LEE STROBEL - The Case for Christ

thank you so much it is truly an honor and a privilege to be here I when I think of passion city I think of that passage where Jesus is delivering the Sermon on the Mount and he talked about a city on a hill and that's how I picture passion city a city on a hill that shines this message of God's grace and hope all over the planet and so I come here with awe and wonder at what God is doing through this great church so thank you for being here I'm privileged to be here my wife Leslie is with me as well and I'll I gotta be honest and say after what happened to me in the Little Rock Arkansas I'm glad to be anywhere because I was in Little Rock to speak at a charity event and this pastor picks me up from the airport and we're driving to the event and we're chatting along the way and he says yeah he says I I told the young woman in our church I said Lee Strobel is gonna speak tonight she said oh the guy who wrote the case for Christ is he still living I'm glad to be anywhere after that I'm glad to be breathing after that but Leslie and I recently moved to Houston Texas any former Texans here yeah a few yeah yeah those smart ones came this way but we got our phone number assigned to us by the telephone company when we moved into our house and you may think yeah big deal was a big deal of us because no kidding when we lived in Chicago the phone number they gave us was one digit away from the cab company seriously so 2:00 in the morning a Saturday nights these drunk guys and buyers would call for a cab they'd miss dial our phone would ring it was bad enough to get waken up in the middle of the night but then you had to get up get dressed get in the car it was such a hassle so I think we got a good number this time I'm hoping so less than I get the opportunity these days to travel around the country around the world and and talk people about Jesus and I'm getting better than that whether it's to one person or a bunch of people doesn't matter but I will say there are some times when I get into a conversation about Jesus and it does not go well I had the most embarrassing thing happened I was down south speaking at a conference with my buddy mark and the next day we had to fly home so I did get some breakfast and we saw in these Cracker Barrel restaurant you've seen these right I've never been to one he said well let's give it a try so we noticed say I'm rocking chairs on the front porch where people sit and people-watch while they're you know waiting for a table or whatever so in order for us to get to the front door we had to walk in front of two people in rocking chairs first one was a young woman about 18 years old dark hair dark eyes young man sitting next to about the same age so we got to walk in front them to get the door it's not a big deal right so we're walking along and just as I step in front of this young woman I hear her say what's a deist and I thought I just wrote a book about that so I turned on my heel look the nasty young lady Adeus to someone who believes that God created the universe and then he walked away a deus is someone who believes that God sort of wound up the universe like a giant clock and he's just letting a tick down I said a Deus to someone who believes I got his distant indistinct comment for humankind so I give these statistics all this the data I start to talk about the evidence of cosmology and physics and biochemistry and genetics I'm just laying this stuff on her and she's looking at me and her eyes are getting bigger and I'm on a roll now you can't stop me I'm about Jesus era in human history the incarnations his miracles his death I started to give her the evidence that Jesus rose from the dead and she stared at me and her eyes are getting bigger bigger I turned to my friend I said could you believe this happened to walk in front of her she said what's a deist my friend said Lee she said buenas Dias I really wish that were a joke that's what happened oops it was she was freaking out by the way oh I'll give her that but that was so embarrassing oh you know what the good news was the ice was already broken how do you not get into a spiritual conversation it's a boy right and turned out that she was there with her boyfriend for the state track meet and they Brooke brought us back to the hotel room where the coach was and all the athletes and we have to talk about Jesus for about 45 minutes so it turned out all right man that was embarrassing that was that was embarrassing so when I got this kind invitation to be with you today I thought well what could I talk about that it's not going to embarrass me and I thought you know what I'm just gonna do something simple I'm just gonna tell you a story it's true story it's my story it's a story that begins in atheism because I decided at a rather young age that God does not and cannot exist yeah I thought that God didn't create people but people created God why because they're afraid of death so they made up this idea of heaven and an afterlife to make themselves feel better about dying that's what I thought and I just thought the mere concept of an all-loving all-knowing all-powerful creator of the universe come on it's crazy wasn't even worth my time to check out now granted I'm a skeptical person sort of in my DNA you know my backgrounds in journalism in law commands you put those two things together what kind of a jerk the skeptic what kind of a skeptic they said I was a legal editor of the Chicago Tribune newspaper and we used to pride ourselves on our skepticism you know he wouldn't accept anybody's word at face value you know he always wanted to try to get two sources to confirm a fact before he'd print it in the newspaper so no kidding we had a sign in our newsroom that said if your mother says she loves you check it out how do you