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Matthew chapter 27 · Scripture Unscripted

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Matthew chapter 27. Let us pray.
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Oh God Almighty, you're so good. Thank you Jesus for another day.
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Thank you for giving us life. Abundant Holy Spirit, I pray
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you'll come in and teach us. I decrease as you increase.
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Holy Spirit, I just pray that you'll give us the pure word
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today. Lord, I pray that you'll break
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down all of our preconceived ideas and notions of your word,
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God, and all the things that we've been taught by man, God.
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And I just pray, Holy Spirit, that you will teach us, Holy
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Spirit, you will guide us. Let this word jump off the pages
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and into our hearts and into our minds and let us hide it in our
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hearts so that we might not sin against you.
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Jesus, I pray that you'll be honored and glorified and
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magnified in the highest throughout all generations,
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throughout all lands and people groups.
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We thank you for your sacrifice. We thank you for your perfect
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life. We thank you for the indwelling
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of the Holy Spirit. We thank you for the helper,
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thank you Jesus and God Almighty.
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I pray that we will be a people that are found worshiping you in
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spirit and truth. Yes Lord, come quickly, we love
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you in Jesus name I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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When the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders
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of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to
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death. So we can see here that Jesus
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has been wrongfully arrested. We can see here that they have
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unlawfully held him through the middle of the night.
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We can see here that Judas has betrayed him with a kiss.
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We can see here that Jesus had lived a perfect, sinless life.
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He did not deserve this treatment.
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And we can see here that mankind is hostile towards God and the
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goodness of God. And we cannot stand whenever
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Jesus is exposing all of our sins.
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And what we do is we fight against him.
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What we do is we war against him.
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And we tried to diminish him. We try to get rid of him.
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And this is a picture of mankind and the hostility towards God
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and the goodness of God. Jesus had done nothing wrong.
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He didn't deserve this treatment.
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And you can see how these people were delusional in their
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approach to Jesus. They were delusional in their
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approach to God. And you can see how even in our
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day and even in our hour, you see it all around.
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You tried to give people sound doctrine, sound counsel, and
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they will not put up with it. They only want to amass to
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themselves the teachers that will tickle their ears and tell
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them that the prosperity gospel is what it's all about.
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And whenever it doesn't add up and whenever they fall from
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their high horse, there is so much suicide and there's so much
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desperation and there's so much of A falling away because God
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didn't behave in the way that they wanted him to.
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God didn't behave in the way that they were taught that God
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was going to if they would just send their money to whatever
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teacher was trying to teach them.
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And you can see it happening all around us.
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You can see it with this time where Judas was trying to amass
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to himself wealth through the teaching of Jesus, and it
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doesn't work that way. If you remember Jesus said foxes
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have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere
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to lay his head. Jesus never made it about money,
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friends. He never made his ministry about
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money. He never worried about it.
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He talked about money in a way that we should be safeguarded
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against all the cares of this world.
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We need to be safeguarded against the love of money.
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We need to be safeguarded against it.
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And here you can see the greed that is upon even the Pharisees
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and the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin.
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You can see it because Jesus was exposing them.
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Jesus was threatening their way of life, and they loved the
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green. They loved the seats of honor.
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They loved to exact their power over the masses.
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And you can see it here. It's all culminating in this
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moment. Let's not miss it, friends, too.
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And when they had bound him, they led him away and delivered
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him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
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So the Jews did not have the power to execute.
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They had to give that over to the Roman government here.
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And they're going to tell Pontius Pilate a bunch of bogus
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charges, but they were going to 0 in on the ones that they
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thought were pertinent to Rome. And they're going to try to
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frame Jesus as some kind of rogue insurrectionist who was
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threatening Rome. And they were going to frame him
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in a way that it would look as if he was trying to usurp the
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authority of Rome, which we know Jesus came and lived a perfect
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life. We know that Jesus was here to
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rescue us for all of eternity. He was not so hyper fixated upon
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1 government. He was hyper fixated on the
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entire world. And think about how we're still
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talking about Jesus today. We're still trying to
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marginalized and get rid of Jesus today.
