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Luke chapter 24 · Scripture Unscripted

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Luke chapter 24, let us pray, O Lord, our God, our King, you are
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everything. Lord, we thank you for this very
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day that we can come and we can sit at your feet and we can
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learn from you, Holy Spirit. You guide us, Holy Spirit, You
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teach us. I decrease as you increase.
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It's all about you, King Jesus, we thank you for the finished
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work of the cross. We thank you that you wrought
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our salvation for us. We thank you, Jesus, that you
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have drawn us to yourself. You have beckoned us into life
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and life everlasting. And God, we get out of the way
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and we put King Jesus on the rightful place on the throne of
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our hearts and minds. God, let us not just be in
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speech, but let it be in deed and action.
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God, let us put our faith into practice.
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And Lord, as we go through today, Lord, I pray that you
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will correct us, rebuke us, reproof us, bring us into
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heavenly places. God, let us come up to the
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heights where you are. Let us know the depths of your
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love. Father, I pray that we will not
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just be calloused and see your conscience.
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Lord, I pray that we will be endued with power from on high
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and God, we will be filled with the Holy Spirit today and let us
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take the whole word to the whole world.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus for every man, woman and child
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who is on this earth and who will ever be born.
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God, I pray that you'll draw them to yourself.
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God, I pray that they'll make a love decision towards you.
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I pray against the hostility of the people towards the truth.
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Lord, I pray that you will break down and tear down any
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opposition to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
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I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll bind the enemy.
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I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll cast the enemy into the
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judgment that you have awaiting for him.
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Lord, I pray against all demonic warfare.
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God, I pray against all demonic attacks.
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God, I pray against the oppression and the possession
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God and influence of the demonic realm.
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God, I pray that the angels, God will encamp around us.
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I pray, Lord, for a hedge of protection around our families.
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I pray for a hedge of protection around us.
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Lord, and the ministries that you've given us.
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God, I pray that we can see ourselves in the true light.
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God, let us put on the full armor today.
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I pray that we can tell the truth and live the right way.
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I pray that we can have the shoes, the gospel, the good
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news. God that brings our peace.
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Lord, I pray that our testimony, God will be on our lips today as
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we tell others of how far you have brought us.
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Lord, let us be reminded of these things, Lord, and let us
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know that no matter how far somebody is, God, that they're
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not too far from you. Lord, you're right there, You're
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in the camp, You're beckoning them to yourself the way that
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you did for us. And so, Lord, we pray for
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strength for this hour for those men and women, Lord, who are on
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the verge, let them make the decision wholeheartedly to
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follow you. God not reserved at all, but
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Lord just completely sold out to the King of Kings and the Lord
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of Lords and the servant of servants.
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God, I pray, Lord, that we can lift up this shield of faith.
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Lord, I pray that we can soak it in the heavy water.
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God of the holy water, Lord, the living water, God, and your
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burden is light. And so, Lord, help us to lift it
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up, Jehovah Nisi, over our minds, over our hearts, over our
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bodies, over our emotions, over our circumstances.
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God, we lift up the shield of faith.
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God and I pray that we'll do war with the Word today, God, and
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we'll go out and battle God, battle all of the spiritual
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realm, Lord, that is trying to oppose us.
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Lord, we'll tell the truth and we'll speak the truth, Lord, and
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we'll remind ourselves of the goodness of you.
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And God will bring the Scriptures onto our lips, Lord,
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so that we can resist the enemy and we can extinguish the fiery
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darts of the enemy. And God, I pray that we'll not
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just be casual, passive learners who will not just be casual,
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passive disciples, but God, we will be active and engaged in
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the warfare that you've called us to, God, because heaven and
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hell hang in the balance, God, life and death hang in the
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balance, God. And I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you will help us to understand the weight of the
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ministry that you've given us. God, I pray that we will not
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just sit passively, God, but we will speak truth in love.
