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Get ready for a teaching
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and your mind where the
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and I'm so glad that you have joined me.
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You can see on the
screen behind me an image
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of Mary Magdalene when she came into the empty tomb of Jesus
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and saw two angels.
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In today's program,
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we're gonna be talking about
the multiple eyewitnesses
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of Jesus after his resurrection.
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My friends, this is Easter,
The Rest of the Story.
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And today I believe you're going
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to be surprised when you hear
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how many people saw Jesus touch Jesus
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and even ate with Jesus
after his resurrection.
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It wasn't just one or two
or 12, there were hundreds
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and hundreds of people who saw
Jesus after his resurrection.
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And that is what we're going
to be looking at today.
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It's gonna be so good.
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But before we get into
the teaching, remember
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that if you need prayer,
we want to pray for you.
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Jeremiah 33:3 says, Call unto me.
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I'll hear you, I'll answer
you, and I'll show you great
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and mighty things.
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And with you, we will call out to God in faith.
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He will hear us, he will answer us.
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He will move and he will show
you great and mighty things.
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In fact, God is just waiting to show up
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and show off in your life.
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He's waiting to be asked.
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I know you can pray by yourself,
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to Jeremiah 33:3, he's gonna
hear us, he's gonna answer us,
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and God's gonna do something great.
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He is gonna show up and
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So call us and let us
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But before I get into
today's wonderful teaching,
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first I want you to watch this.
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Do you know the story of
Easter, the resurrection
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of Jesus, the empty tomb
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and the appearances to the disciples?
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But did you know that's
only part of the story?
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The Rest of the Story,
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of the Easter story that
are often overlooked.
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Details like who was Pontius Pilate,
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what really happened to
the garden of Gethsemane?
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What happened to the
temple when Jesus died?
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What exactly did the disciples witness on
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that miraculous morning?
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In the previous
program, we saw that Peter
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and John ran to the tomb
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and Mary Magdalene followed them.
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Well, when Peter and John eventually left,
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Mary Magdalene stayed behind.
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And when we come to Matthew 16:5, we find
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that she entered into the tomb.
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And when she did, she had
an experience with an angel.
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And according to Luke 2:26, the angel said
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to her, he is not here by he is risen.
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He didn't say he is been
stolen by the disciples.
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He said, he is not here
because he is risen.
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But if Jesus was risen,
where in the world was he?
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And Mary Magdalene really wanted to know where is Jesus?
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So she inspected the interior of the tomb,
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and then she stood
outside the tomb weeping.
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And when you read this in the Greek text,
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the tense tells us she
was continually weeping,
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which means Mary Magdalene
was deeply, deeply disturbed,
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even though the angel had said,
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he is not here, he has risen,
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she didn't totally get what was going on.
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And she wanted to know
where was Jesus body,
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what had happened to it?
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And we read in John 20:11 - She stooped down
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and looked into the sepulcher.
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When the Bible says she stooped
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back down and looked in
stooped in means to peer into
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to bend low, to take a closer look
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or to stoop down to see something better.
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And that's when we read in John 20:11 and 12.
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And she looked into the sepulcher
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and seeth, two angels in white:
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one sitting at the head,
the other at the feet
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where the body of Jesus
had previously laid.
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And when the Bible says
she saw, the word saw
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that is used here tells us
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that she really fixed her eyes
on the scene in front of her.
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She looked at the angels
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and she determined to really look them over
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and to see the place
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where Jesus' body previously has had been, but now was gone.
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She was taking in the whole experience.
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And in John 20:11
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and 12, when she looked into the sepulcher
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and saw two angels in white
sitting, one at the head,
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the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain.
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The Bible says these angels were dressed in white,
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which really in Greek depicts
a lightning bright appearance.
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They were literally glistening: these were angels.
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And the angels were wearing
the same kind of robes,
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which we saw in the previous
program: long flowing,
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regal robes normally like
robes that would be worn
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by warriors, kings, priests,
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or other persons of great
power and authority.
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And now Mary has fixed her eyes on them
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and she's visually studying every single detail
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of the whole scene,
including the empty place
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where Jesus' body is missing
and these two angels.
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And the Bible says one
was sitting at the head,
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the other at the feet where the body
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of Jesus had previously been laying,
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but now the space was empty.
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It was empty.
