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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - He Is Risen In Me! | April 5, 2026
- There is
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- Evidence of resurrection everywhere you go.
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- Don't you know that you sow a seed
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- And it dies, and then it comes to life?
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- He said, there's no life without death.
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- Preceding it
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- There has to be a death before they can be alive.
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- We see that everywhere, ladies and gentlemen,
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- Everywhere we go.
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- You plant a seed, the seed dies and the seed come to life.
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- Whether it's watermelon, whether it's turnips,
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- Whatever it might be. everything.
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- Every tree, every bush we see in this world.
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- Death preceded it, and it introduced that to life.
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- Before the resurrection,
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- There was a dark, dark friday.
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- Silence.
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- Sorrow, uncertainty.
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- But easter is coming.
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- And when the sun rose that morning, everything changed.
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- The cross was not the end of the story.
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- The tomb could not hold the son of the living god.
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- The same resurrection power brings light
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- Into your darkness and into my darkness in every moment.
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- The resurrection reminds
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- Us that god specializes in turning endings
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- Into beginnings.
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- Whatever you're facing today,
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- Thank you for joining me today on the winning walk.
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- Let's get started.
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- I look today
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- At easter in a new way because
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- I've come to a realization
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- That i am terminally ill.
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- But you also are terminally ill.
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- Everybody here.
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- We just don't know how long the term will be.
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- In light of that, easter has new meaning
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- For you and for me and for our loved ones
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- Who's gone on before us.
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- And we wonder, where are they?
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- What is going on?
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- Are they yet still alive?
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- And what does a resurrection of jesus have to do with it?
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- And we come here on this easter morning,
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- And we know that all over the world,
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- Millions and millions of people are gathering for worship.
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- And the worship leader stands up and says, christ is risen.
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- And that is response of faith.
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- The leader responds with a word of faith.
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- The worshiping congregation
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- Responds with an affirmation of faith.
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- And so we are come here today to do exactly that.
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- On this easter, and therefore it has new significance.
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- So as we are looking at the scripture of truth,
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- I hope will continue to respond in that same way.
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- When i make my profession, you respond.
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- Christ is risen in christ.
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- We're going to look at
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- What i believe without a lot of argument
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- Is the greatest chapter in the bible.
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- Think about it.
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- Of all the truths of god in this book,
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- Is there one chapter that seems to be above all others?
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- Some one might debate romans eight.
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- Someone might look at a psalm.
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- Someone might think theologically of genesis
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- And other passages.
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- But far as i'm concerned,
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- First corinthians
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- Chapter 15 is the greatest word of truth.
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- And let me tell you what that chapter is all about.
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- It's christ is risen!
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- That's the whole theme of the chapter.
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- Let's look at it.
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- And then we're going to look at it carefully,
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- Because everybody needs to have the knowledge of this chapter
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- And the understanding of this chapter
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- And the repertoire of your life.
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- So when death comes to you, our death comes to a loved one.
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- We can turn here and we can get divine sense
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- Out of what we perceive as the nonsense of death.
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- So look at it begins with the gospel.
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- Paul says, now i make known to you, brethren, the gospel.
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- That's good news, which i preached to you,
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- Which you receive, and for which also you stand
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- By which also you are saved.
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- If you hold fast the word i preach to you,
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- Unless you believe in vain,
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- For i deliver to you as of first importance.
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- What is the most important thing?
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- Here it is.
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- This is first importance.
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- He said i gave you this truth.
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- Christ died on the cross for your sin.
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- He was buried.
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- He rose again on the third day.
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- He said, by this truth you receive this truth,
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- You receive christ.
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- By this truth you stand.
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- And by this truth you know your eternal destiny.
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- It's all wrapped up here in the gospel,
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- Right in the beginning.
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- The whole theme of one corinthians 15 is
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- Christ is risen indeed.
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- And then paul follows up.
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- So logically, he's a great apologist.
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- He follows up and people ask, well,
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- You know, how do you know?
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- How do you know this?
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- Jesus of nazareth, buried dead, indeed.
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- Rise from the dead.
