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Mark chapter 15 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Mark chapter 15 let us pray. Holy God, you're so holy.
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  Yes, set apart holy. We love you, God, we love you.
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  We love everything about you. Father, you are the most high
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  God. You are worthy to be praised to
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  the utmost. You are the God of the Jews.
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  You are the God of the world. You are our all sufficient
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  sacrifice. You are our everything.
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  You are the atonement. You are our every breath.
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  You are the very reason that we live and we have our being.
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  And everything was made by you and for you and to you God.
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  We worship you in spirit and truth, for you are worthy to be
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  praised, the only one found worthy to open the scroll.
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  King Jesus, we love you. Lord, open our hearts up to your
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  word today. Speak to us mightily, speak to
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  us boldly, Speak to us with clarity.
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  Jump off the pages and into our hearts and our minds.
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  Let us hide your word and our hearts, God, so that we might
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  not sin against you. Father, Father, us, Father, you
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  are worthy, worthy, worthy to be praised for all of eternity.
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  Lord, we get out of our own way. Lord, we give you center stage.
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  Lord, we give you our whole lives.
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  Lord, we give you every breath and every heartbeat and every
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  thought. God is you and it's to you.
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  Let us take our thoughts captive and make them obedient unto you.
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  Father, we love you. Jesus, thank you for your
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  sacrifice. Thank you for these Holy
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  Scriptures that we hold in our hands and all the promises
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  contained in them. God, let us take hold of those
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  promises. Let us believe in those
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  promises. Let us live on those promises.
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  Let us be found doing what it is that you want us to do today.
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  God, make us obedient. Make us love you more.
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  Father, increase our love for you.
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  Father, increase our desire for you, increase our knowledge of
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  you, Father, but help us, Lord, to put our hand to the plough,
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  help us not to look back, help us to lock eyes and be in
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  lockstep with you. Father, thank you, Jesus, teach
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  us today. Holy Spirit, I get out of the
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  way. It's all about you, King Jesus,
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  hide me and hide my words. I decrease as you increase.
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  Yes, it is all about King Jesus and it'll always be about King
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  Jesus. It's always been about King
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  Jesus. We love you, King Jesus.
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  Yes, come in and wreck us with a holy reverence and a holy awe
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  for your scriptures and for you. Eyes like fire and hair like
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  wool. We love you King Jesus.
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  In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And straightway in the morning
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  the chief priest held a consultation with the elders and
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  scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus and carried him
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  away and delivered him to Pilate.
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  Well, we know that there was a mock farce trial through the
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  evening. We know that Jesus has not slept
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  yet. We know that he has eaten the
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  Passover with his disciples in the upper room that was
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  provided. We know that he was arrested by
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  Judas with the kiss. We know that they led a band of
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  soldiers out there to lay hold of him as if he was some kind of
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  terrorist, as if he was a violent man.
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  And Jesus said, hey, I was with you in the temple daily
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  teaching, and you did not lay your hands on me.
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  They had to come to him in the middle of the night.
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  They had to take him to the Sanhedrin.
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  And it was all a bunch of hoopla friends.
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  And here they're trying to cover their tracks.
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  They're going to bring him before pilot early in the
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  morning. This would have been whenever
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  the Roman courts opened and they would have had all of their
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  legal procedures. This shows us the fact of the
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  matter, the truth that these are reliable witness to what
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  happened in this day. We know that we can stand on
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  this holy Word because of all the minute details that this
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  Bible gives us that tells us that it is accurate and it is
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  true. Let's keep moving.
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  Verse 2. And Pilate asked him, Are you
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  the King of the Jews? And he answered and said unto
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  him, You say it here. Jesus is giving a very vague
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  answer. He's saying, you have said it
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  here. The wicked leaders of this time,
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  the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin and the
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  scribes and the elders who wish to put Jesus to death here,
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  they're trying to bring up a charge that would make him no
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  friend of Caesar, as if he was trying to be the king.
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  And there was only one king at this time.
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  And so they were trying to be wise in their charge against
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  Jesus as calling him a king. But instead, what did they do?
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  They actually gave him the honor that he deserves.
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  They gave him the title that he deserves.
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  He's the king of the kings, and he is the Lord of Lords.
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  Friends, you say it, it is by your words you are justified,
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  and it is by your words you are condemned. 3 And the chief
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  priest accused him of many things, but he answered nothing.
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  He was silent before his shears friends for and Pilate asked him
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  again, saying, answering you nothing.
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  Behold how many things they witness against you.