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You're not willing that any should perish, Father.
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And so God, we just pray that you will be honored and
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glorified in the highest. It's all about you, King Jesus.
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It's always been about you, King Jesus.
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We thank you for these holy scriptures.
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We thank you for the full authority of your word, God
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Almighty. We thank you, Holy Spirit,
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Phyllis, and it's in Jesus Christ, holy precious name that
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I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning,
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they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they
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had prepared, and certain others with them.
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So here you can see that these women were coming to do the
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proper burial for the Lord Jesus, and they're wondering
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who's going to roll the stone back.
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We know that there were guards that were placed outside of this
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tomb. We know that the soldiers went
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and talked to the priest trying to figure out what they were
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going to do because Jesus was resurrected.
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The stone was rolled back. 2 And they found the stone rolled away
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from the tomb. 3 And they entered in and found not the
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body of the Lord Jesus. You know, he had told them many
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times that he was going to be raised on the third day.
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But it's so common for us to hear all of these truths and for
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them to be dialed in and for them to be repeated and still
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miss it. We can be so daft at times, and
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we really need to take this word at face value and know that God
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means what He says and He says what He means when He says in
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the twinkling of a die, the sound of a trumpet, that we will
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be taken to be with Him in the clouds, to meet Him in the air,
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and there we will be with him forever.
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He means what he says, friends, and He says what He means.
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And in our finite minds it's hard to wrestle and it's hard
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for us to wonder how all of these things will be, but it's
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no different for us than it was for them.
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Jesus told them all the things that they were going to get to
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see and they missed it and they were unbelieving.
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And it's no different for our generation.
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There are many promises for us today and we try to discount it
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and we don't want to talk about it.
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And there's so many conflicting ideas about it.
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And Jesus just makes it plain. And we would do well to believe
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the simple gospel and the simple truths that this word presents
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to us and not try to hyper spiritualize it all, or try to
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discount it, or just try to put it in a box and try to slide it
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over into some kind of camp. We need to just take this word
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for what it says and to truly believe it.
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Friends for. And it came to pass, as they
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were much perplexed thereabout. Behold, 2 men stood by them in
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shining garments. So we know that the angels
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pronounced his birth, and we see here that the angels are
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pronouncing his resurrection. Everything within our faith,
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friends, is hinged upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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And the same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives in
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you, believer, lives in me. And we will be raised to life,
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even though we are sown in shame.
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We will be raised in glory. We are sown in the natural, and
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we will be raised in the immortal.
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Friends, praise God, Hallelujah. It's not anything that we've
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ever done. It's all about what He did and
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it's paid in full. That's what the bill says, paid
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in full. It's what He brought for us and
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bought for us, wrought for us on the cross of Christ.
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On Calvary Friends, you can have the power from on high.
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The Holy Spirit wants to be your advocate, wants to be your
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helper, wants to help you through this life and give you
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the mind of Christ and make all of your feelings and make all of
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your reality subject to the reality of the Word of God.
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I pray that you have allowed him to have the last say, the final
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say over all of your circumstances.
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Even death itself is subject to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He has victory over every area of your life if you will give
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him full access to it. And quit trying to hold on to
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all of the hurts and hang ups, all of the fear and anxiety, the
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depression and the childhood trauma.
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Let it all go. Friends.
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Let go of the addictions. Friends let go of the rage and
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the malice and the discord and the gossip.
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Friends give it all over to him. Don't find your identity in
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vanity. Do not find your identity in
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wealth. Do not find your identity in
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stature. Do not find your identity in
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your job and your profession. Don't find your identity and
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your IQ level. Do not find your identity even
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in your loneliness. Find your identity in Jesus
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Christ and you will find life in everlasting life.
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And He gives it to you now. He starts the process now.
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And we can push back on the darkness and push back on the
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gates of hell, and we can start to live the abundant life now.
