To the Jew First Rom 1:16

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To the Jew First Rom 116

• New Covenant with Israel Ministries Jer 3131

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Introduction

• Opening Prayer
• New Covenant w/ Israel Ministries intro Gen
  122
• Abraham Covenant
• Gen 122 And I will make you a great nation, And
  I will bless you, And make your name great And
  so you shall be a blessing
• Gen 123 And I will bless those who bless you,
  And the one who curses you I will curse. And in
  you all the families of the earth will be
  blessed."
• Gen 17 Covenant of circumcision
• Hardening in part Rom 11
• Failure to complete Daniels 6 action points in
  Dan 9
• No land Sabath 2Chr 3621 and Jer 29
• Outline discussion and pass out material
• 5 minute testimony of David and Eric

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Outline

• Introduction
• Opening Prayer / Davids Testimony
• The Hope Video
• Reliability, Authenticity External Evidence of
  the Bible
• 2 Witnesses, 144k, AOD, Petra and impact we can
  have
• 700 Club Video
• 10 Minute Break
• 70 7s, and Messianic Prophecies
• Erics Testimony
• Role Playing and actual witnessing techniques
• Life Application
• Closing Prayer

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The Hope Video
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Reliability of Scripture

• Who wrote it ?
• When was it written ?
• Accuracy in duplication method

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Who wrote Jesus Story in the NT?

• Matthew John (eyewitness disciples)
• Matthew, former tax collector
• John, a angry young man who became the Apostle of
  love
• Mark (followed Peter, eyewitness disciple)
• Luke (medical doctor turned historian who
  followed Paul Luke was a Gentile, not a Jew)
• Lukes history is unsurpassed in respect of its
  trustworthinessLuke is a historian of the first
  rankthis author should be placed along with the
  very greatest of historians. Sir William
  Ramsey - renown archaeologist

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When were these bios written?

• Alexander the Greats biography was written 400
  years after his death
• vs. Jesus Christs, within 50 years some
  fragments date soon after the resurrection!
• Moreover, the Apostle Pauls earlier letters
  include Confessions of Faith, Creeds, and Hymns
  which speak of Jesus life/death/resurrection,
  which were circulated within several years time!
  (e.g. 1 Corinthians 153-7)

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How close to the original manuscripts or our
copies of the New Testament?

• Original copy Oldest existing copy
• shorter time gap, more reliable
• Time gap
• Aristotles Poetics 1400 years
• Caesars Gallic Wars 1000 years
• Homers Iliad 500 years
• New Testament lt 100 years(some fragments date
  within a few years of Christs resurrection!

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Number of existing ancient copies

• More of copies, more reliable
• of copies
• Aristotles Poetics 5 MSS
• Caesars Gallic Wars 10 MSS
• Homers Iliad 643 MSS
• New Testament 20,000 MSS

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Do all copies say the same thing?

• Homers Iliad
• 764 lines (5) is doubtful
• New Testament
• Only 40 lines (0.05) are doubtful

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The Bible is reliable!-
Doctrines in jeopardy due to variances ZERO!-
Average of corruption in Most Ancient Works -
10- The New Testament - .05
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Since the Bible is reliable

• We know the Gospel accounts of Jesus life, death,
  and resurrection are valid!Our faith is valid
  Jesus Christ is in fact risen!One day soon
  the Rapture will take place!Some may still
  ask, is there any other evidence other than the
  Bible?

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External Evidence

• Literature
• Archaeology
• Historical Christian AND Non-Christian
• Natural Occurrences

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External Evidence

• Other confirmations outside of the Bible
• Is the Bible True? U.S. News World Report,
  October 25, 1999
• Mary Joseph travel to hometown for census?
• Recently discovered Roman Empire-wide census was
  held every 14 years
• Pool of Bethesda with 5 pillars? (John Chapter 5)
• Archaeologists recently discovered this pool
• Crucifixion? No skeletal remains found
• But in 1968, found a tomb with remains of a 24-28
  year old man nailed to the cross, with leg broken

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Archaeology validates -Lukes record of the
Census-Crucifixion as described in the
Gospel-And many other facts recorded in
scripture!
As we discover more from archeology, we find the
Story of Jesus solidified by the facts!
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What historians are saying

