The COVID-19 pandemic
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caused the deaths
of over 600,000 people.
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Words cannot
describe the devastation
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that COVID-19 has
caused in the United States,
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South America, Europe,
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Russia, and in Great Britain.
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We've lost devoted members
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of the Carter
Report team in India
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and thousands of precious souls
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continue to die
without vaccination.
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Pastor Carter has a message
for all those who are hurting
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by the loss of
their mothers and fathers,
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sons and daughters,
sisters and brothers,
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husbands and wives, friends,
neighbors, doctors and nurses.
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We are blessed to know
that death is not the end
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and that roses will bloom again.
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Hello, friend, I'm John Carter.
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Welcome to the Carter
Report and welcome to our home
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right here in Australia.
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This is COVID-19
time and the borders
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are sealed in Australia.
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This place is surrounded by
thousands of miles of ocean.
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You can't come in
and you can't come out.
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And so we're here.
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I don't know how long, but
for the foreseeable future,
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but we welcome you
today to the Carter Report.
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Sometime ago in
the United States,
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I was listening to
the Gaither singers.
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They are some of
my favorite singers.
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And they had a
beautiful young woman
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and she sang in
the country style
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and that beautiful
song roses will bloom again.
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The story tells about an old man
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married for many, many
years and his wife dies
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and the song says he's
left to go on by himself alone.
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But then the
theme comes through,
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roses will bloom
again, just wait and see.
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And that's what I'm going
to talk to you about today.
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Doesn't matter what
happens in this life, my friend,
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roses will bloom again.
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We lived in Southern
California for 32 years
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in a place called Thousand Oaks.
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The best place in
all the world for roses
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is Southern California.
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Believe you me.
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Our front yard
was filled with roses,
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but sometimes we
would get cold winters.
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On one occasion
about 30 years ago,
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we actually got
snow in our front yard,
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but that was unusual.
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But during the wintertime,
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the roses would
lose their leaves,
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but after winter comes spring
and after spring comes summer
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and the roses bloomed
again, that's my message.
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Today, we're going to
talk about life after death.
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Roses will bloom again.
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"Pastor, we're talking today
about the loss of loved ones.
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And I remember that you
had a very moving experience
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in Russia with a
young mother and her baby.
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Can you tell us about it?"
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I'll never ever forget it.
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We ran a great evangelistic
campaign in Nizhny Novgorod,
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the city of Gorky in
Russia in the year 1992.
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I tell you, my
friend, we absolutely saw
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the glory of God.
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We saw the mighty
outpouring of the Spirit of God.
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We saw thousands and
thousands of people baptized
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in the cold waters
of the Volga River.
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During that
tremendous series of meetings
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which was anointed by God,
we had a Great Russian choir.
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The choir leader was
a beautiful young woman
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with this long
black glossy hair.
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Her name was Anna.
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I'll never forget her.
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She was such a
talented musician,
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such a great singer and
such a great choir leader.
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It was my custom for more
than 15 or 16 years in Russia,
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after every campaign,
we ran to go back and see
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how the folks were doing.
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That's what the
Apostle Paul did you know?
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And so we went back
in the winter of 1993,
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six months after
the great campaign
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in Nizhny Novgorod.
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It was a Friday afternoon.
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It was perishing cold.
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It was snowing heavily.
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And Russia, I
tell you, my friend,
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Russia can get
very, very, very cold.
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And there was a
knocking on my door
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in my room at that time
was Pastor Aleksander Antonyuk,
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who was the, my
manager and a tremendous,
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tremendous person,
tremendous Russian Christian.
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Persistent knocking on the door,
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Aleksander went to the door
and there were two men there,
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both about the same age.
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One man was a doctor and
the other man was the now,
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wait for this.
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The other man was the husband
of our choir leader, Anna,
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because Anna
had just given birth
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to two little girls twins,
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and she was dying
in the local hospital.
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The father and the
doctor with their eyes streaming
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with tears, they
said, "Pastor Carter,
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come with us in
the name of God."
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They spoke through with Russian,
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which goes through translator.
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They said, "Please
come to the hospital."
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And so we went to the hospital,
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it was so cold and
Russia had a financial collapse
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and the hospital was basically
bare of medicines, drugs.
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So they gave us
those special shoes to wear
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and they put a cap
on our heads and gowns,
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and we were taken
into the emergency ward.
