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Speaker 1: If to night was your last night on earth, what
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Speaker 1: would you do? Would you gather your closest friends and family,
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Speaker 1: cherishing every final moment. Would you try to savor the
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Speaker 1: last few hours of peace before the storm came, or
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Speaker 1: would you run, desperate to escape the suffering ahead. Jesus knew.
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Speaker 1: He knew the weight of what was coming, the betrayal,
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Speaker 1: the agony, the cross. He knew that in just a
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Speaker 1: few hours he would be dragged away, beaten beyond recognition,
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Speaker 1: abandoned by those closest to him. He knew that the
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Speaker 1: same crowd that once shouted Hosanna would soon scream crucify him.
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Speaker 1: And yet instead of running, instead of hiding, he chose
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Speaker 1: to sit. He chose to look into the faces of
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Speaker 1: his disciples, including the one who had already sold him
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Speaker 1: out for thirty silver coins. He chose to break bread
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Speaker 1: to poor wine, to offer words of love and hope,
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Speaker 1: knowing that those very hands he was feeding would soon
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Speaker 1: scatter in fear. The Last Supper wasn't just a meal.
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Speaker 1: It was a battle against time, a final lesson before
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Speaker 1: the greatest sacrifice in history. And to night we are
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Speaker 1: stepping into that upper room with him. We are going
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Speaker 1: to uncover the hidden weight behind his words, the deep
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Speaker 1: significance of this moment, and what it means for you
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Speaker 1: to day. Because this was more than just a farewell dinner,
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Speaker 1: This was the beginning of everything. By the end of
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Speaker 1: this video, you will understand why this night was the
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Speaker 1: most intense meal in history. You will see the Last
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Speaker 1: Supper not just as a moment in time, but as
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Speaker 1: a moment that changed eternity. We have created in depth
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Speaker 1: grab yours. So, before we begin, I want to ask you,
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Speaker 1: have you ever truly thought about what Jesus was feeling
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Speaker 1: that night? Drop a comment below, because what you're about
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Speaker 1: to hear will forever change the way you see the
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Speaker 1: Last Supper. The Last Supper wasn't just another meal. It
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Speaker 1: was the calm before the storm, the final hours before
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Speaker 1: history itself would change. And yet, as Jesus sat at
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Speaker 1: that table, breaking bread, speaking words of love, his disciples
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Speaker 1: had no idea what was really happening. They thought this
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Speaker 1: was just another passover, a sacred night, yes, a night
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Speaker 1: to remember God's deliverance, a night to share a meal,
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Speaker 1: to sing hymns to celebrate their faith. But for them
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Speaker 1: this was routine, something they had done every year of
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Speaker 1: their lives. They didn't understand that this would be the
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Speaker 1: last time they would ever sit with Jesus like this.
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Speaker 1: They didn't realize that the Lamb of God was sitting
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Speaker 1: among them, about to become the final sacrifice. Jesus knew,
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Speaker 1: and as he looked around the room, he could feel
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Speaker 1: the weight of it all. Think about the biggest moment
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Speaker 1: you've ever prepared for. Maybe it was your wedding day,
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Speaker 1: the anticipation, the nerves, the overwhelming mix of emotions. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it was a championship game, months of training knowing that
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Speaker 1: everything was leading to this one night. Maybe it was
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Speaker 1: a job interview, a final exam, a life changing conversation, whatever,
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Speaker 1: it was. You knew that nothing would be the same
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Speaker 1: after that moment. But nothing, absolutely nothing compares to preparing
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Speaker 1: for your own sacrifice. Jesus wasn't just getting ready for suffering.
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Speaker 1: He was about to bear the weight of the world's sin.
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Speaker 1: He was about to take on the betrayal, the rejection,
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Speaker 1: the whips on his back, the nails in his hands,
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Speaker 1: the full wrath of God. He was about to walk
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Speaker 1: straight into hell itself to rescue humanity. And the disciples
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Speaker 1: they were laughing, talking, passing bread around. They had no idea.
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Speaker 1: Even though Jesus had been warning them, telling them again
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Speaker 1: and again that this day was coming, they still didn't
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Speaker 1: fully grasp it. The son of Man must suffer many
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Speaker 1: things and be rejected, and he must be killed, and
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Speaker 1: on the third day be raised to life Luke nine
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Speaker 1: twenty two. The hour has come for the son of
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Speaker 1: Man to be glorified. John twelve t one of you
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Speaker 1: will betray me Matthew twenty six, twenty one. And yet
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Speaker 1: they still didn't understand. It's easy to wonder how could
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Speaker 1: they be so blind? How could they sit in that room,
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Speaker 1: in the presence of Jesus and not see what was
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Speaker 1: right in front of them. But aren't we the same way?
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Speaker 1: God gives us warning signs. He speaks to us through
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Speaker 1: his word, through circumstances, through whispers in our spirit, But
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Speaker 1: we don't listen. We keep living as if everything will
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Speaker 1: always stay the same. We ignore the urgency of the moment,
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Speaker 1: Just like the disciples, We assume we have more time.
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Speaker 1: But what if they had known? What if Peter, James
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Speaker 1: and John had realized that after this meal their world
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Speaker 1: would be turned upside down, that within hours their lord
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Speaker 1: would be arrested, beaten, and led to die. Would they
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Speaker 1: have sat closer, hung on to his every word, wept
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Speaker 1: at his feet because the tension in that room was thick,
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Speaker 1: even if they didn't fully understand it yet, Jesus could
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Speaker 1: feel the weight of what was coming. Every time he
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Speaker 1: looked at Judas, he knew what was about to happen.
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Speaker 1: Every time he heard Peter speak, he knew that boldness
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Speaker 1: would soon turn to denial. Every time he passed the bread,
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Speaker 1: he knew it was representing the body that would soon
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Speaker 1: be torn apart. And still he stayed. He didn't run,
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Speaker 1: he didn't try to escape. He embraced every moment because
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Speaker 1: he knew what he was about to do. Wasn't just
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Speaker 1: for them, It was for you. This was more than
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Speaker 1: a meal, This was more than a conversation. This was
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Speaker 1: the moment where the old covenant would end and the
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Speaker 1: new Covenant would begin. And yet in this sacred moment,
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Speaker 1: some one was about to make a choice that would
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Speaker 1: change everything. Because sitting at that table, with hands that
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Speaker 1: had served alongside Jesus, with lips that had spoken his name,
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Speaker 1: was the one who had already sold him for thirty
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Speaker 1: silver coins. And Jesus knew, what would you have done,
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Speaker 1: knowing that your betrayer was sitting across from you. Jesus
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Speaker 1: looked around the table at the men who had followed
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Speaker 1: him for years, men who had seen the blind receive sight,
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Speaker 1: the dead rise the storm's bow at his command. They
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Speaker 1: had eaten with him, walked with him, listened to his
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Speaker 1: every word, and yet one of them was about to
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Speaker 1: betray him, and not just betray him, sell him, trade
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Speaker 1: him for a handful of silver. Think about that. Imagine
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Speaker 1: sitting at a table eating with someone you love, trust,
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Speaker 1: and have poured your heart into, someone you have cared for, taught,
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Speaker 1: given opportunity after opportunity. Imagine looking them in the eye,
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Speaker 1: knowing that before the night is over, they will hand
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Speaker 1: you over to your enemies. How would you react? Would
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Speaker 1: you call them out, would you expose them? Would you
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Speaker 1: let everyone in the room know exactly what kind of
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Speaker 1: person they are? Jesus didn't. Instead, he fed him. Judas
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Speaker 1: was right there. He wasn't seated in the corner, ashamed
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Speaker 1: of what he had done. He was at the table, pretending, eating,
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Speaker 1: playing the role of a loyal disciple, while the thirty
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Speaker 1: silver coins weighed heavy in his heart. And yet Jesus
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Speaker 1: let him stay. He didn't throw him out, he didn't
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Speaker 1: humiliate him in front of the others. Instead, he gave
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Speaker 1: him one more chance. Truly, I tell you, one of
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Speaker 1: you will betray me, Matthew, twenty six twenty one. Can
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Speaker 1: you hear the weight in his voice? He wasn't just
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Speaker 1: saying it for the others. He was speaking directly to Judas,
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Speaker 1: giving him an opportunity to come clean, to confess, to repent.