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And we will be with Him forever more in that abundance, friends,
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He is our kinsman Redeemer and there is no lack in His house.
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And He wants to give you way more than just monetary
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blessings. Don't forget it, Five.
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And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the
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earth, they said unto them, Why do you seek the living among the
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dead? He told them.
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He made it plain. He showed them many times that
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he was to be raised to life and they're going to the place of
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the dead, even though he told them that he would go ahead of
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them into Galilee and appear to them.
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And here you can see that these women were trying to do the
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right thing, and the angels were saying, don't seek the living
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among the dead. He's alive.
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He is resurrected, Friends. 6 He's not here but is risen.
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Remember how he spoke unto you when he was yet in Galilee?
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7 Saying the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of
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sinful men, be crucified, and the third day rise again.
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Jesus told them. Jesus didn't leave anything to
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question. Jesus made sure they had all of
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the resources and the tools to be successful.
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And he does the same for you and for me.
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Friends, we lack no thing. We don't have to wait on life
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everlasting. We can start that now.
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We can step in to that reality now.
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But we must make this world subject to the truth and the way
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and the life of Jesus Christ. And much like salvation, the
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abundant life is a divine mystery that only those who have
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experienced that understand what it truly means.
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Most of us are caught up in the world and caught up in the
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natural and caught up in what we can sense with our senses.
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And we have not yet stepped into the reality of the abundant life
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that Jesus wants to provide for us, where we are 100% reliant
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upon Him. And we're walking in the Spirit.
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And we're not satisfying the lusts of the flesh.
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And we are not having the pride of life, friends.
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The lust of the eyes, friends. But we are walking in tune with
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our Father. We're listening to the still
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small voice. And He's leading us in heavenly
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places and everywhere that we step as holy ground friends, and
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we have the power from on high, and we are filled with the Holy
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Spirit, and we can hear the Father's voice, and we know that
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He's well pleased with us. And I pray that that is your
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inheritance today. Believer 8.
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And they remembered his words. That's what we need.
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We need more than anything in the in the middle of the battle,
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in the middle of the controversy, in the middle of
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the argument, in the middle of the chaos, remember his words.
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Remember his words. Friends call these scriptures to
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mind. Friends remember his words. 9
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and returned from the tomb, and told all these things unto the
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11 and to all the rest. So we know that Jesus was so
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gracious and he loves women, and he revealed himself to the
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women. Friends.
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How amazing is it that God is for all and at this time in this
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culture these women would have been degraded and of lowly
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stature and the men were celebrated.
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And you can see here the heart of God, how he elevates the
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feminine, how he says that we are Co heirs of the eternal.
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And you can see here his heart, friends, it's not that God is so
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masculine that he pushes down the women and there is a natural
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order of the family friends, but just know that God sees us as
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equal Co heirs of eternity, and we as men would do well to honor
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our wives and to give them special place.
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Jesus is so good at what he does. 10 And it was Mary
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Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and other
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women that were with them, which told these things unto the
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apostles. So Mary Magdalene, we know that
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she was the one that the Lord drove out the seven demons.
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Joanna, she was the wife of Chuza who is of Herod's court.
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And perhaps a woman of privilege.
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And here this Mary, the mother of James the Lesser, we can see
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that these women were sold out to the King of Kings, and they
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saw the worth of him, and they're going to anoint him with
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the spices. And they get a special privilege
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of being the forerunners to tell the apostles that he is not
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dead, he is risen. 11 And their words seem to them as idle
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tales, and they believe them not.
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You can see here that these men were steeped in tradition, and
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they refused to believe these babbling women who were coming,
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telling all kinds of little idle tales.
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And these men were still thinking in the natural, and
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they'd not yet been empowered with the Holy Spirit to have the
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mind of Christ, and they were relying upon their senses.
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And we err grievously whenever we do not step into the
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spiritual, when we stay in the natural.
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Friends. 12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the tomb.