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He turned the whole world upside down in 33 years. 3 Then Judas,
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which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, he
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repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to
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the chief priests and the elders.
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So you need to know that Jesus has already said it would be
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better for Judas to have never been born.
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We can see here in verse three that Judas was remorseful of
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selling a perfect man who had done nothing wrong.
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But here Judas still had not placed his faith in the Lord
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Jesus Christ. He just knew that he had done
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something wrong and he was remorseful of it for saying, I
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have sinned and that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
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And they said, what is that to us?
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See you to that they're saying you deal with that we we have
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paid you has nothing to do with us now it's all new 5 And he
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cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and
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he went and hung himself. Think about that for a second,
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friends. There is no hope outside of
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Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our only hope.
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Our hope is not in a political party.
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Our hope is not in the government.
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Our hope is not in our wealth and finances.
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Our hope is not in the peace and security.
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Our hope is not in the gated community.
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Our hope is not placed in mankind.
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Our hope is not placed upon ourselves.
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We're not going to be able to save ourselves, friends.
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Our hope is in Jesus Christ. And here Judas is a model of
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what happens when we make it all about this world, when we try to
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make it about the greed, it just leads to suicide.
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It just leads to desperation and depression and anxiety.
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It leads to all the plagues that you see all around you, friends.
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And Judas is a model of this. And here Judas throws the 30
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pieces back at them. Because what does it even matter
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in the end, friends? What does any of it even matter?
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If you're not right with God, what does any of this even
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matter? And what you're going to find as
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time goes on, Francis, These things must happen, but woe to
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the one whom they come through. What you're going to find as
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time goes on is what is it profit a man to gain the whole
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world, but to lose his soul. What you're going to find as
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time goes on are all these people that you look up to and
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you think to yourself, wow, what it must be like to live their
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life. What you're going to find
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friends is they live in a self-made prison cell and they
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cannot find any peace. And you should feel sorry for
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those people. But there are people who live in
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a tin house on the dirt floor that have more joy than most of
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the wealthy people that you'll ever meet that you aspire to be
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like. And that is factual friends.
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And here you can see Judas went and hung himself because there
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is no peace outside of God Almighty and he had betrayed God
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almighty. 6 The chief priest took the silver pieces and said
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it's not lawful for to put them in the treasury because it is
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the price of blood. Think about that for a second.
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They had not even relegated, they had not even put together
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the pieces that Jesus is God and that this was a time that we
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would still be talking about to this day.
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They had not even thought about it.
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All they were thinking about was the legal ramifications of
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everything. They were not looking at it from
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the altitude that you and I have from the full counsel of God's
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Word. Just think about it. 7 And they
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took counsel and bought with them the Potter's field to bury
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strangers in. And this was prophesied about.
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And we know that this field Zechariah talked about, and we
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can see that it is going to be ascribed to Jeremiah.
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There's no discrepancy here that Jeremiah had talked about it and
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that Zechariah had pinned it down.
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And we can see that it is all made congruent and beautiful.
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And we can see here, this Potter's field would have been
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the place where the Potter after making his pottery, if there
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were things that did not turn out after they were dried, if
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they didn't turn out in the way that he had desired and he
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didn't want to put a stamp of approval on, he was crushing
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that pottery and throwing it in this field.
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And it was a good for nothing field.
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And here you can see how the religious folk bought this field
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with the 30 pieces of silver that our Lord was bought with.
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He was betrayed with the price of a slave.
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And you can see it here. And how amazing is this word of
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God that we hold in our hands that 400 plus years from this
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moment it was all prophesied about.
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And you can see it living out and actually being fleshed out
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here. This is an amazing book,
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friends. This is an amazing book that can
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foretell the things that are to come.
