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Matthew chapter 26. Let us pray.
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Our Father who is in heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom
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come, Lord, your will be done right here on this earth, just
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as it is in heaven. Give us today Our Daily Bread.
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Forgive us, Lord, for all of our sins as we forgive those who sin
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against us. Lord, not allow us to be LED
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into temptation. God, deliver us from our
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adversary, for yours is the Kingdom and the power and the
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glory forever. Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And it came to pass.
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When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his
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disciples, What are all these sayings?
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Well, we just finished up two chapters back-to-back 1-2.
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Wham bam, the Olivet discourse, the these are powerhouses in the
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eschatology of Christ's return friends.
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They belong right up there with Revelation and Daniel,
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Thessalonians and Peter. There's so many chapters and
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even in the Old Testament, there are so many references to
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Christ's second advent. And we could spend an entire
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lifetime studying and debating about all of them.
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And just so we know, and just so we're clear, before we move into
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this passion of Christ here, I want everyone to know that the
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eschatology of Christ is meant to be somewhat vague.
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It is God's purposes to keep it somewhat vague so that we will
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always have the intrigue of what is to come.
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And Jesus told us, and he made it plain in the things that he
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wanted us to know, but we can only speculate about the things
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that he left out. And it's no different.
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They're out all of the Bible. God is so intent on how it is
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written and what is there and what is left out.
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Just so you are aware. And all we can do is speculate.
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But there are so many things in the Bible that He makes it just
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as clear and just as plain as day.
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And those are the things that we can stand upon.
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Those are the things that we do not need to get knocked off the
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stool from standing on. We need to make sure that we are
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students of the Word of God, that we own the Word of God,
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that we hide the Word of God in our hearts, and no one can talk
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us out of the things that are written in this book.
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But if it was not written, God did that on purpose.
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There was a reason for it. And it will all come to light as
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we get closer and closer and closer to His blessed return.
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Friends, what were all these sayings that Jesus had just
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finished saying to His disciples?
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Verse 2 You know that after two days is the feast of the
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Passover, and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified.
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So here again he's prophesying. He's telling them the mode of
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death, that he would have to suffer this crucifixion. 3 and
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then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes
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and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high
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priest, who was called Caiaphas. So this Caiaphas here, there's a
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lot of history and we could go back and read about the
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historical documents of Caiaphas.
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But suffice to say that Caiaphas was double minded in the sense
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that he had his Jewish alliance, but he also was very good at
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intermingling the political powers of Rome into his office
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as well to appease Rome. And here you can see that
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Caiaphas is going to be the orchestrator of all these
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events, and he was being used by God, but never excused by God
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for and consulted that they might take Jesus subtly and kill
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him. So here Caiaphas has assembled
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in the palace the elders and the priests and the scribes.
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And there is speculation here that this was all illegal
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according to their own traditions, that they were not
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to do anything subtly and by night.
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But they feared the masses, they feared the people.
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And you can see their hypocrisy and duplicity being all played
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out right here as Caiaphas is wanting to take Jesus at night
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and do it subtly as to not make the masses aware of what they
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were about to do. 5 But they said not on the feast day, lest
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there be an uproar among the people.
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So they knew that they could not take Jesus in the middle of all
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the festival because the people would not allow it.
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There were many people who had come to see this miracle worker,
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and they had come to see their Liberator, but they had missed
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the fact that He was the Son of God.
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They had missed the fact that He was the Savior of the world, and
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they were just coming to see Him because they wanted to see a
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sign from Him. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the House of
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Simon the Leper, who is this Simon the Leper?
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We don't know much about him, other than perhaps he was
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someone that Jesus had healed. And here he had kept the name of
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the leper to remind him of his healing, and here he was hosting
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Jesus. Seven.
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There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very
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precious ointment, and poured it on his head as he sat at meat.
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He was eating his dinner. And here comes Mary.
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Here comes the sister of Martha and Lazarus, and she has the
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expensive alabaster jar of spikenard that would have
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smelled like baby powder to us. And it was this wonderful
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fragrance and she was anointing him.
