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Episode 218 - The Greater Sin · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: God is great and he is greatly to be. Praise God,
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  Speaker 1: bless you.
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  Speaker 2: Once again.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you to this another edition of End Time
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  Speaker 1: Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zachary,
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  Speaker 1: and today again, by the help of the Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: preach the Word of the Lord in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke,
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  Speaker 1: exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. Doctrine matters, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The doctrine of Christ is the doctrine in which we abide.
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  Speaker 1: The doctrine of Christ is which will take us from
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  Speaker 1: earth to glory. The doctrine of Christ is the doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: the only doctrine.
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  Speaker 2: That will save our souls.
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  Speaker 1: And so we preach the word of the Lord as
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  Speaker 1: a has been delivered to us a man. We want
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  Speaker 1: to be found faithful stewards over that which God has
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  Speaker 1: committed to our trust. And we pray that the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will have free course and it will
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  Speaker 1: work in all of us, so that we, as the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, will be a man counting worthy to
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  Speaker 1: escape the things that are coming to pass.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible tells us.
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  Speaker 1: And we want to be able to stand before the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man in that day hear him say well done,
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  Speaker 1: good and faithful, serve and Amen. So that is our
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  Speaker 1: aim and goal to disseminate the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of the Living God, far and why, and
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  Speaker 1: that as many as possible, as many as the Lord will,
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  Speaker 1: will come to know that Jesus Christ is the Way, is,
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  Speaker 1: the Truth is, the Life is, the Light is, the Door,
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  Speaker 1: is the only hope of salvation, the only mediator between
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  Speaker 1: God and Man, the Savior of all them that believe.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So again, thank you once again all of you who
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  Speaker 1: pray for and or support the work of this ministry
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  Speaker 1: through your prayers or giving, whatever you do, even in
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  Speaker 1: becoming a subscriber, sharing this podcast with others. Amen, whatever
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  Speaker 1: you do, whatever you are, or however you are led
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit, Amen, to be a man worker, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: servant in the Kingdom of God. May the blessings of
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  Speaker 1: God be upon you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Today we continue in the Gospel of John. We're in
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  Speaker 1: John's Gospel chapter number nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: On today.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to read a few verses there in just
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  Speaker 1: a few moments. But as always, we take a moment Amen,
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  Speaker 1: as we invoke the presence of the Lord and thank
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  Speaker 1: him as always for His Amen goodness toward each and
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  Speaker 1: every one of us. Father, again, hands are stretch to
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  Speaker 1: the no other help. We know you are the true
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  Speaker 1: in the Living God, the Savior, the Hope of glory.
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  Speaker 1: You are the one who called us to this great hope,
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation, this great calling.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, this great Gospel.
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  Speaker 1: And Lord, we pray even now that your word, your word,
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  Speaker 1: your word, the living Word, the word by which we
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  Speaker 1: are to live and have our moving and our being
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  Speaker 1: and our existence. That word that gives light life and
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  Speaker 1: gives entrance and lights our pathway.
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  Speaker 2: That word, Lord, we.
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  Speaker 1: Pray, Lord, would be forceful in us, and work in us,
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  Speaker 1: and produce a man great fruit in us. For your kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: for your glory, for your majesty, for your honor, Amen, dominion,
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  Speaker 1: and power. Both now and forever, we praying your thanks
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  Speaker 1: for all things. Amen, and Amen to the Word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. The Gospel of John, chapter number nineteen. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to begin reading at verse number one. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we've been in this Gospel of the Great Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, seeking out and.
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  Speaker 1: Taking the time to amen, look on the words of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: to meditate on them, to contemplate them, and certainly.
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  Speaker 2: To apply them. Amen. To our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Man is not to live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: God manifested in the flesh, spoke words of life to us.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the words that I speak unto you are
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  Speaker 1: spirit and life. And so if we want to live
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  Speaker 1: and have life and have it more abundantly, Amen, we
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  Speaker 1: must live by the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So in this narrative we're going to see today, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: of course, has been delivered up by the Sanhedrin, by
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish leaders to Pilot, to be examined and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: on their behalf a man for their motives, for their desires.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully Jesus will be condemned to death and crucified, all right,
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  Speaker 1: beginning of verse number one. So then Pilot took Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and scourged him, and the soldiers twisted a crown of
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  Speaker 1: thorns and put it on his head, and they put
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  Speaker 1: on him a purple robe, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Said, hell, king of.