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Stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by
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themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that
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which was come to pass. We know that Peter and John both
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ran, and we know that John beat them, and Luke doesn't give us
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that account here. But John's going to tell us how
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he beat Peter to the tomb. And here Peter is wondering.
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He's perplexed by it all. And look at how these linen
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clothes were wrapped so neatly. It was not as if they were
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ripped off of them by some wild animal or by some manic man.
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This was intentionality. Jesus would have laid the head
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cloth as a napkin when somebody left the dinner table and
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telling the guests telling the host that he was to return.
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Jesus would have laid his head garment, his head cloth in a
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manner that showed that he was to return friends.
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And here Peter is wondering about it all. 13 And behold, 2
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of them went the same day to a village called Emmaus, which was
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from Jerusalem about 3 score furlongs.
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So we know that the ancient historian Josephus, he gives us
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the location and it matches perfectly of this town of
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Emmaus. We know that history proves that
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this town was a real town. 14 And they talked together of all
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these things which had happened. So you can see these two unnamed
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disciples, and they're just walking along and they're
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wondering what is this is all about?
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15 And it came to pass that while they commune together and
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reasoned, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
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So Jesus here, he's just blending in.
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This was something that you're going to see recurring as a
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theme that Jesus has the ability to come in and not be revealed
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in his glory. And he told the women, don't
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hold on to me. I've not yet resurrected.
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There's something fantastic about the resurrected body that
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he is able to keep himself from fully being recognized.
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And it is a divine mystery here. And we know that it's a real
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body, no doubt. This is not a ghost or a
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phantom. This is a literal physical body.
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He's going to eat. He has bones and flesh.
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He still has the wounds. But there is something about his
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appearance that these disciples and even the women when they
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thought he was just the gardener, and even the disciples
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as they're looking out from the boat onto the beach, there's
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something about the resurrected body that is different.
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What a mystery, friends. And we will, we see it dimly
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now, but we will see it fully whenever we get to enter into
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that reality. 16 But their eyes were holding that they should
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not know him. 17 And he said unto them, What manner of
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communications are these, that you have one to another as you
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walk and are sad? This is Jesus talking to them,
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and they didn't recognize it. You know, how many times have we
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entertained angels and we didn't recognize it?
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Do not forget to show hospitality to entertain
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strangers and by doing so, some have entertained angels,
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Friends, and we would do well to know that all of the most
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wonderful spiritual blessings are available to us today and
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this day and this hour at this time.
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Friends, this is not some his story book of old, some fable of
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old. This is relevant for today that
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there is a spiritual world all around.
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There's the angelic hosts all around, friends, and there are
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fallen angels that we must be on guard for because he shows us
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and he models for us how we are to live our lives.
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And Jesus here has revealed himself to these disciples, and
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they did not recognize him. Perhaps their sadness kept them
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from seeing him. Perhaps their senses kept them
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from seeing him. Perhaps they were so steeped in
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the physical that they could not reach and touch into the
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spiritual. And we need to make sure,
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friends, that we are in tune with all of God's creation, the
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seen and the unseen friends. 18 And one of them, whose name was
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Cleopas answering, said unto him, Are you only a stranger in
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Jerusalem, and has not known the things which are come to pass
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there in these days? How many times do we tell Jesus
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he doesn't understand our situation?
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How many times do we go to Jesus and we say, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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but that was long ago and this is now.
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And that's what old Cleopas here is saying to him.
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Are you the only one who doesn't understand?
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And we would do well to make sure that we know who we're
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talking to. He is the creator of everything,
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seen and unseen. 19 And he said unto them, What things?
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And they said unto him concerning Jesus of Nazareth,
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who was a prophet, mighty indeed, and word before God and
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all the people. And he was not just a prophet,
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he was the Son of God. 20 And how the chief priests and our
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rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and have
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crucified him. 21 But we trusted that it had been he which should
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have redeemed Israel. And besides all this, today is
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the third day since these things were done. 22 Yeah.
