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Episode 154 - Government Insurrection · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul and
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  Speaker 1: all that is within me. Bless His holy name. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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  Speaker 1: the Lord for a man, this opportunity, to a man
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  Speaker 1: speak the truth of God. And of course today Friday, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Good Friday, April Amen. Today is April the eighteenth. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it is just before the Easter celebration Sunday, where
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  Speaker 1: we of course always commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Amen. But before he could rise from
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  Speaker 1: the dead, he had to be put to death. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, this is what we have been dealing
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  Speaker 1: with in our series that we've been in for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who've been following along with us, God, Government,
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  Speaker 1: Church and State. And we're going to continue a man
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  Speaker 1: with that with this Good Friday, A man message about
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  Speaker 1: a man government insurrection. Government insurrection, Amen, against Jesus the Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That is exactly what transpired. Amen. They a man rebelled
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  Speaker 1: against the rule of God, Jesus being their king. They
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  Speaker 1: refused to a man acknowledge him as king as Messiah.
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  Speaker 1: So it was the government that insurrected itself against the
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  Speaker 1: government of God and put to death. Amen, Jesus the Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we began, And by the way, if
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  Speaker 1: you have your bibles, go with us. So the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John chapter number eighteen. We're going to begin there
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  Speaker 1: in just a few moments, the Gospel of John chapter eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: But let's of course take a moment to a man
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  Speaker 1: invoke the presence of the Lord Father. Again. We love you,
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  Speaker 1: we praise you, and we shall never forget the precious
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  Speaker 1: blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for the remission
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  Speaker 1: of our sins. Lord, We thank you that you have
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  Speaker 1: set us free. Amen, you have illuminated our hearts and
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  Speaker 1: minds and given us great hope a man through the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Love. We pray
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  Speaker 1: today that somewhere someone's eyes and ears will be opened,
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  Speaker 1: and their hearts will be receptive to coming to know
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  Speaker 1: that you are the true, the Living God, the only
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  Speaker 1: salvation that is available to man. You are the Way,
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  Speaker 1: the Truth, and the Life. Lord. We love you, We
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  Speaker 1: praise you, and again thank you for your word that
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  Speaker 1: you've sent down from heaven, that we may eat and
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  Speaker 1: live thereby be glorified. And all we say and do
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  Speaker 1: it's in the name of Jesus to Christ. We pray you. Thanks. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right again, if you have your Bibles, you can
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  Speaker 1: go with us to the Gospel of John chapter of eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna begin there just a moment to kill Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: As we've been talking about already previous podcast episodes, there
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  Speaker 1: was a plot to kill Jesus, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: well orchestrated Amen collusive effort on the part of Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the government of both Jews and Gentiles. Jesus died for
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. He also died for the gentiles. Amen, he
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  Speaker 1: died for his sheep, A man that would come, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Not only of this foe, he said, but other sheep
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  Speaker 1: that I have them, I must also bring, referring to
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  Speaker 1: those of us who were outside of the covenant of promise,
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  Speaker 1: a man outside of the seed, as it were of Abraham,
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  Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob. And so they plotted, they plotted, They
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  Speaker 1: schemed a man, and on multiple fronts, a man from
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning of jesus ministry to kill him. Yet
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  Speaker 1: it was an appointed time a man, and Jesus, of course,
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  Speaker 1: would prepare his disciples for this. The closer they got
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  Speaker 1: to that particular a man moment in which he would
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  Speaker 1: be taken, he prepared his disciples for this treachery. And
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  Speaker 1: it was even more treacherous in the fact that a man,
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  Speaker 1: one of them, who had been his familiar friend, as
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  Speaker 1: the Bible calls him Judas a man, betrayed him into
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  Speaker 1: the hands of a man. The government officials, having himself
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  Speaker 1: also colluded with them, selling Jesus out for a man
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  Speaker 1: the price of a slave. But all of this, of course,
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  Speaker 1: was predestined by God. It was determined predetermined in eternity past,
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  Speaker 1: in the Godhead, that Christ would come, Amen, and give
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  Speaker 1: himself over. Amen. Even though we talked about how Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was taken into custody by government force, Amen, the officers
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  Speaker 1: in the band of officers that came to take Jesus
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  Speaker 1: by force, even though he was taken as it were,
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  Speaker 1: we know, of course, that Jesus, a man, surrendered himself.