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- How do you know that?
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- And paul then begins a little sample
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- Of the evidence that we have that the following verses
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- He talks
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- About those who gave witness, who had firsthand experience.
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- They knew he was crucified, that he died.
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- And they saw then he was alive.
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- And he goes on to say, once over 500 people were present
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- Who affirmed the truth, that he was dead,
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- And now he indeed lives again.
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- And this is just a little sample, ladies and gentlemen,
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- Of the validity of the truth, the resurrection
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- Of jesus christ.
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- You look, there is empirical evidence.
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- There is biblical evidence.
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- There is extra biblical evidence.
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- There is circumstantial evidence.
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- There's a testimony of family and friends
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- And the testimony of enemies that verify is true.
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- So i'll tell you something.
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- There's no other historical fact
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- In all of antiquity that has been challenged more
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- Than the validity of the truth of the resurrection of jesus.
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- And there has been no historical fact
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- That has stood strong and clean and accurate
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- As the resurrection of jesus christ.
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- You see, christ has risen,
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- And there
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- Is plenty of evidence to that truth.
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- And this is what paul alludes to.
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- And then,
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- As there would be today, not only the church of corinth,
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- There was a roman, community there.
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- It had corinth.
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- And they had many doubts, many questions.
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- They were steeped in aristotle, aristotle,
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- Aristotle, and and socrates and plato and euripides.
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- And they had a lot of questions.
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- And then paul goes on to say, well, what if this is not true?
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- What if what if god did not raise it?
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- Well, what does that mean?
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- And he has seven big ifs.
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- He said, if christ is not raised
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- The dead, all the apostles are liars.
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- If christ is not raised
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- The dead, all this business about christ and church
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- And christianity is silly and foolishness.
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- Then he goes on, if christ was not raised from the dead,
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- He goes on and on and on.
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- If he were not dead, if he were not raised on and on again.
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- And let's just boil it down.
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- Let's look at it, his summarized.
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- When we understand it, when someone dies.
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- What happens after death?
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- There's not a lot of choices we have out there.
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- Not a lot of ideas about it.
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- Some would say nothing.
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- When you die, zip nothing.
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- And you hear at graves.
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- Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
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- That's not biblical.
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- That's titanic.
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- You go back to nothing.
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- That's a view some people have.
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- Some say there's reincarnation.
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- If you lived a good life, you'll come back as a
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- Great white shark.
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- If you lived a bad life, you might be a roach.
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- And you know, i don't know where this came from.
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- Some ancient eastern mythology or legend.
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- Maybe somebody whose mother in law died.
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- And some weeks later they were walking the jungles
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- And they saw an orangutan causing all this trouble.
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- And they said, well, maybe she's come back.
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- I don't, so i don't know.
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- But reincarnation, other believes in absorption.
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- In other words, when you die, it's like
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- Taking a drop of water and putting that drop
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- That you back in the lake and just absorb into the water.
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- Others say, like the hindus do, that when you die,
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- You go and you become kind of mist.
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- And the intangible part of you, it goes back into the great
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- Holy other, whatever that means in the universe.
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- That's beyond understanding some kind of gnosticism
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- Or mysticism.
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- Some believe that others believe will become ghost.
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- Oh yeah, the native american indian says
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- We saw the ghost going through the trees at night.
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- That's the choices that we have.
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- Nothing.
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- Reincarnation.
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- Or we go back as a drop of ocean.
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- We absorb or we become ghost.
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- Oh, but christ is risen from the dead.
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- That changes the whole arena.
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- And this is what paul is saying here.
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- He's saying, but this is not true.
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- We have validity of it.
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- And all the if this did not happen
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- Are not true, because he begins in the 20th
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- Verse of first, european and 15th.
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- He just says very simply
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- And plainly his thesis.
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- For we know christ has been raised from the dead.
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- Christ is risen!
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- Then he tells us a little bit about
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- And he said, you knew christ is he's the first fruits
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- Of those who are dead, those who are asleep.
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- In other words, all of these were farmers.
