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Voddie Baucham - The Meaning Of The Crucifixion - John 19_ 16-27 · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: That Pastor Mwilambewe is not in our meetings this morning
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  Speaker 1: because he's attending the ordination service because he's attending the
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  Speaker 1: ordination service for our brother Jonathan Intani at Kafir Reform
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  Speaker 1: Baptist Church. Instead we have Pastor Vody who will be
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  Speaker 1: in our meetings to bring God's word to us this morning. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 95, and we'll read three verses there, verse 1
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  Speaker 1: to 3. Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him
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  Speaker 1: with music and song. For the Lord is a great God,
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  Speaker 1: the great King above all gods. May God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Bless this word, and may I invite our song leader
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  Speaker 1: for this morning to come forth.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: What a joy and privilege it is yet again to
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  Speaker 3: be in the house of the Lord this morning. I'll
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  Speaker 3: just ask that we open in a word of prayer.
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  Speaker 3: Our Father in heaven, we are so grateful. We are
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  Speaker 3: humbled by your mercy and grace and that it has
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  Speaker 3: pleased you yet again this day that you gather us
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  Speaker 3: together in your sanctuary for the sole purpose of worshiping
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  Speaker 3: you and bringing glory and honor only to your holy
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  Speaker 3: name that in all that will do this morning that
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  Speaker 3: Christ alone will be glorified that his name will be
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  Speaker 3: lifted up we ask that you begin with us and
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  Speaker 3: end with us.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name we pray amen.
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  Speaker 3: If you're joining us for the first time here at
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  Speaker 3: Hillview Baptist Church We want to welcome you, and at
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  Speaker 3: a later stage, that shall be done in a special way.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Gershom Chirombo, and I'll be your song
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  Speaker 3: leader this morning. Our opening hymn that we'll be singing
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  Speaker 3: this morning is a majestic hymn penned by Isaac Watts,
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  Speaker 3: a hymn he penned in 1798. It is said that
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  Speaker 3: he wrote this hymn in preparation for a communion service
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  Speaker 3: and that this hymn is based on Galatians 6 verse 14.
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask that you join me in standing as we
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  Speaker 3: sing this hymn together when I survey the wondrous cross.
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  Speaker 3: Kindly note that we are going to sing it to
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  Speaker 3: the tune.
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  Speaker 4: When I survey the wondrous cross.
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  Speaker 3: How many of us are familiar with that tune by
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  Speaker 3: Show of Hands? Please join me in standing as we
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  Speaker 3: sing this hymn together and the choir will lead us.
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  Speaker 5: Serving the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died.
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  Speaker 5: Thy riches give, thy comforts But I should pause, stand
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  Speaker 5: in the cross, for Christ my God.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, never think. most high sacrifice stand to his ground.
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  Speaker 7: See from his name his hands his feet sorrow.
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  Speaker 8: And love come before.
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  Speaker 6: He is such love and store of peace for those
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  Speaker 6: who long for him. O nature mine, that with an
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  Speaker 6: offering far to serve. My life, my home.
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  Speaker 9: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: I'll kindly ask that you continue to stand as we
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  Speaker 3: sing together our second hymn, projected yet again, titled, I
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  Speaker 3: Saw a Wayward Traveller. I saw a wayward traveller. And
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  Speaker 3: the purposes of the song and the manner in which
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  Speaker 3: it is sung, I'll kindly ask with permission from the
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  Speaker 3: elders that it is sung in a rather country-like manner
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  Speaker 3: as we sing it. I saw a wayward traveler. As
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  Speaker 3: we praise our God again. So choir, please lead us
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  Speaker 3: as we sing this.
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  Speaker 7: The wayward traveler, in time had come his time. And
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  Speaker 7: scrubbing up the mountain, he seemed that.
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  Speaker 6: He was found. His path was made, and his strength
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  Speaker 6: was almost gone. They shouted as he journeyed, deliver us
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  Speaker 6: you come. Hey, hounds of victory. Oh, glory, crowns of victory,
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  Speaker 6: as shall be. The Sabbath, Sabbath night, he bestowed on
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  Speaker 6: all his crowns. His countenance born and dusted, he says
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  Speaker 6: it very strong. And in the presence of God, for
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  Speaker 6: he was waiting for, to shout it out again in
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  Speaker 6: the land. There is a nation in violence and death.
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  Speaker 6: There is a king of war. There's no disease and death.
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  Speaker 6: There's no shouting of eternity.
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  Speaker 7: There's no deliverance and no death.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. I'm so victory, I shall win. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 6: all the same to me. Yes, I'm a man of God.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't want the angels. I'm not going to fall.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to fall. I'm not going to fall.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to fall. I'm not going to fall.
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  Speaker 6: Pounds of victory. Pounds of glory. Pounds of victory. I
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  Speaker 6: shall praise thee, my heaven's golden fire. Stand up on
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  Speaker 6: that shore. Jesus has redeemed us from sin. I'm so
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  Speaker 6: proud of you. I'm so proud of you. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: We will sing this third hymn together, which is the
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  Speaker 3: song of the month, Behold Our God, and then we
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  Speaker 3: shall be seated after we have sung that song. Who
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  Speaker 3: has held the oceans in his hands? who has numbered
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  Speaker 3: every grain, every grain of sand. Kings and nations tremble
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  Speaker 3: at his voice. All creation rises to rejoice. Behold our God,
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  Speaker 3: seated on his throne. Come, let us adore him.
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  Speaker 1: Behold our King.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing can compare.
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  Speaker 1: Come, let us adore him.
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask the choir to lead us.
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  Speaker 6: Who has held the oceans in his hands?
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  Speaker 4: Who has numbed every grain of sand? Kings and nations
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  Speaker 4: tremble at his voice.
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  Speaker 6: All creation rises to rejoice. Behold our God seated on
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  Speaker 6: his throne.
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  Speaker 1: Come, let us.
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  Speaker 6: Adore Him. Behold our King.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing can compare.
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  Speaker 6: Come, let us adore Him. Who has given counsel to
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  Speaker 6: the Lord? Who can teach the one who knows all things?
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  Speaker 7: Who can follow all his wondrous things?
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  Speaker 6: The Lord our God, seated on his throne, Nothing can compare.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing can compare. Nothing can compare. Nothing can compare. God
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  Speaker 6: is gentle, humble to the prayer. Jesus, Savior, risen now
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  Speaker 6: to reign.
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  Speaker 7: Behold our God, seated on His throne.
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  Speaker 6: Come, let us adore Him.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing can compare Come let us adore You will reign
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  Speaker 7: forever You will reign forever You will reign forever You
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  Speaker 7: will reign forever God seated on His throne Come let
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  Speaker 7: us adore Him Behold.
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  Speaker 6: Our King Nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Can compare Come let us adore Him Behold our God
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  Speaker 7: Seated on His.
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  Speaker 6: Throne Come let us adore Him Behold.
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  Speaker 7: Our King Nothing can compare Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Please be seated.
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  Speaker 3: And as we are sitting, I'll encourage the ashes to
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  Speaker 3: bring people up front. So there's some spaces. So what
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  Speaker 3: I would kindly ask you to do is kindly move
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  Speaker 3: to the ends of where you're seated, towards the tent.
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  Speaker 1: The side area.
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  Speaker 3: So that you create space for those that are coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see anyone moving.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Just create some space.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: For intercessory prayer, we have the following items. Under praise item,
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  Speaker 1: let us thank God for the reach of the Reformed
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  Speaker 1: Studios Ministry in the first month of operation, totaling thousands
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  Speaker 1: of views of content that was shared across various social
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  Speaker 1: media platforms. Let us thank God for answering prayer beyond
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  Speaker 1: what we could have asked or imagined and pray for
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  Speaker 1: the efficacy of the messages being shared that the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will bear fruit in the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: those being reached out to. Then the second item of
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  Speaker 1: praise is the main had the men's breakfast yesterday. So
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  Speaker 1: we praise God for the successful breakfast that took place yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And let's pray that God's word will have an impact
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  Speaker 1: even on the lives of the men that were in attendance.
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  Speaker 1: Then items for prayer. Pastor Mbewe leaves for Zimbabwe this
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  Speaker 1: week with his family. for preaching assignments at Berean Reformed
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  Speaker 1: Baptist Church in Harare, and also will take some time off.
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  Speaker 1: So let us pray for their traveling Macy's as they
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  Speaker 1: make their way to Zimbabwe and their stay as well
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  Speaker 1: as their return trip. Then let us pray for Kafir
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  Speaker 1: Reform Baptist Church as they prepare to ordain Jonathan Tani
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  Speaker 1: as their pastor this morning. Let us pray that the
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  Speaker 1: new pastor will gel with the leadership and membership there,
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  Speaker 1: and that he will be used by God mightily as
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  Speaker 1: a laborer in preaching his word. Then let us pray
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  Speaker 1: for the annual Reformed Conference that will take place in
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  Speaker 1: the final week of August, as I had earlier announced.