• On the Crucifixion, Harvey writes "It would be
  no exaggeration to say that this event is better
  attested, and supported by a more impressive
  array of evidence, than any other event of
  comparable importance of which we have knowledge
  from the ancient world." Harv.JesC, 11 Dunn
  Dunn.EvJ, 29

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Harvey goes on to say

• within thirty years there had evolved such a
  coherent and consistent complex of traditions
  such as we have in the sources of the Gospels
  that it is established historical fact. It
  involves too many complex and speculative
  hypotheses, in contrast to the much simpler
  explanation that there was a Jesus who said and
  did more or less what the first three Gospels
  attribute to him.

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Writings outside of the Bible

• Josephus, Jewish historian
• "at this time there was a wise man who was called
  Jesus. And his conduct was good, and (he) was
  known to be virtuous. And many people from among
  the Jews and the other nations became his
  disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified
  and to die. And those who had become his
  disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They
  reported that he appeared to them three days
  after his crucifixion and that He was alive
  accordingly, he was perhaps the messiah
  concerning whom the prophets have recounted
  wonders."
  (Antiquities XVIII, 33)

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Josephus goes on to say

• Antiquities 20.9.1But the younger Ananus who, as
  we said, received the high priesthood, was of a
  bold disposition and exceptionally daring he
  followed the party of the Sadducees, who are
  severe in judgment above all the Jews, as we have
  already shown. As therefore Ananus was of such a
  disposition, he thought he had now a good
  opportunity, as Festus was now dead, and Albinus
  was still on the road so he assembled a council
  of judges, and brought before it the brother of
  Jesus the so-called Christ, whose name was James,
  together with some others, and having accused
  them as law-breakers, he delivered them over to
  be stoned.

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James, the brother of Jesus

• Just a few days ago this article was published
  Brother of Jesus'
• Apr 19 2003
• The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of
  Wales
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• A 2,000-YEAR-OLD casket discovered in the Holy
  Land may be the box that held the bones of James,
  the brother of Jesus, scholars have said.
• Tests were run to analyse the authenticity of the
  "Jesus Box" which contained fragments of bones
  believed to belong to James.
• Scholars say the tests support the claim that the
  box is genuine.

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Still another proof from antiquity!
James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus
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Josephus -another translation

• Antiquities 18.3.3 Now there was about this time
  Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a
  man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a
  teacher of such men as receive the truth with
  pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the
  Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the
  Christ, and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the
  principal men among us, had condemned him to the
  cross, those that loved him at the first did not
  forsake him for he appeared to them alive again
  the third day as the divine prophets had
  foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful
  things concerning him. And the tribe of
  Christians so named from him are not extinct at
  this day.

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The Proof

• Josephus is a respected Jewish historian. He was
  not a Christian and seems to have recorded
  provable historical facts not myths or stories.
• The afore mentioned quotes are in every copy we
  have of his works. If Josephus did not write
  this, the Jews would have produced a manuscript
  that was earlier than the ones we have that
  contained the original language. We must
  conclude these are authentic and reliable.

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More non-Christian historians

• Tacitus, Roman historian
• In documenting Neros persecution of the
  Christians in 64 AD mentions Pontius Pilate as
  the one who handed the extreme penalty upon
  Jesus
• Phlegon, Greek historian
• In the 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad 33 AD
  there was the greatest eclipse of the sunit
  became night in the sixth hour of the day noon
  so that stars even appeared in the heavens.
  There was a great earthquake in Bithynia and many
  things were overturned in Nicaea. Ref Matt
  2751

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What about the sun growing dark?

• Luk 2342 And he was saying, "Jesus, remember me
  when You come in Your kingdom!"
• Luk 2343 And He said to him, "Truly I say to
  you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise."
• Luk 2344 It was now about the sixth hour, and
  darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth
  hour,
• Luk 2345 because the sun was obscured and the
  veil of the temple was torn in two.

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A Roman Proconsul

• He wrote a letter to the emperor about killing
  Christians.
• He stated that under torture, they would not
  deny this Jesus who was crucified under Pontious
  and reportedly raised from the dead.
• They worship this man Jesus, called the Christ.

