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John chapter 20 · Scripture Unscripted

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  John chapter 20 let us pray Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
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  Almighty who was, who is who is to come?
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  Lord, we cry, holy, you are worthy, worthy, worthy is the
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  Lamb that was slain. We say thank you.
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  We enter your gates with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  God, we just want more of you. Lord, touch us today.
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  Lord, empower us today. God, fill us with the Holy Ghost
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  today. Father, I pray that we will be
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  found, Lord, taking the whole word to the whole world, to the
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  ends of the earth. God, I pray, Lord, that you will
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  help us to see this world around us the way that you do.
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  Father, let us break free from all of the snares and all of the
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  chains, God, all of the tares. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  against the briars. God, and against all of the
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  thorns and thistles that are trying to trap us.
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  Lord, the cares of this world. Father, all the things that come
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  against us in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Lord, I pray for holy ground today.
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  Lord, I pray that we will be able to tread on snakes and
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  serpents. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus we can crush the head of the enemy.
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  Father, I pray against any kind of malice and deceit and discord
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  today in the name of Jesus, I pray, Lord, that you will help
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  us. Help us to walk on water.
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  Help us to get out of the boat. Father.
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  Help us, Lord, to ascend to new heights with you.
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  Father, we want to be on the mountain of Transfiguration
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  today with you. We want to see your glory, God.
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  Reveal to us your glory, Lord. Come and get your glory, God.
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  We pray that men and women will rise up today and be bold in
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  their faith. Lord, I pray against the fiery
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  darts of the enemy. Lord, I pray that you will be
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  honored and glorified through the reading of these passages.
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  Father, I pray that you'll give us a sound mind and sound
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  doctrine. God, give us the mind of Christ
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  today. Lord, I pray you'll heal our
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  broken bodies. God, get rid of cancer or get
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  rid of hypertension and diabetes.
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  God, I pray against all mental illness.
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  Father, I pray against dementia and Alzheimer's.
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  God, Lord, I pray against heart disease.
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  Father, give us sound bodies. Give us bodies that function in
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  the ways that you designed them to.
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  Lord, I pray you'll open up our vessels.
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  God, open up our capillaries. Lord, open up all of our senses
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  unto the reality, God of the purity, Lord, that you have
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  called us into. Lord, let us walk in this world
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  as if we have already started the journey there with you in
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  glory. God, I pray that you will help
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  us. Lord, help us to transcend time
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  and space. God, help us to see you and be
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  seated there with you. And Lord, I just pray that you
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  will fuel us for the journey, Lord, as you heal our broken
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  bodies. Father, I pray that you will
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  take us to whatever end here on this earth that you desire,
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  Lord, whatever that looks like, whatever it is, Father, that you
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  desire is what we want. We want your will to be done.
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  Lord, we pray against fear. We pray against dismay, Lord.
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  We pray against a fence, Lord, and I pray in the name of Jesus,
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  God, that you will give us the peace that only comes from you,
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  Lord, through whatever trials and tribulations that you have
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  called us into. Lord, that's all that we desire
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  are the things that you have called us into.
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  Lord, let us walk in that bridal identity today.
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  God, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I pray all of these
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  things. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. The first day of the week came
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  Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark unto the tomb, and
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  she saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
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  So here she is coming to spread some more ointment on the dead
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  Jesus. We know that he was taken down
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  off the cross by Joseph of Arimathea.
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  We know that Nicodemus brought 100 lbs of spices there.
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  And here Mary is coming to complete that task.
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  And she came right after all the legal requirements of the
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  Sabbath and the Passover had passed, so she's coming as soon
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  as she could. Verse 2 Then she ran and came to
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  Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and
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  said unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb,
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  and we know not where they have laid him.
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  So she was looking for a dead Jesus.
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  She wasn't looking for a resurrected Jesus.
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  She went and told these two fellers here, and John remains
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  anonymous because he has humility, although we're going
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  to see that he did not want to be named, but he knows that he's
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  loved by the Lord Jesus Christ and he knows that he is much
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  more of a runner than Peter is. 3 Peter therefore went forth,
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  and that other disciple, and came to the tomb. 4 So they ran
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  both together, and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and
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  came first to the tomb. We see here that John is much
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  more of a runner than Peter was. 5 And he stooping down and
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  looking in, saw the linen clothes lying, yet went not in.
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  So we see here that John paused at the opening to the tomb.
