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Mark chapter 14 · Scripture Unscripted

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Mark chapter 14, let us pray. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, we love
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you. Jesus, we thank you Jesus for
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another day. We thank you Jesus for waking us
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up. Thank you Jesus for your holy
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scriptures that we hold in our hands.
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Thank you Jesus for life and life abundantly.
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Thank you Jesus for your all sufficient sacrifice.
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Thank you Jesus, that you have given, given us purpose and
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meaning. Thank you Jesus, for our
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families. Thank you Jesus for our houses.
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Thank you Jesus for the love that we share amongst one
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another. Thank you Father, we love you.
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Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, well up within us.
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Holy Spirit, fill us today. Holy Spirit, come and guide us
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today. I decrease as you increase.
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It's all about you, King Jesus. Yes, I get out of the way.
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Teach us today your precepts. Teach us today what it is that
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You want to us to know. We love you, Father.
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We love everything about you. Thank you, God, for this
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wonderful word that we hold in our hands.
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Thank you for giving us eternal truth.
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Thank you for giving us our guide.
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Thank you Jesus, for all the many blessings that you've
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already given to us today. Thank you for breath.
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Thank you for cognition. Thank you God, that we can come
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and reason with you, that we can come and think about these
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things. Thank you Jesus, that you have
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given us life and life abundant. Thank you Jesus that you have
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offered us eternal life. Thank you Jesus that you are
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beckoning us in that we can come in to the fold, that we can come
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in and dine and Sup with you. We love you God, we love you
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Jesus. Holy Spirit come, Holy Spirit
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fill us. Holy Spirit well up.
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Holy Spirit guide us. We love you.
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In Jesus name we pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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After two days was the feast of the Passover and of unleavened
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bread, and the chief priest and the scribes sought how they
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might take him by craft and put him to death.
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What's he talking about here? Well, if you've been following
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along for any amount of time, you're going to see that they
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had come together. All these different sects of
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religious thought processes had come together to try to take
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hold of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and they were doing so
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out of envy. The Bible tells us very clearly
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that they had taken hold of Him because they were afraid of the
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people. So they had taken hold of Him by
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night, and they were coming together here trying to figure
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out a way to trap Him. And they could not trap Him in
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His words. So they were going to use one of
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His disciples. Let's see how this story ends.
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Verse 2. But they said not on the feast
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day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
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So they were crafty in their approach, and they were saying
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not during the feast. But God forced their hands.
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He is the all sufficient sacrifice.
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He was the Passover lamb. He is our all sufficient
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sacrifice, the Passover lamb. So here we can see God and His
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sovereignty is going to force them to do something that they
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were trying to avoid, which was doing it all during this
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Passover time. There would have been so many
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pilgrims that had come into Jerusalem at this time.
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And Jesus knew what He was doing.
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He knew that He had to celebrate with His disciples earlier than
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the rest of the Jews because He would be being sacrificed at the
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very time that in the temple the lambs were being sacrificed.
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And it all pointed to this grand plan of God.
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And God gets His way and He will get His way in your life as
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well. Friend, you know God is so
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incredibly good at what he does. He's so incredibly loving and He
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knows who belongs to him. And He's chasing you.
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He is right behind you. If you feel 1000 miles away from
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God, just turn around. He's right behind you, friends,
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He's pursuing you three. And being in Bethany, in the
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House of Simon the Leper, as he sat at me, there came a woman
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having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very
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precious. And she broke the box and poured
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it on his head. So here we know that this was
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Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus.
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We know that she actually believed the words of Christ.
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When Christ would go to his disciples and tell them all the
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horrible things that He must suffer at the hands of the
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leaders. She actually had locked in.
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She actually was listening. She actually believed Him.
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And here she is going to pour out her most precious ointment
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and oil and perfume upon His head.
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And this oil would have smelled what we know of today as baby
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powder. This spikenard is what Jesus
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went to the cross smelling like friends.
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What a beautiful picture of her love being displayed and poured
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out on Him. She did it because she knew that
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it His time was near four and there were some that had
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indignation within themselves and said, why was this waste of
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the ointment made? And we know that this was
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started by old Judas Iscariot, and we know that the disciples
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chimed in as well. He was the ringleader of this
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perdition, this waste, and he wasted his life.
