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What do we do with Jesus? 
Today is Good Friday and that's 

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our title this morning. 
I've often wondered about this 

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day and asked myself what good 
was what? 

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What is good about today? 
We all know that for Jesus as a 

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man, as a human being, it was 
not a good day. 

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It was not a good day for God. 
Even if you think about it was 

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the day of Son Jesus was killed.
For Jesus as a man, definitely 

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it was not good. 
The night before he prayed in 

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the garden, didn't actually want
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He prayed that God would remove 
the cup of suffering if that was

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his will, but it wasn't. 
If anything, on that day, the 

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disciples of Jesus, for them 
things could not have been 

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worse. 
We have no way of even imagining

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what it must have been like for 
the disciples to have this 

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anticipation. 
He's the King of the Jews and 

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he's going to be the Messiah. 
Extreme to extreme, their hopes 

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and dreams dash to pieces 
further than they could ever 

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have imagined. 
The Bible tells us that God had 

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planned this event, the 
crucifixion, to happen. 

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God had planned for Son Jesus to
come to earth, to live among us,

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to teach us, and in the end to 
give his life as a ransom for 

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the sins of the world. 
We're told in Scripture that God

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so loved the world that he gave 
his only Son that whoever, 

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whoever, who, everyone who 
believes in him should not 

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perish but have eternal life. 
This is an eternal gift. 

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It's free to, free of charge to 
us, given by an act of grace 

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from God to us, and it's an 
eternal gift rooted in Christ, 

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the Son of God. 
But this gift only has value if 

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it's received. 
Any gift has value only if it's 

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received. 
A rejected gift doesn't do 

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anything. 
And for us to receive this, 

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there's a condition. 
We must repent of our sins and 

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put our trust and faith in 
Jesus. 

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When Jesus died, we know he had.
He had done nothing wrong. 

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He didn't die for anything He 
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He died for what humanity had 
done wrong, what we had done 

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wrong. 
That's why he died. 

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He had nothing to repent of. 
His mission was complete as far 

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as the teaching goes. 
Now He had to just die yet, and 

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then that would be finished. 
The evil people in the world, 

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they would take his life, true, 
but the only reason they could 

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take his life was because he was
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He's going to lay it down. 
Jesus says he was the most 

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humble, kind, patient, loving, 
forgiving person that ever 

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walked the earth. 
But the leaders of his day, they

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saw him as a threat to the 
establishment. 

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They saw him as an intrusion, as
an invasion in their lives. 

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In their mind, he has to go 
because if he doesn't go, there 

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will be problems for us. 
And so it was either their 

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system, their structure, their 
way of things, or Jesus. 

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And Jesus had to go. 
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bothered the people of his time 
so much was he called people out

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on their sin. 
He shed light on the lives of 

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the people in his time. 
One particular group especially 

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were the Pharisees, and they 
were the ones, the Pharisees, 

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the religious leaders. 
They said he's got to go, He's 

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got to go. 
That response to Jesus, even 

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today has not really changed 
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People today, still in our time,
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three things with him. 
One, there's some who want to 

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follow him. 
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they're convicted, they're drawn
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Not many of those, but there are
those. 

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There's another group. 
They don't really care either 

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way, take or leave, it doesn't 
really matter much. 

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They just ignore him, live as if
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There's a lot of that, a lot of 
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Then there's a third group. 
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they've got and everyone who 
follows them and they want this 

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story, not just these, but the 
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Everything has to be squashed. 
The truth is it is not myth, it 

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is fact. 
It is story. 

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It's historical reality. 
What we cannot do is get rid of 

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the story. 
History cannot be erased. 

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The question then again, what do
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Testament? 
In the story of the crucifixion,

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we find many characters, 
different types of people, all 

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who somehow had a role in this 
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I want to read the crucifixion 
story out of the Gospel of 

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Matthew this morning, and I'll 
be reading it out of Matthew 

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chapter 26 to 27. 
I'll not read it in its entirety

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because it's too much to read 
for one worship service and one 

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morning, but I'll take certain 
parts of it. 