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And there was Anna.
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She was dying for the
want of $10 worth of medicines,
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which we didn't have.
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And the Russians at
that time didn't have.
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I held her hand
and I prayed that God,
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O God, please heal Anna.
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She's had these
two little baby girls,
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please take care of Anna.
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But that Friday night
as Sabbath came in Russia.
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Somebody came to us
with the message Anna,
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and one of the
babies has just died.
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I'll never forget it.
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I was asked to take the funeral.
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Anna was buried in a
cardboard box that they painted.
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Somebody had
painted roses on the box.
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You say, why cardboard box?
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Why didn't they have a...
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Well, because they were so poor.
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We had purchased a little bus.
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So they put the
coffin in the bus
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and we walked behind the bus.
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We went to this
large Russian cemetery.
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So cold, the wind was mooning.
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And there was a large
group of Christians there,
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the people who had
survived the communist,
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atheistic Holocaust.
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The Holocaust had
destroyed 70 million lives.
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Did you get this?
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Don't talk to me
about the benefits
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of atheism and communism.
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They had killed
70 million people.
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Some say 100 million
people in the 70 years
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they reigned over
the Russian people.
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Anna was lying there in
the open cardboard coffin
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and at her breast
was her little baby,
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this tiny little baby.
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The Russian stroked
her long black hair.
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And then they sang hymns.
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I'll never forget it.
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The hymns are sending
to God, a song of praise
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from the midst of
that Russian winter.
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That winter, some would
say a winter of human despair.
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People are hungry.
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Then they asked me
to preach the sermon
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before she was
buried into the cold earth.
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They had to blast the
earth open before I got there,
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because the earth was frozen.
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I talked to them about
the resurrection of Christ.
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I spoke to them
about the return of Christ.
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I spoke to them
about the resurrection
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when Jesus will come,
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when the dead are
going to be raised.
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It is the truth.
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The dead are
going to live again.
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Roses, yes,
roses will bloom again
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one day, just wait and see.
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"Do you have proof
that Jesus Christ died
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and was resurrected?"
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On the Sunday morning
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the body of Christ was missing.
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Nobody disputes this.
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Christ was crucified.
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And then on the Sunday morning,
the body of Christ was missing.
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Now I want to ask all of
you this question, here it is.
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I ask it as I've asked hundreds
of thousands of atheists,
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communists in Russia, Ukraine,
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and other places
around the world.
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Here is the question.
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What happened to the
missing body of Christ?
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Because everybody
knows on the Sunday morning,
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the tomb was empty
and the body was missing.
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There are these possibilities.
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I want you to
notice them carefully.
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Number one,
there's the possibility
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that the Roman
soldiers came and got the body,
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the Roman authorities
got the body of Christ,
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and therefore they were holding
on to the body of Christ.
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I can't believe this.
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Nobody believes this,
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because when the
apostle started to preach
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the resurrection of Christ,
the Romans didn't like it.
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And the best way to
absolutely destroy the idea
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of the resurrection is
to produce a dead body.
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I think everybody
would concede this.
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So the Romans
didn't get the body.
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The second
possibility is that the Jewish
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authorities had the body,
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but the argument that
applies to the Romans applies
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with equal or even greater
force to the Jewish people.
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The Jewish people
tried to do everything
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they could to
squelch and destroy
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the infant Christian Church.
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And the apostles
went forth and proclaimed
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with great power, the
resurrection of Christ.
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What better way to
destroy the Christian Church
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and the idea of the
resurrection of Christ
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than to produce the
dead body of Christ.
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I put it to you.
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And so, nobody seriously
believes that the Jewish people
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had preserved or kept
the dead body of Christ.
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There's another
alternative, of course.
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And that is that the disciples
had the body of Christ,
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the dead body of Christ.
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That they had come,
they stormed the tomb,
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overthrowing the Roman soldiers,
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the guard of Roman soldiers
who stood around the tomb.
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They had got rid
of the Roman soldiers.
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They had rolled away the
stone that was a massive thing.
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And they had
stolen the body of Christ.
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That idea is absolutely absurd
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because after the
crucifixion of Christ,
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the disciples
were scared to death.
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They thought they
were going to be next.
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They were hiding in an
upper room, scared to death.
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You see there is
security in numbers.
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They did not have
the courage or anything
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to storm the tomb and destroy,
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or to get the body of Christ.
