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John chapter 19 Let us pray. Oh Heavenly Father, here we are
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again. Lord, we come to sit at your
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feet and to learn and to dine and to Sup.
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God, I thank you for the work of the cross.
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God, I thank you for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, Lord,
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and we want to know him in his sufferings.
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Lord, we ask for the resurrection power God to dwell
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within us. Lord, I pray, Holy Spirit, you
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will increase in our lives, give us direction and discernment,
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convict us when we are searing our conscience.
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God, I pray against the schemes of the enemy.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll give a zeal
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that will eat up US, Lord, that we will be consumed.
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Lord, with the zeal of your house, Father, I pray that you
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will get all the glory from our lives.
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Lord, I pray that the reading of the text today, Lord, moves us
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into obedience out of the love that we have for Jesus Christ,
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because what He did unto death, the obedience unto death of the
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Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we remember him in all of
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His sufferings, Lord, we remember the sacrifice that He
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made for us, Lord, so that we can be there with you.
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He was perfect and sinless, Lord, and we are washed in the
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blood of Jesus Christ, Lord. And it is the holiness of Jesus
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that makes us holy. It is His righteousness that is
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imputed unto us, Lord. And it was an all sufficient
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sacrifice. And it was the atonement, Lord,
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so that we can be at one with you, Father, and His
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righteousness, Lord, can be ours.
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So, Lord, we take a hold of the hem of His garment, Lord, and we
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receive our justification, Lord, and we stand in your presence.
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We come boldly into the throne room of grace.
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God and Lord, we thank you for all the truths that are
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contained in this chapter. And Lord, I pray the Holy Spirit
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will guide us through this. Let us have a reverence, Lord,
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as we move through this chapter. I pray that we feel the weight
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of this chapter upon our lives, Lord, and I pray that we can
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make a decision to follow Christ in all seasons, in all areas
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God, in all circumstances. God, I pray that this chapter
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changes us from the inside out. I pray that this chapter becomes
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part of our DNA, comes part of our mindset, becomes part of our
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very being. God, I pray that it gets into
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us, Lord, and we will never forget what Christ did on the
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cross. We thank you, Lord Jesus for
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everything that you did. Holy Spirit, teach us in God, I
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pray that you are honored and glorified in the highest.
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We love you and it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name
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that I pray. Amen.
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Let's start in verse one then. Pilate therefore took Jesus and
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scourged him. This is a loaded verse here.
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The gospel writers are very careful not to try and pull on
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our emotions. But this scourging would have
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been the most terrible act of torture.
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With the cat of nine tails and a whip that ripped open Christ
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back, leading most of its victims in a state of shock.
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This would have been torture at the highest degree.
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And there were many criminals that died from this scourging.
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They could not take it. But we know that our Lord Jesus
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Christ was a man of men, and we know that he was able to take
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this brutal beating and he was still alive and had his senses
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about him after they got done making him a public spectacle.
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And it was meant here, Pilate, meant for it to satisfy the Jews
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so that they would release him. Let's see how the story
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continues on in verse 2. And the soldiers platted a crown
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of thorns and put it on his head, and they put him in a
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purple robe. So here this crown of thorns
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would have been pushed into his forehead and into his temples
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and into the back of his head, and would have caused him to
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bleed from the top of his head down.
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And we know that Jesus went to the cross with this crown on his
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head. None of the Gospel writers tell
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us that it was taken off of his head.
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So we can surmise that He went to the cross.
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What a beautiful sight. We can see Him hanging there
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with this crown of thorns upon his head, friends.
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And it was the reality that he was King of the universe and he
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is king of our heart. And I pray that he has become
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the king on the throne of your life and that you have committed
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everything to him. I pray because he is worthy.
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Give him his due honor and praise.
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This mockery, friends, is despicable when we come to the
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reality that He deserves all praise, but He did it for you
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and he did it for me, and praise God Hallelujah in the highest
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that He was obedient unto death. Verse 3 and said, Hail king of
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the Jews, and they struck him with their hands.
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This hostility towards God is still going on today.
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People do not want to believe in God.
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They do not want the conviction that comes from believing in
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God. They want to do life the way
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that they want to do life. They want the autonomy and they
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want to be God themselves. And they are hostile and wicked
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towards a good and loving and graceful and peaceful God.
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And they see this Bible as a list of rules, and they rebel
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against this list of rules. But it is not until we can see.