know maybe she's lying got any proof got anything to back that up and that's okay that's alright you want journalists to be skeptical don't you sometimes don't you wish there were more skeptical than they are but my problem was that my skepticism bubbled over in the cynicism and it cemented me into my atheism now because I had no belief in God I really lacked a moral framework for my life I'm not saying all atheists think this way I'm just saying your way I looked at the world I tend to be logical I tend to be rational so I said okay if there is no God if there is no heaven if there is no hell if there is no judgment if there is no ultimate accountability then the most logical way for me to live my life would be as a hedonist someone who just pursues pleasure and that's what I did so I lived a very immoral and drunken and profane and narcissistic self-absorbed really self-destructive in a lot of ways that was my life what people saw was me winning awards for Investigative Reporting what they didn't see was the other side which was me literally drunk in the snow in an alley on Saturday night I had so much rage inside of me so much anger and if he asked me back then what's the deal why why the anger I couldn't have told you but looking back it's clear what it was I was always after the perfect tie you know I I was always after the ultimate experience of pleasure but guess what everything let me down nothing lived up to the hype there's a lot of rage I remember once listen I got an argument and our daughter was there and I had so much rage I just blew up I remember I reared back and I kicked a hole right through our living room wall and my daughter's crying and hell unless he's crying of psych hey it was it was just another day in the Strobel house fact I'm gonna tell you the ugliest thing about me which is in my little daughter Alison was just a toddler if she was alone in the living room playing some blocks toys or whatever and she would hear me come home from work through the front door her natural reaction was just to gather her toys and go in a room and shut the door she's gonna be drunk again so you can be yelling and screaming and kicking holes in walls at least it's nice and quiet in here francette is the ugliest truth about me Leslie was agnostic she didn't know what to think about God and if you've seen the movie on our life which son Netflix by the way so it's free you'll know what happened it was through the relationship that Leslie developed with a Christian woman who was a nurse who shared the gospel with her who brought her to church and after many months of checking things out Leslie came up to me and said Lee I made a big decision in my life I said what she said I've decided to become a follower of Jesus Christ and I thought oh no you know for an atheist this is the worst news you can get who knew what she was gonna turn into right some Holy Roller or something I didn't know all I knew was this wasn't part of the deal this isn't what I signed up for first word that went through my mind divorce I was gonna walk out but I stuck around and and what a couple of things happen on the positive side there were a lot of changes in Leslie and her character and the way she related to me and the kids there were winsome and they were attractive and and kind of pulled me towards faith but at the same time I wanted our old life back I wanted the old Leslie back and so I thought what can I do to get her out of this cult that she's got involved in and I thought well I got a good idea I'll just disprove Christianity because then I'll get her out of this cult and we can go back to our life the way it was and so I thought how do I do that how do you just through Christianity well actually I thought this has got to be pretty easy I think I can do it in a weekend and here's maybe a three-day weekend yeah okay but because I knew the key to everything is the resurrection of Jesus why because Jesus in a variety of different ways directly and indirectly made transcendent and messianic and divine claims about himself he claimed to be the Son of God at one point he gets up before a group John 10 verse 30 and he says I and the father are one and the word in Greek therefore one is not masculinist neuter which means Jesus was not saying I and the father are the same person he was saying I and the father are the same thing were one in nature were one in essence and how did the audience understand what he was saying they picked up stones to kill him he said well you you're just a man and you're claiming to be God so Jesus claimed to be the Son of God but so what I could claim to be the Son of God you could claim to be God anybody can claim to be God but if Jesus claimed to be God died and then three days later rose from the dead that's pretty good evidence he's telling the truth right that's why the resurrection is the linchpin of the Christian faith it's why the Apostle Paul says in 1st Corinthians 15 verse 17 if Christ has not been raised your faith is futile you're still in your sins what was he saying he was saying look Christianity is an investigative all faith and if you investigate it you find that the resurrection is not an actual historical event you are fully justified in walking away from the faith that's how bold he was well I was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune I've seen plenty of dead bodies I've not seen any of them come back to life and so I thought I can easily disprove that Jesus returned from the dead and so I want to kind of talk about what I discovered during what turned out to be a nearly two-year investigation into the minutia of the resurrection of Jesus into the historical data and I'm going to organize the data for the resurrection using four words that begin with the letter e that way it gives you a framework