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And what was happening here, it transcended all of our own
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thoughts. This was the anointing of him
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for his death and burial and resurrection.
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And he went to the grave, He went to the cross smelling like
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this baby powder, smelling like this wonderful spikenard that we
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are familiar with. If you really sit and think
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about it, this is not a fragrance that is lost on us.
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This is a fragrance that we can go to the store now and open up
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a bottle and be able to catch the whiff of what Jesus actually
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smelt like on his day of death. Whenever we were bought with a
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high price, when he ransomed us, when he bought us back from sin.
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Here Mary perhaps not even knowing what she was doing in
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the sense of anointing, but Jesus had it all planned out and
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He moved the hearts and minds of his people.
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Here you can see how beautiful it's all coming to fruition as
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he sat there in this precious ointment and she poured it out
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and it was extravagant love and she was ready to be spilled out
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herself for her Savior. She loved this man.
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She saw that he was the son of God.
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She knew she chose the better she sat at his feet.
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She was willing to give all that she had.
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She would have given more. She loved him and she loved him
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well. And we're still talking the
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about her today. 8:00 But when his disciples saw it, they had
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indignation, saying, to what purpose is this waste?
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There was no waste. God wastes nothing.
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And here we can see this was Judas Iscariot.
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We can see that he was greedy for gain.
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He just wanted to be able to profit off of all of the riches
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that Jesus was amassing. And perhaps he wasn't amassing
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them to the amount or to the the quickness that Judas was after.
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He was wanting more and he was greedy for gain.
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And you could see it here in his statement when he says to what
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purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have
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been sold for much and given to the poor.
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He cared nothing for the poor, he was just wanting it for his
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selfish gain. He used to take money out of the
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money bag, and when Jesus understood it, he said unto
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them, Why trouble you, the woman?
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For she has wrought a good work unto me. 11 For you have the
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poor always with you, but me you have not always. 12 For in that
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she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my
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burial. 13 Truly, I say unto you, wheresoever this gospel
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shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this
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that this woman has done be told for a memorial for her.
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And we're still talking about what she did.
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We're still seeing it as the anointing of Jesus for his death
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and burial and resurrection. And we can see this beautiful
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picture of her heart, and you can see her being moved, and you
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can see the extravagance of her love.
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And we still are memorializing her for it.
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And Jesus is saying, yes, we should take care of the poor.
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Yes, we should think of the poor.
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Yes, we should be giving to the poor.
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But he's saying that this was a very, very special moment in the
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history of mankind. And she caught it.
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She actually understood that he was who he said he was, and she
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loved him and she loved him well. 14 Then one of the 12
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called Judas Iscariot went unto the chief priest.
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Perhaps that little show back there with Mary, perhaps that
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little show was what was the tipping of the edge for Judas.
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And it was all planned out. And Judas goes and he is wroth
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with indignation over the financial waste of the bottle of
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perfume, this alabaster of spikenard, and this was enough
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to push him over the edge. How many of us today were pushed
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over the edge by the most trivial things?
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That if we just stopped and if we just prayed, we would be
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comforted in the moment and we would see the bigger picture.
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We do not need to act on emotions, friends.
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We need to be grounded and rooted in the Word of God, and
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we need to let the Word of God be the guide who guides us home
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all the way to the end, Friends. 15 And he said unto them, What
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will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you.
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And they covenanted with him for 30 pieces of silver.
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And we could see that written back in Jeremiah, that he was
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sold for the price of a slave. He was sold for the price that
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Judas is going to buy the Potters field, for it was a
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worthless field that he went and hung himself in. 16 And from
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that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
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Here he is. He's incensed against the waste
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of the finances. He's incensed that Jesus did not
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take his side. 17 Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened
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Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where
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will you that we prepare for you to eat the Passover?
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18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him,
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The Master says, My time is at hand, and I will keep the
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Passover at your house with my disciples.
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So we do not know the name of such a man.
