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Bailiff: All rise.

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Judge: Thank you everyone.

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You may be seated.

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Over the last few days,
you've heard closing arguments

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from representatives
of various faiths.

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You have also heard
from people who believe

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that there is no such
thing as eternity,

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as well as those who say
we cannot possibly know

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what happens next.

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Today we will hear from
our last representative,

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a man of the Christian faith,

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and I know that this has been
a long and complex process

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but I would ask that you
give him the same attention

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and consideration
that you have granted

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our other representatives.

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Counsel, the floor is yours.

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Tom: Good morning,
ladies and gentlemen.

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Jury: Good morning.

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Tom: First, I wanna
start by thanking you

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for the attention
that you have paid

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to the evidence
throughout this week.

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I know that all of you are busy.

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Many of you are
missing important jobs,
but I would submit

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to you that the evidence that
you have listened to this week

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and deliberations that you
will enter into shortly

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and the decisions that you
will come to as a group

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will end up being the
most important decision

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of your lifetime.

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I appreciate that you have
listened to the arguments

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which have been made by my
brother and sister in the law

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in terms of the other
two positions that
have been presented

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that are held by members
of the faith of Judaism,

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the faith of Islam,
those who are agnostic,

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those who are atheist...

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and I now ask you to listen
to my closing argument,

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as I present to you, our
view of what we believe

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the evidence has shown.

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This case starts in Bethlehem,

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where this man Jesus was born.

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His life here on earth
ends at Golgotha,

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the place of the cross.

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But the question mark that
you will have to decide

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is what happened in that tomb

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and how that body
got out of that tomb.

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Let me start by
explaining what the three

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of us all agree on.

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First of all,
there's no question

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about whether Jesus was
an historical figure.

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There are many
secular historians

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who have spent their lives
researching the time period

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of Jesus of Nazareth.

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Also, there's no question
that Jesus was crucified.

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There were many, many
witnesses to the crucifixion

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including not the least

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of which, a Roman Centurion
and a Roman guard.

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And third... that from the
time that he left the cross,

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and was put into the tomb,

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that just two days after he
left the cross, was empty.

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The body was not there.

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How did that happen?

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Well, you have heard
the three options.

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Option number one is
that Jesus got out

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of that tomb on his own,

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which would mean he
didn't die on the cross.

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He may have been suffering,
but he somehow recovered

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inside the tomb and
somehow got out on his own.

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Second, is that somebody,
friend or foe stole the body,

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dead or alive.

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And option number three,
is that as Jesus predicted

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he was resurrected from death.

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From that witness stand,

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you have heard historical
experts who are secular

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who simply told
you about the time.

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We've heard from
medical experts.

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We've heard from eye witnesses,

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to the passion and the
crucifixion that occurred.

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And we have heard from
the written testimony

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from back at that time. From
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,

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what are commonly referred
to as the Four Gospels;

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who wrote both what
they saw as well

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as what they collected in
terms of testimony from others.

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But in this courtroom, you
are to take that testimony

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from that stand that
was given to you

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from those Four Gospels
as sworn depositions

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of those individuals, because
indeed it is testimony

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that those four men protected
and shared with the world.

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Now let's talk about
the historical evidence.

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Matthew testified
about the tomb.

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He explained, first of all

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that there was a
rock that was placed

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in front of the
entrance to the tomb.

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Second, he explained
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and third, Matthew explained

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that a guard was set
in front of the tomb.

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Now, why would the
Romans go to such trouble

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in guarding a dead body?

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Well, first it was a precaution
against the very thing

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that the Jewish authorities
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and that is that body being
stolen, because they wanted

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to protect against any
talk of a resurrection.

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You can go to Israel today and
see tombs just like the one

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that Jesus was put in.

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You've essentially got
a cave that is dug out

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and then there'll be an opening.

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And then there's
going to be a closure

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of the opening by a stone.

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What we know about Jesus'
tomb is this... Mark wrote

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as you heard from
the witness stand

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in a fourth century manuscript

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that the stone that was
placed in front of Jesus' tomb

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was so large that even
20 men could not move it

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once it was set in place.

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Is it possible?

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Like my opponents say that
in the middle of the night,

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the followers of Jesus came
maybe with some special tools

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or something like
that and were able

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to get that big stone moved.

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Yeah, that's possible.

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Is it likely?

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No.

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If you remember A.T Robinson,
the New Testament scholar,

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explained that the sealing of
the tomb was done by a cord

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that would be stretched
across the tomb

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and then both ends of the cord

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would be stamped with
the Imperial Seal.

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Why do that?

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What's that all about?

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Well, that seal
was of the Romans,

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the people who occupied
Israel at that time.

