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#20260405 - New Life - Luke 24:5-7 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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Taylor, recorded live at Calvary Church in Aurora, Co.
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Here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Take those Bibles of yours and open them to Luke chapter 24.
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Luke chapter 24. As we celebrate Easter today,
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God is doing something new in our day.
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He's pouring out His Spirit in a fresh new way.
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And it's our responsibility as sons and daughters to wake up
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and pay attention to what God is doing and to get involved with
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this movement on the earth today.
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And here we are celebrating another Easter.
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We come together to worship and celebrate life in its fullest.
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It's one of those happy days, one of those days of great
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celebration. But it is important that we step
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back and ask what is Easter all about anyway?
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I mean, what's it about? Is it about family and eggs and
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big bunnies and chocolate getting together with friends?
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I mean, that does surround a lot of our festivities today for
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sure. But when we ask the question
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about Easter, what is it about anyway?
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We have to mention the issues of life and death.
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We come face to face again with the issues of life and death.
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I mean, here we are today celebrating the resurrection of
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Jesus Christ, that he is alive. But before the resurrection was
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a torturous death. Jesus paid the full price of the
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wrath of God upon your sin and mine.
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And Easter can be a profoundly sad day for many as we once
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again come face to face with the issue of death.
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So many of us have lost loved ones and missed them terribly.
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I mean, I've been a pastor now for many, many years and I have
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stayed. I have stood at the graveside of
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so many. I stood at the graveside as a
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pastor, as a dad, as a son, a friend.
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I mean, it's hard, isn't it? Death can be so crushing, so
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harsh, so final. That is the scene of the cross.
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The scene of the cross is crushing, harsh, and final.
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Jesus is torturously dying and his followers have deserted him
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and it's over. And they're wrestling with all
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the emotions. They're wrestling with all of
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the reality that their life is forever changed.
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Now we know that they've come to the wrong conclusion, but the
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feelings are still the same. They're looking at the at at
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their friend. It wasn't merely a savior on the
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cross for them. Jesus was their friend.
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He committed, They committed their lives to following him,
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believing what he taught, spent time with him, ate with him,
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hung out with him, laughed with him.
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And there he is dying and all hope is gone.
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And you might say, well, pastor, how do you know that?
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How can you say that about the cross?
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It's a good question. You know, the Bible gives us a
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lot of insight from different angles of what happened at the
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cross. You weren't there, I wasn't
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there. But we have eyewitnesses
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accounts of exactly what happened and and how some
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believed and some felt as they walked away from the cross.
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In Luke chapter 24. I want to introduce you to a
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couple of men. We know the name of one of them
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and a couple of men that are leaving Jerusalem after the
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death of their friend. And notice what we learn in
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verse 13 of Luke 24. Now behold, 2 of them were
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traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was
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7 miles from Jerusalem. And they talked together of all
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these things which had happened. And so it was while they
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conversed and reasoned that Jesus Himself drew near and went
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with them. But their eyes were restrained
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so that they did not know Him. We learned very quickly here
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that Jesus is drawn to the hurting.
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There's a lot of people he could have met on the road.
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The Luke 24 could have described Jesus meeting all sorts of
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people. But we have reserved for us
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these two men that are coming home from Jerusalem, talking
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about what happened, wondering what's going on, concerned about
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what they thought and what's going on.
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And notice Jesus tells us in verse 17.
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What kind of conversation is this that you have with one
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another, that with one another as you walk and are sad?
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So we know they're sad. There's a lot of emotions
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surrounding the death of Jesus Christ and they're sad.
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They're really going through it. They are going home wrestling
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with the reality, the new reality of their life as Jesus
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is no longer a part of it. Notice in verse 18 it says then
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one of those whose name was Cleopas answered and said to
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him, are you the only stranger in Jerusalem?
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And have you not known the things which happened there in
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these days? Now this is funny, isn't it?
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They're going down, they're going home, Jesus comes.
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They don't quite know it's Jesus and they're asking Jesus, don't
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you know what just happened to you?
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Don't you understand? They don't know who he is.
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They're wrestling and deep in their heart.
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And by the way, you pregnant ladies out there, if you're
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looking for a name for your future son, Cleopas is right
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here. It's a Bible name.
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It's a Bible name. Verse 19, Jesus, and I love this
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about Jesus because he draws out.
