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March 31 & April 1, 2018 | Easter Message - Best. Story. Ever. · Topeka Bible Church Audio Archive

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SPEAKER_01: Boy, they were great this morning, weren't they?
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SPEAKER_01: I know why you're all, and by the way, greetings to those of you in the overflow downstairs.
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SPEAKER_01: You guys are something else.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I know why you're all here late, though.
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SPEAKER_01: I know why you're all here for last service.
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SPEAKER_01: You Jayhawk fans were awake all night, you know, eyes wide open, staring at the ceiling.
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SPEAKER_01: And UK State and Mizzou fans were up celebrating all night.
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SPEAKER_01: So you needed to sleep in.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's great to have you here.
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SPEAKER_01: And by the way, if you're visiting, we'd love to have you back.
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SPEAKER_01: Next week, we're starting a series called This Is Us, which is a family and uh a marriage series for a couple months.
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SPEAKER_01: So we'd love to have you back.
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SPEAKER_01: Text this morning, book of Hebrews, chapter 2, 14 and 15, goes something like this through his death, Jesus destroyed the one holding the power of death, that is the devil, and freed those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll get back to that verse later.
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SPEAKER_01: When uh pastors and staff got together and we voted, and they voted uh for best story ever as the theme of this weekend.
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SPEAKER_01: I was elated.
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SPEAKER_01: Because ever since I was a young shrimp, and those of you who know me know this is true.
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SPEAKER_01: I've been hooked on books, hooked on stories.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, this week I grabbed a piece of paper and I jotted down what I thought were probably the 12 of my 12 favorite stories, in no particular order.
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SPEAKER_01: They are Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, Pride and Prejudice, feel free to applause at any time, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, The Call of the Wild, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hobbit, and of course, let's say it together, Lord of the Rings, thank you.
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SPEAKER_01: The sound of music.
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SPEAKER_01: So, what's your favorite story?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, every great story has several things in common.
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SPEAKER_01: Four things in common, at least, has a hero, a villain, crisis, and a climax.
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SPEAKER_01: The greater the hero, the greater the villain, the greater the crisis, the greater the climax, usually the better the story.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna talk about the best story ever, because it has not only these four, it has a fifth thing that no other story has, which makes it the best story ever.
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SPEAKER_01: So let's talk about these four.
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SPEAKER_01: First hero.
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SPEAKER_01: And our favorite stories have heroes, and my favorite heroes, I think the best heroes are generally ordinary people.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, they're they're not powerful.
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SPEAKER_01: They're, you know, Anne of Green Gables or Laura Ingalls or Jane Eyre.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just small, they're like a hobbit, you know, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't have any special power.
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SPEAKER_01: The Pevensey children, the dog Buck in Call of the Wild.
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SPEAKER_01: And we like these ordinary sort of people who aren't really strong, Belle, Cinderella.
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SPEAKER_01: And when we come to the best story ever, when we come to the story of this weekend, we find a character something like that, a helpless little baby born in Bethlehem, who grows up to be his father's assistant, a carpenter, and then becomes an itinerant healer and preacher with no place to lay his head.
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SPEAKER_01: Not a friend of the Hoi Poloi, but a friend of sinners, a hero.
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SPEAKER_01: Your favorite story not only has a hero, I'm sure it has a villain.
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SPEAKER_01: And the greater the villain, maybe the greater the story.
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SPEAKER_01: When I was young, the villains for me were the Sheriff of Nottingham, the White Witch, Wicked Witch of the West, Professor Moriarty, later on the Joker and Voldemort and Darth Vader and Gaston, and the, and then there's of course the evil stepsisters and the stepmother and the Nazgul, and I could go on and on.
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SPEAKER_01: You recognize any of these bad boys?
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SPEAKER_01: Villains.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, the best story ever has, of course, the greatest villain ever, and his name is Lucifer, his name is the devil, his name is Shatan, Satan, and he's the greatest villain of all, and he has henchmen, King Herod, is a henchman of his.
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SPEAKER_01: And the religious muckity mucks in Jerusalem are his henchmen, and so is Pilate, and eventually Judas.
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SPEAKER_01: Your favorite story not only has a great hero and a great villain, it also has a great crisis.
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SPEAKER_01: It has a conflict, a crisis from which it does not appear that your hero can be extricated.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, really, what chance did Maria and the Von Trapp family have against the Nazis, the Nazi soldiers?