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The Bible is a book of promises that God promises us life
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eternal if we will put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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What a beautiful, harmonious, congruent tapestry that the Word
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of God is. It is a masterpiece and it is
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not until we can see God in His grace and see God in His love
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and see God in all the ways that He protects us by letting us
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know what to do and what not to do to make it safely through
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this life into His loving arms. And a lot of times it is by
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putting yourself in dangerous situations that God gets the
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most glory, Friends. And that is what we need to
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understand is that His ways are not our ways.
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And here you can see this mockery, You can see this
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degradation, You can see this shame that brought about our
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salvation. It brought about the victory,
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friends. And you need to know that God
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was well pleased to crush His servant, but it did not excuse
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anyone who was doing it. 4 Pilate therefore went forth
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again, and said unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to
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you, that you may know that I find no fault in him.
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So Pilate here time and time and time again, Pilate here said, I
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find no fault in him, but he was too weak to stand up to them.
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He was too weak to let this innocent man go.
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And all the scriptures must be fulfilled.
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But Pilate still has to answer for his refusal to acknowledge
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that Jesus Christ did not deserve a criminal's death.
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Five. Then came Jesus forth, wearing
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the crown of thorns and the purple robe.
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And Pilate said unto them, Behold the man.
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Pilate here acted as an agent of God, and he brings forth Jesus
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and all of his sufferings, and we must look upon him and make a
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decision. Behold the man.
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Behold him as the snake was lifted up in the wilderness on
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the pole. We must look upon him to be
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saved. Behold Him in all of His
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sufferings. Behold Him in all of His glory.
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And so many times you see throughout Scripture the way
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that the Lord works. It is in the sufferings that God
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is most glorified. He told Paul.
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He said when he begged that God would take away this thorn in
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his side. He said three times he begged
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God to take it away. And what did God say?
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He said that it is in your weakness that He is made strong.
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So we need to know that the way of God is not our way.
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And we need to know that there's so many times that we shrink
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away from being humiliated, we shrink away from being shamed,
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we shrink away from being made fun of and goaded and poked at.
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But just know that God is desirous to turn that around for
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your good. God is desirous in your weakness
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that he will be made strong and that the witness that you have
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coming out of those seasons will be for the edification of
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others, for building others up. And we need not to shrink away
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from the times that God is desirous to grow us up in the
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faith. You could see it here as Jesus
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is being made fun of and being struck.
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And we would watch in horror as this perfect, sinless man who
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had done nothing wrong would be struck and beaten. 4 Pilate says
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that he finds no fault in him. Five Then came Jesus forth, and
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Pilate says, Behold the man, and we need to behold him. 6 When
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the chief priest therefore and officer saw him, they cried out,
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saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
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Pilate said unto them, You take him and crucify him.
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I find no fault in him here. Pilate again, he is wise in
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telling them that Jesus is innocent.
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He could not get Jesus to admit any fault because Jesus had
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nothing to admit. Jesus had nothing to tell on
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himself about. Jesus remained silent like the
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sheep before the shears. He was led to the slaughter and
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we can see here that they are delusional because of the hatred
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that they have for this innocent man, because he threatened their
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way of life. And they were in fear because
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they thought that they would lose their autonomy amongst the
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Romans. And they wanted to keep their
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playground. They wanted to keep their
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Playhouse. They wanted to keep the temple.
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They wanted to keep all of their rules and regulations and
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traditions and ceremony. And Jesus came to show them a
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better way, and to speak a better word, and to show them
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that God's plan for the ages was for his salvation to go out to
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the world, not just to be kept hidden under the bushel. 7 The
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Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to
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die, because he made himself the Son of God.
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So here the truth comes out. Whenever they were first
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bringing him to Pilate, they tried to pin him with the crime
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of making himself out to be a king, and Pilate wouldn't buy
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it. Pilate saw through it.
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Pilate was wise enough to understand that they were
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envious. And here you can see that the
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truth comes out that because he claimed to be the Son of God,
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they were putting him to death. And Pilate here started to shake
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in his boots, because he had not realized that this was the
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actual charge that was being brought against him.
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He knew that there was something more, but he did not know until
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this moment when the truth comes out.
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Eight. When Pilate therefore heard that
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saying, he was the more afraid, 9 and went again into the
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judgment hall and said unto Jesus, Where are you from?
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But Jesus gave him no answer. It is because Jesus had already
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given him the answer to his question.