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  Speaker 1: Let us pray for the preparation to go on smoothly
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  Speaker 1: and also for the ministry of God's word as it
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  Speaker 1: will be brought by various speakers, one of the main
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  Speaker 1: speakers being Pastor Jeremy Walker from UK. Then let's pray
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  Speaker 1: for the children's ministry members. as they work in the
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  Speaker 1: background to finalize on logistics, programs and activities, and other
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  Speaker 1: preparations in readiness for the Vocational Bible School that is
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  Speaker 1: due in August on the 10th, which is, I think,
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  Speaker 1: the Wednesday, and it will run through to August 12th,
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  Speaker 1: which is a Saturday. In the same vein, let us
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  Speaker 1: pray also for the success of the VBS training workshop
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for Saturday, 5th August, from 8 hours to 10 hours.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that there will be a good attendance from both members, non-members,
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  Speaker 1: and those that would volunteer to be part of the
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  Speaker 1: team and be able to help them during the time
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  Speaker 1: that they will be having the vocational Bible school in August.
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  Speaker 1: Let us continue praying for the Lord's leading as we
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  Speaker 1: continue to pray and think about the office for diaconates,
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  Speaker 1: the men that we will nominate for this office that
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  Speaker 1: God will lead us and grant us the sense of
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  Speaker 1: oneness of mind and spirit and purpose even as we
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  Speaker 1: seek his face as a church with regard to this
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  Speaker 1: office for deacons. All right, may I ask that we
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  Speaker 1: do pray together.
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  Speaker 9: Shall we pray?
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  Speaker 1: Our blessed God, Father in heaven, we come again before
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  Speaker 1: your praises this morning. We truly want to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the way that you have been with us so far.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for the way that you have drawn
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  Speaker 1: our minds and our hearts in praising you, our great God,
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  Speaker 1: and the way that you have abided with us, even
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  Speaker 1: from the start of our service this morning to this time.
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  Speaker 1: Our Father, we want to thank you for the way
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  Speaker 1: that you have continued to use the Reformed studios and
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  Speaker 1: much more the way that you have been pleased that
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  Speaker 1: through various media platforms that we've been able to reach
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  Speaker 1: a thousand plus viewers. We thank you for this work,
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  Speaker 1: O God. We thank you for this ministry. We want
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  Speaker 1: to pray and ask, O God, that you will be
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  Speaker 1: pleased to use the content that is being shared that
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  Speaker 1: men and women might be reached with the gospel, but
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  Speaker 1: above all that your word may bear fruit even upon
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  Speaker 1: the lives of those that tune in to listen and
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  Speaker 1: also being shared among other platforms. Our Father, we continue
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  Speaker 1: to look to you that you may continue to add
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  Speaker 1: even more blessings, causes, who are members to time and
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  Speaker 1: again constantly share this content out, that your word, O God,
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  Speaker 1: may be known across our world, across our country, across
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  Speaker 1: our neighbors, and across every person that we are in
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  Speaker 1: contact with, that, O God, you'll be pleased to use
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  Speaker 1: this content, that your name will be glorified.
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  Speaker 10: Our God.
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  Speaker 1: Our Father, we also want to praise you for the
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  Speaker 1: way that you undertook for us as men yesterday. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the success in the breakfast that we had.
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  Speaker 1: And we want to pray and ask our God that
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  Speaker 1: you will be pleased in due season to be able
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  Speaker 1: to utilize what was shared, our God, to even touch
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  Speaker 1: the lives of our men. And through them being transformed
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  Speaker 1: and being changed, might be able to touch the lives
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  Speaker 1: of those who are under their roof in their homes
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  Speaker 1: and also in the society where you have placed them.
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  Speaker 1: Our Father, we want to commit Pastor Mbeo and his
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  Speaker 1: family in your hands that even as he undertakes the
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  Speaker 1: trip this week to Zimbabwe where he will be preaching
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  Speaker 1: at Berean Baptist Church. We want to commit his travel
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  Speaker 1: that you will grant him safety, but much more we
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  Speaker 1: want to pray and ask that you also bless the
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  Speaker 1: ministry of your word even as you use your man
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  Speaker 1: servant in the midst of our brethren in Zimbabwe. We
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  Speaker 1: pray also that they will know of your protection, especially
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we know that Zimbabwe will be taking
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  Speaker 1: their vote sometime this coming month in August. So we
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  Speaker 1: pray for their safety as well, that, oh God, you
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  Speaker 1: will also not only undertake for their safe passage, but
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  Speaker 1: that you also grant them a good stay in Zimbabwe.
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  Speaker 1: We also want to join our sister church, Kafir Reform
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  Speaker 1: Baptist Church, remembering them this day, even as they set
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  Speaker 1: aside our brother, Tani, to be a full-time pastor of
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  Speaker 1: the church, that, O God, your name will be glorified,
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  Speaker 1: even as our saints rejoice in the measure of your
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  Speaker 1: goodness that you have shown to them, being able to
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  Speaker 1: draw their minds as one, in being able to select
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  Speaker 1: Antony to be their church pastor. Father, we pray for him,
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  Speaker 1: committing him in your hands, that God you will bless
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  Speaker 1: his ministry in the midst and lives of the brethren
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  Speaker 1: at Reformed Baptist Church, that even as he labors for you,
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  Speaker 1: in the amidst that you use him or God to
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  Speaker 1: extend your work at Kafir Reformed Baptist Church and also
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  Speaker 1: that you unify the church together that they will be
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  Speaker 1: able to work as a team with the other elders
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  Speaker 1: but also being able to work together with the church
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  Speaker 1: members as they fold their sleeves together and seek to
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  Speaker 1: extend your work even in Kafue District, as being the
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  Speaker 1: only reformed church there. We plead and ask on their behalf,
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  Speaker 1: O God, that may you be merciful upon our brethren,
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  Speaker 1: that to that end, that you indeed grant them such
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  Speaker 1: a blessing that only flows from heaven above. Our Father,
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  Speaker 1: we also want to remember the reformed conference that is
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  Speaker 1: yet to take place in the last week of August.
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  Speaker 1: We want to commit the main speaker, our brother Jeremy Walker,
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  Speaker 1: coming from UK in our hands, that even as he
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  Speaker 1: makes preparations of the material to be shared in our midst,
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  Speaker 1: when he does come, we ask of God that he
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  Speaker 1: will be with our brother and We want to pray
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  Speaker 1: and ask our God that he may know the measure
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  Speaker 1: of your goodness upon him, sustain him with good health
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  Speaker 1: through the time of the conference and throughout that conference period,
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  Speaker 1: but also that you will grant him safety as well.
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  Speaker 1: We know that there will be many people that will
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  Speaker 1: also make travel within our country and also outside our country.
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  Speaker 1: We ask that they will also know safe passage. We
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  Speaker 1: ask that you help them in their preparations For this conference.
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  Speaker 1: But much more Lord. That you will cause us. That
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  Speaker 1: we may all be in attendance. In great numbers. That
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  Speaker 1: we may be able to rejoice together. In the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of our Lord. In our lives. The goodness of our God.
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  Speaker 1: Even in our state. And in our world. And much
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  Speaker 1: more that even as we learn together. From your main servant.
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  Speaker 1: That you would have selected. Even those that you have selected.
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  Speaker 1: Who will handle. various seminars and various schools that, oh God,
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  Speaker 1: you will be pleased to use our brethren to that
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  Speaker 1: effect that, Lord, your word may come alive, but your
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  Speaker 1: word may also touch many of those that will be
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  Speaker 1: in attendance during this conference. Our Father, we also want
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  Speaker 1: to remember the desire of our children's ministry in seeking
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  Speaker 1: to reach out the hearts of these our children within
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  Speaker 1: our church and to the greater extent those within our community.
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  Speaker 1: That even as they have made plans for the vocational
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  Speaker 1: Bible school in August, we want to pray for their preparations.
