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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 this is our podcast. I wanted to thank

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Speaker 1: you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope

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Speaker 1: it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to

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Speaker 1: see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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Speaker 1: You can feel it right. God is up to something today. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome Happy Resurrection Sunday. Everybody all over the world. We

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Speaker 1: greet you in the name of Jesus, the name above

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Speaker 1: every name, Jesus who is seated at the right hand

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Speaker 1: of God, Jesus who was laid down in grief and

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Speaker 1: awoke holding keys. May he unlock prison doors in your

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Speaker 1: life today. We believe He's going to do something awesome.

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Speaker 1: Tell your neighbor, I believe God is gonna not going

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Speaker 1: to gonna do something awesome in your life today, spectacular

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Speaker 1: in your life today, mind blowing in your life today.

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Speaker 1: And now look at him and say mine too. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting in on this. Another stone is rolling right now?

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Speaker 1: Is it you? Is it you he wants to call

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Speaker 1: out of depression? Is that you he wants to call

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Speaker 1: out of despair? I'm looking for me. God gave me

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Speaker 1: a word for this Easter Sunday. This is my nineteenth

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Speaker 1: Easter preaching here at Elevation Church. I would like to say,

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Speaker 1: and I hope that I don't jinx it by saying

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Speaker 1: this before the sermon. It's the best Easter crowd we've

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Speaker 1: ever had on the Easter Sunday. Now live up to that,

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Speaker 1: all right, it's a lot of pressure. Don't be acting

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Speaker 1: all stuffy because Aunt Susie came to church with you today.

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Speaker 1: Act how you always act. I know you will. So

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Speaker 1: I want to share with you from the Resurrection account

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Speaker 1: in Matthew chapter twenty eight, and offer a fresh perspective

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Speaker 1: that the Lord shared with me. I think one of

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Speaker 1: the greatest blessings God can give you sometimes is a

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Speaker 1: fresh perspective. You know, just where you look at things different.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes He changes things. Sometimes he changes the way I

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Speaker 1: see things, and then things change. So the perspective on

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Speaker 1: the Resurrection. You know, nineteen years of preaching this thing,

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Speaker 1: you would think I knew what was in it. But

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Speaker 1: God is so great and his word is so awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's just the most remarkable he ever told, the most

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Speaker 1: remarkable of an inhuman history that Jesus rose from the grave.

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Speaker 1: But let's go back there for a moment into a

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Speaker 1: flashback in Matthew chapter twenty eight. I'm going to read

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Speaker 1: picks up at verse five. The Bible says, after the Sabbath,

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Speaker 1: at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary

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Speaker 1: Magdalen and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

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Speaker 1: There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the

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Speaker 1: Lord came down from heaven, and, going to the tomb,

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Speaker 1: rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance

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Speaker 1: The guards were so afraid of him that they shook

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Speaker 1: and became like dead men. Verse five. Pay attention. The

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Speaker 1: angel said to the women, do not be afraid. Really,

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Speaker 1: so the guards are over here dead, These big Roman

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Speaker 1: know what you what. Okay, it's easter, it's easter. I

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Speaker 1: will think for you. The angel said to the women,

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Speaker 1: The keyword was verse six. He is not here. He

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Speaker 1: already happened. He is not here. He has risen, just

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Speaker 1: as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.

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Speaker 1: Then go quickly and tell his disciples. He has risen

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Speaker 1: from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee.

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Speaker 1: There you will see him. Now I have told you

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Speaker 1: verse eight, and will stop here for now. So the

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Speaker 1: as a subject for this sermon today, something in between,

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Speaker 1: how excited I have been to be with you. I

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Speaker 1: was dreaming about Dabbo, and of course that has everything

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Speaker 1: to do with Matthew twenty eight. But I'm just excited,

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Speaker 1: you know. And when I get excited, I'm an extreme person.