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He loves to draw out what's inside of you, what you're
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carrying. You know, perhaps nobody knows
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the depth of the weight of emotion that you carry or the
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issues of your life, but the Lord knows.
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And so carefully He draws out with these guided questions.
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And notice what He says. He says to them what things so
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they said to him. Verse 19, the things concerning
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Jesus of Nazareth who was a prophet, mighty and deed and
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word before God and all the people, and how the chief
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priests and the rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and
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crucified him. But we were hoping, mark that
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phrase, not only are they sad, but they've lost all hope.
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I mean, these are heavy words here, that they have lost all
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hope, which tells me that they put their hope in Christ and
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everything that he said, but from everything that they see,
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they've lost all hope that happens to us.
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We can see things and experience things.
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We can feel the weight of things and come to the wrong conclusion
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because we don't quite see it the way God sees it.
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We don't quite understand it the way God understands it.
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That's where these guys are. They're leaving with all this
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heavyweight. Jesus comes to them and they say
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in verse 21, we were hoping that it was he who is going to redeem
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Israel. Indeed.
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Besides all this, today is the third day since these things
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happened. Yes, certain men of our company
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who arrived at the tomb early astonished us when they did not
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find his body. They came saying that they had
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also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive.
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And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and
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found it, just as the women had said.
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But him they did not see. They have all the right
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information, but they're coming to the wrong conclusion.
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You know, experiencing deep hurt and pain and trauma will do that
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to a person. You lose your balance, you lose
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your equilibrium. You know, the best thing I can
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describe it is if you've ever been punched in the gut, you
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know what I'm talking about. You can't breathe.
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Nothing ever. Nothing else really matters.
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You know, you get punched in the gut.
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You have one thought. Breathe, breathe.
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I just need to breathe. I just want to catch a breath.
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You're not worried about the mortgage.
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You're not worried about putting gas in the car.
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You have one singular thing. And here they are, one singular
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thing. What's going on with my future?
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And yet they have all the right facts.
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Jesus is alive. The angels, the women came back
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and said, an Angel told us that he's alive and we can't find
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him. And all the evidence is there.
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You know, death and loss will do that to you.
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Jesus experienced the pain of death and loss in a friend with
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a friend. We know him as Lazarus.
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He was called to the city by Lazarus's sisters while he was
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still sick and Jesus was asked to go to help his sick friend
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and by the time he arrived, Lazarus had already died.
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And you know what the Bible says?
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Jesus wept. Why?
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Why did Jesus, the Son of God, the King of Kings, cry?
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I believe he was aching at the consequences of death.
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Jesus knew it wasn't part of God's original plan.
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He knew that others pain, He experienced others pain as if it
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was his own. Jesus wept because his heart was
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broken and crushed just like these two men.
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Their heart is broken and they're crushed and they're
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trying to talk it out. Jesus says in verse 25, Oh
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foolish ones, slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets
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have spoken. Ought not the Christ to have
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suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?
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And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded to
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them, and all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
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Then they drew near to the village where they were going,
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and He indicated that He would have gone farther, but they
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constrained Him. Abide with us, for it is toward
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evening, and the day is far spent.
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And He went in to stay with them.
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And it came to pass, as He sat at the table with Him, that He
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took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.
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Then look at verse 31. Then their eyes were opened and
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they knew him, and he vanished from their sight.
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It has been my prayer for some time and many on our team, we
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have been praying that today your eyes would be open, that
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you would have a fresh understanding and vision of
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exactly who Jesus is, especially in his powerful resurrection.
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For some of you, you're far from God.
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You haven't been in church in a long time.
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Maybe this is one of the first times you've been in church.
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And I, I commend you. I know somebody might have
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bribed you with a pie or a lunch, but I'm glad you're here.
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You know, take the lunch, get double, you know, you go to
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Chipotle, just get double of everything.
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It's good that you're here. It's good that you're here
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because you're so close. And we've been praying that your
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eyes would open and that you wouldn't be slow of heart to
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believe. Some of you have been away for a
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long time. We, you know the phrase, you've
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been a prodigal. You have been wandering for a
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very long time. And it is time to come home and
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open your eyes. Open your eyes to the reality of
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Jesus love for you. And what a privilege it is today
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for me as a pastor to share with you that he alone, Jesus Christ,
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is the only way to a right relationship with God.
