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Next on in touch, the triumphant message of the resurrection.

All the gospel writers gave us great detail about the resurrection of Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

And you would think that after all of that,

that most anybody would believe that Jesus Christ rose

and the did.

In the Book of Acts, for example, the Book of Acts

is the story of those apostles going around proclaiming that Jesus Christ

had risen from the dead, that he ruled and reined in heaven.

If you read through the epistles in the New Testament you'll find Jesus, a Savior, Lord and Master,

the one we're to follow, to obey, to praise, and to adore, and to love and to look for his return one of these days.

And when you come to the last book of the Bible, the book of the revelation,

you'll find the Lord Jesus Christ ruling and

reigning in heaven, getting ready to subdue his enemies, coming back to take us

all home with him. Now you would think that anybody who looked at the word of God would believe that this is what he's teaching us that Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

But it was a very difficult thing for even his disciples to

believe in the resurrection. In fact, if you will examine the scriptures, you will discover

that nobody really believed it. For example, Jesus

tried to tell his disciples several times here's what's going to happen. I'm going

to be falsely accused, Pharisees and the Sejocese, and I'm going to suffer many things

at their hands and I'm going to be crucified, I'm going to die, but I'm going to rise again.

They never got that. He said it over and over and over again. They never

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