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Episode 153 - Injustice For Jesus · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness, O Lord, unto us, great is
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  Speaker 1: Thy faithfulness, Oh God. We thank God again for this
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  Speaker 1: another day that He has allowed us to see, and
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  Speaker 1: we are grateful as always to be counted among the
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  Speaker 1: land of the living. And again it is in Him
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  Speaker 1: So again we welcome you to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. For those of you
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  Speaker 1: Amen again for all of your prayers and your support,
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  Speaker 1: those of you who pray for and support this ministry,
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  Speaker 1: because we are here to proclaim the liberty that is
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus, the freedom that we have the love
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  Speaker 1: of God, Amen, the grace of God, the mercy of God,
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  Speaker 1: and all of what God has Amen in store for
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  Speaker 1: those who love, trust and obey Him. We also welcome
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  Speaker 1: again grateful to the Lord for this opportunity to again
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  Speaker 1: a man speak the truth of God. Amen. Proclaim a
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  Speaker 1: man the grace of God, the mercy of God, and
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  Speaker 1: the favor of God. Amen. I just love a man
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  Speaker 1: what God has done and is doing a man for us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In the earth. Amen. The story of the Bible is
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  Speaker 1: all about redemption. A man that has come to us,
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  Speaker 1: a man through Christ, Jesus man fell Amen, into sin,
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  Speaker 1: into a man disfavor, if you will, with God in
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  Speaker 1: that we a man abandoned. Amen. The relationship that was
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  Speaker 1: a man established. We are now enemies of God, haters
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  Speaker 1: of God. We run from him, we hide from him.
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  Speaker 1: We attempt to, as it were, to run and hide
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  Speaker 1: from him. But there is no hiding place. The only
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  Speaker 1: shelter that is to be found, the only refuge that
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  Speaker 1: is of course, that is true, true, is in Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God, and certainly again we are here
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  Speaker 1: to proclaim that liberty. Let's begin, of course, with quick
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  Speaker 1: word of prayer. Father, Again, great is your faithfulness to us,
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  Speaker 1: your mercy, love, kindness, peace, joy, all of a man,
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  Speaker 1: the benefits that you a man, bestowed upon us. We
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  Speaker 1: are not worthy of the least of your mercies. But
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  Speaker 1: we again just want to thank you for being the
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  Speaker 1: God that you are, loving us, Amen, while we were
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  Speaker 1: yet sinners, a man having mercy on us. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: we are again grateful Amen for your amen great love
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  Speaker 1: toward us. Help us now to amen, love your word,
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  Speaker 1: love your law, walk therein that we might be blessed thereby.
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  Speaker 1: It's in Jesus name we praying your thanks. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, God bless you again. Everyone. We continue in
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  Speaker 1: our series on God, government, church, and state. We begun
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  Speaker 1: this series looking in the Old Testament, of course, as
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  Speaker 1: to how God dealt with various government entities, kings mostly,
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  Speaker 1: but nations as well. And we didn't do a thorough
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  Speaker 1: a man examination, as it were, of the nation of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: a man being God's chosen people, but clearly a man.
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  Speaker 1: Almost the whole of the Old Testament deals with God's
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  Speaker 1: relationship with the nation of Israel and the perverseness of
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  Speaker 1: their government. How they a man turned away from God,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and steeped in idolatry, and God amen meeted
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  Speaker 1: out justice upon them because of their amen disobedience. And
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  Speaker 1: then we got into the New Testament for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: now dealing with a man, Jesus, when he came into
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  Speaker 1: the world, how he a man, dealt with the government
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  Speaker 1: of this world. And I made it very clear from
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  Speaker 1: the very first episode, as we begin to look at Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: a man, his ministry on this earth, that Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: not come to shy away from government. He came to overturn.
