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  Speaker 1: Most Christians know the story of Easter morning, the stone
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  Speaker 1: rolled away, the empty tomb, the angel's declaration he is
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  Speaker 1: not here, he has risen. The world celebrates that glorious
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  Speaker 1: Sunday with lilies, hymns, and hallelujahs. But then the story
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  Speaker 1: seems to end. The curtain falls, the credits roll, We
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  Speaker 1: go back to our lives, as if resurrection was the
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  Speaker 1: final chapter. But it wasn't. It was only the beginning
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  Speaker 1: between the moment Jesus walked out of that tomb and
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  Speaker 1: the moment he ascended into heaven. Forty days past, forty sacred, intentional, powerful,
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  Speaker 1: days that most believers know almost nothing about. Forty days
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  Speaker 1: that changed confused disciples into world shaking apostles. Forty days
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  Speaker 1: of private encounters, intimate teachings, miraculous appearances, and divine commissioning.
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  Speaker 1: Forty days that hold the blueprint for how the risen
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  Speaker 1: Christ still operates in your life today. The question is
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  Speaker 1: not whether Jesus rose from the dead. That is settled.
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  Speaker 1: The question is what did he do after he rose?
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  Speaker 1: Where did he go, who did he appear to, what
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  Speaker 1: did he teach? And why does any of it matter
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  Speaker 1: for you? Right now? Two thousand years later. By the
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  Speaker 1: end of this message, you will understand that those forty
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  Speaker 1: days were not just historical footnotes. They were the hinge
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  Speaker 1: between the finished work of the Cross and the unstoppable
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  Speaker 1: movement of the Church. And the same Jesus who spent
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  Speaker 1: forty days prepare wearing his disciples, is still preparing you.
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  Speaker 1: and your city. And without further ado, let's begin. He
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  Speaker 1: had just conquered death. The chains of the grave lay shattered,
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  Speaker 1: the price for sin was paid in full, the wrath
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  Speaker 1: of God satisfied, eternity unlocked, victory secured. So what does
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  Speaker 1: the risen Savior do? First? He doesn't summon the nations
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  Speaker 1: to bow before him. He doesn't call down legions of
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  Speaker 1: angels to parade him through Jerusalem as the undisputed King.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't appear on the temple steps and demand worship
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  Speaker 1: from the religious leaders who crucified him. Instead, he does
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  Speaker 1: something stunning. He appears quietly, personally, intimately, one broken heart
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  Speaker 1: at a time. The first person to see the risen
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  Speaker 1: Christ was not a priest, not a disciple, not a
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  Speaker 1: Roman official, and not a king. It was Mary Magdalene,
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  Speaker 1: a woman in a culture that didn't accept women's testimony
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  Speaker 1: in court, A woman who had been possessed by seven demons,
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  Speaker 1: a woman whose post lust was marked by darkness, whose
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  Speaker 1: reputation was stained, whose name the religious elite would have scorned.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Jesus came to her first. John Chapter twenty, verses
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  Speaker 1: eleven through eighteen record the moment Mary stood outside the
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  Speaker 1: tomb weeping. She had come to anoint a dead body,
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  Speaker 1: but the body was gone. Grief overwhelmed her, confusion clouded
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  Speaker 1: her mind. And then a voice, a voice she didn't
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  Speaker 1: recognize at first. Woman, why are you crying? Who is
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  Speaker 1: it you are looking for? Thinking he was the gardener,
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  Speaker 1: she said, sir, if you have carried him away, tell
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  Speaker 1: me where you have put him, and I will get him.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus spoke her name, Mary, one word, her name,
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  Speaker 1: spoken by the voice that created the universe, spoken by
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  Speaker 1: the Savior who knew her before she was born, spoken
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  Speaker 1: by the Redeemer who had cast seven demons out of
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  Speaker 1: her and given her a new life. And in that
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  Speaker 1: moment everything changed. Her weeping turned to worship, her mourning
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  Speaker 1: turned to mission. Jesus said to her, go to my
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  Speaker 1: brothers and tell them I am ascending to my father
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  Speaker 1: and your father, to my God and your God. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Magdalen became the first evangelist of the Resurrection. She ran
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  Speaker 1: to the disciples with the greatest news in human history.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen the Lord. This is how Jesus operates.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't shout from distant thrones. He whispers in the garden.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't wait for you to clean yourself up before
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  Speaker 1: he reveals himself. He comes to you in your brokenness,
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  Speaker 1: speaks your name, and transforms your tears into testimony. Later
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  Speaker 1: that same day, two disciples were walking away from Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: toward a village called Emmaeus. Luke Chapter twenty four, Verses
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  Speaker 1: thirteen through thirty five tell their story. They were leaving,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the chaos, leaving the disappointment, leaving the shattered hopes.