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  He was perplexed by the whole scene. 6 Then came Simon Peter
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  following him, and went into the tomb, and saw the linen clothes
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  lying, 7 and the napkin that was about his head, not lying with
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  the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
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  So Peter did not hesitate. He was very impulsive and you
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  see that all throughout Scripture that Jesus just did
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  and said whatever he was thinking and feeling in the
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  moment. So John stopped and paused to
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  reflect on the whole scene. Peter ran straight in.
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  They're telling us that this outline of a body that was
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  wrapped in wrapped in these clothes that was spread with the
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  ointment was lying there and the headpiece was lying separately.
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  And there is a lot of theologians that would tell you
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  that these dressings were folded neatly off to a corner,
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  signaling his return, as if someone who got done eating
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  would they would do the same. They would fold their napkin in
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  a way that signaled that they were not done, that they were
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  coming back to the table. There's a lot of theologians
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  that would tell you that. There's also a thought process
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  here that it looked as if the body had evaporated out of this
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  mummy like cocoon of all these dressings that were spread over
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  with the ointment there and it still had the outline of the
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  body, but the body was gone and it was not taken off by any
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  human form. There was no stealing of the
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  body. There was no cutting it out.
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  There was nothing of the sort. It was miraculous.
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  Jesus could go through walls. He could appear wherever he
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  wanted to in his resurrected state.
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  And here we know after he was resurrected on the third day, we
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  know that he appeared to many and he left his grave clothes
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  lying there in the tomb. And there's a lot of people who
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  have studied these grave clothes as one has been.
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  The Shroud of Turin has been handed down through generations,
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  and that particular artifact could or could not be the actual
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  burial cloth for Jesus. We know that it is a true relic.
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  It is not something that is been propagated and fabricated.
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  We know that it is a factual relic from that time, made of
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  linen, which stands the test of time.
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  However, it would be like God. Whenever Moses died, they did
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  not know where the body was laid.
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  It would be just like God to make sure that these clothes did
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  not stand the test of time so that we would not worship them.
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  So we need to be careful whenever anything comes in front
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  of us that is extra biblical. Just mark my words and listen up
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  carefully. Anytime anything that comes
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  across that is extra biblical, we need to make sure that we are
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  very on guard. We cannot just believe every
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  little thing that comes our way or we're going to be swept away
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  in hype and fanfare. We need to make sure that we are
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  rooted and grounded in the Word of God.
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  This is the only reliable thing in the entire world.
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  It is not the Bible plus anything else.
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  It is the Bible and it is only the Bible that is profitable and
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  useful and salvation, friends, and all of the rest of it is
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  just opinion, speculation. And we can think about those
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  things and we can wonder about those things, but we cannot put
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  our whole trust and whole self. It is not hills that are worth
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  dying on, friends, and we need to keep that in mind as we go
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  through this life. The only thing that we need to
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  make sure that we are willing to die on the hill for is the
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  Bible. It is Genesis to Revelation.
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  That's it, friends. All the rest of it is just
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  speculation. And they are novelties.
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  And we can sit and talk about it and wonder about it, but it's
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  not worth us losing ground with other believers over.
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  It's not worth us dividing over. 8 Then went in also that other
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  disciple which came first to the tomb, and he saw him believe.
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  So here we see that John, before he ever saw the risen Lord Jesus
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  Christ in his resurrected body, he already put his belief in the
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  fact that he was alive. We worship a risen God.
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  There is no tomb, there is no grade that you can go and visit
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  for the Lord Jesus Christ. Like all the other prophets of
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  old, like all the other wise teachers of old, like all of the
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  other religious leaders of old. There are places that you can go
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  and worship, but there is not one for the Lord Jesus Christ
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  because He is alive and John is quick to believe on him.
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  I pray that you believe on the Lord.
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  I pray that you have put your full trust and full faith in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, in the risen Lord.
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  He is alive. 9/4 As yet they knew not the Scripture that he
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  must rise again from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went away
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  again unto their own home. So look at here.
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  They were not yet indwelled with the Holy Spirit.
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  They had not yet got all of the understanding of the full
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  Scriptures, the full counsel. But the Holy Spirit is about to
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  reveal all of the words that Jesus Christ spoke to them and
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  how they all are congruent and all go together in Scripture.
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  Interpret Scripture, friends, and it is a beautiful
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  masterpiece only brought about by God the Holy Spirit, the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. These are the only ways, They
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  are the only ways that we could have this infallible and errant
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  scripture. This is a miraculous book.