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More proof

• TacitusNero from the infamy of being believed
  to have ordered the conflagration, the fire of
  Rome. Hence to suppress the rumor, he falsely
  charged with the guilt, and punished Christians,
  who were hated for their enormities. Christ-us,
  the founder of the name, was put to death by
  Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign
  of Tiberius

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Tacitus confirms the following

• He regards "Christus" as the founder of the
  movement. This mitigates against ideas that Paul
  or some other person was the ideological head of
  Christianity.
• He confirms the execution of Jesus under Pilate,
  during the reign of Tiberius.
• He indicates that Jesus' death "checked"
  Christianity for a time. This would hint at the
  probability that Christianity was recognized to
  have had some status as a movement (albeit not
  under the name "Christianity") prior to the death
  of Jesus.
• He identifies Judaea as the "source" of the
  movement. This mitigates against ideas that
  Christianity was designed piecemeal from pagan
  religious ideas.
• He indicates that Christians in Rome in the
  mid-60s A.D. were dying for their faith.

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The Shroud of Turin
An amazingly detailed picture of a bearded man
who had been beaten about the body, crowned with
thorns pierced with nails through the wrists
the feet," is how Newsweek magazine described the
Shroud of Turin. For centuries, this unique
burial cloth has generated intense controversy.
Many scholars, historians, scientists and
theologians have been convinced that it is the
cloth in which Jesus Christ was wrapped after his
crucifixion, and that by some unknown process his
image was transferred onto it.
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Is it authentic?

• The educational magazine, National Geographic,
  reports that the face on the Shroud, hauntingly
  serene in death, would grace a masterpiece of
  art. The body, anatomically correct, bears the
  frightful marks of scourging, crucifixion,
  piercing--perhaps by thorns lance. It would
  appear to be a portrait, uncannily accurate when
  matched against the Gospel accounts, of Jesus of
  Nazareth.

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National Geographic goes on to say

• National Geographic reported, "Perhaps never
  before had an object of art or archeology been
  subjected to such exhaustive examination. The
  scientists bombarded the relic with ultraviolet
  radiation, X-rays, and examined it
  microscopically took photo micrographs. With
  sticky tape a vacuum device, bits of dust,
  pollen other particles were captured for
  analysis."

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What was their findings?

• "I was convinced it was a forgery"
• confesses Dr, John Heller of Yale medical school,
  the blood expert of the team. Today he admits,
• "NO QUESTION IN MY MIND! There was a scourged,
  crucified man in the Shroud."
• STURP team member, Dr. Robert Bucklin, chief
  pathologist of the Los Angeles city morgue,
  states
• "If I were asked in a court of law to stake my
  professional reputation on the validity of the
  shroud of Turin, I would answer very positively
  firmly that it is the burialcloth of Christ. It's
  Jesus Whose figure appears on the Shroud. It is
  not a matter of faith to me, it's just a matter
  of common sense. Knowing what we know, who else
  could this have happened to?"
• One of the World's top investigative dentists,
  Dr. Max Frei of the University of Zurich, a
  specialist in tracing where a fabric has been,
  through microscopic pollen analysis, declares
• "My tests have convinced me that this Shroud is
  IN FACT the cloth in which CHRIST'S BODY was
  wrapped.

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Jesus is Risen!

• Robert Dinager of the Los Alamos scientific
  laboratory in New Mexico stated,
• "It seems as if the image possibly came from some
  short-term pulse of energy. You could say it was
  instantaneous. It would have had to be a pretty
  good amount of energy, but not too much or it
  would have destroyed the cloth."
• For those who believe the Bible, the answer is
  apparent At the climactic moment that Jesus dead
  body was quickened to life, this "photograph" was
  left behind on His burial cloth as a silent
  witness of the greatest miracle that ever took
  place The resurrection of Christ!

