Hello and welcome to Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren.

You've joined us during our Easter series and we're so glad you're here as Rick continues to

share the six major benefits that the resurrection of Christ

brings to people who choose to follow him.

And now here's the final part of a message called

How the Resurrection changed everything.

There's a third benefit of the resurrection and it's this. I get God's spirit in me.

I get God's spirit inside me and this is a benefit of the resurrection. Now the

night before Jesus goes to the cross he brings his inner circle together and he says,

guys, I'm going to let him arrest me. I'm going to let him kill me on the

cross. Three days later, I'm going to come back to life. They didn't believe it.

And then I'm going to go back to heaven after 40 days,

but I'm going to send my spirit to be with you and to be in you.

And later, after the resurrection, during that 40-day period when he's hanging around

after coming back to life, he tells them,

don't you dare try to do anything

until I send my Holy Spirit,

because my Spirit is going to empower you

to do what I want you to do.

Jesus said it like this, there in Acts Chapter 1,

verse 8.

When the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

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