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  Speaker 1: He came to overthrow, to uproot a man, but not
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  Speaker 1: in the way a man that we would have expected
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  Speaker 1: for it to be. Even his own people, of course,
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  Speaker 1: thought that Jesus would come in and, for example, overthrow
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  Speaker 1: the Roman government in the sense that he would bring
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  Speaker 1: down a man, judgment upon them, cast them down, cast
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  Speaker 1: them away, destroy them, and set up his own people
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  Speaker 1: and system of justice and government, a man in the
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  Speaker 1: place of what was then a man, the world superpower. However,
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  Speaker 1: that is not how Jesus came and what he came
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  Speaker 1: to do and that was certainly not though way rather
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  Speaker 1: in which he came to do. Amen, his form of
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  Speaker 1: his kingdom. And make no mistake about it, He reigns
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  Speaker 1: and rules right now. Amen. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: His dominion is from a man beginning to end. There
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  Speaker 1: is no end to his dominion, never can as a
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  Speaker 1: man found that out. And he it is a man
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  Speaker 1: who came to this man understanding that a man God
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  Speaker 1: rules in the kingdom of men. Amen. And even though
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  Speaker 1: a man, it may not be visible and discernible to
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of many in our world today a man,
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  Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. God is still sovereign. He's
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  Speaker 1: always been sovereign, and he always will be sovereign over
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  Speaker 1: the kingdoms of this world. And so what we see
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  Speaker 1: transpiring in our world today a man. It's all by
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  Speaker 1: the will of God, and all in the plan of God,
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  Speaker 1: and all will culminate in Amen, the ultimate visible kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen, being seen upon this earth.
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  Speaker 1: But prior to that happening, Jesus in his first advent, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: suffered what we're going to focus on today, in justice,
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  Speaker 1: egregious injustice, Amen. And so man, that's again our focus
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  Speaker 1: of this particular podcast Injustice for Jesus. And as we proceed,
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  Speaker 1: please forgive me. I'm fighting through a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a cold that I'm almost over. So if I cough, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a cough button. Amen, So please amen
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  Speaker 1: bear with me as we amen proceed. Amen with this
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  Speaker 1: Amen again, miscarriage of justice Injustice for Jesus. Please understand,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that true justice a man comes only from God.
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  Speaker 1: It can only come from God. And if we expect
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  Speaker 1: for there to be true justice in a fallen world
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  Speaker 1: a man, we are going to be sorely disappointed a man,
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  Speaker 1: because we live in a world of sinful men who
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  Speaker 1: have desperately wicked heart a man, and true justice can
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  Speaker 1: only happen when we are willing to align ourselves a man, totally, completely,
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  Speaker 1: fully a man with the righteousness of God by obeying
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  Speaker 1: his law. And that is where we fail. We fail
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  Speaker 1: to believe God, we fail to obey His law. And therefore,
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  Speaker 1: and therein lies our a man's state, the condition that
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  Speaker 1: we're in the world, that we're in a world of
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  Speaker 1: injustice a man, no justice system on earth will ever
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  Speaker 1: be flawless. Amen again. Because we are rebels at heart, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And we are exchanged from God. We don't want the
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  Speaker 1: law of God. We don't want God to rule over us.
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  Speaker 1: And God by the way, as the perfect system of
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  Speaker 1: justice and righteousness is thronged by the way is established
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  Speaker 1: on justice and righteousness. Amen. So the desire of our
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  Speaker 1: own hearts, Amen, this is what causes us to pervert
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  Speaker 1: justice in our world. And there are a myriad of
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  Speaker 1: examples that I could go through, and we all have.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure if you live long enough, you've already seen it,
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  Speaker 1: and you've already known of it, or heard of it,
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  Speaker 1: read of it, learned of it in history. A myriad
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  Speaker 1: of examples of cases wherein justice Amen, failed in the
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  Speaker 1: hands of men. Amen. And it failed precisely because of
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness of human heart. Sin is in our heart.
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  Speaker 1: Were there simply is no example that in any way
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  Speaker 1: comes close to a man again, this egregious miscarriage of
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  Speaker 1: justice that was forced it upon Jesus, a man by
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  Speaker 1: the government of the Jews, and a man later the
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  Speaker 1: Roman government, a man in a man putting him to
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  Speaker 1: death a man makes And by the way, if you
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  Speaker 1: have your Bible, I'm going to go back to the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of John, chapter number eighteen for a few verses there.
