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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a Calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after this short word from our sponsors, we will

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Speaker 2: reflect on tonight's scripture Luke, chapter twenty four. Our evening

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Speaker 2: reflection is written and read by Kyle Norman Luke, chapter

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Speaker 2: twenty four. On the first day of the week, very

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Speaker 2: early in the morning, the women took the spices they

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Speaker 2: had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the

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Speaker 2: stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered,

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Speaker 2: they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

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Speaker 2: While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in

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Speaker 2: clothes that gleamed like lightning stood before them. In their fright.

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Speaker 2: The women bowed down with their faces to the ground.

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Speaker 2: But the men said to them, why do you look

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Speaker 2: for the living among the dead. He is not here.

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Speaker 2: He has risen. Remember how he told you while he

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Speaker 2: was with you in Galilee, the son of Man must

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Speaker 2: be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified,

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Speaker 2: and on the third day rise again. Then they remembered

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Speaker 2: his words when they came back from the tomb. They

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Speaker 2: told all these things to the eleven and to all

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Speaker 2: the others. It was Mary Magdalen, Joanna, Mary, the mother

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Speaker 2: of James, and the others with them who told this

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Speaker 2: to the apostles. But they did not believe the women,

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Speaker 2: because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however,

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Speaker 2: got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he

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Speaker 2: saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he

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Speaker 2: went away, wondering to himself what had happened now. That

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Speaker 2: same day, two of them were going to a village

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Speaker 2: called a Maaeus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were

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Speaker 2: talking to each other about everything that had happened. As

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Speaker 2: they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus

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Speaker 2: himself came up and walked along with them, but they

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Speaker 2: were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, what are

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Speaker 2: you discussing together as you walk along? They stood still,

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Speaker 2: their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him,

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Speaker 2: are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not

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Speaker 2: know the things that have happened in these days? What things?

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Speaker 2: He asked about Jesus of Nazareth, They replied he was

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Speaker 2: a prophet powerful in word and deed before God and

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Speaker 2: all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed

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Speaker 2: him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him.

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Speaker 2: But we had hoped that he was the one who

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Speaker 2: was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, is

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Speaker 2: the third day since all this took place. In addition,

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Speaker 2: some of our women amazed us. They went to the

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Speaker 2: tomb early this morning, but did not find his body.

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Speaker 2: They came and told us that they had seen a

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Speaker 2: vision of angels who said that he was alive. Then

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Speaker 2: some of our companions went to the tomb and found

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Speaker 2: it just as the women had said, but they did

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Speaker 2: not see Jesus. He said to them, how fool as

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Speaker 2: you are, and how slow to believe all that the

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Speaker 2: prophets have spoken. Did not the massage have to suffer

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Speaker 2: these things and then enter his glory? And, beginning with

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Speaker 2: Moses and the prophets, he explained to them what was

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Speaker 2: said in all of the scriptures concerning himself. As they

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Speaker 2: approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued

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Speaker 2: on as if he was going farther, But they urged

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Speaker 2: him strongly, saying, stay with us, for it is nearly evening,

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Speaker 2: the day is almost over, so he went in to

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Speaker 2: he took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to

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Speaker 2: give it to them, And their eyes were opened, and

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Speaker 2: they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They

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Speaker 2: asked each other, were not our hearts burning within us?

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Speaker 2: While he talked with us on the road and opened

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Speaker 2: the scriptures to us, they got up and returned at

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Speaker 2: once to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven and those

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Speaker 2: with them, assembled together and saying, it is true the

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Speaker 2: Lord has risen and has appeared to sign him. Then

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Speaker 2: the two told what had happened on the way and

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Speaker 2: how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

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Speaker 2: And while they were still talking about this, Jesus himself

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Speaker 2: stood among them and said to them, peace be with you.

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Speaker 2: They were startled and frightened, thinking that they saw a ghost.