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  Speaker 1: We pray for their logistics arrangements. activities that are being
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  Speaker 1: put in place and the planning behind the background that
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  Speaker 1: eternal God will be with our brethren even as they
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  Speaker 1: do so. We want to pray for them particularly that
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  Speaker 1: even as they have remarked this coming Saturday as a
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  Speaker 1: day of workshop to be able to be equipped, oh God,
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  Speaker 1: for how they will be able to be of a
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  Speaker 1: greater service in the lives of these children during the
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  Speaker 1: time that they will have the conference. We want to
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  Speaker 1: ask that you bless their workshop, bless the person that
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  Speaker 1: has been earmarked to take them through this workshop. We pray,
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  Speaker 1: O God, that you will cause many to be in attendance,
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  Speaker 1: cause both the volunteers also to be part of this activity,
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  Speaker 1: O God, that together they will be able to join
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  Speaker 1: forces and join hands of God that they'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish that which you have desired and purposed in
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  Speaker 1: being able to have this workshop as a success but
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  Speaker 1: also the event itself that it might be of a
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  Speaker 1: great success as well. We want to pray that through
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  Speaker 1: the ministry of the children to the lives of these
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  Speaker 1: young ones that you might be pleased to use your word,
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  Speaker 1: O God, to speak to the young ones. For, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that your word may never return void, but
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  Speaker 1: it might accomplish that which you have willed and purposed,
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  Speaker 1: even in the lives of our children, even in the
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  Speaker 1: lives of our young ones, that even as they are
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  Speaker 1: being taken through your word, O God, it is our
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  Speaker 1: anticipation that, looking forward to your great working among them,
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  Speaker 1: O God, that you bring about salvation even in the
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  Speaker 1: lives of these children. Our Father, now we want to pray,
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  Speaker 1: asking that even as you continue to prepare us as
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  Speaker 1: a church with regards to the day that we have
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  Speaker 1: earmarked for the nomination of the deacons for this church
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  Speaker 1: sometime next month on the 13th, We want to pray,
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  Speaker 1: O God, that you may continue to lead us as
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  Speaker 1: a church as we continue to seek your mind, O God,
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  Speaker 1: among the men that you have chosen for this office,
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  Speaker 1: O God. We pray, asking, O Lord, that you will
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  Speaker 1: lead us in such a way that we'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to choose these men who you have purposely chosen that
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  Speaker 1: they'll be able, O God, to serve in this office.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for what we've been able to, through
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  Speaker 1: the materials that we've been taken through and the preparations
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  Speaker 1: that have been going through being exposed to your word
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  Speaker 1: as we sought to try and appreciate the biblical context
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  Speaker 1: of this office. And now, our Father, we seek your
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  Speaker 1: face that you will lead us in all of this process,
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  Speaker 1: our God. Our Father, now we want to pray. asking,
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  Speaker 1: remembering the Pastor Vody, we commit him into your hands,
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  Speaker 1: O God, that even as our brother will stand forth
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  Speaker 1: before us to bring forth the word that you have
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  Speaker 1: placed even upon his heart to share with us this morning,
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  Speaker 1: that you may use your man servant to speak to
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  Speaker 1: us all. Meet us at our points of need, O God,
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  Speaker 1: that we may hear your voice. even through your manservant.
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  Speaker 1: We want to pray also remembering that later on, tithes
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  Speaker 1: and offerings will be given, and we want to commit
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  Speaker 1: these in your hands that will be used for the
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  Speaker 1: extension of your work here below, but much more to
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  Speaker 1: the praise and glory of your holy name. And so
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  Speaker 1: we pray that you bless the reading of your word,
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  Speaker 1: and much more that you also continue to use him
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  Speaker 1: in our brother Geshem as he leads us in worship.
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  Speaker 1: drawing our hearts and our minds closer to you, our
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  Speaker 1: great God, that, Father, you will see it fit to
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  Speaker 1: accept this even from the depth of our hearts. For
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  Speaker 1: this we do plead asking in Christ's name.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 12: Our consecutive Bible reading finds us in 2 Corinthians chapter 4.
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  Speaker 12: Before I proceed, I'll ask those who do not have
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  Speaker 12: Bibles to indicate so by a show of hands, and
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  Speaker 12: a Bible can be provided for you. So anyone who
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  Speaker 12: does not have a Bible, please, you may indicate by
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  Speaker 12: raising your hand, and the ushers will provide one for you.
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  Speaker 12: Be reminded that these Bibles are to remain behind after
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  Speaker 12: the service. You can leave them on your seat or
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  Speaker 12: under the seat. But if you saw or wish to
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  Speaker 12: have a Bible that you can carry home, you can
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  Speaker 12: see any of the ushers and one can be provided.
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  Speaker 12: 2 Chronicles chapter 4, we'll commence reading at verse 1.
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  Speaker 12: He made an altar of bronze, 20 cubits long and
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  Speaker 12: 20 cubits wide and 10 cubits high. Then he made
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  Speaker 12: the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits
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  Speaker 12: from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a
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  Speaker 12: line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. Under it were
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  Speaker 12: figures of gods, for ten cubits compassing the sea all around.
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  Speaker 12: The gods were in two rows, cast with it when
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  Speaker 12: it was cast. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north,
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  Speaker 12: three facing west, three facing south and three facing east.
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  Speaker 12: The sea was set on them, and on their rear
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  Speaker 12: parts were inward. Its thickness was a hand-breadth. Its brim
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  Speaker 12: was made like the brim of a cup, like the
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  Speaker 12: flower of a lily. It held three thousand baths. He
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  Speaker 12: also made ten bases in which to wash, and set
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  Speaker 12: five on the south side and five on the north side.
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  Speaker 12: In these they were to rinse off what was used
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  Speaker 12: for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the
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  Speaker 12: priests to wash in. Verse 7. And he made ten
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  Speaker 12: golden lampstands as prescribed and set them in the temple,
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  Speaker 12: five on the south side and five on the north.
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  Speaker 12: He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple,
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  Speaker 12: five on the south side and five on the north.
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  Speaker 12: And he made a hundred basins of gold. He made
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  Speaker 12: the courts of the priests and the great courts and
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  Speaker 12: doors for the courts and overlaid their doors with bronze.
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  Speaker 12: And he set the sea at the southeast corner of
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  Speaker 12: the house. Hiram also made the ports, the shovels and
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  Speaker 12: the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did
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  Speaker 12: for King Solomon on the house of God. The two pillars,
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  Speaker 12: the balls and the two capitals on the top of
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  Speaker 12: the pillars and the two latticeworks to cover the two
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  Speaker 12: balls of the capitals that were on the top of
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  Speaker 12: the pillars, and the four hundred palm granites for the
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  Speaker 12: two latticeworks, two rows of palm granites for each latticework,
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  Speaker 12: to cover the two balls of the capitals that were
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  Speaker 12: on the pillars. He made the stands also, and the
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  Speaker 12: basins on the stands, and the one sea, and the
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  Speaker 12: 12 oxen underneath it the pots the shovels the forks
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  Speaker 12: and all the equipment for these huram abai made of
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  Speaker 12: burnished bronze for king solomon for the house of the
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  Speaker 12: lord verse 17 In the plain of the Jordan the
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  Speaker 12: king cast them, in the clay ground between Sarkoth and Zerida.
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  Speaker 12: Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the
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  Speaker 12: weight of the bronze was not sought. So Solomon made
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  Speaker 12: all the vessels that were in the house of God,
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  Speaker 12: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the presence,
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  Speaker 12: the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold, to burn
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  Speaker 12: before the inner sanctuary as prescribed. the flowers, the lamps,
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  Speaker 12: and the tongs of purest gold, the snaffers, basins, dishes
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  Speaker 12: for incense, and firepans of pure gold, and the sockets
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  Speaker 12: of the temple, for the inner doors to the most
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  Speaker 12: holy place, and for the doors of the nave of
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  Speaker 12: the temple were of gold.
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  Speaker 3: We thank God for the reading of his word. As
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  Speaker 3: has been indicated, bringing God's word to us this morning
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  Speaker 3: is our brother, Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Vody Bokom.
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  Speaker 3: And before he comes up front, I'll kindly ask the
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  Speaker 3: congregation to join me in standing as we sing together,
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  Speaker 3: There is a fountain filled with blood, such a rich
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  Speaker 3: and majestic hymn by William Please join me in standing.
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  Speaker 1: The hymn will be beamed, projected. The Father will lead us.
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  Speaker 13: There is a fountain filled with blood to unfold in
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  Speaker 13: my mouth.
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  Speaker 6: Unseen as blind.
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  Speaker 13: Hidden in the.
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  Speaker 6: Dark, whose soul the guilt is dead? Whose soul the
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  Speaker 6: guilt is dead? Whose soul the guilt is dead? Unseen
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  Speaker 6: as night, beneath the cloud, we saw the guilty stand.
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  Speaker 6: The dying man rejoiced.
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  Speaker 8: To see the fountain in his hand. Oh, I'm more
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  Speaker 8: without love. Oh, I'm more without.
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  Speaker 6: Love. Oh, I'm more without love. Oh, I'm more without love.
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  Speaker 6: Dying blood, thy precious blood shall fill the new sea.
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  Speaker 6: He said to sin no more He said to sin
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  Speaker 6: no more He said to sin no more The church
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  Speaker 6: of God is empty. I saw the stream, I saw.
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  Speaker 7: The wings of Christ.
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  Speaker 11: Redeeming love has made my feet. I shall be delighted.
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  Speaker 11: I shall be delighted.