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Speaker 1: The room must have gone silent. The disciples, confused, started
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Speaker 1: questioning themselves. Surely not I Lord, Matthew twenty six twenty two.
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Speaker 1: But Judas knew, and so did Jesus. And yet even
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Speaker 1: in this moment, Jesus still loved him. Instead of calling
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Speaker 1: him an enemy, instead of exposing him, Jesus handed him bread.
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Speaker 1: The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl
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Speaker 1: with me will betray me Matthew twenty six, twenty three.
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Speaker 1: In that culture, sharing food from the same dish was
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Speaker 1: a sign of closeness, of friendship, of deep relationship. Jesus
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Speaker 1: was saying, Judas, you are close to me. You have
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Speaker 1: been given everything, and still you are about to do
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Speaker 1: this she Even then he was reaching out. But Judas
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Speaker 1: had already made his choice. Satan had entered his heart
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Speaker 1: John thirteen twenty seven. And he got up from the
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Speaker 1: table and left, and Jesus let him go. Because this
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Speaker 1: is who Jesus is. He does not force love, he
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Speaker 1: offers it. He doesn't chase down those who have already
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Speaker 1: chosen the path of destruction. He gives them every opportunity,
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Speaker 1: but the choice is theirs. But the saddest part, Judas
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Speaker 1: never truly knew Jesus. He followed him, he preached in
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Speaker 1: his name, he cast out demons, but when the time came,
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Speaker 1: he loved money more than the Messiah. And before we
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Speaker 1: judge Judas too quickly, how many to day are just
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Speaker 1: like him. How many people claim to follow Jesus, go
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Speaker 1: to church, serve in ministry, but when the pressure comes,
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Speaker 1: when temptation rises, when the cost of following him is
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Speaker 1: too high, they turn away. How many sit at his table,
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Speaker 1: hear his words, experience his presence, but their hearts are
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Speaker 1: already given to something else. Judas isn't just a story
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Speaker 1: from two thousand years ago. He is a warning because
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Speaker 1: betrayal didn't stop in that room. It still happens to day.
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Speaker 1: How many people have been betrayed by someone they trusted,
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Speaker 1: A friend, a family member, a spouse, a church leader.
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Speaker 1: How many have felt the sting of knowing that someone
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Speaker 1: you loved was willing to throw you away for something meaningless?
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Speaker 1: And the real test, how do you respond? Because Jesus
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Speaker 1: gave us the example, he didn't fight back, he didn't
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Speaker 1: lash out, he didn't demand revenge. He still loved not
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Speaker 1: because Judas deserved it, but because Jesus could not be
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Speaker 1: anything other than who he is. This is where most
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Speaker 1: of us struggle. It's easy to love people who are
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Speaker 1: good to us. It's easy to be kind to those
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Speaker 1: who support us, But what about when the betrayal is personal.
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Speaker 1: When a spouse is unfaithful, when a best friend stabs
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Speaker 1: you in the back, when someone you trusted destroys your
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Speaker 1: reputation with a single lie. The world tells us to
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Speaker 1: cut them off, get even make them suffer. But Jesus
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Speaker 1: washed Judas's feet, Jesus gave him bread, Jesus gave him
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Speaker 1: every opportunity to change. And if Jesus could do that
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Speaker 1: for the man who sold him to his murderers, what
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Speaker 1: does that say about how we should handle betrayal. This
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Speaker 1: is where true Christianity is tested. Do we only follow
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Speaker 1: Jesus when it's easy, or do we follow him even
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Speaker 1: when it costs us. Jesus knew that Judas had made
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Speaker 1: his choice. He knew that, no matter how much love
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Speaker 1: he gave, Judas had already given his heart to Satan.
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Speaker 1: And still he let him go without hate in his heart.
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Speaker 1: Because Jesus wasn't consumed by the betrayal of one man.
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Speaker 1: He was focused on the salvation of the world. And
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Speaker 1: this is the lesson. You will be betrayed, you will
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Speaker 1: be hurt, people you love will walk away. But you
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Speaker 1: have to choose. Will you become bitter or will you
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Speaker 1: become more like Jesus, because the table was still full
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Speaker 1: of men who needed him, the night was still unfolding,
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Speaker 1: that the cross was still waiting, and Jesus didn't let
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Speaker 1: betrayals stop him from fulfilling his purpose. Neither should you.
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Speaker 1: Judas had left, the betrayer was gone, slipping into the
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Speaker 1: night to set the plan in motion. And yet Jesus remained.
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Speaker 1: He knew what was coming, the arrest, the trial, the
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Speaker 1: whips tearing through his flesh, the nails that would pin
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Speaker 1: him to a cross. He knew the agony that awaited him,
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Speaker 1: and still he sat in love, in surrender, in purpose.
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Speaker 1: The room was quiet now, the weight of his words
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Speaker 1: hung in the air. The disciples didn't understand everything yet,
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Speaker 1: but something felt different. There was an intensity in jesus eyes,
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Speaker 1: a heaviness in his voice. And then he picked up
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Speaker 1: the bread. This was no ordinary bread. For centuries Israel
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Speaker 1: had been celebrating the Passover, the night when God had
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Speaker 1: delivered them from Egypt. They ate unleavened bread, bitter herbs,
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Speaker 1: roasted lamb, all reminders of the suffering of their ancestors.
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Speaker 1: The bread was meant to remind them of the haste
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Speaker 1: in which their forefathers had fled of God's provision in
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Speaker 1: the wilderness. But this time Jesus wasn't just remembering the past.
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Speaker 1: He was pointing to the future. He held up the bread,
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Speaker 1: looking at the men who had followed him for years,
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Speaker 1: the men who would soon abandon him, and then he
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Speaker 1: broke it. This is my body which is broken for you.
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Speaker 1: Take eat, and do this in remembrance of me Luke
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Speaker 1: twenty two nineteen. The bread tore apart in his hands.
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Speaker 1: They didn't fully understand it yet, but he was showing
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Speaker 1: them what would happen to him in just a few hours.
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Speaker 1: His body beaten, torn pierced, his skin ripped open by
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Speaker 1: the whips, his frame crushed under the weight of the cross,
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Speaker 1: and yet he gave it willingly. A Think about that,
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Speaker 1: Imagine knowing your body is about to be ripped apart
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Speaker 1: and still offering it. Imagine looking into the eyes of
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Speaker 1: the very people you are about to die for, knowing
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Speaker 1: that some of them will betray you, abandon you, deny you,
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Speaker 1: and still breaking the bread, still offering yourself freely. This
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Speaker 1: was the moment where everything shifted. For thousands of years,
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Speaker 1: the Old Covenant had required the blood of animals to
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Speaker 1: atone for sin. Lambs were slaughtered, sacrifices were made, but
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Speaker 1: it was never enough. It was always temporary, a cycle
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Speaker 1: that had to be repeated year after year, sacrifice after sacrifice,
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Speaker 1: because the blood of animals could never fully take away sin,
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Speaker 1: it could only cover it for a time. But now
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Speaker 1: Jesus was becoming the final sacrifice, the lamb of God
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Speaker 1: whose body would be broken so that we could be healed.