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  Speaker 1: The Jews, and they struck him with their hands. Pilot
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  Speaker 1: then went out again and said to them, behold, I
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  Speaker 1: am bringing him out to you, that you may know
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  Speaker 1: that I find no fault in him. Then Jesus came out,
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  Speaker 1: wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and
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  Speaker 1: Pilot said to them, behold the man. And therefore when
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  Speaker 1: the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried out, saying,
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  Speaker 1: crucify him, crucify him. Pilot said to them, you take
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  Speaker 1: him and crucify him, for I find no fault in him.
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  Speaker 1: The Jews answered him, we have a law, and according
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  Speaker 1: to our law, he ought to die because he made
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  Speaker 1: himself the son of God. Therefore, when Pilot heard that, saying,
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  Speaker 1: he was the more afraid, and went again into the
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  Speaker 1: praetorium and said to Jesus, where are you from? But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gave him no answer. Then Pilot said to him,
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  Speaker 1: are you not speaking to me? Do you not know
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  Speaker 1: that I have power to crucify you and power to
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  Speaker 1: release you?
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  Speaker 2: These are the words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: In response verse eleven, Jesus answered, you could have no
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  Speaker 1: power at all against me unless it had been given
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  Speaker 1: you from above. Therefore, the one who delivered me to
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  Speaker 1: you has the greater sin. That is what we want
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  Speaker 1: to dwell on. Of course, in these few moments on
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  Speaker 1: today these words of Jesus Christ, the last three words
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  Speaker 1: in particular, the greater sin, the greater sin deep within
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  Speaker 1: the heart of every man, is the reality of the
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  Speaker 1: awesomeness of the God of creation, who of course made
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  Speaker 1: us in his own image and in his likeness. There
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  Speaker 1: is no death of darkness, no death of depravity of
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  Speaker 1: the soul that is capable of vanquishing this innate sense
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  Speaker 1: of fear and dread, of the holiness of God, of
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign power of the One again.
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  Speaker 2: Who made us. Amen. It is not as though man
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know. He knows. He knows, and there is a
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  Speaker 2: fear and a dread.
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  Speaker 1: And the rulers of the Jews, by the way, who
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  Speaker 1: wanted Jesus dead, accuse Jesus Pilot of being an evildoer.
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  Speaker 1: They accused Jesus of being a self made king. This
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  Speaker 1: all in chapter eighteen. We've already seen that. And by
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  Speaker 1: these accusations they supposed that the charges that they had
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  Speaker 1: leveled against Jesus would be sufficient enough for Pilot to
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  Speaker 1: find Jesus enough of a threat to his own power,
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  Speaker 1: his own governorship, if you will, as well as that
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  Speaker 1: of Caesar's ruling over the Roman empire as king, another king,
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  Speaker 1: another king. You remember when, by the way, when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was born and came upon the scene a man, when
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  Speaker 1: the wise man came looking for him, it was Herod
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  Speaker 1: at that time who was in fear of another king,
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  Speaker 1: of another king. So anyone who made himself to be
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  Speaker 1: a king, who was a viable threat a man to
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  Speaker 1: the power structure, had to be terminated. And so by
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  Speaker 1: bringing up this accusation of being a king, Amen to Pilot,
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  Speaker 1: they thought they would be sufficient for Pilot to pronounce
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  Speaker 1: the sentence of death upon Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But Pilot did not find it to be sufficient. He
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  Speaker 1: had examined Jesus, he heard their charges, and came back
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  Speaker 1: out with the amen proclamation, which is of course true
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  Speaker 1: and should be coming from the lips.
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  Speaker 2: Of all men.
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  Speaker 1: I find no fault in him. He's faultless, he's blameless.