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You break that cord,
you break that seal

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and the full power of
Roman law and authority

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comes down on you.

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Let's also remember
this, Jesus at that time

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was the most notorious
criminal in all of Jerusalem.

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The Romans and
the Jewish leaders

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didn't wanna take any
chances, the Roman guard

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was at the tomb around
the clock at all hours.

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And remember the testimony
of professor Daniel Whedon,

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who's a Professor
of Ancient Languages

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at Wesleyan University,
who explained

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that a guard is not one person,
but instead 16 soldiers.

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We know that Roman guards
took their jobs seriously.

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And why is that?

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Because of the punishment
that was inflicted on you

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in the event that
you did not do so.

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If you abdicated your duties,

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if you fell asleep on the
job, if you walked away

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from being on watch, your
punishment was death.

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They literally threw
you off a cliff.

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And all the guards knew that.

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So you can rest assured that
that guard stayed vigilant

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throughout the time
that they were there.

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And remember something
about this guard.

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On the very day they
took their post,

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members of that same group
of soldiers flogged Jesus

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within an inch of his life.

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And what does that mean?

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It means taking the leather
straps that are loaded down

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with rocks and have glass put
in them and sharpened bones

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and taking them to the
man's front and his back,

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and whipping him 39
times tearing the
flesh off of his body.

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And then they took that man

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and they had him
carry his own cross

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and they nailed him with
railroad spikes to a cross.

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And then they sat there
and with their Centurion

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who was in charge, they
watched for six hours

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while the man died,

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while he slowly suffocated
from his own body weight.

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No, the position
of the Roman guards

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and their feelings about Jesus
of Nazareth is crystal clear.

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Their allegiance was to Rome.

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And that's where it stayed.

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Well, think about
this hypothetical.

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Let's take what we said
before and just add to it,

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which is, maybe in the
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you got the 11 apostles

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or however many
followers were needed.

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And they come in with
specialized tools
and they come in

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with a counterfeit stamp
and they pry the thing open,

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get Jesus' body out, put
the cord back over it

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and use the counterfeit
stamp and seal it up again.

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And everything's good.

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Is that possible?

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Yeah, it's possible.

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But in your life experience
and common sense,

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does that make any
sense to you whatsoever?

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No. It's doubtful.

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Now opposing counsel
would have you believe

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that Jesus was just
an historical figure,

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barely charismatic,
because he had a following

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by just some guy from the sticks

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and that this whole thing
about the resurrection,

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is a hoax, clever, make
believe a performance.

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And they would have you
look at Jesus as being

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a well-spoken controversial,

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radical troublemaker. But
let's remember the teaching

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of Occam's razor, which
is the theory that

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oftentimes the simplest
explanation is the correct one.

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Well, you know, there are
some people who believe

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that Jesus did not
die on the cross,

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that he was merely
tortured, fell unconscious,

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body put into the tomb,
gets out of tomb on its own

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but it comes back to,
did he die on the cross?

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What do we know?

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There were two things
that are important to know

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other than that Romans
know how to kill.

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And that is at the
end of the six hours,

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as was explained
from the gospel,

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a Roman guard took a spear
and thrust it into the side

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of Jesus and both blood and a
clear fluid, water, came out.

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Well, we know from
medical science today

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that from the blood
loss that Jesus had,

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that he would have
developed probably either

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or both pleural effusion
which is water on the lungs

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or pericardial effusion

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which is water
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And if there was enough
water in Jesus' chest

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so that when he was pierced
with a spear into the heart

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or into the lung, so
that water came out

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so that the Romans can see it,

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you know one thing. You know
that that man is in a state

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of hypovolemic shock. And
most of us in this courtroom

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would have a difficult
time surviving

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under those circumstances,

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even with today's
modern medicine.

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We also know that there's
another test here.

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Its because it was Passover,

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you couldn't continue
with a crucifixion

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once it became dark.

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Because it would
violate Jewish law

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and this was the Passover.

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So these people had to be dead.

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So they broke the legs.

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The Roman guards broke the
legs of the other two men

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who were on either side of
Jesus, who were being crucified.

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Now why do that?

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Well, it means you
can't push up anymore.

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So you're like this
and you suffocate

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from your own body weight,

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but they didn't do
that with Jesus.

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They didn't break his legs.

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Why is that?

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They certainly didn't have
any problem torturing him.

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It's not like they
felt for the guy.

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Its because they knew
he was already dead.

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Again, John, the eyewitness
knew he was dead.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
Jesus died on that cross.

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The idea that he
didn't is foolishness.

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Now you might
wonder how the idea

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of Occam's razor explains
what is truly a miracle?

