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[3435.76 --> 3436.74] but because
[3436.74 --> 3437.94] everyone is feeling
[3437.94 --> 3439.24] the pull of belief
[3439.24 --> 3440.00] in some way.
[3441.22 --> 3441.74] One writer
[3441.74 --> 3442.36] described it
[3442.36 --> 3442.66] and said,
[3442.98 --> 3443.96] as much as it
[3443.96 --> 3444.88] seemed real,
[3445.64 --> 3446.46] it also appeared
[3446.46 --> 3446.94] foolish.
[3447.88 --> 3448.88] As much as he
[3448.88 --> 3449.62] believed it,
[3450.14 --> 3450.90] he doubted it.
[3452.72 --> 3453.30] Our
[3453.30 --> 3453.94] meta-modern
[3453.94 --> 3454.44] world,
[3454.64 --> 3455.28] the context
[3455.28 --> 3455.94] where we now
[3455.94 --> 3456.58] believe,
[3456.90 --> 3458.38] is cut through
[3458.38 --> 3460.08] with the cross-pressures
[3460.08 --> 3461.12] of secular life
[3461.12 --> 3462.60] denying transcendence
[3462.60 --> 3463.32] and the spiritual
[3463.32 --> 3464.94] and that is also
[3464.94 --> 3466.34] permeated with the
[3466.34 --> 3467.26] constant haunting
[3467.26 --> 3468.16] of our souls
[3468.16 --> 3469.34] longing for there
[3469.34 --> 3470.10] to be more than
[3470.10 --> 3471.36] what my eyes can see,
[3471.78 --> 3472.52] longing for the
[3472.52 --> 3473.48] transcendent and the
[3473.48 --> 3475.06] spiritual to return
[3475.06 --> 3476.56] knowing that it is
[3476.56 --> 3476.84] real.
[3478.58 --> 3479.74] The only thing
[3479.74 --> 3480.72] that makes sense
[3480.72 --> 3482.02] in the world today
[3482.02 --> 3482.86] is that certain
[3482.86 --> 3483.74] things won't make
[3483.74 --> 3485.42] sense and I
[3485.42 --> 3486.28] still believe them.
[3488.28 --> 3489.52] Doubt and faith
[3489.52 --> 3490.60] come as one
[3490.60 --> 3491.60] in the world
[3491.60 --> 3491.92] today.
[3493.56 --> 3494.40] And as much
[3494.40 --> 3495.12] as we believe
[3495.12 --> 3496.30] and are convinced,
[3497.04 --> 3497.64] doubt makes us
[3497.64 --> 3497.96] wonder.
[3498.88 --> 3499.62] And as much
[3499.62 --> 3500.26] as we wonder
[3500.26 --> 3500.94] and doubt,
[3501.20 --> 3502.08] we also know
[3502.08 --> 3502.80] with a personal
[3502.80 --> 3504.12] certainty that
[3504.12 --> 3505.06] this is the only
[3505.06 --> 3505.68] thing that makes
[3505.68 --> 3506.04] sense.
[3507.20 --> 3508.36] At exactly the
[3508.36 --> 3508.90] same time,
[3508.96 --> 3509.68] I know this
[3509.68 --> 3510.36] to be true
[3510.36 --> 3511.24] and I
[3511.24 --> 3512.58] can't imagine
[3512.58 --> 3513.92] how this works.
[3515.78 --> 3516.70] And I think
[3516.70 --> 3518.52] that what God
[3518.52 --> 3519.14] is drawing
[3519.14 --> 3520.34] out for us
[3520.34 --> 3521.18] to see this
[3521.18 --> 3522.34] Resurrection Sunday
[3522.34 --> 3523.60] 2,000 years
[3523.60 --> 3524.62] later in a
[3524.62 --> 3525.46] now meta-modern
[3525.46 --> 3526.28] world as we're
[3526.28 --> 3526.90] trying to make
[3526.90 --> 3527.62] sense of this
[3527.62 --> 3528.94] story is that
[3528.94 --> 3529.92] yes, the
[3529.92 --> 3531.00] resurrection does
[3531.00 --> 3532.40] not fit their
[3532.40 --> 3532.96] world.
[3533.80 --> 3534.52] That's why the
[3534.52 --> 3535.32] women's message
[3535.32 --> 3536.10] seemed like
[3536.10 --> 3536.68] nonsense.
[3537.88 --> 3538.74] But the reality
[3538.74 --> 3539.38] for us, the
[3539.38 --> 3540.28] greater reality,
[3540.60 --> 3541.14] the truer
[3541.14 --> 3542.90] reality is that
[3542.90 --> 3544.82] Jesus and his
[3544.82 --> 3545.64] resurrection
[3545.64 --> 3547.38] isn't
[3547.38 --> 3548.38] nonsense,
[3549.14 --> 3550.14] it's the