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And certain women also of our company made us astonished,
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which were early at the tomb. 23 And when they found not his
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body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels
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which said he was alive. So we can see here that they're
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taking Jesus through all the current events as if he's just
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some stranger who doesn't understand anything.
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And we treat Jesus the same way. We just love our salvation and
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we love that we can escape hell, but we don't realize that He is
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the divine orchestrator of every fabric, of every thread, of all
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the tapestry of life all around us, everything that teams in the
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ocean and in the air above us, in the molecules all around us.
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Friends, He is the Lord over all of creation, and all of creation
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proclaims His, his name. So that man is without excuse.
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And the rocks will cry out if we do not give him his due glory.
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And he can raise up sons to Abraham from the stones,
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friends. And we would do well to lay
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prostate and to give him his due.
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Glory, friends, give him His glory, glory, glory in the
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highest holy, holy, holy, and only one found worthy, worthy,
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worthy, the Lamb of God, who was slain before the foundations of
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the earth, and who was resurrected, and who beckons us
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to life and eternal life with Him forevermore.
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Friends 24 And certain of them which were with us went to the
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tomb and found it Even so, as the women had said.
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But him they saw not so much. Like Thomas, they refused to
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believe unless they saw it with their own eyes.
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And a lot of us are like that, Friends.
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We're not going to truly believe until it's too late.
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And every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that
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Jesus is Lord, but it'll be too late.
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We must do it now. We must do it on this side of
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eternity. We cannot wait until He is
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revealed in all His glory, friends, we must do it.
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We must come to Him by faith. We must believe that He is.
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We must believe that God is real.
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We must believe that Jesus is the only way.
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We must believe it. Friends on this side, if you
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wait until the next to confess Jesus as Lord, it'll be too
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late. 25 Then he said unto them, Oh fools, slow of heart, to
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believe all that the prophets have spoken. 26 Ought not Christ
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to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?
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He's going to take him through the greatest Bible study that
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this world has ever known. He's going to show them through
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all of the Scriptures that He is the Christ and that all of these
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things must happen. And it pleased God to crush him
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and is marvelous in His sight. Friends, it's not just a hurdle
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to get over. This is part of the grand plan,
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friends, this wonderful orchestra that God Almighty is
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bringing about. 27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets,
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he expounded unto them in all the scriptures, that things
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concerning himself. Jesus is in every single book of
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the entire Bible. He's the 4th man in the fire.
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He's the voice from the burning Bush.
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He's the one that they walked with in the cool of the day.
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It is Jesus and it is Jesus and it is Jesus all throughout
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Scripture, friends, from beginning to end.
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He is the chief cornerstone and everything is built upon Him,
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friends, and we would do well to understand our inheritance in
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Him and that we are the bride and He is the bridegroom and He
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desires a wife. He desires a bride, He desires A
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spotless bride, and he is making us that way, friends, and we can
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see that one day we will be with Him forevermore.
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Praise God. Hallelujah.
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I hope that you're looking forward to that day. 28 And they
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drew near unto the village where they went, and he made as though
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he would have gone further. And look at that.
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Look at the way Christ operates. Look at how He is such a
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gentleman that He'll never force himself upon anybody.
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He doesn't just go around and take hostages.
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No friends He has you choose Him and it brings him so much more
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glory. He can make everybody right now,
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in this very split second, see Him in all of His glory, and no
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one would refuse Him. But because He loves us so much,
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He wants us to choose Him, not just to overtake us and make us
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His own. That's how much He loves us and
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how much glory and how much He'll never force himself on us.
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Friends, you can see the love of God.
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You can see that this is the way that He operates.
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It was as if He was just going to keep going, but they're going
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to force Him to come upon them. 29 But they constrained him
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saying goodbye with us, for it is toward evening, and the day
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is far spent, And he went in to tarry with them.