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And he is alive in this moment, speaking to you, drawing you,
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and even bringing a sense of conviction of sin in your life.
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And that's a hard word to receive, isn't it sin?
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It's a Bible word, but it's a powerful word that describes
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every problem in the world today.
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Every difficulty and problem can be tied to this issue of sin.
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And the Bible is very clear about sin.
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You know, a couple of things to know about sin as we talk about
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it. First of all, the Bible says
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this, for we have all sinned and fallen short of God's
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perfection. So there's not an innocent one
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among us. Every single one of us has to
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deal with this issue of sin. And the Bible says that there's
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a penalty for sin, that the wages of sin is death,
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separation. It's a very serious matter.
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Perhaps sin is quite offensive to you at the beginning.
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Let's take one step back and let's talk about something
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perhaps a little less offensive, and that is mistakes.
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I mean, if I ask, and I'm not going to, but if I ask, hey
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guys, how many of you have made a mistake in the last hour?
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It's like we, me, me, me, me, we all make mistakes.
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That's much easier to admit as we look at our life and we go,
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OK, yeah, OK. I've made a few mistakes, and
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some of them big, some of them small, some of them recent, some
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of them, you know, distant, whatever they may be.
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You see, the ability to recognize your imperfection is
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very, very important because the Bible is crystal clear.
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Nothing imperfect makes it to heaven.
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Nothing imperfect makes it to heaven.
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Only that which is perfect can be in the presence of God, can
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live for eternity with God. So when you think through the
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reality of making mistakes, understand that sin is a much
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more serious mistake, if you will, because it is against your
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Creator, the one who loves you. Do you know that the Bible says
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that God loved you and me so much that He sent His only
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begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in him would not
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perish, but have everlasting life?
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Sin is a very serious matter, and many have gone to great
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lengths to try to deal with their sin.
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I think of those perhaps that have run away to alcohol because
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of sin. It's like you just can't feel
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the weight of it, so you run the alcohol.
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And what you didn't know when you ran to alcohol is that it
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would own your life and it would begin to destroy your life and
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it would begin to permeate within your life to bring you to
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the place where you almost lost everything.
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Why? Because you were trying to deal
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with sin. Some don't run to alcohol or
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drugs. They run the relationship,
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relationship after relationship. I mean, this one will appease
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me. This one will appease me.
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And what have you found out? If we interviewed some of those,
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some of you that have run from relationship to relationship,
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you would tell us this, hey, I ran a lot, but there was
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something I couldn't outrun. Well, what is it myself?
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Because everywhere you go, you bring yourself with you.
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You see, God has provided a remedy for the issues of life
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that uneasy. So you may have never really
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even recognized sin in your life, but this is what you you
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have recognized this and uneasy conscience.
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Isn't it amazing how God created us intrinsically?
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We can tell the difference between right and wrong without
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anybody ever telling us it's right or wrong.
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We just know. We know internally that maybe
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something we said something, we did something.
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That is it. You could see it on someone
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else's face. Have you ever said something?
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And as the words are coming out of your mouth, you wanted to
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reel them back in and you're like, oh, no, I don't know.
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And you see how those words hit the ears of the person in front
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of you. And you know, they don't even
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need to say anything. You can see it on their face
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that you've wounded them or you've hurt them or you've
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scared them. How is that possible?
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Because God has created us all with an intrinsic ability to
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know right and wrong. And many try to run away from a
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guilty conscience. But that shouldn't surprise us.
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Some even try to run to a, you know, a religious system.
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They they don't choose to follow Jesus Christ.
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But there are all sorts of religions out there, man made
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religions. I mean, there's a popular phrase
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today. Maybe you hold to this phrase.
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And if you do, I respect you. But I'm also asking you to
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reconsider it. But there's a lot of people that
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will say this. Well, you know, pastor, all
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roads lead to God. All roads lead to God.
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And you know, you're a pastor. You have to say that stuff about
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Jesus. But you know, oh, I took a class
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in college. All roads lead to God.
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Now some of you might be surprised by my response to
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that. I actually agree that all roads
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lead to God. I agree with that statement.