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We can speculate till the cows come home, but we know that
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Jesus was going through and preparing the hearts and minds
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of people. And whenever the disciples went
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to this certain man, it was easy.
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And just remember that God opens doors that no man can shut, and
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he shuts doors that no man can open.
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It's easy for him, friends. And he just had to send the
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disciples into the city, and it was an open door.
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And if we will pray and believe and have faith, God will
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continue to open doors that no man can shut. 19 And the
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disciples did as Jesus had appointed them, and they made
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ready the Passover. What a beautiful thought this
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is. What a beautiful picture this
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is. What beautiful reality this is.
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These are real stories and real people in real places.
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Friends don't miss it. They're preparing the Passover.
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He's wanting, he's desirous, he's been waiting.
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He's eager to eat this Passover with his friends.
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And we know that He had to eat it before the sacrificing of the
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lambs. And He was the sacrificial lamb.
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And it was the hour that he was put up on the cross was the same
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hour that they were sacrificing the Passover lambs.
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And this is a beautiful picture of the wisdom of God.
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And we know that this chronologically was happening
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before the Jews were actually eating of the Passover.
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So Jesus in his infinite wisdom knew that He had to do this at
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this exact time. 20 Now when the evening had come, he sat down
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with the 12:21. And as they did eat, he said,
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Truly I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
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Can you imagine him sitting in the upper room?
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Can you imagine him sitting there with the 12 and he has the
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Passover prepared, but we know that he was the lamb.
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He has the bread and the wine there and He's desirous to teach
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them. And he's washing their feet and
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he says to them here, he says, he opens up and he says, 1 of
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you will betray me. What an opening. 22 And they
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were exceedingly sorrowful, and they began, one of them to say
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unto him, Lord, is it I? Can you imagine if Jesus would
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have revealed to the other 11 that Judas Iscariot was going to
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betray him? Can you imagine?
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But no, look at their hearts. Their hearts have been softened
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and they were just wondering and they wanted to make sure that
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they were not going to be the ones to do it. 23 And he
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answered and said, he that dips his hand with me in the dish,
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the same shall betray me. He's saying that it is one of
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his closest friends and his disciple there, and he's showing
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that there is commune community and a communal environment, and
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that the very one, it was not someone on the outside, the very
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one who had seen him and had seen him in his in his humanity,
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would be the one to betray him. And sometimes it can be the
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closeness of someone that causes us to look down upon them.
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And what a word here. Judas was so incredibly blinded
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and delusional by the greed of money that he missed Jesus as
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being the Son of God. 24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of
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him. But woe unto that man by whom
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the Son of Man is betrayed. It had been good for that man.
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If he had not been born, Judas was going to die a billion
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deaths over and never be able to die.
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And it would have been better if he had never been born.
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And all of these things had to happen.
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But it does not excuse Judas. What a thought, friends, that
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God already knows what we're going to do.
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What a thought? Is it predestination or is it
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free will? The answer is yes, God already
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knows what we're going to do. He gives us the free will.
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Judas had the free will. He could have repented.
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Judas had the free will. He did not have to sell out our
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master, but God already knew that he would.
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What a thought friend. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him,
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answered and said, Master, is it I?
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He said unto him, You have said, Look at this hypocrisy of Judas.
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Look at this, how he tries to pretend as if Jesus doesn't
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already know. This is how you know that Judas
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did not understand Jesus as being the Messiah.
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That Judas did not understand that Jesus was who he said he
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was. He thought he was just some
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miracle worker that he could profit off of. 26 And as they
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were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it and broke it and
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gave it to the disciples and said take, eat, this is my body.
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So here we can see that Judas had already gone out.
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He's speaking to the 11. Satan had entered into Judas,
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and Judas leaves to go and tell the chief priest where they
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could find Jesus. He was already looking for the
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opportunity, and he saw it here in this moment.
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And look at how Jesus is taking the bread.
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And he blessed it and he broke it and he gave it to the
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disciples. And he says, take it and eat.
