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He has risen.

Yes, absolutely. Happy Easter. Thank you for spending your morning with us. That wasn't very

Eastery music in that video just now, and I know that's because if you've been with us, we're

going through a series on spiritual warfare. And really, this morning, we're going to celebrate.

We're going to look into the empty tomb.

We're going to talk about what it means.

But before we can talk about new life, we have to talk about death.

We have to understand why this day actually matters for us, the implications of that.

So we're going to celebrate.

But before we celebrate, we have to understand what it means to us.

My wife, Monica, and I, throughout our marriage, we've had different people living with us.

And so just different people in our homes for different reasons throughout just the 17 years that we've been married.

And so once upon a time, there's a young man, a single adult living with us, and he was a part of a life group.

And someone in his life group was getting married.

And so he was invited to the bachelor party, and we were talking about that.

But this was not just any ordinary bachelor party, because the guy that was getting married, his dad was the CEO of an oil company, and his dad's

business partner was one of the wealthiest human beings on the planet earth. And so the

bachelor party was going to be on his private island. And I got to tell you, I know, I was like, wow,

I got to tell you about the private island because on this island, he employed

100 people.

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