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Now before you leave and declare me a the doors are locked anyway
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so you can't leave. But before you leave, before you
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guys try to run out downstairs, I believe I agree with that
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statement, but probably not the way you think.
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You see, all roads do lead to God.
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You choose a different religion, you choose a different
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philosophy of life. It will get you to God.
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You will end up in the presence of God.
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You decide. Perhaps even today you say,
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well, I don't even none of this religion stuff for me.
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I'm an atheist. Atheism is a road that will lead
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you to God. Here's what I think about this
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phrase. While all roads lead to God,
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every human being will have to give an account for their life
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and what they've done with the gift of life that God has given
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you. While all roads lead to God, not
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all roads lead to life or salvation.
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Jesus made it very clear that he alone, John 14, six, he alone is
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the way, the truth and the life, and no one can come to the
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Father except through him. You might even hear me today and
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go, wait a minute, you know, I'm a good person.
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I'm a good person. And again, I would agree with
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you. I'm sure you are, and I'm
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thankful that you're good. We need more good people doing
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more good deeds in a very difficult world that we live in.
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And I'm grateful that you're a good person.
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You may say to me, but Pastor I, I've been raised in the church.
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I've been in the church my whole life.
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I've done everything the church has told me to do.
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I was baptized, I was confirmed, I, I took my first communion.
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I was married in the church. My life is filled with good
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deeds. I've helped others.
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I've given money to the church. I've even sacrificed.
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Doesn't not count for anything. Indeed, it does count for a lot.
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We we need goodness in the world today.
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But that as it relates to God, if that's your testimony, if
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that's your life, you stopped short at the church.
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You see, the call of God is not to the church.
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The call of God is to Jesus himself.
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You see, the church is not an organization.
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The church is a gathering. The Bible says the church is a
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gathering. We all come together when the
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church shows up. It's not an organization that
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you do things for. It's a place where we gather
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together to worship the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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What what we do we do for the Lord, we do for Jesus Christ.
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He alone is worthy of our time and our attention and our
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talents. You see, even serving the church
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faithfully doesn't deal with the sin issue, only the blood of
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Jesus. Because we've all done wrong
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things and we've all said wrong things.
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And when when emotions get involved and difficulties come
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because every one of us have had hard days and hard weeks and
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hard months, hard years, hard lives, the only difference is
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how have we responded? Maybe you're like these two men
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that are going home having lost all hope.
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They just lost all hope. There's just no other remedy.
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There's no other way. You see that your eyes, verse
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31, your eyes need to be opened to the reality of the presence
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of Jesus Christ in your life. He is alive and He is the remedy
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for sin today. Because it was on the cross that
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Jesus died. For all the wrong things we've
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ever done, all the wrong places we've ever gone, all the wrong
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thoughts we've ever had, the wrong words, everything about
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our lives have been covered by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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And it shall come to pass. The Bible says that whoever
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calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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And that's my prayer for you, that you would understand your
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need before God, an answer to your Creator.
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It's amazing the stories in this room.
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You know, if I went around because I know many people in
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this room and I started pointing at the stories and I said, OK,
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maybe we'll just get 15 people that come up and give us 5
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minutes. I mean, that would be over an
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hour, by the way, 15 minutes, 515 people, 5 minutes would be
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over an hour of, of time as they come up and share their
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testimony, share their lives and as you listen to them, I'm sure
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some of the stories your response would be that's not
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true. That's no way that didn't
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happen. Jesus didn't turn her life
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around. Or you would look at them and
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they, I'm sure they would say to you, no, no, you don't
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understand. I mean, I won't even speak for
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them. I'll speak for myself.
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If I just gave you 5 minutes, the some of the worst 5 minutes
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of my life and how Jesus turned my life around, you would look
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at me and go, hey, pastor, there's no way.
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There's no way that happened in your life.
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You were born a pastor. You were born with glasses on
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and a suit. You came right out of the womb
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and there you are and you just showed up at church and you were
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always that way. And it's like, Nah, anyway,
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that's not true. I was there, I lived it.
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There is eyewitness account of the risen Christ in my life, in
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my family, and it's multiplied by thousands upon thousands.
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If you broaden the church around the world, billions of people's
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lives have been changed by Christ and even more billions of
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people have resisted. Like Jesus said, they're slew of
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heart. Today I invite you to get your
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life right with God. True spiritual life is available
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to you today. At the cross, sin was defeated.