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Speaker 1: insight to realize that everything in this text, which is

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Speaker 1: as extreme as it gets. A crucifixion where the innocent

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Speaker 1: as extreme as it gets. And yet everything in the text,

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Speaker 1: everybody say, and yet everything is in between. One man said,

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Speaker 1: And as the women are bringing their spices to anoint Jesus,

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Speaker 1: we love this text because everything is in between. But

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Speaker 1: give you this in a few different ways. The ministry

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Speaker 1: in between moment, in that he has already fulfilled his

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Speaker 1: earthly mission, which is to save us from our sin

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Speaker 1: by dying on a cross, so that everybody who puts

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Speaker 1: did that, suffered a horrible death that we could not abide.

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Speaker 1: He rose again with all power in his hand. He's

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Speaker 1: done with that now, but he has not yet ascended

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Speaker 1: to the right hand of God. So his earthly mission

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Speaker 1: of Jesus empty. So think about that. Not only was

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Speaker 1: The moment is in between. It's dawn, not exactly morning,

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Speaker 1: it's not exactly night. It's something in between. That's why

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Speaker 1: I've got coverage and ventilation. It's something in between. Graham

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Speaker 1: was picking on me. I had this shirt that I

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Speaker 1: to wear on stage. It's something in between. Some of

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Speaker 1: serve you know well, no, we're not dating, but not

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Speaker 1: some ulterior motives. There's something in between. It's dawn, it's morning,

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Speaker 1: beautiful text because not only is the ministry of Jesus

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Speaker 1: the messengers are in between. The messenger the angel. The

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Speaker 1: Angel is not Jesus. The Angel is not God. But

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Speaker 1: Maybe if I preach this till Christmas, y'all will finally

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Speaker 1: something in between. Put it in the chat. It's something

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Speaker 1: And although you may be ready for heaven when you die,

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Speaker 1: And then you have something that the angel says to

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Speaker 1: and the Bible gives a very, very instructive phrase. And

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Speaker 1: gonna teach you a lesson today. If you are gonna

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Speaker 1: teach you something. All right, because it was crowded when

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Speaker 1: and I asked her to pick a record every Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: and lit's listen to music and eat, and then we

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Speaker 1: watch will of Fortune and Uh, pass a Jack. I

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Speaker 1: still want to meet you. If you ever watched me preach,

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Speaker 1: that would be a real bucket list for me. I

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Speaker 1: love pass a Jack. I pray for him every time

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Speaker 1: before he goes on. But uh, I came in the

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Speaker 1: other night and my mom was playing a record by

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Speaker 1: Willie Nelson, and it got my attention. I thought I

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Speaker 1: would use it in my Easter sermon. Willie says this, Well,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get drunk, and I sure do. Dread it

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Speaker 1: because I know just what I'm gonna do. I'll start

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Speaker 1: to spend my money calling everybody honey and wind up

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Speaker 1: singing the blues. I'll spend my whole pay check on

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Speaker 1: some old wreck and brother, I can name you a few,

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Speaker 1: but I gotta get drunk, and I sure do dread

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Speaker 1: it because I know just what I'm gonna do. I

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Speaker 1: researched it, and Willie said, that's the dumbest song he

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Speaker 1: ever wrote. He said, it's a good song, but it's

447
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Speaker 1: a stupid song. But it was true at the time.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get drunk. I gotta go off. Did you

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Speaker 1: hear what they said about me? I gotta go off.

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Speaker 1: I gotta do it. I gotta do you disrespect me

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Speaker 1: like that, I gotta do it. I think this Easter

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Speaker 1: the space Maker wants to change your gotta watch me

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Speaker 1: from I gotta do it to I gotta God. Somebody

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Speaker 1: say I gotta God. I don't gotta do it anymore

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Speaker 1: because I got a God who made space, who shed blood.

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Speaker 1: And if I call on his name, and if I

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Speaker 1: stay in his word, he can change me from Simon

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Speaker 1: to Peter. He can change beauty out of ashes, he

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Speaker 1: can turn graves into gardens. So I've got a grave.

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Speaker 1: Watch this, but I've got a god who can turn

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Speaker 1: it into a garden. Put it in the comments right now.