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  This is Pilate scratching his head, trying to figure out what
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  is happening. Oh Pilate, he will go down in
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  history as the one who killed Jesus, and we're still talking
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  about him today. But you know, he marvelled at
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  Jesus. Jesus did not behave like all of
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  the men that had gone before him or or who would come after him
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  that would grovel for their life and say and do anything to try
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  to get out of it. Jesus knew what he was here for.
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  He was about his Father's business and he was silent
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  before his shears and led to the slaughter.
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  Friends, he knew that this must happen.
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  It was revealed to him from the foundation of the earth, from
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  all of eternity. He knew that this must happen
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  and it's all going according to plan.
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  And in this moment, it might have seemed like chaos, but
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  Jesus knew that all these things must happen.
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  But woe to the one whom they come through.
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  And it's no different in our day.
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  It's no different in our our friends.
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  There are a lot of things that are happening all around us
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  today that we might feel and think that Jesus and that the
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  Lord God is out of control. There's so much chaos and
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  where's the peace? And it's all going according to
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  plan. Friends, these things must
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  happen, but woe to the ones whom they're coming through.
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  God can use it without excusing it, friends.
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  And here Pilate is marveling. Pilate is trying to figure out
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  if Jesus is going to bring up some kind of defense against all
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  of the accusations, the false accusations that the religious
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  folk are bringing against him. 5 But Jesus yet answered nothing,
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  so that Pilate marvel hears Pilate marvelling at God
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  Incarnate, and he would have done well to release him.
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  He would have done well to listen to his wife who said have
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  nothing to do with this holy man.
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  He would have done well to release Jesus instead of
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  Barabbas. He would have done well to trust
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  his instinct. But he feared man more than he
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  feared God. And that is something that we
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  still do today. The fear of man must go.
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  It must be broke off. We must stand before God, and
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  give an account to God, and trust God, and do the things
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  that God tells us to do before we obey man.
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  Who should we obey, God or man? 6 Now at that feast he released
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  unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. 7 And
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  there was one named Barabbas which lay bound with them that
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  had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the
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  insurrection. So this Barabbas is Son of the
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  Father is what his name means. And here you're going to see
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  this play on words that we know that Jesus is the only begotten.
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  We know that Jesus is the true son of the Father, Father God,
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  Jesus the Son and the Holy Ghost.
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  We know that Barabbas was just a prototype here.
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  We know that he and his name symbolized something that you
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  and I should take hold of and lay hold of that we are like
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  Barabbas, that Jesus died in our stead.
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  We are the murderers. We are the insurrectionist.
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  We are the ones that were condemned to death.
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  We should have died, but Jesus died in our stead, friends, and
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  that should bring us to our knees, that should bring us to a
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  holy reverence in all that should bring us to worshipping
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  Him and serving Him, and doing the will of Him who took our
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  place, so that we could stand before God Almighty, holy and
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  clean and pure one day. 8 And the multitude crying aloud began
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  to desire him to do as he had ever done unto him. 9 But Pilate
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  answered them, saying, Will you that I release unto you the King
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  of the Jews? 10 For he knew that the chief
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  priest had delivered him for envy.
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  So here we can see that Pilate is good at what he does, which
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  is judging the motives of the people.
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  And he can see through all of their duplicity.
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  He can see through all of their lies.
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  He can see that it's a farce. He can see that it's a mock
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  trial. He could see that they were
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  holding him out of envy. And what was this envy, friends?
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  This envy was that Jesus came in claiming to be God, claiming to
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  be the Son of God, claiming that he had all authority and that he
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  would sit in judgment of them. And they were so used to having
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  everything in their power and sway that they were not willing
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  to give that up, friends. And if we are not careful, we
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  will do the same. We want this life to go the way
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  that we want this life to go. And the afterlife will take care
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  of itself, and we'll worry about that later.
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  And God says you must give an account today, friends.
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  You must give an account for every single day, for every
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  breath. You must give an account,
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  friends. And we cannot just sit on our
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  blessed assurance. We must be found in doing the
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  will of the Father and producing the fruit.
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  We cannot just sit on the sidelines and produce no fruit.
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  Even if we're not producing bad fruit, we cannot just sit and
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  produce no fruit. If you are not producing the
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  fruit that the Father desires, it is proof that you do not
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  actually belong to Him and you will be cut down and thrown into
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  the fire. That is what the Word of God
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  says. If you know Him and if you love
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  Him, you will do the will of the Father.