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  This is a miraculous piece of literature.
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  This is a miraculous group of writings that was written by
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  many authors that spanned different time periods and
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  distances and lands, all put together and all congruent and
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  all beautiful. All a masterpiece.
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  The tapestry and it all supports each other, and it is a
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  miraculous work of God. 11 But Mary stood outside of the tomb
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  weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the
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  tomb. So just imagine the scene.
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  She comes early in the morning. She sees the stone is rolled
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  away. We know that there's other women
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  with her at the time. And you see, as soon as she sees
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  this, the the stone rolled away, she goes and tells John and
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  Peter. John and Peter go immediately
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  in. They see the whole scene.
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  They return back to the upper room.
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  They go back to their own homes, as the Bible tells us.
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  And then the women are left outside of the tomb.
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  Mary is weeping there. She looked into the tomb, 12 and
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  she saw 2 angels in white sitting, the one at the head and
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  the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain.
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  This is like the cherubim over the most holies, the holiest of
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  holy. And you see these two angels
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  sitting there, and what are they going to tell her?
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  13 And they say unto her, Woman, why do you weep?
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  And she said unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord,
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  and I know not where they've laid them.
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  So she was looking for a dead body.
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  She wanted to go and finish the work of anointing him and
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  spreading the aloe on him, the ointment on him, and finishing
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  the burial practice of the Jews, which is very scrupulous.
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  Even the Romans of the day they marvelled and they were
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  enamoured by all of the burial practices of the Jews of the
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  time. It's very scrupulous.
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  And here Mary is weeping and she's looking for a dead man,
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  but she will not find him there. And that's what the angels are
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  about to tell her. 14 And when she had thus said, she turned
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  herself back and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it
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  was Jesus. Very interesting.
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  We know from the road to Emmaus, the disciples on the road to
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  Emmaus where Jesus and his resurrected state was hidden
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  from them. We know that the disciples in
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  the next chapter, they are fishing and they're going to
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  look upon him and not realize it was him just yet.
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  And then here Mary is weeping, tears in her eyes and she turns
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  and doesn't realize it's Jesus Christ.
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  You know, there's a lot of speculation when it comes to why
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  in Jesus's resurrected state, the disciples, those who were
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  close to him and walked with them for three years, plus why
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  he was hidden from them in his resurrected body.
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  We know that Jesus had the ability to walk through walls
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  and appear amongst them in a locked door.
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  You can see that in this perfected state, Jesus still
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  bears the scars, the holes in his hand, and the holes in his
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  side. And this is a mystery unto us
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  here on this side of glory. Whenever we get there, we're
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  going to have our perfected bodies, our resurrected bodies,
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  and we know that Jesus was the 1st.
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  And we have received the Holy Spirit as a down payment of that
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  promise and of that truth. And we can only surmise of the
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  reasons why Jesus was hidden from the disciples until he had
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  spoke a word or broke the bread and looked up.
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  And we will find out as we see him, as we look upon him, and
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  it'll be glorious Friends. 15 Jesus said unto her, Woman, why
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  do you weep? Who do you seek?
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  She's supposing him to be. The gardener said unto him, Sir,
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  if you have borne him hence, tell me where you have laid him,
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  and I will take him away. So she's saying here, just show
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  me where you've taken his body, and I will remove him from here.
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  And she had not realized that it was Jesus speaking to her.
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  She's thinking it's just the gardener.
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  And isn't it interesting that the first Adam was told to till
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  the land? And here Mary is mistaking Jesus
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  for a gardener. There's a lot of tapestry here,
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  Friends. 16 Jesus said unto her, Mary.
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  She turned herself, and said unto him, Rabbani, which is to
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  say, Master. So here he spoke a word, and she
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  realized that it was him. 17 Jesus said unto her, Touch me
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  not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father, but go to my
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  brothers and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your
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  Father, and unto my God and your God.
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  So he is saying here to Mary, do not hold fast to me, do not hold
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  on to me, do not try and grab me, and keep me with you.
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  Our relationship has changed. I am no longer walking as your
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  teacher. I'm no longer walking this earth
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  as the one who has yet to go to the cross and be resurrected.
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  I am in my resurrected state and I must ascend to the right hand
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  of the Father. He's telling her that things
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  have changed and he's saying do not try to hold me back from
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  doing the Lord's work. I must go unto the Father.