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  Speaker 1: He's done nothing worthy of death.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so upon examination Pilot came to that conclusion, no
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  Speaker 1: fault is to be found in this Jesus. Nevertheless, to
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  Speaker 1: appease the Jews, he had Jesus horribly beaten. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: speaks of him being marred beyond recognition, and in doing
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  Speaker 1: so he hoped that this would satiate a man, the
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  Speaker 1: appetite of the Jews, a man for Jesus to be executed.
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  Speaker 1: And no, no, no, no, no, they said, now when
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  Speaker 1: they saw him, when Pilot had him brought back out,
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  Speaker 1: arrayed in that purple robe, beaten bloody, with the crown
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  Speaker 1: of thorns on his head, they instantly insisted.
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  Speaker 2: That Jesus be crucified.
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  Speaker 1: And and when Pilot, now here's the accusation of the
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  Speaker 1: Jews of Jesus claiming to be the son of God,
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  Speaker 1: he was, the Bible says, the more afraid. And now
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  Speaker 1: he has to a man seek to hear this from
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  Speaker 1: the lips of Jesus himself. But in response to Pilot
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  Speaker 1: asking Jesus, where are you from? Where are you from?
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: When Pilot heard hey, son of God, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: he's the son of God, he asked Jesus the question
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  Speaker 1: where of you are you from? But again, of course,
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  Speaker 1: as we see in the text, Jesus did not answer
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  Speaker 1: Pilot as to where he was from. Jesus, however, did
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  Speaker 1: give a response. And this response that Jesus gave we
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  Speaker 1: find in it two powerful theological statements for our consideration.
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  Speaker 1: In the first instance, the authority that Pilot has to
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  Speaker 1: decide the fate of Jesus is not from this world,
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  Speaker 1: is not from beneath.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus makes it clear.
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  Speaker 1: The power, the authority that you have, or that you
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  Speaker 1: rather think you.
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  Speaker 2: Have, is not from here. It is from above my Father.
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  Speaker 2: My Father.
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  Speaker 1: All power grants all power, the power that you have.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible speaks about this by the way in the
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter thirteen. The powers that be are ordained of God.
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  Speaker 1: And we are to be subject to the governing and
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  Speaker 1: ruling authorities that God has instituted and empowered on the
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  Speaker 1: earth and in the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again their power, their authority comes from God. The
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  Speaker 1: heart of every king is in the hand of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: There is no government ruler, no government upon this earth, past,
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  Speaker 1: present of future, a man that is not under the
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  Speaker 1: Amen sovereign rule and divine will of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus standing before Pilot, has willingly subjected himself to
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  Speaker 1: the authority of Pilot.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because he came down from heaven to fulfill the will
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  Speaker 1: of the Father a man. It was not that he
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  Speaker 1: was again in subjection to Pilot, Amen. But he was
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  Speaker 1: in subjection to the will of the Godhead. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So he.
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  Speaker 1: Submitted himself to this earthly authority, to the chief Priest,
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  Speaker 1: to the Sanhedrin, Amen, to the High Priest himself, even
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  Speaker 1: a man standing before them. And again you remember what
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  Speaker 1: he said, Peter, put up your sword. I could call
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  Speaker 1: down ten thousands upon thousands of thousands legions of angels.
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  Speaker 1: But nevertheless he had already prayed in the garden, not
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  Speaker 1: my will, but thine be done. And so the second
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  Speaker 1: statement that Jesus made that we hear from the texts
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  Speaker 1: is this one which we're going to focus in hone
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  Speaker 1: in on. More so than the first statement. Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: that the one who delivered me to you has the
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  Speaker 1: greater sin. The one who delivered me to you has
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  Speaker 1: the greater sin. By this statement, many believe, of course,
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is alluding to Caiaphas, the high priests, a
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  Speaker 1: man who was in charge of this trial, this illegal trial.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, that they had a man.
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  Speaker 1: Because they had already plotted, they had already a man
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  Speaker 1: come to their conclusion, their decision, they had already deliberated beforehand,
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  Speaker 1: and determined in their minds by their wicked hands, that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had to die. They had schemed Amen in order
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  Speaker 1: to take Jesus into custody and ultimately, of course, deliver
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  Speaker 1: him to Pilot to be condemned to death by crucifixion.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, again, let's make it very clear, as
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  Speaker 1: the Bible does, as Peter preached it and the others,
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  Speaker 1: this was all in the predetermined plan of God. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: they were not exonerated because they, by as Peter so
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  Speaker 1: right rightly put it, they buy their wicked hands. And
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  Speaker 1: Pilot even understood that they were jealous of Jesus, envious
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  Speaker 1: of him. And it was because of this envy and
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  Speaker 1: jealousy that they had delivered Jesus up Amen. And so
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  Speaker 1: the greater sin, the greater sin, belonged to Hiaphus, a man.
