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July 31 - John 20 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. It's Sean.
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  Here it is Wednesday. It is the middle of the week.
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  It's hump day. We're just coming over the hump,
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  ready for the back end of the week.
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  And today we are going to finish off both the month of July and
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  the main book of John. Yeah, tomorrow we continue with
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  the epilogue, but today is the last chapter before that said
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  epilogue. This is the day of glorious,
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  glorious resurrection. Christ is risen.
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  He is risen indeed. Are we allowed to say that on
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  not Easter? It seems only appropriate if we
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  are reading the resurrection story.
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  This is a story, friends. This is the story.
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  This is the part of the story that changes everything, that
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  makes our faith something which is life changing, world changing
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  on the most cosmic of all scales.
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  Incredible when life conquers death and the God of the
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  universe brings his Son back to save creation.
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  Yes, yes, yes. Let us read this together.
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  Reading together John chapter 20.
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  Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary
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  Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been
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  rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter
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  and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved.
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  She said they've taken the Lord's body out of the tomb and
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  we don't know where they've put him.
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  Peter and the other disciple started out for the tomb.
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  They were both running, but the other disciple outran Peter and
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  reached the tomb first. He stooped and looked in and saw
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  the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn't go in.
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  Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside.
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  He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the
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  cloth that had covered Jesus head was folded up and lying
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  apart from the other wrappings. Then the disciple who had
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  reached the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed, for
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  until then they still hadn't understood the scriptures that
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  said Jesus must rise from the dead.
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  Then they went home. Mary was standing outside the
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  tomb crying, and as she wept she stooped and looked in.
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  She saw two white robed angels, one sitting at the head and the
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  other at the foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been
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  lying. Dear woman, why are you crying?
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  The angels asked her. Because they have taken away my
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  Lord, she replied. And I don't know where they have
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  put him. She turned to leave and saw
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  someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn't
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  recognise him. Dear woman, why are you crying?
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  Jesus asked her, Who were you looking for?
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  She thought he was the gardener, Sir, she said, if you have taken
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  him away, tell me where you have put him and I will go and get
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  him, Mary, Jesus said. She turned to him and cried out,
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  Rabboni, which is Hebrew for teacher.
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  Don't cling to me, Jesus said, for I haven't yet ascended to
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  the Father, but go find my brothers and tell them I am
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  ascending to my Father, and your father to my God and your God.
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  Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them I've
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  seen the Lord, and she gave them his message.
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  That Sunday evening, the disciples were meeting behind
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  locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.
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  Suddenly Jesus was standing there among them.
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  Peace be with you, He said. As he spoke, He showed them the
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  wounds in his hands and his side.
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  They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord again.
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  He said, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I
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  am sending you. Then he breathed on them and
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  said, Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins,
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  they are forgiven. If you do not forgive them, they
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  are not forgiven. One of the disciples Thomas
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  nicknamed the Twin, was not with the others when Jesus came.
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  They told him, we have seen the Lord, but he replied, I won't
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  believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my
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  fingers into them and place my hand into the wound in his side.
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  Eight days later, the disciples were together again, and this
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  time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked, but
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  suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them.
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  Peace be with you, he said. Then he said to Thomas, Put your
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  finger here and look at my hands.
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  Put your hand into the wound in my sight.
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  Don't be faithless any longer. Believe my Lord and my God,
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  Thomas exclaimed. Then Jesus told him, You believe
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  because you have seen me. Blessed are those who believe
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  without seeing me. The disciples saw Jesus do many
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  other miraculous signs in addition to the ones recorded in
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  this book, but these are written so that you may continue to
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  believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and
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  that by believing in Him you will have life by the power of
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  His name. We love you, Jesus.
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  We are so grateful for you. And John could not have made it
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  any simpler. This is what you did.
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  You came here, you lived your life, your perfect life.
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  You showed us the nature of God and then you saved us and that
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  all we are to do is believe in you and that you give us life in
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  your name. Oh Jesus, your name is holy.
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  Your name above every other names.
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  We just worship you. We place you at the highest
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  point in our lives, Lord. Whatever it is that would
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  threaten to to feel more important than you, Lord, strip
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  that away from us. Leave that throne bare so that
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  you you can ascend and sit upon that throne in our hearts and in
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  our lives, because that is where you ought to be and that is
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  where we want you. Day after day, Lord, ascend to
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  the throne of our hearts, so that you can rule our lives and
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  we can serve no one but you, our incredible Saviour, in whose
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  name we have life. And so we pray in that very
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  name, Amen.