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  Speaker 1: But what makes this a man injustice for Jesus incredibly
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  Speaker 1: incomparable to any other example in all of human history
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  Speaker 1: is number one, the fact that Jesus was sinless. He
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  Speaker 1: was blameless. Jesus was sinless, and he was blameless. He
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  Speaker 1: had never never a man done anything Amen, that was deserving.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says, by the way, the wages of
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  Speaker 1: sin the payment for sin, what we earn, what we've
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  Speaker 1: all earned from sin is death. Amen. And this, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, we certainly in this case. Which makes it
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  Speaker 1: even more egregious is the fact that Jesus was accused
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  Speaker 1: in a way so that there would be capital punishment.
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  Speaker 1: And so number one, he was sinless, which means that
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  Speaker 1: he did not deserve death a man. Death only comes
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  Speaker 1: to those who are sinful, who have sin, and that
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  Speaker 1: is why all men die. Amen. It's a pointed unto
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  Speaker 1: man wants to die. Amen. We die because we are sinners.
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  Speaker 1: We have sin. Amen, and all have sin, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us, falling short of the glory of God. But
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  Speaker 1: number one, Jesus was sinless, he was blameless, but nevertheless
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  Speaker 1: a man, he was a man, as we know, crucified,
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  Speaker 1: convicted of course, of a miscarriage of justice. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: he was innocent of the charges that were a man
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  Speaker 1: leveled against him. And we'll get to some of that
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  Speaker 1: hopefully maybe perhaps in the next A podcast episode. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was completely innocent of the charges a man that
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  Speaker 1: they a man levied against him. And number three, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my god, this is this is the one that we
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  Speaker 1: don't really really take the heart because we look at
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  Speaker 1: this miscarriage of Jesus from primarily a human perspective, but
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  Speaker 1: when we look at it from the divine perspective. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was delivered up by the will of God. Despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he was sinless, despite the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he was blameless, despite the fact that he was innocent
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  Speaker 1: of all of the charges that were leted against him.
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  Speaker 1: It pleased God, the Bible says, to bruise him, to
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  Speaker 1: put him to shame, to have him put to death.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Jesus, amen, as it was as he
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  Speaker 1: said out of his own mouth. You know the seven
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  Speaker 1: last sayings of Jesus a man from the cross. One
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  Speaker 1: of them was, my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken? Me.
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  Speaker 1: He was forsaken, as it were, by God, being delivered up. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Again spite of the fact that he was innocent, spite
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that he was blameless, spite of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he was sinless. Amen. And so again we
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  Speaker 1: saw a man, how that a man. Jesus was in
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  Speaker 1: the garden John chapter eighteen, with his disciples, and he
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  Speaker 1: went to pray. And after praying and submitting himself as
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  Speaker 1: it were, to the will of God, not my will
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  Speaker 1: but mine be done, then of course he was taken
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  Speaker 1: into captivity. We looked at that in our last session.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Jesus being taken a man by the government
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews, a man again in coercion, in cahoots,
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  Speaker 1: rather with the Roman when they all conspired together. Ultimately. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at that a little bit later, as we
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  Speaker 1: get to the Roman government. But in the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: John chapter eighteen, they're in the garden, at the garden
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  Speaker 1: of Cassemine, where Judas knew they would be. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us the soldiers had come a man. It came
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  Speaker 1: with this great showing of force, a man, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: to take it, as if Jesus was a violent criminal.