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And in John 20:13
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and 14, we find
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that Mary eventually
went out into the garden
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and a man asked her - Woman, why weepest thou?
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She said unto them, because
they have taken away my Lord
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and I know not where they have laid him.
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And when she had thus said,
she turned herself back
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and saw Jesus standing and
knew not that it was Jesus.
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Mary had already been told by
the angel that he had risen,
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but she still was not able to
put all the pieces together.
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And when she looked at Jesus,
she didn't even recognize
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that it was Jesus,
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because now Jesus was in his
resurrected, glorified body,
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and his physical appearance was different.
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But when you come to John 20:15,
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Jesus sayeth under her - Woman, why weepest
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thou? Whom seekest thou? She supposing him
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to be the gardener sayeth unto him, sir,
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if thou have borne him hence, tell me
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where thou has laid him
and I will take him away.
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And it was at that very moment that John 20:
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16 says - Jesus sayeth unto her, Mary,
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and she turned herself
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and sayeth unto him, Rabboni, which is
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to say Master. Jesus visually looked different,
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but his voice was the very
same, and she knew that voice.
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And when Jesus called her by name, she turned herself around
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and sayeth unto him, Rabboni - that is to say Master.
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And Mary reached out to cling to Jesus with her hands.
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But we read that Jesus said in John 20:17 -
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Touch me not for I'm not yet ascended unto my father,
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but go to my brethren
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and say unto them, I ascend
to my Father and your Father
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and to my God into your God.
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And verse 18 tells us, Mary Magdalene came
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and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord
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and that he had spoken
these things under her.
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And Mary Magdalene preached
the, she was the first
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to preach the resurrection.
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But when you study the account
of the whole New Testament,
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you find there were
other eyewitness accounts
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that Jesus had really risen from the dead.
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For example: on Resurrection Day, Jesus appeared
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to the disciples at various
times and various places,
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and that is amazing because
it was physically impossible
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for him to be in all
those places in one day.
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But those various appearances prove
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that his resurrection
body was able to do things
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that a natural body could not do.
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In his glorified condition,
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he was able to appear: he was able to disappear: he was able
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to travel great distances.
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He was even able to
supernaturally walk right
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through the walls of a
room to meet the apostles.
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And on the same day
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that Jesus was raised from the dead,
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John 20:14-17 says he appeared to Mary Magdalene
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outside the tomb.
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Luke 24:13-31 says, he appeared
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to two disciples as they walk from Jerusalem
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to the city of Emmaus.
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And in Luke 24:31, it says, the three
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of them sat down together to eat,
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and Jesus blessed the food.
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And the two disciples then
recognized it was the Lord.
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And as soon as they
recognized it was the Lord,
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it says he vanished out of their sight.
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But wait, there's more.
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John 20:10 says, Jesus literally walked
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through the walls of our room
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where the 11 disciples were gathered
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and he miraculously appeared
right in front of them.
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And in fact, John 20:19 says this -
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Then the same evening being the first day
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of the week when the doors were shut,
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where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews.
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the word door in Greek depicts a large and solid door.
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This verse says they were shut. The word shut means locked.
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Doors of this kind were usually locked with a heavy bolt
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that slid through rings attached to the door into the frame,
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very similar to the
deadbolts like we use today,
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only heavier, but such a door
would be difficult if not
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impossible to break down.
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But Jesus literally stepped
right through the walls of
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that room into that room
where they were gathered
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and they were stunned to
see him standing there.
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But not only did he appear to
the 11th, Jesus also appeared
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to the guards
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that were supposedly
guarding his tomb the morning
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of the resurrection.
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And in fact, the guards fled the scene
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because they were so terrified.
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They went to the religious
leaders in Jerusalem.
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And according to Matthew 28:11, they showed him
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to the chief priests, all
the things that were done,
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these guards had
witnessed the resurrection
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and they knew that Jesus
walked out of that tomb alive.
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But to prevent the people of
Israel from knowing the truth
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of Jesus resurrection,
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the religious leaders bribe the soldiers
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to keep their mouths shut or to tell a lie.
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and had taken counsel,
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they gave large money unto the soldiers.
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and told the soldiers what they were
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to say if people asked them what happened.
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13 - Say ye, his disciples came by night
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and stole him away while we slept.
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Now, that is amazing
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because if the soldiers admitted they were sleeping on the
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job, they would've been killed.