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  Speaker 1: And it is evident because Chiaphus as the high priest,
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  Speaker 1: as a Jew, as one who was in that authority,
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  Speaker 1: as one who had knowledge of the scriptures, knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the prophecies of the Old Testament, and all of the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: and all of the law, all of that Amen, and again,
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  Speaker 1: being in the position of power that he had, he
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  Speaker 1: had the greater sin.
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  Speaker 2: He it is he alone, in essence, had the authority
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  Speaker 2: to declare that there would.
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  Speaker 1: Be no condemnation of Jesus, that there would be no
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  Speaker 1: pursuant pursuing, pursuing of death against Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not what he did. And so he, being
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  Speaker 1: the one who delivered Jesus up, had the greater sin.
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  Speaker 1: Of my speaks about this, to whom much is given,
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  Speaker 1: much is required. The greater sin is applicable to every
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  Speaker 1: man a man, and this greater sin is to know
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and willfully reject him.
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  Speaker 2: That's the greatest sin.
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  Speaker 1: Pilot Chiphus, brother Pilot, let me speak on Pilot very quickly. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Pilot didn't know. Pilot didn't have the knowledge that the
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  Speaker 1: Jews had. He didn't have the interaction with Jesus that
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  Speaker 1: the Jews had. He didn't have the scriptures that the
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  Speaker 1: Jews had. He didn't have all of the prophecies that
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  Speaker 1: the Jews had. He didn't see all the miracles, the signs,
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  Speaker 1: and the wonders that Jesus did that the Jews saw
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  Speaker 1: and knew. Nicodemus, remember, one of the Sanhedrin had come
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  Speaker 1: to them. A man had rather come to Jesus by
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  Speaker 1: night and confessed, no man can do these miracles that
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  Speaker 1: you are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Unless God is with him. God is him.
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  Speaker 1: This power is not from this rem This power is
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  Speaker 1: not from this earth. This is divine power. This is
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  Speaker 1: the finger of God at work.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so it is not as though they didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, they knew what they were doing. They
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  Speaker 1: had intimate knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Insider if you will, insider advantages. Amen, to being a Jew,
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  Speaker 1: to being a man of the seed of Abraham, Isaac Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: of the Covenant of promises that God made to their fathers.
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  Speaker 2: So Caiaphas and all.
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  Speaker 1: Of the others committed the greater sin by delivering Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Up to Pilot to be crucified.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible, by the way, again clearly teaches about and
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  Speaker 1: also makes distinction concerning different kinds of sins in punishment
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  Speaker 1: for sins. Lesser sins receive a lesser punishment a man
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  Speaker 1: more so than the severe sins.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: However, again, let's make this distinction. Let's make this clarity.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible is very clear about this. No sin is excused,
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  Speaker 1: and that all have sin and fallen short of the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God. All sin that is to be remitted,
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  Speaker 1: that is to be covered, that is to be atoned for,
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  Speaker 1: and all sin it is to be forever banished, pardoned
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  Speaker 1: only by the offering up of the blood of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what the Bible speaks about the blood of bulls
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  Speaker 1: and ghosts. Animals cannot take away sin. Amen, only the
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  Speaker 1: blood of Jesus, and Jesus himself stated that all manner
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  Speaker 1: of sin would be forgiven men, with the exception of
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  Speaker 1: blasphemy against the Holy ghosts. That, ladies and gentlemen, Church
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God is the unpardonable sin. The greater
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  Speaker 1: sin is not any of the sins that we have
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  Speaker 1: a tendency to focus on from our human perspective. Sexual sins,
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  Speaker 1: of course, whether it is fornication, adultery, bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to differentiate same sex sins, they are sins.
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  Speaker 1: They can certainly be more severe in the category of sins.