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And you will be following along 
in your Bibles. 

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You see, Jesus knew what was 
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Jerusalem. 
He told his disciples what the 

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course of the next number of 
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The Passion week as we know it. 
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going to what was going to 
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Of course, he knew everything. 
But then his disciples, they 

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didn't know anything of this. 
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Jerusalem become king. 
He's going to be the king. 

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So I want us to start reading in
Matthew chapter 26 and we'll 

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read verse. 
It says verse one to five, and 

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that is not that's not quite 
accurate there. 

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Sorry. 
It is. 

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Yeah. 
It came to pass when Jesus had 

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finished all these things he 
said to his disciples, you know,

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that after two days is the 
Passover and the Son of Man will

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be delivered up to be crucified.
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and the elders of the people 
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high priest who was called 
Caiaphas and plotted to take 

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Jesus by trickery and kill him. 
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feast, lest there be an uproar 
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So here's the the the top guys, 
the guys at the top, the leaders

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plotted to kill Jesus. 
That's their approach to these. 

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Let's kill him. 
Let's get rid of him. 

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Jesus as a human being, flesh 
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Son of God on that side. 
He knew all of this was going to

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take place, but he did not look 
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He didn't want to die an 
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religious leaders, they did very
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In fact, they needed him to die.
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And as we know in the garden, 
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this. 
But Jesus informed his disciples

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this was going to take place. 
And these leaders, how they plan

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to do it. 
Well, they've tried trick they 

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were going to do with trickery 
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and again not doing the feast. 
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In other words, they want to do 
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They were going to play it safe,
but this was an evil plan that 

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God was going to turn around to 
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saving people from their sins. 
From this point on, Matthew 

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gives a clear rundown on who did
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Jesus last days on earth. 
So we see the leaders plan and 

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plot on how to get rid of him. 
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Matthew chapter 626 verse 6 to 
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And when Jesus was in Bethany at
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woman came to him having an 
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fragrant oil, and she poured it 
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table. 
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they were indignant, saying, why
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For this fragrant oil might have
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the poor. 
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he said to them, Why do you 
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For she's done a good work for 
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For you have the poor with you 
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always. 
For in pouring this fragment oil

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on my body, she did it from a 
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Assuredly, I say to you, 
wherever this gospel is preached

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in the whole world, what this 
woman has done will also be told

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as a memorial to her, the woman 
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So we have the Pharisees, the 
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kill him. 
This woman, I got to anoint him.

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You see the contrast? 
We we don't even told who she 

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is. 
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the woman recorded in John 
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Mary anoints to Jesus feet and 
they say the stories of a 

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difference the same woman. 
We're not sure. 

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Regardless, it's not her name 
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her character. 
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It's better to be a nameless St.
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This woman was a woman who had 
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who Jesus was. 
She knew Jesus was someone 

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special. 
She wanted to show her love and 

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appreciation, loyalty for him. 
So she poured this expensive oil

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over him. 
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Different writers have had their
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a it's an enormous sum of money.
Jesus recognized and valued what

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she did for him. 
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indignant. 
This is waste could have been 

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sold and given to the poor, but 
the woman had it right. 

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She did what she could for 
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She did not know at the time 
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history over the world her act 
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She just wanted to anoint Jesus 
body, not knowing even that that

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he was going to be killed. 
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we may not know the 
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outcome of that, and we should 
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understood. 
I'm sure she heard what the 

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disciples were saying here. 
She's anointing Jesus with oil, 

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pouring it over from the 
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What a waste, what a waste. 
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poor. 
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Let's not expect it. 
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understood when we do something 
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It's only later sometimes that 
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comes out. 
This woman, out of the good 

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character of her heart, did 
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She honored Jesus, showed her 
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We can learn from her. 
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another character. 
He's the opposite of this woman.