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  Speaker 1: He yielded himself over to them. He said to Peter,
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  Speaker 1: I am able, Peter, no need for the sword. I
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  Speaker 1: am able to call down legions of angels. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: this is their hour and the power of darkness. And
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  Speaker 1: yet it would be a glorious time, even though darkness
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  Speaker 1: would be over all of the face of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and there would be an earthquake that would tear the
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  Speaker 1: veil of the temple from top to bottom. During this time,
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  Speaker 1: and it was light. It was glorious, It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It was liberating a man, the beginning, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: of our freedom. Amen. He whom the sun sets free
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  Speaker 1: is free. Indeed, without the shedding of blood, there is
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  Speaker 1: no remission of sins, and so our sins had to
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  Speaker 1: be remitted. There was a price that had to be paid,
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  Speaker 1: and only by the shedding of the blood of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: to Christ was worthy Amen, to a man wash away
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  Speaker 1: our sins. His blood is the only blood that was
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  Speaker 1: a man, pure and undefouled, untain it by sin, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the dna of sin that runs through the veins of
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  Speaker 1: all of us a man, was not in the veins
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. And so his blood, pure and undefouled, only
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  Speaker 1: could wash away atone for amen, our sins and our guilt.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the government nor those who would
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  Speaker 1: consent to the shedding of this precious blood of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in the murder of this innocent one, would be guiltless.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go now to the Gospel of John. And
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  Speaker 1: I have my Bible here through chapter eighteen, and let's
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  Speaker 1: begin verse number twelve. We'll pick it up there. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us, then the band and the captain and
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  Speaker 1: officers of the Jews, this is the government. Now they
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  Speaker 1: took Jesus, and they bound him and led him away
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  Speaker 1: to Annas first, for he was father in law to Caiaphas,
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  Speaker 1: which was the high priest that same year. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about that in our previous session. Now Caiaphas was he
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  Speaker 1: who gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient
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  Speaker 1: that one man should die for the people. And of
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  Speaker 1: course we're going to skip those verses fifteen through eighteen
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  Speaker 1: the denial by Peter. But Jesus is now standing before
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  Speaker 1: the High Priest, version number nineteen. The High Priest asked
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  Speaker 1: Jesus of his disciples of his doctrine, and Jesus answered him,
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  Speaker 1: I spake openly to the world. Again, Jesus did not
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  Speaker 1: come to do what he did in secret. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't hiding from anyone. Amen. He wasn't hiding his doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: his teachings. Amen. He openly proclaimed, Amen, the truth who
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  Speaker 1: he was. Amen. He made no bones about it. I
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  Speaker 1: am the Christ, I am the way, I am the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I am the like I am the door by me,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I mean all of the statements that Jesus made. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He did it openly. And he says, I ever taught
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  Speaker 1: in the synagogue, in the temple where the Jews always resort,
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  Speaker 1: and in secret have I said nothing? Why are you
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  Speaker 1: asking me? Ask them who heard me what I have said?
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  Speaker 1: Unto them? Behold, they know what I said. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course one of the officers the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: in verse twenty two, which stood by, he struck Jesus
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  Speaker 1: with the palm of his hands, saying, answerest thou the
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  Speaker 1: high priest? So Jesus answered him, if I have spoken evil,
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  Speaker 1: then bear witness of the evil. But if well, then
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  Speaker 1: why did you strike me? And has had sent him
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  Speaker 1: bound to Caiaphas, to high priest? Of course, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us verse twenty eight. They then lead
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  Speaker 1: Jesus away from Caiaphas, now unto the hall of judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Now they take him from a man, the Jewish court,
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  Speaker 1: as it were. By the way, we didn't even delve
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  Speaker 1: into all of the illegalities of their own violation of
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  Speaker 1: the law a man in ensuring that they condemned Jesus'
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  Speaker 1: illegal trial at night. Jesus had no representative, a man.