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  I must send the comforter to you. 18 Mary Magdalene came and
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  told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had
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  spoken these things unto her. Look at how the Lord reveals
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  Himself to the woman that He cast 7 devils out of.
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  Look at how her past did not discredit, it did not disqualify
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  her from receiving the very first public interaction with
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  the risen Lord Jesus Christ. And how blessed and honored is
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  Mary of Magdon? 19 Then the same day, at evening
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  being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where
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  the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and
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  stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.
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  So imagine that Jesus just walks in the room, friends, and he
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  does the same today. And we need to let this sphere
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  of man go. And you can see the disciples,
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  they were shaking in their boots because they thought that what
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  had happened to the Lord was going to happen to them.
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  And they had not yet been emboldened by the Holy Spirit to
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  go out and to bring the whole word to the whole world.
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  They were not yet emboldened in their faith, ready to go unto
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  the cross. They were not yet empowered from
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  on high. They had a lot of intellectual
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  knowledge, but they had not yet been sharpened.
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  They had not yet been able to understand what the purpose of
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  it all was. And we can be the same.
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  We can have a lot of head knowledge, but unless that head
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  knowledge is actually put into practice and our faith is grown
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  and we realize the whole purpose of the whole matter of the whole
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  thing is that Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone of all of
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  creation, of everything seen and unseen.
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  We're going to live this life, friends, for ourselves, and
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  we're going to shrink back in fear, just like these Jews.
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  We're doing it this time. But we know that these men went
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  on to testify and to be a witness for him and to suffer
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  many miserable deaths. But they did it all, and they
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  counted it as joy. 20 And when he had so said, he showed unto
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  them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad
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  when they saw the Lord. So he's saying to them, Put your
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  hand, put your fingers in my hand, in my side, look upon my
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  hands, look upon my side. It is I.
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  What a amazing thought, Jesus standing in their midst, bearing
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  the scars from his crucifixion. 21 Then said Jesus to them
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  again, peace be unto you as my Father has sent me, Even so I
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  send you. So we can see here that Jesus is
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  commissioning them to go into the whole world to go and take
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  the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ and what he did for us,
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  His perfect sinless life, his dying of criminals death to
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  atone for us so we can be at one with the Father, so we can be
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  justified. And it's just if I'd never done
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  it, because of the what the Lord Jesus Christ did for us on the
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  cross, And we can receive the Holy Spirit, and we can walk in
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  the Spirit, and we can know that we know that we know that we
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  know that we are going to make it there because of the blood of
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  the Lamb covering us. 22 And when he had said this, he
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  breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive you, the Holy
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  Ghost. 23 Whose ever sins you forgive, they are forgiven unto
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  them. And whoever's, and whosoever
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  sins you retain, they are retained.
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  So here we know that Jesus is giving the disciples the
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  Commission to go and to take the good news unto the whole world.
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  And it is through people choosing to believe or to not
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  believe that will determine where they spend eternity.
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  And He is giving them this Commission right here and right
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  now. He's telling them to be
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  empowered from on high with the Holy Ghost.
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  And He's telling them to go and spread the good news of what He
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  has done. And that will determine whose
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  sins will be forgiven and whose sins will not be forgiven.
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  And it is all about the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  That is, the only way that our sins can be forgiven is through
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  Jesus. And he's telling them that they
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  have the authority to go and to proclaim the good news.
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  And he gives that to you and he gives that to me.
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  And that is the great commandment, friends, to go into
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  all the world, to Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, to go and to
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  spread the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ to all tribes, all
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  people groups, all languages, all tongues.
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  And we need to know that He is the only way to the Father, and
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  He is the only way that their sins will be forgiven. 24 But
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  Thomas, one of the 12 called Didymus, was not with them when
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  Jesus came. So who knows where Thomas is at
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  this time? Perhaps he is aloof from the
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  group. 25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have
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  seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I
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  shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my fingers
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  into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side.
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  I will not believe so. Thomas here is saying that he
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  has been so disappointed with how the Lord was put to death
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  and he had believed on him. And much like Judas, Judas had
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  thought, and the disciples at large, and Jerusalem at large
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  and Israel at large thought that their Messiah was coming to
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  overthrow Roman rule. And here Thomas has been
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  disappointed by his Lord, and he's saying, I refuse to be
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  disappointed again. 26 And after 8 days, again his disciples were
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  within, and Thomas with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being
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  shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
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  How many times has Jesus said peace be unto you?