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SPEAKER_01: What chance did the Hobbit have against the dragon?
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SPEAKER_01: Smarg?
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SPEAKER_01: What chance did Frodo have against Sauron?
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SPEAKER_01: What chance did the four Pevensey children have against the white witch?
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SPEAKER_01: It just doesn't seem like they stand a chance.
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SPEAKER_01: Certainly, Cinderella was helpless against her evil stepmother as Belle was helpless against Gastone.
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SPEAKER_01: And you have this kind of a crisis, and the best story ever, the story of Jesus has a similar crisis.
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SPEAKER_01: What chance?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, even at the beginning, when he's a little baby in Bethlehem, and the most powerful person in that part of the world, King Herod, decides to kill all the babies.
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SPEAKER_01: It's one of the most grisly stories in the Bible, Matthew 2, 14 and 15.
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SPEAKER_01: And when King Herod realized he had been outwitted by the wise men, he flew into a fury and ordered that his soldiers kill all of the infants in Bethlehem and its environs, ages two years old and younger, based upon the story the wise men had told him about the star, so that the word of Jeremiah, the prophet, could be fulfilled, that the mothers in Bethlehem mourned and wailed and could not be comforted, for their children were no more.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a story where you see men on horseback galloping and mothers, young mothers carrying their children, running and screaming, and swords flashing, and then little innocent blood flowing, and lifeless hands and moms bloodstoked, falling to the earth, screaming, clutching the lifeless bodies of their children.
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SPEAKER_01: Five miles up the road, a fat king sipping wine the same color of the blood that he is shedding, absolutely heartless to the carnage he is causing, deaf to the cries that are coming from down the road, because the only thing he cares about is protecting his power from a potential rival down the road.
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SPEAKER_01: That's a crisis.
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SPEAKER_01: But of course, King Herod is motivated by an invisible greater evil behind him, the great enemy, the great villain.
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SPEAKER_01: The villainova.
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SPEAKER_01: No, the great villain.
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SPEAKER_01: Where did that come from?
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SPEAKER_01: Just ruined the whole thing.
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SPEAKER_01: But the great villain who is who's chortling with glee.
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SPEAKER_01: And then when he realizes he's failed in Bethlehem, he curses and slinks back into the pit to plan his next attack on his nemesis, the Christ child.
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SPEAKER_01: And 30 years later he thinks he's found it.
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SPEAKER_01: He comes to the wilderness because there is Jesus, who's hungry and alone.
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SPEAKER_01: And now he tries a different method.
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SPEAKER_01: He tries to persuade him to abandon his mission.
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SPEAKER_01: Fails again.
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SPEAKER_01: So six months later, he comes to the townspeople, does the great enemy Lucifer and fills their heads.
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SPEAKER_01: Cast him off the hill.
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SPEAKER_01: And they try to cast Jesus off the hill of Nazareth and again fail.
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SPEAKER_01: And so he fills the chief priests and the Pharisees and the scribes and Caiaphas and Annas with a plot.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's why we come to this week, where we have the Garden of Gethsemane, and we have the beating and the insults and the trials, the unfair, unjust trials, and the spitting and the flogging, and finally the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the conflict.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a great conflict.
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SPEAKER_01: No conflict or crisis greater than the conflict in the best story ever.
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SPEAKER_01: But all of our best stories, our favorite stories, fortunately have a climax, a happy, a surprise, a twist, a happy, joyous, incredible resolution, an ending where victory is plucked from the jaws of defeat, where the fairy tale happens when all hope is gone, right?
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SPEAKER_01: All hope is gone and the beast turns into a prince just as the last petal falls.
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SPEAKER_01: Or Cinderella's foot slides into the slipper, the ring of power falls into the mountain of doom, into that fire, and disappears.
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SPEAKER_01: The Death Star blows up.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, or even where Elizabeth and Darcy, when all hope seems gone, Elizabeth meets him at the mansion and confesses she's changed her mind.
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SPEAKER_01: You've got to read Pride and Prejudice, you just have to.
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SPEAKER_01: A few years ago, my four-year-old grandson and I, and uh some of his family, went to see a play over here at the local school, Beauty and the Beasts.
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SPEAKER_01: And of course, the story of how Belle was an ordinary bookworm, but then things changed.