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He poured his life out in the wrong way and she got it right
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here. And this is such a juxtaposition
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of the two points, these two pivotal points in the story of
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one who got it right in the waist and the other one who got
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it wrong in the waist. And we know that Mary was locked
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in and she loved her Lord and she loved him well all the way
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to the end. And we know that Judas could
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have turned it around, but he went and hung himself.
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And Jesus said it would have been better for him to never
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have been born, this waste, 5 For it might have been sold for
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more than 300 pence, and have been given to the poor.
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And they murmured against her. They murmured against her.
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This was Judas and his premeditated calculations and
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how he was looking at how much he could have pocketed from the
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cell of this bottle of ointment if it would have just been
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entrusted to him and given over to him and all the resources
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would have been given to him so that he could decide what to do.
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We know that he stuck his hand in the money bag.
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We know that Judas was a thief and we know that his heart was
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not changed by being in close proximity to Jesus.
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And it's no different in our day and our our friends.
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There are many who rub shoulders and rub up against the Holy
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Ghost and are not changed at all.
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They experience all the goodness of God, but their hearts are
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hardened and they do not actually peek and peer into the
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spiritual realm. They just want to stay outside
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the door. They just want to be part of the
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religious activities. They are intrigued by all of
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this religious activity, but they are not actually in the
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fold. They are not actually in with
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Jesus Christ. They're only in proximity.
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And that's what you see here with Judas.
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Judas knew enough to be saved, but he chose to go to hell.
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And there are many like that today in our day, in our hour.
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They only are curious about Christ.
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They do not actually know him. And they will stand there and
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they will say, For we cast out demons in your name, we perform
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miracles in your name, we prophesied in your name.
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And Christ will say, Depart from me, for I never knew you.
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What a waste. 6 And Jesus said, Let her alone.
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Why trouble you her She has wrought a good work on me. 7 For
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you have the poor with you always, and whensoever you will
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you may do them good, but me you have not always. 8 She has done
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what she could. She is come a forehand to anoint
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my body for the burying. 9 Truly I say unto you, wheresoever this
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gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this
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also that she has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
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Here Jesus waxes so eloquently. Here Jesus is telling the
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disciples, leave her alone. She has done a good thing.
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She has anointed me for burial. She knows that my time is near.
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She knows that I must go to the cross.
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She's actually been listening to my words.
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Praise God for Mary sitting at his feet while Martha was busy
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doing her busy body work. And we need the Martha's in this
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world. And praise God for the Martha's.
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But look how Mary got it right. Look how Mary knew that his time
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was at hand and Jesus here commends her and Jesus here
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hurts Judas's feelings. And this is perhaps why Judas
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left and went to go and try to figure out a price for Jesus
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head, the price of a slave. He sold them for 30 pieces of
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silver. How despicable. 10 And Judas
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Iscariot, one of the 12 went unto the chief priests to betray
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him unto them. 11 And when they heard it, they were glad and
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promised to give him money, and he saw how he might conveniently
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betray him. Here we can see old Judas,
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perhaps a little hurt by the whole scene of Jesus siding with
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Mary of Bethany as she poured out all that she could.
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And what a word for you and what a word for me to not be hurt, to
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not be offended. Blessed are those that are not
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offended by Christ. And whenever we see people who
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are pouring out all that they could, you know this is a word
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for you and for me, to not look at the amount, but to look at
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the heart. For God loves the cheerful
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giver. And she gave all that she could.
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12 In the first day of unleavened bread, when they
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killed the Passover, his disciples said unto him, Where
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will you that we go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?
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13 And he send forth two of his disciples, and said unto them,
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Go you into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a
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pitcher of water, Follow him. 14 And wheresoever he shall go in,
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say you to the Goodman of the house.
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The Master said, Where is the guest chamber, where I shall eat
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the Passover with my disciples? 15 And he will show you a large
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upper room, furnished and prepared.
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There make ready for us. 16 And his disciples went forth, and
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came into the city, and found as he had said unto them, and they
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made ready the Passover. So this is a, an amazing group
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of passages here you can see how Jesus has already prepared the
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hearts and minds of his disciples that he had, that he
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had in that city, the people who actually believed him, the
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people who had already prepared the place for him.
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And we need to prepare a place for him to come and dine and
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Sup. Open the door up to him and let
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him come in and dine and Sup with you friend.
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Look at how Jesus here. He shows us that He has
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preeminence. He shows us that He is
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sovereign. He shows us that He's already
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gone ahead of us to prepare a place for us.
