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John chapter 18 · Scripture Unscripted

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  John chapter 18. Let us pray, oh Lord, our God,
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  who reigns on high. Thank you Father, for another
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  day. Thank you God for waking us up.
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  Thank you, Lord, for giving us purpose.
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  Thank you, Father, for all the many blessings that you've
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  already given to us today. Thank you for our heartbeat.
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  Thank you for cognition. Thank you for breath and our
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  lungs. Thank you that your mercies are
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  new every day. Thank you, God, that you've
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  called us to new heights. Thank you, Father, that we can
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  have the mind of Christ. Thank you, God, that you love
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  us, Lord, and you love us to the end.
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  Thank you, Father, for giving us eternal purpose.
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  And Lord, I thank you for this spoken word.
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  I thank you for the Rhema today, the Logos.
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  Father, I pray God that your word will read us, Lord, and
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  will purify us and purge us, Lord, of all the things that
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  we're holding on to. Lord, that does not belong.
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  God, I pray that you'll give us a sound mind.
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  I pray God you'll give a sound doctrine.
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  Lord, I decrease as you increase.
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  Let these words go deep down into our DNA.
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  Father, I pray that they will be useful for building us up God,
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  so we can build others up. God, I pray for the church at
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  large. I pray for those that are being
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  persecuted. Father, I pray that you will
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  help them. Lord, that you will stand in the
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  gap. Father, I pray that you'll use
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  us, Lord, the repairers of the breach.
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  God, I pray that we could stand in the gap.
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  I pray that we can silence the accusations of the enemy.
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  We can silence all of the lies that are coming our way way.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for truth to be revealed.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus for hearts to be softened and
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  mended. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  for the prodigals to come home. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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  mental illness to fall off. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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  addiction to fall off. God, I pray that you will give
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  us the breakthrough, that you will give us the tools that we
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  need to get out of the bondage that we find ourselves in.
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  God that you, Lord, will be well pleased, and it'll be all about
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  you, Father, about your holy name.
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  Let us be holy because you are holy.
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  Lord, I pray that you can show us those paths of righteousness.
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  We are acknowledging You today and we are asking that you will
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  lead our steps. Lord, I get out of the way and
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  decrease. Holy Spirit, You teach.
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  Give us the discernment to know what these words are saying and
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  it's in Jesus Christ. Holy and precious name I pray,
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his
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  disciples over the brook Kedron, and there was a garden into the
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  which he entered and his disciples.
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  So here Jesus is having to cross this brook at Kedron, and this
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  would have been the stream that all of the Passover animals, the
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  blood would have flowed through. This broke out of the temple
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  there, and Jesus would have been reminded of why he was headed to
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  Gethsemane. And we could see here that Judas
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  would have known where to find him.
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  And Jesus went there very intentionally, this
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  intentionality of Christ, knowing that His hour had come.
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  Verse 2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place,
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  for Jesus oftentimes resorted there with his disciples.
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  So you can see here that he was not set up in the sense that he
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  was unaware of the schemes of the devil.
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  He knew that Judas had been taken over by Satan and that his
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  hour was short and his hour was at hand, and he knew that Judas
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  would be able to find him there. Verse 3.
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  Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from
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  the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with
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  lanterns and torches and weapons.
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  So this little small army would have arrived on the scene ready
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  for action, ready for any kind of hostility.
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  And what they were met with is the Prince of Peace.
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  For and therefore, knowing all things that should come upon
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  him, Jesus went forth and said unto them, Whom do you seek?
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  So look at how Jesus moved toward the enemy, moved toward
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  the opposition, move toward those that would take his life
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  from him. He did not shrink back.
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  He was not a coward. He did not go and hide and try
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  to find a way out. He moved and advanced into the
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  opposition and that is our call as men, friends, we are to move
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  towards the threat. We are not to shrink back.
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  We are not to try to save our skin.
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  We are to move and advance into the firefight, friends, and
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  Jesus here the Prince of Peace, He knew that his hour had come,
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  and so he moved towards opposition. 5 They answered him,
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  Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said unto them, I am.