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He told them that His Kingdom was not of this world, and here
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he had no need to reiterate what was already spoken.
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And so many times in our lives, friends, God will speak a word
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over us, but we refuse to hear it.
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We refuse to obey it. And we keep searching and
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prodding and asking God for more answers.
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But God is silent because he has already given us all of the
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revelation that we need. And this entire book that you
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hold in your hands is God's revelation unto mankind.
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And if we will not believe this complete work, this complete
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word, then why would God continue to reveal more to us
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when we refuse to obey what is already revealed to us?
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So here Jesus has already revealed to Pilate where he is
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from. So he needs to not answer him.
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He needs not answer him here. 10 Then said Pilate unto him, You
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do not speak to me. Do you not know that I have the
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power to crucify you, and I have the power to release you?
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So here Pilate is enamored by Jesus's silence.
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Pilate is thrown off by the fact that Jesus speaks nothing
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because he is not afraid of Pilate.
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Here Jesus is not trying to when his life back, He's not trying
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to save his skin. And this was unlike anything
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Pilate had ever went through. I'm sure there was a moment here
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where Pilate was completely turned around and thrown off by
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the fact that Jesus Christ did not behave like any of the other
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prisoners that he had had that was being LED off to be
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crucified. Here Jesus beaten, struck and
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bruised. Here Jesus remained silent and
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Pilate could not comprehend it. 11 Jesus answered, You could
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have no power at all against me, except it were given to you from
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above. Therefore, he that delivered me
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to you has the greater sin. So it is a greater sin to
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understand who Jesus is and then to turn back.
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It is a greater sin to understand the promises
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contained in the Word of God and to fall away.
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The apostate church is in much graver sin than those who are
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isolated as an unreached people group in the middle of nowhere.
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And it is such a heavyweight whenever we understand how to be
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saved and we refuse it when we blasphemy the Holy Spirit.
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And here Jesus is of course talking about Caiaphas and of
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course talking about Judas, and of course talking about the Jews
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who were screaming out for him to be crucified.
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And here Pilate has to deal with the fact that these men were
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about to start a revolt. They were about to start mob
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rule. And here Pilot would have known
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that his job was on the line, his reputation was on the line,
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and there was already a revolt that led to Pilot being on the
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hot seat before Caesar. And here you can see that the
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Jews played into it, and it was all a big master plan from God
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Almighty. He knew everything and He knows
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everything. And we would do well to make
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sure that we fall in line with the will of God, no matter if it
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goes against the way that we think things should go.
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We need to make sure that we are found sitting and learning and
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being at the Lord's feet, worshiping Him in spirit and
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truth, and knowing that we're being LED through valleys and
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mountaintops and through it all, friends, we need to know that
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Jesus Christ is the one that's leading us because we are his
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sheep and we hear his voice and he calls us into places that
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we're uncomfortable with, but he grows us in the silence. 12:00
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And from then on, Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews
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cried out, saying, if you let this man go, you are no friend
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of Caesar's. So this would have been the
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moment that Pilot's hair stood up on the back of his neck.
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This would have been the moment that things got really real
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because they called in their trump card.
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They called in the piece to the whole puzzle that Pilot would
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have been disarmed. It's the moment that Pilate
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heard that he was no friend of Caesar's.
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He realized that he had been outmaneuvered and outsmarted by
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these Jews. 13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he
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brought Jesus forth, sat down in the judgment seat in a place
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that is called the pavement, but in Hebrew gabbata.
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So we know that this would have been in a elevated position high
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above the crowds. And we also know that that
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Pilate would have washed his hands trying to remove the guilt
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of this unnecessary murder of a innocent man.
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But we all know that this was the divine plan of God. 14 and
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it was the preparation of the Passover in about the 6th hour.
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And he said unto the Jews, Behold your king.
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So here Pilot is playing, even though he knows what's about to
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happen here he is playing to the emotions of the crowd, and he
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knows that they're giving him up out of envy.
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And he knows that his hands are tied, and he still prods and
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goads them with this. He knows that they were wrong in
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delivering him up, even if they had backed him into a corner
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here. His last limited little bit of
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power he uses over them to show them that Jesus Christ is the
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Son of God, and that Jesus Christ did not deserve to die
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this criminal's death. And here he brings him out with
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the crown of thorns. He brings him out with the
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purple robe. He brings him out, and he says,
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Behold your King. 15 But they cried out, away with him, away
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with him. Crucify him.