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  Speaker 1: They had believed Jesus was the Messiah, the one who
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  Speaker 1: would redeem Israel, but he had been crucified. Their dreams
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  Speaker 1: died on that cross, and now they were going back
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  Speaker 1: to the ordinary, the familiar, the safe. But as they walked,
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  Speaker 1: a stranger joined them. They didn't recognize him. He asked
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  Speaker 1: what they were discussing, and they poured out their pain.
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  Speaker 1: We had hoped that he was the one who was
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  Speaker 1: going to redeem Israel. Five devastating words. We had hoped
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  Speaker 1: past tense hope buried with the body they thought was
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  Speaker 1: still in the tomb. And then the stranger did something remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: Beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to
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  Speaker 1: them what was said in all the scriptures concerning himself.
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  Speaker 1: For miles, this unrecognized Jesus walked them through the entire
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, showing them how every sacrifice, every prophecy, every
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  Speaker 1: promise pointed to him. Their hearts burned within them as
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  Speaker 1: he spoke, but their eyes remained closed. When they reached Amaeus,
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  Speaker 1: they urged him to stay, and when he broke the bread,
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  Speaker 1: their eyes were opened. It was Jesus alive, real present,
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  Speaker 1: and then he vanished. They didn't waste a moment. They
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  Speaker 1: ran back to Jerusalem, back to the very place they
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  Speaker 1: had been fleeing, and declared, it is true. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: has risen and has appeared to Simon. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Jesus of the forty days. He walks beside you in
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  Speaker 1: your confusion. He meets you on the road when you're
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  Speaker 1: walking away in disappointment. He doesn't rebuke you for your doubt.
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  Speaker 1: He opens the scriptures and shows you that he's been
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  Speaker 1: there all along. He lets your heart burn before he
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  Speaker 1: opens your eyes, because the revelation isn't just about seeing him,
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  Speaker 1: it's about understanding him. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, the disciples were hiding.
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  Speaker 1: John Chapter twenty, verses nineteen through twenty three. Paint the scene.
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  Speaker 1: The doors were locked for fear of the Jewish leaders.
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  Speaker 1: These were the same men who had walked on water,
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  Speaker 1: cast out demons and seen the dead raised, But now
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  Speaker 1: they were paralyzed by fear. Trauma has a way of
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  Speaker 1: reducing even the boldest to trembling. Then Jesus came and
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  Speaker 1: stood among them, no knocking, no announcement, just presence, suddenly supernaturally,
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  Speaker 1: and his first words. Peace be with you, not condemnation,
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  Speaker 1: not rebuke, Not where were you when I needed you?
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  Speaker 1: Just peace, the kind of peace that settles storms, not
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  Speaker 1: on seas, but in souls. Philippians chapter four, verse seven
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  Speaker 1: calls it the peace that surpasses all understanding. Then he
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  Speaker 1: showed them his hands and his side, the scars, the wounds,
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  Speaker 1: proof that he had died, and proof that he had
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  Speaker 1: risen death and life, held in the same body. And
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  Speaker 1: then he did something that echoes back to Genesis. He
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  Speaker 1: breathed on them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. Just
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  Speaker 1: as God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus breathed into his disciples, and they became a sent church.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't just comfort, This was commissioning. As the Father
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  Speaker 1: has sent me, I am sending you. That locked room
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  Speaker 1: was never meant to be their sanctuary. It was their
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  Speaker 1: starting point. Fear was being replaced with fire, paralysis with purpose,
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  Speaker 1: hiding with mission. But Thomas wasn't there. John chapter twenty,
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  Speaker 1: verses twenty four through twenty nine tell us what happened next.
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  Speaker 1: When the disciples found Thomas and told him they had
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  Speaker 1: seen the Lord, he responded with brutal honesty. Unless I
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  Speaker 1: see the nail marks in his hands and put my
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  Speaker 1: finger where the nails were and put my hand into
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  Speaker 1: his side, I will not believe. Thomas gets a bad
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  Speaker 1: reputation for this. We call him doubting Thomas. But his
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  Speaker 1: doubt wasn't rooted in rebellion. It was rooted in heartbreak.
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  Speaker 1: He had believed before, he had hoped before, and hope
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  Speaker 1: had been crucified. So he demanded proof, and Jesus didn't
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  Speaker 1: condemn him for it. Eight days later Jesus came again.