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  And hear all of these religious folk, they were thinking they
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  were going to get into heaven because of their lineage with
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  Abraham. And that is a word for us today.
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  We're not going to get their friends because of Grandma's
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  faith. We're not going to get their
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  friends because of church attendance.
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  We're only going to get there by doing the will of the Father.
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  Because if we're doing the will of the Father, we know that he
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  is in US and we are in him. And praise God.
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  Hallelujah. We can see it, friends.
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  We're producing the fruit. Friends. 11 But the chief priest
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  move the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto
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  them. How pathetic. 12 And Pilate
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  answered and said unto them, What will you then, that I shall
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  do unto him who you call king of the Jews?
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  Look at that, friends. They got it right in their
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  accusation. They would have done well to
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  listen to what was being said about him.
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  He is the king of the Jews, and he's the king of the world, and
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  he's king of you, and he's king of me.
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  And we are not autonomous. We must serve our king.
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  He is a good king. 13 And they cried out again.
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  Crucify him. 14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why?
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  What evil has he done? And they cried out, the more
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  exceedingly crucify him. 15 And so Pilate, willing to content
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  the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus
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  when he had scourged him to be crucified.
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  Lock in, pay attention. This is paramount to our faith.
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  This is paramount to the walk. We must know that Jesus was
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  innocent. We must know that he had done
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  nothing wrong. We must know that he had chance
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  after chance after chance after chance to get out of all of
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  this, but he chose to stay in it.
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  He could have called down legions here of angels, friends
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  at his disposal to completely annihilate all of the
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  opposition, but he chose to go into it and he did it for you
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  and he did it for me. Praise God, Hallelujah.
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  Look at how incensed they are against them.
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  Look at how they're blinded and delusional.
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  They want to crucify an innocent man.
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  They want to crucify the Son of God.
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  They want to crucify God Incarnate friends.
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  And we do the same today. We want to marginalized and we
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  want to get rid of this Bible. We want to marginalized and we
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  want to get rid of Christianity. Why?
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  Because it calls us into account, it calls us into a
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  responsibility. We must obey the words that are
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  found contained in these 66 books from Genesis to
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  Revelation, nothing added and nothing subtracted.
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  The infallible, inerrant word of God.
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  We must obey them, friends. We must get into it.
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  Read it and understand it for ourselves so that we're not LED
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  astray. And look at how Pilate feared
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  man more than he feared God. He did not want a riot on his
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  hands so that Caesar would come in and dethrone him and take him
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  off of his judgement seat and put another in there.
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  And here Pilot is so worried about the masses that he missed
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  the fact that they were about to murder their long-awaited
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  Messiah. 16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall called
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  the Praetorium, and they called together the whole band.
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  So here we're going to see Jesus mocked.
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  We're going to see Jesus struck this praetorium of all the band
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  of soldiers together. 17 They clothed him with purple, and
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  platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his head, and began
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  to salute him. Hail, King of the Jews. 19 And
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  they struck him on the head with a Reed, and they spat upon him,
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  and, bowing their knees, worshipped him. 20 And when they
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  had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, put on his
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  own clothes, and led him out to crucify him. 21 And they
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  compelled, 1 Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by coming out of the
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  country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross
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  here. We blew through some verses
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  here, but we need to know that Jesus was crowned with thorns.
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  Jesus had this mock worship and it is pathetic here.
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  He deserved so much more and He will get the worship that he
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  desires. And we would do well to remember
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  that. Every knee will bow and every
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  tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord.
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  Can you say that today? Bring that upon your lips.
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  Today, friends, do not let a day go by without acknowledging His
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  lordship over your life, over your situation, over your
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  finances, over your family, over the very next breath in your
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  lungs. Jesus is Lord, He's Lord over
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  the whole earth. Everything is subject to his
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  authority, friends. And here all of these Roman
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  soldiers, the band of them, blasphemously worshipped him.
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  And we see it in our day and our hour.
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  We see it all around with the rise of all the occult and the
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  Satanism. We see it, friends and people
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  make a joke out of it and they think that it's a light thing
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  and God will not put up with it forever.
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  God will not allow it to go on forever.
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  Things will not just go on forever as they are.
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  There will be a clean slate and all of those who take their very
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  last breath and they do not acknowledge Jesus as Lord in
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  this life. They will have to in the next
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  before they are banished into hell.
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  Where the fires never go out, the worm never dies.
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  There's weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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  But if you have breath in your lungs today, it's not too late.
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  Call upon that name and be saved today.
