:19:31.896 --> 00:19:35.533
  • Now, notice the words "i am."
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  • Jesus didn't say, "i point to it, i teach it, i show the way."
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  • He said, "i'm it."
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  • What i'm saying to you, that the answer to all of your problems,
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  • The answer to getting out of the days of pain and through the
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  • Days of chaos and confusion and into the day of joy, the answer
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  • Is not a principle, it's a person; it's jesus.
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  • You don't need a religion; you don't need ritual; you don't
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  • Need rules; you don't need a regulation.
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  • What you need is a relationship to jesus christ.
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  • And that's why paul says, "i want to know christ."
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  • My prayer for you this easter is ephesians chapter 1, it's in
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  • The bible.
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  • This is the prayer that, as your pastor and as somebody who loves
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  • You, i'm praying, i've been praying this prayer for you.
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  • And it says this, "i pray, i pray that you will begin to
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  • Understand--" that you'll just begin to understand--"how
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  • Incredibly great his power is--" that's the power of god, the
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  • Power of jesus--how incredibly great jesus's power is--"to
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  • Help those who believe him."
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  • It's available.
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  • "it is that same mighty power that raised christ from
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  • The dead."
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  • Hello, the same power that raised jesus from the dead is
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  • Available to you on a daily basis.
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  • Now, listen, if god can raise a dead body, he can raise a
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  • Dead marriage.
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  • If god can raise a dead body, he can raise a dead career.
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  • If god can raise a dead body, he can raise a dead relationship.
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  • He can do anything.
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  • It's a whole new ball game with the power of god in your life.
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  • And that's why paul says this, "i want to know christ--" not
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  • Know about him--"i want to know christ and i want to know the
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  • Power of his resurrection and i wanna know the fellowship of
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  • Sharing in his suffering, becoming like him in his death."
  • 00:21:54.305 --> 00:21:58.876
  • He said, "if it means going through tough times, so be it so
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  • I can get to know jesus.
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  • If that's what it takes, so be it.
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  • I want to know christ and the power of his resurrection 'cause
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  • That's what matters most."
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  • Now, we're gonna end with a life-changing prayer.
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  • This is a verse in the bible, and it says this, romans chapter
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  • 10, look right here on the screen, verse 9.
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  • It says this, "if you confess with your mouth--"
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  • That means you pray, you say, "god, i admit this."
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  • "if you confess with your mouth that jesus is lord--" that he's
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  • God, that he is who he says he is, that he has a right to be
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  • The manager of your life.
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  • Lord means manager, boss, ceo; it means he's in charge.
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  • He's not just resident, he's not a part of your life; he is
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  • President of your life.
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  • And he says, "if you believe in your heart that god raised him
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  • From the dead, you will be saved."
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  • If you believe in your heart, god raised him from the dead,
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  • That's what easter's all about.
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  • And he says, then you will be saved.
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  • That's one of those 7,000 promises.
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  • Have you claimed that one yet?
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  • If you haven't, hello, we need to do that one right now.
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  • Let's bow our heads.
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  • If you've never accepted the grace of god in your life, if
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  • You've never turned your life over to jesus christ as lord and
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  • Savior, you're not gonna get out of saturday and friday and into
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  • Sunday 'cause you can't resurrect yourself.
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  • Jesus said, "i am the resurrection and the life."
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  • So i'm gonna pray a simple prayer now, and i invite you to
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  • Follow me in that prayer.
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  • And you don't have to say it aloud, you can just kinda mumble
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  • It to yourself, just kinda, as i say the words, you say, "god,
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  • Me too.
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  • What rick's praying, that's the desire of my heart."
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  • All right, i'm gonna pray, and you can follow.
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  • Just say, "dear god," you can say that in your mind, "dear
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  • God, you know every pain i've had in my life.
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  • And you know the confusion and the doubts i've had in my life.
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  • And, god, you know, i've spent a lot of my life in fridays and
  • 00:24:23.387 --> 00:24:26.423
  • Saturdays, and i want to get to sunday.
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  • I want to live in joy and victory.
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  • Thank you, god.
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  • Thank you for sending jesus to pay for all the things i've done
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  • Wrong by dying on the cross for me.
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  • I don't understand it all.
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  • I don't know how it all works.
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  • But i know i need you in my life.
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  • And, as much as i know how, i humbly ask you, jesus, to put
  • 00:24:58.422 --> 00:25:03.160
  • Your love into my life, to come into my life and make me the
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  • Person you want me to be.
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  • I want to learn to love you and trust you.
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  • I want to know your presence.
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  • I want to live by your promises.
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  • And i want to rely on your power instead of my own to get me
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  • Through my most difficult days.
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  • And i pray this humbly in jesus's name, amen."
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