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He shows us that He has dominion over everything, that everything
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in the earth is the Lord's. He shows us that if we do not
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give him due praise, the rocks will cry out.
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He shows us that He is the Godhead 3 and one, that He is
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all sufficient, that He is our Lord and our God.
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He shows us here that He is all powerful, and you can see the
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immediate obedience of the disciples going and doing what
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He has told Him, not questioning Him.
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You can see that this man who was carrying a water pitcher
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would have been a sight to see, as it is usually the women who
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are doing that work of carrying the water in pitchers.
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So this was a telltale sign that they were following the right
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one. Perhaps this was John Mark's
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house. Perhaps this was how he knew
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that he was to prepare it because Jesus had already gone
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and talked to him. There are many things that we
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could speculate, but we know that Jesus is Lord.
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And this made ready the Passover.
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There would have been salt water for the tears.
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There would have been bitter herbs for the bitter times that
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they spent in Egypt. There would have been this bread
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and there would have been this wine.
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But Jesus was the Lamb of God. Jesus was what they were to look
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at for the passing over of their sins.
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The atonement for their sins would have been Jesus in that
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upper room, friends. And he's going to expound upon
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them, and he's going to seal this new covenant with his own
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blood. 17 And in the evening he came with the 12:18 And as they
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sat and did eat, Jesus said, Truly I say unto you, One of you
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which eats with me shall betray me. 19 And they began to be
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sorrowful, and to say unto him, 1 by 1 Is it I?
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And another said, Is it I 20 And he answered and said unto them,
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It is one of the 12 that dips with me in the dish. 21 The Son
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of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that
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man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
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Good were it for that man if he had never been born.
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Jesus here makes it plain. Jesus here speaks to them like
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little children. He tells them, one of you will
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betray me. It's one who dips his hand with
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me in the bowl, and it would be better for him to have never
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been born. Jesus holds no punches.
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Jesus here is showing that even though God is going to use
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Judas, he doesn't excuse Judas. Judas was not a robot.
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Judas had free will. Judas could have chosen not to
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do this, but God already knew that he would. 22 And as they
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did eat, Jesus took bread and blessed and broke it, and gave
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to them, and said, take, eat, this is my body.
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So we know that this was done in remembrance.
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We are to do this in remembrance of Jesus Christ.
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There is no special power in it. It is just for us to call back
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to mind what happens whenever we eat this bread that is His body.
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We are to remember this moment, friends.
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It is to call us back, and it should be as common as the bread
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and the wine was of that day. It would be for us every single
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time we sit down to eat a meal, to remember Jesus, to remember
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the body broke into, and to remember His blood spilled out.
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It's an everyday occurrence, friends. 23 And he took the cup,
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and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, and they all
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drank of it. 24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the
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New Testament, which is shed for many.
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So we know that the bread was to symbolize the body of Christ,
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broken for us, beaten and broken, and he's predicting all
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of this before it even happens. And then we know that this wine
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is a symbol of His blood being poured out for us on Calvary,
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and we are too hearken back and we are to grab a hold of this
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moment and to bring it into our minds and have reverence for the
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Lord Almighty. And yes, we should do it every
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single day. And yes, there is a very special
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moment when we come together as a congregation to remember this
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day. Remember His body being broken
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and His blood being poured out for us for the remission of
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sins. And for many shed, for many, 25
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truly, I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of
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the vine until that day that I drink it new in the Kingdom of
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God. We know from Revelation 19 this
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marriage, this supper of the Lamb, we know that we can look
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forward to the time that we're all going to sit with him, and
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we should look forward to drinking of the fruit of the
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vine with Jesus Christ. 26 And when they had sung A hymn, they
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went out into the Mount of Olives.
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So we know that there was this Psalm 118 that was sung here by
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Jesus Christ. We know that singing brings him
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such great honour and praise and glory, and we should lift up our
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voices, even if it's a holy grunt.
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Sing unto the Lord, friends, for he loves to hear your voice.
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Lift up your voice to the Lord today. 27 And Jesus said unto
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them, all, You shall be offended because of me this night, For it
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is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be
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scattered. He predicts here what's about to
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happen when all of the disciples are scattered.
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And the Bible predicted it. Friends 28 But after that, I am
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risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
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They would have done well to remember these things when Jesus
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was in the tomb. They would have done well to
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remember that he was going to meet them, to go ahead of them
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into Galilee. They would have done well to
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study the Scriptures, to know that the Bible predicted that he
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would be struck in the sheep would be scattered.
