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Live Free. Now, enjoy this Bible teaching. All right, what is up, everybody? Great to see you all. Welcome

to Lake Point. Hey, want to welcome all of our campuses and those of you who might be joining us online as well, man, super grateful for all of you. And man, I love this time of year, don't you? I mean, spring break is on us. You got, you know, trees are budding out and grass is popping up through the ground. You got basketballs bouncing with March madness. I just love this time of year. But my favorite thing about this time of year is Easter's coming just in three weeks. So I'm so excited about that. So we're thinking about who you're going to invite because we're going to have a celebration here just celebrating the greatest event that's ever happened in history. It's going to be a blowout celebration. So make sure you invite somebody to join us for Easter. And let me ask you, y'all ever been down a dark and scary road?

I've been down a few of my life.

I was thinking about how one night I got lost downtown L.A.

That was scary.

Another time I got lost at midnight on the south side of Chicago.

That was scarier. I've been, I had a wreck downtown,

cold, foggy, dark San Francisco. I've been in the back of an old pickup truck on the

treacherous rows of Haiti while people with machine guns and machetes are glaring at you.

Just last month, a couple of weeks ago,

ice cover road in Kentucky. I'm white-knuckling the whole time. It's pitch black. There's no

shoulders on the road. I've got a little sideways on the ice. I mean, I've been down some,

I've been down some dark and scary roads. And the truth is, we've all been down some

dark and scary roads in our life, too, haven't we?

I mean, haven't we all gotten little sideways in the night?

You know what the cool thing is?

Now, so many of us, our lives are full of light and joy and freedom and peace, all because a man named Jesus chose to go down a dark and scary road.

And today, I want to get us on that road with him as we ramp up toward Easter.

We have been following Jesus through primarily the book of Luke for a while now.

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