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This is my body. So we do this in remembrance of
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Jesus. We could get into a lot of
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theological debates of what this bread actually signifies, but we
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know that. As we break the bread, we are to
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remember what Jesus did for us and how His body was broken for
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us, Friends. And we are to recall that back
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to mind as often as we eat. Friends, this isn't a special
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time. Once a month or a few times a
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year, or however often you partake of communion.
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This is. This is intended to be a daily
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devotion where we remember Jesus, we remember his body
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being broken. This was a common thing that
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they would eat is bread friends and drink the wine that is going
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to be mentioned. 27 He took the cup and he gave thanks and he
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gave it to them saying drink you all of it. 28 For this is my
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blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the
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remission of sins. So when we are covered in the
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blood of Christ, we are going to be looked upon by God as holy.
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All of our sins are thrown as far as the east is from the West
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because of what Jesus did on this night.
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Don't miss it, friends. 29 But I say unto you, I will not drink
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henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I
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drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom.
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This is the marriage. This is the supper of the
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marriage that is mentioned in Revelation, where Jesus is going
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to drink of the wine in the Kingdom, and we are going to be
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there with him. All of us believers, praise God.
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Can you even imagine that He went to prepare a place for us,
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and God will prepare a banquet for us in the presence of our
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enemies. Praise the Lord.
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Jesus here is glorified in the highest, and He knows what He's
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doing. He knows what he's getting
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himself into. There is nothing missed upon
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Jesus in this moment. He knows that he is about to be
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crucified and handed over. 30 And when they had sung A hymn,
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they went out into the Mount of Olives.
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So here at the end of a Passover meal, Psalms 116 one 17118 would
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be read. And if you go and study those 3
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psalms, Psalms 116, Psalms 117, Psalms 118, go and study those 3
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psalms, you can see Jesus's heart.
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You can see that it was foretold long before that this night
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would come and David had caught a glimpse of it as he's
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worshipped the Lord. I pray that you have caught
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glimpses of the glory of God and your worship.
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Friends, I pray that you have had those experiences.
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I pray that God has been well pleased to visit you in your
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singing unto Him your worship unto the Lord.
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Do not be blinded by this world. Do not be blinded by all the
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cares of this world. Do not think and meditate upon
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all the things of pleasure in this world.
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I pray to God that you will worship Him in spirit and truth
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today, and that you will be visited upon, and that the Holy
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Spirit will well up within you, and that you will be overcome
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with His presence and undone in His presence.
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Friends. And here you can see Jesus
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singing unto God, knowing that He was the Lamb to be
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slaughtered, and he was going to be silent before his shears, and
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he's singing this hymn, him praise the Lord. 31 And then
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said, Jesus unto them all, you shall be offended because of me
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this night. For it is written, I will strike
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the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered
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abroad. So here Jesus knew that he was
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going to have to face all of this alone.
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He knew that it was written and prophesied about that he would
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scatter the sheep, that all the sheep would be scattered
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whenever the shepherd was struck.
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And you can see all of them running for their lives after
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Jesus gets arrested. God knows everything.
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Friends. 32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into
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Galilee. Write it down, make a note.
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Look at how Matthew here, he catches this.
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He understood that Jesus said he was coming back.
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He understood that he was going to meet them in the upper room.
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33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be
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offended because of you, yet I will never be offended.
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You know how many of us are like this.
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You know, it would do us well to not be offended by him.
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It would do us well when Jesus doesn't come through in the
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miracles. When Jesus doesn't come through
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for your marriage or your kids or for your health or whatever
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plagues you, friends. When Jesus allows you to go to
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the depths. Whenever you lose the job, when
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you lose the limb, whenever everything looks as if the it's
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all coming undone and unglued, and the phrase are showing and
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the belt snaps. And we would do well not to be
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offended by the ways of God, because his ways are not our
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ways. And here Jesus is showing Peter,
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Yes, you're all talk, and you look the part, but you will be
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offended because of me, and you will run for your lives, and
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you'll deny me three times, and you'll let a servant girl
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demoralize ye. 34 Jesus said unto him, Truly I say unto you,
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that this night before the cock crows, you shall deny me. 3 * 35
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Peter said unto him, Though I should die with you, yet I, I
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will not deny you. Likewise also said all the
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disciples, they took Peter's charge, they took Peter's lead
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and they said, no, no, no, we would not either.