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His name is Judas. 
Let's keep reading. 

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Matthew chapter 2614 to 16. 
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Iscariot went to the chief 
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willing to give me if I deliver 
them to you? 

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And they counted out to him 30 
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So from that time on, he sought 
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So he's the third character. 
He sells Jesus. 

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We do not fully know what was in
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What we do know is he was not 
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He made it look as though he 
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caught up with him. 
Judas had a mindset that he 

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wanted to be in control. 
Different commentators mentioned

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different things about him. 
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certainty is that Judas, when 
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him, Judas was thinking, yeah, 
I'm going to betray that guy one

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I'm going to sell him. 

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That's not what he was thinking.
There was a series of events and

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experiences that happened, and 
he came to that conclusion one 

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day. 
It's not working out the way I 

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thought. 
I'm going to betray him. 

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How can he do that? 
It's one of those things that 

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people come to over a period of 
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Judas had reached a point where 
he's actually going to betray 

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his master. 
You see, when we start going 

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down the wrong path, you never 
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up to us. 
It's never right to start 

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rationalizing sin and thinking I
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We don't know what Judas really 
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came out on the wrong side of 
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He's a stark warning for us in 
Scripture about sin in our 

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hearts. 
Well, the, the Pharisees, 

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they're going to kill him. 
The woman, she anoints him. 

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Judas, what he sold him. 
Well, let's keep going. 

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Let's read verse 31 to 35. 
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Now this is a little bit further
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I'm skipping passages here. 
All of you will be made to 

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stumble because of me this 
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This is during the Passover 
meal, for it is written I will 

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strike the shepherd, and the 
sheep of the flock will be 

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scattered. 
But after I've been raised, I'll

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go be before you to Galilee. 
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Even if all are made to stumble 
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made to stumble. 
Jesus said to me, assuredly. 

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I say to you that this night 
before the rooster crows, you'll

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deny me 3 times. 
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have to die with you, I will not
deny you. 

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And so said all the disciples. 
Now we're into boasting. 

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The disciples boasted in 
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They did not see this happening 
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It had not yet registered what 
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They did not know yet. 
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themselves. 
Oh never, we never deny Jesus. 

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Oh come on, what are you talking
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Especially Peter here to be set 
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They did not get it. 
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hearts were not there yet. 
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And let's not be too hard on 
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We're not getting it either. 
So folks, there's so many things

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we don't get. 
They just knew we're never going

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to do that. 
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You see? 
It's always the other guy who 

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stumbles and falls, right? 
It's always the other guy. 

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I would never. 
No, I would never. 

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It's always the other guy who 
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I'm better than that. 
How? 

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How? 
How Can you believe I would do 

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something like that? 
And do you think they were lying

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in their hearts? 
Of course not. 

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They did nothing. 
OK, we're going to say no. 

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We're actually going to do it. 
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either. 
They were not thinking. 

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OK, yeah, probably we will, But 
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No, they were convinced they 
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They knew they were not going 
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Jesus knew they would. 
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all fall. 
They would soon learn. 

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Well, Jesus left the city, went 
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There in the garden he begins to
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He wants his disciples to watch 
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Let's see what actually 
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Now we come to the garden. 
Matthew chapter 26, verse 36 and

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on. 
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place called Gethsemane. 
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sit here while I go pray over 
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And he took with him Peter and 
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began to be sorrowful and deeply
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Then he said to them, My soul is
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death, stay here and watch with 
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He went a little farther and 
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saying, Oh my Father, if it is 
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me. 
Nevertheless, not as I will, but

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as you will. 
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and found them sleeping. 
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you not watch with me one hour? 
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into temptation. 
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flesh is weak. 
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The second time he went and 
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if this cup cannot pass from my 
unless I drink it, your will be 

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will be your will be done. 
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asleep again for their eyes were
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So he left them, went away again
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saying the same words. 
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and said to them, Are you still 
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Behold the hours at hand. 
The Son of man is being betrayed

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into the hands of sinners. 
Rise, let us be going. 

