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So, um, I absolutely love Easter. Sometimes people say, well, Andy, you know, in Easter rolls around,

it's it's the same story all over again. I'm like, yeah, but I absolutely love,

love, love this story. But the thing is to understand the full implications, in fact,

to understand the personal implications of the Easter story requires us to pause in the very,

very early moments of the story. The early moments of the story that we tend to rush by whenever

we read the story, the early moments, when sometimes people read the story to us or perhaps

the early moments when you've heard this story preached about our talk about in church.

So, I want to take you for just a moment back to that moment. That moment when Jesus has just been

crucified. He's hanging on a cross. People are staring. There's a large crowd in the back of the

crowd are the disciples that have not fled the city. In the back of the crowd, his mother in the

back of the crowd are the women who'd followed him from Galilee. But let me tell you who wasn't there.

When Jesus was crucified, there were no Christians. There was no church. There was no

Bible. And there were no believers. When Jesus was crucified, all there were left were dozens of

Galileans who were brokenhearted, overwhelmed, was sorrow, confused. Their leaders, their religious

leaders had conspired with Rome, their enemy, to murder, to falsely accuse and try and crucify.

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