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April 21 - John 20 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. I was going to say it's Easter
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  Sunday, but it's not. It's Easter Monday, but it feels
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  just as glorious as Easter Sunday.
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  Christ is risen. He's risen indeed.
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  One more time. Now you know the response.
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  Christ is risen, friends. He is risen indeed.
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  And this morning, this afternoon, or whenever you're
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  listening, we get to read all about that as we read the
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  glorious follow up to the terrible tragedy of Good Friday,
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  which was a necessary step on the road to the glory of
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  resurrection. So without any further ado,
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  friends, let us read this glorious story.
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  Let us hear about the resurrection of our Lord as
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  history all comes together to culminate in the high point of
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  the history of our world and our universe as the Son of God
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  himself crucified, dead and back to life as we read together John
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  chapter 20. Early on Sunday morning, while
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  it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and
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  found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
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  She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one
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  whom Jesus loved. She said.
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  They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb and we don't
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  know where they have put him. Peter and the other disciples
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  started out for the tomb. They were both running, but the
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  other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
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  He stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there,
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  but he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and
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  went inside. He also noticed the linen
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  wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus
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  head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings.
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  Then the disciple who had reached the tomb first also went
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  in and he saw and believed, for until then they still hadn't
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  understood the scriptures that said Jesus must rise from the
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  dead. Then they went home.
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  Mary was standing outside the tomb crying and as she wept she
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  stooped and looked in. She saw 2 white robed angels,
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  one sitting at the head and the other at the foot of the place
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  where the body of Jesus had been lying.
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  Dear woman, why are you crying? The angels asked her.
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  Because they have taken away my Lord, she replied.
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  And I don't know where they have put him.
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  She turned to leave and saw someone standing there.
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  It was Jesus, but she didn't recognise him.
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  Dear woman, why are you crying? Jesus asked her, Who are you
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  looking for? She thought he was the gardener,
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  Sir, She said, if you have taken him away, tell me where you were
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  put him and I will go and get him, Mary, Jesus said.
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  She turned to him and cried out, Rabboni, which is Hebrew for
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  teacher, don't cling to me, Jesus said, for I haven't yet
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  ascended to the Father, but go find my brothers and tell them I
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  am ascending to my Father, and your father to my God and your
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  God. Mary Magdalene found the
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  disciples and told them I have seen the Lord, and she gave them
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  his message. That Sunday evening the
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  disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were
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  afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly Jesus was standing
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  there among them. Peace be with you, he said.
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  As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his
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  side. They were filled with joy.
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  When they saw the Lord again. He said, Peace be with you.
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  As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.
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  Then he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit.
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  If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven.
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  If you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.
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  One of the 12 disciples Thomas nicknamed the Twin, was not with
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  the others when Jesus came. They told him we have seen the
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  Lord. But he replied, I won't believe
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  it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers
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  into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side.
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  Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this
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  time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked, but
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  suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them.
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  Peace be with you, he said. Then he said to Thomas, Put your
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  finger here and look at my hands.
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  Put your hand into the wound in my sight.
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  Don't be faithless any longer. Believe, my Lord and my God,
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  Thomas exclaimed. Then Jesus told him, You believe
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  because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe
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  without seeing me. The disciples saw Jesus do many
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  other miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in
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  this book, but these are written so that you may continue to
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  believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and
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  that by believing in Him you will have life by the power of
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  his name. Oh Jesus, here we are, your
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  disciples, and we believe. We believe that you have risen
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  from the dead. We believe that God has raised
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  you, that you are victorious over death, and that you are
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  unstoppable. You are the glorious Lord of the
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  universe. And you have done this so that
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  we can know that you have forged a way for us to be with you and
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  with the Father together with the Spirit, forever in your
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  presence because you love us. And we are just blown away by
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  this incredible, incredible story.
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  Ah, Jesus, thank you for Easter. Thank you for what you have
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  achieved, and thank you for your heart of love for us.
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  We are so grateful for you and all that you've done.
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  And we will worship and glorify your holy name.
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  And we pray all of this in your name, Jesus, Amen.