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  Speaker 1: As if Jesus were a man, a person who had
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  Speaker 1: a man perpetrated all kinds of evil and wickedness in
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  Speaker 1: the world. They came with a whole band of soldiers
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  Speaker 1: a man, and they came to take Jesus, and Peter,
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  Speaker 1: as we're going to see here beginning in verse ten,
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  Speaker 1: decided he was going to take it upon himself too,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps defend Jesus, to keep Jesus from a man being taken.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us verse ten John chapter eighteen Simon Peter,
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  Speaker 1: having a sword, drew it and smoked the high priest
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  Speaker 1: servant and cut off his right ear. And the servant's
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  Speaker 1: name was Malchus. Then said Jesus, unto Peter, put up
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  Speaker 1: thy sword into the sheath the cup which my father
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  Speaker 1: hath given me. Shall I not drink it? Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: I have to drink of this cup, the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: Then the band and the captain and officers of the
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  Speaker 1: Jews we're talking about the government here took Jesus and
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  Speaker 1: they bound him. I want you to pay a careful
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  Speaker 1: attention to that. They bound him as if in shackles,
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  Speaker 1: as if in handcuffs a man, as what we used today. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they bound Jesus, the Bible says, and then look at
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  Speaker 1: this verse thirteen. They led him away to Annas first,
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  Speaker 1: for he was father in law to Caiaphas. Amen, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: there's that call. He was a father in law to
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  Speaker 1: caps Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
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  Speaker 1: Now Caiaphas was he which gave counsel to the Jews
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  Speaker 1: that it was expedient that one man should die for
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  Speaker 1: the people. John chapter eighteens, from which we have been reading,
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  Speaker 1: and again in our previous podcast session we examined this
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  Speaker 1: taking of Jesus as it were, from the garden on
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  Speaker 1: this very night in which a man he was betrayed.
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  Speaker 1: But but he remember this, never forget this is very
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  Speaker 1: very important. Jesus voluntarily surrendered himself a man to the
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  Speaker 1: whims of the wicked government leaders, a man who were
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  Speaker 1: persuaded in their minds that the disposing of Jesus by
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  Speaker 1: death was a man their only way to salvage, as
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  Speaker 1: it were their positions, their power, their influence, that they
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  Speaker 1: thought that they had, that they thought that they were
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  Speaker 1: a man, perhaps even in titled too. And if Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in their minds was permitted to continue teaching what he
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  Speaker 1: was teaching, which, by the way, was in opposition to
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  Speaker 1: their doctrines. Amen to many of the things that they
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  Speaker 1: believed and talked. Amen in Jesus. Of course, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to see one of the most excoriating Amen rebuking
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  Speaker 1: of Amen, the Pharisees and Sadducees, scribes and lawyers and
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  Speaker 1: so forth, read the Gospel of Matthew chapter twenty three. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus a man pulled no punches at all, Amen, none whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he called them out for what they were. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I lost that people want to look at Jesus as
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  Speaker 1: being all passive, and you know, he was just the
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  Speaker 1: Lamb of God in a meek and lowly fashion. And
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  Speaker 1: he never, Amen, I made anyone angry or provoked anyone.
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  Speaker 1: He was just Amen. And along with the government and
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  Speaker 1: along with the people even no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: nothing could be further from the Jews, from the truth, folks.
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  Speaker 1: And I've showed you if you go back again to
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  Speaker 1: some of the previous podcasts where Jesus deliberately on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day and again, as I pointed out, there are
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  Speaker 1: several instances where Jesus performed miracles of healing on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day. And then, for example, the one healing on
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  Speaker 1: the man who was lame and crippled and had a
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  Speaker 1: bed and he couldn't a man walk. And Jesus heard
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  Speaker 1: that man and told her to take up his bed
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  Speaker 1: and walk. And it was the Sabbath day. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus could have chosen another day, could have told a guy, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's the Sabbath day to day, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back tomorrow, come back by this way, or I'll
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  Speaker 1: be in such such a place and you come on
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  Speaker 1: over then, and uh, you know, no, no, no. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He was
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  Speaker 1: in the streets on the Sabbath day. Jesus perform miracles
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  Speaker 1: of healing on the Sabbath day, and even on one
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  Speaker 1: particular occasion, as we pointed out, he asked, He asked them,
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  Speaker 1: is it okay to do good on the Sabbath day?
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  Speaker 1: Before he would perform a healing on a particular person.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus again did not shy away from the government,
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  Speaker 1: He did not back away from them. He provoked them.