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This was an offense. That is amazing to me.
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that the disciples came
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and stole Jesus dead body
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that he had been resurrected.
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and overpower these Roman guards
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and it would've deemed a horrible,
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horrible dishonor if the
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as it was alleged by
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and had been caught,
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because this was a capital offense.
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To reopen that tomb
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and to steal the body, they
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of the Roman governor.
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That was an offense that
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But all of the doors were sealed.
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The night that Jesus appeared in John 20,
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he passed right into the room
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where 11 apostles were gathered.
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and said unto them, peace be unto you.
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they were terrified and a frightened
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and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
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why are you troubled?
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Why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
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Behold, my hands, my feet, that it is,
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I myself. Handle me
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and see for a spirit hath not flesh
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and bones as ye have seen me.
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feel me. Jesus literally gave the disciples permission
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to examine his resurrected body to see
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that it was our real body
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43, Have you any meat here?
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and of a honeycomb, and he took it
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and did eat it before them.
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a real resurrected body,
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and that is why he ate in front of them
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so they could see this was really him.
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But later that evening,
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and he scoffed at the disciples.
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He had not been there when
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Except I see in his hands the print of the nails
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and put my finger into
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and thrust my hand into his side,
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I will not believe. He was very emphatic about it.
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behind locked doors again, this time Thomas being with them,
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we read in John 20:26-27: then came Jesus,
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the doors being shut
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and said, peace be unto you.
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and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand
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and thrust it into my side.
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Be not faithless, but be believing.
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But, Jesus also appeared to disciples at the sea
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of Tiberius.
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We read about this in John 21:2-7,
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where seven disciples had
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the sons of Zebedee
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and two other disciples.
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and called to them and told them
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to cast their net on the
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who was speaking to them.
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with them, ate fish with them,
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and spent time fellow shipping with them.
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This is now the 3rd time that Jesus showed himself alive
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to his disciples,
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after that he was raised from the dead,
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but that's not all.
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Finally, the disciples gathered on a mountain in Galilee
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where Jesus had first ordained them and Jesus spoke to them
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and gave them the great commission.
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And we read that in Matthew 28:18-20
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that says - All power is given unto me in heaven
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and earth; ye therefore,
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and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name
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of the Father and of the Son
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and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them
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to observe all things whatsoever
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I've commanded you and lo, I'm with you always,
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even unto the end of the world.
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Amen. But hey, that's not. Previous to that event,
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we know that Jesus at one moment appeared
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to 500 people at one time:
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500 people.
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Here is Jesus speaking
to a crowd of 500 people
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after his resurrection.
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We read of this in 1 Corinthians 15:five
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7, where the apostle Paul writes,
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And he was seen of Cephas, then of the 12.
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After that he was seen of
above 500 brethren at once
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of whom the greater part
remain into this present.
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Some are falling asleep.
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And after that, he was seen of James.
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And then of all the apostles. My friends,
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Jesus was seen again and again and again and again.
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he showed himself alive after his passion.
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And Luke adds -
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by many infallible proofs, being seen
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of them 40 days,
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and speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
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Now my friends, that is amazing to me.
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After the resurrection,
the disciples ate with him,
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they walked with him,
they talked with him,
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they touched him, they examined him, he fellow shipped
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with them, and Jesus even helped them to catch fish.
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All of that happened after the resurrection.
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where he gave them the great commission.
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My friends, there were multiple eyewitnesses
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of Jesus resurrection.
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This is no hoax. This
is no fabricated story.
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This is not a legend. This is not a myth.
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Jesus was really raised from the dead.
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And according to Acts 1:3, he proved it
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by many infallible proofs. My friends,
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Jesus is really alive.
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He is alive, and he has never died again.
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And today he is seated at
the right hand of the Father.
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Now you may ask, all right,
all right, all right.
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Jesus was raised from the dead,
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I believe that. Many witnesses saw him.
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But what has Jesus been doing
for the last 2000 years?
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Well, that's a very important question,
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and that is what we're going
to see in the next episode.
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What has Jesus been doing
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for the last 2000 years?
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That's what we're going to
cover when we come back.
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But before I pray for you today,
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first I want you to see this.
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This is Rick Renner, and somebody's asked a non-biblical
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question, but it's a good question. They've asked Brother
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Rick, what do you think about
coloring eggs at Easter time?