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Speaker 1: I got a god. I got a god. What I

463
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Speaker 1: used to have to do, I'm not powerless to do anymore.

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Speaker 1: Because he got up. That's fifty percent of a shout

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Speaker 1: that should have happened there. I'm gonna give you another opportunity.

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Speaker 4: I don't gotta steak down.

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Speaker 1: Does he got out? I got a god, give me

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Speaker 1: my next set. So they're standing at the tomb the

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Speaker 1: next worse and they're standing in a grave. But the

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Speaker 1: angel says, go to Galilee. And they can't stay at

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Speaker 1: the grave because he's not there. Somebody say, he's not here.

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Speaker 1: He's not in this depression. He's not in this giving up.

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Speaker 1: He's not in this failure. He's not in I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's in it to help me, but he's not in

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Speaker 1: it to leave me. He's calling me forward to Galilee.

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Speaker 1: And so the women, all the women make some noise.

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Speaker 1: They did it, and it's annoying, right because where are

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Speaker 1: the guys. The guys are eating fish and chips and

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Speaker 1: protein bars and Monster Energy drink and they say, now

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Speaker 1: we got to go stop by and tell the guy

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Speaker 1: that Jesus is gonna meet them in Galilee. I'll probably

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Speaker 1: have skipped it and just went right on the Galilee myself.

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Speaker 1: This is eighty miles, Benn, take like three or four days.

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Speaker 1: So let's get ahead start because we want to see Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Somebody say, I want to see Jesus. So what they do?

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Speaker 1: They're afraid? Did you notice Vers? Eight? But they ran.

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Speaker 1: They used their fear for something productive. I know you've

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Speaker 1: been through some things. Use them. I know you got

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Speaker 1: something on the inside of you chasing you. Well point

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Speaker 1: it in the right direction and let's go. You've been

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Speaker 1: an attic helping at it. You've been through horrible abuse.

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Speaker 1: Put your arm around somebody. They need to hear that

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Speaker 1: God can do a miracle for them. I'm leaving this grave.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in here has got a grave. God is calling

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Speaker 1: you away from everybody in here's I got a place

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Speaker 1: in you, a place in life, a place you can't stay,

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Speaker 1: and a long way to go. Oh, it's a long

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Speaker 1: way to Galilee. I don't know if we can make

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Speaker 1: it eighty miles to Galilee to see Jesus again. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I can make it through this season.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do it at this

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Speaker 1: stage of my life. I don't know if I have

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Speaker 1: the fuel left to do it again. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I have a repeat performance in me. The first

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Speaker 1: time we followed him, it was hard, but then he died.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a second wind in me.

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Speaker 1: But they're running, and this whole Sunday hinges on a

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Speaker 1: word in Matthew twenty eight, verse nine that God brought

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Speaker 1: you to this moment to show you. As they are

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Speaker 1: leaving the graves and eventually going to Galilee, the Bible

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Speaker 1: says Matthew twenty eight, verse nine. Suddenly, because not only

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Speaker 1: do I have a space making savior, but I have

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Speaker 1: a suddenly savior. Shout suddenly, come on, shout it with

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Speaker 1: your lungs, baby, say suddenly suddenly? What suddenly Jesus met them? Oh?

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Speaker 1: You mean they didn't have to go all eighty miles nah,

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Speaker 1: because while that angel was still talking about Galilee, the

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Speaker 1: Savior was headed your way. No, I need you just say

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Speaker 1: this my thing. He's coming my way.

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Speaker 3: He's headed my way, He's handed my way.

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Speaker 1: He's headed my.

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Speaker 5: Way, I'm leaving this grave, and the Lord wants somebody

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Speaker 5: to know.

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Speaker 1: You are not going to have to go all the

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Speaker 1: way to Galilee to get to him. He's coming to you.

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Speaker 1: See the scene with me, See the scene with me.