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  Speaker 1: All of the Sanhedrin was not necessarily present at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and they did not agree. And there was just so
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  Speaker 1: many things. We've talked about this in the past. What
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  Speaker 1: they did a man, of course, in denying Jesus a
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  Speaker 1: fair trial, as it were, a man. And so now
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  Speaker 1: after they have colluded together, he had already predetermined, of course,
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  Speaker 1: again in their minds that Jesus was guilty and he
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  Speaker 1: had to die. He could not continue, cannot we simply
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  Speaker 1: cannot allow him to a man continue with this ministry
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  Speaker 1: of his. He is sucking away our power, our influence.
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  Speaker 1: He comes into the temple, he says that it is
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  Speaker 1: his house, his father's house. He's overturning the tables, disrupting
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  Speaker 1: our business. He's cutting into our money and profits. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this this system we have set up a man, our
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  Speaker 1: religious order that we have, he is wreaking havoc upon it.
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  Speaker 1: People by the multitudes a man are thronging him or
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  Speaker 1: following him, and we just can't have that. This is
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  Speaker 1: the government, ladies and gentlemen. This is the government that
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  Speaker 1: decides that Jesus must die. And of course they were
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  Speaker 1: already in cahoots with the Roman officials. And now they
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  Speaker 1: lead him away to Pilot, to the hall of judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible says it was early Amen. And then
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they had already taken Jesus that Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: and after he had been with its disciples, they went
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  Speaker 1: into the gardeners where they again the band of officers,
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  Speaker 1: and all this is something that they just simply had
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  Speaker 1: to do. Amen. Early in the morning, they bring him,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, into the hall of judgment. But they
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  Speaker 1: them else, the Bible tells us here in verse twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: they would not go into the judgment hall lest they
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  Speaker 1: should be defiled, wow that they might eat the passover.
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  Speaker 1: So they amen, didn't mind violating all of Jesus' rites. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: no representation. Amen. Again. Now they pretend that they are,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sanctified and sanctimonious and holy and separate from sinners.
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  Speaker 1: While they put Jesus forward a man into the hall
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  Speaker 1: of judgment to be tried now by the gentiles, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us verse twenty nine. Pilot then went out
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  Speaker 1: into them and said, what accusation do you bring against
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  Speaker 1: this man? And they answered and said, unto him. Watch
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  Speaker 1: their answer. If he were not a malefactor, if he
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  Speaker 1: was not an evil doer, we would not have delivered
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  Speaker 1: him up unto thee. Now take note, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't answer the question about what the accusation was.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, well, if he wasn't an evil doer,
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be here with him.
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  Speaker 1: So he's an evil doer. That's why he's here. He's
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  Speaker 1: an evil doer. Well what did he do? So Pilot,
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  Speaker 1: being the who Pilot was, you got to give this
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  Speaker 1: Pilot he was astute. Pilot was he was? He was.
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  Speaker 1: He was very much aware of their motives. He was
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  Speaker 1: very much aware. The Bible tells us that they were
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  Speaker 1: envious of Jesus. He knew what they were doing. He
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  Speaker 1: figured it out, he did. And I would say a
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  Speaker 1: commendable job in uh examining Jesus, questioning Jesus, questioning them
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  Speaker 1: as well. He went back and forth as we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see here, and I did the whole series, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, on this pilot's dilemma, because Pilot asked some
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  Speaker 1: very very good questions that really, in essence, really kind
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  Speaker 1: of still applicable to this very day. He asked Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: for example, are you the king of the Jews? He
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  Speaker 1: asked Jesus, what is truth? I mean, he asked Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: what have you done? I mean? These are things, these
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  Speaker 1: are things we need to answer. I mean neutrality when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Jesus, none of us can be neutral
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  Speaker 1: a man. You have to amen take a side. And
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  Speaker 1: this is something Pilot, as an astute politician sought to do.