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Speaker 1: This was the new covenant. Not a contract based on law,
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Speaker 1: but a covenant based on grace, Not an agreement based
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Speaker 1: on our ability to follow rules, but a promise sealed
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Speaker 1: in the very body of Christ. By his wounds, we
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Speaker 1: are healed, Isaiah fifty three, colonn. Five. The disciples couldn't
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Speaker 1: grasp the depth of what was happening in that moment.
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Speaker 1: They had no idea that in just a few hours
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Speaker 1: Jesus would be dragged away, that by morning he would
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Speaker 1: be standing before a violent crowd, barely able to stand,
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Speaker 1: bleeding from head to toe. They didn't understand that the
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Speaker 1: bread he had just broken would be their last meal
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Speaker 1: together before the cross. But g Jesus knew, and still
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Speaker 1: he gave thanks. Let that sink in He knew what
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Speaker 1: was coming, he knew his body would be broken, and
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Speaker 1: yet he blessed the bread, He blessed the suffering because
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Speaker 1: he wasn't thinking about the pain. He was thinking about you.
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Speaker 1: When he broke the bread, he saw your face. When
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Speaker 1: he lifted the cup, he thought of your sin, your shame,
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Speaker 1: your redemption. When he gave thanks, he was thanking the
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Speaker 1: Father for the chance to save you. He wasn't a victim.
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Speaker 1: He was a willing sacrifice. And this is where it
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Speaker 1: gets personal, because to day we still take the bread,
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Speaker 1: we still remember, But how many times do we come
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Speaker 1: to the table without really understanding the weight of what
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Speaker 1: Jesus did. How often do we take communion, eating the
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Speaker 1: bread and drinking the cup without truly reflecting on what
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Speaker 1: it cost him. His body wasn't just broken for a story.
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Speaker 1: It was broken for you, for every moment you felt unworthy,
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Speaker 1: for every sin you thought was too big to be forgiven,
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Speaker 1: For every wound, every regret, every failure. His body was
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Speaker 1: broken so that yours could be made whole. And the
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Speaker 1: question is do you really believe it? Because it's easy
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Speaker 1: to say Jesus died for the world, But do you
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Speaker 1: believe he died for you, that when he held the
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Speaker 1: bread in his hands that night, he was thinking of you.
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Speaker 1: Because this was not just the breaking of bread. This
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Speaker 1: was the breaking of barriers. The old system was gone,
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Speaker 1: the law was being fulfilled. The final sacrifice was about
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Speaker 1: to be made, and Jesus was not being taken against
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Speaker 1: his will. He was giving himself for you. The bread
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Speaker 1: had been broken, his body willingly offered, but Jesus wasn't done.
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Speaker 1: He picked up the cup, the deep red wine swirling inside,
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Speaker 1: and lifted it for them to see. The moment was heavy, sacred.
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Speaker 1: Every disciple sat in silence, waiting for his next words.
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Speaker 1: This is my blood of the New Covenant, which is
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Speaker 1: poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins Matthew,
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Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty eight. They had heard Jesus speak in
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Speaker 1: parables before, they had watched him turn water into wine,
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Speaker 1: But this this was different. Jesus wasn't just predicting his death.
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Speaker 1: He was making a way for salvation. Because from the
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Speaker 1: beginning of time, blood had always been the price of redemption.
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Speaker 1: It started in the garden of Eden, when Adam and
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Speaker 1: Eve sinned, God clothed them with animal skins. Genesis three
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Speaker 1: twenty one. Blood had to be shed to cover their shame.
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Speaker 1: It continued with able sacrifice, a pure offering that was
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Speaker 1: accepted by God. It was established in the Law of Moses,
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Speaker 1: the sacrificial system that required the blood of animals to
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Speaker 1: atone for sin. Without the shedding of blood, there is
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Speaker 1: no forgiveness of sins Hebrews nine twenty two. And for
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Speaker 1: thousands of years this was the only way. But the
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Speaker 1: problem the sacrifices were never enough. The blood of bulls
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Speaker 1: and goats could only cover sin temporarily. It couldn't remove
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Speaker 1: it forever. Year after year, the high priest had to
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Speaker 1: enter the most holy place, offering blood on behalf of
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Speaker 1: the people, a cycle of sacrifice, an endless river of blood,
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Speaker 1: but never a true solution until this night, until Jesus,
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Speaker 1: because when he lifted the cup, he was saying, this
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Speaker 1: is the final sacrifice. No more lambs, no more altars,
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Speaker 1: no more temporary coverings. The blood of the perfect Lamb
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Speaker 1: was about to be poured out once and for all.
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Speaker 1: And the disciples they didn't fully understand it yet, but
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Speaker 1: Jesus did, because this was the fulfillment of passover sentry
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Speaker 1: before on the night when death swept through Egypt. God
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Speaker 1: gave the Israelites one instruction to be saved. Take the
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Speaker 1: blood of a lamb and put it on the door
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Speaker 1: posts of your house. And when I see the blood,
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Speaker 1: I will pass over you. No plague will touch you.
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Speaker 1: Exodus twelve thirteen. The blood was their covering, the blood
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Speaker 1: was their protection. And that night death passed over them,
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Speaker 1: not because they were righteous, but because they were covered.
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Speaker 1: And now in this upper room, Jesus was revealing what
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Speaker 1: Passover had been foreshadowing all along. It was never about
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Speaker 1: the blood of a lamb. It was about his blood,
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Speaker 1: the blood that would cover not just a house, but
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Speaker 1: every heart that believes in him, The blood that would
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Speaker 1: wash away sin, not just for a year, but forever,
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Speaker 1: The blood that wouldn't just save Israel, but would save
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Speaker 1: the whole world. And here's what's even more powerful. On
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Speaker 1: the night of the First Passover, God told the Israelites
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Speaker 1: to eat the lamb, not just sacrifice it, consume it,
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Speaker 1: take it in. And now Jesus had just given his
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Speaker 1: disciples bread to eat and a cup to drink. Because
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Speaker 1: this wasn't just a symbol, It was an invitation, an
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Speaker 1: invitation to be part of the new covenant. Not a
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Speaker 1: covenant based on law, but on love. Not a covenant
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Speaker 1: written on stone but on human hearts. Not a covenant
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Speaker 1: sealed with temporary sacrifices, but sealed in the very blood
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Speaker 1: of God himself. But what does this mean for us
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Speaker 1: to day? Because we weren't in that upper room, we
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Speaker 1: weren't sitting at the table, we weren't handed the cup
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Speaker 1: by Jesus himself. But the blood still speaks. The blood
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Speaker 1: of Jesus is just as powerful to day as it
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Speaker 1: was on that night. And here's why that matters. The
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Speaker 1: blood of Jesus washes away your sin. No matter how
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Speaker 1: deep your mistakes go, his blood goes deeper. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to live in guilt. You are forgiven. The blood
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Speaker 1: of Jesus protects you. Just like the blood on the
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Speaker 1: door posts stop death from entering. The blood of Jesus
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Speaker 1: covers your life. Today. The enemy cannot touch what God
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Speaker 1: has covered. The blood of Jesus gives you access to God.
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Speaker 1: Under the old covenant, only the high priest could enter
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Speaker 1: God's presence. But when Jesus shed his blood, the veil
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Speaker 1: in the temple was torn in two. Now you don't
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Speaker 1: need a priest to stand before God. For you you
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Speaker 1: can enter his presence boldly. The blood of Jesus makes
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Speaker 1: you victorious. Revelation twelve eleven says they overcame him by
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Speaker 1: the blood of the lamb and by the word of
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Speaker 1: their testimony. When the enemy attacks, when fear tries to
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Speaker 1: take over, you have a weapon, the blood of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: And here's what's even more personal. Jesus didn't just shed
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Speaker 1: his blood for humanner tea as a whole. He shed
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Speaker 1: it for you, for your past, for your pain, for
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Speaker 1: every sin, every wound, every moment of shame you thought
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Speaker 1: you could never escape. He saw it all, and still
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Speaker 1: he lifted the cup. He knew what it would cost him,
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Speaker 1: he knew the suffering that was coming, he knew that
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Speaker 1: in just a few hours his own blood would pour
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Speaker 1: from his body, and still he gave thanks because he
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Speaker 1: wasn't just thinking about the suffering. He was thinking about
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Speaker 1: your salvation. So the question is are you covered? Because
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Speaker 1: the Israelites had a choice, they had to apply the
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Speaker 1: blood to their door posts. The blood was powerful, but
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Speaker 1: if it wasn't applied, it wouldn't save them. And to day,
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Speaker 1: the same is true. Jesus blood has already been poured out.