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So I can't believe this.
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Now there's another alternative.
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And this is the only alternative
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that a rational
person can accept.
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Here it is.
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The body was
missing from the tomb
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because the body
had been resurrected
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from the dead.
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Did you hear this?
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The only alternative
is that the body of Christ
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was missing
because the body Christ
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had been
resurrected from the dead.
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I'm going to read it to you
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in Matthew 28:1-6.
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Listen carefully.
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I'm reading from the
New King James version.
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It says, "Now after the Sabbath,
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as the first day of
the week began to dawn,
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Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary came to see the tomb.
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And behold, there
was a great earthquake,
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for an angel of the
Lord descended from heaven,
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and came and rolled
back the stone from the door,
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and sat on it.
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His countenance
was like lightning,
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his clothing as white as snow.
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And the guards
shook for fear of him,
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became like dead men.
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But the angel
answered and said to the women,
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'Do not be afraid, for I know
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that you seek
Jesus who was crucified.
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He is not here, He is risen,
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as he said.
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Come, see the place
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where the Lord was laid.'"
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Come and see where He was.
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They said, "He's not here.
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He is arisen."
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Now some folks will say to me,
but you know, you can't read.
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You can't believe that stuff.
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But most rational people
I know believe in history.
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We believe in Caesar.
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We believe in Napoleon.
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We believe in the
popes of the Middle Ages.
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We believe in
great historical figures.
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Now, the people who saw
these things were not frauds.
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They were not
really just conmen.
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They were simple hearted people.
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Some of them were
fishermen, bless your heart.
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They wrote it down.
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They recorded it.
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And these recordings
were faithfully preserved
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and they've come
down to our day intact.
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The record is that
Christ was raised from the dead
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and there were eyewitnesses.
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"Pastor, to present a
compelling case in our courts
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today, we rely on
truthful witnesses.
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Did anyone actually
see Jesus after His death
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and resurrection?"
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That's really a great question.
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Were there eyewitnesses?
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Now, as Wayne just
asked the question,
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he said even our
court system today
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is based on the
testimony of witnesses.
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But the amazing thing is
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that when we talk to
skeptics on occasion,
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and we talk about the witnesses
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who saw Christ
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after He was
raised from the dead,
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they say, we don't believe
in the testimony of witnesses.
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But the whole law structure
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in the United States of America,
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Australia, Great
Britain, every civilized country
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it is based upon the
fidelity of witnesses
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that they're
going to tell the truth.
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Now were they witnesses
who testified concerning
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the resurrection of Christ?
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Yes.
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There was a very simple person.
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Her name was Mary Magdalene.
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She was one of the most
fervent disciples of Christ.
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Christ had saved her
from a life of sin and shame.
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And on the Sunday morning,
she was there at the tomb.
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The tomb was empty.
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She was absolutely in a state
of consternation and shock.
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She was standing
there outside the tomb
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and she saw a person
standing there outside the tomb.
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Of course, there was a
bit of mist across the ground,
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early in the morning.
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And she said to this
person, she thought this person
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was probably the gardener.
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And she said,
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"Do you know where Jesus is?"
00:17:17.33\00:17:21.74
She said, "Do you
know where Jesus is?
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Can you tell me where Jesus is?
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And If you can
tell me where Jesus is,
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I'll come and I'll get
Him and I'll take Him away."
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And then the person whom
she thought was the gardener
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said to her, one word,
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Maria, Mary.
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And she cried out,
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"Lord, Jesus, Jesus.
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It is really You, Jesus."
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And she fell down and
she grabbed hold of Him
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by the ankles.
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He said, "Don't
hold on to Me now.
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I'm going home to My Father's
house, we'll talk later.
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Later on, Jesus was
seen by all of the disciples.
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They were in an upper room.
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They did not
believe for one moment
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that Christ had been
raised from the dead.
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They'd heard the
report of the woman.
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They thought the
woman went crazy.
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Jesus came and visited them.
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And He said to
them, "Peace to you."
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Then He sat down with them
because they were terrified.
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They thought he
had to be a ghost.
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And He said, "Have you
got anything here to eat?"
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And so, Jesus ate
with them piece of bread
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and a piece of fish.
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Later on He was seen by a
man by the name of Thomas,
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who said, I just don't
believe any of this faith stuff.