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And there is no other publication.
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There is no other literature on planet Earth that has the track
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record of being able to predict itself to the exact degree that
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the Bible does. And if it has done it in the
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past, we can bet our bottom dollar that is going to do it in
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the future. Friends, all of the prophecies
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that are contained in this book, This is not to tickle the ears
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of the curious, friends. This is for our edification.
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We can trust that God's word is true.
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We can trust in it, friends. We do not need to look for
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discrepancies. We didn't.
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We do not need to look and see if there are things in here that
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don't mix. We need to just trust it,
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friends. And that's not blind faith.
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That's not us just being gullible, that is US believing
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that God Almighty is who He says He is and that we do not need to
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call any of it into question. We need to just trust that it's
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all going to work out in the end and that God is the one who is
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steering all of it into our future, our hope and our glory.
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Friends, they bought the the Potter's Field with the 30
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pieces. 8 Wherefore that field was called the field of blood
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unto this day. So you can see, as Matthew is
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pinning these words, they had started to call that field the
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Potter's field, the field of blood. 9 Then was fulfilled that
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which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, and they took
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the 30 pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued,
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whom they of the children of Israel did value, 10 and gave
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them for the Potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
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God knew all of this was going to happen before it ever
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happened. Don't miss it.
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God predicted all these things to the exact measure that they
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all happen. Don't miss it.
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We can trust that this word is alive and active and sharper
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than any 2 edged sword. And it's reading you, it's
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discerning you today friend. 11 And Jesus stood before the
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governor, and the governor asked him, saying, Are you the king of
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the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, You say
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it. Old Pontius Pilate went down in
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history as the man who allowed the Messiah to be murdered.
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We're going to see here this dialogue.
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And what you need to know is old Pontius Pilate here.
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He was taken aback by how Jesus was so calm and cool and
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collective under pressure, and Pontius Pilate had the authority
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to release him. He did not have to kill him.
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The Jews had no way of being able to carry out the death
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sentence upon Jesus. They needed Pontius Pilate, they
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needed Rome to do their dirty work.
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And here you're going to see this dialogue between a very,
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very hostile man who cared nothing for human life and
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disregarded any kind of sympathy.
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And here you're going to see the King of kings and the Lord of
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Lord, who gives all man any kind of authority.
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There's no authority that has been given to mankind but that
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which is given by God Almighty. And He allows it and He allows
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it for a season and for a time, and it all works out for the
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good of those who love God and who are called according to his
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purposes. Everything's working out exactly
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the way that it's supposed to. And here you're going to see
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Pontius Pilate completely unravelled and acting, acting in
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a way that is not like himself. He's going to be going back and
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forth in his mind of why in the world is this prisoner not
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behaving in the way of all the other prisoners that I've ever
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examined. And you're going to see him
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having to wrestle through all of those emotions and thoughts.
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Let's dive in. He said, Jesus said, you say it.
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12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and the
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elders, he answered nothing. He was the silent sheep led to
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the slaughter. He was silent before his
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shearers, Friends. He said nothing.
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Jesus said nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Do you not hear
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how many things these they witness against you?
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They're saying, Do you not hear all these charges that they're
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trying to frame you with? And here Pilate is starting to
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figure it out. Friends. 14 And he answered him
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to never a word, and so much that the governor marveled
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greatly. There it is.
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You can see how Pontius Pilate was marveling at the meekness of
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Jesus Christ. You can see here how Pontius
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Pilate could not believe his eyes and ears of how this man
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who had done nothing wrong was not trying to get out of
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anything. He sat silent before his
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shearers. Think about it. 15 Now at that
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feast the governor was won't to release unto the people a
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prisoner whom they would. So it was tradition that at the
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feast, Pontius Pilate would ask them what prisoner they would
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like for him to release. He had that power, friends.
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He could release anybody that he wanted to.
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He could condemn anybody that he wanted to.