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  Speaker 1: He sought to get out of this. But nevertheless, as
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see a man, the conspiracy a man,
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  Speaker 1: the mob mentality was so strong that Pilot himself was cornered,
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  Speaker 1: and as it were a man. So it is with
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  Speaker 1: all men. You have to make a decision concerning Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You simply cannot be neutral. You must say yes, you
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  Speaker 1: must say no. You must be with him. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: must be against him. So Pilate said, what what? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what has he done? Why is he here? Amen? So
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  Speaker 1: if you don't tell me, then you take him, That's
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  Speaker 1: what he says. He says to them, Now, well you
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  Speaker 1: take him and judge him according to your law. The
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  Speaker 1: Jews therefore said them to men, it's not lawful for
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  Speaker 1: us to put any man to death. Wait. Wait, oh wait,
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  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing here a little bit. Wait a minute, is
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  Speaker 1: this a capital case? I mean? What? What? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What I mean? Wait a minute? What is the crime
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  Speaker 1: here that this man is guilty of death? So Pilot
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  Speaker 1: verse thirty three, the Bible says, entered into the judgment
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  Speaker 1: hall again, and he called Jesus and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: are you the king of the Jews. And Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to Pilot, are you saying this of yourself? Or did
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  Speaker 1: someone else tell you this about me? And Pilot answered,
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  Speaker 1: am I a Jew? Oh? That's a beautiful question too.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, thine own nation and chief priests have
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  Speaker 1: delivered thee unto me. What have you done, Jesus, What
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  Speaker 1: did you do? It's a very good question. What did
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  Speaker 1: Jesus do? Since they didn't have the accusation against Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't tell Pilot what Jesus did. They only said
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  Speaker 1: he's an evil doer and he needs to be put
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  Speaker 1: to death. So Jesus asked Pilot, what did you do?
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus answers Pilot verse thirty six, My kingdom is
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  Speaker 1: not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world,
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  Speaker 1: then with my servants fight that I should not be
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  Speaker 1: delivered to the Jews. But now is my kingdom not
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  Speaker 1: from hence man a. That's a lot. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: packed in those few words of Jesus his response to Pilot.
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  Speaker 1: But Pilot then said to Jesus, well, are you a
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  Speaker 1: king then? And Jesus said, you said, so, thou sayst
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  Speaker 1: that I am a king? Yes. In other words, Jesus says, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I am a king. And by the way, not only
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  Speaker 1: is he a king, he of course is the king.
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  Speaker 1: He is the king of kings, he is the lord
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  Speaker 1: of lords. Thou sayst that I am a king? Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: to this end, was I born? And for this cause
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  Speaker 1: came I into the world, Girl, that I should bear
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  Speaker 1: witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the truth
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  Speaker 1: heareth my voice. Pilot said, unto him, what is truth?
