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 back story. They don't know the

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