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Speaker 2: He said to them, why are you troubled, and why

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Speaker 2: do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hand

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Speaker 2: and my feet. It is I myself. Touch me and

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Speaker 2: see a ghost does not have flesh and blood as

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Speaker 2: you see I have. When he said this, he showed

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Speaker 2: up his hands and his feet, and while they still

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Speaker 2: did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he

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Speaker 2: asked them, did you have anything here to eat? And

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Speaker 2: they gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he

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Speaker 2: took it and ate it. In their presence. He said

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Speaker 2: to them, this is what I told you while I

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Speaker 2: was with you. Everything must be fulfilled that is written

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Speaker 2: about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and

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Speaker 2: the Psalms. Then he opened their minds so that they

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Speaker 2: could understand the scriptures. He told them, this is what

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Speaker 2: is written that Messiah will suffer and rise from the

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Speaker 2: dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness

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Speaker 2: of sins will be preached in his name to all

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Speaker 2: nations beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

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Speaker 2: I am going to send you what my father has promised.

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Speaker 2: Stay in the city until you have been clothed with

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Speaker 2: power on high. When he had led them out of

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Speaker 2: the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and

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Speaker 2: blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them

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Speaker 2: and was taken up into heaven. Then he worshiped, They

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Speaker 2: worshiped him, and returned to were slown with great joy,

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Speaker 2: and they stayed continually at the temple praising God. How

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Speaker 2: many of us long to have an experience like that

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Speaker 2: of the early Disciples, the women who peered into the

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Speaker 2: early tomb hearing the news that Jesus had been raised.

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Speaker 2: The disciples who had Jesus suddenly appeared to them and

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Speaker 2: experienced him breathing peace upon them. You know, it's easy

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Speaker 2: to look at their experiences and think that it must

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Speaker 2: have been easy for them to exude hope and joy.

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Speaker 2: After all, they had the privilege of seeing Jesus in

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Speaker 2: their midst. When we think like that, it's easy to

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Speaker 2: dismiss our reality of faith. We might even doubt whether

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Speaker 2: we can ever be as faithful as they were. But

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Speaker 2: when we look at the disciples lives, we see something interesting.

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Speaker 2: They also experienced Jesus's absence the disciples in emaeas Jesus

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Speaker 2: was made known in the breaking of bread, but then

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Speaker 2: he disappeared from their midst to marry in the garden.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, don't hold on to me. Ultimately, the disciples

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Speaker 2: witnessed jesus ascension into heaven. Yet with this departure came

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Speaker 2: within them that empowered them to live, enjoy, insteadfast hope.

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Speaker 2: The presence of the Holy Spirit fueled their witness because

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Speaker 2: it meant that everyone else could be drawn into the

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Speaker 2: resurrection reality. The risen Jesus was for everyone, whether they

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Speaker 2: saw Jesus physically or not. The disciples, they were impactful

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Speaker 2: in their witness not because they saw the flesh of Jesus,

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Speaker 2: because the Spirit's pulse was alive within them. And it's

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Speaker 2: the same reality that we participate in this night. As

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Speaker 2: you begin to retire for the evening, take some time

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Speaker 2: to meditate on these truths. You have the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 2: within you, and like all the Disciples before you, you

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Speaker 2: can walk in hope because you can know that there

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Speaker 2: is nothing that you might face that is beyond the

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Speaker 2: power of the Risen Lord, and he is in you,

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Speaker 2: Risen Jesus. As I rest my body this night, I

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Speaker 2: pray that you draw me into a deeper experience of

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Speaker 2: You through the power of your Holy Spirit. In the

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Speaker 2: places where I need love, May you breathe your loving

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Speaker 2: kindness in the places where I need forgiveness. May your

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Speaker 2: grace wash over me in the places where I need

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Speaker 2: your power. May your Holy Spirit pulse within. Lord, I

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Speaker 2: give myself to you as your disciple. But I pray

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Speaker 2: these prayers not simply for my own edification and joy,

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Speaker 2: but so that I might be used to inspire the

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Speaker 2: hope and joy of others. And so Lord, this night,

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Speaker 2: I pray that you impress upon my heart the name

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Speaker 2: of someone you want me to walk beside. Help me

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Speaker 2: exude joy, help me be the bearer of grace. And

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Speaker 2: may I be a conduit for the work of your

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Speaker 2: spirit calling others into the hope of resurrection. Because I

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Speaker 2: pray in Jesus Holy name. Amen, How did tonight scripture

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