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Can you imagine? They're arguing with God
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Almighty. How many of us do that?
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How many of us try to tell God how to behave or what should
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happen? How many of us try to sign our
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name on the prophecies? And we need to be in tune with
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God and what He says and what His Word says.
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Nothing added or subtracted, Friends, it's God's Word and
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God's Word alone that will reign supreme all the way to the end.
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And Jesus was telling them, and they would have done well to
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listen to what he had to say. 36 Then comes Jesus with them unto
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a place called Gethsemane, and said unto the disciples, Sit you
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here while I go and pray Yonder. So Jesus is telling them to sit
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and watch and to pray, and he's going to go over and pray.
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He wanted a time of seclusion. He needed to get a loan with the
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Father. And we know that Jesus often
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withdrew to lonely places, and we would do well to model our
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lives after that. We would do well to get out of
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the humdrum. We would do well to get out of
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the rat race. We would do well to get a loan
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with the Father, whether it's in your car, whether it's in the
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closet, whether it's in the woods, whether it's on the lake.
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We would do well to get a loan with the Father and to pray
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earnestly with him, and to pray earnestly for our brothers and
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sisters and for our family and our neighbors, friends. 37 And
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he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began
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to be sorrowful and very heavy. So here you can see that Jesus
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is in agony, but he's in agony over the separation that he's
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about to experience from God. They had been in unity since the
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beginning and you can see that it sorrowed Jesus that the
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Father was going to turn His face.
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It was not sorrow for what He was about to have to endure.
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Don't miss it, friends. It was not sorrow because He
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could not bear the brunt of the physical attack that was about
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to happen. This is sorrow because He longed
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and He yearned for the communion with God Almighty.
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He became, he became exceedingly sorrowful and very heavy. 38 And
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then he said unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto
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death. Tarry you here and watch with
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me. Jesus wanted his disciples to
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watch and to model their lives after the way that he was
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praying. He wanted them to see the model
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of what it looked like to not wrestle against flesh and blood,
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but against the darkness and the principalities.
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He wanted them to see what it looked like to be exceedingly
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sorrowful over the sins of the world which he was about to take
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on. 39 And he went a little further, and he fell on his face
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and prayed, saying, Oh my Father, if it be possible, let
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this cup pass for me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but
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as you will. Jesus here, He prayed and He
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knew that we should be praying as well, that it's his Kingdom
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come and His will be done. And he's asking the Father if
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there's another way. Take this cup.
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It was the cup of all of the sins of the world being poured
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out on him. It was the cup of God's wrath
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being poured out on Him here. This is not Him being afraid for
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his own life. It's not him trying to save his
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skin, friends, but he knows how to pray.
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And he says, Lord, I submit, and I surrender to your will,
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whatever it looks like. And we would do well to do the
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same, friends. And he's teaching his disciples,
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and he's teaching us what that looks like. 40 And he came unto
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the disciples, and he found them asleep.
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And he said unto Peter, What could you not watch with me one
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hour? And he says the same to you, and
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he says the same to me, Could you not pray with me for one
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hour? Friend, how many of us we get
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stuck in the rat race? How many of us we are so
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completely distracted? We live distracted lives, and we
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cannot even quiet our mind for an hour to pray with the Lord.
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And here he finds them sleeping. And so many of us have fallen
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asleep to the reality of what this word says.
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Far be it from us, friends. 41 Watch and pray that you enter
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not into temptation, that the Spirit indeed is willing, but
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the flesh is weak. How many of us can say that that
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the flesh is weak? We want to do the right things,
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but we cannot. We don't desire to do the wrong
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things, but those are the things that we do.