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So here he is trying to figure out a way to release this
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innocent man who had done nothing wrong, who had lived a
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sinless, perfect life, and who was wrongfully accused and
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wrongfully arrested and wrongfully beaten.
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And you can see he's been spat upon here.
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And Pontius Pilate is trying to figure out how to release this
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man. 16 And they had then a notable prisoner called
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Barabbas. So Barabbas is a type of us
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sinners. Barabbas is like you friend.
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And here Jesus is going to die in his stead, just like he did
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for you, friend. Here you can see in this
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dialogue that Pontius Pilate went and chose the most
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despicable, disgusting human being in the prison cell, all
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Barabbas, and he put him up against the most perfect person
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who has ever lived, the only person who has ever lived a
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perfect life, Jesus Christ. And he puts the two side by
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side. And think about how this is a
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model of you, friend. You are the most despicable in
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comparison to Jesus Christ. There is no way that you could
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ever behave your way into heaven.
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And it is modeled here in this moment.
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Don't miss it. 17 Therefore when they were gathered together,
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Pilate said unto them, Whom will you that I release unto you,
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Barabbas, or Jesus, which is called Christ?
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So this Christ is the anointed one.
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This Christ, He's showing them that he is their long-awaited
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Messiah. He is the King of the Jews.
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He is the Christ the anointed. 1 And he puts them up against this
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murderer, he puts them up against this insurrectionist, he
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puts them up against this despicable, disgusting,
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deplorable human being, Barabbas.
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And he puts them side by side and says, Who would you want me
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to release? And he knew the answer.
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The answer of course, would have been give us.
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Jesus put that murderer back where he belongs, in the prison
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cell to be killed. And there's a lot of speculation
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that that third cross on the day that they hung those other two
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thieves side by side of Jesus, that that third cross that Jesus
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hung on was supposed to be Barabbas's.
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There's a lot of speculation in that camp.
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And so we can see here that Barabbas would have known that
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Jesus died in his stead. 18 And you can see it all playing out
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here. Listen to 18.
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For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
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So here Pontius Pilate had figured the whole thing out.
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He was a smart enough and an intelligent man to hold the
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office that he had there. And he had so much power, he
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within his own self, he acted as the entire counsel and he could
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make decisions on the fly. And you can see here how he
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thought for sure they would release Jesus because they had
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only delivered him up out of envy.
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And he was trying to play the game of putting the most
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despicable murderer that they had in view of the people.
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But things didn't go out because they were all delusional.
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They didn't go the way that Pontius Pilate hoped that they
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would. 19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife
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sent unto him, saying, Have you nothing to do with that?
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Just man? For I've suffered many things
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this day in a dream because of him.
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Can you imagine Pontius Pilate's wife being disturbed by a dream?
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Here you can see a Gentile who's receiving divine counsel.
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And there was so much going on in this moment.
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The crowds were shouting out here Pontius marveling at Jesus,
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and here you see Barabbas being brought out and standing side by
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side next to Jesus. And here comes Pontius's wife
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trying to get him to see that he is acting unjustly towards an
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innocent man. And she has received a dream
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that has told her that he's innocent.
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And here Pontius Pilate has to make a very hard decision.
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He cannot have a riot on his hands or he will be deposed.
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He cannot have a riot on his hands because then he will lose
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his position in his life. And here you can see that he's
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in between a rock and a hard place, and his wife is telling
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him don't have anything to do with this innocent man. 20 But
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the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that
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they should ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
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Imagine that here these chief priests and the elders are going
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through the crowd. The same crowd that cried out
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Hosanna, the same crowd that was hoping for a Liberator.
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The same crowd is going to cry out, crucify him, and look at
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how they're stirring amongst the crowd.
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Ask for Barabbas, ask for Barabbas, have Jesus crucified.
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Look at this. Look at how it all is playing
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out. And it is exactly the way that
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it was supposed to go, but God used it without excusing them.