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  Speaker 6: God shall be with you. God shall be with you.
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  Speaker 6: God shall be with you. I'll sing the God to save.
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  Speaker 6: I'll sing the God to save. I'll sing the God
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  Speaker 6: to save.
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  Speaker 9: Amen. Please take your seats.
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  Speaker 2: And open to John chapter 19. John chapter 19. Beginning
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  Speaker 2: at the end of verse 16. Very detailed. strange verse
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  Speaker 2: break there. As we talked about this morning, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: wasn't written with chapters and verses. We got to chapters
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  Speaker 2: and verses only a few hundred years ago and they
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  Speaker 2: are for the most part extremely useful and then there
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  Speaker 2: are times like these where it's difficult.
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  Speaker 9: So at the end of 16.
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  Speaker 2: So they took Jesus and went out He went out, rather,
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  Speaker 2: bearing his own cross to the place called the Place
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  Speaker 2: of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There
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  Speaker 2: they crucified him and with him two others, one on
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  Speaker 2: either side and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an
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  Speaker 2: inscription and put it on the cross. It read, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Many of the
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  Speaker 2: Jews read this inscription. for the place where Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: crucified was near the city, and it was written in
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  Speaker 2: Aramaic and Latin and in Greek. So the chief priests
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  Speaker 2: of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write the
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  Speaker 2: king of the Jews, but rather this man said, I
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  Speaker 2: am king of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written,
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  Speaker 2: I have written. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they
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  Speaker 2: took his garments and divided them into four parts. and
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  Speaker 2: one part for each soldier, also his tunic. But the
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  Speaker 2: tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 2: So they said to one another, Let us not tear it,
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  Speaker 2: but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.
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  Speaker 2: This was to fulfill the scripture which says, They divided
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  Speaker 2: my garments among them, and for my clothing.
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  Speaker 9: They cast lots. So the soldiers... did these things.
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  Speaker 2: But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother
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  Speaker 2: and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clopas, and
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  Speaker 2: Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple
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  Speaker 2: whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, Woman,
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  Speaker 2: behold your son. Then he said to the disciple, Behold
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  Speaker 2: your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her
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  Speaker 2: to his own May the Lord add a blessing to
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  Speaker 2: the reading and the hearing of His Word.
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  Speaker 9: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is part of the most
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  Speaker 2: significant occurrence in history. I say part of the most
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  Speaker 2: significant occurrence because the crucifixion of Jesus is significant mainly
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  Speaker 2: because of the resurrection of Jesus.
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  Speaker 9: Amen? Many were crucified.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, there are two who were crucified with Jesus
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  Speaker 2: on either side of him. So crucifixion in and of itself,
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  Speaker 2: does not bear that much significance. But the crucifixion of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus bears more significance than any other event in the
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  Speaker 2: history of mankind, arguably, because of its significance, because of
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  Speaker 2: its meaning, because of its purpose, and because of what
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  Speaker 2: it actually means. Now, we don't usually look at the
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  Speaker 2: crucifixion by itself, unless it's Good Friday. Other than Good Friday,
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  Speaker 2: we generally talk about the crucifixion in terms of the death, burial,
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  Speaker 2: and resurrection of Jesus. We don't necessarily go into the
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  Speaker 2: details of the crucifixion itself. But this is one of
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  Speaker 2: the great benefits of preaching through books in the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: verse by verse. There are those things that we normally
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  Speaker 2: don't skip over, gloss over, pay attention to rarely, that
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  Speaker 2: suddenly come into full focus. And they come into full
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  Speaker 2: focus in a different context. And sometimes that can be striking.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever met a person somewhere and you know
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  Speaker 2: that you know the person, but you've seen them in
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  Speaker 2: another place and in another context, And now all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden in this place and in this context, you're
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  Speaker 2: struck and it's hard for you to remember because this
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  Speaker 2: place is different. Maybe somebody you see at work and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden you see them at the store
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  Speaker 2: and you're struck by that. Somebody that you've seen at
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  Speaker 2: a conference and all of a sudden you see them
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  Speaker 2: in another place and you're.
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  Speaker 9: Struck by that.
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  Speaker 2: The same can be true and ought to be true
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  Speaker 2: when we talk about the crucifixion. The crucifixion is something
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  Speaker 2: that we're used to seeing in a particular context.
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  Speaker 9: Good Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Good Friday is the day when we talk about the crucifixion,
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  Speaker 2: when we think about the crucifixion. Not so today. Today
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  Speaker 2: we look at it in a different context and try
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  Speaker 2: to grasp the meaning of the crucifixion. Not the death, burial,
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  Speaker 2: and resurrection, but the meaning of the crucifixion, the significance
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  Speaker 2: the crucifixion and why it is how it is that
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  Speaker 2: brings out that significance for us in his four things
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  Speaker 2: that I want us to see the first is this
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  Speaker 2: that the crucifixion roots our faith in history the crucifixion
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  Speaker 2: roots our faith in history look at verses 16 through
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  Speaker 2: 20 so they took Jesus and went out there he
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  Speaker 2: went out bearing his own cross to the place called
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  Speaker 2: the place of a skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
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  Speaker 2: There they crucified him, and with him two others, one
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  Speaker 2: on either side, Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an
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  Speaker 2: inscription and put it on the cross. It read, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Many of the
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  Speaker 2: Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: crucified was near the city.
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  Speaker 9: And it was written in Aramaic and Latin and in Hebrew. Greek.
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  Speaker 2: Look at all the facts there. It's like a news story.
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  Speaker 2: You get the who, what, where, why, when, how. You
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  Speaker 2: get all of that and it's very succinct telling of
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  Speaker 2: the story. In these few words, John packs loads of
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  Speaker 2: factual information. For example, you get the place called the
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  Speaker 2: place of a skull or Golgotha. You get that this
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  Speaker 2: place is near the city but not in the city.
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  Speaker 2: This is important for a number of reasons, that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was crucified near the city, but not in the city.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, he's crucified just north of the city, the
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  Speaker 2: old city of Jerusalem. There is an argument, there is
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  Speaker 2: a dispute today between two locations. There is the one
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  Speaker 2: traditional location, and when you go to Jerusalem, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that people want to do in Jerusalem is
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  Speaker 2: Visit the site of the crucifixion. Visit the site of
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  Speaker 2: the burial. And there are two competing sites. The one
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  Speaker 2: site that most people go to is actually inside the
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  Speaker 2: gates today. The traditional site, the Roman Catholic site, if
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  Speaker 2: you will. And this is where most people will be
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  Speaker 2: if you go. There's another site, however, outside of the gates,
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  Speaker 2: even outside of the gates today. north of the fortress
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  Speaker 2: of Antonia. The fortress of Antonia is on the north.
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  Speaker 2: The Romans put that on the north of.
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  Speaker 9: The old city. It's a fortification, easy to defend.
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  Speaker 2: And then there is a road, a main road that
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  Speaker 2: goes around the city. And it is argued that this
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  Speaker 2: is actually the place where Jesus was crucified because it
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  Speaker 2: is outside the city gates and he would have been
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  Speaker 2: crucified outside the city gates. He would also have been
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  Speaker 2: crucified outside along a busy thoroughfare, a busy road. Because
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  Speaker 2: when the Romans crucified you, their intent was to terrify
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  Speaker 2: all who saw it. Crucifixion was gruesome, and crucifixion was public. Well,
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  Speaker 2: regardless of which one of these places, we know that
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  Speaker 2: it's one or the other or somewhere in that vicinity,
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  Speaker 2: and they're both very close to each other. But what
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  Speaker 2: this tells us is, We know the place. We can
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  Speaker 2: pinpoint the place because even the difference between this place
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  Speaker 2: and that place, we're not talking about one city to another.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking a walking distance from one place to another
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  Speaker 2: and an argument about where the wall actually was. What
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  Speaker 2: that tells us is that historically we have factual information.
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  Speaker 2: We also know the event. The event was a crucifixion.
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  Speaker 2: We know how Jesus died. Jesus didn't just disappear and
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  Speaker 2: have his disciples one day come and tell a story
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  Speaker 2: about how Jesus died.
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  Speaker 9: Jesus' death was public. It was witnessed. It happened.
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  Speaker 2: We know that it happened historically. And we know that
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  Speaker 2: he died by way of crucifixion. We know the specific
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  Speaker 2: details of the crucifixion when you look at the synoptic gospels.
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  Speaker 2: We also get more particulars, like he was crucified between
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  Speaker 2: two transgressors, one on either side of him. This is
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  Speaker 2: a very specific detail. And you only have specific details
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  Speaker 2: like this when you have specific historic events.
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  Speaker 9: Another thing about this that is very important is that
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  Speaker 9: it makes.