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How many of us can say that the Spirit is willing, but the flesh
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is weak, and we need to put the flesh under the reality of God's
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will for our lives. We need to make all of our
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senses subject to the reality that God and His infinite plan
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and wisdom Trump's all of our emotions.
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Friends. 42 And he went away again the second time, and
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prayed, saying, Oh my Father, if this cup may not pass away from
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me, except I drink it, thy will be done here.
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He's redeeming mankind. He's redeeming humanity as Adam
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squandered away our position with Christ, position with God
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Almighty here, Jesus Christ is getting it back.
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Jesus Christ knows that he will drink this cup and redeem
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mankind. 43 And he came and found them asleep again, for
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their eyes were heavy. How many of our our eyes are
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heavy? We're so incredibly desensitized
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to the spiritual. We're so desensitized by the
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relentless assault of information that continuously
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comes our way and the entertainment that continuously
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tries to vie for our attention and our allegiance.
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All of the perpetual idols that we pump out every single day
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that we set our eyes upon, we are heavy, we are heavy laden
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and we need Jesus. We need to be yoked with Jesus
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and let our burdens be light. Friends. 44 And he came. 44 And
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he left them and went away again and prayed the third time,
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saying the same words. So here we can see three prayers
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being prayed by Jesus, and he's praying to the Lord, and his
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he's got sweat like drops of blood. 45 And then comes he to
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his disciples, and said unto them, Sleep on, now take your
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rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and
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the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
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He knew this was coming. He knew that Judas had gone out.
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He knew that it was all about to happen, and He wanted his
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disciples to see his prayer life, to see what he had been up
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to when he would go away and pray to the Father.
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He wanted the disciples to model their prayer lives after this,
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and He knew that Judas was coming. 46 Rise, let us be
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going. Behold, He is at hand.
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That does betray me. 47. And while he yet spoke, lo
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Judas, one of the 12 came with him a great multitude, with
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swords and Staffs from the chief priests and the elders of the
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people. 48. Now he's now he that betrayed
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him gave them a son, saying, whomsoever I shall kiss, that
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same is he hold him fast. 49. And forthwith he came to Jesus
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and said, Hail, master, and kissed him. 50 And Jesus said
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unto him, Friend, why have you come?
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Then Jesus then came they and laid hands on Jesus, and took
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him. So here we can see that Judas
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betrays him with a kiss. You can see that he calls him
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Master and how he was so greedy that he had turned off his
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conscience. He had seared his conscience and
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here you can see Jesus still loves him and still looks at him
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and calls him friend. He knew what he was doing, but
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he was calling Judas to repentance in this moment.
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And Judas was so apostate that he did not actually believe.
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He did not actually believe it. It was just an outward
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expression. That's all it was.
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There was no inward change, friends, for Judas, he sat and
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he saw it all, and he still betrayed him. 51 And behold, one
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of them, which were with Jesus, stretched out his hand and drew
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his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest, and struck
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off his ear. So here you can see that Peter
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pulled his sword out, and we can see that the other Gospels
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expound on this moment. We can see how Jesus is so
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miraculous in his power that Jesus is going to have all the
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guards knocked back just by saying that he was who they were
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looking for, that I am. And they fall backwards and then
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they get up and they take him and hear Peter, who is trying to
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save his master from being arrested.
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He's trying to have some bravado here.
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Let's see what happens. We know that this high priest
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servant was Malchus. We know that during this time,
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history tells us that Rome would have actually supplied the
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temple because of the millions of people in that city, that
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Rome would have supplied the temple with some extra guards
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here. And these were the guards that
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were coming out to arrest this rogue St. preacher, who claimed
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to be the Son of God, the King of the Jews. 52 Then said Jesus
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unto him, Put up again your sword into his place, for all
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they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. 53 Think
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it's you that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall
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presently give me more than 12 legions of angels, when we know
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that one Angel could go into the Assyrian camp and kill 185,000
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soldiers, Just one Angel. Can you imagine this?
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12 Legions of angels at Jesus's disposal, waiting and ready.