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Speaker 1: The price has already been paid. But have you applied
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Speaker 1: it to your life? Because this wasn't just a moment
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Speaker 1: in history. It's a moment that changes everything for you
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Speaker 1: to day. The blood has already been poured, the sacrifice
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Speaker 1: has already been made. The door is already open, But
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Speaker 1: you have to say yes. The cup had been lifted,
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Speaker 1: the new covenant had been spoken. But as Jesus looked
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Speaker 1: around the room, he could see it. They still didn't understand.
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Speaker 1: They had followed him for three years, seen miracles that
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Speaker 1: defied nature itself, blind eyes opened the dead, raised storms,
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Speaker 1: silenced by a single word. They had heard him predict
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Speaker 1: this very moment, that he would suffer, that he would
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Speaker 1: be betrayed, that he would be handed over to die.
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Speaker 1: And yet as they sat there, they still couldn't grasp it.
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Speaker 1: They still thought Jesus was about to establish an earthly kingdom.
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Speaker 1: They still believed he would rise to power, overthrow Rome
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Speaker 1: and reign as Israel's king. They didn't see the cross
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Speaker 1: in front of them, and Pete he was the loudest
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Speaker 1: of them all. Even if all fall away, I will
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Speaker 1: not Mark fourteen twenty nine. He said it with his chest,
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Speaker 1: with confidence, with conviction. He meant it. He had always
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Speaker 1: been the bold one, the one to step out first.
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Speaker 1: He was the one who jumped out of the boat
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Speaker 1: to walk on water, the one who declared, you are
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Speaker 1: the Christ, the son of the Living God Matthew sixteen sixteen.
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Speaker 1: So when Jesus started talking about betrayal, about suffering, about
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Speaker 1: the disciples falling away, Peter took it personally. Lord, I
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Speaker 1: am ready to go with you to prison and to
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Speaker 1: death Luke twenty two thirty three. He wasn't lying. He
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Speaker 1: believed it, but Jesus. Jesus knew better. Jesus knew what
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Speaker 1: was coming. He knew the fear that would hit when
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Speaker 1: the soldiers arrived. He knew that in just a few
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Speaker 1: hours as Peter, the bold one, the brave one, the
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Speaker 1: one who swore he would never leave, would deny even
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Speaker 1: knowing him. Truly, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster
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Speaker 1: crows to day, you will deny three times that you
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Speaker 1: know me. Luke twenty two thirty four. Peter must have
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Speaker 1: been shocked deny Jesus after everything they had been through. Impassible.
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Speaker 1: But that's the thing about faith. You don't really know
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Speaker 1: how strong it is until the fire comes. It's easy
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Speaker 1: to declare I'll never turn away from God when life
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Speaker 1: is good. It's easy to say I'll stand for truth
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Speaker 1: when there's no pressure. It's easy to sing I surrender
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Speaker 1: all when surrender doesn't cost you anything. But what happens
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Speaker 1: when the pressure is real, when following Jesus actually costs
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Speaker 1: you something, When saying his name out loud could mean
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Speaker 1: losing a job, losing a friendship, losing the approval of
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Speaker 1: people you love. Because that's what was about to happen
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Speaker 1: to Peter. It's not that he didn't love Jesus, it's
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Speaker 1: that he didn't realize how weak his own strength was.
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Speaker 1: And honestly, we're the same way. We think we're strong,
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Speaker 1: we think we're ready, We think we could never fall
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Speaker 1: away until the fire comes, until the pressure hits, until
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Speaker 1: we're put in a position where we have to choose
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Speaker 1: between our comfort and our commitment to Christ. Jesus knew
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Speaker 1: the disciples weren't ready for the fight ahead. You will
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Speaker 1: all fall away, Mark fourteen twenty seven. All of them,
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Speaker 1: not just Judas, not just Peter on all they weren't
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Speaker 1: prepared for the reality of what was about to happen,
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Speaker 1: because this wasn't just a test of their loyalty, This
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Speaker 1: was a spiritual war. Jesus had already warned Peter, Satan
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Speaker 1: has asked to sift you like wheat, but I have
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Speaker 1: prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.
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Speaker 1: Luke twenty two, thirty one to thirty two. Did you
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Speaker 1: catch that Satan had to ask for permission, just like
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Speaker 1: with job, Just like with every believer who faces spiritual warfare.
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Speaker 1: The enemy knows who is a threat, and Peter, Peter
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Speaker 1: was a threat. That's why he was being targeted. That's
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Speaker 1: why Satan wanted to shake him, to break him, to
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Speaker 1: make him believe that he was too far gone after
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Speaker 1: his failure. And that's exactly what the enemy does to us.
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Speaker 1: He attacks when we least expect it. He shakes us
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Speaker 1: when we think we're strong. He makes us question everything
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Speaker 1: we thought we knew about God, about ourselves, about our faith,
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Speaker 1: and when we fall, when we make mistakes, when we
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Speaker 1: fail in the moment we thought we'd be strong, He whispers, See,
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Speaker 1: you were never really a disciple. But Jesus already knew
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Speaker 1: Peter would fall, and he already knew Peter would rise again,
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Speaker 1: and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers Luke
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Speaker 1: twenty two thirty two. Jesus wasn't focused on Peter's failure.
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Speaker 1: He was focused on his restoration, because this wasn't the
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Speaker 1: end of Peter's story. This wasn't where his faith would die.
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Speaker 1: Yes he would deny Jesus, Yes he would break down
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Speaker 1: in bitter tears. Yes he would feel like the worst
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Speaker 1: disciple in history. But the same Peter who denied Jesus
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Speaker 1: three times would one day stand in front of thousands
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Speaker 1: and preach the Gospel with fire. The same Peter who
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Speaker 1: was afraid of a servant girl would later stand before
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Speaker 1: king's unshaken, unafraid, because failure wasn't the end of his story,
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Speaker 1: and it's not the end of yours either. We all
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Speaker 1: have moments of weakness. We all have times when we fall.
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Speaker 1: We all have seasons where we realized we weren't as
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Speaker 1: strong as we thought we were. But Jesus isn't shocked
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Speaker 1: by your weakness. He isn't sitting in Heaven disappointed in you.
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Speaker 1: He's praying for you, just like he prayed for Peter.
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Speaker 1: Because the true test of faith isn't never failing. It's
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Speaker 1: whether you get back up, whether you run back to
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Speaker 1: him instead of letting shame keep you away, whether you
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Speaker 1: trust that even when you fall, his love never does.
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Speaker 1: And if Jesus could take Peter, the man who denied him,
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Speaker 1: the man who fell apart under pressure, and turn him
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Speaker 1: into one of the most powerful preachers in history, what
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Speaker 1: do you think he can do with you? Peter had
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Speaker 1: just declared his undying loyalty to Jesus, vowing to follow
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Speaker 1: him even to death. But Jesus knew better. He knew
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Speaker 1: Peter would fall, He knew all of them would, and
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Speaker 1: yet he loved them anyway. But now something unexpected was
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Speaker 1: about to happen, something that would shake them more than
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Speaker 1: the talk of betrayal, more than the warnings of what
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Speaker 1: was coming. Jesus, the King of Kings, stood up from
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Speaker 1: the table, and instead of giving them a speech about courage,
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Speaker 1: instead of preparing them for battle, instead of asking them
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Speaker 1: to serve him in his final hours, he picked up
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Speaker 1: a towel. The disciples must have gone silent. This wasn't right.