and the reason I might do this is a couple of reasons some of you may be like I was you know maybe a friend brought you today you're not sure about this Christianity stuff and and so for you I hope these four es give you something to think about about whether or not this is based on fairytales and make-believe wishful thinking or actual historical truth and then for those of us who are followers of Jesus you know first Peter 3:15 says that we are always been prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks us to give the reason for the hope that we have and to do it gently and respectfully and so this will give you a framework that you can always remember if anybody asks you why should I believe Christianity is true you could say let me tell you about the four E's so what are the four T's I want to emphasize though when I did this investigation I was a skeptic so I did not give the New Testament any special credence didn't consider to be an arrant inspired the Word of God I do now but I was a skeptic then but I had to accept the New Testament for what it undeniably is which is a set of ancient historical writings and I knew just as you can investigate any ancient writings whether they're by swart own yasur Tacitus or Josephus you can take those same investigative techniques and apply them to the historical record for the resurrection to try to come to a verdict is Christianity true and so that's what I did for a year in nine months in my investigation so what are the four es that summarize the evidence for the resurrection the first D stands for the word execution that Jesus was dead after being crucified and I learned very quickly as I did my investigation there is no dispute among scholars in the field I'm not just talking about Christian scholars I'm talking about the wide range of scholarship around the planet there is virtually no dispute among ancient historians that Jesus was dead after being crucified under Pontius Pilate why because when we study ancient history were lucky if we get one or or maybe two sources to confirm a fact and yet for the death of Jesus we not only have Mo early 1st century accounts in the records that are contained in the New Testament we've also got five ancient sources outside the Bible confirming and corroborating his death we have Josephus the first century Jewish historian to work for the Romans Tacitus another early historian mayor Bowser Appian Lucien even the Jewish Talmud admits that Jesus was executed I mean this is so well established of an historical fact you would get laughed out of a major academic institution if you came in and said no no I don't think Jesus was dead in fact no less of an authority than the peer-reviewed scientific medical journal of the American Medical Association conducted an investigation into the evidence for the death of Jesus let me quote to you their conclusion quote clearly the weight of the historical and medical evidence indicates that Jesus was dead even before the wound to his side was inflicted in fact we could go to an atheist New Testament scholar like GERD lunamon formerly of Vanderbilt University and he'll tell you this quote Jesus death as a consequence of crucifixion is indisputable indisputable now I don't know it's you're studying sin history but there are very few facts of ancient history that a skeptical critical atheist historian like a GERD lunamon will say is in disputable one of them is a death of Jesus in the cross the first he is for execution Jesus was dead the second II I think is the most fascinating stands for the word early we have early accounts or early reports that Jesus rose from the dead in other words reports that come virtually immediately after his death why is that important because I call out of skeptics I used to think that the resurrection of Jesus was a legend and I knew it took time for legend to develop in the ancient world so I figured 50 a hundred hundred and fifty two hundred years after the life of Jesus legends began to develop mythologies were spun stories were invented and that's where this idea of the resurrection came from but what I learned decimates the claim that the resurrection is merely a legend follow me on this I think this is fascinating we have preserved for us a Creed of the earliest Christians in other words right there in the first century itself these Christians would rally around this Creed based on facts that they knew to be true now this Creed contains the essence of Christianity says Jesus died why for our sins he was buried and the third day he rose from the dead and then it mentions the specific names of eyewitnesses and groups of eyewitnesses to whom he appeared appeared including opponents and skeptics now what's important about this Creed is how immediately it developed after the death of Jesus remember we said took time for legend to develop well we can date this Creed how because the Apostle Paul preserved it for us he wrote a letter about 22 to 25 years after the death of Jesus he writes a letter to the church in Corinth we call it first Corinthians if you want to look up the Creed later first Corinthians 15 starting at verse 3 so he writes this letter 22 to 25 years after the death of Jesus and in the context of how he writes it it suggests that he had already given him this Creed on an earlier visit and he was just repeating it in the letter so we can date the Creed passionately to within 20 years of the death of Jesus now we could stop there and that would be very impressive historically speaking when you consider the first two biographies of Alexander the Great by Arian and Plutarch written four hundred years after his life and they're generally considered reliable so 20 years is pretty good but we can go back earlier how because we know that that Paul used to be Saul of Tarsus a