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Future State of Israel, Gods Plan and The Good
News - David

• Rapture - Pre-Trib, Mid Trib, Pre-wrath, etc

• 144k Jews

• 2 Witness (probably Elijah and Moses)

• AOD

• Petra

• Armegedeon, 2nd coming and Gods plan for the
  Jews

• Kingdom Mill. Reign

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Future State of Israel, Gods Plan and The Good
News - David

• The Rapture of the Church
• Many theories on the rapture (pre-trib,
  pre-wrath, mid-trib, post-trib,and a-mil, which
  says there is no rapture, just the second coming.
• This event triggers a new era for the nation of
  Israel
• 144,000 Jews Saved
• Believers potentially have a chance, today, to be
  a witness to, and have an effect on the 144,000.
• Why this is a literal number
• The Two Witnesses
• Who are they?
• What purpose do they serve?

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• The Abomination of Desolation
• What is the Abomination of Desolation and how
  does it affect the Jews?
• Why its important to keep our eyes on the
  building of a new temple in Jerusalem
• How will Anti-Christ be revealed and what affect
  will that have on the Jews?
• The Flight to Petra
• What believers are doing today to help Jews in
  the tribulation
• Why Petra is a safe haven for Jews

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• Armageddon
• What nations are going to be there?
• Why its not a battle!
• The Second Coming
• Why this is a fulfillment of prophecy and what
  every Jew has longed for
• The sheep and the goats, and the least of
  these.
• The Millenium Period
• The peace that Jews have hoped for for centuries
• Jesus will rule over all

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Current Future State of Israel

• 700 Club Video Personal Testimony Psalms 83 6
  days war
• Relentless Video Clips if time permits
• Holocost

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10 Minute Break
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Messianic Fullfillment

• Daniels 70 7s
• Messianic Prophecies powerpoints from CCBCU
• Did Jesus raise from the dead?
• Lets examine the facts

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Quick Review

• Daniel 9 25 So you are to know and discern that
  from the issuing of the decree to restore and
  rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince comes,
  there will be seven sevens, and sixty-two
  sevens.
• We know when the decree was given

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From the issuing of the decree to the Messiah
From the issuing of a decree to rebuild
Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be...
7 sevens
and 62 sevens
7 X 7 49
62 X 7 434
49 434 483 years 476 solar years
See number one in our series for the complete
calculation
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So when was the decree given?
Nehemiah 21ff In the month of Nisan in the
twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, Neh 27 And I
said to the king, "If it please the king, let
letters be given me for the governors of the
provinces beyond the River, that they may allow
me to pass through until I come to Judah, 8 and
a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's
forest, that he may give me timber to make beams
for the gates of the fortress which is by the
temple, for the wall of the city and for the
house to which I will go." And the king granted
them to me because the good hand of my God was on
me. (The letters were the decree to rebuild,
using the Kings lumber!) When did this take
place?
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According to the Encyclopedia Britannica
Nehemiah 21ff In the month of Nisan in the
twentieth year of King Artaxerxes
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465-20444 This is historical fact!
From the issuing of a decree to rebuild
Jerusalem
Until the Messiah
will be... 476 years
7 sevens
and 62 sevens
33 AD
When Jesus rode in on a donkey - the crowd
hailed Him Messiah!
444 BC
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Was this foretold?

• Zechariah 99 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
  Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!
  Behold, your king is coming to you He is just
  and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted
  on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a
  donkey.

Mat 216 The disciples went and did just as
Jesus had instructed them, Mat 217 and brought
the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on
them and He sat on the coats. Mat 218 Most of
the crowd spread their coats in the road, and
others were cutting branches from the trees and
spreading them in the road. Mat 219 The crowds
going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were
shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David BLESSED
IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
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Jesus fulfilled all 48 direct prophecies and over
300 indirect ones!

• Manner of birth (Isaiah 714) place of birth,
  Bethlehem (Micah 52) manner of death (Isaiah
  53) etc.
• Odds of fulfilling 8 prophecies is 1017 to 1
• Odds of fulfilling 48 prophecies is 10157 to 1
• Maybe Jesus intentionally lived out those
  prophecies?
• But how could He plan the place of birth, death,
  burial in a rich mans tomb, crucifixion, etc.?
• Maybe prophecies were written after Jesus?
• In 1947, found Dead Sea Scrolls (age 200 BC)
• The Septuagint contained all the prophecies,
  translated 285 BC!

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So what did Jesus say do?

• Jesus claimed to be God through His actions and
  words and He raised from the dead!
• There are only three options to consider 1.
  Was He telling the truth is He Lord ?
• 2. Was He lying?
• 3. Was He crazy a lunatic ?