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My betrayer is at hand. 
Commentators say, and I agree 

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with this. 
This was the pivotal moment of 

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Jesus earthly journey. 
The cross was horrible. 

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That's true. 
The cross was, was, was awful. 

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The physical pain unimaginable. 
But here's where that deciding 

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moment happened. 
Will I or won't I? 

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And of course we know he was 
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And, and, and, and God had told 
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it's possible as a man, he still
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He still didn't want to die. 
And what was the side was doing?

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What were they doing when he 
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They slept. 
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promises and commitments, talk 
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Anybody can say, Yep, you can 
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I'll do it when it gets 
critical. 

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No, I'm done. 
I'm out. 

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They meant well. 
They didn't go to the garden 

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yet. 
I'll fall asleep and Jesus would

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pray. 
That's not what they thought. 

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That's not what they thought. 
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We do what's inside of us. 
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harshly, let's remember we're 
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How much do we pray when we 
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Let's be serious about this. 
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we as a congregation don't pray 
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value and God doesn't listen to 
our prayers. 

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But when there's pain and 
sorrow, too often we have not 

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prayed and maybe not physically 
slept, but spiritually, 

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emotionally. 
Well, let's keep moving on. 

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Here we have the story of how 
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Peter to try to save Jesus in a 
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Let's continue reading Matthew 
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And while he was still speaking,
behold, Judas, one of the 12 

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with a great multitude of swords
and clubs came from the chief 

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priests and elders of the 
people. 

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Now his betrayer had given them 
a sign saying, whomever I kiss, 

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he's the one sees him. 
Immediately he went up to Jesus 

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and said, greetings Rabbi, and 
kissed him. 

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But Jesus said to him, Friend, 
why have you come? 

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Then they came and laid hands on
Jesus and took him. 

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And suddenly one of those who 
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his hand and drew his sword, and
struck the servant of the high 

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priest, and cut off his ear. 
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this was Peter. 
So he did take action, continued

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verse 52. 
But Jesus said to him, Put your 

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sword in its place, for all who 
take the sword will perish by 

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the sword. 
Or do you think that I cannot 

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now pray to my Father, and he 
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12 legions of angels? 
How then could the Scriptures be

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fulfilled, that it must happen 
thus in that our Jesus said to 

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the multitudes, Have you come 
out against the robber with 

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swords and clubs to take me? 
I sat daily with you teaching in

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the temple, and you did not 
seize me. 

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But all this has was done that 
the scriptures of the prophets 

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might be fulfilled. 
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56. 
Then all the disciples forsook 

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him and fled. 
What have they just said a few 

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hours ago? 
We will never run away, Lord, 

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No, we're not going to run away.
We'll die with You. 

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In fact, this was our surprise 
to the disciples. 

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And it was Peter who started 
swinging the sword. 

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He really wanted to defend Jesus
because he's going to be king 

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after all. 
You know what is Noteworth is 

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how the arrest went down. 
Even though it was Jesus was 

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arrested. 
He was the only guy in control. 

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He was the only guy who had it 
together. 

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Not the disciples. 
They ran away. 

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Not Judas. 
He was a betrayer. 

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Not the Pharisees, the the gang 
they brought with him. 

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Jesus was the only one in 
control. 

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You see what's happened? 
The dominoes are toppling one 

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after another. 
The leader plots his death, the 

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plot his death. 
The woman anoints and Judas 

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betrays and the disciples 
misunderstand and they sleep and

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they should be praying. 
They run and hide. 

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When Jesus gets arrested, it's 
not going so well. 

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The disciples, they fled. 
The crowds thought they had this

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under control. 
In reality, they were just pawns

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under the power of the Prince of
Darkness who were doing what He 

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wanted them to do to get rid of 
Jesus. 