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  Speaker 1: A man as we were teaching Amen to do what
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  Speaker 1: was right, but instead, again, because their hearts are evil,
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  Speaker 1: because the heart of man is in rebellion against God,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus provoking them to do what is right, provoking them
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  Speaker 1: to do what is good, to provoking them to do
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  Speaker 1: what is lawful, provoking them to do what is just. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they refuse to do that. They refused to even give
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  Speaker 1: God the glory for the healings of these people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned already about the man who Jesus told
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  Speaker 1: to take up his bed and walk. Instead of them
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing in the fact this man had been healed, asked,
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  Speaker 1: who told you to take up your bed and walk?
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  Speaker 1: What they were concerned with not the man being healed
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  Speaker 1: who had been crippled. No, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: So they would not allow Jesus to continue a man
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  Speaker 1: because they feared that they were going to lose control
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  Speaker 1: a man. And again they were under this misguided delusion
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  Speaker 1: that uh they would they would fall under the subjugation
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  Speaker 1: of the Roman government, which they were already under. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I just, I still don't understand that one. I still
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  Speaker 1: don't understand that one. They were under a man, the
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  Speaker 1: rule and the authority. But I guess because they were
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  Speaker 1: in uh collusion of those who were in leadership, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Uh, the Pharisees and Sadducees to some degree, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: especially the high priests and his and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: him in just a minute, Annas and Caiaphas. Amen. They
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  Speaker 1: they had a cozy relationship as it were, with Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the Roman authorities. So they didn't want they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to lose that. And Jesus was upsetting their amen relationship
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  Speaker 1: that they had, this arrangement that they had. For example,
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  Speaker 1: when he went into the temple and overthrew the tables
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  Speaker 1: and took a whip and drove the money changes out,
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  Speaker 1: that was that was the saducees man that was there,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was a high priest. That was their game, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus was disruptive to what they were doing. So
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  Speaker 1: they had already conspired together to kill Jesus. They had
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  Speaker 1: already made up their mind before he was tried by
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  Speaker 1: their own laws, Amen, by their own system of justice,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, which they were just completely disregard in
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  Speaker 1: this particular case. Amen. So in Amen, and they're pre
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  Speaker 1: arranged a man meetings that they had where they again agreed,
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  Speaker 1: they all came together to agree, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get along with each other. The Pharisees, adducees,
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  Speaker 1: and so forth, so many of them did not actually
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  Speaker 1: get along these different factions. But when it came to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: they banded together a man and agreed together that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had to go. So they dispatched this band of armed
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  Speaker 1: officers a man to go with Judas the Trader, a
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  Speaker 1: man who had also conspired with the government to sell
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  Speaker 1: Jesus out for the price of a slave. So after
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  Speaker 1: being greeted by Jesus with a kiss, that's how he
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  Speaker 1: told them he would they indicate who it was that
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  Speaker 1: they were to take Jesus. The Bible tells Us suffered
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  Speaker 1: himself to be bound. And while I was reading this,
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  Speaker 1: by Jesus being bound, my mind went back to the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament where in the Book of Judges, Samson Samson
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  Speaker 1: who had supernatural strength and that came from God, and
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  Speaker 1: he was bound by cords that he suffered himself to
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  Speaker 1: be bound by. But a man, he easily broke these
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  Speaker 1: chords a man, and freed himself from the snare of
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  Speaker 1: the Philistines who were seeking to a man take him
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  Speaker 1: into captivity. So if a mere mortal man who had
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  Speaker 1: been granted supernatural strength by God Samson could easily break
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  Speaker 1: himself free from these a man chords, a man that
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  Speaker 1: had bound him, how much the more, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: do you think that Jesus could have eas freed himself, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: from these mere mortal restraints of the flesh. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even if they had shackled him and chained him, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and put him in a amen, a vaulted a man safe,
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  Speaker 1: a man with thick walls of Amen, of whatever I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can't confine the God of the universe. Amen, And
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  Speaker 1: so Amen Jesus. What we again must never forget is
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  Speaker 1: that he, a man, permitted the government. He permitted them
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  Speaker 1: to do this to him. Amen. And again he could
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  Speaker 1: have easily a man freed himself. You remember, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: there were several occasions early on in the ministry of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus where they sought to take Jesus, Amen, but he
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  Speaker 1: escaped out of their hands. So therein a man in
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  Speaker 1: those instances, of course, because it was not time. The
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  Speaker 1: time was not yet for him to die, and he
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  Speaker 1: was not going to die before the appointed time. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: a man in this particular case, as Jesus said to Peter,
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  Speaker 1: and Peter, don't you know that I could call down
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  Speaker 1: legions of angels that if I wanted to Peter, if
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to avoid this, if I wanted to escape
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  Speaker 1: from this a man, I could call down legions of angels.