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- They had an agricultural background,
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- And they knew when the harvest came in,
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- There would be fruit that would come up first.
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- The first come the first, the first corn would come.
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- They would say,
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- When these first fruits
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- Came in the harvest, what did you know?
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- There's more fruit coming after it.
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- And he's saying that jesus christ came back the dead.
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- He is the first.
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- He is the prototype.
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- He's leading out for all of us who die in christ.
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- We will be the fruit that follows him.
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- He is leading the way.
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- Jesus said in john
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- 14, if i live, you shall live also.
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- Well, what is this easter means to me?
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- It means if we're in christ,
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- Because christ comes to the grave,
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- We too will come to the grave.
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- He just laid out in this victory.
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- Then he spoke about the first adam and the second adam.
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- He said, the first adam. we all died.
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- What happened?
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- Adam said, i want to run my life.
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- I want to be commander, chief of my life.
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- He died.
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- He moved away from god.
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- But the second adam and the life of adam is
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- Jesus christ. jesus christ.
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- The first adam ended up in death in the flesh.
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- The second adam.
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- Jesus ended up in life in the spirit.
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- And he says, the second adam has come.
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- And then he does a very remarkable thing.
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- In verse 23 he said, for each in
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- His own order christ, the first fruits.
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- Add to that those who are in christ coming.
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- Then comes the end.
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- And when he hands over the kingdom to god the father,
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- When he has abolished all rule and all authority and power,
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- Then he goes on and talks about, there will come a time
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- When jesus will take all of us, those who died before
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- Us, those who are alive in the second coming of christ.
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- And he'll hand it all over to the father.
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- He has the priorities set up in life.
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- But some of us say, you know, i'm going to run my own life.
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- There's a story of.
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- The emperor of the holy roman empire.
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- Carl. and he died.
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- And carl went to the door of heaven
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- And knocked on the door of heaven.
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- And a voice said,
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- Who is out there?
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- He said, is carl
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- Emperor of the holy roman empire?
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- King of austria.
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- King of x, king of y, king of z.
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- The voice said,
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- We never heard of you. who?
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- And he goes back and waits a while.
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- He knocks on the door again.
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- They said, who is that?
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- He said, it is carl the.
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- The king of austria, the king of the holy roman empire
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- Said, we've never heard of you.
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- Oh, he waits a long time.
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- And he goes back to the door and he knocks rather timidly
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- In the voice said, who is that?
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- He said, it's carl.
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- Carl, we've heard of you.
- 00:15:25.603 --> 00:15:28.406
- And the door of heaven opens and says,
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- Jesus wants to ask you,
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- Why should i know that you, in my heaven,
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- Folks, we can have all earthly ranks that you want,
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- But god measures things with different dimensions.
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- You see, christ has risen.
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- And then following this, there are questions.
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- If i handed out a little cards to everybody here
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- And said, you know, on this easter,
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- Ask some question about the resurrection,
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- And i can guarantee you most of the questions
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- That we'd ask as a worshiping congregation are summed up
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- And asked.
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- And the questions that paul gives to us right here
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- In our scripture, in seeking to proclaim this truth.
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- Look at verse 35, but someone will say,
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- How are the dead raised?
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- And with what kind of body do they come?
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- You know, we sit here.
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- Where are you talking about the resurrection?
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- A long time ago, jesus died.
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- He was crucified and god raised him.
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- The dead.
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- We've got evidence
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- That that is true, that there's overwhelming evidence.
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- And the bible teaches us that because he lives,
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- We too shall live if we're in christ.
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- But, you know, i've got some more questions.
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- I don't understand how this resurrection works.
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- That's
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- Exactly what they asked in corinth.
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- You know how paul answered it.
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- He said that you're fools.
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- That's the dumbest, most foolish question
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- I've ever heard.
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- He said there is evidence of resurrection everywhere you go.
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- Don't you know that you sow a seed
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- And it dies, and then it comes to life?
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- He said, there's no life without death.
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- Preceding it
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- There has to be a death before they can be alive.
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- We see that everywhere, ladies and gentlemen,
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- Everywhere we go.