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  Speaker 1: The doors were locked, and Jesus appeared specifically for Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: He looked at him and said, put your finger here.
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  Speaker 1: See my hands, reach out your hand and put it
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  Speaker 1: into my side. Stop doubting and believe. Jesus met Thomas
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  Speaker 1: at the exact place of his skepticism. He didn't avoid
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  Speaker 1: the hard questions. He invited them. He exposed the wounds
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  Speaker 1: and said, touch them if you need to. Thomas didn't
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  Speaker 1: need to touch. The presence was enough, and what came
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  Speaker 1: out of his mouth was the most profound confession in
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  Speaker 1: all the gospels. My Lord and my God, not just teacher,
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  Speaker 1: not just prophet. God. And then Jesus spoke words that
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  Speaker 1: were not just for Thomas. They were for you, for me,
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  Speaker 1: for everyone who would come after. Because you have seen me,
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  Speaker 1: you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen
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  Speaker 1: and yet have believed. That's us. We live twenty centuries
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  Speaker 1: after the resurrection. We don't have the physical scars to touch,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have the locked room encounters. But we have
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  Speaker 1: the testimony, we have the word, we have the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus calls us blessed for believing without seeing. But
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  Speaker 1: the most stunning encounter happened on the shore of the
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  Speaker 1: Sea of Galilee. John chapter twenty one records the moment Peter,
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  Speaker 1: restless and uncertain, had returned to what he knew. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going out to fish, he announced. The others joined him.
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  Speaker 1: They fished all night and caught nothing. As the sun rose,
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  Speaker 1: a figure stood on the shore. The disciples didn't recognize him.
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  Speaker 1: He called out, friends, haven't you any fish? They answered no.
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  Speaker 1: Then came a command they had heard before. Throw your
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  Speaker 1: net on the right side of the boat, and you
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  Speaker 1: will find some. Suddenly the net was so full it
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be hauled in, and John, the disciple Jesus loved
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  Speaker 1: whispered the truth Peter's heart had been aching to hear.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Lord. Peter didn't wait. He wrapped his
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  Speaker 1: outer garment around him and dove into the water. No hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: no shame strong enough to hold him back, just a
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  Speaker 1: broken man swimming toward grace. When he reached the shore,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had already prepared a fire. Coals were there, fish
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  Speaker 1: laid on them, bread ready. The last time Peter stood
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  Speaker 1: near a fire, he had denied Jesus three times. Now
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was inviting him to another fire, this time not
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  Speaker 1: for denial, but for restoration. Come and have breakfast, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: No lecture, no condemnation, just an invitation to a meal.
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  Speaker 1: And after they ate, Jesus asked Peter the question that
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  Speaker 1: would undo every denial. Simon, son of John, do you
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  Speaker 1: love me more than these? Three times? Jesus asked? Three
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  Speaker 1: times Peter answered, and three times Jesus commissioned him. Feed
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  Speaker 1: my lambs, take care of my sheep, Feed my sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Each question undid denial, Each answer rewrote the past with mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Each commissioning restored Peter's calling. This is the Jesus of
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  Speaker 1: the forty days. He doesn't shame the fallen. He makes
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  Speaker 1: breakfast for them. He doesn't uncall the called, he recommissions them.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't avoid your failure, he redeems it. And the
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  Speaker 1: same Peter who denied Christ three times around a fire
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  Speaker 1: became the Peter who preached at Pentecost and saw three
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  Speaker 1: thousand saved in a day. The forty days were filled
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  Speaker 1: with these encounters. First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, Verses five through
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  Speaker 1: eight give us the summary. Jesus appeared to Peter, then
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  Speaker 1: to the twelve. After that, he appeared to more than
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  Speaker 1: five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: most of who was still living when Paul wrote this.
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  Speaker 1: Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
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  Speaker 1: and last of all, he appeared to Paul over five
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  Speaker 1: hundred witnesses, not visions, not hallucinations, physical bodily appearances of
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  Speaker 1: the risen Christ. People who touched him, ate with him,
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  Speaker 1: walked with him, listened to him. This was not mass delusion.
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  Speaker 1: This was mass revelation, and it transformed every single one
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  Speaker 1: of them. But Jesus didn't just appear. He taught acts.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, verse three says after his suffering he presented
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  Speaker 1: himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he
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  Speaker 1: was alive. He appeared to them over a period of
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  Speaker 1: forty days and spoke about the Kingdom of God. Forty days,
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  Speaker 1: not five, not ten. Forty. In scripture, forty is never random.