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  And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
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  As soon as he had said unto them, I am, they went backward
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  and fell to the ground. So here this great I am
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  statement, Jesus is pronouncing his deity.
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  Jesus is announcing His messianic claim that He is an
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  eternal, and that He is God, and that He is the great I am
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  Yahweh. And they fell back.
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  And here you can see the power that he has in just the breath
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  of his mouth. You can see that it was enough
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  to make this army fall to the ground backwards. 7 Then asked
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  he them again, whom do you seek? And they said Jesus of Nazareth.
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  So this was a cut down, this Jesus, the branch, Jesus of
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  Nazareth. This was a despised town there.
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  And this Nazarene sect had disturbed all of the high
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  officials and all of the priests, all of the religious
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  people's way of life. And Jesus was sought after
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  because he was a disturbance to all of their greed and all of
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  their power struggle. 8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I
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  am. If therefore you seek me, let
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  these go their way. So Jesus was looking after his
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  band of disciples, He was looking after these men that
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  turned the world right side up. And let's see how verse 9 says
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  that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke of
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  them which you gave me, I have lost none.
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  So we know that only Judas, the son of Perdition, was the one
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  who sold him out, and that he was to be lost. 10 Then Simon
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  Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's
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  servant and cut off his right ear.
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  The servant's name was Malchus. So here Peter, in this last
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  ditch effort to try and protect his Lord and master, he pulls
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  the sword and strikes a servant. This was not even a soldier.
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  This was not even someone that we know of to be armed.
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  This was just a servant. And he probably struck him from
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  behind. So this was a cowardice move by
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  Peter. And it seemed as if Peter had
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  all the bravado and he had just got done telling Jesus that he
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  would go with him to death. And now we see that Peter is
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  flailing in his action, and what does Jesus have to say?
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  11 Then Jesus said unto Peter, Put up your sword into the
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  sheath, the cup which my father has given me, shall I not drink
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  it? So he's asking Peter, he's
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  saying, don't you think that I'm supposed to do the will of my
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  father? And then he tells them, We know
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  in the other gospels, if you live by the sword, you will die
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  by the sword. So anytime our profession
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  involves a weapon, there's a great chance that that is the
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  weapon that will very much take your life. 12 Then the band and
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  the captain of officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him.
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  So you can see here that they have him arrested. 13 They led
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  him away to Anis first, for he was the father-in-law to
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  Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
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  So Anis was the power behind the political machine there for the
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  Jews, and he had put Caiaphas, his son-in-law there as someone
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  to play the part. But it was actually Anis who was
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  pulling the strings and controlling things for the
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  political realm there in Jerusalem. 14 Now Caiaphas was
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  he which gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that
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  one man should die for the people.
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  So this would have seemed like he understood who Jesus was.
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  But in the reality he thought that by killing Jesus they would
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  be able to keep their homeland. They would be able to keep their
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  country, they would be able to keep their customs, they would
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  be able to keep their laws. They would be able to keep their
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  autonomy there amongst the Roman government that they would get
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  their special privileges. If Jesus was to die and everyone
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  was to remain faithful to the Jewish laws, then they would be
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  able to keep everything going. 15 And Simon Peter followed
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  Jesus, and so did another disciple, and the disciple was
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  known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the
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  place of the high priest. So we know that this is John
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  Speaking of himself, and he's talking about Peter.
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  And they let John in no problem. They knew John, but they did not
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  know Peter. But what is John going to do?
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  16 But Peter stood at the door without, then went out that door
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  the other disciple which was known unto the high priest, and
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  spoke unto her, that kept the door, and brought Peter in.
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  So you can see here that John goes out and he says that Peter
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  is his friend, is his comrade, and he is able to go in to see
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  what is going to happen to Jesus. 17 Then said the damsel
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  that kept the door unto Peter, are you not one of this man's
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  disciples? And he says I am not.
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  That was his first denial, friends.