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They would have done well not to be offended not to live in a
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fence. And we would do well as well to
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remember to not live in a fence, to not hold on to a fence, to
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break down that fence and to go through, and to not be offended
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by the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember when John said, are
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you the one, or should we wait on another?
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And Jesus said, Blessed are those who are not offended by
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me. Let's not be offended by the way
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that the Lord works. Friends. 29 But Peter said unto
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him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I 30 And
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Jesus said unto him, Truly I say unto you, at this day, even in
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this night, before the cop crows twice you shall deny me. 3 * 31
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But he spoke the more vehemently, If I should die with
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you, I will not deny you in any way.
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Likewise also said they all, they all are trying to have
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bravado in this moment. They're trying to tell the Son
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of God they have, yet they have not yet been indwelled by the
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Holy Spirit. Their eyes were still somewhat
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shrouded and blinded at who this rabbi was.
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They had seen performed so many miracles and Peter had rebuked
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Jesus trying to tell him that he wasn't going to allow him to be
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sacrificed. And then the sons of Zebedee had
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asked for special positions in his newly found Kingdom that
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they thought he was about to establish and usurp the Roman
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government and authority in that land.
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Look at how these disciples had such bravado and they said even
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if all fall away, we will not. And what does Christ say?
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32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane.
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And he said to his disciples, Sit you here while I shall pray.
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So this Gethsemane is the oil press.
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And Jesus was about to be pressed out for you and for me,
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which was going to produce the oil that we desperately need,
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the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit coming, the Helper. 33 And he
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took with him Peter and James and John and began to be sore
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amazed and to be very heavy. So here comes Jesus special
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forces, this Peter, James and John.
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Perhaps he knew that he had to keep them close because they
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were they had the propensity to get into trouble. 34 And he said
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unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death.
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Tear you here and watch. He tells us the same today.
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Watch. Therefore be ready, Make
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yourself ready. Our adversary is like a roaring
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lion. We need to put on the full armor
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of God today. We need to stand our ground and
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advance the Kingdom of God. No retreat, friends, watch and
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pray. He tells us the same. 35 And he
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went forward a little, and he fell on the ground and prayed
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that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
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This is not him being afraid of death.
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This is not him being afraid of torture.
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This is not him being afraid of embarrassment, this is Jesus not
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wanting the communion that he had shared with the Father since
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the beginning to be broken and, and God Almighty was about to
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pour all the wrath onto Jesus Christ.
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He was about to pour all the wrath of God onto Jesus for you
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and for me so that we could stand before God one day, holy
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and pure and clean and made right with him.
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And he's going to look upon you and say, well done, good and
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faithful servant, come in to the rest that I've prepared for you.
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And he's not going to see any of your sins.
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All your sins are cast as far as the east is from the West.
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And he's only going to see the blood of Christ covering you.
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Praise God for this moment. Praise God that Jesus had set
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his face like a Flint, and it pleased God to crush him.
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It pleased God to bruise him. It pleased God, and it is
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marvelous in our sight. 36 And he said, Alba, father, all
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things are possible for you. Take away this cup for me.
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Nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.
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Here is a beautiful prayer of Jesus calling God daddy and he's
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crying out to him, saying, if there's any other way, but not
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my will, your will. And by the way, friends, when we
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pray, it is not a cop out to say not my will, but your will be
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done. Yes, we should take hold of
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things and claim them and we should believe in them, friends,
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But we need to ultimately know that God's will is much better
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than anything that we could ever ask for.
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And we need to get in tune with God, and we need to pray for his
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will to be done here on this earth just as it it is there in
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heaven. And when we start praying God's
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will, that's when we really start seeing things move,
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friends. We start seeing the atmosphere
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shift, and we start seeing our prayers answered because we're
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praying the will of God. 37 And he came and he found them
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sleeping and said unto Peter Simon, you sleep, could you not
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watch one hour? He asked you the same thing.
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Friends, this little 100 year that you get, it's such a blink
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of an eye, it's such a blip on the map, this little 100 year
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time frame that you get called life.
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It's like an hour unto God. And he says, pray with me.
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Could you not pray for one hour? Friends, he asked you the same
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thing. How many of us are prayerless?
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How many of us do not even believe that our prayers matter?