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  Speaker 1: Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days receiving the Law.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah fasted forty days before meeting God in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus fasted forty days before launching his public ministry, and
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  Speaker 1: now after the resurrection, he spent forty more days preparing
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  Speaker 1: his disciples. And what did he focus on? The Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God? Not church growth strategies, not how to build
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  Speaker 1: an audience, not self preservation tactics, The Kingdom, the reign
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  Speaker 1: of God breaking into a broken world, the message he
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  Speaker 1: had preached from the beginning, the reality he demonstrate in
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  Speaker 1: miracles secured through the Cross, and was now handing to
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  Speaker 1: them as their mission. He opened their minds to understand
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures Luke, chapter twenty four, verse forty five. He
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  Speaker 1: walked them through the Law, the prophets, and the psalms,
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  Speaker 1: showing them how everything pointed to him. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the disciples needed before Pentecost, not just power, understanding, not
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  Speaker 1: just passion, formation, not just emotion, truth. And then came
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  Speaker 1: the final commissioning Matthew Chapter twenty eight, Verses eighteen through twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gathered them on a mountain in Galilee and declared,
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  Speaker 1: all authority in heaven and on earth has been given
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  Speaker 1: to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations,
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  Speaker 1: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
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  Speaker 1: the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them
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  Speaker 1: to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I
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  Speaker 1: am with you always to the very end of the age.
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  Speaker 1: This is the great commission, not a suggestion, not a
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  Speaker 1: when you feel led instruction, a command from the King
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  Speaker 1: of kings. Go make disciples, baptize, teach, And notice the
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  Speaker 1: promise woven into the command. I am with you always.
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  Speaker 1: The same Jesus who walked out of the tomb pledged
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  Speaker 1: his presence to every believer who steps out in obedience.
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  Speaker 1: We don't go alone, We go with him. But before
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  Speaker 1: they could go, they had to wait Acts Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: verses four and five. Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait
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  Speaker 1: for the gift my father promised, which you have heard
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  Speaker 1: me speak about for John baptized with water, but in
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  Speaker 1: a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: after all the teaching, after the commission, after the mandate
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  Speaker 1: to go, Jesus told them to stay because Heaven's mission
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  Speaker 1: doesn't run on human momentum. It runs on divine power.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where so many of us get it wrong.
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  Speaker 1: We're eager to do for God, but forget to receive
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  Speaker 1: from God. We want to go preach, serve, change the world,
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  Speaker 1: but we skip the upper room. We bypass the waiting,
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  Speaker 1: we rush past the power. Jesus knew what they didn't
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  Speaker 1: yet understand. The mission he gave them couldn't be fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: through zeal, knowledge or strategy alone. It required the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Without him, they would have pressure, not power, performance, not transformation,
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  Speaker 1: religious activity, not kingdom advance. So he commanded them to wait,
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  Speaker 1: not in passivity, in expectation, in prayer, in unity, in
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  Speaker 1: the upper room, where Heaven would meet Earth with fire.
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  Speaker 1: And then it happened, Acts Chapter one, Verses nine through eleven.
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  Speaker 1: After he had said this, he was taken up before
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  Speaker 1: their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
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  Speaker 1: They were looking intently up into the sky as he
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  Speaker 1: was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood
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  Speaker 1: beside them, men of Galilee. They said, why do when
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  Speaker 1: you stand here looking into the sky. This same Jesus
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  Speaker 1: who has been taken from you into heaven will come
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  Speaker 1: back in the same way you have seen him go
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  Speaker 1: into heaven. The ascension Jesus didn't disappear. He ascended, lifted up, exalted, enthroned.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter one, verse three says after he had provided
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  Speaker 1: purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand
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  Speaker 1: of the Majesty in heaven. To sit down his authority,
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  Speaker 1: it means the work is finished, the blood was enough.
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  Speaker 1: The king is now reigning. But notice what Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: right before he ascended. Luke chapter twenty four, verse fifty
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  Speaker 1: says he lifted up his hands and blessed them. His
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  Speaker 1: final earthly act was blessing his people are mostly gesture
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  Speaker 1: a father's heart. The same Jesus who bled for them,
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  Speaker 1: taught them, forgave them, blessed them, and then he left
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  Speaker 1: with a promise, I will come back. The forty days
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  Speaker 1: were over, but the mission had just begun. The disciples
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  Speaker 1: returned to Jerusalem. They gathered in the upper room, they prayed,
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  Speaker 1: They waited, and ten days later, on the day of Pentecost,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit came like a rushing wind and tongues
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  Speaker 1: of fire. The same men who had hidden in fear
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  Speaker 1: now preached with boldness. Peter, who had denied Christ, stood
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  Speaker 1: and proclaimed the Gospel, and three thousand were saved in
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  Speaker 1: one day. That's what happens when you encounter the risen Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That's the power of the forty days. Confusion turns to clarity,
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  Speaker 1: Fear turns to fire, shame turns to commissioning, doubt turns
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  Speaker 1: to declaration, and the trajectory of human history changes forever.