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  He had a knee jerk reaction. And we would do well to make
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  sure that whenever our faith gets tested that we actually
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  passed the test, whenever someone accuses us of being a
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  Christian, that we do not try to turn away from the faith or try
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  to hide and then ask for forgiveness later.
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  We need to be bold for our faith friends. 18 And the servants and
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  officers stood there who had made a fire of coals, for it was
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  cold, and they warmed themselves, and Peter stood with
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  them and warmed himself. 19 The high priest then asked Jesus of
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  his disciples and of his doctrine.
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  So you can see here Peter's warming himself by the fire.
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  You can see here that Caiaphas is wanting to know what Jesus
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  has done, why he is being brought there.
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  But he knows, and he's wanted him to tell on himself some
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  secret sin. But Jesus was spotless and
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  blameless and sinless, and he had no hold on him. 20 Jesus
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  answered him. I spoke openly to the world I
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  ever taught, in the synagogue and in the temple where the Jews
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  always resort, and in secret I have said nothing.
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  He says, You know everything that I've ever taught, because I
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  have taught it publicly. 21 Why do you ask me?
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  Ask them which heard me what I have said unto them.
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  Behold, they know what I said. So Jesus is saying I was very
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  public in everything that I had to say and all of it has been
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  written down. And if you want to know, go and
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  check the track record. Go and check the tape.
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  You're going to see that everything is congruent and
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  falls together. Everything is fluid, and I have
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  no deception in me and no sin. 22 And when he had thus spoken,
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  one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of
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  his hand, saying, Answer you the high priest so.
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  So this soldier here, this officer has slapped him with the
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  force of a punch. He has open handedly punched him
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  in the face. And then what does Jesus say?
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  In 23 Jesus answered him. If I have spoken evil, bear
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  witness of the evil. But if well, why do you strike
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  me? So Jesus is saying, if I've done
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  something wrong, tell me what I've done wrong.
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  But if I have not done anything wrong, why have you struck me?
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  Can you imagine? This is the hostility of mankind
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  towards God. Can you imagine?
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  We just want to be our own God. We don't want the list of rules
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  that God tells us to play by. We want our own playground.
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  We want to build our own Kingdom.
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  And that is the hostility here in this moment. 24 Now Anna had
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  sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. 25 And Simon Peter
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  stood and warmed himself, and said Therefore unto him.
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  They said unto him, Are you not also one of his disciples?
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  He denied it and said I am not. So this is his second denial
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  here, friends, he's saying no. 26 one of the servants of the
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  high priest, being his kinsman, whose ear Peter had cut off,
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  said, Did I not see you in the garden with him?
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  27 Peter then denied again immediately, the cock crew, The
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  rooster crowed. And you can see here that this
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  was the third denial, and Jesus prophesied about it.
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  He predicted it, friends. And Peter here immediately knew
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  when he heard the rooster crow that all of Jesus's words had
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  been fulfilled. And Jesus looks at him in the
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  face, and Peter weeps bitterly. 28 Then LED they Jesus from
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  Caiaphas, into the Hall of judgement, and it was early, and
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  they themselves went not into the judgement hall, lest they
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  should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
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  So here all of their legal requirements for their Passover
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  was being fulfilled, but they were murdering the one who gave
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  those requirements that pointed them to himself, and they did
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  not see it. Their hypocrisy got the best of
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  them, their pride got the best of them, and they missed it.
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  And we would miss it too whenever we think there are
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  other ways unto God. When it we would miss it too
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  whenever we just think that Jesus is a moral teacher.
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  We would miss it too, whenever we do not believe that Jesus is
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  the only way unto the Father. And you can see here that there
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  are other legal procedures with Annis and Caiaphas were illegal.
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  It must be done in the day. So now they've already made
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  their decision to put him to death.
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  And so now they're trying to get Rome to do their dirty work. 29
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  Pilot then went out unto them and said, What accusation do you
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  bring against this man? 30 They answered and said unto
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  him, If he were not a malefactor, we would have, we
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  would not have delivered him up to you.