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  Speaker 2: the claims about the crucifixion of Jesus falsifiable. It makes
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  Speaker 2: them falsifiable. Now, it sounds like a bad thing. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a bad thing. Any of you who are scientists
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  Speaker 2: or any of you who have taken any advanced science
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  Speaker 2: where you had to do experiments, remember, in order for
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  Speaker 2: a scientific experiment to be legitimate, your findings have to
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  Speaker 2: be falsifiable. Anyway, in other words, you have to be
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  Speaker 2: able to demonstrate that it's not true. If there's no
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  Speaker 2: way that you can falsify it, then you can't really
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  Speaker 2: make the claim that you've proven anything. The claims about
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  Speaker 2: the crucifixion of Jesus are falsifiable. In other words, people
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  Speaker 2: during this time could have said, no, that did not happen.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the proof that it did not happen. The
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  Speaker 2: fact that we have a historical event that is falsifiable
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  Speaker 2: actually makes it more valid, not less valid. It roots
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  Speaker 2: our faith in history. We have the officials. Pilate was there.
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  Speaker 2: Pilate was the Roman official who was in charge. We
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  Speaker 2: also have the inscription. The inscription is written. We know
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  Speaker 2: what the text is. We know it's written in Aramaic,
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  Speaker 2: in Greek. And in Latin, again, making this a public
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  Speaker 2: event that was witnessed by thousands of people. Not just
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  Speaker 2: a few, not just dozens, not just hundreds, but thousands
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  Speaker 2: of people would have witnessed the crucifixion of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. This roots our faith in history. Oftentimes, we
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: have this false dilemma, right? that either we have to
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  Speaker 2: have faith or we have to have facts. Nothing could
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  Speaker 2: be further from the truth. That is a false dilemma.
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  Speaker 2: It is a false dichotomy. We trust God and we
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  Speaker 2: have faith, but God has given us evidence to base
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  Speaker 2: our faith upon. And here he's given us specific and
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  Speaker 2: copious historical evidence to base our faith upon. You can
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  Speaker 2: read writings outside of the Bible that will tell you
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  Speaker 2: that the crucifixion actually happened. So this roots our faith
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  Speaker 2: in history. However, because it's rooted in history, there are
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  Speaker 2: also those who will try to falsify. You've probably had
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  Speaker 2: conversations with some of them, and they try to take
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  Speaker 2: the four Gospels and play them against each other and say,
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  Speaker 2: we've got contradictory evidence. This passage is one of the
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  Speaker 2: places that people will go to in order to show
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  Speaker 2: contradictions in the Bible. Please allow me to show you
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: the contradictions that they're trying to demonstrate in the Bible
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: to undermine the historicity of our faith. John says, Pilate
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  Speaker 2: also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.
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  Speaker 2: It read, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: You got that? Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew 27, 37. And over his head, they put the
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  Speaker 2: charge against him, which read, This is Jesus, the king
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  Speaker 2: of the Jews.
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  Speaker 14: Ha!
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  Speaker 2: Contradiction in the Bible. John says, Jesus of Nazareth, the
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  Speaker 2: king of the Jews. Matthew says, this is Jesus, not
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  Speaker 2: of Nazareth, king of the Jews.
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  Speaker 9: Wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, chapter 15, verse 26 says, And the inscription of
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  Speaker 2: the charge against him read, the king of the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: If you know anything about Mark's gospel, you know he's
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  Speaker 2: the shortest gospel. You know Mark's favorite word is immediately
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  Speaker 2: or straight away. If there was a theme to Mark's gospel,
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  Speaker 2: it would be just.
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  Speaker 9: The facts, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Everything short and succinct. So it makes sense that Mark
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  Speaker 2: would have the shortest version of this. And then Luke,
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  Speaker 2: Luke 23, 38. There was also an inscription over him,
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  Speaker 2: this is the king of the Jews. So with Mark,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have this is Jesus of Nazareth. He has
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  Speaker 2: the king of the Jews. With Luke, you have this is,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't have Jesus of Nazareth, but you do
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  Speaker 2: have king of the Jews. With Matthew, you have this
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  Speaker 2: is Jesus, not of Nazareth, king of the Jews. And
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  Speaker 2: with John, you have Jesus of Nazareth, you don't have.
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  Speaker 2: This is Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
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  Speaker 2: This is the kind of stuff that people stoop to
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  Speaker 2: in order to say.
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  Speaker 9: See? Contradiction in the Bible. Newsflash.
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  Speaker 2: These are all the same. This is Jesus of Nazareth,
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  Speaker 2: the King of the Jews. Somebody asks you, what was written?
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  Speaker 2: This is the king of the Jews. Is that what
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  Speaker 2: was written? Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Is that all that was written? No.
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  Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, the person that you're talking to,
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  Speaker 2: you feel like that's the information that they need. Someone says,
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  Speaker 2: this is Jesus of Nazareth, king of the Jews. Somebody says,
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  Speaker 2: what was written? And you say, this is Jesus, king
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  Speaker 2: of the Jews. Ah, you didn't say of Nazareth.
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  Speaker 9: Do you follow? Do you see what's happening here? the
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  Speaker 9: information is the same.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like, you know, there's a car crash, and
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  Speaker 2: you talk to four different people about the car crash,
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  Speaker 2: and four people saw the car crash from four different angles,
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  Speaker 2: and the four people tell you a slightly different story
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  Speaker 2: about the car crash. Now, your conclusion could either be
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  Speaker 2: these are four different people who saw the same thing
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  Speaker 2: and are communicating it from their perspective, Or you could
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  Speaker 2: say there was no car crash. Because they're all not
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  Speaker 2: saying the exact same thing in the exact same way. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't happen. That is absolutely ridiculous. The same is
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  Speaker 2: true here. It's the same information. It's the same historic
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  Speaker 2: information communicated by Ford. different authors. By the way, it
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  Speaker 2: was also written in three different languages. So the way
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  Speaker 2: that you communicate what was there would probably also change
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  Speaker 2: a bit based on which language group you're communicating to.
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  Speaker 2: But this roots us in history. Our faith is rooted
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  Speaker 2: in history. We get a picture of this from the
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  Speaker 2: prologue of Luke where Luke, the historian and the physician, Says,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in as much as many have undertaken to
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  Speaker 2: compile an account of the things accomplished among us, right?
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  Speaker 2: Just as many eyewitnesses have communicated these things to us.
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  Speaker 9: He says, it.
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  Speaker 2: Seemed fitting to me, having followed these things from the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: to write out an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus.
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  Speaker 2: To write out an orderly account for you.
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  Speaker 12: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Luke is concerned with order. Luke is concerned with the
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  Speaker 2: historicity of events. What's John's main concern? Seven signs that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the Messiah and giving you those seven signs
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  Speaker 2: so that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's important to him. It's not as important to
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  Speaker 2: John that the events go in the exact chronological order.
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  Speaker 2: He's trying to give you seven signs and the impact
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  Speaker 2: of of these seven signs. So yes, historical event actually happened.
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  Speaker 2: We can root and ground our faith in these historical
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  Speaker 2: events in spite of the fact that those who communicate
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  Speaker 2: these historical events to us communicate them from different perspectives.
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  Speaker 9: Amen?
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, crucifixion takes away our guilt. And it takes away
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  Speaker 2: our guilt because it places that guilt Jesus again these
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  Speaker 2: same verses but listen to them again from a different
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  Speaker 2: perspective the first time we're looking for historical facts this
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  Speaker 2: time so they took Jesus and he went out bearing
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  Speaker 2: his own cross he went out bearing his own cross
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  Speaker 2: he went out where outside the city gates to the
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  Speaker 2: place where criminals and slaves are crucified. He suffered the indignity,
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  Speaker 2: not only of his scourging, but of carrying his own
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  Speaker 2: cross as far as he could until he needed help.
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  Speaker 2: The place of the skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha,
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  Speaker 2: there they crucified him. They didn't just kill him, they
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  Speaker 2: crucified him. He died the death that thieves and murderers
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  Speaker 2: and slaves would die. He died a shameful death. With him,
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  Speaker 2: two others, one on either side, Jesus between them, crucified
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  Speaker 2: between common thieves as though he were a common thief.
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  Speaker 2: Death by crucifixion was in itself regarded as a curse
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  Speaker 2: Galatians 3 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of
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  Speaker 2: the law by becoming a curse for us for it
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  Speaker 2: is written cursed is everyone who is hanged on a
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  Speaker 2: tree he's crucified he's crucified on wood from a tree.
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  Speaker 9: Which for a Jew means that he is a curse.
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  Speaker 2: We get this from Deuteronomy 21 verses 22 and 23
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  Speaker 2: And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death,
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  Speaker 2: and he is put to death, and you hang him
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  Speaker 2: on a tree, his body shall not remain all night
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  Speaker 2: on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day,
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  Speaker 2: for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall
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  Speaker 2: not defile your land that the Lord your God is
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  Speaker 2: giving you for an inheritance.
