Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith and I'm here with

the incredible John, by the way. Welcome, John.

Thanks, Hank. John, for Follow Him Favorites, it's Easter this week. We're going to take a look

at this week's lesson and just maybe mention one thing from the lesson of Easter. So when you

think of Easter, John, what comes to mind? It was different for me when I was a kid, of course,

and then as you get older and Hank, as we both have lost people, I think of that empty tomb.

And because that tomb was empty, those people that we've lost, aunts, uncles, grandparents, parents,

friends, brothers, sisters, children, it's a temporary separation. We'll have them again,

all because that tomb was empty. So it's just like the happiest possible message ever.

Now, the Bible dictionary said Christianity is founded on that miracle, the resurrection of Jesus

Christ. Without that, Christianity doesn't become what it is. And with it, all other miracles are

small potatoes, right? All other miracles cease to be impossible. I love John chapter 20, where

Mary Magdalene is outside the sepulchre. She's weeping. I've done that same thing. Many of those

listening have done that same thing where they've stood by the grave of someone and weep. And Jesus

is standing there. She doesn't know it's him. And verse 15 of John 20, he says, woman, why weep us

though? Who do you seek? And he knows. And then in verse 16, Jesus says her name, Mary. And I would

guess that changes everything for Mary. Her whole world changes at that moment as the Lord is

resurrected. I look forward, like you said, John, to those moments where I get to talk to my dad

again, and he calls me by name. And I get to talk to my brother again, and he calls me by name,

and we laugh and talk with each other. So I testify that we're all going to have John

20, 16 moments that change everything. Well, I love it. I that John chapter 20, the church made

a movie a few years ago called Lamb of God. And I always loved this scene because Mary Magdalene went

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