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SPEAKER_01: And when he saw beautiful Belle dancing with the beast, four-year-old Asher tugged on his mother's arm and whispered to her, I want to dance with that girl.
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SPEAKER_01: Because we all want the happy ending.
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SPEAKER_01: We desperately want this fourth stage, this happy resolution, this glorious ending.
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SPEAKER_01: And what more surprising and stunning and unbelievable ending than the ending of this morning, the Easter story.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, when you came in today, you're not surprised.
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SPEAKER_01: You sing Christ arose.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what you do on Easter.
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SPEAKER_01: Christ arose, you sing Christ arose.
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SPEAKER_01: But we've got to remember a thousand years ago, nobody, not his most faithful followers, not even those to whom he'd told three or four times, I'm gonna rise again.
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SPEAKER_01: No one, no one expected that he would rise.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you take those three women going to the tomb.
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SPEAKER_01: They're laden down this morning with what?
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SPEAKER_01: With spices.
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SPEAKER_01: What are spices used for?
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SPEAKER_01: To anoint a dead body.
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SPEAKER_01: A dead body.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're talking on the way, they're going, how can we move that big stone?
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SPEAKER_01: It's a great stone.
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SPEAKER_01: How can we move that?
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SPEAKER_01: We didn't think about that.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna have to hire somebody.
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SPEAKER_01: We need to get somebody to move the stone.
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SPEAKER_01: Then they get there and the stones move.
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SPEAKER_01: Not one of them says to the other, Oh, do you think maybe he rose?
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SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: No, they think the body's been stolen because dead bodies can't move themselves.
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SPEAKER_01: So when the angel says, Oh, he has risen, their hearts nearly stop in shock.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what this fourth stage is all about.
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SPEAKER_01: The happy, unbelievable shock by what you never thought possible really, really happened.
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SPEAKER_01: A few years ago, some missionaries in Bangladesh were sharing the Jesus film with several hundred villagers who had no idea who Jesus was, had never heard the story before.
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SPEAKER_01: And they moaned with pleasure as they saw this wonderful character, Jesus, helping people and healing people and so forth.
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SPEAKER_01: And then the thing turned dark, and then the torture starts.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a spitting and the insults, and the crowd started getting restless.
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SPEAKER_01: There were gasps, there were tears, there were shouts of anger.
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SPEAKER_01: And then comes the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: They nail his wrist, they nail his ankles into the cross, and that cross falls down, he begins to die.
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SPEAKER_01: And the crowd, chaos erupted in the audience.
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SPEAKER_01: Until a young man in the village stood up and he screamed.
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SPEAKER_01: He gets up again.
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SPEAKER_01: I've seen this before.
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SPEAKER_01: Because it's so shocking.
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SPEAKER_01: It just seems unbelievable.
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SPEAKER_01: See, the best story ever does have the greatest hero and the greatest villain, and the greatest crisis, and the greatest, happiest climax resolution.
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SPEAKER_01: But the best story ever has one other thing that sets it apart from every other story and makes it definitely the best story ever, and that is this that it is cosmic.
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SPEAKER_01: It's cosmic.
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SPEAKER_01: It's large.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, Hollywood has a way.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, our stories today, modern stories, have a way of taking large stories and reducing them small.
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SPEAKER_01: Titanic, this huge disaster, is reduced into a romance between a wealthy girl and a poor boy.
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SPEAKER_01: That's really what Titanic was about, of course.
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SPEAKER_01: Same with Armageddon and Independence Day and so forth.
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SPEAKER_01: Large stories reduced.
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SPEAKER_01: Small stories.
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SPEAKER_01: Easter's just the opposite.
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SPEAKER_01: Easter took a story of where a father in heaven with his beloved son raises him from the dead, but then it explodes it into this cosmic tale that it's it's not small, it's not personal, it's actually universal.
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SPEAKER_01: This is actually all about the battle between good and evil and who's going to win.
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SPEAKER_01: It's about how evil gets defeated, how the great monsters of death and darkness and damnation and hell get defeated by life.
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SPEAKER_01: God and Jesus in heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: It's cosmic.
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SPEAKER_01: See, it's more than just about how you, me, and our loved ones get to live after death.
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SPEAKER_01: It's more than personal.
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SPEAKER_01: It's about how God is vindicated in a world that makes no sense because of sin and suffering.
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SPEAKER_01: How could God allow such a world?
