Free to Live March 27, 2016

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Free to Live March 27, 2016 We love things at various levels, and similarly, we ______________ things at various levels. The ________ _________ isn’t, “Do I believe Jesus rose from the dead?” The things we believe _______ _________ – those are the things that drive our lives. Maybe the better question – “How ___________ do I believe in Easter?” The claims of Easter are so incredible – so grandiose – we must either reject them as false or hold them at the ____________ level possible. In the resurrection Jesus offers to us ________ if we believe deeply enough in what He did not just to do a little Easter celebration but to actually follow Him with our lives. And I think that’s why the __________ __________ of the resurrection was Mary who was from the Galilean village of Magdala. No one represents the utter lostness of humanity, the ________________ of our lives, any better than Mary Magdalene.

_________ to really ____________. Can you imagine anyone who seems further from being right with ________ than a person possessed by evil itself? But there she is, utterly ____________ by her Creator, her God, her Lord. Can you imagine anyone with greater inner turmoil, any life more dominated by madness, chaos and havoc, any life more utterly void of _________ than a person possessed by seven demons? But there she is before the _________ _________, at peace, free to live the life God has called her to live.