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Speaker 4: They're running, they're running, and maybe between the two of

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Speaker 4: them they're sharing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we should trust that big man

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Speaker 1: sitting on the stone. He said he was an angel,

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Speaker 1: but who knows. You can't trust any men. And the

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Speaker 1: other sister says back, the other Mary says back, well,

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Speaker 1: what are we going to do?

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Speaker 4: We can't stay at the grave. We've got to go.

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Speaker 4: We can't stay in this dead place. We've got to go.

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Speaker 4: If we stay here, it will only ever beat dead.

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Speaker 4: We's not coming back to the grave. We've got to go.

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Speaker 4: And so they're going, and they're going, and they're calculating

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Speaker 4: all the distance between them and Galilee.

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Speaker 1: We got seventy miles left between where we can't stay

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Speaker 1: and where we want to be. And somebody is there

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Speaker 1: right now. You're calculating the distance between where you are

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Speaker 1: and where you think you need to be. But put

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Speaker 1: my verse back on the screen.

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Speaker 6: The Bible says, suddenly Jesus met them and on their

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Speaker 6: way from the grave to Galilee, they hear something in between, greetings.

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Speaker 1: Could that be greetings? It sounds like him, greetings. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's his voice. I thought we were gonna have to

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Speaker 1: go all the way to Galilee, but suddenly somebody shouts, suddenly,

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Speaker 1: I see something in between. Jesus met me in the

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Speaker 1: middle of my mess. Jesus met me on my first mile.

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Speaker 1: Jesus is gonna meet me in this moment. What a savior,

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Speaker 1: I said, What a savior? Not only is he a

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Speaker 1: space making savior, not only is he a suddenly savior.

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Speaker 1: Do you understand the power of the savior suddenly that

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Speaker 1: a lifetime of sins can be washed away with one

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Speaker 1: call upon his name, with one mention of his name,

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Speaker 1: with the bowing off your knee, Everything that speaks the

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Speaker 1: name of Jesus will be saved because he's a suddenly savior.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that you're so stressed about, if God

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Speaker 1: is real, what makes you think he isn't already planning

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Speaker 1: to do something in between, because that's how the devil

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Speaker 1: will get you. I was talking to somebody the other

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Speaker 1: day and they said, I'm so worried about my kid

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Speaker 1: going to college and this college and that college. Their

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Speaker 1: kid is in the seventh grade. I said, don't worry

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Speaker 1: about that. Worry about something else. You can worry about stuff,

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Speaker 1: but don't worry about that. So much could happen in between.

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Speaker 1: You understand, you think you are going to just be

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Speaker 1: lonely the rest of your life. God could have one

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Speaker 1: greeter out those doors. And in between the time I

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Speaker 1: say Amen and the time you try to eat some

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Speaker 1: ham for lunch, God could do something in between. That's

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Speaker 1: all that. Holly, she was traveling through Monk's Corner. I listen,

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Speaker 1: she was living. She grew up in Miami, Florida. She

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Speaker 1: was traveling all over the country doing ministry with this team,

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Speaker 1: this ministry team, and they would ride around in an

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Speaker 1: RV and do ministry. And their travels brought them to

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Speaker 1: Monk's Corner. All right, So you got Miami, you got

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Speaker 1: Monk's Corner, very different, very different. And she saw a

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Speaker 1: very handsome young man at the church where they were

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Speaker 1: no she did, and listen how good her game was.

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Speaker 1: She comes up, She's like, I'm homeschooled, and uh, I

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Speaker 1: need to take the act. And I was wondering, maybe

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Speaker 1: if you could go to your guidance counselor and get

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Speaker 1: me an act prep pack. That is the most masterfully

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Speaker 1: understated pickup line in the history of great romances. Could

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Speaker 1: you go to your guidance counselor? And when I looked

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Speaker 1: at her, I was like, Oh, I know another guidance

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Speaker 1: counselor that I believe. Come on, somebody, you got a

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Speaker 1: guidance counselor. Because while I was growing up in Miami,

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Speaker 1: in Monk's Corner six hundred and fifteen miles away in Miami, Miami,

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Speaker 1: two months corner, if God could do that from a

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Speaker 1: grave to Galilee and everything in between, you don't even

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Speaker 1: know what he can do in between. All right, preach

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Speaker 1: it to your fear for a minute. Let's talk to

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Speaker 1: your fear of say, God always does something in between.

