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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation

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Speaker 1: Church and.

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Speaker 2: This is our podcast.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 2: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 1: Hope it gives you perspective to see God has moving

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Speaker 1: in your life.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the message. Mark chapter sixteen, verse one.

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Speaker 1: When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and married, the

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Speaker 1: mother of James, and Salome brought spices so that they

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Speaker 1: might go and anoint him. And very early on the

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Speaker 1: first day of the week, when the sun had risen,

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Speaker 1: they went to the tomb, and they were saying to

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Speaker 1: one another, who will roll the stone for us? From

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Speaker 1: the entrance of the tomb, Who's going to do it?

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Speaker 1: And looking up, they saw that the stone had been

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Speaker 1: rolled back.

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Speaker 2: It was very large.

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Speaker 1: Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on

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Speaker 1: the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they

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Speaker 1: were alarmed.

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Speaker 2: And he said to them, don't freak out.

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Speaker 1: You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified.

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Speaker 2: He has risen.

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Speaker 1: He is not here see the place where they laid him,

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Speaker 1: But go and tell his disciples.

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Speaker 2: In other words, you can.

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Speaker 1: Look but don't stay long, because he is not here

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Speaker 1: in this dead place. He is not here. He has arisen.

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Speaker 1: So go tell his disciples and Peter that he is

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Speaker 1: going before you to Galilee. There you will see him

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Speaker 1: just as he told you.

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Speaker 2: And they went out and fled from.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what you're running from today, because sometimes when

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Speaker 1: life disappoints our expectations, we find ourselves hiding from the

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Speaker 1: very places that we came to looking for God. They

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Speaker 1: fled from the tomb for trembling and astonishment had seized them,

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Speaker 1: and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

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Speaker 2: And on that note, Mark's Gospel ends. It's an anti

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Speaker 2: clomactic ending.

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Speaker 1: It's not how we would expect it to end, but

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Speaker 1: that's how it ends. And there is an announcement that

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Speaker 1: I want to give to you. In fact, I want

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Speaker 1: you to give it to your neighbor. So pick one.

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Speaker 1: Look them in the eyes. Tell them, neighbor, it can't

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Speaker 1: end like this. Look at your other neighbor, the one

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Speaker 1: you were secretly hoping you'd get to talk to. Tell

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Speaker 1: them it can't end like this. Father, anoint your word

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Speaker 1: and open our hearts.

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Speaker 2: To hear it. In Jesus' name, Amen, you may be seated.

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Speaker 2: If you're reading along.

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Speaker 1: In your own copy of the Bible, you may see

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Speaker 1: verse nine, ten, eleven, and twelve. But those were put

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Speaker 1: there much later. By second century scribes. The oldest manuscripts

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Speaker 1: of the Greek New Testament, after they had been transcribed

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Speaker 1: for centuries, took on some additions. It was almost as

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Speaker 1: if the ending, and they went out and fled from

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Speaker 1: they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. Whoever

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Speaker 1: was copying it thought, well, it can't end like this,

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Speaker 1: But it ends in the original manuscript on a note

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty. It ends right there, right there. There's a

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Speaker 1: tendency for us sometimes to want to make faith something

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Speaker 1: that it's not. I wonder can I appreach to you today,

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Speaker 1: like we're real people. It may be that people outside

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Speaker 1: of the faith sometimes get the wrong idea about the

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Speaker 1: nature of faith, and they think that faith is chiefly

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Speaker 1: a matter of imagination. So people who have faith have

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Speaker 1: really good ability to suspend their disbelief and think about

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Speaker 1: this world that doesn't really exist. But faith for me

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Speaker 1: is not a matter of imagination. It's a matter of interpretation.

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Speaker 1: What I mean by that is, for me, faith is

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Speaker 1: not a denial of reality, but it is a deeper

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Speaker 1: reality than the reality that I see, that governs the

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Speaker 1: way that I live. This is the essence of faith

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Speaker 1: in Mark's Gospel. It is always a demonstration. It is

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Speaker 1: not always visible. But just because you can't see it

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it isn't real. It isn't it powerful and

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Speaker 1: the moment when Jesus wasn't there. The greatest demonstration of

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Speaker 1: God's power was his absence in the place where the

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Speaker 1: and say, it can't end like this. It can't end

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Speaker 1: place of frustration. The atmosphere of this text in Mark

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Speaker 1: They bought spices. Now, remember Peter in the garden drew

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Speaker 1: These spice girls watch Out had the kind of quiet

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Speaker 1: strength that would enable them, even in the midst of disappointment,

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Speaker 1: Notice who is missing in the text. It's not only

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Speaker 1: be in the grave and he wasn't there. But where

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Speaker 1: is Peter? Where is Peter? Waving his sword and talking

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Speaker 1: so loud? Have you ever noticed how sometimes the loudest

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Speaker 1: people aren't the most loyal. I noticed it at a

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Speaker 1: panther's game. There was a lady in front of me.