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SPEAKER_01: But this story, this story is the answer to all that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a cosmic, huge story, which is why we laugh when we see the cartoon, that famous cartoon, you know, about the Roman guards looking into the tomb.
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SPEAKER_01: They're mystified.
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SPEAKER_01: They're gonna go, whoa, what happened?
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SPEAKER_01: And one of them says, Well, I don't understand what happened either, but one thing we know for sure is in a few days everybody'll forget all about it.
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SPEAKER_01: We laugh because we know that would probably happen in a normal story, but not in the best story ever, because this story has the greatest hero and villain, the greatest crisis and climax, but it's also cosmic.
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SPEAKER_01: It changed everything for everybody.
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SPEAKER_01: Two of my favorite books that I mentioned earlier, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, were authored by friends, C.S.
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SPEAKER_01: Lewis, J.R.R.
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SPEAKER_01: Tolkien, fellow literature professors at the University of Oxford.
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SPEAKER_01: Lewis, an atheist, Tolkien, a Christian.
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SPEAKER_01: Lewis, like many talking heads in the media today and on our college campuses, dismissed the what we're calling the best story ever, the Jesus story, the Easter story, dismissed it as another religious myth, an old story that everybody's heard of, and he he thought it worthless until uh Tolkien one day realized as they were talking about fairy tales.
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SPEAKER_01: C.
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SPEAKER_01: S.
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SPEAKER_01: Lewis loved fairy tales, and he taught his classes, the fairy tales, the Celtic fairy tales, the Norse, Norwegian fairy tales, the Irish fairy tales, the Greek fairy tales.
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SPEAKER_01: He loved them and he taught his class that there were actually more real, there was more reality in the fairy tales than in the daily newspaper.
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SPEAKER_01: And Tolkien said to him one day, you know, Lewis, you realize the greatest fairy tale of all is the one that you're dismissing?
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SPEAKER_01: The greatest fairy tale of all starts with the magic of the incarnation of Christmas.
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SPEAKER_01: This unbelievable idea that God would become man, and of a little child growing up.
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SPEAKER_01: Has no power, no strength, no attractiveness necessarily, but then he gets plotted against and he gets killed, and on the third day rises from the dead.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the greatest fairy tale ever.
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SPEAKER_01: And it changed everything.
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SPEAKER_01: And that idea wormed its way into the brilliant man's mind, and Lewis couldn't get it out of his head, and finally, Clive Staples Lewis entered into that story himself, and he believed.
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SPEAKER_01: Because that's what has to happen with stories.
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SPEAKER_01: With stories, you respond to stories.
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SPEAKER_01: With Romeo and Julie, whatever the story is that you love, The Prince and the Pop are your favorite story, your heart responds to it.
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SPEAKER_01: You're not the same at the end of it.
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SPEAKER_01: You love it, you enter into it.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's really the truth with the best story ever.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't help but respond.
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SPEAKER_01: It calls for a response, and that response in this case is a response that says, Lord, I'd like to enter that story.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd like to be part of that story.
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SPEAKER_01: Like that story to include me.
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SPEAKER_01: Make me part of the best story ever.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me give you a chance to talk to God right now.
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SPEAKER_01: This morning on Easter morning, bow your head with me.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me give you a chance to talk to God in this moment and say something like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Say, Lord, I want to enter this story.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to enter the best story ever because I realize it includes me.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a story of life and death and good and evil and sin and forgiveness.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to step into this story.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to make Jesus my savior.
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SPEAKER_01: I do believe in him.
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SPEAKER_01: I believe in him.
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SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_01: You know what I'd like to do now is I'd like to share with you three stories.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd like to share with you three stories of three people in our church who just in recent years have stepped into the best story ever, and it has transformed their personal stories.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to watch this on screen, and after this video, I'll come up and I'll dismiss you.
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SPEAKER_03: You call me from the grave by day.
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SPEAKER_03: The new has come.
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SPEAKER_02: I was in complete darkness.
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SPEAKER_02: I was empty.
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SPEAKER_02: I was alone.
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SPEAKER_02: I was just lost.
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SPEAKER_02: I turned to drugs.
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SPEAKER_02: Men in the streets to fill the void and make me happy.
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SPEAKER_02: But it did not work.
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SPEAKER_02: I was abused, taken for granted.
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SPEAKER_02: And I had nowhere to turn.
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SPEAKER_02: I felt like I was gonna die any day from either being beat to death or a drug overdose.