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I'm not going to believe
unless I actually touch Him,
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unless I actually
feel Him with my hands.
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On one occasion, He was
seen by more than 500 people
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at the present time.
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These people were not frauds.
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Let me read you
the story, please.
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Gonna read it to you.
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Let me see if I can find it.
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I'm going to come over here
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to 1 Corinthians
and it's chapter...
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I'm getting hot now,
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1 Corinthians 15:
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3-8.
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This is written
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by one of the
greatest characters
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in the history
of the human race,
00:19:29.23\00:19:31.70
the great Jewish scholar,
00:19:31.73\00:19:33.94
Paul or Saul.
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He says, verse 3,
00:19:35.64\00:19:37.54
"For I delivered to you
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first of all that
which I also received:
00:19:38.94\00:19:42.51
that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
00:19:42.54\00:19:48.28
and that He was
buried, and that He rose
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again the third day
according to the Scriptures,
00:19:50.75\00:19:54.86
and that He was seen by Cephas,
00:19:54.89\00:19:56.76
that's Peter,
then by the twelve.
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After that He was seen by over
five hundred brethren at once,
00:20:00.06\00:20:05.00
of whom the greater
part remain to the present,
00:20:05.03\00:20:08.84
but some have fallen asleep.
00:20:08.87\00:20:11.77
After that He was seen by James
00:20:11.81\00:20:13.78
and by all the apostles.
00:20:13.81\00:20:15.81
Then last of all,
He was seen by me also,
00:20:15.84\00:20:19.61
as by one born out of due time."
00:20:19.65\00:20:23.15
Now, folks, did you hear this?
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He was seen by the disciples.
00:20:26.29\00:20:28.76
They actually saw
Him. They ate with Him.
00:20:28.79\00:20:31.53
And on one occasion He was
seen by more than 500 people.
00:20:31.56\00:20:36.00
They actually saw Him.
00:20:36.03\00:20:37.37
They talked to Him.
00:20:37.40\00:20:38.73
And then last of all, He
was seen by this man, Paul,
00:20:38.77\00:20:42.94
one of the greatest
minds in the history
00:20:42.97\00:20:45.04
of the human race.
00:20:45.07\00:20:46.41
Who were these people?
00:20:46.44\00:20:48.14
Religious charlatans?
00:20:48.18\00:20:49.51
No, they weren't.
00:20:49.54\00:20:50.91
Just earnest, simple,
decent, honest people.
00:20:50.95\00:20:54.25
That's who they were.
00:20:54.28\00:20:56.08
They were so convinced
00:20:56.12\00:20:58.42
about the reality
00:20:58.45\00:21:00.32
of the resurrection of Christ
00:21:00.36\00:21:02.52
that moved by a holy unction.
00:21:02.56\00:21:04.96
They went out
00:21:04.99\00:21:06.33
and they proclaimed
the resurrection of Christ
00:21:06.36\00:21:08.06
right across the Roman Empire.
00:21:08.10\00:21:11.20
Many of them were put to
death because of their faith.
00:21:11.23\00:21:13.94
They died in the Circus Maximus.
00:21:13.97\00:21:15.87
They were killed by
the barbaric Romans,
00:21:15.90\00:21:19.54
but they continued to
preach and to teach on.
00:21:22.54\00:21:25.05
And they preached with
such power and compassion
00:21:25.08\00:21:28.85
that they
overthrew the Roman Empire.
00:21:28.88\00:21:33.36
Now frauds don't do this.
00:21:33.39\00:21:34.72
You don't die for
something you don't believe in.
00:21:34.76\00:21:38.79
But these people
believed it so much
00:21:38.83\00:21:41.16
that they were
prepared to die for it.
00:21:41.20\00:21:43.63
These were the eyewitnesses
and they wrote it down
00:21:43.67\00:21:49.14
and there were
hundreds and hundreds
00:21:49.17\00:21:51.07
of recorded copies made.
00:21:51.11\00:21:53.91
And we have those copies today.
00:21:53.94\00:21:57.25
They are authentic.
00:21:57.28\00:21:59.18
I believe that Christ
was raised from the dead
00:21:59.21\00:22:02.18
because He was seen by hundreds
and hundreds of witnesses.
00:22:02.22\00:22:06.15
"What are the
reasons that the resurrection
00:22:09.22\00:22:12.29
is so important to each of us?"