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Speaker 2: She was so loud. She was gone in the third

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Speaker 1: Because sometimes the people who are the loudest are not

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Speaker 2: Where's Peter?

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Speaker 1: This is what the women are trying to figure out,

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Speaker 1: help them move the stone away. Remember, it's much easier

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Speaker 1: to roll the stone that is at the mouth of

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Speaker 1: this cave, which we call a tomb, but it was

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Speaker 1: more like a cave and Mark points out of detail.

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Speaker 1: can't do this by ourselves, and upon realizing that we've

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Speaker 2: The strength to roll the stone away.

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Speaker 1: I think it's an indictment on the men. I think

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Speaker 1: it is an indictment on the eleven disciples. I thought

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Speaker 1: there were twelve. Judas is dead is already a different

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Speaker 1: thing for him. He's already gone. He couldn't hang on,

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Speaker 1: he couldn't face himself after it. And Peter, well, well,

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Speaker 1: Or maybe he doesn't want to venture out into the

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Speaker 1: don't expect much out of life anymore. It is your

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Speaker 1: defense mechanism against disappointment, because if you don't venture out,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to be vulnerable. Hope is very vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: Faith is very fragile. It puts you in a place

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Speaker 1: where you're actually expecting something. And as Peter stood there

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Speaker 1: it shot through his central nervous system that this was

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Speaker 1: the end and he's not with the women. Neither is James.

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Speaker 1: Neither is John for that matter, or Barthel. There were

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Speaker 1: They're not talking much. It's not a happy processional, but

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Speaker 1: they're on their way, and on their way they realize, hey,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, when we get there, we can't do

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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like there was something in your way?

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Speaker 1: It could be depression, it could be addiction, It could

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Speaker 2: Have you ever felt like there.

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Speaker 1: or how high your faith would rise or become, there

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Speaker 1: I love what the Bible says, because the women are

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Speaker 1: walking and they're worried, Well, you can't do it? Well,

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Speaker 1: you can't do it. Well, Mary, you should have. Well,

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Speaker 1: not the one who's mom named her after Deli meat.

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Speaker 2: You should have done it. You should have thought, where's Peter?

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Speaker 1: But instead of resenting who wasn't with him? They asked

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Speaker 1: the question, who will roll the stone away? I got

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Speaker 1: good gospel news this Easter. God is already working out

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Speaker 1: what you're worried about. God already has your miracle in

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Speaker 1: motion if you will take a step in faith. The

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Speaker 1: Bible says when they got there, not only was the

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Speaker 1: Now, the reason he sat down is not because he

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Speaker 1: over what you thought you couldn't do, has already been done,

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Speaker 2: And I believe stones still roll.

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Speaker 1: I believe God is working on what you're worried about.

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Speaker 1: Why would you stay up late crying about? See, we

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Speaker 1: What's happening as we're walking. Matthew gives us a detail

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Speaker 1: While they were walking, God was working. Watch the second

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a different detail that we

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Speaker 1: don't get in Mark's gospel. It says that behold, there

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Speaker 1: was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord

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Speaker 2: The stone and sat down on it.

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Speaker 1: The angel was already on the way while the women

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Speaker 1: were walking to the tomb. Now, dare you to look

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Speaker 1: So don't stress out about it, and don't you dare

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Speaker 1: turn around and go back home, because while you're worrying,

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Speaker 1: God is working. God does some of his best work

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Speaker 1: in the tark and just because you can't see it

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's not in progress.

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Speaker 2: Can't end like this?

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Speaker 1: Do you think God would let these women get all

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Speaker 1: in their way? God says, when you do what you

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Speaker 1: can do, I will do what you cannot do. I'll

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Speaker 1: help you raise those kids. I'll help you stay married

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Speaker 1: It can't end in frustration. It can't end in my frustration.

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Speaker 1: And it can't end in failure either. It can't end

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