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Well, when I grew up, I loved to color eggs.
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And I know that some people
get upset about this,
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and they say that it's pagan,
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but you know you can use
anything to teach truth.
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Do you know the word baptism.
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It's in the Greek word baptizo. It means to dip and die.
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It described the process of
putting a garment into a dye
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and letting that garment completely saturate that dye so
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that when you pull the garment out,
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it looks completely
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it was dipped into the dye.
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And when our own sons were growing up,
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when we would color
eggs, I would say, boys,
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this is what happened to you
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when you got saved
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and you were placed into Christ,
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the old man was dipped
into the blood of Jesus.
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You saturated the blood of Jesus,
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and when you came out, you were changed.
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So when we talk about
coloring Easter eggs,
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we always talk about dip and dye.
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And remember, this is what happened
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to us when we were placed
in the blood of Jesus.
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Are you tired of the same
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Call or go online. Now,
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Today we've gone back
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and forth all over the gospels
to see the multiple times
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that people saw Jesus
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after his resurrection. The guard saw him.
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Mary Magdalene saw him. The disciples saw him again
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and again and again.
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Thomas saw him. The disciples on the road to Emmaus saw him.
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Jesus sat down and had dinner with him
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and ate fish with them, then
appeared at the seashore
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and told the disciples how to catch fish.
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I think that is just amazing
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that Jesus helped them catch
fish after the resurrection.
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Then at one moment, he appeared
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to more than 500 people at one time.
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And that event is beautifully
illustrated in my book.
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Here is Jesus speaking
to 500 people at one time
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after the resurrection.
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And then when we come to Acts 1:3,
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it gloriously tells us that Jesus appeared again and again
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and again over the space of 40 days
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by many infallible proofs.
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And then he ascended into Heaven.
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And when we come back in the next episode,
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we're gonna find out
what Jesus has been doing
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for the last 2000 years.
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You do not want to miss tomorrow's program
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because it's gonna thrill your heart.
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It's gonna be some of the
best news you have ever heard.
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But before I close
today, I wanna remind you
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that we wanna pray for you.
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Call the number on the
screen or send us an email.
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And the moment we hear from you,
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we're gonna release our faith.
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And Jesus is really
gonna do whatever needs
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to be done in your life.
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We're told in 1 John 5:14
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and 15, if we pray anything according to his will,
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that means praying scripturally, and we know how to do that,
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He'll hear us and he'll do what needs to be done.
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So if you'll call the number on the screen
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or send us an email, we'll pray with you.
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We will pray scripturally.
God will hear us.
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And if he hears us, we are promised
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that we will have the
petitions that we ask of him.
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That means Jesus will really show up
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and show off in your life.
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Say - Amen. But call us or send us an email.
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But let me pray for you right now.
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Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I thank you that we do
not serve a religious leader
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that is dead, lying in a tomb.
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Jesus is alive.
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He is seated at the
right hand of the Father.
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All enemies are under his feet.
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He has authority overall,
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and I thank you, Lord, that
you have commissioned us
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to go forth and to teach all nations,
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and you've given us the power
of the Holy Spirit to do it,
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and we embrace the power
of the Holy Spirit,
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which is the power of the resurrection.
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And we pray that resurrection
power will flow through us
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and empower us to preach to
others the good news of Jesus.
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Amen. Well, I'll see you in the next episode,
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but remember, Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, "Where the word
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of a king is, there is power."
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner, and Denise
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and I are coming to the United States for our brief trip,
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and we want to invite you to come to some
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of our meetings. On Sunday, April 19th,
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we'll be ministering at Vertical Church in West Haven,
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Connecticut with Pastors Ken and Kathy Vance.
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Then on Wednesday - Sunday, April 22nd - 26th,
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I'll be speaking at Perry Stone's -
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Wonderful 2026 Prophetic Summit - in
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Cleveland, Tennessee.
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Then on Sunday, May 3rd,
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I'll be speaking at Resurrection Life in Grandville,
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Michigan with Pastors Duane and Jeanie Vander Klok.
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Friend, if you can come to any of these meetings, Denise
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and I would just be so thrilled to see you.
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But please go online
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or give us a call to make
sure none of the dates
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or times have changed.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner.org.
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possible by the giving
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