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How many of us wake up and start our day without getting face to
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face with God Almighty? And He asked you the same thing,
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friends, could you not pray with me for one hour?
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The disciples understood that the power that Jesus possessed
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was from His prayer life. Whenever they asked Him to teach
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us how to pray, they knew that all the power that He had was
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connected to His prayer life. They did not say teach us how to
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raise people from the dead, teach us how to multiply the
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fish and the loaves, teach us how to drive out the demons.
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What did they say teach us how to pray?
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They did not say teach us how to walk on water, erase people from
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the dead. It was just teach us how to pray
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because everything flows from our prayer life, friends.
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And he asked you today, could you not pray with me for one
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hour? 38 Watch you and pray, lest you
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enter into temptation. The Spirit truly is ready, but
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the flesh is weak. And he says the same thing to us
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today, friends, our flesh is weak.
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We battle that old man. We do the things that we don't
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want to do. And we should be spending more
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time in prayer so that we do not enter into temptation and hear
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Jesus calls Peter Simon. He'd already said that he was
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the rock and he was going to build his church on him in the
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gates of hell would not prevail. But here he says Simon.
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What an interesting thought, friends. 39 And again he went
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away and prayed and spoke the same words.
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Which words did he speak? He says, ABBA, Father, all
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things are possible unto you. Take away this cup from me.
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Nevertheless, not that I will, but what you will.
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So Jesus here he repeats the same phrase, the same prayer,
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and it's OK to be repetitive, friends, and to cry out unto God
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Almighty in your prayer life. Move the heart of God with your
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prayers and watch how things start to move. 40 And when he
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returned, he found them asleep again, for their eyes were
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heavy. Neither was they what to answer
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him. They did not know how to answer
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the Lord. I'm sure they looked dumbfounded
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as he found them sleeping again, their eyes were heavy.
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They were not praying, they were not watching, they were entering
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into temptation here, and the temptation was going to cause
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them to be scattered, and here all this bravado slips away. 41
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And he came the third time, and said unto them, Sleep on now,
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take your rest, it is enough. The hour has come.
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Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of
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sinners. 42 Rise up, let us go. Lo, he that betrays me is a
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hand. He knows everything.
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He knew that Judas was right there.
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He knew that the disciples were about to scatter. 43 And
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immediately, while he yet spoke, came Judas, one of the 12 And
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with him a great multitude with swords and Staffs from the chief
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priests and the scribes and the elders, hear this little band,
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this little small army had come out as if they were trying to
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arrest some kind of revolutionary, somebody who was
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violent and who was to be feared.
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But Jesus was meek, Jesus was humble.
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Jesus was led to the slaughter, and he was silent before his
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shearers, friends. And Jesus is going to expound
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upon that. 44 And he that betrayed him had given them a
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token saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss that same as he take him
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and lead him away safely. Here Judas's betrayed him, and I
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don't think at this time Judas truly understood what it was
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that he was doing. He was soon going to find out as
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he had this revelation that he had betrayed innocent blood.
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Look here how he tells him to lead him away safely.
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He was greedy for the 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave.
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He was hurt that Jesus had sided with Mary Bethany for the
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alabaster jar. And here he was acting on
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emotions. But everything was about to
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culminate, and everything was about to come to a head in his
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life, and he was going to get the 2020 vision that he had
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betrayed the Son of God. And then he went to hang
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himself. 45 And as soon as he was come, he went straight forth
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to him and said, Master, master, and kissed him.
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He does not call him Lord. He was not Judas's Lord, he was
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just a teacher who was able to get a mass of people together,
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and Judas saw that he could have made some money off of them. 46
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And they laid their hands on him and took him.
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Perhaps Jesus blended in with the rest of them, which was the
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need for this betrayal by kiss. What a wicked servant. 47 And
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one of them that stood by drew a sword and struck a servant of
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the high priest and cut off his ear.
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We know this to be Peter. Peter's bravado tries to come
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out. Here he told Jesus he wouldn't
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allow him to go to the cross, and here he's trying to protect
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his Lord. 48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are you come
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out as against a thief with swords and with staves to take
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me? 49 I was daily with you in the
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temple teaching, and you took me not.
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But the Scriptures must be fulfilled so Jesus has a full
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understanding of what is happening and nothing is
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happening to him that he didn't already know about.