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Was Jesus a liar?

• But He was morally impeccable
• No fault found, not even by enemies
• What is the motive?
• No rich gain - only invited suffering
• Not for power he could have had it and didnt
• Not for personal gain He taught to deny
  yourself, and He did just that.

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Was Jesus crazy?

• Any abnormalities in perception, emotion,
  thought, behavior? (cant speak logically,
  irrational, inappropriate dress) NO.
• Schizophrenic Divinity complex ?
• Inflexible, dullness, inability to love others,
  inability to understand others. NO
• Jesus was of clear mind, sound teaching,
  peaceful, understood peoples hearts deeply YES
• And people took him very seriously
• And He performed miracles

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More on Miracles

• Many outside the Bible, including the opposition,
  testify to Jesus miracles
• Myths and legends are formulated several hundred
  years later Jesus was still alive and doing
  miracles when the crowds followed Him!
• If miracles are not legitimate, then opponents
  could find those people and reveal it But it
  was always confirmed by opponents that the
  miracles happened.
• The greatest miracle is of course the
  resurrection

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Reasons for Resurrection

• Everyone agrees that Jesus tomb is empty
• Christians claim Jesus died and was resurrected
  back to life on the 3rd day
• Alternate explanations
• Jesus was not really dead
• Body stolen?
• Wrong tomb?

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Was Jesus really dead?

• On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ
  Journal of the American Medical Society, March
  21, 1986, p.1463
• Clearly, the weight of historical and medical
  evidence indicates that Jesus was dead before the
  wound to His side was inflicted the spear,
  thrust between His right ribs, probably
  perforated not only the right lung but also the
  pericardium and heart and thereby ensured his
  death.

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Was Jesus body stolen?

• By Romans?
• But Jesus was a trouble maker to their rule why
  create a deity / martyr that defeats death ?
• By Jews?
• But Jesus was a threat to their religion - same
  as above
• By Disciples?
• But just before, they were frightened and fled.
  And what about the guards ?
• Roman guards stationed to guard the body. Roman
  law provided that if guards did not protect the
  prisoner that their fate would be the same as
  the prisoner.

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Went to the wrong tomb?

• Why are angels seen inside the tomb?
• Why are the grave clothes there in an empty
  tomb?
• The troops were still at the tomb in a state of
  shock over the events that transpired!

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Resurrection appearances

• Merely hallucinations?
• Many different occasions
• 500 people at the same time
• Because they so much wanted to see Jesus?
• But they didnt expect Him to come back
• Paul saw Him later on the road to Damascus!
• Thomas doubted until he touched Jesus wounds!

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Lasting impact of resurrection

• Dramatic transformation of the disciples
• 10 of the remaining 11 disciples were martyred, 6
  were crucified
• Because now unafraid of death
• Not a single disciple denied it
• In fact, all writings confirm the resurrection
  miracles of Jesus!
• Easter celebrated as the biggest day of the
  Christian calendar
• Jesus life and death and resurrection are
  documented historic facts!

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The Bible is Gods Word!

• For me, it is proven fact confirmed by inner
  transformation and miracles that still take place
  in my life.
• It must be, because you all just got an A on
  the final! Thats Gods Grace!

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The Gospel in Genesis

• The names of Adams descendants were given their
  names for a specific reason. The following is a
  translation of their names to English and maybe a
  possible reason for their names.
• Name English Translation Biblical Reference
• Adam Man Genesis 52
• Seth Appointed Genesis 53
• Enosh Mortal Genesis 56
• Kenan Sorrows Genesis 59
• Mahalaleel The Blessed God Genesis 512
• Jared Shall come down Genesis 515
• Enoch Teaching Genesis 519
• Methuselah His death shall bring Genesis 521
• Lamech the despairing Genesis 525
• Noah Rest Genesis 529
• Read in order from Adam to Noah the names
  translated to English would read like
  (prepositions added to flow properly in English)
  
• Man is appointed mortal sorrows but the
  Blessed God shall come down teaching that His
  death shall bring the despairing rest.

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Prayer

• Closing Prayer 5 min.
• Q A 15 min.