Amen and amen. He is alive. He is alive. He is alive. Amen, church. How are we doing? You looking good?

Way better than you look last year. So, congratulate yourself for that. So glad you're here.

If you got your Bible, grab them. Matthew chapter 28. That's where we're going to be. Matthew chapter 28.

If you're a regular here, you know that this is a break, and after the last two weeks,

we kind of need a little breath from Romans. That's kind of heavy. And so we're going to dive

into the account of the resurrection of Jesus in Matthew chapter 28. If you don't have a Bible,

we have one for you. You could just grab the one in the seat back in front of you. And if you don't have a Bible of your very own, that's our gift to you.

Feel free to take that home.

If you've got like 12 of our gifts at your house, we'd love for you to bring like 11 of those back.

That'd be awesome.

Okay.

Hey, listen, and if you're a guest here, if you normally don of an only an Easter person. I am so glad that you're here, and I want to share something with you that may scare you. I hope it does. Up till about high school,

the only time I went to church was Easter. Now look what I do for a living. So you never know,

okay? You better watch out. If it gets on you, you're in trouble. So, but we are so glad

every single person is here.

And so at the end of that, in that video, this question was asked, what if today we traded

in our fear?

Would if today we traded in our fear for faith?

We're going to spend our time together talking about fear because fear is one of the

greatest inhibitors to us. Fear can be the thing that paralyzes us. And I know that some of you,

fear is not just sort of like psychological idea, but you are walking in the valley of the shadow of

death. And you do fear, all kind of stuff around you.

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