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We know that an Angel came during his prayer in Gethsemane
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to strengthen him, and here he's showing his disciples, He's
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telling Peter, listen, I am not outnumbered in this moment.
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You do not have to try to stick up for me.
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All of this is marvellous and it must happen 54.
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But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that
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thus it must be He's telling them This is marvelous. 55 In
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that same hour, said Jesus to the multitudes, are you come out
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as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me?
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I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid no hold
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on me. It's because they feared the
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masses, friends, because the masses had believed on him, and
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they wanted him to be the Liberator, and Jesus was their
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savior. 56 But all this was done that the scriptures of the
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prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook
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him and fled. We can see that they struck the
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shepherd, and all the sheep scattered. 57 And they that had
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laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest,
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where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
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Look at this. This was in the middle of the
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night, friends, don't miss it. 58 But when Peter followed him
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afar off unto the high priest palace and went in and sat with
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the servants to see the end. So here he's following from a
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distance. He's not letting them know.
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He's on a covert mission. He's doing spec OPS.
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Here Peter is trying to disguise himself. 59 Now the chief
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priests and the elders and all the council's sought false
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witness against Jesus to put him to death.
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So this was false witness. They were breaking their own
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laws. They were breaking the law.
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They had got him by secret, they had got him at night and they
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were supposed to be doing any of these trials or anything is
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supposed to be done in the day and none of it counted,
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especially if there was false witness.
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They were supposed to be put to death, but instead these false
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witnesses were actually being used to try to put God's Son,
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God Almighty to death. Can you imagine the hostility of
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man towards God? Friends, look at it.
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It's been going on ever since the garden.
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It's been going going on ever since Cain killed Abel.
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We can see the hostility towards God and is culminating in this
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moment. 60 but found none. Yeah, though many false
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witnesses came, yet found they none at the last came two false
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witnesses. They were worthy of death.
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Let's see what happens to him. 61 and said, this fellow said, I
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am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three
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days. This would have been likened to
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a bomb threat. This would have been likened to
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someone saying that I'm going to destroy the temple.
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They did not know that he was talking about himself.
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We learned that later. 62 in the high priest arose and said unto
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him, answer is you nothing. What is it which these witnesses
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against you? So this Caiaphas, he's so
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indignant. He sees that this is a mock
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trial. He sees that this trial is a
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hung jury. He sees that this is not going
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in the way that he had hoped. There was no one that could
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bring any credible evidence against Jesus because Jesus was
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spotless and sinless and he had done nothing wrong.
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Friends, don't miss it. He was perfect in all of his
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ways. 63 But Jesus held his peace, and the high priest
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answered and said unto him, I adjure you by the living God,
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that you tell us whether you be the Christ, the Son of God.
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So here he's calling upon God Almighty, and he's speaking to
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God Incarnate, and we can see that he is so indignant and so
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debased and so delusional. 64 Jesus said unto him, You have
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said, Nevertheless, I say unto you, Hereafter shall you see the
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Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the
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clouds of heaven? So we can see that Jesus is
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showing Caiaphas that He has all the power over him.
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There is no power that has been given to Caiaphas that is
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greater than the power that God has over Caiaphas.
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And that is what Jesus is telling him, that he is the Son
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of God. He said, You said it. 65 Then
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the high priest ripped his clothes, saying he has spoken
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blasphemy. What further need have you have
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we of witness? Behold, now you have heard his
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blasphemy. So he charges Jesus with
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blasphemy, but it is he himself that is guilty of the blasphemy.
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That is the pot calling the kettle black.
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They're friends. You can see it.
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You can see how evil works. Anytime there's evil, they're
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going to call evil good and good evil.
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Anytime you're dealing with an evil person, they're going to
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try to twist all of your words against you, friends, but stand
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firm to the end. 66 What do you think?
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They answered and said he is guilty of death.
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How ridiculous Jesus Christ, who had done nothing wrong, being
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guilty of death. 67 Then they spat in his face, and they
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struck him, and others smote him with the palms of their hands.