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  Ask him for forgiveness for all the times that you blasphemed
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  His name. Ask him for forgiveness of all
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  the times you took His name in vain.
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  Be healed and be cleansed and be made whole and know that he's
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  not going to count any of your sins against you.
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  He's only going to see the blood of Jesus covering you.
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  But if you take your last breath without acknowledging him as
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  Lord, there's no more salvation for you beyond that.
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  Here they compelled Simon, and there's a whole back story here
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  of Rufus and Alexander being found later on in the in the
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  Bible. And perhaps they were leaders of
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  the faith, and it was birthed out of this moment where this
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  North African man was compelled to carry Jesus's cross, and he
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  actually got to understand what it means to take up your cross
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  and follow me. There's a whole idea here. 22
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  And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is being
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  interpreted, the place of a skull.
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  There's a couple different spots that it could be, but suffice to
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  say this was the place of the skull.
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  This was Calvary here. 23 and they gave him to drink wine
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  mingled with myrrh, but he received it not so.
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  This was a narcotic. This was something to stupefy
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  and numb the pain and Jesus refused it.
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  He needed his senses about him. He was about to pour out
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  blessings upon his mother, give her John the disciple.
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  He was going to pour out blessings and say, forgive them,
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  for they know not what they do. He was about to give up the
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  ghost, and no one took it from him.
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  He laid it down, Don't forget it. 24 And when they had
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  crucified him, they parted his garments, and casting lots upon
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  them, what every man should take. 25 And it was the third
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  hour, and they crucified him. 26 And the superscription of his
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  accusation was written over the king of the Jews.
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  This was written above him. This would be above His head.
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  And as everybody walked by, and they wagged their heads, and
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  they said all kinds of blasphemous remarks to him,
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  there was this above his head. And it was showing them that
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  they were murdering their Messiah.
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  He is the King of the Jews. He is the King of kings, He is
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  the Lord of Lords. He is the only begotten Son.
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  Whosoever believes on Him shall not perish, but have eternal
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  life. He is our Savior, and there is
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  no salvation apart from Jesus Christ. 27 And with him they
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  crucify 2 thieves, the one on his right hand and the other on
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  his left. 28 And the Scriptures was fulfilled, which said, and
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  he was numbered with the transgressors.
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  So we know that one of these thieves gave his life to him.
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  And he says, Remember Me when you come into your Kingdom.
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  He knew that he was the King. And what did Jesus tell him?
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  Today you will be with me in paradise, praise God.
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  Hallelujah. We do not see that thief coming
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  down from the cross and walking a Nile and praying a little
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  Jingle and getting dunked in some water.
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  No, he acknowledged him as Lord and he was saved.
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  And that's what you need to do today friends, call upon that
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  name today and be saved. If you confess with your mouth
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  that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised
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  him from the dead, you shall be saved. 29 And they that passed
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  by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, you that
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  destroyed the temple and built it in three days, thirty, save
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  yourself, come down from the cross. 31 Likewise also the
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  chief priest mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He
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  saved others, himself he cannot save. 32 Let Christ the King of
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  Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and
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  believe. And they that were crucified
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  with him reviled him. So here, there poking the stick,
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  and they're trying to get some kind of reaction.
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  They want to see him come down. They want to see the legion of
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  angels. And then they will believe.
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  And it does not work that way. We cannot poke God into action
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  to get us to believe. By the time that God acts, it'll
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  be too late. Friends, we cannot just sit
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  around waiting on the moment. We'll just live our lives
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  however we want to live our lives, and then the moment that
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  we see God in all His glory, we're going to give them our
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  lives. It doesn't work that way
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  friends. All those that will kneel and
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  confess Jesus as Lord, if they had not done it in this life, it
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  will not have any bearing on them being able to get into
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  eternity. There is no universalism,
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  friends. You must do it now.
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  You must do it with breath in your lungs now.
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  You must do it on this side. You cannot wait until then.
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  And here they erred grievously. And here they were wanting to
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  get a negative reaction out of God.
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  And the sad reality is that God sometimes leaves people in their
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  prosperity, and it is the chains and it is the tears and the
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  snares that actually lead them off into death.
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  Friends, it does not prove that God is with them and for them.
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  It only acts as a instrument of bondage. 33 And when the 6th
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  hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land
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  until the 9th hour. 34 And at the 9th hour Jesus cried with a
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  loud voice saying, Eloy, Eloy lava Sabatani, which is being
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  interpreted, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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  And we know that God turned from Jesus and he poured out the
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  wrath on Jesus. All the sins of the world that
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  were ever committed, that were being committed or would ever be
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  committed were all poured out on Jesus Christ in this moment.