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Pilate said unto them, Shall I crucify your king?
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The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
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This is the truth and this is the reality, that the Jews here
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were not serving God. The Jews here were serving self.
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They were serving their own means to an end.
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They were serving greed and mammon.
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They were serving so much of the power that they desired.
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They were serving sin and self, and they were admitting that
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they did not serve God. They were not in tune with God.
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They didn't even understand how all of this was adding up to
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prophecy being fulfilled. They were blinded and delusional
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and they admitted their guilt. And by your words you will be
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justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
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And they condemned themselves here in this moment. 16 Then
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delivered he, him therefore unto them to be crucified.
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And they took Jesus and led him away.
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Another one of the ways that the gospel writers save us from all
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of the gore and all of the horror in just a few sentences,
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in just a very plain way, they describe things that are
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incomprehensible to us in our modern age.
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The horror of what a person would have to go through to be
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crucified is not anything that we here in our own minds can
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even try to conceive, because they saved us from all of the
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bloody details. But we would do well to meditate
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upon the fact that this is for our salvation.
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And Jesus went through graphic horror for you and for me, and
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we need to know that if we were the only ones on planet earth
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who would ever give our lives over to the Lord Jesus Christ,
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he would willingly do it again. 17 And he bearing his cross,
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went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is
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called in the Hebrew. So he would have been carrying
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100 LB crossbeam across his back as he's moving through the
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crowd, after he'd been beaten, after he had been awake all
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night and struck, after he had been scourged here.
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Now he is forced to carry this 100 LB crossbeam 18 where they
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crucified him and two others with him on either side, one and
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Jesus in the middle. So here we can see there's so
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much tapestry in these couple verses.
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We know that Jesus was in the middle and he is the only way to
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the Father. We see that one criminal mocked
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him and the other criminal was ushered into paradise that day.
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We can see that humanity is on both sides and we must come to
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the Father through his Son Jesus Christ, as he is the mediator
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for us. It's 19 and Pilate wrote a title
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and put it on the cross. And the writing was Jesus of
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Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Rightfully so.
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Here is Pilate trying to make every wrong thing right.
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He's trying to write all of His wrongs whenever he saw that
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there was no fault in him. And he tried to wash his hands.
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And this is his one last attempt to stand up to the Jews.
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And he wrote an inscription here that he knew would stir them and
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move them. And as everyone looked upon the
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cross, they would have to wrestle with these words.
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And it was rightfully placed that Jesus of Nazareth, the
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branch, is the King of the world, friends.
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He is the king of our salvation, friends.
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He is the king of all nations and all people groups for all
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time's sake. He never goes out of style.
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He never gets old, He never gets boring.
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It only gets better. It's like a fine bottle of wine,
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friends. Jesus Christ.
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Over time He only gets more powerful as our revelation of
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Him comes more and more and more into scope.
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We can see that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the only way
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to the Father. 20 This title then read many of the Jews.
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For the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city,
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and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin.
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So we can see that this was a metropolis of mingled with so
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many different people groups. And you can see it was written
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in all the languages of the land so that everyone could read and
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everyone could make a decision of who this man was hanging on
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the cross, unlike any man ever to hang on a cross.
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And he is the only one that can take away our sins. 21 Then said
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the chief priest of the Jews to Pilate right, not the king of
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the Jews, but that he said, I am the king of the Jews here.
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They're trying to get rid of the guilt that they have.
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They're trying to get rid of the shame that they have.
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They're trying to get rid and cover up their tracks. 22 Pilot
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answered. What I've written, I've written.
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And he knew that it was out of envy. 23 Then the soldiers, when
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they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts
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to every soldier a part, and also his coat.
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Now the coat was without seeing, woven from the top throughout.
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So you can see here that these criminals were crucified naked
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as he sat on the cross. And it would have been shame
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that brought about His glory. Friends, here you can see
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Scripture being fulfilled. You can see here that all of
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this was written about before it ever even happened, as if it had
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already happened. And that is prophecy in a
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nutshell. And there are many prophecies
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now that were are written in a matter of fact way and they will
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be fulfilled to the exact minuteness that they are written
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about. And we cannot throw them away,
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we cannot relegate them to mystery.