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He's already told the disciples many times that this event was
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about to happen, but somehow it takes them by surprise if the
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disciples here, they did not quite understand all of these
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events and they're going to try to tuck tail and save their own
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lives. And it's all fulfilling the
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Scriptures here. We know that Malchus's ear, the
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servant of the high priest, we know that his ear was put back
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on by Jesus after Peter struck it off.
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We know that these guards had fallen backwards when they came
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to take Jesus. And he says I am.
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They have to pick themselves up off the ground and to arrest
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him. Jesus is all authority and all
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power here, and it's all in a very meek fashion.
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It is restrained friends and the scriptures must be fulfilled and
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it's no different for our day and our our friends.
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There's a lot of scriptures that must be fulfilled and we rally
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and rail against these scriptures being fulfilled.
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And it's because we love our little cushy life and we don't
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want anything to come in and to oppose the way we think that
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this life should go. We like our cake and we want to
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eat it too. We don't really care about the
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future scriptures that need to be fulfilled.
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We like our get out of hell free ticket.
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We like the fact that we know where we're going to go when we
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die. But we don't actually want all
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of the things that the Bible tells us must needs be
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fulfilled. We don't actually want them to
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happen because we enjoy our little cushy life down here. 50
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And they all forsook him and fled.
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And if we're not careful, we would be no different.
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Yes, we have the helicopter view, the bird's eye view.
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We have the full counsel of God's word, and we can look down
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upon these disciples and say, Oh wow, if I was there, I would
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have never. But if we're not careful, we
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will be no different when persecution comes.
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We'll turn our backs on God whenever we have loved ones who
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are trapped in their sinful lifestyles.
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We'll side with our loved ones instead of with what the Word of
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God says. Friends, when Christianity is
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not popular, we'll side with the masses.
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Friends, if we're not careful, we would be no different than
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these disciples, and we would all flee away and will forsake
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Jesus and flee. 51 And there followed him, a certain young
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man having a linen cloth cast about his naked body, and the
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young man, the young man laid hold on him. 52 And he left the
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linen cloth and fled from them naked.
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Most scholars would agree that this is John Mark, the person
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who's offering this. Gospel here, being orated by
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Peter. There's some humiliation
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attached to this that he fled away naked.
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Perhaps they were having the Passover at John Mark's house,
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and perhaps whenever Judas came there first to try to arrest him
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with the guards, perhaps old John Mark ran ahead to try to
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tell Jesus what was happening. And perhaps here it all
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culminates and John Mark is giving a memoir of what
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happened. We can only speculate, friends.
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53 And they led Jesus away to the high priest and with him,
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where it assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the
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scribes. We're going to get to see an
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illegal mock trial. This was being held in the dead
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of night and it in their Jewish laws, it was never supposed to
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be so. They feared man more than they
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feared God, and it's pathetic. 54 And Peter followed him afar
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off, even into the place of the high priest, and he sat with the
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servants and warmed himself at the fire.
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We know that these servants are the same ones that are going to
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strike Jesus and spit upon him. And here Peter is making his
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abode with them. He's cohabiting with these
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wicked servants. We know that we're no different.
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We have ran away from God. We've only fought, followed him
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afar off. We're not actually locked in
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with him. We're not actually following
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after Him. So many of us have fallen away.
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And when the shepherd is struck, we all scatter. 55 And the chief
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priests and all the counsel's sought for witness against
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Jesus, to put him to death, and found none.
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They could not find any fault in him.
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He was guiltless, he was innocent, and none of their
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stories corroborated, none of them actually lined up.
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It was all a bunch of hoopla, and the high priest knew that he
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had no grounds to stand upon, and he had to get Jesus to speak
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something, because he saw it was got all going awash. 56 And many
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bore false witness against him, but their witnesses did not
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agree, 57. And there arose certain and bore
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witness against him, saying, 58 We heard him say, I will destroy
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this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I
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will build another made without hands.
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They're trying to make Jesus out to be some kind of terrorist
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who's going to destroy their buildings. 59 But neither so did
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their witnesses agree together. It was all a farce.
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It was all a bunch of ridiculous motions here in the dead of
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night, this illegal council. 56 And the high priest stood up in
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the midst and asked Jesus saying, answers you nothing.
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What is it which these witnesses against you?
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61 And he held his peace, and he answered nothing.
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Again the high priest asked him and said unto him, Are you the
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Christ, the Son of the blessed? That's the answer.
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That's the question that we all must answer, Friends.