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So Pontius Pilate doesn't get a pass.
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Judas doesn't get a pass. The chief priests and the elders
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don't get a pass. The people in the crowd don't
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get a pass. It's just exposing the sin that
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is within us, friends, and apart from Jesus Christ, there is no
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covering of our sins. We need the blood of Jesus to
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cover us from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet,
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our palms, our faces and back. We need Jesus's blood friends
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covering us all the way, and we will only enter into the Kingdom
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of God through that blood. And here you can see that they
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were being exposed for all of their sinfulness, and they sure
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looked the part on the outside. And what are they going to say?
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21 The governor answered, and said unto them, Which of the two
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will you that I release unto you?
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And they said, Barabbas, how despicable. 22 Pilots said unto
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them, What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?
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And they all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
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What a disgusting response. There was other ways to die.
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This would have been the capital punishment that was unspeakable
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in modest crowds. This would have been things that
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people in the affluent society would not even speak of because
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it was so degrading, this form of torture before death.
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And this was only relegated to the most heinous crimes.
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And here Jesus is marked with sinners and thieves.
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He's marked with humanity as a whole.
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And you could see how he identified himself with mankind
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in this crucifixion. 24 When Pilate saw that he could
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prevail, nothing but that rather a tumult was made.
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He took water and he washed his hands before the multitude,
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saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person.
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See you to it. See, He didn't get to make that
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call. Pontius Pilate doesn't get to
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wash off the guilt of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only
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begotten here. Conscience is still guilty of
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condemning the Son of God to death.
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Only God can forgive our sins. 25 And then answered all the
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people and said, his blood be on us and on our children.
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They're saying, look, the guilt of all of this crime, let it
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fall on us. And we can see that being
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fleshed out in 8070 when God destroyed the temple, when God
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destroyed and dispersed the Jews.
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You can see it. You can see how they didn't even
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realize what they were saying in this moment.
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And it is only by the blood of Christ that we enter in. 26 Then
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released he Barabbas unto them. And when he had scourged Jesus,
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he delivered him to be crucified.
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What a small little verse that encapsulates such a brutality
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moment. This cat of nine tails that had
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pieces of bone and shards of glass interwoven into the
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leather braids. And it was a whip that had 9
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braided cords attached to it. And it had fragmentations of
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sharp objects that were designed to RIP open the flesh and to
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expose the nerve endings. And it was a brutal lashing of
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39 lashes. And you can see how it was meant
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to send the criminal into shock. There's so much here in this one
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little verse, this scourging, friends.
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It is not even to be mentioned much more in the Bible than just
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this, this ripping open of the Savior's body, friends.
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And how much power was in the blood being spilled upon the
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ground, friends? And it was for you and it was
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for me. And Isaiah said that he didn't
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even resemble a man after this scourging and they delivered him
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to be crucified. This was much more than just
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being nailed to a cross. This was this asphyxiation from
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the bodily fluids within his self.
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There's so much medical advice that has been written on what is
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happening in this moment of this scourging and crucifixion.
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Friends. 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the
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common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
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So this was after he had been scourged, Friends.
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And he's standing there and they strip him, and they put on him a
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scarlet robe, and they platted the crown of thorns, and they
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put it upon his head, and a Reed in his right hand.
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And they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Hail
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King of the Jews. This is a mocking of the Lord
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Jesus Christ. And it's no different in our day
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and hour. And look at how many people they
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make fun and they poke fun at Jesus, who is the only one who
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can save them of their sins. And look at the long-suffering
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of God, how he allows so much of this mocking to go on when he
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could take the very breath out of your lungs, when He could
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stop the very heart inside your chest.
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And he allows these mockers to go on.
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He allows them to wake up another day.
