Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life,

enjoy the message.

Last week we met an interesting character.

Does anyone remember his name?

Yeah, Cleo.

We call him Cleo, the Bible calls him Cleopus,

but we're friendly with Cleo.

So we gave him a nickname,

and we were surprised that we have never met him before and he's the first one that Jesus appears to.

Well, I should give you a little bit more context than that but women went that

morning because sometimes women have more faith than men do they have the ability to

to feel God in ways you know men when you get men to worship it's like a miracle women

women will lift their hands they just don't really have a problem coming into the

presence of God and sometimes a woman will have the kind of persistence and patience with a child.

I thought y'all would back me up right here.

I'm trying to give some love to the women, but they went to the tomb,

remember, to anoint Jesus body but his body

wasn't there and in some ways I guess it was an indictment that they thought he

would still be there when he told them I'm getting up on the third day.

They didn't really believe that, even though they were sentimental.

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