persecutor a hater of Christians one two three years after the death of Jesus he's on the road to Damascus boom he has this encounter with the risen Christ he becomes the Apostle Paul immediately he goes into Damascus and he meets with some apostles now many scholars say this is when the Tasos gave him this creed that he later shared with the church in corinth other scholars say wait a minute it may have been three years later three years later Paul goes to Jerusalem and he meets for 15 days with two eyewitnesses to the resurrection who are named in the Creed Peter and James and the Greek word that Paul uses in Galatians to describe this 15 day meeting history say suggests that this was an investigative inquiry they're checking each other out what did you know what did you see what do you experienced they're checking each other out many scholars say this is when Paul was given the Creed by two eyewitnesses named in the Creed but either way this means within 1 to 6 years after the death of Jesus this Creed is already in existence and therefore the beliefs that make up this Creed go back even earlier virtually to the cross itself so friends the point is there is no huge time gap between the death of Jesus and the later development of a legend that he rose from the dead we got a news flash goes right back to the beginning in fact one of the greatest scholars in this area is James DG Dunn and this is what he said about this Creed he said quote this tradition by that he means this Creed we can be entirely confident was formulated as a Creed as tradition within months of the death of Jesus within months friends this is historical gold the stories drew over stuff like this and this is a news flash from the beginning in fact nowhere ever in history do we ever see a legend developing that fast and wiping out a solid core of historical truth in fact one of the greatest classical historians will ever live and Sherwin white of Oxford he actually studied the rate at which legend developed in the ancient world and he said the passage of two generations of time is not even enough for legend to grow up and wipe out a solid core of historical truth we don't have two generations of time pass in here we got a news flash goes right back to the beginning and that's not the only early report we've got we've got others in Matthew Mark Luke John the book of Acts elsewhere in the epistle said that we're all circulating during the lifetimes of Jesus contemporaries who would have been all too happy to point out the errors if they were making this stuff up France we got an execution Jesus was dead we have reports of his resurrection that are so early that you can't write them off as being a legend but that's not all we've got we've got a third wait word that begins with the letter e it's the word empty we have an empty tomb the historical record tells us that Jesus body was placed in the tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea remember the Jewish Council it was sealed Matthew tells us it's guarded and yet it's discovered empty that first Easter morning now some critics believe as I used to believe that wait a min I'll tell you why the tomb is empty the body was never really in it don't you know they didn't bury crucifixion victims they left him on the cross to be eaten by birds or they threw him to the dogs they didn't allow them to be buried that's why the tomb was empty well wait a minute I checked it out what did I find I found that when you read the digesta which is a summary of the Roman law and procedure from the first century it specifically says that crucifixion victims execution victims can be buried not only that we have in 1968 the remains of a crucifixion victim who had been buried that were discovered right there some male from the first century he was executed they found him with a spike still through his ankle bone and then just about two weeks ago they announced the discovery of another crucifixion victim who had been buried so we have archaeological evidence that yes some crucifixion victims at least were buried and with good reason to believe that's what happened with Jesus so what happened to them how did the tomb get empty you know how can we how can we know that it really was empty on that first Easter morning well we could talk the rest of the day about all the various strands of historical evidence that established the empty to but I'm just gonna give you one fat cuz to me this this is conclusive and here it is even the enemies of Jesus admitted that it was empty how do we know because when the disciples began proclaiming that Jesus had risen what the opponents of Jesus never said was baloney go open the tomb you'll find the body that's all they needed to say it would have put the onus on the disciples to prove it but I didn't say that what did they say we know from sources inside and outside the New Testament that when the disciples began proclaiming that Jesus had risen what the opponent said was oh well the disciples stole the body now think about that what is that that's a cover story they're implicitly conceding the tomb is empty they're just trying to explain how it got empty see what I'm saying it's like if you're a teacher and a student comes up to you and says the dog ate my homework that students admitting look I don't have my homework but I could explain what happened to it the dog ate it it's the same thing so either explicitly or implicitly both the supporters and the enemies of Jesus are saying the same thing that the tomb of Jesus was empty I don't think that's ever been the question of history we're all conceding that really the question of history is how did it get empty that is the question so you look at the usual list of suspects aromas weren't about to steal the body they wanted Jesus dead the Jewish leaders of