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They are plain, they are black and white, and they will be
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fulfilled in the exact way that they are written, just like all
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of this was fulfilled. And it proves that we can trust
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the Bible. 24 They said, therefore among themselves, let
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us not RIP it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, that the
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Scripture might be fulfilled, which said, They parted my
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clothing among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.
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These things, therefore the soldiers did. 25 Now there stood
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by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister,
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Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
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So you can see here that these women who followed him around in
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faith, you can see here his mother and his aunt.
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You can see here that these women were looking upon him,
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wondering what this was all about.
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But we know that it was prophesied by Simeon that Jesus
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would prick Mary's heart. And we see here that this is in
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the fulfillment of the prophecy, that as she looked upon Him, she
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was stricken with grief. 26 Then Jesus therefore saw his mother
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and the disciples standing by whom he loved.
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He said unto his mother, Woman, behold your son.
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So we can see here, This was compassion.
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We see here that the family of believers is more important than
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the earthly carnal ties that we have through bloodlines.
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We can see here that once we are entered into the family of God,
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it supersedes all of our earthly relationships.
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And here we know that Jesus's brothers were not disciples as
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of yet, even though they would go on to be.
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And we could see here that Mary was given to John, and that John
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honored his Master's wishes and took him home. 27 Then said he
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to the disciples, Behold your mother.
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And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. 28
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After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now
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accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I
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thirst, He's about to make his last proclamation there at
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Golgotha on Calvary. And so he takes this wine that
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the soldiers would have used to quench their thirst on the day
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as they're out there watching these criminals die a horrific
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death. 29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar, and they
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filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon a hyssop and put it
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to his mouth. You can see the Passover lamb
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and the hyssop and being the blood being on the lentil of the
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door. We can see it all mirrored and
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modeled here. We can see that there's so much
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tapestry, there's so many layers here, friends, if you lock in
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and pay attention. And we can see here that Jesus
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did not take the stupefying drug mingled wine that they offered
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him in the beginning. But here at the end he drinks a
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little bit of this wine and he quenches his thirst.
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He he wets his lips so that he can make this last proclamation.
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30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said to
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Telesty, he says paid in full. He says it is finished.
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And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost.
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No one took it from him. He gave it up willingly for you.
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He gave it up willingly for me. He laid his head down.
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This is not him hanging his head in shame.
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This is power from on high, because He gave up the ghost. 31
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The Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation that the
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body should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, for
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that Sabbath day was a high day, they begged Pilate, for the legs
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might be broken, that they might be taken away.
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So here is prophecy being fulfilled.
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Whenever Jesus looks at the Sinner and says Today you will
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be with me in paradise. And here you can see that the
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criminals at some points in time during these crucifixions, it
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might take up to three days for them to die.
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And here because this is a high holy day and they did not want
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to crucify Jesus during this time, but because of Judas and
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because he sold them out when he did.
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And because they saw that it was profitable in the moment and
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they were trying to cover up their tracks and they thought
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they could do it by night. And they thought they could get
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Rome to do their dirty work, and they thought they could crucify
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them outside of the city. And they thought that no one
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would notice. And look how he flipped the
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whole world right side up. And you can see here we're still
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talking about it 2000 years later.
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And everything changed this day. And the Jews here were so
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delusional that they thought that they could just cover their
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tracks. 32 Then came the soldiers and broke the legs of
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the 1st and of the other, which was crucified with him. 33 But
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when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they
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did not break his legs. Prophecy being fulfilled here,
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friends. Also, you need to know that
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Jesus gave up the ghost. He did not stay there in just
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the agony for as long as it took, trying to hold on to the
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last little bit of life that He had left.
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No, Jesus went boldly to snatch the keys.
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He went boldly to proclaim to the spirits in prison.
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He went boldly to do the work of the Father as this exchange that
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happened here, where God poured out all the wrath of mankind on
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Jesus Christ. And as He took the sins of the
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world, we can come to Him. We can be covered in the blood,
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and we can stand before God, holy and blameless and
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righteous, before a holy and blameless and righteous God.
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And it is the only way that we're going to make it in,
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Friends. We can see it all modeled here
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in this moment and these soldiers were professional
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killers, and they would have been able to tell if someone was
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dead, dead. 34 But one of the soldiers with the spear pierced
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his side and forthwith came They're out, blood and water.
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Praise God, Hallelujah for this mixing of the blood and the
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water. We could see this being the all
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sufficient sacrifice for us, the atonement for our sins.