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- You plant a seed, the seed dies and the seed come to life.
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- Whether it's watermelon, whether it's turnips,
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- Whatever it might be. everything.
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- Every tree, every bush we see in this world.
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- Death preceded it, and it introduced that to life.
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- So we say you ask about the resurrection.
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- So have you ever heard of caterpillars?
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- How do they become butterflies?
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- There's death involved.
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- So he says evidence of the resurrection is not strange.
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- You see, every passion, desire
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- You and i have, god has fulfilled it.
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- We have a passion for food. guess what?
- 00:17:56.120 --> 00:17:58.322
- Food is available. we have a passion for water.
- 00:17:58.322 --> 00:18:00.658
- Guess what? water is available.
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- Every drive and passion we have,
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- There's an answer of that.
- 00:18:05.396 --> 00:18:06.731
- And the bible says god has put eternity
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- In our hearts because it's there.
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- We know the answer is found to death.
- 00:18:14.272 --> 00:18:17.508
- There's always new life and there's always resurrection.
- 00:18:17.508 --> 00:18:20.912
- You say christ is risen.
- 00:18:20.912 --> 00:18:23.981
- And then the next question.
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- Well, what kind of body is what we have?
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- And paul says, there are all kinds of bodies in this world.
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- There's there's the flesh of fish.
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- There's the flesh of humans.
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- There's the flesh of birds as the flesh of animals.
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- He said there are
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- Celestial bodies, the sun, the moon, the stars.
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- They're terrestrial bodies we have in this light.
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- He said all bodies are appropriate.
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- And he said,
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- You don't bury something and expect
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- That identical thing to come out.
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- There is death.
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- And then there's a resurrection of a new body.
- 00:18:54.478 --> 00:18:57.181
- And the prototype of that is a resurrected body
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- Of jesus christ.
- 00:19:01.118 --> 00:19:02.987
- And then he goes on to say something that's very profound.
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- This is not natural.
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- You go to a secular psychotherapist
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- And your word
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- And you're fearful about death, or you won't know how to tell
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- Your children.
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- Just tell them it's natural.
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- Everything that's born dies.
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- Don't believe that lie.
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- Death is not natural.
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- Bus stop.
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- Man. when he was a bus, he gets on the bus.
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- The other unusual about that.
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- Is it just a natural event?
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- Bus stop?
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- A giraffe gets on the bus.
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- Now, that's not natural.
- 00:19:43.928 --> 00:19:46.897
- The idea that death is natural is thrown out the window
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- As we look at the resurrection of jesus christ.
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- This easter, it is not natural.
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- We have to understand something about what death is.
- 00:19:56.774 --> 00:19:59.910
- By the way.
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- You know the best preparation for death
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- Is prayer.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- Well, we generally go to god in prayer.
- 00:20:07.852 --> 00:20:10.755
- We shut out everything else we say.
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- Lord, it's not what i want, not what i desire.
- 00:20:13.324 --> 00:20:16.494
- I don't even know exactly how to pray in this situation.
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- I'm leaving all up to you.
- 00:20:19.964 --> 00:20:21.499
- And we get quiet and we empty.
- 00:20:21.499 --> 00:20:23.301
- And we just let him do the praying for us.
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- According to romans eight, he knows how to pray.
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- He goes over there where we are
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- And knows how to verse that prayer.
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- You know why our prayers?
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- Do you know why our prayers are not answered?
- 00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:38.749
- It's because it's our prayers,
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- Not his.
- 00:20:42.953 --> 00:20:44.889
- And so we see the beautiful promise of life.
- 00:20:44.889 --> 00:20:48.926
- Add to this life tremendous truth.
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- We celebrate.
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- Christ is risen! he.
- 00:20:52.129 --> 00:20:55.066
- And then we go and look closely at death.
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- Closely at death.
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- We have the idea
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- That here we are getting older,
- 00:21:05.009 --> 00:21:07.478
- We're deteriorating, we're slow,
- 00:21:07.478 --> 00:21:09.113
- And i see people where i'm not what i used to be.
