Hello and welcome to Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren. You've joined us during our Easter

series, and we're so glad you're here as Rick continues to share the six major benefits

that the resurrection of Christ brings to people who choose to follow him. Okay, here's part one of a message called The Mystery of God's

Plan. Now, my favorite show on television is the show Lost. Anybody seen this show? Lost.

And I really like Lost because it's a very complex mystery. But if you don't know the storyline,

with all of the flashbacks and all of the flash forwards, if you tried to come into this series in the middle of the series, you're lost.

It makes no sense unless you know what's going on. If I were to pull out a novel, a mystery

novel, and I were to turn two-thirds

through the novel and just start reading a section to you, it may be a really terrific novel,

but if I'm reading two-thirds through it, it would not make sense to you at all. Now, that's

the problem with Easter. For a lot of people, they know that Jesus Christ died on the cross, was buried in a tomb

for three days, and on Easter Sunday, he rose again.

And that's basically all they know.

So they don't know the rest of the story.

They don't know the backstory.

They don't know the context.

They don't know the background. And as a know the context. They don't know the background.

And as a result, it doesn't make sense. In other words, so what? Why did God send Jesus to Earth?

Why did Jesus have to die? What did he die for? What's the significance of him coming back to life?

And really, does it have any possible relationship to my life today? You've got to know the storyline in this mystery. Actually, Easter is Act

3 in a five-act mystery. It actually occurs in the Bible story, two-thirds through the Bible.

And if you don't know the first two-thirds and you don't know basically the ending, then

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