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  Speaker 9: He is a curse. And his very presence.
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  Speaker 2: hanging on the tree is defilement of the land. 1
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  Speaker 2: Corinthians 1, 22 to 23. This is why Paul says,
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  Speaker 2: for Jews demand signs, Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach
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  Speaker 2: Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles.
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  Speaker 2: Why is preaching a crucified Christ a stumbling block to Jews?
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  Speaker 2: Because a man who is crucified is cursed by God
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  Speaker 2: And it's a stumbling block to Jews because how can
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah be cursed by God? How can you be
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  Speaker 2: cursed by God and be the Messiah? It's folly to Greeks.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it folly to Greeks? Because for Greeks, when
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  Speaker 2: they think about their gods, they think about powerful gods
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  Speaker 2: who can destroy.
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  Speaker 9: Anything in their path.
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  Speaker 2: And no powerful god would allow himself to die, much
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  Speaker 2: less die the death of a criminal slave like crucifixion.
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  Speaker 2: Christ bore our shame. Christ bore our humiliation on the cross.
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  Speaker 2: He took it away. 2 Corinthians 5, 4. For while
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  Speaker 2: we are still in this tent, we groan. being burdened,
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  Speaker 2: not that we would be unclothed, but that we would
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  Speaker 2: be further clothed so that what is mortal may be
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  Speaker 2: swallowed up by life. He's humiliated even in his nakedness.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that. Beloved, if you're carrying guilt today,
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  Speaker 2: then the wrong person is carrying your cross. Because if
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  Speaker 2: you have placed your faith in the lord jesus christ
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  Speaker 2: your guilt has been nailed to the tree and has
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  Speaker 2: been taken away if you are trusting in christ for
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  Speaker 2: salvation answer me this why are you continuing to hold
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  Speaker 2: the guilt that he took do you think that you
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  Speaker 2: can do better with it than he did Or do
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  Speaker 2: you think that what he did with it was so
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  Speaker 2: insufficient that you somehow have to carry it as well?
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  Speaker 2: Your guilt is gone. You carry it no more. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 2: the crucifixion was a fulfillment of prophecy. Many prophecies. In
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  Speaker 2: these last days, in these last moments, in these last
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  Speaker 2: events of Jesus' life, He fulfilled some 300 prophecies. But
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  Speaker 2: let's look at a couple of them here. Look at
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  Speaker 2: verse 23, 23 and 24. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: they took his garments and divided them into four parts,
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  Speaker 2: one part for each soldier, also his tunic. But the
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  Speaker 2: tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 2: This would have been the lowermost garment. So they said
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  Speaker 2: to one another, let us not tear it, but cast
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  Speaker 2: lots for it to see whose it shall be. This
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  Speaker 2: was to fulfill the scripture which says, they divided my
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  Speaker 2: garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.
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  Speaker 2: So the soldiers did these things. Look with me, if
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  Speaker 2: you will, at Psalm 22. Turn to Psalm 22. Psalm
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  Speaker 2: 22 is written over a thousand years before Jesus was crucified.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 9: I was looking at Proverbs.
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  Speaker 2: 22, wondering why I wasn't seeing what I was looking for.
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  Speaker 9: Psalm....
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  Speaker 2: Psalm 22. Beginning at verse 1. My God, my God,
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  Speaker 2: why have you forsaken me? By the way, does that
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  Speaker 2: sound familiar? Jesus cries out this when he's on the cross.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, remember this. Think about this.
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  Speaker 9: Psalm 22... A psalm is a song.
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  Speaker 2: So the psalms are the songbook of God's people. The
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  Speaker 2: psalms are the songbook of God's people. They had psalms
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  Speaker 2: for different occasions, right? Psalms of ascent for when you're
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  Speaker 2: going up to Jerusalem. They had psalms for different occasions.
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  Speaker 2: So they would have been familiar with Psalm 22. So
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  Speaker 2: here you are, Jesus is being crucified. The Lord of
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  Speaker 2: mercy hanging on a tree. And he calls out the
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  Speaker 2: first line, which would have been the title of a song. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you are passing by and you see something that
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  Speaker 2: strikes you, you see a man dying. You pass by
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  Speaker 2: a man dying. And as the man is dying, he says,
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  Speaker 2: pass me not, O gentle Savior. What immediately comes to
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  Speaker 2: your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody.
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  Speaker 2: The next line. The next line. Or if he says,
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  Speaker 2: amazing grace, how sweet the sound. What immediately comes to
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  Speaker 2: your mind? You pass by this gruesome scene. The man
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  Speaker 2: is dying on the ground. And he says, amazing grace,
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  Speaker 2: how sweet the sound. you immediately think of the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the psalm.
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  Speaker 9: Amen?
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  Speaker 2: So here's Jesus hanging on a cross, and he calls
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  Speaker 2: out the first line of Psalm 22, and you know
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  Speaker 2: Psalm 22. So what immediately does every Jewish person who's
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  Speaker 2: worshiped in the temple think of? After Jesus says, my God,
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  Speaker 2: my God, why have you forsaken me? They think of
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the psalm. Why are you so far
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  Speaker 2: from saving me from the words.
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  Speaker 9: Of my groaning?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I cry by day, but you do
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  Speaker 2: not answer. And by night I find no rest. Yet
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  Speaker 2: you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In
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  Speaker 2: you our fathers trusted. They trusted and you delivered them.
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  Speaker 2: To you they cried and were rescued. In you they
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  Speaker 2: trusted and were not put to shame. But I am
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  Speaker 2: a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and
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  Speaker 2: despised by the people. All who see me mock me.
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  Speaker 2: They make mouths at me. They wag their heads. He
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  Speaker 2: trusts in the Lord. Let him deliver him. Let him
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  Speaker 2: rescue him, for he delights in him. This is exactly
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  Speaker 2: what's happening at the crucifixion of Jesus. Verse 12. Many
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  Speaker 2: bulls encompass me. Strong bulls of Bashan surround me. They
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  Speaker 2: open wide their mouths at me like ravening and roaring lion.
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  Speaker 9: I'm poured out like water. All my bones are out
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  Speaker 9: of joint.
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  Speaker 2: Why? Because you're nailed to a cross. My heart is
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  Speaker 2: like wax. It is melted within me. Pierce him in
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  Speaker 2: the side. Puncture the pericardium. Blood and water rush out.
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  Speaker 2: My strength is dried up like potsherd, and my tongue
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  Speaker 2: sticks to my jaws, which would make you say, I thirst.
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  Speaker 2: You lay me in the dust of death, for dogs
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  Speaker 2: encompass me.
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  Speaker 9: That's Gentiles.
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  Speaker 2: A company of evildoers encircles me, one on the right,
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  Speaker 2: one on the left. They have pierced my hands and feet.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting about this is most people who are crucified,
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  Speaker 2: I can't say most, but a large number of people
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  Speaker 2: who are crucified weren't nailed to a cross. They were
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  Speaker 2: tied to it and suffocated, sometimes over a course of days.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus was pierced in his hands and his feet.
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  Speaker 2: He was nailed to the cross. I can count all
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  Speaker 2: my bones. This is very important because we're going to
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  Speaker 2: learn later that they didn't break his legs in order
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  Speaker 2: to hasten his death. Why would they have broken his
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  Speaker 2: legs in order to hasten his death? Because cursed is
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  Speaker 2: anyone who hangs on the tree, and he also curses
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  Speaker 2: the land because he's hanging on the tree. If you're
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  Speaker 2: being hanged right before a high holy day, they can't
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  Speaker 2: have your body on the cross during a high holy day.
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  Speaker 2: So they break your legs so that your death becomes
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  Speaker 2: instant and they can take you down and you're not
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  Speaker 2: hanging on a tree cursing the land during a high
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  Speaker 2: holy day which was coming up the day after Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was crucified. But because he gave up the ghost they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have to break his legs. I can count all
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  Speaker 2: my bones. They stare and gloat over me. They divide
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  Speaker 2: my garments among them and for my clothing they cast lots.
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  Speaker 2: A thousand years before Jesus was born. A thousand years
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  Speaker 2: before he was born.
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  Speaker 9: We have this written.
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  Speaker 2: And his public crucifixion in the face of thousands fulfills
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  Speaker 2: this very prophecy. not only that but in Isaiah 53
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  Speaker 2: we won't take the time to go to that one
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  Speaker 2: as well but Isaiah 53 that was written some 750
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  Speaker 2: years before Jesus was born.