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And God was orchestrating this. 
He's going to use it for 

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redemption. 
See, no matter how well we may 

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think we stand, we do not stand 
if we're not rooted and grounded

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in Christ. 
They all forsook him and fled. 

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See, first, they're not going to
deny him. 

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Second, they couldn't even watch
Him pray with him. 

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And 3rd, they all run. 
It's pretty tough. 

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The saying is pretty tough. 
Where did well, where did it 

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take him? 
Let's keep going. 26 or 57 and 

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on says and those who laid hold 
of Jesus led him away to 

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Caiaphas. 
The high priest were the scribes

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and the elders were assembled. 
But Peter followed him at a 

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distance to the high priest 
courtyard. 

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See, Peter ran away, but OK, 
he's in the distance now. 

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I still want to see what's going
on. 

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And he went in and sat with the 
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How's it going to pan out now? 
The chief priests and elders and

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all the council sought 
testimony, false testimony 

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against Jesus to put him to 
death, but found none. 

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Even though many false witnesses
came forward, they found none. 

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But at last two false witnesses 
came forward and said, this 

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fella said, I'm able to destroy 
the temple of God and build it 

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in three days. 
And the high priest rose and 

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said to him, do you answer 
nothing? 

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What is it? 
These men testify against you? 

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But Jesus kept silent. 
You see, that's the interesting 

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thing about Jesus. 
He doesn't need to talk. 

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Solid people seldom need to 
defend themselves. 

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And the high priest answered and
said to him, I put you underoath

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by the living God. 
Tell us if you're the Christ, 

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the Son of God. 
Jesus said to him, It is as you 

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said. 
Nevertheless, I say to you, 

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hereafter you will see the Son 
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hand of the power and coming in 
the clouds of glory. 

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Then the high priest tore his 
clothes and saying he has spoken

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blasphemy. 
What further need do we have of 

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witnesses? 
Look, now you've heard his 

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blasphemy, What do you think? 
They answered and said, he's 

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they're deserving of death. 
And they spat in his face and 

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beat him. 
And the others struck him with 

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the palms of their hands, 
saying, prophesied to us Christ,

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who's the one who struck you? 
Well, they put him through a 

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mock trial. 
The men should have expected the

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men Jesus should have expected 
fairness from. 

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He got the least of it, none of 
it where he should have got 

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expected justice from. 
It was injustice. 

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There was no foundation to 
anything that they had said or 

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they just hated Jesus. 
That was it. 

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They had to come up with 
something and a false charge 

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brought up. 
And As for the statement then 

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when he was challenged, are you 
the Son of God? 

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He said yes, knowing full well 
this would be used against him 

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to get the death sentence from 
the Jewish leaders. 

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But as we shall see, the 
statement here to get the death 

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sentence, that was a different 
statement than they used for 

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Pilot. 
That's what people like that 

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always do. 
They use this here and that over

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there. 
Here it's about are you the 

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Messiah? 
Pilot couldn't care less about 

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that. 
But for Pilot, they said 

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something different. 
Well, let's see how Peter's 

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handling all this. 
Peter's watching, you know. 

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Now Peter said, continuing on 69
they were 74. 

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Now Peter sat outside in the 
courtyard and the servant girl 

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came to him saying, You also 
were with him, with the Jesus of

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Galilee. 
But he denied it before them 

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all, saying, I do not know what 
you're saying. 

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And when he had gone out of to 
the gateway, another girl saw 

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him and said to those who were 
there, this fellow also was with

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Jesus of Nazareth. 
But again he denied with an 

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oath. 
I do not know the man. 

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And a little later those who 
stood by by camp by came up and 

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said to Peter, surely you're 
also one of them, for your 

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speech betrays you. 
Then he began to curse and 

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swear, saying, I do not know the
man. 

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Immediately a rooster crowed, 
and Peter remembered the word of

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the word Jesus had said to him 
before. 