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  Speaker 1: And when he had said this, the Bible says, he
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  Speaker 1: went out again unto the Jews and said to them,
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  Speaker 1: I find in him no fault at all. I find
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus no fault at all. There you have it,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Pilot understood that Jesus was not guilty
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  Speaker 1: of anything. They had not brought any accusation. And from
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  Speaker 1: his examination of Jesus up until this point, he says,
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  Speaker 1: what if this matter's done nothing worthy of death? As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, not only has he not done
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  Speaker 1: anything worthy of death, I don't find any fault in
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  Speaker 1: him at all. But Pilot, again, being the astute politician
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  Speaker 1: that he was, understanding the dilemma that he was in
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  Speaker 1: and that he had to somehow appease the Jews. He
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  Speaker 1: understood the temperature as it were of the crowd. He says,
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  Speaker 1: you have a custom, though, that I should release unto
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  Speaker 1: you one at the passover? Will you, therefore, that I
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  Speaker 1: release unto you the king of the Jews. Pilot, of course,
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  Speaker 1: now is trying to maneuver his way out of this
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  Speaker 1: a man. And he was thinking, thinking in his mind
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  Speaker 1: that if I would offer this a man customed to them,
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  Speaker 1: they will certainly take this opportunity a man to get me,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, out of this quandary that I find
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  Speaker 1: myself in. But of course, Pilot, being again he's sharp,
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  Speaker 1: Pilot takes one of the most notorious man insurrectionists, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, by the name of Barrabbis, whom he puts
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  Speaker 1: forth against Jesus. You want Jesus or do you want
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  Speaker 1: Barabbas h Certainly this faultless, you know, guiltless man who
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  Speaker 1: has done nothing, surely you will want him as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to this troublemaker, this known a man rabbit rouser in
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  Speaker 1: your community. And they shocked Pilot. I believe they shot
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  Speaker 1: shake shocked Pilot and caught him off guard. Man so
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  Speaker 1: he says, will you therefore that I release himTo you,
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  Speaker 1: the king of the Jews. In other words, he's he's simply,
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  Speaker 1: he's almost as if it were trying to coerce an
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  Speaker 1: answer out of them. Don't you want your king? Don't
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  Speaker 1: you want your king? Amen? Is this not the one
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  Speaker 1: that you want me to release you? And they said no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we don't want him. He said, no, not this man,
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  Speaker 1: but Barabbis. Barabbius, the Bible tells us a verse forty
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  Speaker 1: was a robber. And so into chapter nineteen, they take
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  Speaker 1: Jesus pilot does this is the government? This is the government?
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  Speaker 1: Who is now He's now in the hands of the
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  Speaker 1: government of the Gentiles, being urged on by the government
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews. By the way, it wasn't all of
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  Speaker 1: the people they would later, of course, or at this time,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the chief priest and the elders and the scribes.
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  Speaker 1: They stirred up the people. Now, some of these people,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, were the same individuals who had in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of this week of Passion, when Jesus entered into
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  Speaker 1: a man the city of Jerusalem, riding on the donkey
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  Speaker 1: a man. Many of these same people perhaps had put
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  Speaker 1: their coats down in the streets and waved those palm branches, saying, Hosanna, Hosanna,
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  Speaker 1: blessed does he who comes in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have been stirred up by this insurrection of
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  Speaker 1: government officials, who now turned these people a man away
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  Speaker 1: from Hosanna Hosannah blessed is he who comes in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord to crucify him, crucify him. Give
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  Speaker 1: us barabbas so pilot. The Bible says, he takes Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he scourges Jesus. In other words, they beat him. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they beat him mercilessly. The soldiers, the Bible says, platted
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  Speaker 1: a crown of thorns, put it on his head, put
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  Speaker 1: on him a purple robe, and said, hell, king of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews. And they smoked him with their hands. Piloted
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  Speaker 1: therefore went forth again again. He's hoping that this will
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  Speaker 1: appease them. He's hoping that this will suffice. He's hoping
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  Speaker 1: that this will be enough. He's beat him and marred
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  Speaker 1: him literally beyond record nition. Amen. And so he brings
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  Speaker 1: Jesus a man out to them, and says, listen, I
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  Speaker 1: bring him forth to you. That you may know that
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  Speaker 1: I find no fault in him. This verse number four,
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  Speaker 1: Now again Pilot reiterates the fact that Jesus done nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He's finding no fault in him. Yet Pilot beat him
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  Speaker 1: or had him beaten. Amen scourged a man in order
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  Speaker 1: again to kind of placate the Jews, as it were.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want any trouble. He didn't want any a
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  Speaker 1: man insurrection from them against him and against his government.
