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1. God Cannot Die

John 20:1-18

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Ray C. Stedman

Martin Luther once spent three days in a black depression over something that had gone wrong. On the third day his wife came downstairs dressed in mourning clothes. "Who's dead?" he asked her. "God," she replied. Luther rebuked her, saying, "What do you mean, God is dead? God cannot die." "Well," she replied, "the way you've been acting I was sure He had!" Many of us have been caught in that t...

2. Many Jesuses

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Ray C. Stedman

We have been presented with many different Jesuses. There is the Jesus of Jesus Christ Superstar (how I wonder who you are!), and the Jesus of Godspell, and various other presentations: the Jesus of the Mormons, the Jesus of the cults, the Jesus of humanism. It is no wonder that people are confused sometimes as to which is the real one. You want to ask, "Will the real Jesus please stand up?" That...

3. Progress

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Ray C. Stedman

At the beginning of the 21st Century you would have been laughed almost to scorn if you had suggested that the world is getting worse instead of better. Today it is the other way around. Now it is almost ridiculous to suggest that the world is getting better. Yet there are still some who hold this view. The other day I ran across a rather humorous statement of it: My granddad, viewing earth's wor...

4. We Are Like Paupers

Mark 1:9-15

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Ray C. Stedman

I like the way Dr. H. A. Ironside explained this: He said that we are like paupers who have accumulated so many debts that we cannot pay them. These are our sins. These tremendous claims are made against us, and we cannot possibly meet them. But when Jesus came, he took all these mortgages and notes and agreements we could not meet and endorsed them with his own name, thereby saying that he intend...

5. You're Not Home Yet

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Ray C. Stedman

How revealing is that story of the old missionary couple who had been working in Africa for years in the days when Teddy Roosevelt was President of the United States. They were returning from Africa to New York City to retire. They had no pension for they belonged to no missionary board. Their health was broken, they were defeated, discouraged, and afraid. When they went down to the wharf to board...

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1. God Cannot Die

John 20:1-18

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Ray C. Stedman

2. Many Jesuses

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Ray C. Stedman

3. Progress

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Ray C. Stedman

4. We Are Like Paupers

Mark 1:9-15

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Ray C. Stedman

5. You're Not Home Yet

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Ray C. Stedman

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