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The rooster crows, You deny me 
three times. 

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So he went out and wept 
bitterly. 

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He didn't plan on denying Jesus,
he just did it. 

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He said. 
Peter denied Jesus three times. 

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It's bad to fail once, to fail 
the same test three times. 

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That's worse in our culture. 
Three time failure to strike 

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out. 
I don't know what three times 

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meant in that ancient history. 
I'm sure there's something to 

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it, but I haven't studied that. 
But nonetheless, there's 

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significance there. 
It's not just one time Peter 

455
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:29,040
denied Jesus. 
He denied him 3 * 3 times Peter 

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00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:31,440
failed. 
There's something else here. 

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Who was challenging him? 
Girls. 

458
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,400
I'm not saying anything against 
women and girls, OK? 

459
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It's not the point. 
But these are the people he had.

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Leads to fear. 
If you fear me. 

461
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,920
If you're a soldier, some some 
fighter. 

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But girls, they won't harm a 
man. 

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00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,640
And it's just the words of 2 
girls who get him to deny him. 

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Where's Peter? 
And then he curses and swears he

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doesn't know him. 
But of course we're better than 

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Peter, right? 
I mean, we wouldn't do that, 

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would we? 
Come on, would we? 

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00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,120
Would we be like Peter? 
No, we wouldn't do that, would 

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we? 
Do we? 

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00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,000
Do we deny Jesus or when do we 
deny Jesus? 

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You know, sometimes it takes so 
very, very precious little for 

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us to just take a little bit of 
a detour, a little bit of an 

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excursion, just a little bit of 
an avoidance. 

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And we don't have to maybe say 
something about Jesus or we, we 

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can compromise. 
And, you know, Peter had reason 

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to fear because he gets killed. 
I might get killed. 

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Well, he had Hacked Off the 
servant's ear before. 

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Now he cowered in fear, he 
denied Jesus. 

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Let's continue reading chapter 
27 verse 15 now. 

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Now Jesus before Pilate, not the
feast, the governor was 

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accustomed to releasing the 
multitude to the multitude 1 

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prisoner whom they wished, and 
at the time they had a notorious

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prisoner called a Barabbas. 
Therefore, when they had 

484
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gathered together, Pilate said 
to them, whom do you want me to 

485
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,520
release to you? 
Barabbas or Jesus who's called 

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the Christ for he knew they had 
handed him over because of envy.

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00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,760
Pilots are right through the 
whole charade. 

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He knew everything. 
While he was sitting on the 

489
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,480
judgement seat, his wife sent to
him saying have nothing to do 

490
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,960
with that just man, for I've 
suffered many things today in a 

491
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,640
dream because of him. 
But the chief priests and elders

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persuaded the multitudes they 
should ask for Barabbas and 

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00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,160
destroy Jesus. 
The governor answered and said 

494
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,240
to them, which of the two do you
want me to release to you? 

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00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,840
They said Barabbas. 
Pilate said to them, what then 

496
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,400
shall I do with Jesus who's 
called the Christ? 

497
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,000
They all said to him, let him be
crucified. 

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00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,200
Then the governor said, what? 
What evil has he done? 

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00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,960
They all cried at all the more, 
saying, let him be crucified. 

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00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,200
When Pilate saw that he could 
not prevail at all, but rather 

501
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,920
that a tumult was rising, he 
took water and washed his hands 

502
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,400
before the molar did, saying, 
I'm innocent of the blood of 

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00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,440
this just person, you see to it.
And all the people answered and 

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00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,040
said, his blood be on us and our
children. 

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00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,000
Then he released Barabbas to 
them, and when he had scourged 

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00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,800
Jesus, he delivered him to be 
crucified. 

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00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,520
What did Pilate do? 
He was no better than anyone 

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00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,160
else. 
He condemned Jesus to be 

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00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,560
crucified. 
We have a number of people in 

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00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,520
this this section here. 
First there's Pilate. 