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  Speaker 1: And I also remember another instance, for example, in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, where one angel of God, one angel of God,
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  Speaker 1: was dispatched from heaven to fight against a man, an
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  Speaker 1: army of the enemy, who had surrounded man the people
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  Speaker 1: of God. And when the next morning arose, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: when they arose, when the people of God woke up
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  Speaker 1: as it were the next morning, having been surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: the enney. Amen, the Bible tells us that there were
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five thousand dead bodies, dead soldiers, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by the hand of one angel. One ladies, gentlemen, one angel. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, Jesus said, I could call down legions of angels.
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  Speaker 1: But Amen, he permitted himself to be taken by human hands,
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  Speaker 1: bound by human cords of restraint, and led away by
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  Speaker 1: human army of a human government, and that had conspired
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  Speaker 1: to serve up injustice for Jesus. The fact that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was led first, and again you go back to the
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  Speaker 1: text a man, what we read from the Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 1: He was led first to the house of annas Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This is a clear indictment a man on them of
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  Speaker 1: their a man conspiratorial nature, a man of what they
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  Speaker 1: had already schemed up, what they had already planned in secret,
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  Speaker 1: a man to do to Jesus. And it's in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: It's in the Gospels. It's written there. They had already
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  Speaker 1: conspired together a man. They had already agreed together that
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  Speaker 1: it was necessary that Jesus a man, be put to death.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get rid of him. So they had
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  Speaker 1: already planned this. So after binding Jesus a man, they
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  Speaker 1: take him a man to Annas, a man to his
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  Speaker 1: house first. Now, all of this, and I've done this
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  Speaker 1: in the past, and I may again touch on this
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  Speaker 1: a man in a week or so, but all of
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  Speaker 1: this was illegal. What they were doing, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the illegality of their after hours activities again demonstrated that
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  Speaker 1: they had no intention at all of trying Jesus in
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  Speaker 1: a just and fair and transparent manner a man. The
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  Speaker 1: text of the Gospel of John does not record for
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  Speaker 1: us specifically a man, perhaps, as it were, the questions
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  Speaker 1: or the you know, back and forth, if there was
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  Speaker 1: one that Annus a man, and Jesus had in conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe as a matter of fact that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: even answered him on that night, but in fulfillment, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the for example, the example of the
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  Speaker 1: prophecy in Isaiah chapter fifty three, Jesus was led away
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  Speaker 1: as a lamb to the slaughter, a man, and again
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  Speaker 1: he was taken by those who vehemently despised and rejected
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  Speaker 1: him as being Lord, as being the Messiah, as being
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, as being the Son of God, a man.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us in verse seven of Isaiah fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: he was oppressed, he was afflicted. Yet he openeth not
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  Speaker 1: his mouth. He opened not his mouth. He is brought
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  Speaker 1: as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep
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  Speaker 1: before her shearers, is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Now Annas ann Us, ladies and gentlemen, was the high
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  Speaker 1: priest emeritus, who was really actually the real true power
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  Speaker 1: figure of the Jewish authorities. He it was who had
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  Speaker 1: already reigned in the office of high priests. He had
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  Speaker 1: been removed from the office of high Priest by the
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  Speaker 1: Roman government. And however, because again of their cozy relationship,
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  Speaker 1: a man, five of his sons would succeed him as
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  Speaker 1: being high Priest, as well as his son in law Caiaphas,
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  Speaker 1: who held the title officially at the time when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was arrested, when Jesus was illegally tried, when Jesus was indicted,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus was subsequently murdered by this execution, a man
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  Speaker 1: at the Cross of Calvary, and as the high priest,
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  Speaker 1: he's referred to as the high Priest. It just as
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  Speaker 1: you keep the title, such as in our nation the
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  Speaker 1: mayor remains the mayor, even after that no longer office.