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He allows them to see creation. He allows them to taste just a
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piece of heaven on this earth. He allows them to keep going on
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in their lives and he allows allows them to amass the money
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and he allows them to continue to make link after link after
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link on the chains that wrap around them, that asphyxiate and
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the ones that destroy them and their noose that their own
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making makes where they hang themselves on friends.
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He allows them to keep going on and on.
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He allows this mocking to keep happening day after day after
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day in the media, day after day after day in the highest
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offices, day after day after today in the school rooms, day
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after day after day inside of people's houses and on their
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social media platforms, day after day after day.
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This mocking of Jesus that he allows friends, far be it from
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us, to mock the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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And there will come a day, friends, where every knee will
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bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. 30
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And they spat upon him, and they took the wreath, and they struck
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him on the head. And after that they had mocked
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him, they took the robe off of him, and they put on his own
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clothing on him, and they led him away to crucify him.
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So they had beat him beyond recognition, and then they dress
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him up and then they mock him, friends, and then they lead him
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away to crucify him. 32 And as they came out, they found a man
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of Cyrene, Simon by name. Him they compelled to bear his
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cross. So Jesus was so weak, and he was
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losing so much blood. He was losing consciousness.
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He had was going in and out here and he can't even carry this
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crossbeam that weighed anywhere between 100 to 120 lbs here.
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And he's he is trying to carry it and he is falling down.
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And here they say, hey, go grab that man who was there from a
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different land. And here they grab hold of Simon
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and they make him carry Jesus's cross being 33.
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And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is
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to say a place of skull 34, they gave him vinegar to drink
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mingled with gall, and we had tasted thereof.
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He would not drink. We know that Jesus was thirsty,
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but they were trying to give him an intoxicating drink to numb
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the pain. This would have been some kind
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of narcotic and Jesus refused it because he wanted to have all of
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his senses aware of what was happening and what was going on.
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He did not want to be intoxicated. 35 And they
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crucified him and parted his garments, casting lots, that it
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might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet.
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They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did
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they cast lots. So we know this was all
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prophesied about. There was nothing missed on
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Jesus. He knew what he was doing and he
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knew exactly what was happening, and He knew that all this was
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going to happen. This is no surprise to him.
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But the disciples, He had told so many times what was going to
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happen, and they missed it and missed it and missed, missed it.
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36 And sitting down, they watched him there.
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So they were going to make sure that the disciples didn't come
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and try to steal him off of the cross. 37 And and set up over
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his head his accusation. This is Jesus, the King of the
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Jews. Imagine that they were speaking
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truth in this moment, but it was meant to be some kind of
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mockery. 38 Then were there 2 thieves crucified with him, one
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on the right hand and one on the left.
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So we know that one of these thieves were the one that
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entered into paradise with Jesus. 39 and they passed by,
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reviled him, wagging their heads. 40 and saying, you that
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destroyed the temple and buildest it in three days, save
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yourself, if you be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
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So here they're mocking him. The Jews here are saying, look,
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he said that you were going to destroy the temple and rebuild
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it. Let's see you do it.
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Let's see you come down off that cross. 41 Likewise also the
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chief priest mocked him with the scribes and the elders and said,
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42 He saved others himself. He cannot save if he be the King
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of Israel. Let him come down from the cross
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and we will believe him. How despicable is this?
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They were trying to say, if you come down off the cross, then
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we'll believe. You see, this is what happens
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with us and mankind. This is what happens whenever we
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test God in attempt to God. And we say if there is even a
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God, then we don't care how he acts, just let him act.
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Let him show us that he's real. And we mock him just to try to
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get some kind of negative attention from him.
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And when God in his long-suffering stays silent, we
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turn away, and we care nothing for God, but he loves us so
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much. 43 He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he will
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save him. For he said, I am the Son of
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God. Again this blasphemy.
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He was accused. Jesus was accused of blasphemy.
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The whole reason they got him over to Pontius Pilate is
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because they accused him of blasphemy.