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That's the answer that we must give.
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Friends. Is he the Son of God?
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Is he the Christ? We must answer.
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He asked him, Are you the Christ, the Son of the blessed?
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62 And Jesus said, I am, and you shall see the Son of man sitting
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on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
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Jesus here makes the grandest statement that he could have
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ever made. He calls himself I am.
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He is the great I am. He is God Incarnate.
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He is the Christ, the Son of the blessed.
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He is the only begotten. He is.
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And here this high priest would have understood that he is
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saying that he is God, He is, I am.
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And then if that's not enough, he shows him that they do not
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sit in judgment of him, but he sits in judgment of them.
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Jesus here in this moment is being meek, and he's being LED
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to the slaughter, and He silent before the shears.
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And he did it for you, and he did it for me.
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Friends, He had all authority and all power and could have
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called down legions just with the breath of his mouth.
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He could have annihilated everyone in the room and turned
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them into particles of dust. Friends, he could have opened
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the earth in this moment and swallowed everyone up in a
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moment. But he chose to go to the cross
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for you and for me. He chose to die a criminals
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death for you and for me friends.
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And we should give our lives to Him as He gave his life, as a
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ransom for many friends, for the remission of sins, friends, for
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the atonement, friends, so that we could stand before God
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Almighty, clean and clear and holy and pure one day, not
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because of anything that we have done, but because of this
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moment, because of Jesus Christ. All sufficient sacrifice.
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He calls himself I am. He says that He is the Christ,
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he is the Son of the blessed, and that everyone will see him
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coming in the clouds of heaven, sitting at the right hand of
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power. 63 Then the high priest ripped his clothes and said,
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What? Need we any further witnesses
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this big melodramatic moment that was intended to do exactly
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what it did, which was to create a buzz around all the people in
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the room to follow the lead of the high priest who's trying to
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make some kind of scene. But it doesn't change the fact
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that Jesus calls himself the great I Am, and that he was
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truly God Incarnate come to save the whole world.
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None of this ripping of the clothes, none of this false
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accusations changes anything. 64 You have heard the blasphemy.
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What do you think? And they all condemned him to be
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guilty of death. How pathetic.
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But it was prophesied that year by the high priest that Jesus
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would give his life for the ransom of many. 65 And some
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began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buff at
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him, and say unto him prophecy. And the servants did strike him
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with the palms of their hands. How despicable they're striking
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the face of God here. And we do the same today.
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We spit in God's face. We do not actually give God what
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he desires, which is our whole life, our whole self, all of our
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strength, and all of our mind. Friends, we need to give God our
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everything and be a living sacrifice unto Him today, and
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not spit in his face. 66 And this Peter was beneath in the
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palace, there comes one of the maids of the high priest, and
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when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him and
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said, And you also was with Jesus of Nazareth here.
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This was Peter's time to not allow his denial of the Lord
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Jesus Christ. This was the moment that he had
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to make a decision of he was going to deny Christ or not.
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And he let a little damsel, a little maid overpower him of all
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this bravado that he told the Lord he would have, that he
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would even go unto death. 68 And he But he denied, saying, I know
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not, neither understand I what you say.
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And he went out on the porch in the cock crew, 69 And a maid saw
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him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one
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of them. 70 And he denied it again.
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And a little after they that stood by said again to Peter,
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Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean, for and your
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speech agreeth there too. 71 But he began to curse and to swear,
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saying, I know not this man of whom you speak will end on. 72
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And the second time the cock crew.
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And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him.
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Before the cock crows twice, you shall deny me three times.
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And when he thought thereon, he wept.
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And we know from the completion of all the gospels, all put
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together and arranged with the timeline, we know that it was at
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this moment Jesus was let out. And he locked eyes with Peter.
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And Peter wept bitterly because he had denied Jesus three times.
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And Jesus predicted it all. He knew that this would happen.
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What a awesome, all inspiring, sobering chapter of the Bible
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shows our propensities, friends. It reveals the hearts of men.
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It shows us what we are capable of.
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And we should be like Mary and pour out everything we should
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see and take His words at face value and not try to make
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everything so allegorical and so parabolic, but just to read the
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words and to absorb the words and to believe the words and to
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not call any of it into question, friends, but believe
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on the full authority of God's Word.
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There's such a blessing in that. And I hope you've been blessed
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by this chapter. No, I sure have.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. So does God see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.