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So they're grabbing a hold of them, and you must grab a hold
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of him while there is still yet time, friends. 30 And it came to
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pass, as he sat at meet with them, he took bread and blessed
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it, and broke it, and gave it to them. 31 And their eyes were
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open, and they knew him, and he vanished out of their sight.
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You can see here Jesus breaking the bread.
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All of a sudden they understood that it was Him.
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Perhaps it was his mannerisms, perhaps it was the holes in his
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hand, perhaps it was just time for them to see it all.
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But immediately he was gone. And you can see that Jesus here
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has much work to do, and he had accomplished what he wanted to
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in this moment for these disciples.
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And what's going to happen here? 32 And they said one to another.
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Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us, by
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the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
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Does your heart burn for the Lord Jesus Christ as he's
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teaching you through his Word, as you're in prayer, friends, as
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you're in worship? Does your heart burn for him,
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friends? Does it propel you and compel
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you to take the whole word to the whole world?
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Does it compel you and propel you to tell people of your
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testimony and what the Lord has done for you?
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I pray that it does. I pray that you're not just
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silent. I pray that you're not put to
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shame. I pray that you are bold in your
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faith, friends. And they rose up, 33 And they
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rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found
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the 11 gathered together, and them that were with them, 34
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saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to
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Simon. 35 And they told what things were done in the way, and
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how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
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So we can see here that this very simple break of bread
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brought about the revelation of the Lord Jesus, and they could
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see Him in all His glory. And we would do well, friends,
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to make sure that we bring all of these scriptures into our
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minds, and break bread, and to have communion every day, and to
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remember what the Lord has said to us, and go out and tell
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others. 36 men. As they thus spoke, Jesus
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himself stood in the midst of them and said unto them, Peace
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be unto you. He is our peace.
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We can only know peace through a relationship to God, through His
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Son Jesus Christ. We can see that we need this
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peace that He offers to us and He is the only peace that you
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will ever experience in this life friends and for all of
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eternity. There is no peace outside of
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God, friends. Money can't bring you peace.
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Relationships can't bring you peace.
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Health can't bring you peace, friends.
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It is only with a relationship with God Almighty through his
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Son Jesus Christ that brings this peace that he offers. 37
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But they were terrified and affrighted, and suppose that
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they had seen a spirit, so he had walked through the walls.
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There's materialism. Didn't matter to him.
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He was able to go right through it.
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Friends, what a snapshot of what's available to us when we
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come to him. 38 And he said unto them, Why are you troubled?
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And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
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And he's asking us the same thing.
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Why are you troubled? Do you not know the inheritance
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that is available to you? 39 Behold my hands and my feet,
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that it is I myself handle me and see.
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For a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see, I have. 40
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And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his
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feet. 41 And while they yet believe not for joy, he
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wondered, he said unto them, Have you here any meat?
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42 And they gave him a piece of broiled fish and a honeycomb. 43
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And he took it, and he did eat before them.
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So we know that in heaven there is this tree of life, and there
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is this river of life, and we know that there are fruits, and
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we know that he's preparing A banquet for us.
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And we can see that his resurrected body is just a
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snapshot for us to know what is available to us.
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And we don't work for all of the blessings and all the
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materialism, but we just want Jesus.
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We want to touch him. We want to feel him.
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We want to sit with him and dine with him.
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We want him more than we want life itself.
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Friends, it's Jesus and Jesus and Jesus that we are after. 44
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And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoken to you
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while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled,
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which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in
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the Psalms concerning me. We can see that Jesus takes him
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through a Bible study and he shows them how all of these
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things are wonderful and marvelous to the Lord God.
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And He knew all about them before they ever happened.
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And He knows your very life. He knows.