- 00:21:09.113 --> 00:21:12.516
- I just think that's the sickest kind of conversation
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- You can have.
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- I don't want to hear any of that.
- 00:21:17.188 --> 00:21:18.589
- That is numskull kind of ragging the idea.
- 00:21:18.589 --> 00:21:23.027
- I'm getting old, and the body of death
- 00:21:23.027 --> 00:21:25.629
- Is about to catch up with me.
- 00:21:25.629 --> 00:21:27.498
- That's not christianity.
- 00:21:27.498 --> 00:21:29.233
- Christianity says yes, this old earthly body is slowing down.
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- It's deteriorating.
- 00:21:33.971 --> 00:21:34.939
- But what is coming
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- There is that resurrection new body that's coming,
- 00:21:36.207 --> 00:21:39.243
- And that new body is coming is going to kill this old body,
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- Because that new body will be our heavenly body.
- 00:21:43.180 --> 00:21:46.350
- It'll be it'll take care of the capacity
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- And the environment of heaven.
- 00:21:48.652 --> 00:21:52.790
- What does paul say?
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- He said, this perishable body,
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- It becomes
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- Imperishable.
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- Get ready for heaven.
- 00:22:03.701 --> 00:22:05.803
- This mortal body is just going to fade away.
- 00:22:05.803 --> 00:22:09.206
- It becomes an immortal body.
- 00:22:09.807 --> 00:22:13.177
- This body that is weak in this world,
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- If comes a body that is strong forever,
- 00:22:17.381 --> 00:22:21.051
- This body that is limited in scope
- 00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:25.489
- Now has a body that has unlimited scope.
- 00:22:25.489 --> 00:22:29.393
- That's our resurrection body.
- 00:22:30.027 --> 00:22:32.763
- That is what we all have in heaven.
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- Listen, we have the idea.
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- We die,
- 00:22:36.100 --> 00:22:37.301
- We go down, it gets dark and we go to the door of heaven.
- 00:22:37.301 --> 00:22:41.172
- You know, the door of heaven is light.
- 00:22:41.172 --> 00:22:44.041
- And that light is so bright that we could not go into
- 00:22:44.041 --> 00:22:48.145
- Heaven with this old body, this fleshly body that we have.
- 00:22:48.145 --> 00:22:52.450
- We would have to have a resurrection body,
- 00:22:52.450 --> 00:22:55.052
- And then we can go into the light
- 00:22:55.052 --> 00:22:57.021
- If we tried to enter with this old body.
- 00:22:57.021 --> 00:22:59.423
- Let me tell you, we'd be blinded.
- 00:22:59.423 --> 00:23:01.492
- The light is too bright.
- 00:23:01.492 --> 00:23:02.927
- We couldn't hear the glory and the music of heaven.
- 00:23:02.927 --> 00:23:06.130
- We couldn't participate.
- 00:23:06.130 --> 00:23:07.798
- So we have, paul says, this earthly body.
- 00:23:07.798 --> 00:23:11.135
- But he said, we'll be given a resurrection body.
- 00:23:11.135 --> 00:23:15.072
- Now, the beauty of that, the best way to understand it
- 00:23:15.072 --> 00:23:18.576
- Is birth.
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- You're in your mother's
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- Womb, comfortable.
- 00:23:21.946 --> 00:23:24.648
- You everything you want.
- 00:23:24.648 --> 00:23:26.450
- You're attached.
- 00:23:26.450 --> 00:23:29.019
- It's warm, it's cozy.
- 00:23:29.019 --> 00:23:31.288
- You're there. you're at peace.
- 00:23:31.288 --> 00:23:32.923
- You have no need.
- 00:23:32.923 --> 00:23:34.458
- You're in your mother's womb.
- 00:23:34.458 --> 00:23:35.793
- My goodness.
- 00:23:35.793 --> 00:23:36.827
- And then about nine months,
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- Something starts happening.
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- There's an activity.
- 00:23:42.666 --> 00:23:44.502
- And suddenly you, as a baby,
- 00:23:44.502 --> 00:23:46.837
- Now in the womb of your mother, having trouble to breathe.