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Speaker 1: They had spent the last three years watching Jesus do
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Speaker 1: the impossible. Heal lepers, cast out demons, raise the dead.
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Speaker 1: They had seen him command storms and silence the Pharisees
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Speaker 1: with a single sentence, And now he was kneeling before them,
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Speaker 1: the most powerful man in the room. On his knees.
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Speaker 1: Then he poured water into a basin. They watched as
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Speaker 1: their lord, their teacher, wrapped a towel around his waist,
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Speaker 1: the posture of a slave, and one by one he
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Speaker 1: began to wash their feet. Imagine the tension, the discomfort,
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Speaker 1: the confusion. Foot Washing was a task so low, so humiliating,
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Speaker 1: that even Jewish servants were often exempt from doing it.
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Speaker 1: It was reserved for the absolute lowest of the low.
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Speaker 1: Oh and yet Jesus was doing it, the Messiah, the
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Speaker 1: Son of God, the one who created the heavens and
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Speaker 1: the earth, Touching their feet, dusty, calloused, covered in dirt
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Speaker 1: from the roads of Jerusalem. This wasn't just humility. This
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Speaker 1: was love in its royest form. And as Jesus moved
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Speaker 1: from disciple to disciple, the tension in the room only
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Speaker 1: grew stronger until he reached Peter. Peter who had always
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Speaker 1: been the one to speak first, the one who had
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Speaker 1: just promised Jesus he would never leave. Peter who had
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Speaker 1: no idea that in just a few hours he would
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Speaker 1: be the one denying even knowing him. And when Jesus
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Speaker 1: knelt before him, Peter couldn't take it. Lord, are you
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Speaker 1: going to wash my feet? At John thirteen six. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't just a question, it was a protest. Peter couldn't
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Speaker 1: fathom the idea of Jesus lowering himself like this, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the one they had given their lives to follow, serving
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Speaker 1: them washing their feet. You shall never wash my feet
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Speaker 1: John thirteen eight. It was uncomfortable, It didn't make sense because,
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Speaker 1: in Peter's mind, leaders don't serve, but jesus response cut
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Speaker 1: straight to the heart. Unless I wash you, you have
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Speaker 1: no part with me John thirteen eight. It wasn't just
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Speaker 1: about feet, It was about the cross, because Peter still
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Speaker 1: didn't understand that this was why Jesus had come to cleanse,
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Speaker 1: to make new, to wash away the dirt that no
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Speaker 1: one else could touch. And suddenly Peter wanted more, then, Lord,
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Speaker 1: not just my feet, but my hands and my head
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Speaker 1: as well John thirteen nine. He didn't get it all yet,
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Speaker 1: but he knew one thing. He wanted to be part
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, no matter what it took. But Jesus wasn't
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Speaker 1: finished teaching them. When he had finished, he stood up,
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Speaker 1: looked at them and said words that echo through history
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Speaker 1: to this day. Do you understand and what I have
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Speaker 1: done for you? You call me teacher and lord? And
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Speaker 1: rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I,
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Speaker 1: your lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also
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Speaker 1: should wash one another's feet John thirteen twelve to fourteen.
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Speaker 1: And just like that, he flipped everything upside down. Because
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Speaker 1: the world says leadership is about power. The world says
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Speaker 1: the greatest are the ones with status, influence, control, But Jesus,
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Speaker 1: Jesus says the greatest are the ones who serve. Real
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Speaker 1: leadership isn't about how many people serve you. It's about
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Speaker 1: how many people you are willing to serve. And if Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the King of Kings, the Lord of all, was willing
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Speaker 1: to kneel and wash feet, how much more should we.
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Speaker 1: But this is where it gets uncomfortable. Because we like
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Speaker 1: the idea of humility as long as it doesn't cost
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Speaker 1: us anything. We don't mind serving as long as people
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Speaker 1: recognize it. We don't mind being humble as long as
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Speaker 1: it doesn't feel humiliating. But what happens when God calls
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Speaker 1: you to serve someone who doesn't deserve it? What happens
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Speaker 1: when he asks you to wash the feet of the
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Speaker 1: one who will betray you? Because don't forget Judas was
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Speaker 1: still in the room, and Jesus washed his feet too.
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Speaker 1: He knew Judas had already made up his mind. He
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Speaker 1: knew the silver coins were already in his pocket. He
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Speaker 1: knew that in just a few hours Judas would hand
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Speaker 1: him over with a kiss. And still Jesus knelt before him,
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Speaker 1: took his feet in his hands and washed them. That
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Speaker 1: is love, That is leadership. But that is Jesus, And
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Speaker 1: to day he calls us to do the same. I
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Speaker 1: have set you an example that you should do as
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Speaker 1: I have done for you John thirteen fifteen. So the
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Speaker 1: question is are we following his example or are we
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Speaker 1: still caught up in the world's definition of leadership. Because
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Speaker 1: real humility isn't just doing acts of service. It's a
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Speaker 1: posture of the heart. It's being willing to love when
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Speaker 1: it's inconvenient. It's being willing to serve when no one notices.
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Speaker 1: It's being willing to humble yourself even when the person
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Speaker 1: you're serving is the very one who will betray you.
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Speaker 1: And that's what makes Jesus so different, because he doesn't
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Speaker 1: just tell us to love our enemies. He shows us how.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't just tell us to serve, He gets on
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Speaker 1: his knees and does it first. So here's the challenge.
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Speaker 1: Who in your life is God asking you to serve?
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Speaker 1: Who is he asking you to forgive? Who is he
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Speaker 1: calling you to love? Not because they deserve it, but
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Speaker 1: because that's what He did for you. Because if Jesus
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Speaker 1: could wash the feet of the one who would betray him,
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Speaker 1: what excuse do we have? The room was still, the
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Speaker 1: scent of bread and wine lingered in the air. The
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Speaker 1: disciples sat trying to process everything that had just happened.
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Speaker 1: Their Master, their Lord, the one they believed was the Messiah,
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Speaker 1: had just knelt before them like a servant and washed
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Speaker 1: their feet. They were confused, unsettled, unsure of what this
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Speaker 1: night truly meant. But Jesus wasn't finished, because while the
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Speaker 1: disciples saw only what was in front of them, the
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Speaker 1: dim candlelight, the shared meal, the whispers of conversation, there
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Speaker 1: was something else happening in the unseen realm. A war
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Speaker 1: was raging, and Satan was in the room, not physically,
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Speaker 1: not in the way they expected, but he was there, lurking, waiting,
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Speaker 1: working behind the scenes, because this was his hour. Jesus
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Speaker 1: turned to Peter, his voice carrying an urgency that cut
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Speaker 1: through the warmth of the meal. Simon Simon, Satan asked
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Speaker 1: to sift you like wheat Luke twenty two thirty one.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine hearing that from Jesus. Not Satan is
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Speaker 1: thinking about attacking you. Not be careful, Peter. The enemy
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Speaker 1: is watching you. But Satan has asked for you. He
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Speaker 1: had requested Peter by name, because Peter was a threat.