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  Speaker 1: And he would have to put down this a man,
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  Speaker 1: mob a man, and also answer a man as to
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  Speaker 1: why it was taking place under his jurisdiction. A Pilot
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  Speaker 1: didn't want that, and so a man. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: this is the time of the Passover, and there are
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  Speaker 1: a whole host of people a man have come back
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  Speaker 1: to the Jerusalem from all over Jews from all over
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  Speaker 1: the world have descended upon Amen the city a man
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  Speaker 1: during this time. And so Pilot has all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: extra security and forces Amen to make sure that there
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  Speaker 1: is no Amen problems during this time. And this is
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  Speaker 1: not something Pilot wanted. Amen, no problem. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: any trouble. Amen. So let me scourge this man, let
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  Speaker 1: me whip him good. And I'm bringing him back. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible tells us that verse five, and
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  Speaker 1: Jesus comes forth wearing the crown of thorns purple rob
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  Speaker 1: and Pilot said, look behold the man and the chief priest.
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  Speaker 1: Look this is this is government, y'all. The chief priest
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  Speaker 1: therefore and officers they saw Jesus and they cried out, saying,
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  Speaker 1: crucify him, crucify him. And Pida said, wait, will you
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  Speaker 1: take him and you crucify him? For I find no
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  Speaker 1: fault in him. That's the third time, the third time
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  Speaker 1: Pilot has said, this a man in John's account, I
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  Speaker 1: find no fault in him. The Jews answered, we have
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  Speaker 1: a law, and by our law he ought to die
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  Speaker 1: because he made himself the son of God. And Pilot, oh, piate, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: ho whoa, whoa, whoa. Pila said, wait, wait, wait, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: hold on wait a minute. When he heard that, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, Pilot was the more afraid. And so he
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  Speaker 1: goes back into the judgment hall, and man he says
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, where are you from? But Jesus gave him
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  Speaker 1: no answer. Now, the Jews and Pilot, and they of
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  Speaker 1: course superstitious, and they had all kinds of gods, had
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  Speaker 1: a pantheon of gods, and Pilot certainly didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: take any chances. Here a man of you know this god.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, later Paul the Apostle, would a man
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  Speaker 1: be in the midst of Athens where they would have
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  Speaker 1: all of these gods, and they'd have this this, this,
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  Speaker 1: this image with a superscription written engraved to the unknown God.
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  Speaker 1: And so Pilot was in that same kind of mindset.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, hold on, wait, but
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  Speaker 1: let me make sure I'm not I'm not about to
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  Speaker 1: do something that I'm going to regret severely. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you from? Where did you I didn't ask, what did
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  Speaker 1: you say you were from? Where are you from? The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says Jesus gave him no answer. Pilot says to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: then are you not speaking to me? Don't you know
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  Speaker 1: that I have the power to crucify you. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: know I have the power to release you? In other words, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: your life is in my hands. I have the authority.
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  Speaker 1: I have the power to say whether or not you
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  Speaker 1: live or die. Boy, I wish I had time to best.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time. Woo, Pilot, and and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this is the arrogance of and not
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  Speaker 1: just this is just something that that kind of goes
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  Speaker 1: along with the territory of being in government, being in power,
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the seats of judgment, as it were, the
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  Speaker 1: power to prosecute people, to condemn people, to destroy people's lives. This,
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  Speaker 1: for I mean, for the most part, this is in
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  Speaker 1: the power of government. And this is exactly what happens here.