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  And the union between the Father and the Son was broken in this
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  moment, and it crushed Jesus. 35 And some of them that stood by,
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  when they heard it, said, Behold, he calls Elijah. 36 And
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  one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, and put it on a
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  Reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone let us see
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  whether Elijah will come to take him down.
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  So of course we know from the book of Malachi that it
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  prophesized that Elijah will come before the Messiah.
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  We know this to be understood as John the Baptist, who had the
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  spirit of Elijah on him. And here they had missed the
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  whole mark. They murdered John the Baptist
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  and their murdering their Messiah.
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  Don't miss it. 37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and he
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  gave up the ghost. What a sobering verse in the
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  Bible. He had every opportunity to get
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  out of it, and he chose not to. What does that say about him,
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  friends? He could have ran and tuck tail.
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  He could have called down the legion of angels.
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  He could have made his case before Pilot.
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  He could have talked his way out of it with the high priest
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  Caiaphas, but he chose to go to the cross and to die and to give
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  up the ghost. For you, friend, and for me.
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  Don't miss it. 38 And the veil of the temple was ripped in two
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  from top to bottom. So this was the entrance into
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  the holiest of holy places. This was ripped from top to
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  bottom, proving that no man could ever have done it.
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  And it shows us that we have access to the holiest of holy
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  places with God Almighty, that through the blood of Jesus
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  Christ we can enter in, and we can boldly come in and make our
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  request known to Father, and that He will answer them through
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  the blood of Jesus. 39 And when the centurion which stood over
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  against him saw he so cried out and gave up the ghost, he said
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  truly, this man was the Son of God.
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  No, he is the Son of God. Friends, the centurion sees all
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  of it, and he no longer thinks that he's just a criminal.
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  He sees the power that was in due to him.
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  He sees that it was all out of envy that they murdered him.
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  He sees that he truly is the Son of God.
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  He is our Emmanuel. 40 There were also women looking on afar
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  off, among whom was Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of
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  James the Less, and of Joseph and Salome.
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  So we know here. This is this group of women who
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  would have followed this rogue St. preacher all around.
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  We know that this was the mother of James and John.
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  We know that this was his group of ladies, which would have
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  caused a lot of controversy to see a rabbi with a band of women
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  following them around 41, who also when he was in Galilee,
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  followed him and ministered unto him, praise God and many other
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  women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
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  Look at how perfect Jesus is. Look at how He was so incredibly
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  loved and lovable, and these women saw him, and they cared
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  for him and ministered to Him. What an amazing verse. 42 And
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  now when the evening was come, because it was the preparation,
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  that is, the day before the Sabbath, 43 Joseph of Arimathea,
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  an honorable counselor, which also waited for the Kingdom of
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  God, came and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body
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  of Jesus. So we can see here that old
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  Joseph of Arimathea was a rich man, but he loved Jesus.
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  And this is when Jesus said, it's easier for the camel to go
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  through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter
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  into the Kingdom of God. We can see that with man it is
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  impossible, but with God it is possible.
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  And here God uses this rich man to bless the faith and to bless
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  Jesus and to bless the heart of God.
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  And we could see that it is possible.
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  Friends, He craved the body of Jesus.
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  Do you crave the body of Jesus? Do you crave him?
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  I pray that you crave him more than you do food, that you crave
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  him more than you do air that you crave him more than you do
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  water, that you crave him more than you do.
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  Riches and life. Friends.
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  Crave Jesus the way that this man did. 44 And Pilot marveled
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  if he were already dead, and calling unto him the centurion,
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  he asked him whether he had been any wild dead. 45 And when he
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  knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. 46 And
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  he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the
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  linen, and laid him in a sepulchre, which was honed out
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  of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
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  47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph beheld
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  where he was late. They knew it, they saw it, they
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  saw the whole thing. They were following afar off,
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  and they saw all of these things happening.
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  And they see Jesus being taken down.
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  And Pilate is given a surety that Jesus is dead.
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  Dead. This isn't some trickery
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  friends, this is Jesus being completely dead and it was
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  validated by professional killers.
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  Do not miss this friends, this is paramount to the faith.
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  Jesus gave up the ghost, no one took it from him and we are
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  eternally blessed from this moment.
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  What an amazing chapter in the Bible.
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  I hope you've been blessed by it.
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  I know I sure have. Praying for every single one of
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  you. I love you and so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.