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1. Thanks for joining me today for “A Little Walk with God.” I’m your host Richard Agee.
2. Childbirth is filled with emotion. It starts out painfully, but ends with great joy.
3. Scripture
   1. John 16:19-22
   2. Jesus: Are you trying to figure out what I mean when I say you will see Me in a little while?  I tell you the truth, a time is approaching when you will weep and mourn while the world is celebrating. You will grieve, but that grief will give birth to great joy.  In the same way that a woman labors in great pain during childbirth only to forget the intensity of the pain when she holds her child, when I return, your labored grief will also change into a joy that cannot be stolen.
4. Devotional
   1. If you’ve never witnessed a childbirth first hand, I have to tell you, it’s an incredible event.
      1. My wife is a Registered Nurse and the first several years of her career worked in neonatal care
      2. Witnessed a lot of births
      3. Cried every time
      4. I saw my own children being born
      5. Words can’t describe the experience
   2. But for my wife
      1. Both kids were a month late
      2. Don’t let mothers do that today
      3. Both were good sized kids over 8 and 10 pounds
      4. Pregnancy and especially labor with those two was not fun for her
      5. Neither labor was short 36 and 24 hours of intense pain; no C-section
      6. An emotional roller coaster, though
      7. Pain followed by indescribable joy
   3. That’s what the disciples were about to go through
      1. Master arrested, tortured, and crucified
      2. Buried in a borrowed tomb
      3. But then comes Easter
      4. That joy cannot be stolen
   4. Unlike those Jesus raised from the dead:
      1. Widow’s son died again
      2. Jairus’ daughter died again
      3. Lazarus died again
      4. Jesus rose never to die again
   5. Easter is just around the corner, but we can celebrate every day
      1. He is still alive
      2. He lives in us
      3. We can celebrate Him when He lives in us
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