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We're going to start by acknowledging

that there are literally two different deceptions around the world.

One is that Jesus is not God, and it is shared by not only Jewish people, but also some Christians or so-called Christian streams such as Jehovah Witnesses. And everywhere where it says in the scriptures that the Lord Jesus is also part of the Godhead, he is God, of course they changed it. But also, I think one of the most amazing

deceptions that we see is that Jesus never really resurrected. And these two things are stumbling blocks for so many people.

A, they cannot imagine that God sent his son

and that God came in the flesh to dwell amongst us and to see and to feel and to go through what we went through.

We have, the Bible says we have a high priest that understands us because he went through all of that.

So it's hard for people to understand how loving God is to send his only begotten son to walk amongst us and to understand the nature of a sinful man and of a fallen world.

But also, I think that the second thing is that Jesus never resurrected.

It's hard for people to understand the idea that God himself became as a flesh and then said, as he said in John Chapter 10,

Therefore my father loves me because I lay down my life

that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay down of myself. I have power to lay down and I have power to take it down and I have power to take it again. So you can clearly see that this particular aspect of the attribute of God or being able to

being able to give his life for us and take them and give it back,

it's quite amazing. I think people have hard time understanding that. But we're going to

start with Luke 24. The whole story of the resurrection is a remarkable story. Of course

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