Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening to the podcast. We appreciate your support,

and we have a brand new resource we'd like to send you this month. It's called Praying with Confidence.

I'll tell you more about it at the end of the podcast. We love you, and we sure hope you enjoy the message.

Have you ever watched a movie or a show, and you'd seen it before, you knew the end of the story?

Maybe you were watching it with a friend and they knew, they didn't know the end of the story, but you did.

So when all the suspenseful parts were coming, you weren't anxious or concerned because you knew the end of the story.

You see, today you and I are living in the end of the resurrection story.

See, we know what happened the day that Jesus died.

We know what happened when he was buried.

He rose again.

We're living at the end of the story.

But see, 2,000 years ago, there was disciples and followers of Jesus that were actually living in the story. They didn't know what was going to

happen. You know, the interesting thing about a story, when you're watching it, that's one thing.

But when it's happening to your own life, that's an entirely different thing.

You see, when it's happening to you and you face difficulties and challenges and

suspenseful plots, it's difficult.

You can't always remember the end of the story. You can't always remember the end of the story.

You can't always remember what has been promised.

See, today I want to talk about a band of women, one being Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother

of James, and a few others.

You see, they lived, they were living the story 2,000 years ago.

In fact, they saw Jesus as he walked the earth.

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