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  Speaker 1: A man Pilot being the government, being the chief officer
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  Speaker 1: of the Roman, a man empire in that region, a
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  Speaker 1: man the governor of that region. He has the power
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  Speaker 1: Amen to decide whether or not, Amen, someone is going
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  Speaker 1: to live or die when the capital cases is brought
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  Speaker 1: against them. And so he asserts to Jesus, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the one who has the power of your life in
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  Speaker 1: my hands, sir, Amen, I can have you crucified, I
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  Speaker 1: can release you, and I wish oh man, I just
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  Speaker 1: got let me just I just got it. I got scattered. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now again, because Jesus is going to respond to Pilot
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  Speaker 1: on this in saying that you don't have any power
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  Speaker 1: at all against me except that which has been granted
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  Speaker 1: unto you, given to you. But the one who has
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  Speaker 1: delivered me up to you, Pilot, they are the one
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  Speaker 1: who have the greater sin. In other words, you're not excused,
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  Speaker 1: you're not exonerated, you're not guiltless in all of this. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the ones who have delivered me, primarily chiefly the government
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews, Amen, they have the greater sin. Now
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  Speaker 1: in this, of course, Pilot, he thinks he has the power,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he has the authority, but he doesn't. And
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  Speaker 1: this is what Jesus says, the power, Pilot, brother, you
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  Speaker 1: have no power at all except what has been given
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  Speaker 1: to you. You don't determine my life, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: I live or die. In essence, what Pilot was simply doing,
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  Speaker 1: unbeknownst to him, was determining whether or not he would
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  Speaker 1: live or die. Decision that you make concerning Jesus determines
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  Speaker 1: your fate, It determines your faith. Your fate is determined
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  Speaker 1: by your decision that you made concerning Jesus. And so
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  Speaker 1: the decision that Pilot was making was not about sparing Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: allowing Jesus to live, because Jesus had already and he would.
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  Speaker 1: I mean again say, look, no one takes my life
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  Speaker 1: from me. I have the power to lay it down.
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  Speaker 1: I have the power to take it up again. I'm
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  Speaker 1: surrendering myself to you. Sir. Jesus didn't say this, of course,
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  Speaker 1: I'm simply saying what is blatantly obvious in the fact
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  Speaker 1: that again Jesus could have a man again, as he said,
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  Speaker 1: called down legions of angels. And he's already said to Pilty,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, my kingdom is not of this world,
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  Speaker 1: because if it were of this world, my subjects, my
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  Speaker 1: soldiers would fight for me. But my kingdom is not
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  Speaker 1: of this world. And you don't have the powers to
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  Speaker 1: take my life. Laying my life down willingly, Jesus said this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm laying my life down willingly. No one takes my
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  Speaker 1: life from me. And so again a man, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us. From that time forth, Pilot sought to release Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, he really was afraid. He really was apprehensive.
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  Speaker 1: Again three times. He's already stated publicly to the Jews
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  Speaker 1: that I find no fault in him at all. And
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  Speaker 1: now why am I going to get out of this.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried my ace card in you know, releasing to
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  Speaker 1: them one of their prisoners, but they took Bradus. What
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  Speaker 1: am I going to do now? So he says, The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, brother, he's salt from that time forth. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what effort, what other efforts he made
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  Speaker 1: to do this. But the Jews in verse twelve respond
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  Speaker 1: to Pilot whatever negotiations or whatever it was that he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to do, they respond to Pilot said, listen, man,
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  Speaker 1: if you let Jesus go, you are not Caesar's friend,
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  Speaker 1: because whoever makes himself a king is speaking against Caesar.
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  Speaker 1: A Pilot is really the Bible says, when he therefore
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  Speaker 1: heard that, saying, he brought Jesus forth, sat down in
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  Speaker 1: the judgment see in the place that is called the pavement,
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  Speaker 1: but in Hebrew Gabatha, and it was the preparation of
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  Speaker 1: the passover, about the six hour. And he saith into
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  Speaker 1: the Jews, behold your king. But they cried out, away
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  Speaker 1: with him, away with him, crucify him, crucify him. And
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  Speaker 1: Pilot again says to the Jews, shall I crucify your king? Boy?
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  Speaker 1: Is that not a loaded question? Shall I crucify your king?