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I mean, a resurrection
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In this instance,
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that Jesus had already
performed miracles.

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He turned the water into wine

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at the wedding in Canaan
was his first miracle.

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He went through
systematically healing people

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who were either
blind or had leprosy

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or had other diseases
or problems since birth.

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He had fed 5,000 people with
a few loaves and a few fish.

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And that was reported by every
one of the gospel writers,

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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
John, all four of them.

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Christ himself had even raised
other people from the dead.

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The testimony was that he had
done so on three occasions,

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one of them being
Lazarus, his friend

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who had been in the
tomb for four days,

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but you know even the
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they didn't challenge whether
the miracles occurred.

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They couldn't, there were
too many witnesses to them.

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No, instead they
challenged him to his face,

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on more than one
occasion asking,

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"By whose authority are you
performing these miracles?"

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That's what they wanted to know.

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So the idea of there
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that's not really in dispute.

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These were not shows.

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Now there are
differences in testimony.

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A lot of people point that out.

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They say that well, you
know, when we listened

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to these guys, explain
what happened at the tomb.

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All their stories are
a little bit different,

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that ladies and gentlemen
is common in trials.

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You can have one of the
most straightforward cases,

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a bank robbery, okay?

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And you're gonna have
several witnesses, tellers,

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and customers, and whoever
else is in the bank.

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And there's gonna be
differences in their testimony

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about what the robber looked
like, how tall the robber was,

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what the chronology
of events were,

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what the gun looked like,
what the robber said.

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In fact, what you find
is that if everybody says

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the exact same thing, that
testimony is not credible,

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because that just tells you

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that everybody has
gotten together.

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It's the most normal
thing for people to do.

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And quote, unquote, gotten
their stories straight.

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They're singing
the company song.

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That is not credible testimony.

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So how do you figure
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when you've got circumstances
where you've got differences

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in the testimony?

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Is you look to see what is
important about what occurred?

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Let's look to see what
happened in this case.

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All four of the gospel writers
say that Mary from Magdala

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known as Mary Magdalene
went to the tomb,

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all of the writers, explain
that that tomb was open

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and that it was empty.

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There are many
other similarities

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that you heard the
testimony about,

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but three of the gospels told us

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that there was a man on
the inside wearing white,

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possibly an angel who said
that, "Jesus is not here.

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He is risen."

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You have a lot of other
similarities in the testimony.

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But the most important is
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Jesus himself appeared
to dozens of people,

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including all 11 of
the remaining apostles.

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And that he picked up to
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that is he went up to Galilee

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where he picked his apostles
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And he walked with them.

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Unafraid, out in the open,
even offered his wounds

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of his hands and his
side for others to see

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including most notably,

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the apostle whom I
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that being Thomas.
You know him probably

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as the doubting Thomas,
who did not believe

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that Jesus had arisen, even
though his other apostles said

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that he had, that
he would not believe

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until he put his hands
into Jesus' wounds.

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So what did Jesus do?

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He appeared to
Thomas and he said,

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"Go ahead, put your
hands into my wounds."

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And Thomas on seeing this, he
sees this man he's traveled

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with for three years who now
is alive and in front of him.

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And he recognizes what happens.

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And he drops to his knees

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and he looks right up
in the face of the man.

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He knows his friend to be Jesus.

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And he says, "My Lord, my God."

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Why?

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Because he knew right then and
there that Jesus was Christ,

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he was the Messiah, he was
the son of the living God.

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Well, the feat of what
happened was so staggering,

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was so convincing,
was so important.

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These men left everything
they had and their homes

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and went to all four
corners of the known world,

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and went ahead and preached
the gospel of Jesus Christ

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and think of what kind
of men these were.

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These weren't some kind of nuts.

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They were fishermen
for the most part.

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Working class, they
lived comfortably enough.

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They were relatively safe.

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They were up in Galilee.

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They went down in Jerusalem
where all the Romans were.

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They left the safety of their
homes and their occupations.

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And these guys traveled
through the wilderness,

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the completely unknown parts

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of the world preaching
the gospel of Jesus Christ

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that he was the Son of God,
preaching the resurrection,

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preaching eternal life.

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And where did they go?

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Think about it, North
Africa, Greece, India,

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modern day Russia, all
to preach the gospel.

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Now they committed the rest
of their lives to this.

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And they ended up giving the
rest of their lives to this.

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These men who preached about
Jesus did so at a cost.

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And they knew what the cost was.

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Very first one who
died was Stephen.

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He was stoned to death.

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Thomas was killed with a spear.

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Bartholomew was flayed
alive with a knife

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and then was crucified.

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And this happened to one,
after another, after another

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after another.

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death of the apostles,

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they don't come from
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