the day weren't about to steal the body they wanted Jesus to stay dead the disciples weren't about to steal the body they didn't have the motive they didn't have the means they didn't have the opportunity I think the best explanation for the tomb being empty is that Jesus physically returned from the dead especially when we combine it with the fourth word that begins with the letter E which is the word eyewitnesses not only was Jesus tomb discovered empty but over a period of time Jesus appears alive in a dozen different instances - more than five hundred and fifteen people - skeptics and doubters as well as the believers two men two women daytime nighttime two groups two individuals people talk to them they they touch them they ate with them and think of this ment remember we said earlier we're lucky in ancient history if we have one or two sources to confirm a fact we'll get this for the conviction of the disciples that they encountered the resurrected Jesus we have no fewer than nine ancient sources inside and outside the New Testament confirming and corroborating the conviction of the disciples that they encountered the resurrected Jesus friends that is an avalanche of historical data and of course the historical record tells us this experience revolutionized the lives of the disciples I mean after Jesus is put to death they're afraid they're gonna get executed they go into hiding they're gonna go back to the fishing business and yet history undeniably tells us just a few weeks later in the very same city where Jesus has been executed these once cowardly disciples are now proclaiming with boldness that Jesus not only claimed to be the son of God he backed up that claim by returning from the dead and they were willing to proclaim that message to their deaths now how some of the disciples actually died gets a little cloudy in ancient history but that's not my point my point is their willingness to die we have seven ancient sources six of them outside the Bible that confirm that the disciples live lives of deprivation and suffering as a result of their Proclamation that Jesus had risen why were they willing to do that because they saw on CNN that Jesus had risen no because they read in new york times no because a sunday-school teacher told them no because they were there of all human beings who've ever lived in history the disciples were in a unique position they were there they encountered personally the resurrected Jesus they knew for a fact is this a lie or is it the truth and knowing it was a truth they were willing to die for that Proclamation that tells me something about the veracity of their claims friends I spent almost two years of my life investigating the minutiae historically around the resurrection of Jesus and it all came down to a Sunday afternoon and I realized you know at some point every juror needs to reach a verdict and I thought you know what the evidence is in I'm not after two years I don't think I'm gonna find some newsflash something I missed so I said I got to reach a verdict so I sat down with all the evidence I had encountered over this two years as massive volumes of material and I'm kind of sorting through it and when I stop and wait a second and I kind of step back I said you know in the light of the avalanche of evidence that points so powerfully toward the truth of Christianity I realize it would take more faith to maintain my atheism than to become a Christian I mean that was my conclusion it was like the scales just tipped like this and I realized based on the historical data I was convinced Jesus not only claimed to be the Son of God he backed up that claim by returning from the dead and then you know how I felt I kind of felt let down I did I thought it's been two years shouldn't uh shouldn't an angel appear about now I mean that would be cool something an earthquake would be great something dramatic if it was kind of let down after two years is that in he said it but then I read a verse John 1:12 says but as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of God even to those who believe in his name and I realize ok believing the evidence concluding reaching the verdict that Jesus claimed to be the son of God backed it up by returning from the dead that's great that's important it's not enough it's not enough believed plus receive I had to receive receive what we see this free gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased for me on the cross when he died as my substitute to pay for all of my sin and when I would receive this free gift of His grace then I would become a child of God and so I got on my knees and I poured out a confession of a lifetime of immorality that would absolutely curl your hair and at that moment I received complete and total forgiveness through Jesus Christ and I became a child of God and I remember remember leslie burst into tears and she threw her arms around my neck and she said you hard-hearted son of a Baptist I've been telling you this for two years hello no I'm kidding she didn't say yeah I always wished she'd said that because that would have made a great story there would have been a great capper if she had done that but that's not Leslie she burst into tears and she threw her arms round my neck and she said oh honey I almost gave up on you a thousand times she said when I was a new Christian I met some women at church and I said I don't have any hope for my husband he is a hard-headed hard-hearted legal editor the Chicago Tribune he will never bend his knee to Jesus and this one elderly Saint put her arm around her shoulder and pulled her to the side and she said Oh Leslie no one is beyond hope and she gave reverse from the old testament ezekiel 36:26 this says moreover I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh and so what I never knew at the