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<font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3"><i><b>In
Him was life, and that life was the light of men. -- John 1:4</b></i></font></font>
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<font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3">I've
read several books on the Soviet Gulag. They aren't pleasant, but I
read them because I want to know what went wrong with that culture so
that I can think clearly about what kind of citizen I want to be.
And, within that reason, I want to know the truth about my world so
that my faith isn't candy-coated nonsense, but rather real.</font></font>
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<font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3">The
truth is: We live in a messed up world. The reality is sometimes
worse than our worst nightmares. Into this darkened world, Jesus was
born. He grew up with hardship and Roman oppression. He tasted
hunger, thirst, fatigue, weakness, pain, torture and death. </font></font>
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<font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3">He
was somehow fragile and indestructible at the same time. He went
ahead of us to show us that there is no place from which God cannot
deliver us. </font></font>
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<font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3">When
Jesus' battered body was laid in the cold grave, everything that we
understood told us that His life was over. He was finished; a
courageous man taken down by a world gone mad. But in Him was life,
and no Roman cross could take that life away from Him.</font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3">Now
we look at the unstoppable life of God in Christ and we begin to see
the truth: The world has been trying to crucify the Body of Christ
for 2,000 years, but it will never succeed. His life is in us, and it
will draw us out from the darkest hour into His everlasting joy.</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Georgia, serif"><font size="3">Be
encouraged!</font></font></font>
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