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SPEAKER_02: I had no hope.
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SPEAKER_04: I was looking to hurt people.
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SPEAKER_04: I had to go out looking for an adrenaline rush.
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SPEAKER_04: I had raw people.
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SPEAKER_04: My heart was numb.
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SPEAKER_04: My conscience was numb.
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SPEAKER_04: I was becoming inhumane.
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SPEAKER_04: I was able to go home, and before I go home, I go to my neighbor's house, wash the blood off my hands, go to my house.
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SPEAKER_04: I'd talk to my mom like nothing happened.
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SPEAKER_04: My heart thirsted for violence.
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SPEAKER_00: I grew up in a uh very strict Christian church in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
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SPEAKER_00: I played football and had a lot of success with that.
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SPEAKER_00: Made it to college and unfortunately hurt my knee freshman year.
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SPEAKER_00: Playing football was kind of my escape.
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SPEAKER_00: And I turned to sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
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SPEAKER_00: From then on, it was a downward spiral.
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SPEAKER_00: I was extremely promiscuous and uh unfaithful, even to my wife, several times after we had been married.
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SPEAKER_00: But my unfaithfulness hurt quite a few people, not just me.
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SPEAKER_00: It had an impact on my wife, it had an impact on my family, my children.
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SPEAKER_00: She kicked me out of the house.
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SPEAKER_00: It wasn't even a couple nights after uh me and a buddy of mine were leaving one bar and going to another one.
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SPEAKER_00: Got involved in a car accident, and I was very intoxicated.
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SPEAKER_00: And instead of going home, I went to jail.
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SPEAKER_00: I was living a rebellious life.
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SPEAKER_03: You call me father.
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SPEAKER_03: You call me.
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SPEAKER_03: Jesus, you have given us freedom.
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SPEAKER_03: No longer bound by sin and darkness.
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SPEAKER_03: Living on out of your goodness, you have given us freedom.
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SPEAKER_04: One thing bothered me, not understanding.
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SPEAKER_04: And that was why God would show us mercy and love us.
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SPEAKER_04: To the point where he sent his own son to reconcile himself with us.
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SPEAKER_04: Now that I know Christ, I know his strength is, and that's shown in mercy.
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SPEAKER_04: He transformed my heart.
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SPEAKER_04: I was a violent man.
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SPEAKER_04: Now I'm a very caring man.
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SPEAKER_04: And that's because Christ showed me how.
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SPEAKER_04: Meekness is humility toward God and toward others.
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SPEAKER_04: It is having the right or the power to do something.
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SPEAKER_04: But holding back for the benefit of others.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody could help me.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't want any help from anybody.
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SPEAKER_00: The only thing I knew from my life on earth is God was always there.
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SPEAKER_00: I had no other choice but to go to God.
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SPEAKER_00: But I wasn't gonna go willingly.
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SPEAKER_00: And I and I had prayed that on several occasions that God, hey, you know, I know you're up there, but you're gonna have to break me.
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SPEAKER_00: And he did.
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SPEAKER_00: Throughout all of my unfaithfulness, God has been faithful to me.
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SPEAKER_00: God's grace allowed my wife to not only expose my sin, but also to be able to look past it and forgive me.
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SPEAKER_00: God took a rebellious, unfaithful, promiscuous man and gave me a soft heart, a desire to be faithful to make me a faithful man.
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SPEAKER_03: I'm dressed in royalty.
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SPEAKER_03: Your Holy Spirit is in me.
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SPEAKER_03: I see my past is come.
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SPEAKER_02: For the first time, and I said, Help me, and I swear I could hear him say that I am all that you need.
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SPEAKER_02: And something inside of me began to change.
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SPEAKER_02: That void was being filled for the first time of my life.
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SPEAKER_02: And there was hope.
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SPEAKER_02: And that hope came from God.
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SPEAKER_02: I have learned that God is not the punishing God that I thought he was.
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SPEAKER_02: His touch is so gentle, and I can literally feel him hold me.
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SPEAKER_02: And he took my past and my shame and my mistakes, and he paid the price for me.
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SPEAKER_02: And he says that I am more than enough because he paid the price for me.
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SPEAKER_02: I am no longer empty.
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SPEAKER_03: No, no, bound by sin and darkness.
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SPEAKER_03: You have given us freedom.
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SPEAKER_03: You have given us freedom.