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Let's pray.

By your spirit and through your word now,

conquer. and through your word now,

conquer the fear of death

that pervades the lives of people. You will know the truth.

The truth will set you free.

If the sun shall set you free, you shall be free indeed from the fear of death so God come

and take it away. Unleash upon this world now, the most courageous people it has ever seen.

Pray this in Jesus in name. Amen.

So if you have come, there are three things the Lord wants you to see.

That's why you're here. Number one, he wants you to see that you don't have to die. Number two, he

wants you to see that Jesus is the God of Israel, the God of the universe.

And three, he wants you to see

the implications for your life of liberation

from fear of death because you don't have to die

because you've been set free by the one who said before Abraham was I am.

There is another reality in this

and it's the opposition that Jesus gets when he starts talking like this

and it's not a pretty thing.

I don't think John records the opposition of Jesus because it's comfortable, it's

tragic. These are his people. He came to his own and his own did not receive him. He's called a demon- possessed

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