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  Speaker 1: He still refers to them as mayor, or governor or president.
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  Speaker 1: It's the title. Aus was still a man titled as
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  Speaker 1: high Priest, even though he was not in the office
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  Speaker 1: at the time. But again, as I said before, history
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  Speaker 1: lets us know that this man was the true power
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  Speaker 1: behind a man the government of the Jews. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: a man. He was born into a man, an affluent family.
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  Speaker 1: He was well educated, and of course he had amassed
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  Speaker 1: great wealth and influence as the High priest during his
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  Speaker 1: years of reign as the High Priest, and even afterwards
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  Speaker 1: again as we a man said, how his family just
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  Speaker 1: kept the reigns of government and power. And he of
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  Speaker 1: course again was in cahoots in alliance and had a
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  Speaker 1: closure relationship with the Roman government, and they all of
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  Speaker 1: course had this idea of maintaining that power. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it's all about with people in government in a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of cases, it's all about power, holding that power,
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  Speaker 1: maintaining that power, wielding that power, and refusing to give
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  Speaker 1: up that power a man. And so it was with
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  Speaker 1: a man the government of the Jews in that day,
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  Speaker 1: along with the government of the Romans. And this is
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  Speaker 1: why a man, this injustice for Jesus took place on
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  Speaker 1: a human scale. Let me read a few verses from
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter twenty two to give you an idea. Also
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  Speaker 1: again what kind of transpired during that particular time Luke
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, verse sixty six. As Luke gives his account
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  Speaker 1: of what transpired during that particular time, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as it was day, the Bible says, the elders of
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  Speaker 1: the people, and the chief priest and the scribes came
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  Speaker 1: together again government conspiracy here, and they led him, that is, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: into their counsel, saying, art thou the Christ? Tell us?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, unto them, if I tell you, you
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  Speaker 1: will not believe, and if I also ask you, you
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  Speaker 1: will not answer me nor let me go woo. Do
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  Speaker 1: you hear that what Jesus says? Do you hear that?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, if I tell you you won't believe,
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  Speaker 1: that's number one your unbelief. Unbelief is the number one
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  Speaker 1: problem for man. Unbelief is our number one problem. Are
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  Speaker 1: you the Christ? I don't believe it? That's what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: That's what men say today. That's what they said. Then
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  Speaker 1: that's what Jesus knew. That's what Jesus retorted to them.
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  Speaker 1: If I tell you that I am the Christ, you
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  Speaker 1: won't believe it. Your actions already show that you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that I am the Christ. Because if you believe
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  Speaker 1: that I am the Christ, you would fall down and prostate,
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  Speaker 1: prostrate yourselves before me. But you don't believe that I
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  Speaker 1: am He, as he said on one occasion. And because
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  Speaker 1: you don't believe that I am He, you will die
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  Speaker 1: in your sins. So if I tell you that I
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  Speaker 1: am the Christ, you will not believe.
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  Speaker 2: And if I also ask you, you won't answer me.
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  Speaker 2: So if I ask you the question, do you believe
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  Speaker 2: that I'm the Christ? You won't answer. And Jesus says,
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  Speaker 2: nor will you release me. You've got me in bonds,
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  Speaker 2: You've got me in check, You've got me in shackles.
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  Speaker 1: You've got me at the place you've always wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to be. You've got me. Amen, before the counsel, all
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  Speaker 1: of you are in collusion. All of you are in agreement.
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  Speaker 1: You have got the perfect moment and the perfect time.