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  They're saying, what do you? Are you calling our judgment
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  into judgment? Are you trying to accuse us of
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  not knowing how to rightfully judge this man?
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  And so here they were trying to throw off the fact that they
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  were being deceptive and deceitful and trying to murder
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  an innocent man. 30 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take you him,
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  and judge him according to your law.
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  The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to
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  put any man to death, much less an innocent man.
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  Here this High Court of the Jews had all of these legal
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  requirements of why somebody should be put to death, and
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  Jesus did not fit any of them and they knew it.
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  It was out of envy that they murdered him, and Pilate saw
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  right through it 32 that the saying of Jesus might be
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  fulfilled, which he spoke signifying what death he should
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  die. So here you can see it was not
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  enough for Pilate just to flog him, that he told them that he
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  would be delivered unto sinful man and be crucified.
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  But on the third day rise. 33 Then Pilate entered into the
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  judgment hall again and called Jesus and said unto him, Are you
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  the king of the Jews? So here he's saying you, you're
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  the king. What does Jesus say?
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  34 Jesus answered and said, You say this thing.
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  Do you say this thing of yourself or did others tell it
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  to you of me? So here Jesus is wanting to
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  know, did you come up to this conclusion or did somebody else
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  put you up to it? 35 Pilot answered.
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  Am IA Jew. Your own nation and the chief
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  priests have delivered you unto me.
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  What have you done? So here Pilate is wanting to try
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  to figure out why is this innocent man who has done
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  nothing wrong being railed at and they're shouting to crucify
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  him when he has lived a perfect, sinless life.
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  And Pilate wants to know. 36 Jesus answered, My Kingdom is
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  not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this
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  world, then would my servants fight that I should not be
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  delivered to the Jews? But now is my Kingdom not from
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  here? So you can see here that Jesus
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  knew that he was from the Father and he was going to the Father.
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  He knew that he had legions of angels at his disposal.
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  He knew that just with the breath of his mouth the chains
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  could fall off. He could be a free man, He knew
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  it. But he willfully went to the
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  slaughter. He willfully stayed silent. 37
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  Pilate therefore said unto him, Are you a king?
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  Then Jesus answered, You say that I am a king.
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  To this end I was born, and for this, 'cause I came into the
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  world, that I should bear witness unto truth, Everyone
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  that is of the truth hears my voice.
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  So he's saying, his sheep hear his voice.
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  He is the Good Shepherd, He is the truth. 38 Pilot said unto
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  him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he
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  went out again unto the Jews, and said unto them, I find in
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  him no fault at all. Jesus was perfect.
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  Jesus was sinless. Jesus never had to ask for an
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  apology. You can see here that through
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  all of the wisest, smartest counsel, there was no fault
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  found in Jesus Christ. 39 But you have a custom that I should
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  release unto you one at the Passover.
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  Will you, therefore that I release unto you the king of the
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  Jews? 40 Then cried, They all saying,
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  not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
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  I hope that you can identify yourself as Barabbas.
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  I am Barabbas, I'm a robber. I'm an insurrectionist.
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  I am a murderer, and I desperately needed Jesus to die
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  in my stead. Look at how Pilot here is
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  completely confounded by the notion that they would ask for a
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  murderer instead of this innocent man that he could find
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  no fault in. And he knew it was envy,
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  friends. He was able to see through it
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  all and he was hoping that there was some way that he could let
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  this innocent man out of there. His wife had already told him to
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  not have anything to do with him, for she had suffered in a
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  dream because of this man. And you can see here that Jesus
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  had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to
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  get out of it. He could have called down
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  legions of angels. He should have come down and
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  proved his messianic claims. But he didn't because he knew
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  what he was doing. He knew that this was going to
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  disarm all of evil and darkness and death could have no claim on
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  us, friends. And Jesus won the victory,
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  friends, and took a victory lap, friends, and LED a procession
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  out of Abraham's bosom and closed that down.
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  We can see here that there's so much truth in this one chapter.
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  I hope you've been blessed by it.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.