00:22:12.33\00:22:14.53
The great Jewish
scholar, Paul or Saul,
00:22:18.63\00:22:22.70
as he is sometimes
called made a tremendous impact
00:22:22.74\00:22:27.64
upon the world.
00:22:27.68\00:22:29.51
The person who's
made the greatest impact
00:22:29.54\00:22:31.55
upon Western civilization,
00:22:31.58\00:22:33.85
the whole of the
human race is Jesus Christ,
00:22:33.88\00:22:38.12
not Lenin or Stalin
or any of those monsters.
00:22:38.15\00:22:41.49
And none of the
present politicians,
00:22:41.52\00:22:44.66
but a Jewish man who
lived 2000 years ago,
00:22:44.69\00:22:47.66
Jesus Christ, who died
00:22:47.70\00:22:49.93
and who was
raised from the dead.
00:22:49.96\00:22:51.80
This is an absolute fact.
00:22:51.83\00:22:53.27
But after Jesus,
00:22:56.30\00:22:58.97
the next person who
made the greatest influence
00:22:59.01\00:23:01.38
on the progress of
society and freedom,
00:23:01.41\00:23:04.15
and democracy
and everything else
00:23:04.18\00:23:06.25
was this Jewish scholar, Paul.
00:23:06.28\00:23:10.69
Let me tell you this.
00:23:10.72\00:23:13.42
If there had been
no Paul who gave to us
00:23:13.46\00:23:16.76
most of the New Testament
and the Book of Romans,
00:23:16.79\00:23:20.70
there would have
been no reformation.
00:23:20.73\00:23:23.60
And if there had
been no reformation,
00:23:23.63\00:23:26.43
there would have
been no democracies.
00:23:26.47\00:23:28.70
We owe the
democracies to the writings
00:23:28.74\00:23:33.27
of the great Apostle Paul.
00:23:33.31\00:23:34.84
This is a fact.
00:23:34.88\00:23:38.75
If there'd been no Paul,
there would've been no freedom,
00:23:38.78\00:23:40.92
no democracies,
no bill of rights,
00:23:40.95\00:23:42.88
no great constitutions,
00:23:42.92\00:23:45.12
none of those things.
00:23:45.15\00:23:47.49
And the Apostle Paul
actually saw Jesus Christ
00:23:47.52\00:23:50.39
with his own eyes.
00:23:50.43\00:23:53.96
And the Apostle
Paul wrote it down
00:23:54.00\00:23:56.26
why he believed
in this resurrection.
00:23:56.30\00:23:59.70
And I'm going to come now
00:23:59.73\00:24:01.07
to 1 Corinthians
00:24:01.10\00:24:03.51
15:20 and onwards.
00:24:03.54\00:24:08.31
Listen to the words of
one of the greatest minds
00:24:08.34\00:24:12.21
in the history
of the human race.
00:24:12.25\00:24:13.88
1 Corinthians 15:20 and onwards,
00:24:13.92\00:24:19.59
listen to it.
00:24:19.62\00:24:22.06
"But now Christ is
risen from the dead,
00:24:22.09\00:24:25.03
and has become the
firstfruits of those
00:24:25.06\00:24:27.20
who have fallen asleep.
00:24:27.23\00:24:29.76
For since by man came
death, by Man came also
00:24:29.80\00:24:35.37
the resurrection of the dead.
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.27
For as in Adam all die,
00:24:39.31\00:24:41.58
even so in Christ
shall all be made alive."
00:24:41.61\00:24:46.72
What he is saying is this.
00:24:46.75\00:24:49.92
Because of the historical
reality of the resurrection
00:24:49.95\00:24:53.86
of Jesus Christ, one day,
00:24:53.89\00:24:56.59
all people are
going to be raised.
00:24:56.62\00:25:00.16
And for the believer in
Christ, roses will bloom again,
00:25:00.20\00:25:04.40
make no doubt about it.
00:25:04.43\00:25:06.17
The Apostle Paul said
Christ was raised from the dead
00:25:06.20\00:25:09.24
and therefore there
is coming a better day.
00:25:09.27\00:25:12.74
The sun is going to shine again.
00:25:12.77\00:25:15.04
Roses will bloom again,
00:25:15.08\00:25:16.95
and the dead will be
raised from their tombs.
00:25:16.98\00:25:19.71
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