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  Speaker 9: Again over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: God tells us what He's going to do to redeem
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  Speaker 2: His people and then He does exactly that through the
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  Speaker 2: person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. So the
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  Speaker 2: crucifixion is fulfillment of prophecy. Finally, the crucifixion is a
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  Speaker 2: demonstration of God's love. It It doesn't even sound right
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  Speaker 2: to say that. That something so horrific, that something so
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  Speaker 2: ugly could in any way be associated with love. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a demonstration of God's love in two ways. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, Christ died for sin. Once for all, the
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  Speaker 2: just for the unjust. in order that he might bring
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  Speaker 2: us to God.
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  Speaker 9: Amen?
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  Speaker 2: God so loved the world that he gave his only
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  Speaker 2: begotten son so that whoever believes in him will not
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  Speaker 2: perish but have everlasting life. God made him who knew
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  Speaker 2: no sin to be sin for us so that we
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  Speaker 2: might become the righteousness of God in him. So God is, God,
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  Speaker 2: God demonstrates his love for us in this, in that
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  Speaker 2: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. So
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: the crucifixion demonstrates God's love in the broadest sense in
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: that it is a substitutionary atoning death on the behalf
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: of sinners who cannot pay for their own sin. Paul
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  Speaker 2: says it clearly, most clearly.
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  Speaker 9: There in Romans.
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  Speaker 2: God demonstrates for us in this, and that while we
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  Speaker 2: were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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  Speaker 9: Jesus demonstrates it clearly.
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  Speaker 2: Greater love has no man than this, than he laid
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  Speaker 2: down his life for his friends. But beloved, that's not
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  Speaker 2: the love that I'm talking about here.
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  Speaker 9: It is.
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  Speaker 2: We do see that love in the crucifixion. But we
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: see another love. Look at verse 25. But standing by
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  Speaker 2: the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son. Then
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: he said to the disciple, Behold your mother. And from
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  Speaker 2: that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: Jesus is hanging on the cross, dying the most gruesome
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  Speaker 2: death imaginable.
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  Speaker 9: And he takes this moment not only to make arrangements.
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  Speaker 2: For his mother, He could have pulled John aside at
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  Speaker 2: any moment before this and said, listen, when I'm gone,
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  Speaker 2: take care of my mother. And it would have been enough.
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  Speaker 2: A son taking care of his mother. But it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just that. On the cross, he looks to her and
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  Speaker 2: he does not say, mother, this is your son. No,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: he says, woman, behold your son. By the way, ordinarily
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  Speaker 2: quite disrespectful for a son.
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  Speaker 6: Amen?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but if at my house,
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  Speaker 2: one of my children decided today to say to my wife, woman,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even be able to tell you what came after.
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  Speaker 2: And he might not make it to church next week.
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  Speaker 2: And yet, Jesus says, not mother, but woman. Listen to
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: this from Kistemacher. Here at the cross, exactly as at
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  Speaker 2: Cana's wedding, it was very kind of Jesus to emphasize
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  Speaker 2: by the use of the word woman that Mary must
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  Speaker 2: no longer think of him as being merely her son.
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  Speaker 2: For the more she conceives of him as her son,
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  Speaker 2: the more also will she suffer when he suffers. Mary
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  Speaker 2: must begin to look upon Jesus as her Lord. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: even then she will suffer, but this suffering will be
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  Speaker 2: of a different nature. She will then know that though
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  Speaker 2: indescribably terrible, his agony is nevertheless glorious because of its purpose.
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  Speaker 2: She will then begin to to concentrate on its redemptive meaning. Hence,
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  Speaker 2: not mother, but woman. Mary's merely emotional suffering, as any
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  Speaker 2: mother would suffer for her son in crucified, must be
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  Speaker 2: replaced by something higher and nobler. That is adoration. At
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  Speaker 2: this moment, Jesus is not a son taking care of
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  Speaker 2: his mother. Not merely that. He's a savior who's redeeming her.
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  Speaker 2: And he is reminding her that he is her redeemer.
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  Speaker 2: And that's more significant than him seeing to it paid
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  Speaker 2: for and is redeemed and will be with him in
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  Speaker 2: glory as part of the bride of Christ.
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  Speaker 9: So not mother. Woman.
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  Speaker 2: In this, we see the love of God displayed through
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  Speaker 2: the gruesome nature of the cross. What's interesting about this
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  Speaker 2: is when we think about the cross and when we
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  Speaker 2: think about the crucifixion, our minds usually go to how
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  Speaker 2: terrible it was. Our minds usually go to how much
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  Speaker 2: Jesus must have suffered. But at least to this point.
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  Speaker 2: And for the most part, in John, he's not dwelling
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  Speaker 2: on that. Did Jesus suffer? Yes, he suffered. He suffered.
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  Speaker 2: But the cross is not significant for us merely because
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  Speaker 2: of suffering. Again, two other men suffered along with him
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  Speaker 2: that day. Thousands upon thousands of men were crucified as
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  Speaker 2: he was crucified. So no, it's not just the suffering
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  Speaker 2: and the brutality. It is the fact that this suffering
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  Speaker 2: is substitutionary suffering. That this suffering is suffering under the
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  Speaker 2: wrath of God on behalf of sinners who cannot bear
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  Speaker 2: this suffering themselves. This suffering is suffering that was totally
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  Speaker 2: undeserved because Christ had never committed sin. This suffering was
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  Speaker 2: suffering on behalf of others. This suffering was so that
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  Speaker 2: God could be just in pouring out His wrath on
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  Speaker 2: sin and the justifier of the one who places faith
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus Christ. The one who believes in that suffering
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  Speaker 2: as His own. The one who believes in that suffering
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  Speaker 2: as payment for the penalty that He owes to God
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  Speaker 2: because He's a sinner in need of a Savior. That's
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  Speaker 2: the significance of the crucifixion. It roots our faith In history,
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  Speaker 2: this really happened. It takes away our guilt and places
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  Speaker 2: it on Jesus. And how amazing is it that part
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  Speaker 2: of this, and John doesn't dwell on it, but why
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  Speaker 2: are you able to cast lots for a man's clothes?
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  Speaker 2: Because you've stripped him naked. And there he hangs, naked
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  Speaker 2: and humiliated, bearing our guilt. Isn't it interesting that the
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  Speaker 2: first response of our forefather Adam, after he ate of
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  Speaker 2: the tree of the forbidden fruit, was to clothe himself
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  Speaker 2: to cover the shame of his nakedness. Ham is judged
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  Speaker 2: by God for uncovering the nakedness of Noah. And here
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  Speaker 2: on the cross Christ bears our guilt and our shame naked.
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  Speaker 2: He does so as he fulfills prophecy and says to
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  Speaker 2: all with an ear to hear, this is exactly what
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  Speaker 2: God said he would do. And he does so as
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  Speaker 2: a demonstration of the love of God. This is why
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  Speaker 2: The crucifixion of Jesus has meaning. Beyond the suffering, beyond
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  Speaker 2: the pain, because of the significance behind it all.
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  Speaker 9: Let's pray.
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  Speaker 2: Our gracious God and our Heavenly Father.
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  Speaker 9: The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The
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  Speaker 9: God who.
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  Speaker 2: Loved us and loves us and demonstrates His love for
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  Speaker 2: us through the person and work of Christ and His
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  Speaker 2: death on the cross. To you, our great God, we
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  Speaker 2: come and before you we bow in humble adoration. Overwhelmed
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  Speaker 2: by the magnitude of the love that you demonstrated by
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  Speaker 2: pouring out your wrath on your only begotten son. Overwhelmed
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  Speaker 2: by the magnitude of the significance of that love. In
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  Speaker 2: redeeming us.
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  Speaker 9: From sin. And overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: By the beauty that you bring from these ashes. So
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  Speaker 2: that something so gruesome could be cause for celebration. Grant
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  Speaker 2: by your grace that we might glory in the cross.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the one who died thereon. Because of the
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  Speaker 2: price that he paid. Because of the redemption that he purchased.
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  Speaker 2: Grant this we pray. For we ask it in Christ's name.
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  Speaker 9: And for his sake.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 9: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: What a humbling reminder of unending grace, amazing love.
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  Speaker 1: In response to the preaching.
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  Speaker 3: Of God's word, I ask that you join me in
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  Speaker 3: standing as we respond by singing, amazing grace, how sweet
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  Speaker 3: the sound that saved A wretch like me. I once
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  Speaker 3: was lost, but now I am found. Was blind, but
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  Speaker 3: now I see. And after we've sung this hymn, I'll
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  Speaker 3: kindly ask Elder Kevin Kaunda to come and close in
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  Speaker 3: a word of prayer. Please join me in standing and
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask the choir to lead.
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  Speaker 15: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch
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  Speaker 15: like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found.
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  Speaker 15: Was blind, but now I see. Was grace that taught
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  Speaker 15: my heart to fear, and.
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  Speaker 6: Grace my fears relieved.
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  Speaker 15: How precious did that grace.
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  Speaker 7: Appear, the hour I first believed.