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And then here they are the ones committing blasphemy. 44 The
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thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the
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same in his teeth. So we know that one of these
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repented. One of these saw that he was the
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Son of God. 45 Now from the 6th hour there was darkness over all
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the land unto the 9th hour. So we can see this wasn't some
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kind of eclipse. This was creation groaning.
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This was creation morning over what was happening to their
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Creator. 46 And about the 9th hour Jesus cried out with a loud
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voice saying, Ella, ella lava Sabatani, that is to say, My
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God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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He had this beautiful communion with God since the beginning,
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and here it was broken, because all of the sins of mankind was
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placed on him. 47 Some of them that stood there, when they
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heard it, they said, This man is calling for Elijah. 48 And
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straight way one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with
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vinegar to put it on a Reed, and gave him to drink. 49 The rest
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said, Let me let us see whether Elijah will come and save him.
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So here they still had not believed on him as their
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Messiah. They had not put the pieces of
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the puzzle together. They were trying to see if the
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prophecy of Malachi was going to come true, if Jesus was just the
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forerunner for Elijah, because in Malachi it says that Elijah
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will come. And here, if they were listening
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to the words of Jesus, he said that Elijah had already come in.
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In the office of John the Baptist.
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And we know also that Elijah is going to come as one of the two
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witnesses in the end times in the Tribulation. 50 Jesus, when
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he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
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No one took it from him. He laid it down in his own
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accord. Friends, He gave up the ghost.
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They did not take it from him. 51 And behold, the veil of the
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temple was ripped into from the top to the bottom, and the earth
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did quake, and the rocks rent. So we can see that the veil that
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separated the holiest of holy places was ripped from top to
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bottom. No human could have ever done
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that. It was ripped by divine council
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and it was meant to show us that we have access, friends, through
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the blood of Jesus Christ, through the sacrifice of Jesus
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Christ, through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
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That we can be holy because He is holy.
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And we can enter into the holiest of holy places.
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And we can pray and we can stand, and we can gird up our
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loins, and we can come into the throne room boldly, friends,
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because of this sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 52 And the graves
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were opened, and many, many bodies of the Saints, which
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slept a rose. This was the sheave offering,
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this was the wave offering. Jesus was showing God.
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He says, look, it is finished, it is done.
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What an amazing moment this is. This is the culmination of all
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of history. Everything before pointed to
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this moment, and everything after points back to this
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moment. Friends, don't miss it. 53 And
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came out of the graves after his resurrection, after his
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resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
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many, praise the Lord. Can you imagine the bodies of
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the Saints which slept? And they were rising up out of
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their graves? And they're going and appearing
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unto many, praise God. 54 Now when the centurion that was
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there with him, watching Jesus saw the earthquake and those
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that were done, they feared greatly, saying truly this was
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the Son of God. No, this is the Son of God,
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friend. This would have been one of the
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same who was just mocking him. And now through all of these
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events, he sees that Jesus is the Son of God. 55 And many
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women were there, beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from
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Galilee, ministering unto him, 56 among which was Mary Magladin
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and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of
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Zebedee. Children.
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It would have been Salome. And all these women, they
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actually got it right. Here his disciples had fled.
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Here He scattered the sheep when the shepherd was struck.
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And they're all in hiding and shaking because they see that
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their rabbi had been murdered. And they hadn't even really
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hearkened to all the times that he had told them that he was
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going to rise again. But look at how the women, the
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women stuck by him. Friends 57 When the evening was
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come, there was a rich man of Arimathea named Joseph, who also
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himself, which was Jesus's disciple.
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He was Incognito. He was part of the religious
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folk there, but he was a true follower of Jesus Christ.
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So you can see that it's not all hypocrisy within the religious
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people. There are some, but there are
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few who actually understand it. All friends, and are not just in
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it for their own profit and gain.
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And here you can also see a man who is not controlled by his
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possessions. Look at how few and far between
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this is. But it is possible, friends. 58
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He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus.