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Every hair on your head. He knows every day and every
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moment and every breath that you are going to be on this earth,
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and He is awaiting to give you this resurrected body, and He
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wants to be with you forever more, and we must choose Him
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now. Friends 45 then opened he their
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understanding that they might understand the Scriptures.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. 46 And he said unto
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them. Thus it is written, and thus it
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behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third
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day. 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be
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preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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So we know that it was in Jerusalem that they were hostile
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towards Jesus Christ. And here He's telling his
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disciples to start there. And they were, prior to His
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showing up, they were shaking in their boots that their master
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had been murdered. And what fate awaited them, His
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followers? And now He's giving them their
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marching orders, He's giving them what he expects out of
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them, and they are to start there in Jerusalem and to preach
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repentance and the remission of sins through the blood of Jesus
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Christ. Friends, we know that Jesus
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lived a perfect and spotless life, a blameless life.
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And we know that he was crushed, and we know that he was bruised,
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and we know that he was buried. And we know that he hung on a
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cross and put in the tomb, and that he was resurrected on the
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third day, and that he ascended to the right hand of the Father.
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And there he sits, friends, and and he makes intercession for
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you and for me. And we can be blessed by the
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finished work of the cross, friends, And we can be endued
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with power from on high. And we can receive the Holy
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Spirit in the mind of Christ. And we can walk in our bridal
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identity because of what Christ has done for us, friends.
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And it's all put down here and it's trustworthy and true.
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And Doctor Luke did such a fantastic job of going and
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searching all of the details and all the eyewitness accounts.
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And we know that this is historically correct and we know
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that it is something that we can build our life upon, this solid
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rock, this chief cornerstone that we will never be put to
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shame and we will never be dismayed when we are following
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after the Lord Jesus Christ. And the world might ridicule us
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and say all kinds of nay, saying things towards us, but counted
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all his joy, Friends, they did it to all the prophets.
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And it is because they've made a love decision for the world and
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they're hostile towards God. It's not because it's not
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trustworthy and true and that there's not enough Fact Check
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details to prove it all. It's that they refuse to love
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the truth and they delight themselves and evil.
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And we pray for them. We pray against the darkness and
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the and the demonic influence that are it's in their lives
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that's hiding it all from them because it's plain as the nose
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on your face and we can see it all.
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When you come to the Lord in faith, you can see it all,
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friends. And he takes off the blinders
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and praise God. We were once blind, but now we
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can see praise God. We were once deaf, but now we
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can hear. Praise God.
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He's given us a new heart, friends, and he has written his
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name upon our hearts, and we are his, and he is ours, and we will
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be with him forever more. 48 And you are witnesses of these
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things. He's saying that you are the
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martyrs of these things. He's giving us our marching
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orders. He's telling us that the blood
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of the martyr is the seed of the gospel.
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And we know that we can lay down our lives, and that love knows
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no greater than to lay down your life for your brother.
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And we know that, friends, and we know the cost.
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We count the cost before we ever put our hand to the plow. 49 And
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behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry you
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in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on
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high. Holy Spirit's coming, and he's
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going to give them the Advocate and the helper friends. 50 And
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he led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his
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hands, and he blessed them, Jesus lifting up his hands,
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showering us with blessings upon blessings upon blessings,
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eternal life, friends, He is showering us with the abundant
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life friends now. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them,
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he was parted from them and carried up into heaven. 52 And
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they worshipped him and return to Jerusalem with great joy.
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And we'll end on 53 And we're continually in the temple
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praising and blessing God. Amen.
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So we can see here that Jesus gave them the power and it
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propelled them and compelled them into service and into
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action. And our obedience unto Christ is
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because of the love that we have for him.
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There's nothing in this world that could ever measure up or
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compare to the love of Christ and our eternal inheritance.
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There's no relationship, there's no amount of money, there's no
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position, there's no experience on planet earth that could ever
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supersede the love of Christ for us.
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He is our All in all. He is our everything.
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I hope you've been blessed by this last chapter here in Doctor
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Luke's account. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you.
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God loves you. Let's step into all that he has
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for us today. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.