time this whole two years I'm on this investigative journey what I never knew is every day my wife behind the scenes was on her knees praying that verse for me and can I tell you what happened starting on that Sunday afternoon now that I'd received Jesus as my forgiver and leader now that I've become a child of God and then over time as I was baptized as I became part of a vibrant church like this one as I learned to read the Bible with fresh eyes as I learned to worship as I learned to pray God began to answer Leslie's prayers because my values changed and my morality changed and my character changed and my priorities and my relationships and my worldview and my philosophy and my parenting are our marriage I mean all these things over time began to change for the good and this is always where I would get stuck because somebody would say to me well leave tell me your story how'd you come to faith okay and I tell the whole story up to here and I wouldn't know what to say because what's what stuck me was was how do I communicate to you you didn't know me when I was literally drunk in the snow in an alley you didn't know me when I was living my former life so what words can I use to help you understand the difference Jesus has made in my life you see what I'm saying how do I explain that to you cuz you didn't know me back then and I ask God what do I say the only thing I can say is what happened to my little girl Allison think about this for a second here's a little kid five years old by then when I came to faith all she had known the first five years of her life was a dad who was absent angry kicking holes in walls coming home drunk there was her whole life but starting on that Sunday afternoon when I gave my life to Jesus you know what she did she started to watch something's changing with my dad something's different with my dad something is new with my dad there's never studied ancient history never interviewed a scholar never studied archaeology just five years old but she could listen she could watch she could observe and she did she watched how God changed my life and it took about four or five months and then one Sunday morning she came up to Lesley and what she said I want God to do for me what he's done for daddy an age five at age five my little girl received this forgiveness and gift of eternal life from Jesus became a child of God today she's married to a Seminary graduate she's a novelist she writes works of fiction but they all have the message of Jesus woven into them her and her husband together write children's books about God she is the mother of two of my four precious grandchildren and today were the best of friends and same thing with my son my son saw the difference that God was making in his mom and his dad and his sister and he came to faith at a young age too but he took an academic route got an undergraduate degree in biblical studies got a master's degree in philosophy of religion got another master's degree in New Testament and then after many years of research and study at Yale University and at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland he was awarded his PhD in theology and so now you know and he does he's a professor at one of the largest Christian seminaries in America teaching young people about Jesus Christ and five years ago five years ago his wife gave birth to our first grandson and he named him after his dead friends God rescued our family he changed my son he changed my daughter he changed my wife he changed me and now next month Leslie and I will celebrate our 46th wedding anniversary together so that's my story that's my story so let me let me just end with this let me just take my story and apply it to you remember that equation from John 1:12 believed plus receive equals become you might be here today because you're like I was and a friend invited you and you're a skeptic and you're not sure about this stuff and what I said today resonated with you but you still on a journey and I want to say this to you if you do not right now believe that Jesus is who he claimed to be that's ok it's ok as long as you do what I did and you check it out do your own investigation check it out the historical data is there but you owe it to yourself to investigate it the Old Testament the New Testament both say if you sincerely seek God guess what you're gonna find him you're gonna find him but I'm going to end with this some of you may believe but you're not sure if you've ever received you know you come to a place like this and and you hear people talk with such passion right about their relationship with God they have a personal authentic deep relationship with God you hear them talk this way and in the back of your mind you're thinking why is it not like that with me why why does God seem so distant from me could it be because you believe the right stuff which is great but there's never really been a point in time where you have received Jesus as your forgiver and leader receive this free gift of His grace and thus according to John 1:12 become an authentic child of a god I'm just asking the question you know the Bible says these things are written to you who believe in the name of the son of God in orange you may know that you have eternal life God doesn't want you in a state of confusion he doesn't want you wandering interstate of ambiguity where you stand with him you can know for a fact that you are adopted as a son or a daughter of the Most High you can know it how when you believe and you receive you may say well how can I believe I still got questions of course we all have questions that's ok all you need to know for sure right now is Jesus claimed to be the son of God and he backed it up by returning from the dead

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Published: Tue Jul 03 2018