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Today, we're wrapping up our series, Investigating Jesus. It's been a lot of fun.

It's been a lot of fun for me to prepare this series. I actually started a year and a half ago,

a year and a half ago, then we post-poned because of the pandemic. So it was so much fun for me

personally to spend so much time in this particular gospel. And we've said throughout this series

that the subtitle, how we know and why we follow is so important because we're asking the question,

how do we know there's anything to the story of Jesus? And they were asking a more fundamental,

a deeper and more practical question, why follow? I mean, why would anyone in the 21st century

commit their lives or kind of like, you know, as we're going to talk about today, sort of write a

blank check with our lives to a 1st century rabbi? How do we know there's anything to it and why

the world should we choose to follow? How do we know that Jesus is even worth following? But this

is important to know because Christianity or the credibility of Christianity rises and falls

really specifically on the identity or the supposed identity of one individual, Jesus, of Nazareth.

The whole thing rises and falls on this, which means, as we said throughout, and this is such an

important part, and this is why I've repeated it throughout this series, which means that if you're

considering Christianity or you're reconsidering Christianity because you walked away and you're

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