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  Speaker 16: My chains are gone, I've been set free. My God,
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  Speaker 16: my Savior, has ransomed me, and I will fly.
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  Speaker 6: His mercy reigns.
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  Speaker 7: Unending love, amazing grace.
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  Speaker 6: The Lord has.
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  Speaker 1: Promised good to me.
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  Speaker 7: His word my hope secures.
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  Speaker 6: He willed my sheep and horses.
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  Speaker 7: As long as life is good, my chains are good.
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  Speaker 6: I've been set free.
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  Speaker 7: My God, my Savior, has brought so me.
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  Speaker 6: And like a flower, He's blessed me with unending love,
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  Speaker 6: amazing grace.
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  Speaker 1: The earth shall.
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  Speaker 10: Soon dissolve like snow, the sun forbear to shine.
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  Speaker 7: But God who called me here below will be forever mine.
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  Speaker 6: You are forever.
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  Speaker 7: My chains are gone.
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  Speaker 6: My chains are gone. I've been set free. My God,
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  Speaker 6: my Savior has ransomed me. And like a flower His
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  Speaker 6: mercy reigns. Unending love. Amazing grace.
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  Speaker 1: Please remain standing. Shall we pray?
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  Speaker 14: Our great God and Father who is in heaven, we
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  Speaker 14: are amazed, O Lord, at how you seem to hide yourself,
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  Speaker 14: to hide your voice in the faithful preaching and exposition
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  Speaker 14: of your word. We want to thank you, O Lord,
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  Speaker 14: for the way the whole act of crucifixion has come
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  Speaker 14: to us in this sermon, in the message just delivered
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  Speaker 14: to us, with a sense of power and yet with
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  Speaker 14: a sense of freshness, O God. Just amazed, O Father,
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  Speaker 14: at how many prophecies were fulfilled, O Lord, in the
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  Speaker 14: act of the crucifixion of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 14: We are also amazed, oh God, at the fact that
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  Speaker 14: it was through that horrendous, horrific death, O Lord, that
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  Speaker 14: crucifixion on the cross, that our case was born, O Lord,
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  Speaker 14: in the act of crucifixion, and that in him, O Lord,
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  Speaker 14: we can stand accepted before God, that in him we
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  Speaker 14: can stand reconciled to the Father.
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  Speaker 9: And so, Father, we.
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  Speaker 14: are indeed humbled at how you have brought your word
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  Speaker 14: so powerfully and yet so simply to us this morning.
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  Speaker 14: And we want to thank you, O Lord, for the
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  Speaker 14: joy of this salvation that has been delivered once and
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  Speaker 14: for all through our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And
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  Speaker 14: the fact that we can stand here in awe, O God,
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  Speaker 14: that we can stand here in adoration, O God. We
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  Speaker 14: can stand here, O God, just amazed, O God, at
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  Speaker 14: the vastness, the greatness of this salvation that has been
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  Speaker 14: procured for us in your beloved Son. And we continue
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  Speaker 14: to pray, pleading, O God, that you'll give us a
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  Speaker 14: sense of gratitude for as long as you lend us breath,
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  Speaker 14: O Lord, at just how priceless, at how just indescribable
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  Speaker 14: this salvation is to us. Indeed, Father, we want to
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  Speaker 14: thank you for those in our midst, O God, who
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  Speaker 14: might be strangers to this salvation, that, O God, you
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  Speaker 14: might be gracious that through this message so faithfully preached
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  Speaker 14: this morning will bring about, O God, a reflection, O Lord,
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  Speaker 14: about the state of their hearts, the state of their souls, indeed,
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  Speaker 14: the state of their standing before you, O God, before
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  Speaker 14: your most holy majesty, O Lord. And we want to ask,
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  Speaker 14: O Father, that may you be gracious to speak to
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  Speaker 14: any such person, that, O Lord, may it be like
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  Speaker 14: the voice that raises the dead, O Lord, bringing them
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  Speaker 14: from death to life, O God, to also share in
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  Speaker 14: the forgiveness of sin that we have come to know,
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  Speaker 14: to share, O Lord, in the reconciliation that we have
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  Speaker 14: in Christ Jesus, O God, and to know, O Lord,
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  Speaker 14: the joy of what it is to be called children
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  Speaker 14: of the living God. And so, Father, we want to
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  Speaker 14: pray that may you bless this, your way to our hearts,
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  Speaker 14: and may you grant, dear Lord, that we so meditate
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  Speaker 14: upon it and find it a joy and delight, O God,
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  Speaker 14: to exalt and to rejoice, O Lord, in the greatness,
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  Speaker 14: in the vastness, just, O Lord, in the power of this,
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  Speaker 14: your salvation. And now, Father, as we come to the
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  Speaker 14: end of our time together this morning, we want to
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  Speaker 14: thank you for all that has preceded the preaching of
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  Speaker 14: your word. We want to thank you for the singing
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  Speaker 14: of songs that you enabled us to do before your presence.
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  Speaker 14: We want to thank you for the prayers that ascended
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  Speaker 14: your throne of grace. And we want to now ask
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  Speaker 14: that you might be pleased, dear Lord, to dismiss us
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  Speaker 14: with the blessings of your peace, that you might be
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  Speaker 14: gracious upon each one of us to indeed commute safely
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  Speaker 14: back to our respective homes. But much more, dear Lord,
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  Speaker 14: that you may give us your blessing for the week
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  Speaker 14: as we get started in a brand new week. We pray,
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  Speaker 14: dear Lord, that you'll be gracious to hear us and
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  Speaker 14: to do for us these things because we ask it
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  Speaker 14: in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Please be seated. Thank you so much, Elder Kevin. We
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  Speaker 3: have come to the end of our family service this
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  Speaker 3: morning here at Hillview Baptist Church. One or two things
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  Speaker 3: before the ushers lead us out. Visitors, we are so
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  Speaker 3: delighted to have you. And if we have any, I'll
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  Speaker 3: ask that by show.
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  Speaker 1: Of hand, you don't need to stand.
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  Speaker 3: You just need to raise your hand.
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  Speaker 1: Please do.
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  Speaker 3: So we can take notice of your presence with us. Visitors,
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  Speaker 3: please by show of hands. Yes, just keep that hand.
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  Speaker 3: I can see another visitor there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: There's one here. Okay, so the ashes await upon you.
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  Speaker 3: So they're giving you some kind of brochure. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: tear off a certain portion that you'll go with. But
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  Speaker 3: the other portion has to be completely and correctly filled
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  Speaker 3: in by you. And please, especially for the phone number,
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  Speaker 3: please ensure that it is properly filled in. Okay, so
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  Speaker 3: by special way, let's welcome our visitors. And just one
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  Speaker 3: more thing to our visitors, as the ushers lead us out,
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  Speaker 3: please remain in your seats as some people will come
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  Speaker 3: through to attend to you and get to know you more.
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  Speaker 3: We have our information desk. As you're walking out, it's
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  Speaker 3: right there. So if you have any information, any clarifications,
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  Speaker 3: you want to ask about something pertaining to church, please
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  Speaker 3: feel free to walk through and all other details regarding
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  Speaker 3: Hillview Baptist Church will be available to you. The ushers
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  Speaker 3: will wait upon us as we give our offerings and
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  Speaker 3: tithes as we walk out please remember to drop in
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  Speaker 3: your offerings and tithes. I think that is all. This
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  Speaker 3: coming weekend, we have our VBS orientation. So those that
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  Speaker 3: are supposed to be taking part in that workshop stroke orientation,
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  Speaker 3: please remember to place that appointment in your calendars. The
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  Speaker 3: meeting place is.
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  Speaker 1: Here at church.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I'll just close with a benediction
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  Speaker 3: before we sing our exit hymn. And this is from
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  Speaker 3: Ephesians 3, verse 20 and 21.
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians 3, 20 and 21. Now to him who is.
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  Speaker 3: Able to do far more abundantly than all that we
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  Speaker 3: ask or think. according to the power at work within us.
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  Speaker 3: To him be glory in the church and in Christ
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  Speaker 3: Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming today. As we leave
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  Speaker 3: this place, we'll be singing the song of the month
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  Speaker 3: for August. We have come to the end of July.
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  Speaker 3: And as you may know, our song of the month
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  Speaker 3: for July has been Behold Our God. And for the
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  Speaker 3: month of August, our song of the month is titled,
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  Speaker 3: I Will Offer Up My Life. In spirit and truth,
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  Speaker 3: pouring out the oil of love as my worship to you.
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  Speaker 3: In surrender, I must give. My every part, Lord, receive
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  Speaker 3: the sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Of a broken heart.
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  Speaker 7: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: I ask the choir to lead us in this song.
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  Speaker 3: And the ashes will wait upon us as this song
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  Speaker 3: is being sung.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: God bless you. Have a fruitful and blessed week.