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Speaker 1: Peter was bold, he was passionate. He was the one
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Speaker 1: who had declared you are the Christ, the son of
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Speaker 1: the Living God, the one who had walked on water,
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Speaker 1: who had witnessed Jesus glory on the mountain, who had
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Speaker 1: just sworn he would never leave. And Satan wanted to
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Speaker 1: break him. And Jesus used the word sift. In those days,
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Speaker 1: wheat was sifted by being shaken, violently, tossed in the air,
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Speaker 1: beaten until the chaff separated from the grain. That's what
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Speaker 1: Satan wanted to do to Peter. To shake him, to
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Speaker 1: test him, to make him question everything he thought he knew,
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Speaker 1: because if the enemy could get Peat to fall, he
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Speaker 1: could get him to doubt his calling. And Jesus didn't
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Speaker 1: say no, did you catch that? Jesus didn't say I
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Speaker 1: told Satan he couldn't touch you. Jesus didn't block the attack. Instead,
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Speaker 1: he said, but I have prayed for you, Simon, that
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Speaker 1: your faith may not fail Luke twenty two thirty two.
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Speaker 1: Not that he wouldn't fall, not that he wouldn't struggle,
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Speaker 1: but that his faith wouldn't fail. Jesus knew Peter would stumble.
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Speaker 1: He knew that, in just a few hours, fear would
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Speaker 1: grip him so tightly that he would deny even knowing
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Speaker 1: Jesus not once, not twice, but three times. And yet
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Speaker 1: Jesus wasn't focused on Peter's failure. He was focused on
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Speaker 1: Peter's return and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers,
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Speaker 1: not if you turn back when, because this wasn't the
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Speaker 1: end of Peter's story. And maybe that's what you need
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Speaker 1: to hear today. Maybe you've been shaken, maybe you've been tested,
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Speaker 1: maybe Satan has come after you and you've stumbled in
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Speaker 1: ways you never thought you would, And now you wonder
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Speaker 1: can I come back from this? Jesus already seize your return.
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Speaker 1: Jesus has already prayed for you. But at that moment
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Speaker 1: Peter didn't understand. So he did what we all do
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Speaker 1: when we don't want to face the truth. He denied it. Lord,
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Speaker 1: I am ready to go with you to prison and
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Speaker 1: to death Luke twenty two thirty three. He meant it,
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Speaker 1: he believed it, But Jesus saw deeper. Peter, before the
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Speaker 1: rooster crows to day, you will deny three times that
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Speaker 1: you know me, Luke twenty two thirty four. The room
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Speaker 1: must have gone silent. Peter, the strongest among them, would
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Speaker 1: deny Jesus. But as the weight of that conversation settled,
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Speaker 1: another storm was brewing. Jesus turned his gaze toward Judas,
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Speaker 1: the man who had sat through the meal, listened to
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Speaker 1: every word, allowed Jesus to wash his feet, all while
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Speaker 1: knowing what he was about to do. And now it
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Speaker 1: was time. Jesus leaned in his voice, steady, unwavering, what
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Speaker 1: you are about to do, do quickly, John thirteen twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: Judas froze. He had been waiting for the right moment.
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Speaker 1: The religious leaders were expecting him. The money was already
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Speaker 1: in his possession, and now Jesus was giving him permission.
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Speaker 1: There was no more hiding, no more pretending. Judas stood
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Speaker 1: up and left, and John recorded something chilling, And it
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Speaker 1: was night John thirteen thirty. Those four words say it all,
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Speaker 1: and not just the physical darkness of the evening, but
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Speaker 1: the spiritual darkness that had fully taken hold. Judas had
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Speaker 1: made his choice, Satan had entered him, and now he
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Speaker 1: was moving toward his destiny. The difference between Peter and
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Speaker 1: Judas wasn't that one was stronger than the other. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't that one was holier than the other. Both of
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Speaker 1: them failed Jesus that night, but one would return, one
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Speaker 1: would repent, one would become a pillar of the church,
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Speaker 1: and the other the other would be consumed by guilt
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Speaker 1: and take his own life. This is how Satan works.
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Speaker 1: He comes to sift, he comes to shake. He comes
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Speaker 1: to convince you that your failure is final. He will
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Speaker 1: tell you you've messed up too badly, you've denied Jesus
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Speaker 1: too many times. You can't be restored. But Jesus already
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Speaker 1: prayed for Peter, and he has already prayed for you.
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Speaker 1: Because spiritual warfare isn't just something from the Bible. It's
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Speaker 1: happening right now. Satan is still asking to sift believers.
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Speaker 1: He still wants to shake your faith, to make you
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Speaker 1: doubt God, to make you walk away. So how do
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Speaker 1: you fight back? By remembering that Jesus already knows the outcome,
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Speaker 1: by standing firm even when you stumble, by refusing to
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Speaker 1: let failure keep you from God, coming back to the
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Speaker 1: one who has already prayed for your victory. Because Satan
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Speaker 1: may be coming for you, but Jesus has already won
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Speaker 1: the war. Judas was gone, the deal had been sealed,
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Speaker 1: The darkness had been set into motion, and Jesus knew.
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Speaker 1: He knew that even now torches were being lit in
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Speaker 1: the hands of men coming to arrest him. He knew
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Speaker 1: that in just a few hours he would be beaten
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Speaker 1: beyond recognition, spat on, mocked, and nailed to a cross.
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Speaker 1: He knew the agony of gethsemone was moments away, the
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Speaker 1: breaking point where his soul would be crushed under the
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Speaker 1: weight of the world's sin. And yet what did he
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Speaker 1: do in this moment? Did he sit in silence? Overwhelmed
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Speaker 1: by dread. Did he cry out in fear? Did he
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Speaker 1: tell his disciples, let's just get this over with. Number
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Speaker 1: he sang. When they had sung a hymn, they went
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Speaker 1: out to the Mount of Olives Matthew twenty six thirty.
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Speaker 1: That sink in. Jesus, knowing that betrayal was already in motion,
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Speaker 1: knowing that the pain of the cross was hours away,
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Speaker 1: chose to worship. He lifted his voice to heaven, not
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Speaker 1: in despair, but in song. Imagine that moment, the disciples,
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Speaker 1: still confused, still unaware of how close the storm really was,
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Speaker 1: singing alongside him, their voices blending in harmony, filling the
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Speaker 1: upper room with praise, even as the enemy prepared his attack.
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Speaker 1: What kind of strength does it take to worship when
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Speaker 1: you know suffering is coming. Most of us struggle to
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Speaker 1: worship when things go slightly wrong, when we lose a job,
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Speaker 1: when anxiety creeps in, when life isn't going as planned.
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Speaker 1: Worship is usually the first thing we let go of.
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Speaker 1: But Jesus, Jesus was about to suffer like no human
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Speaker 1: had ever suffered before, and he still lifted a song.
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Speaker 1: Because worship is warfare. Worship is not just a song.
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Speaker 1: It's a declaration. It's saying, no matter what comes, I
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Speaker 1: trust you. It's saying, even if everything falls apart, you
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Speaker 1: are still worthy. It's saying, my circumstances don't change the
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Speaker 1: fact that you are good. And if Jesus could worship
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Speaker 1: on the night of his betrayal, what does that say
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Speaker 1: about us? Do we only worship when it's easy. Do
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Speaker 1: we only praise him when life is good, when the
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Speaker 1: prayers are answered, when we feel the joy, or do
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Speaker 1: we lift our hands even when we don't understand? Because
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Speaker 1: that's what real faith looks like. It's standing in the
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Speaker 1: middle of heartbreak and saying, Blessed be your name. It's
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Speaker 1: facing uncertainty and singing yet I will praise you. It's
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Speaker 1: knowing the storm is coming and choosing to worship anyway.
