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Well, happy Easter.

Pastor Mark Triscoll here, really excited to have a special message for you answering the question,

did King Jesus really rise from death?

I'll summarize chapter 8 of the book, King Jesus, and we'll look at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And his resurrection

answers for us one of life's most pressing questions. What happens when we die? What awaits

us, if anyone or anything, on the other side of the grave? Jesus had two claims when he was

walking on the earth that were without precedent or peer.

Number one, Jesus repeatedly, emphatically and unapologetically declared himself to be the only God.

As an aside, there is no founder of any major world religion who has ever made this claim.

This puts Jesus in a category unto himself. Knowing that he was declaring

himself to be the only God, there then rose opposition to terminate his life to kill him,

because within the Jewish community, the consequence for declaring yourself to be God was death,

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