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We can see this living water we must drink and be filled with
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friends, and never be thirsty again. 35 And he that saw it
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bore record, and his record is true, and he knows that he said
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it's true that you might believe.
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So John is talking about himself, writing about himself,
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saying I actually saw this. I am an eyewitness to this.
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You can trust and believe. You can go check the track
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record. You can go talk to all the
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people in the land during this time, and they will all tell you
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there's enough people who saw it.
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From the Romans to the Jews to the spectators, the rich and the
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poor. You can see that this is
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trustworthy and true, and it is profitable for all time's sake.
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Heaven and earth may pass away, but not one of these words,
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friends. 36 For these things were done, that the Scripture
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should be fulfilled. A bone of him shall not be
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broken. 37 And again, another Scripture said, They shall look
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on him whom they pierced, prophecy after prophecy after
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prophecy after prophecy after prophecy being fulfilled on this
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day and this hour, friends. And it's no different for us
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now. There are so many prophecies of
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the Word of God that are being fulfilled today, and we would do
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well to make sure that we do not try to discredit and discount
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them. Believe every single syllable,
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and you will be blessed. 38 And after this, Joseph of Arimathea,
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being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for the fear of the
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Jews, they begged Pilate that he might take away the body of
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Jesus. And Pilate gave him leave.
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He came there for and took the body of Jesus.
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So we can see here, friends, the beauty of Joseph of Arimathea,
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this rich man, and he is the one that Jesus said it is impossible
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with man, but with God all things are possible.
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And we can see here that the wealthy and the rich are called
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to steward their blessings in a holy way, in a way that pleases
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God. And by and large, most do not.
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But here we can see that Joseph of Arimathea, we can see that
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Nicodemus, they understood it, but because they did not want to
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reveal that they were followers of the way, they actually in a
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roundabout way, they helped the cause.
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And this calls for wisdom, Friends, we cannot shrink back.
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We cannot have the fear of man. But look at how, when we're
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following closely after the Lord God Almighty, He might call us
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into the paths that do not make sense to us.
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Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus should have been
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outright in their profession of Jesus Christ, but because they
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were not, they actually were able to help him.
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What a thought, friends. And you can see that God's ways
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are not our ways, but we must get connected with Him.
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We must be in tune with Him, and sometimes He's going to call us
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to do things that are counter intuitive to the way that we
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understand things and praise God.
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Hallelujah that Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were
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silent about their profession during this time, and look how
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they got honored in the Word of God. 39 And there came also
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Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and
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brought a mixture of myrrh and aloe, about 100 lbs in weight.
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You can see this extravagant luxury being poured out on Jesus
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Christ as he goes to the tomb, smelling like spikenard,
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smelling like myrrh and aloe. 30 Then took they the body of Jesus
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and wounded in a linen cloth with the spices, as the manner
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of the Jews is to bury. So this would have been a linen
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shroud that would have been wrapped around him, friends.
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But he wasn't going to stay there.
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He was only borrowing this tomb, and the Jews were very
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scrupulous in the way that they did their burials as they placed
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them in the tomb and put the bones in the ossuary.
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You can see here that they were very honoring of the way that
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they buried. They did not leave Jesus up for
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the wolves, for the birds, for the wild animals to come and
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ravage. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was
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a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, wherein was never laid
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a man yet. So we know this is Joseph of
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Arimathea, as it was in close proximity to the cross.
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Look at how everything got all turned around in a garden and
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everything was all brought back into the right path in a garden.
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You can see here that Jesus is making everything right and that
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we can trust Him and that there's so many layers of
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tapestry here and it's beautiful. 42 will end here.
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They're laid, they Jesus. Therefore, because of the Jews,
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preparation day for the tomb was near at hand.
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So here Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, and here you can see
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that Pilate gives them these rich, wealthy, righteous leaders
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of the land. He gives them permission to take
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down this body. And look at how these men were
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handling this lifeless body. But Jesus was going to work for
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you and for me. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. I hope you've been blessed by
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this monumental chapter here in the Word of God and everything
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is hinged upon this chapter. Everything, our faith and
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everything we believe is hinged upon the Gospels.
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Friends, we're going to see it as we move into the New
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Testament. We're going to see it as we go
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backwards into the Old Testament.
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We're going to see that everything is hinged upon this
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moment. Give Him His due praise and
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glory. I hope you've been blessed by
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this chapter. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you.
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I'll see you back here tomorrow. God bless you.