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Speaker 1: And here's something even deeper. Scholars believe that the hymn
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Speaker 1: Jesus and his disciples sang that night was from Psalm
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Speaker 1: from one hundred thirteen to one hundred eighteen, known as
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Speaker 1: the Hallel Psalms, songs of Thanksgiving sung during Passover. Do
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Speaker 1: you know what those psalms say? The Lord is my
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Speaker 1: strength and my defense. He has become my salvation, Psalm
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Speaker 1: one hundred eighteen, verse fourteen. I shall not die, but
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Speaker 1: live and declare the works of the Lord, Psalm one
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Speaker 1: hundred eighteen seventeen. The stone the builders rejected has become
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Speaker 1: the cornerstone Psalm one hundred eighteen, verse twenty two. Jesus
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Speaker 1: was singing about his own suffering, his own rejection, his
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Speaker 1: own victory, and he sang it before the pain even came.
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Speaker 1: That's the kind of faith that terrifies the enemy, because
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Speaker 1: when you worship in your darkest moments, Satan loses his power.
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Speaker 1: When Job lost everything, his children, his wealth, his health,
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Speaker 1: his first response was worship Job one twenty. When Paul
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Speaker 1: and Silas were locked in prison, beaten and chained, they
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Speaker 1: sang hymns at midnight, Acts sixteen twenty five, and when Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the Son of God was staring death in the face,
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Speaker 1: he lifted his voice in praise. Because worship shifts the atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: It reminds us that the battle is already won. It
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Speaker 1: takes our focus off the storm and puts it back
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Speaker 1: on the one who walks on water. It confuses the enemy,
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Speaker 1: because how do you fight someone who refuses to stop
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Speaker 1: praising and maybe that's what you need right now. Maybe
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Speaker 1: you're in a storm, maybe the pressure is unbearable, maybe
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Speaker 1: you don't see a way out, But can you still worship,
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Speaker 1: Because that's where the breakthrough happens, Not when the problem
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Speaker 1: is solved, not when everything makes sense, but when you
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Speaker 1: worship in the middle of it. Jesus wasn't waiting for
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Speaker 1: the resurrection to start praising. He sang before the cross,
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Speaker 1: and that's what he's calling you to do. Worship before
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Speaker 1: the breakthrough, to praise before the healing, to lift your
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Speaker 1: voice before the miracle, because that's what faith looks like,
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Speaker 1: and that's how you fight a battle you cannot see.
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Speaker 1: The final note of the hymn faded into silence. The
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Speaker 1: meal was over, the cup had been lifted, the bread
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Speaker 1: had been broken. The moment that had been set in
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Speaker 1: motion before the foundation of the world was now upon him.
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Speaker 1: Jesus stood, the disciples followed. It was time they left
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Speaker 1: the upper room. Stepping into the cool night air of Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: The streets were quiet except for the faint flicker of
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Speaker 1: torches in the distance, torches carried by men who had
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Speaker 1: no idea they were about to play a role in
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Speaker 1: the most important night in history. With every step Jesus
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Speaker 1: carried the weight of what was ahead, because now the
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Speaker 1: walk to Gethsemone had begun. For the disciples, it was
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Speaker 1: just another night. They still didn't understand and what was coming.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they thought they were simply going to the garden
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Speaker 1: to pray, as they had so many times before. But
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Speaker 1: for Jesus, this was the beginning of the battle. The
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Speaker 1: real battle wasn't when the soldiers would arrive with Judas.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't when he would stand trial before the High Priest.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even when the whips would tear through his back,
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Speaker 1: or when the nails would be driven into his hands.
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Speaker 1: The real battle started here on this walk, because now
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Speaker 1: he had to choose to keep walking. Think about that.
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Speaker 1: Most people picture Jesus suffering beginning when he was arrested,
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Speaker 1: but it started the moment he left that table, because
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Speaker 1: now there was no turning back. Every step toward Gathsemone
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Speaker 1: was a step toward agony. Every breath brought him closer
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Speaker 1: to betrayal. Every heartbeat echoed with the knowledge that soon
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Speaker 1: he would be alone. Which you have been able to
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Speaker 1: keep walking. Imagine knowing that in just a few hours
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Speaker 1: you will be arrested like a criminal, though you are innocent.
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Speaker 1: You will be falsely accused, spit on, mocked. You will
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Speaker 1: be beaten so severely that your body will barely be recognizable.
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Speaker 1: You will be nailed to a cross, struggling to breathe
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Speaker 1: as people laugh at your pain. Would you keep walking
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Speaker 1: or would you turn back? Because at any moment, Jesus
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Speaker 1: could have stopped. He could have slipped away into the night.
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Speaker 1: He could have chosen to avoid the garden altogether. He
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Speaker 1: could have called down twelve Legions of Angels Matthew twenty
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Speaker 1: six fifty three and ended it before it even began.
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Speaker 1: But he didn't. He kept walking for you because the
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Speaker 1: weight he was carrying wasn't just the thought of physical pain.
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Speaker 1: It was the weight of sin. Every sin ever committed,
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Speaker 1: every act of rebellion, every ounce of shame, every moment
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Speaker 1: of guilt, every sin you and I have ever tried
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Speaker 1: to hide. He carried it all, and he still kept walking.
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Speaker 1: The disciples trailed behind, unaware of the storms swirling around them.
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Speaker 1: Maybe some of them were whispering to each other, wondering
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Speaker 1: why Jesus seemed so quiet, so burdened. Peter might have
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Speaker 1: been replaying jesus words in his head, you will deny
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Speaker 1: me three times. Maybe he still refused to believe it.
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Speaker 1: Judas by now was gathering the soldiers, leading them toward
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Speaker 1: the garden. It was too late to turn back, and
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Speaker 1: as Jesus stepped into Gathsemone, the weight of the world
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Speaker 1: fell on him. This was the moment where the battle
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Speaker 1: of salvation would truly be fought. This was where Jesus
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Speaker 1: would fall to his knees, sweat drops of blood and pray, Father,
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Speaker 1: if it is possible, take this cup from me. This
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Speaker 1: was where he would wrestle with the crushing reality of
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Speaker 1: the cross and still choose to obey because love kept
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Speaker 1: him walking. Love for the very people who would reject him,
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Speaker 1: Love for the very soldiers who would nail him to
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Speaker 1: the cross, Love for you. And the question is, if
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Speaker 1: you were there that night, what would you have done.
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Speaker 1: Would you have stayed awake with him, would you have
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Speaker 1: fought for him when the soldiers came. Would you have
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Speaker 1: followed him to the cross, or would you have run?
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Speaker 1: The truth is we are no different from the disciples.
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Speaker 1: We like to believe we would have stood strong. We
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Speaker 1: like to believe we wouldn't have denied him. We like
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Speaker 1: to believe we wouldn't have abandoned him when things got hard,
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Speaker 1: But how many times do we choose comfort over obedience?
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Speaker 1: How many times do we stay silent about our faith
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Speaker 1: to avoid rejection? How many times do we fail to pray,
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Speaker 1: fail to stand, fail to follow when it costs us something?
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Speaker 1: And yet he still chose the cross, He still chose
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Speaker 1: to keep walking, knowing that every one of us would
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Speaker 1: fall short because his love was never based on our faithfulness.
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Speaker 1: It was based on his. So as we stand at
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Speaker 1: the edge of gethsemone, there is one last question to ask,
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Speaker 1: what will you do with the love that walked to
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Speaker 1: the garden for you? The last step had been taken,
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Speaker 1: the garden lay before him, the night had begun. And
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Speaker 1: now the question isn't just what happened. The question is
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Speaker 1: what does it mean for you? Because this wasn't just history.
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Speaker 1: This wasn't just a tragic night or a meal shared
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Speaker 1: between a rabbi and his students. This was a moment
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Speaker 1: that changed everything. So I have to ask, if you
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Speaker 1: had been at that table, how would you have reacted?