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He has the power to set him 
free, but he has to answer to 

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00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,760
Rome. 
The emperor in Rome might not 

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00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,360
like if something goes wrong in 
Jerusalem. 

514
00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:10,080
So he's got to think, got that 
to think about. 

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00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,320
He's got to keep his job neat 
and tidy, make sure Jerusalem 

516
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,000
stays in order. 
He can't risk an uprising. 

517
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,160
But he also knows Jesus is 
innocent. 

518
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,120
But then he's got these pesky 
Jews to deal with. 

519
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,040
Then there's his wife. 
She's made her decision. 

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00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,800
She says set the man free. 
I dream bad things about him, 

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00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,840
and they're religious leaders, 
relentless. 

522
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,440
They're the worst of the worst. 
Then there's this mob. 

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00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,400
What is he supposed to do? 
He must have wished he was on 

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vacation or something. 
But to ease his conscience, his 

525
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,400
inner agony over what's going 
on, he relinquished control to 

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the crowd and let the people 
have their way. 

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00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,840
And he hands these over, has him
whipped and sent off to be 

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00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,080
crucified. 
And that's what they do. 

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00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:54,080
Let's continue reading. 
Now we're into math the chapter 

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27, verse 39, 35 and 39, it says
in verse 35. 

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But then they crucified him. 
They've let him out to the to 

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00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:06,280
Golgotha, now to to Calvary. 
And there they crucified him and

533
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,760
divided his garments, casting 
lots that it might be fulfilled,

534
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,120
which was spoken by the prophet.
They divided my garments among 

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00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:15,000
them and from a closing cast 
lots jumping down to verse 39. 

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00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,880
And those who passed by 
blasphemed him, wagging their 

537
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,480
heads and saying, Who you who 
destroy the temple and build it 

538
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,600
in three days, save yourself. 
If you're the Son of God, come 

539
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,600
down from the cross. 
Likewise the chief priest, also 

540
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,240
mocking with the scribes and 
elders, said He saved others 

541
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,240
himself. 
He cannot save if he's the King 

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00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,160
of Israel. 
Let him now come down from the 

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00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,520
cross and we will believe him. 
He trusted in God, let him 

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00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,200
deliver him now, if he wills 
have him. 

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00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,960
For he said, I am the Son of 
God. 

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00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,600
Even the robbers who were 
crucified with him reviled him 

547
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,760
with the same thing. 
The crowd mocked Jesus at the 

548
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,800
cross. 
The soldiers on duty. 

549
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,960
They too had their fill of 
making life difficult for Jesus.

550
00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,400
They humiliated him, mocking him
and torturing him, then nailed 

551
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,800
him to a cross. 
That bypasser by people 

552
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,040
blasphemed him, using words 
against him. 

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00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,120
Interestingly enough, the chief 
priesthood followed them there 

554
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as well. 
They had to watch the whole 

555
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,440
thing go down. 
The suffering Jesus endured from

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humanity that day was total. 
There was no level of suffering 

557
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that was spared on that day at 
all levels. 

558
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:21,520
Emotionally, verbally, socially,
physically, at every level from 

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00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,200
those who most trusted to those 
who most hated him at every 

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level. 
It wasn't over yet. 

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00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:34,200
There was one more coming, He 
experienced abandonment was 45 

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00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,200
to 50. 
Now from the 6th hour until the 

563
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:40,160
9th hour there was darkness over
all the land. 

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In about the 9th hour Jesus 
cried in a loud voice Ellie, 

565
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,160
Ellie Lamasabatani with means my
God, my God, why have you 

566
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,520
forsaken me? 
Some of those who stood there 

567
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,840
when they heard that said this 
man's calling for Elijah. 

568
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,440
Immediately one of them ran and 
took a sponge and filled it with

569
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,800
sour wine and put it on a Reed 
and offered him to drink. 