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  Speaker 1: Lying is a high high sin, a man cheating, stealing, blasphemy,
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  Speaker 1: not against the holy ghosts, Amen. Sins of the heart,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Bible speaks. There are sins of coal mission,
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  Speaker 1: there are sins of old mission.
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  Speaker 2: There are sins of the heart.
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  Speaker 1: Things that we fail to do that we ought to do, amen,
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  Speaker 1: and sin, by the way, emanates out of the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man. Jesus said, out of the heart of man
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  Speaker 1: proceed adulteries and fornications, and thefts and so on. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so all of this a man comes out of the
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  Speaker 1: amen depravity of the heart of man. The Bible speaks
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  Speaker 1: of the heart of man being desperately wicked. And so
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  Speaker 1: there are sins of the heart, and there are sins
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  Speaker 1: of commission. But again, the sins of co mission the
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  Speaker 1: things that we do, the actual pulling of the trigger
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  Speaker 1: of a gun, for example, or the using of a
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  Speaker 1: sword a man weapon, to commit murder or harm to
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  Speaker 1: an individual, Where does it.
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  Speaker 2: Come from the heart?
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  Speaker 1: Out of the heart, Jesus, by the way a man
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  Speaker 1: elevated the law a man in the sense that, for example,
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  Speaker 1: he who hates his brother without a cause has already
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  Speaker 1: committed murder is guilty. He who looks on a woman
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  Speaker 1: to lust after her has already committed adultery.
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  Speaker 2: So the greater sin.
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  Speaker 1: Even though again all of these sins differentiate and have
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  Speaker 1: degrees a man, and distinctions of being lesser or greater,
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  Speaker 1: and severity in punishment or lesser in punishment a man,
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  Speaker 1: none of these sins rise to the level of being
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  Speaker 1: the greater sin. The greater sin, ladies and gentlemen, is
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  Speaker 1: to spurn the love of God. The greater sin is
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  Speaker 1: to reject the grace of God. The Bible says, the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men,
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  Speaker 1: teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldliness, so that we
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  Speaker 1: should live holy and godly right here in this present.
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  Speaker 1: Where the greater sin is to reject God's grace is gift.
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  Speaker 1: The greater sin is to ignore the knock of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: at the door of your heart. He says, behold, I
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  Speaker 1: stand at the door and knock. If any man will
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  Speaker 1: hear my voice, He's knocking with his voice. He's calling
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  Speaker 1: out to you. The Bible speaks of the wisdom of
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  Speaker 1: God calling out in the streets and the chief places. Come, come, come.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many invitations in the Bible. Come, come
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  Speaker 1: and die, Come and eat, Come and taste, taste, and
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  Speaker 1: see that the Lord is good.
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  Speaker 2: Come to me.
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  Speaker 1: All you are laboring heavy laden, I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 1: But the greater sin is to ignore the knock, the invitation,
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  Speaker 1: the calling. The greater sin is to despise the mercy
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  Speaker 1: of God. The greater sin is to oppose the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: the good news that you can be saved, that you
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  Speaker 1: can be delivered, that you can be set free, that
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  Speaker 1: you can become a son of the Living God, heir
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  Speaker 1: and joint heir with Christ, that you can be forgiven,
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  Speaker 1: that you can be set free from the power and
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  Speaker 1: bondage of sin. That's the good news of the Gospel.
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  Speaker 1: He whom the Son sets free is free. Indeed, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: I come that you might have life, and have it
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  Speaker 1: more abondanly. I come to seek and to save that
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  Speaker 1: which was lost, to oppose the Gospel. Let me give
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  Speaker 1: you an example of this, and of the Acts of
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  Speaker 1: the Apostles, chapter number eighteen, Verses five and six. Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Silas preaching the Gospel along with Timotheus. By the
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  Speaker 1: way the Bible says, when Silas and Timotheus verse number
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  Speaker 1: five of Acts chapter eighteen, were I'm from Macedonia, Paul
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  Speaker 1: was pressed in the spirit and testified. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: he's preaching to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. What
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  Speaker 1: is Paul preaching. He's preaching Jesus. He's preaching him crucified
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  Speaker 1: Jesus buried, Jesus risen from the dead, Jesus ascended into heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as Lord, Jesus as the propitiation between God and man,
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  Speaker 1: the one who forgives, the one who pardons.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Remember why Jesus was here on earth. By the Way
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  Speaker 1: and the Gospels, on several occasions, Jesus forgave men and
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  Speaker 1: women of their sins. Son, thy sins be forgiven. Thee
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  Speaker 1: Amen that man who was crippled and unable to walk,
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  Speaker 1: unable to move on his own, Son, Thy sins be forgiven.