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Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
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Look at how he had sway, friends. 59 And when Joseph had
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taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. 60 He laid
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it in his own new tomb, which had cut out in the rock, and he
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rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.
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So this rock would have been in a groove, friend, and it would
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have been impossible for just one person to be able to roll it
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back. It would have been impossible
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for these three women to roll it back.
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It would have taken many strong men to be able to roll this
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massive stone through that groove, friend, and it was meant
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to keep the person in there that was not easily moved back and
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forth. 61 And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
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sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 Now the next day
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that followed, the day of the preparation, the chief priests
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and the Pharisees came together unto Pilate. 63 Saying, Sir, we
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remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive,
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after three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore,
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that the sepulcher be made sure until the 3rd day, lest his
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disciples come by night and steal him away, and say unto the
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people, He is risen from the dead.
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So the last error shall be worse than the first.
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Look at how these chief priests look at how they actually
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remember Jesus's words more than his own disciples.
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Think about that for just a second.
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In our day, in our hour, how many of us are ignorant to the
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word of God, who call ourselves believers and disciples of
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Jesus, but we're ignorant of the word of God?
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But the world out there, they're studying this word and they're
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not even believers, and they're studying it in a way to try to
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figure out how to sidestep and get around all of these
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prophecies. Go and read Psalms 2 that the
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nations are raging and they're going to try to throw off the
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shackles of religion. And you can see it all shaping
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up in our day and our hour. The enemy knows this word.
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All the way back in the garden. He knew the word and he tries to
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twist the words. Whenever Jesus was led out into
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the wilderness, he knew the word and he quoted the word.
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And we need to be students of the Word of God.
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This is the way that we are able to safeguard ourselves against
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the schemes of the enemy. Friends, you cannot just show up
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to church once a week. You cannot just throw on a
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podcast that you listen to to try to get fed.
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We need to be in this word, friends, for ourselves.
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Own this word for ourselves, friends.
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That is the way that we understand when the counterfeit
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comes across the table. 65 Pilot said unto them.
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You have a watch, go your way. Make it as sure as you can.
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So this would have been a rope that would have been waxed on
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each side, and it would have been sealed with the Roman
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authority, the Roman Empire, the entire authority of the Roman
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Empire would have been sealed upon this throne.
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And what they did by way, they actually authenticated Christ's
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resurrection by way of trying to make sure that it didn't happen.
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It makes it to where you and I can be sure that we know that we
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know that we know that we know, historically speaking, we know
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that we know that we know that we know that Jesus Christ
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resurrected from the dead. Friends, this is not some cool
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story. This is not some fable.
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This is not some storybook. This is the authority of God's
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Word. This is the spoken Word of God.
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And we can trust that it is true.
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We can trust that we can bank on it.
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We can bet our bottom dollar on it, friends.
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And here look at how Rome made it to where you and I can have
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the hope of glory. Look at how Rome and the Romans
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and all the empire made it to where when we read this, we can
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be sure because they put this seal on it.
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And there was no way that his disciples could have come and
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stole the body. There is no way that the Jews,
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whenever all of the new church was springing up that they would
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not have presented his body if they had stolen it.
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We can see and we can know and we can trust.
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There is no grave for Jesus Christ.
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You can't go to Jesus Christ grave today because we serve a
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God that is alive. We serve a Savior that is alive
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and active, friends and I pray that he's active in your life.
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We'll end on 66. So they went and made the
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sepulchre, sealing the stone and setting a watch.
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This watch would have been made-up of four soldiers, and
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two of them would have slept and the other two would have stayed
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awake, and their lives depended upon it.
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Friends, it was only by divine counsel.
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It was only by divine intervention that all of these
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things were happening, and they prove our faith.
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Friends, all of this proves that we're not being duped and it is
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trustworthy and true. What an amazing chapter in the
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Bible. I hope you've been blessed by
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it. I know I sure have many times.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.