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by many long before the English word

Easter was ever adopted into the English

Bible. We didn't get the word Easter in an

English Bible until 1525, but there were

saints of God who recognized the resurrection

of Jesus Christ for 1500 years before that.

So what is Easter? We still put aside all

the paganism. You don't see an Easter tree

here this morning with eggs hanging from

it. We won’t have an egg hunt this

afternoon. We don't have chocolate

bunnies. We're not even going to have ham

for lunch. We're going to have turkey. But

here's the point. We put aside all of these

things that have crept into the church of

Jesus Christ, we ignore them, but we take

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