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At the tomb, death was defeated as Jesus Christ becomes the
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first fruits of the resurrection in Jesus.
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Your life becomes undefeated, as the Bible says.
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Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
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blotted out and that times of refreshing may come from the
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presence of the Lord. And the only way to deal with
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your conscience and to cleanse your sins is to come clean with
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Jesus today, to turn your heart and life toward Him.
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We celebrate today of all the festivities and all the fun and
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happiness that we're going to experience today.
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The most important celebration is for all that Jesus has done
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and all that Jesus is doing because he is alive.
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He is alive and calls us to Himself.
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Amen. Amen.
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Father, we thank you for your word.
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We ask for a fresh outpouring of your Holy Spirit today.
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For those that hear a very simple reminder.
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I pray specifically for those that are downstairs, especially
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those that are here in the room. I think of those watching online
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and on the radio today that there would be an outpouring of
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your Holy Spirit that you would draw as you are many to
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yourself. Like like those two men.
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You come alongside of them. You talk with us, You reason
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with us, and here we are in the moment to refresh our hearts
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towards you. But for many, they need to
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receive you choose to follow you.
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That's your will. That's that's why we're here
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today. And I would just say as the
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church is praying, if you're here today and you would say to
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me, pastor, I want to receive the forgiveness of my sins.
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I need forgiveness. I want to follow God today.
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Would you just stand to your feet?
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I would like to pray for you that today would be that day
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that you received the forgiveness of sins for your
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lives right here in this moment. Who would say here in this room,
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God bless you and you in the back over here.
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And I mean that with all sincerity.
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You guys in the back, it just reverses all around the room.
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Allow the Holy Spirit respond. You have heard the voice of God.
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It is. It's not my voice.
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It's not my voice. You have heard God.
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He has spoken beyond the words to the very heart of the matter.
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Maybe you are that prodigal son and prodigal daughter.
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You need to come home. I'm asking you, inviting you,
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come home today. Just respond.
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Stand to your feet, receive what God is offering you today.
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I met a lot of prodigal sons and daughters this last service, a
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lot that have been away for a long time.
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And you know, it's not returning to the church.
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It's not because of mom and dad really.
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You're coming back to the Lord because He loves you.
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No more wandering no more You need to make a commitment to
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Jesus. Some of you, it's a time for
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recommitment. Why don't you stand as well?
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You just sense this is it. You're you know, the holidays
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are amazing because they start they cause us to think about
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things we don't typically think about.
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And maybe it's time for a recommitment time for you to
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come back. I'm going to wait a moment.
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Anyone else? And I'm sorry I don't see you
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guys downstairs. I wish I did, but the Lord sees
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you. He does.
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This is a special moment. God's moving in the room.
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He's moving downstairs with the kiddos.
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Your life forever changed. Generational change begins now
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to receive the forgiveness of sins.
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So let me help you with a prayer.
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The Bible says that if we confess with our mouths of the
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Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God raised him from
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the dead, you will be saved. So let me help you with a
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prayer. You ready?
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You can repeat after me. You could say, Lord Jesus, I
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know that I'm a Sinner, but I know that you're the Savior who
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died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead.
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I turn from my sins and I choose to follow you today.
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From this moment forward, I give you my life and the issues of my
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life, and from this day forward I'm following you.
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Father, I know anyone anywhere that would turn to you.
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Your word says you don't cast them out.
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And so near and far. The work of Your Holy Spirit
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among us. I pray that you would answer the
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prayers of those you know. There's a lot going on.
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It's not just my words. There's a lot going on in the
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room. There's a lot stirring.
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And let today be the beginning of something fresh and something
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new. That we as a family of believers
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would never stop praying for the lost.
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We'd never stop praying for our families, for our friends.
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And that this would be a genuine today.
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This would be a genuine turn of events and those that responded
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to you, I pray that you would save marriages.
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I pray that you would save families.
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I pray God that that you would rescue and reconcile.
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That you would restore what the enemies tried to steal.
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That you would restore love where it lacks, That you would
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restore hope where it lacks. That you would pour out your
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spirit in these last days so that we can get along with what
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you're doing. Serve others in the in your
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gracious name. So bless those that responded
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today in Jesus name, Amen, we pray.
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