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Speaker 1: Would you have been like John leaning close to Jesus
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Speaker 1: cherishing every word. Would you have been like Peter, full
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Speaker 1: of bold promises but unaware of your own weakness. Would
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Speaker 1: you have been like Judas, sitting close to Jesus on
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Speaker 1: the outside, but far from him in your heart. Or
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Speaker 1: maybe you would have been like the other decid biples, listening, watching,
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Speaker 1: but not fully understanding the weight of what was happening.
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Speaker 1: Because the truth is, we have all been at that
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Speaker 1: table in some way. We've all been Peter, making commitments
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Speaker 1: to Jesus we later failed to keep. We've all been
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Speaker 1: the Disciples, struggling to understand, not realizing how much we
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Speaker 1: need him. And if we're honest, some of us have
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Speaker 1: even been like Judas, close to Jesus in appearance but
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Speaker 1: distant in heart. But here's what you need to know.
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Speaker 1: Jesus knew, he knew every failure, every mistake, every sin,
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Speaker 1: and he still broke the bread, he still lifted the cup,
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Speaker 1: he still walked to gethsemone, he still went to the
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Speaker 1: cross because he wasn't just dying for good people. He
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Speaker 1: was dying for betrayers and deniers, doubters and sinners. He
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Speaker 1: was dying for the very people who would abandon him.
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Speaker 1: And he was dying for you, because the whole purpose
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Speaker 1: of the Last Supper was to show that you don't
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Speaker 1: have to carry your sin anymore. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: live under shame, you don't have to wonder if God
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Speaker 1: still loves you, you don't have to fight your battles alone.
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Speaker 1: Jesus took the weight of it all so that you
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Speaker 1: would never have to face sin and death by yourself.
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Speaker 1: That's why on the night he was betrayed, he gave thanks.
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Speaker 1: That's why he picked up the bread, knowing his body
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Speaker 1: would soon be broken. That's why he lifted the cup,
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Speaker 1: knowing his blood would soon be poured out. Because this
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Speaker 1: was never about what we could do for him. This
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Speaker 1: was always about what he was willing to do for us.
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Speaker 1: And the question now is what will you do with this?
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Speaker 1: Because the Last Supper wasn't just a meal. It was
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Speaker 1: an invitation, an invitation to receive grace, an invitation to
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Speaker 1: be washed clean, an invitation to walk in a covenant
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Speaker 1: that is not based on your faithfulness but his. So
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Speaker 1: as we close, I want you to take a moment
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Speaker 1: to reflect what part of this night speaks to you
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Speaker 1: the most. Is it the breaking of bread knowing that
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Speaker 1: Jesus was thinking of you when he offered his body.
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Speaker 1: Is it the lifting of the cup, knowing that his
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Speaker 1: blood covers everything you've ever done? Is it the washing
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Speaker 1: of feet, realizing that true love serves even when it
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Speaker 1: costs everything. Or is it the walk to Gathsemone, knowing
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Speaker 1: that he could have turned back, but he kept walking
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Speaker 1: for you? Comment below. Let's talk about it, and if
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Speaker 1: this message has moved you, share it with someone who
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Speaker 1: needs to hear it. Because this night didn't just change history,
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Speaker 1: it changed eternat him. The weight of that night still lingers.
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Speaker 1: The Last Supper wasn't just a gathering. It was a farewell,
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Speaker 1: a covenant, a battle before the battle. It was a
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Speaker 1: moment where love sat face to face with betrayal, where
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Speaker 1: a king knelt like a servant, where bread was broken
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Speaker 1: and a future was sealed in blood. And now here
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Speaker 1: we are looking back, remembering not as distant spectators, but
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Speaker 1: as those who have been forever changed by what happened
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Speaker 1: in that room. Because this night wasn't just for Peter,
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Speaker 1: It wasn't just for John or James or even Judas.
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Speaker 1: It was for you. Jesus saw beyond the walls of
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Speaker 1: that upper room. He saw beyond Jerusalem, beyond that moment.
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Speaker 1: In time, he saw you. He saw your struggles, your sin,
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Speaker 1: your shame. He saw every time you would feel unworthy, unloved,
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Speaker 1: unsure if grace could still reach you. He saw every
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Speaker 1: moment you would feel too weak to keep going, too
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Speaker 1: broken to be restored. And still he lifted the bread,
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Speaker 1: still he poured the cup at still he walked to gethsemone.
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Speaker 1: Because his love was never conditional. It was never based
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Speaker 1: on your perfection. It was based on his. And tonight,
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Speaker 1: as we reflect on the weight of that night, we
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Speaker 1: pray not out of routine, not because it's what we
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Speaker 1: are supposed to do, but because this moment demands a response.
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Speaker 1: So wherever you are, whether you're sitting in your room,
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Speaker 1: driving in your car, or listening with your heart heavier
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Speaker 1: than you'd like to admit, pause, breathe, and pray these
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Speaker 1: words out loud of Father. We come before you tonight
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Speaker 1: in awe of what Jesus has done. We are not worthy,
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Speaker 1: but still you chose us. We could never earn this grace,
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Speaker 1: but still you gave it freely to night. We remember
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Speaker 1: the weight of that night. We remember the love that
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Speaker 1: sat at the table, knowing betrayal was coming. We remember
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Speaker 1: the hands that broke the bread, knowing they would soon
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Speaker 1: be pierced. We remember the voice that lifted the cup,
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Speaker 1: knowing his own blood would soon be poured out. We
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Speaker 1: remember the feet that walked to Gathsemone, knowing they were
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Speaker 1: carrying him to suffering. And Lord, just remember it. We
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Speaker 1: receive it. We receive the grace of the New Covenant.
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Speaker 1: We receive the mercy that wipes away every sin. We
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Speaker 1: receive the love that forgives us even when we fail.
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Speaker 1: Because we have all been Peter. We have all been
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Speaker 1: the disciples falling asleep when we should be praying. We
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Speaker 1: have all been the ones who have denied you with
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Speaker 1: our actions, our words, our silence. And yet you still
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Speaker 1: invite us to the table. So to night, Lord, we
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Speaker 1: ask for boldness. Boldness to stand firm in our faith
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Speaker 1: when the world pressures us to fall away. Boldness to
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Speaker 1: love like Jesus did, to serve, to kneel, to forgive
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Speaker 1: even when it costs us. Boldness to trust in your
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Speaker 1: plan even when we don't understand it. Boldness to keep
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Speaker 1: walking even when the path leads to a cross, because
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Speaker 1: we are not alone Jesus, you have already gone before us.
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Speaker 1: You have already won the war. You have already made
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Speaker 1: a way where there was none. So to night we
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Speaker 1: surrender not just in word, but in action, not just
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Speaker 1: with emotion, but with commitment. Not just for to night,
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Speaker 1: but for every moment moving forward. We don't want to
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Speaker 1: be just hearers of the word. We want to be doers.
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Speaker 1: We don't want to just remember. We want to live
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Speaker 1: in the power of what you have done. So Lord,
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Speaker 1: let this knight mark us. Let the weight of this
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Speaker 1: sacrifice never become routine. Let the blood of Jesus never
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Speaker 1: be taken for granted. And let our lives reflect the
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Speaker 1: depth of gratitude that we feel right now. Thank you
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Speaker 1: Jesus for the table, for the cross, for the empty grave.
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Speaker 1: We love you, we worship you, and we are yours
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Speaker 1: forever and Jesus name. Amen. If this prayer spoke to you,
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Speaker 1: if you feel the weight of his love to night,
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Speaker 1: don't keep it to yourself. Someone you know needs to
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Speaker 1: hear this. Someone you know feels too far gone, someone
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Speaker 1: you know needs to understand the depth of jesus sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: Share this, Send it to them, Let them know the
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Speaker 1: invitation to the table is still open because this wasn't
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Speaker 1: just a night in history. It's the reason you are forgiven,
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Speaker 1: it's the reason you are free, and it's the reason
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Speaker 1: you will never ever face this life alone