570
00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,200
The rest said, leave him, let 
him alone, let's see if Elijah 

571
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,920
will come to save him. 
And was 50 And Jesus cried at it

572
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,640
again, and with a loud voice, 
and yielded up his spirit. 

573
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:20,310
God gave his Son over to death. 
First Second Corinthians 521 

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00:28:20,310 --> 00:28:24,350
says, For he made him who knew 
no sin to be sin for us, that we

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00:28:24,350 --> 00:28:27,550
may become the righteousness of 
God in him. 

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00:28:29,230 --> 00:28:33,790
Even God could not look at his 
own Son when the sin of the 

577
00:28:33,790 --> 00:28:37,630
world was on his shoulders. 
Jesus took it all. 

578
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:48,240
There was nothing left. 
Jesus traded places with us, the

579
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,960
shame, the ridicule, the 
mockery, the punishment, the 

580
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,840
humiliation. 
We deserved all of it. 

581
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,640
And he took it and gave it, took
it on himself. 

582
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,520
Some theologians comment, well, 
did God actually forsake him? 

583
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,400
Well, we don't need to argue. 
We know God cannot look on sin. 

584
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,880
He destroys it in his infinite 
love. 

585
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,960
He took this path for us people.
And because Jesus was perfect 

586
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,080
and holy and blamed this, He 
took that punishment on our 

587
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:21,480
behalf. 
Because he was holy, He didn't 

588
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,920
die forever. 
He died for three days and the 

589
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,920
God raised him back to life. 
And that's the story. 

590
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,120
We're looking forward to 
listening on Sunday morning. 

591
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,760
When we come back here Sunday 
morning. 

592
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,240
Let's summarize this. 
The one main point of all of 

593
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,680
this is Jesus walked the path of
suffering that we deserved. 

594
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,000
You see, first the leaders 
plotted to kill him. 

595
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,920
The woman she anointed him, 
Judas, what? 

596
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,680
He sold him. 
The disciples boasted to him 

597
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,080
about their loyalty. 
The disciples slept when they 

598
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,000
should be praying. 
When Jesus was arrested, the 

599
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,040
disciples fled. 
The religious leaders unjustly 

600
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:09,800
accused and condemned him. 
Peter denied him, Pilate had him

601
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:18,440
crucified, the soldiers mocked 
him, the crowd mocked him, and 

602
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,760
God turned his face away from 
him. 

603
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:35,460
It was either him or us. 
So the question what will we do 

604
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:38,700
with Jesus? 
Well, I would do nothing. 

605
00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:42,620
That's a response. 
You can only do that for so 

606
00:30:42,620 --> 00:30:47,720
long. 
So one day we will answer in 

607
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,200
this life, for a time it's 
possible to avoid him, to just 

608
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,680
push him aside. 
We can do that, but there's 

609
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,440
words and scripture that teach 
us that's what's going to 

610
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,840
happen. 
Isaiah 45, verse 23, this 

611
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,960
prophet writes, I've sworn by 
myself. 

612
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:02,080
God says the word has gone out 
of my mouth and righteousness 

613
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,160
and shall not return that to me.
Every knee shall bow, every 

614
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:10,800
tongue shall take an oath. 
What happened in the story of 

615
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,760
Jesus? 
Everything that happened to 

616
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:19,400
Jesus was for a reason. 
Jesus experienced rejection so 

617
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:25,800
we could experience acceptance. 
God is holy, He's just, and he 

618
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,760
rejects sin. 
We don't have what it takes to 

619
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,480
measure up. 
We can't meet the standard. 

620
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:32,520
We can't measure up, so we need 
him. 

621
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,080
Doesn't matter who we are. 
This gift stands today to 

622
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,240
everyone who repents and 
believes and surrenders their 

623
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,720
life to Jesus. 
Jesus died so you and I could 

624
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:43,960
have eternal life.