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  Speaker 1: Jes Jesus is the one who pardons. Jesus is the
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  Speaker 1: one who forgives. So Paul and Silence and Timothy and
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  Speaker 1: all of the apostles they preached the gospel they preached Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But watch what happens verse number six, as Paul is
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  Speaker 1: testifying of the grace of God, the goodness of God,
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  Speaker 1: the mercy of God, by and through Jesus Christ. Verse six,
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  Speaker 1: when they opposed themselves, Ladies and gentlemen, by the way
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  Speaker 1: to oppose the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to oppose yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You are fighting against your own self interests, your own salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Your own deliverance, your own hope. The only hope that
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  Speaker 1: you have of eternal life is through the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That's what Paul said. I'm not ashamed of
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. It is the power of God into salvation
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  Speaker 1: to everyone that believed. If you oppose the gospel. What
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, Paul's testifying to the Jews that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was Christ, they opposed themselves and blasphemed. When they had
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  Speaker 1: done this, the Bible says, Paul shook his raiment and said,
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  Speaker 1: unto them, your blood be up on your own head heads.
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  Speaker 1: I am clean. From henceforth I will go onto the gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing exactly what Jesus told the apostles. By the
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  Speaker 1: way he told them this would happened. They hated me,
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna hate you. If they hear me, they'll hear you.
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  Speaker 1: But when they don't hear you, shake off the dust
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  Speaker 1: of your feet. And this is exactly what Paul did.
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  Speaker 1: He shook his raiment and said, your blood be upon
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  Speaker 1: your own heads. Your blood is on your own hand
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  Speaker 1: when you oppose the gospel. Because when you oppose the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: you are opposing your This is the greater sin. The
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  Speaker 1: greater sin is to neglect this great salvation. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: how shall we escape? How can we escape? Where, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, is the escape If we neglect so greater salvation.
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  Speaker 1: There is no escape. If you neglect this great salvation,
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  Speaker 1: that's the greater sin. The greater sin is to refuse
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of God. The Bible says, it is the
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  Speaker 1: goodness of God that leads man to repentance. The greater
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  Speaker 1: sin is to trample on the blood of the Covenant.
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  Speaker 1: The greater sin is to crucify the son of God
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  Speaker 1: afresh and put him to an open shame. That's the
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  Speaker 1: greater sin. The greater sin is to hear the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: hear the knock, the call, the cry of wisdom in
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  Speaker 1: the street, and to say no, to oppose your own soul.
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  Speaker 1: This is why Roman chapter one speaks of God giving
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  Speaker 1: people over to a reprobate mind. They have opposed, they
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  Speaker 1: have blasphemed, they have resistant, they have spurned, they have
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  Speaker 1: trampled upon, they have hated, they have despised, and they
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  Speaker 1: have rejected the gift of life, the gift of grace,
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  Speaker 1: the gift of God Father.
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  Speaker 2: We pray.
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  Speaker 1: We pray now, We pray now for your mercy, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that someone's eyes will be open, someone's ears will be uncourked,
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  Speaker 1: and someone's heart will be broken to come to.
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  Speaker 2: Know that you.
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  Speaker 1: Are the only hope of glory, and they will not
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  Speaker 1: commit the same sin of Caiaphas, the same sin of
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  Speaker 1: the chief priests and the rulers who delivered Jesus up
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  Speaker 1: when they knew better. The day you hear his voice,
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  Speaker 1: harden not your heart, we pray that you will hear
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  Speaker 1: the knock of the Savior at the door of your
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  Speaker 1: heart and open so that he comes in and SUPs
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  Speaker 1: with you and makes you a new creation in him.