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Speaker 1: So the outcome you're dreading is based on the events

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Speaker 1: that you are hypothetically creating. What if God does something

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Speaker 1: in between. What if it doesn't even go to trial.

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Speaker 1: What if you get through it. What if you get

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Speaker 1: through it and it ends up being the best thing

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Speaker 1: that ever happened to you? What if God does something?

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Speaker 1: What if God does something in between? He must be

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Speaker 1: doing something in between. He did it for Daniel. Daniel

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Speaker 1: spent the night in a lion's den, but their teeth

606
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Speaker 1: never touched him. There must have been something in between

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Speaker 1: Daniel and those lions. He did it for the three

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Speaker 1: Hebrew boys. They were thrown in a fire. The fire

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Speaker 1: was heated up seven times hotter than normal, but they

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Speaker 1: didn't smell like smoke when they came out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you even get close to the fire, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: smell like smoke. So if they came out of the

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Speaker 1: fire and didn't smell like smoke, God must have done

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Speaker 1: something in between. Will not this same God, will not

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Speaker 1: this same Savior who met the women, not when they

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Speaker 1: got to Goalie. And now I don't feel sorry for

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Speaker 1: them anymore because the boys had to wait. They got

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Speaker 1: to see him first. I stand before you today, excited

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Speaker 1: and afraid. I stand before you today a sinner and

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Speaker 1: a saint. I stand before you today a flawed man

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Speaker 1: and a child of God. And I'm never all of both.

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Speaker 1: I'm something in between. What Jesus said to those women

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Speaker 1: will touch you so deeply. He said, I'm going ahead

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Speaker 1: of you, but I met you on the way. I'm

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Speaker 1: already in your tomorrow. But I'm going to show up

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Speaker 1: right now to remind you who you're walking in. Thank you, Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Say thank you Jesus. When you talk back to the

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Speaker 1: preacher in church, don't talk to the preacher, talk to God.

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Speaker 1: Say thank you Lord for that word. Thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 1: I received that coming to me right now on this

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Speaker 1: first mile of my eighty mile journey. I got to

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Speaker 1: get to Galilee, but I'm thankful that you met me

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Speaker 1: in between. And he tells them, go, I know you're afraid,

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Speaker 1: Verse ten, but go go tell my brothers. You still

635
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Speaker 1: calling them brothers after they left you at the cross.

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Speaker 1: Every single disciple except John went away, and Jesus called

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Speaker 1: them brothers. Every person in this room today, if we

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Speaker 1: could look inside your heart, you are carrying the guilt.

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Speaker 1: Put my final slide on the screen, because I want

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Speaker 1: to give an invitation to you now of what you did,

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Speaker 1: the guilt of who you think you are, the guild

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Speaker 1: of what you failed to live up to that you

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Speaker 1: meant to be. And then there is the glory of God,

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Speaker 1: who is Jesus Christ, who is the righteous one who

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Speaker 1: knew no sin but became sin that we might become

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Speaker 1: the righteousness. Of God. All have sin and fall short

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Speaker 1: of the glory of God. You're not the best Christian

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Speaker 1: that ever lived. His name is Jesus. But there is

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Speaker 1: nothing so wrong with you today that the Savior, who

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Speaker 1: is perfect and pure, cannot redeem it. Why are we

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Speaker 1: surprised to see him? Why are we surprised to hear

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Speaker 1: him in between the grave and galilee. We shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: surprised that he met us in the middle. We shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprised when he shows up in our shame. Wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be surprised when he gives us mercy for our mess

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Speaker 1: and righteousness for our rags. We shouldn't be surprised to

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Speaker 1: see him in between because the last time we saw

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Speaker 1: him on the cross, Look what John nineteen eighteen says

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Speaker 1: Jesus was doing there. They crucified him with two other men,

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Speaker 1: one on either side, back on the screen, and Jesus

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Speaker 1: in between. I see Jesus in between today. There's an

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Speaker 1: anointing on this word to bring you out of your grave,

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Speaker 1: to bring you out of your guilt. For wherever there

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Speaker 1: was guilt, grace was greater. Grace was greater whatever you did.

