Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast - Easter • follow HIM Favorites • Apr. 3 - Apr. 9

Episode Date: March 30, 2023

Hank Smith and John Bytheway answer a question from this week's Come, Follow Me study.Show Notes (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese): https://followhim.coFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannelThanks to the followHIM team:Shannon Sorensen: Executive Producer, SponsorDavid & Verla Sorensen: SponsorsDr. Hank Smith: Co-hostJohn Bytheway: Co-hostDavid Perry: ProducerKyle Nelson: Marketing, SponsorLisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show NotesJamie Neilson: Social Media, Graphic DesignWill Stoughton: Video EditorKrystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, WebsiteAriel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts"Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonaldhttps://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com/products/let-zion-in-her-beauty-rise-piano

Hello, my friends. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith and I'm here with the incredible John, by the way. Welcome, John. Thanks, Hank. John, for Follow Him Favorites, it's Easter this week. We're going to take a look at this week's lesson and just maybe mention one thing from the lesson of Easter. So when you think of Easter, John, what comes to mind? It was different for me when I was a kid, of course. And then as you get older and Hank, as we both have lost people, I think of that empty tomb. And because that tomb was empty, those people that we've lost,

aunts, uncles, grandparents, parents, friends, brothers, sisters, children. It's a temporary separation. We'll have them again all because that tomb was empty. So it's just like the happiest possible message ever. Now, the Bible dictionary said Christianity is founded on that miracle, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Without that, Christianity doesn't

become what it is. And with it, all other miracles are small potatoes, right? All other miracles. Seize to be impossible. I love John chapter 20 where Mary Magdalene is outside the sepulchre, she's weeping. I've done that same thing. Many of those listening have done that same thing where they've stood by The grave of someone and we and Jesus is standing there. She doesn't know it's him and verse 15 of John 20 He says woman why weepest thou? Who do you seek and he knows and then in verse 16 Jesus says her name Mary and I would guess that changes everything for Mary. Her whole world changes at that moment as the Lord is resurrected.

I look forward, like you said, John, to those moments where I get to talk to my dad again, and he calls me by name. And I get to talk to my brother again, and he calls me by name, and we laugh and talk with each other. So I testify that we're all going to have John 2016 moments that change everything. Well, I love it.

That John chapter 20, the church made a movie a few years ago called Lamb of God, and I always loved this scene because Mary Magdalene went and told the other disciples what the tomb was empty and It talks about Peter and John running. I think this has always made me smile a little bit Peter therefore went forth and the other disciple that came to the sepulcher So they both ran together and the other disciple that outrun Peter I don't know why John wants to let us know I'm fast like a Peter Yeah, and came first to the sepulcher and he's stooping down and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying, yet he went not in.

If you watch the movie, maybe it's a respect for the senior apostles that John stops and let's Peter go in. Verse 6, then come and sign Peter following him, went into the sepulcher and see if the linen clothes lie. It is my favorite part. Verse 7, the napkin that was about his head, and see it the linen clothes lie. It is my favorite part, verse 7, the napkin that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. And when you see that moment in the movie, the clothes are just neatly folded, as if to say,

he wasn't dragged out of here. He took those off and he folded them up and left. He wasn't dragged out of here. He took those off and he folded them up and left. And it's the greatest moment to just think. He was conscious when he folded those clothes and left. Then that follows up with what you told. So yeah, we'll have those moments again. Beautiful. Well, from the team at Follow Him, we want to wish you all a happy Easter.

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