- 00:23:46.837 --> 00:23:49.740
- And then there is
- 00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:50.808
- This pressure on you that squeezes you and takes
- 00:23:50.808 --> 00:23:53.644
- You and pushes through that opening,
- 00:23:53.644 --> 00:23:55.813
- And you are thrust into the life.
- 00:23:55.813 --> 00:23:57.982
- And then they cut you off that which attached
- 00:23:57.982 --> 00:24:01.685
- You to your mother, and now you're on your own.
- 00:24:01.685 --> 00:24:04.755
- And the light, when you known only darkness,
- 00:24:04.755 --> 00:24:09.360
- That's birth.
- 00:24:09.727 --> 00:24:11.829
- Death is the same way we're in this life.
- 00:24:11.829 --> 00:24:15.466
- We think we have this, we know this, we're experiencing this.
- 00:24:15.466 --> 00:24:18.936
- And then darkness comes and we go and say, oh my goodness.
- 00:24:18.936 --> 00:24:22.273
- But we step out of this life and the life
- 00:24:22.273 --> 00:24:25.476
- That's beyond human explanation.
- 00:24:25.476 --> 00:24:28.612
- Christ is risen.
- 00:24:29.013 --> 00:24:31.315
- And that's the
- 00:24:31.649 --> 00:24:32.449
- Promise we have on easter.
- 00:24:32.449 --> 00:24:35.185
- What do you think it's going to cost
- 00:24:35.185 --> 00:24:38.022
- For you and me
- 00:24:38.022 --> 00:24:40.891
- To get to heaven?
- 00:24:40.891 --> 00:24:42.326
- What's it going to cost?
- 00:24:42.326 --> 00:24:44.895
- What do you think the price would be?
- 00:24:44.895 --> 00:24:49.633
- It's already been paid
- 00:24:50.100 --> 00:24:53.304
- In full.
- 00:24:53.571 --> 00:24:57.808
- And this old earthly body.
- 00:24:58.375 --> 00:25:01.178
- The lord and christ will give us our resurrected body.
- 00:25:01.178 --> 00:25:05.049
- That's prepared to live in heaven forever and forever.
- 00:25:05.049 --> 00:25:08.819
- And by the way, you know where we'll live.
- 00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:10.688
- And a new heaven and a new earth.
- 00:25:10.688 --> 00:25:13.757
- The old, this old earth.
- 00:25:13.757 --> 00:25:15.559
- The old happens. the old ionosphere,
- 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:18.095
- The stratosphere will all be destroyed.
- 00:25:18.095 --> 00:25:20.331
- There'll be a new being and the only way we can live
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- Here is with our resurrected body.
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- Not our earthly body.
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- Our resurrected body.
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- Well, i don't want to play harps all day.
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- You won't.
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- You'll be growing.
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- You'll be freshness every morning.
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- There'll be creativity every morning.
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- There'll be a dynamic.
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- Every morning it will be
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- Out of this world.
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- Christ is risen!
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- Everybody wants a happy home.
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- But let's be honest.
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- A happy home doesn't just happen.
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- It's built.
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- It's shaped.
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- Day by day by day.
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- That's why i want to encourage you to read
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- This little booklet, cardinal rules for a happy home.
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- This 90 day devotional is from
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- Decades of real life pastoring,
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- Counseling, and building my own home and family.
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- In the page of this book each day
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- You will find a simple rhythm
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- As of scripture,
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- Practical, down to earth navigation,
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- And a guided prayer to help you bring it all home.
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- We're not talking about something complicated here.
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- We're talking about just 15 minutes a day.
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- 15 minutes.
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- Did you can strengthen your marriage and refocus
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- Your home on what matters the most in christ
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- Centered, foundation, practical, down to earth.
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- Your life.
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- Because when christ is at the center, guess what?
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- Everything else changes.
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- Conversations change.
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- Priorities change.
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- Hearts begin to change.
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- Take that first step today.
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- Call the number or visit the website below
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- And get cardinal rules for a happy home
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- And begin your 90 day journey right now.
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