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Speaker 1: Wherever you've been but gone is breaking good morning. He

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Speaker 1: is risen, and his grace is greater.

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Speaker 4: Your sin has separated you from God, but your savior

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Speaker 4: is greater than your sin. He is Jesus in between,

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Speaker 4: making you right with God. You could never be right

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Speaker 4: with God in your own righteousness. You don't have to.

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Speaker 4: You've got Jesus in between.

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Speaker 7: Right now, while the presence of God is standing on

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Speaker 7: this road in this moment, what Jesus said to the women,

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Speaker 7: he says to you, greetings, be not afraid, but go.

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Speaker 1: It's bowt eyes closed. Everyone standing at every location, no

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Speaker 1: one moving. This is a holy moment. This is an

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Speaker 1: in between moment. For though our sins where a scarlet,

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Speaker 1: he washed them as white as snow. This is an

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Speaker 1: in between moment. He is a stretching savior. He is

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Speaker 1: a suddenly savior. He is a space making savior. And

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Speaker 1: there is room at this cross for you, for everyone

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Speaker 1: online and at all of our locations who wants today

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Speaker 1: to meet Jesus. I want to tell you the great

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Speaker 1: secret of the mystery of the Gospel. While the women

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Speaker 1: were looking for Jesus, Jesus was already looking for them,

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Speaker 1: and he desires to meet you in this moment. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pray a prayer. If you've been far

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Speaker 1: from God and you know it, and yet today he

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Speaker 1: calls you brother, sister, friend, child of God. If your

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Speaker 1: sins have been weighing heavy on your heart and you

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Speaker 1: haven't known what to do with them, and shame is great,

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Speaker 1: I introduce you now to the Savior, whose name is greater.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to lead you in a prayer. Won't be

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Speaker 1: a magic trick, but it is an act of faith.

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Speaker 1: The Bible says that if anyone calls on the name

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Speaker 1: of the Lord, they will be saved. It is by

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Speaker 1: grace that you are saved. Your guilt is great, his

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Speaker 1: glory is great. But His grace is greater than your guilt,

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Speaker 1: and you can receive it right now. Suddenly you can

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Speaker 1: be a brand new person today this day. So right now,

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Speaker 1: if this message was for you, I want you to

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Speaker 1: repeat this prayer after me. You're coming to Jesus. He

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Speaker 1: already came to you. You just repeat after me and

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Speaker 1: let him into your heart and turn from your sin,

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Speaker 1: and he will make you a brand new person. We're

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Speaker 1: praying out loud as a church family for the benefit

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Speaker 1: of those who are coming to God. For the first

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Speaker 1: time or coming back to God. Repeat after me, this

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Speaker 1: is your moment, Heavenly Father. Today is my day of salvation.

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Speaker 1: I am a sinner in need of a savior, and

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Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God

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Speaker 1: and the savior of the world. I believe he died

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Speaker 1: that I would be forgiven and rose again to give

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Speaker 1: me life. I receive this new life. This is my

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Speaker 1: new beginning. I am a child of God. On the counter.

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Speaker 1: Three shoot your hand up if you prayed that boldly.

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Speaker 1: One two, three.

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Speaker 7: We celebrate your resurrection today. We celebrate your resurrection today.

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Speaker 1: That is what it's all about. Today. That Jesus met me,

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Speaker 1: that Jesus changed me, that Jesus is with me, and

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Speaker 1: I'll never be the same. I need everybody who believes

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Speaker 1: Jesus is it give him a great sound of lives.

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Speaker 3: Wait a little better than that.

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Speaker 1: Makes such stay on the side of and yet myself.

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