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  Speaker 1: You will not let this moment pass. This is your hour.
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  Speaker 1: You will not let me go. Jesus knew he knows
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of man. So Jesus says in verse sixty nine,
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  Speaker 1: hereafter shall the son of Man sit on the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of the power of God. Oh Man, that really
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  Speaker 1: got them stirred up when he said that I told you,
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  Speaker 1: I listen, Jesus, I mean, I just can't even I
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  Speaker 1: just can't emphasize it enough. How that, Jesus, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he just simply did not It was no patsy, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is this is this is provocative language. Folks, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: deliberately pokes, I mean, prods these people. He pokes them. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But he's speaking truth. He's speaking what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: He's speaking the fact, what the Bible speaks. Up. Every
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  Speaker 1: knee is going to bow, every tongue is going to confess.
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  Speaker 1: You are going to see me again. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the end. What you're doing, what you're conspiring to do.
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  Speaker 1: You think you're getting rid of me. No, So all
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying here is that you'll see me again.
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  Speaker 1: So he says, hereafter shall the son of Man sit
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  Speaker 1: on the right hand of the power of God? Oh my, my, my,
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  Speaker 1: my mind. So when Jesus said those words, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: then said they all art thou then, the son of God?
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  Speaker 1: And he said, unto them, ye say that I am.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, it's exactly as you have said, Yes
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  Speaker 1: I am, I am. And they said verse seventy one
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  Speaker 1: of the last verse. What need we any further witness,
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  Speaker 1: For we ourselves have heard of his own mouth. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes you did, Yes, you have heard of his own mouth.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus again Amen. But ladies and gentlemen, I'm closing here.
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  Speaker 1: But we should all marvel at in all of this
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that every action of the government of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews was predestined, was pre determined, was prescribed a
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  Speaker 1: man in the plan of God, a man long ago,
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  Speaker 1: a man again before the foundation of the world. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: at that very moment, ladies, gentlemen, in that very hour,
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  Speaker 1: he had full knowledge, a man of their schemes that
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  Speaker 1: they had already, a man plotted against him. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: and and and and as he as he was, a
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  Speaker 1: man taken in the garden, a man. And and again
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  Speaker 1: as he indicated, Amen in the garden to Peter, this
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  Speaker 1: was their hour. This was that power of darkness hour,
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  Speaker 1: a man in which they were permitted. Don't forget that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, no one takes my life from me. I
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  Speaker 1: lay it down, willingly have the power to lay it down,
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  Speaker 1: have the power to take it up again. So they
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  Speaker 1: were permitted, Amen, to do this to Jesus. Amen, and again.
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  Speaker 1: We must remember that true justice only comes from God.
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  Speaker 1: And because all of us are deserving of true justice
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  Speaker 1: from God, we would all perish, in other words, a man,
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  Speaker 1: because we are all guilty before God, all have sin,
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  Speaker 1: falling short of the glory of God marveling again. At
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  Speaker 1: all of this, we should always remember that it was
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  Speaker 1: God who delivered up his only begotten son in true justice. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: for the express purpose of him suffering the most egregious
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  Speaker 1: miscarriage of justice in order to save us from the
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  Speaker 1: justice of God, the true justice of God that we
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  Speaker 1: all deserve, as is written in the Psalms, if thou
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  Speaker 1: old God would mark iniquity, who would be able to
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  Speaker 1: stand none of us? So injustice for Jesus works for
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  Speaker 1: our justification before God's perfect and true throng, which is
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  Speaker 1: found it on justice and righteousness. Thank God. Amen for
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  Speaker 1: that again, because Psalm eighty nine and fourteen says, righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and justice of the foundation of your throne. Mercy and
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  Speaker 1: truth goes before your face injustice for Jesus, Mercy for
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  Speaker 1: you and I Thank God for his unspeakable gift. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you. Amen, made the word of the Lord. May
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  Speaker 1: the power of our Lord. May his great salvation and
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  Speaker 1: redemption a man find you in perfect peace. Amen and Amen.