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They slapped him, and they struck him, and they spat on
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him, the Son of God. And that is what has been going
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on ever since Ain't Killed Abel. That is what has been going on
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all the way up to the present moment.
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It was just very unique at this moment that God was Incarnate
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here with man. He was Emmanuel and we treated
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him physically in the same manner that we treat him every
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day. When we turn our backs on Him,
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we are not in this good book, learning and sitting at His feet
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and obeying these words. When we choose the world over
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Him, we are striking Him and spitting in His face.
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When we are apostate and we are teaching false doctrines, when
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we are after selfish, greedy gain, we are like these people.
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We spit in his face, friends, when we turn our backs on Him,
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68 saying prophecy unto us. Christ, who is he that struck
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you? You can see that they're mocking
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him. They're ridiculing him.
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And what does Jesus do? He has such patience here with
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His creation, and he has that same patience with us today.
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Friends, don't miss it. He is long-suffering.
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He is not willing that any should perish, for he loves the
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world, the whole world, that whosoever shall believe in him
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will not perish but have eternal life.
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He's so patient with this. Friends, don't miss it. 69 Now
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Peter sat outside in the palace, and a damsel came unto him,
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saying, You also was with Jesus of Galilee.
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His speech would give him away, and we're going to see that.
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But this damsel, she recognizes Peter.
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Let's see what he says. 70 But he denied before them all,
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saying, I know not what you're saying here.
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Peter is denying our Christ the first time, and it was all
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predicted, wasn't it? 71 And when he was gone out into
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the porch, another maid saw him and said unto them that were
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there this fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.
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So perhaps fear had plagued Peter in this moment and he was
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afraid of the same treatment that Jesus was getting at this
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moment. And he denied Christ.
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Perhaps it was for some kind of honorable reason that he thought
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that by staying alive he could try to get Jesus out of the mess
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that he was in while he was in this spec OPS special operation
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here, this covert operation undercover.
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And he's trying to pretend as if he doesn't know Jesus.
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But Jesus already knew it, didn't he?
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He called it out. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not
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know the man. So he's saying, I promise I
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don't know him. 73 And after a while came unto him, they that
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stood by and said to Peter, Surely you also are one of them
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for your speech, Barathe your speech gives you away. 74 Then
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began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man that
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immediately the cop group. The Bible doesn't even try to
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mimic the words that were spoken.
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We're just giving a vague, we're giving a vague description of
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this swearing and cursing that took place.
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And you can only imagine what those words might have been, but
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just know they were vehement. Just know that he said it
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passionately, that he was swearing up and down that he did
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not know Jesus. Imagine that, friends.
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Imagine this backsliding that is going to break Peter's heart.
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The rooster crows 75 will end here.
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And Peter remembered the words of Jesus, which said unto him
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before the cock crows, You shall deny me three times.
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And he went out and wept bitterly.
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We know from the Gospel of Luke that right at that moment, Peter
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was denying Jesus, Jesus was being let out.
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And Jesus looks over and locks eyes with Peter and it breaks
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Peter. And he doesn't just cry, he
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weeps bitterly. Have you ever been broken for
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your sins, friends? And how we've treated Jesus, how
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we've treated God, and he's been so kind.
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Hope that you have been broken over all, all the times that
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you've broken the Lord's heart with your denial of Him in front
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of people. If you want to be a rebel in
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today's society, bring your Bible with you everywhere you
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go. Watch all the sneers and jeers
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and the conversations that get started.
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Let's stand for Christ today. Let's not allow Him to be
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marginalized in our lives, in the workplace and our families,
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in our personal life, in our digital life, the digital
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footprint that we all are amassing.
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And just remember, it is by your words that you're justified.
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And it is by your words that you are condemned, friends.
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And we need to be speaking out for Christ, standing up for
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Christ and all the things that he taught us and to be
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sanctified, to be made more like him today than you were
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yesterday. I hope you've been blessed by
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this marvellous, beautiful masterpiece of a chapter.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.