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  Speaker 1: But the Jews then answer stunningly, Now these are the
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  Speaker 1: people who hate abhor detest the Roman government. They hate
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they were in subjugation. But they in
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  Speaker 1: this case, when it came to Jesus, you know what
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  Speaker 1: they said. You know, they were responding to Pilot when
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  Speaker 1: he asked them, shall I crucify your king? They said,
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  Speaker 1: we have no king, but Caesar. Caesar is our king.
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  Speaker 1: Knowledge the lordship of Caesar, his rule over us. They
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  Speaker 1: hated it. But when it came to Jesus, because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had to die, he had to go, and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: care what they had to say. They didn't care what
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  Speaker 1: they had to agree to, they didn't care what they
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  Speaker 1: had to do. Jesus must die, the Bible says. Then
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  Speaker 1: delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
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  Speaker 1: they took Jesus, led him away, and he, bearing his cross,
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  Speaker 1: went forth into a place called the place of a skull,
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  Speaker 1: which is called in the Hebrew Gogatha, where they crucified
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  Speaker 1: him and two others with him on either side, one
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus in the midst. Jesus crucified, murdered, killed, one
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  Speaker 1: who knew no sin. The one who was guiltless became guilty,
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  Speaker 1: was made guilty. The one who had no fault, took
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  Speaker 1: all of the blame, and all of this, ladies and gentlemen, Again,
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  Speaker 1: although predestined, predetermined by the counsel of God, as Peter
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  Speaker 1: would say later, the Jews, by wicked hands, they crucified him,
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  Speaker 1: they murdered him. It was an insurrection of the government
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews and the Gentiles, to put to death
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  Speaker 1: the one who knew no sin, who had no guilt,
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  Speaker 1: who had no fault, who was not in any way
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  Speaker 1: guilty of any crime, let alone worthy of capital punishment.
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  Speaker 1: But because of our sins, sinfulness, evil, wicked, desperately wicked hearts,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus yielded himself over. He gave himself over, freely, willingly,
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  Speaker 1: into the hands of government conspirators who would put him
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  Speaker 1: to death for our sins. But but, but, but, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, on this good Friday, Thanks be to God,
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  Speaker 1: because of his shed blood. There's something that we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to every year in celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We know that that was not the end of the story.
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  Speaker 1: Tragic though it was in terms of a man, the innocence,
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  Speaker 1: the shedding of innocent blood, Yet glorious, oh so glorious,
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  Speaker 1: a day as never before in all of the annals
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  Speaker 1: of when all of the sins of the people of
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  Speaker 1: God who would be redeemed, past, present and future. Don't
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  Speaker 1: forget that the blood of Jesus was also shed for
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  Speaker 1: sins that were past. The sins of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David,
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  Speaker 1: Job Noah, all of those saints, of all even the
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  Speaker 1: prophets of all their sins were atoned for in the
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  Speaker 1: death of Jesus on that fate full day. So we
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  Speaker 1: never forget as we look forward to resurrection Sunday, the
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  Speaker 1: great and glorious sacrifice of the one who knew no sin,
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  Speaker 1: who became sin, that we might be made the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: of God in him. Thank God for the cross. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: We bless your name, and we shall never forget your
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  Speaker 1: great sacrifice, your great amen, grace and mercy, loving kindness
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  Speaker 1: toward us. Seeing our need, knowing that we were lost
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  Speaker 1: in without hope, you surrendered yourself over to the will
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  Speaker 1: of men, the whims of men, in order that we
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  Speaker 1: might have life and have it more abundantly. Open someone's
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  Speaker 1: eyes and ears and heart today, Lord Jesus, to receive
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  Speaker 1: this good news of the Gospel, that they might be
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  Speaker 1: saved in Jesus name, we pray give thanks for this
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  Speaker 1: glorious victory we have in you, because of you. Amen
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  Speaker 1: and Amen.