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11 12 2024 The Unwitting Witness of Pilate · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, November twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series themes in the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the unwitting Witness of Pilot. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it says the unwitting witness that three times of pilot.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pray. Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Father for giving us the witness of the people who
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  Speaker 2: love you and the people who didn't love you. We
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  Speaker 2: get to see their testimony, and now we know what
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  Speaker 2: not to do. Please draw us into your prey. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again the unwitting
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  Speaker 2: witness of Pilot. You see, there are times that people
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  Speaker 2: manifest the truth about God in their words and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: even in how God favors them. For a time, while
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  Speaker 2: there is mercy, Mercy still stretches forth her hands over us.
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  Speaker 2: And there are times that people live the testimony live.
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  Speaker 2: The testimony of God is good, not just talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: They are about it, okay. And so in this case, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Pilot was not about that holiness life. He was not
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  Speaker 2: about the testimony that he would give with his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Like he understood some things because of the circumstances, but
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  Speaker 2: he never allowed God to transform him, you see. And
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  Speaker 2: so now we will go to the Bible Book of
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  Speaker 2: John chapter John, chapter eighteen and vers. Thirty eight, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads as now Jesus is in one of
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  Speaker 2: those mock trials before Pilot and then Herod. And you
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  Speaker 2: know it was a mess, right and Pilot who had
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  Speaker 2: the power to let Jesus go by the way when
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  Speaker 2: the people of God that had lost their spiritual minds
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  Speaker 2: now they have decided that they didn't want to be
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  Speaker 2: connected to God and they're ready to crucify Jesus, but
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have the power. They had to appeal to
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  Speaker 2: the strong arm of the state to crucify Jesus because
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't do it themselves. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: We are living in the last days, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just heard what I said. Now he's before Pilot
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible says that Pilot, therefore, he asked, what
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  Speaker 2: is truth? Now Jesus is talking about the truth. What
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  Speaker 2: is truth? What is truth? When he had said this,
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  Speaker 2: he went back outside to the people of God the leaders,
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  Speaker 2: and announced, find no basis for an accusation against him.
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  Speaker 2: In the King James version of the Bible, it says
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  Speaker 2: when he returned to the people of God, he saith
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  Speaker 2: unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
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  Speaker 2: This was his testimony of Jesus. This was his testimony.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what y'all are talking about. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why you have such problem in vitriol with this man,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't see any reason to find an accusation
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  Speaker 2: against him. That was his testimony. Let me go, Let
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  Speaker 2: me go. Now, there's so much in the story. I'll
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  Speaker 2: read as much as I can here in the few
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  Speaker 2: minutes that we have. In verse four of John chapter nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads and again Pilot went out and said
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  Speaker 2: to the people of God, the leaders, look, I am
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  Speaker 2: bringing out to you, bringing him out to you, so
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  Speaker 2: that you may know that I find no reason for
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  Speaker 2: accusation against him. So Jesus came outside wearing a crown
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  Speaker 2: of thorns in the purple robe. And Pilot said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: look here is a man. When the chief priests and
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  Speaker 2: the other officers saw him, they shouted, crucify him. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even want to say this, crucify him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: even want to say this, y'all, but this is what
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  Speaker 2: the Bible records. And Pilots said, unto them, you take
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  Speaker 2: him and crucify him. Certainly, I find no reason for
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  Speaker 2: an accusation against him. And so the so called leaders
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  Speaker 2: of God's people replied, we have a law that according
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  Speaker 2: to our law, he ought to die because he claimed
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  Speaker 2: to be the son of God. When Peter heard this statement,
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  Speaker 2: he was even more afraid. He went back to the
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  Speaker 2: governor's residence and he said to Jesus, where do you
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  Speaker 2: come from? But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilot said,
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  Speaker 2: do you refuse to speak to me? Do you know
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  Speaker 2: that I have the authority to release you and to
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  Speaker 2: rusify you. See, Pilot has lost his absolute he's lost
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  Speaker 2: his mind. You're talking about power. Yeah, he had the
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  Speaker 2: responsibility to let Jesus go. But listen to what happens
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  Speaker 2: here verse eleven. Jesus replied you would have no authority
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  Speaker 2: over me at all unless it was given to you
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  Speaker 2: from above, meaning from God, my father. So don't get
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  Speaker 2: this twisted. Do not get this confused. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: I am here is because God is allowing me to
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  Speaker 2: be here. Therefore, the one who handed me over to
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  Speaker 2: you is guilty of a greater sin. You see, Judas
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  Speaker 2: betrayed him. From this point on, Pilot tried to release him,
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  Speaker 2: but the so called leaders of God's people shouted, if
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  Speaker 2: you release this man, then you are no friend of Caesar.
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  Speaker 2: Any One who claims to be a king opposes Caesar,
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  Speaker 2: you see. So they're trying to say that Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: claiming to be a king quote, and that if he's
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  Speaker 2: claim to be a king, then Pilot is culpable. He's
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  Speaker 2: guilty of an insurrection like allowing this king in air
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  Speaker 2: quotes to take the place of Caesar. You see how
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  Speaker 2: crafty people can be in their politics games. Do I
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  Speaker 2: have time right now to deal with the politics games
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  Speaker 2: that people play? No, I don't. Let's stay focused. Let's
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  Speaker 2: stay focused verse thirteen. When Pilot heard these words, he
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  Speaker 2: brought Jesus outside and sat down in the judge's seat
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  Speaker 2: at the place called the stone pavement Gabathah in Aramaic
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  Speaker 2: verse fourteen. Now it was the day of preparation for
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  Speaker 2: the passover. About noon he said to the so called
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  Speaker 2: people of God, the so called leaders of God's people, look,
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  Speaker 2: here is your king. And they shouted away with him.
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  Speaker 2: We have no king, No crucify him. Jesus actual I
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  Speaker 2: crucify your king. And the chief priests answered, we have
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  Speaker 2: no king but Caesar. They chose Caesar over Jesus. They
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  Speaker 2: chose to betray the one who was saving them from
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  Speaker 2: their sins. They chose, they chose not to serve and
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  Speaker 2: believe in Jesus. I said, they were willingly ignorant, and
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  Speaker 2: they anyway, let me continue verse sixteen. Then Pilot handed
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  Speaker 2: him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and carrying his own cross, he went out to the
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  Speaker 2: place called the place of the Skull, which is in
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  Speaker 2: Aramaic called Golgatha. There they crucified him along with two others,
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  Speaker 2: one on each side, with Jesus in the middle. Pilot
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  Speaker 2: also had a notice written and fastened to the cross,
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  Speaker 2: which read Jesus of Jesus the Nazarene, the King of
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  Speaker 2: the Jews. Thus many of the people in Jerusalem read
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  Speaker 2: this notice because the place where Jesus was crucified was
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  Speaker 2: to the city, and the notice was written in Hebrew
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  Speaker 2: and Latin and Greek. Trumped up chargers. They crucified Jesus
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  Speaker 2: with trumped up charges. He was never trying to take
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  Speaker 2: Caesar's place. He never was about to do an insurrection.
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  Speaker 2: He was never interested. He said, if my kingdom were
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  Speaker 2: of this world, then would my servants fight. But they
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  Speaker 2: crucified him. And the chief priests of the people of
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  Speaker 2: God said to Pilot, do not right the king of
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  Speaker 2: the Jews, but rather, the man said, I am kings
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  Speaker 2: King of the Jews. Pilot answered what I have written.
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  Speaker 2: I have written. Pilot understood and knew who Jesus was,
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  Speaker 2: but he didn't live by it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, thanks for joining us listening.
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