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  And there is no peace without a relationship with God through
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  His Son Jesus Christ. We cannot even know what peace
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  is until we come faithfully to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  There is no peace outside of God.
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  If you know Him, then you will know peace.
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  And look at how they keep meeting on these Sundays.
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  It was Sunday whenever the Lord resurrected.
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  It was Sunday whenever He appeared to them.
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  Look at how many times and we can see why we celebrate the
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  Lord on Sunday morning. He is alive every single Sunday,
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  the 1st day of the week we can celebrate.
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  It doesn't always have to be on this particular Sunday that the
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  Lord was resurrected as we mark on our calendars, it doesn't
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  have to be. We can celebrate every single
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  day of the week, friends, that he is alive and he is
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  resurrected. 27 Then said he to Thomas, Reach here your finger,
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  and behold, my hands, Reach here your hand, thrust it into my
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  side, and be not faithless, but believing.
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  So here's a gentle rebuke to Thomas.
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  And we like to pick on Thomas and call him the doubter, but we
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  know that Thomas did not want to be disappointed again.
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  And here the Lord was so gentle with him, and he wanted him to
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  believe. And we know that the foundations
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  of New Jerusalem will have the names of these disciples.
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  Even Matthias will have the names of these disciples written
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  upon them, including Thomas, also known as the Twin. 28 And
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  Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord, my God, can you
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  say that today? We see that with the thief on
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  the cross. We see that with Mary.
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  We see that with the woman caught in the act of adultery.
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  We see that here with Thomas. This is the turning point for
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  us, when we no longer see Jesus as a good teacher and a prophet
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  of old. But he is Lord, He is Adonai.
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  Can you say that today? Can you say that Jesus is Lord
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  over your life? He has full access to
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  everything. There is nothing hidden from
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  him. I pray that you can.
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  Jesus is Lord. Every knee will bow and every
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  tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  And we need to know that. And it's better to do it on this
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  side of eternity rather than to wait, because if you wait until
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  next time, it'll be too late. 29 Jesus said unto him, Thomas,
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  Because you have seen me, you have believed.
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  Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.
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  This Is Us now, friends, this is all of the believers from
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  Thomas, forward from Thomas until right now.
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  Jesus says we are more blessed. How amazing is that?
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  How amazing is the fact that we are more blessed than Thomas
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  because Thomas would not believe until he had seen it.
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  And you and I, we have to take it by faith.
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  We have to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus Christ to us by
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  faith, friends, and it is by this faith that we have and the
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  Bible tells us it's impossible to please God without faith.
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  It is by this faith that we have that we can please God and that
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  we can be more blessed. Pray that you are faithful and
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  not faith less. 30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in
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  the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this
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  book. 31 will end here. But these are written that you
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  might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
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  believing you might have life through his name.
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  It's not. It couldn't be any more clear.
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  How we must come unto the Lord Jesus Christ is by faith.
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  It's by believing in His name. It's by believing that God
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  raised him from the dead. It's by believing in faith,
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  friends, that we are saved. It's by acknowledging that Jesus
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  Christ is the only begotten, and it is by believing on His name
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  that we will be saved. It's by believing that the Lord
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  Jesus Christ is the only way unto the Father.
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  Have you done that? Have you placed your faith in
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  the Lord Jesus Christ? I pray that you have.
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  It's a simple gospel. It is.
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  The good news is very simple. We complicate it.
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  It is a moment by moment, 2nd to 2nd, day by day decision that we
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  make every single day to remain faithful to the Lord Jesus
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  Christ and those that are apostate and those that have
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  fallen away and those that ever announced their faith and gone
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  back to the vomit friends, they were never his.
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  But there are a lot of born again, blood bought believers
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  who love the Lord Jesus Christ who are in a season of doubt,
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  much like Thomas. But the Lord Jesus Christ knows
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  just how to meet them where they're at and bring them back.
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  Just like Peter when he denied the Lord three times and he
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  comes in and he reinstates him. How amazing is our Lord God?
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  He knows who belongs to him and it is his business to make sure
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  that we make it to the end. And if you will not sear your
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  conscience, and if you will not grieve the Holy Spirit, He will
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  speak to you, and He will reveal His presence in your life in
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  this still small voice. Let's not quench the Spirit
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  today, friends. Let's cultivate and break up the
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  fallow ground and allow the Holy Spirit to speak loudly and
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  boldly in our lives. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.