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  Speaker 1: So what do these forty days mean for us today?
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  Speaker 1: They mean that Jesus is not distant. He's personal. He
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  Speaker 1: still meets you in your garden of grief, speaks your name,
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  Speaker 1: and turns your mourning into mission. He still walks beside
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  Speaker 1: you on your Imaeus road, opens the scriptures, and sets
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  Speaker 1: your heart on fire. He still enters your locked rooms
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  Speaker 1: of fear, speaks peace and breathes purpose into your paralysis.
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  Speaker 1: He still restores the Peters who've denied him. He still
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  Speaker 1: invites the Thomases who doubt him to come closer and see.
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  Speaker 1: He still commissions the oken, the confused, the afraid, and
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  Speaker 1: the ashamed. He still says, as the Father sent me,
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  Speaker 1: I am sending you. He still promises, I am with
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  Speaker 1: you always, and he still commands, wait for the power,
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  Speaker 1: don't move without the spirit. These forty days teach us
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  Speaker 1: that resurrection is not just a historical event. It's a
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  Speaker 1: present reality. The same Jesus who walked out of that
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  Speaker 1: tomb is still walking, still appearing, still teaching, still restoring,
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  Speaker 1: still commissioning, still empowering, and he's still coming back. Let's
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  Speaker 1: pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you for these forty
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  Speaker 1: sacred days. Thank you that Jesus didn't just rise and leave.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that he stayed to walk with the broken,
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  Speaker 1: teach the confused, restore the fallen, and commission the called.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that his first act after conquering death was
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  Speaker 1: to speak a woman's name in a garden. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: that his last act before ascending to glory was to
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  Speaker 1: bless his people. Lord Jesus, we need what you gave them.
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  Speaker 1: We need personal encounters that turn our mourning into mission.
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  Speaker 1: We need your word open to us so our hearts
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  Speaker 1: burn with understanding. We need your peace spoken into our
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  Speaker 1: locked rooms of fear. We need our denials undone by
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  Speaker 1: your grace, and our doubts met with your invitation to
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  Speaker 1: come closer. We confess we often stop at the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: and forget there was more. Forgive us for celebrating Easter
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  Speaker 1: and ignore the forty days that followed. Teach us to
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  Speaker 1: wait when you say wait, to go when you say go,
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  Speaker 1: to receive power before we attempt, mission to walk in
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  Speaker 1: the authority of the Great Commission, with the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the ascended King. For those watching who feel like Mary
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  Speaker 1: weeping in a garden of loss, may they hear you
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  Speaker 1: speak their name. For those like the Emaea's disciples, walking
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  Speaker 1: away in disappointment, may you join them on the road
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  Speaker 1: and open their eyes. For those hiding in fear like
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  Speaker 1: the Disciples, may you enter their rooms with peace. For
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  Speaker 1: those who failed, like Peter, may you make breakfast and
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  Speaker 1: restore their calling. For those who doubt, like Thomas, may
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  Speaker 1: you invite them to see and believe. Holy Spirit fall
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  Speaker 1: on us like you did in that upper room. Clothe
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  Speaker 1: us with power from on high, Make us witnesses to
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  Speaker 1: the ends of the earth, and keep our eyes fixed
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  Speaker 1: not on the sky, but on the mission until the
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  Speaker 1: day he returns in glory in Jesus Mighty name. We
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  Speaker 1: pray Amen. If this message revealed something about the forty
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  Speaker 1: the Resurrection wasn't the end, it was the beginning. And
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  Speaker 1: remember the same Jesus who spent forty days preparing his
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  Speaker 1: first disciples is still I preparing you today. God bless
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  Speaker 1: you all until next time. Live like the tomb is empty,
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  Speaker 1: the King is reigning, the Spirit is available, and the
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  Speaker 1: mission is urgent. Jesus rose, Jesus appeared, Jesus commissioned, Jesus ascended,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus is coming back. Live every day in the
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  Speaker 1: power of those forty sacred days. This is Bible stories
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  Speaker 1: explained and we will see you in the next video.
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  Speaker 1: The stone is rolled away, the King is alive, the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit has come, and the mission is yours. Walk in it. Marinatha,
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  Speaker 1: Come Lord, Jesus, Come,