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We welcome you to the We Are 
Zion sermon podcast. 

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We are a church based out of 
Chennai, India. 

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We are thrilled that you tuned 
in today and hope that you will 

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be refreshed, revived, and 
energized by what you hear. 

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Our desire is that you will live
life with a renewed sense of 

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purpose that stems from a 
vibrant faith in Jesus. 

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If you were to choose between 
life and death, what would you 

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choose? 
This Good Friday we look at how 

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through Jesus's death, we find 
life eternal, fresh and 

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abundant. 
Amen. 

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Even as we just ruminate on what
Good Friday is about. 

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You know, I've been reading the 
book of Matthew this whole 

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month, the past month. 
And reading the book of Matthew 

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really helped me understand what
an eyewitness account looks 

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like, and especially of the 
scene on that, that Good Friday 

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when Jesus was accused, he was 
betrayed. 

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He was handed up to the elder as
the chief priest and then he 

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was, you know, sentenced to 
death, flogged, beaten, spat 

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upon and then put on that cross 
where he died. 

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The entire narrative really 
looks so dark. 

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It looks dismal and and just 
like we just saw in this video 

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that there is this heaviness and
grief that tends to settle on us

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on Good Friday. 
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remember I would have to sit in 
church for about 3 hours. 

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The service was long. 
We had a lot of pastors who were

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preaching. 
We used to have buttermilk at 

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the end and hot cross buns and 
that was the big highlight. 

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But as I get older, I realized 
there's so much to rejoice on 

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this day. 
There's so much to look at, so 

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much to meditate on, and so much
to grow into from this day on. 

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And I hope that as we look at 
God's Word today, we're going to

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be looking from Matthew 26 at 
different players in this story,

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so to speak, and how everyone of
them had a choice that they had 

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to make. 
Before I get into that, I want 

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us to look at Deuteronomy 
chapter 30, verse 19. 

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I'm reading from the ESV 
version. 

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It says I call heaven and earth 
to witness against you today 

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that I've set before you life 
and death, blessing and curse. 

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Therefore choose life that you 
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loving the Lord your God, 
obeying His voice and holding 

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fast to Him. 
For He is your life and length 

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of days that you may dwell in 
the land that the Lord swore to 

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your to Abraham, to Isaac, and 
to Jacob to give them. 

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He says choose life, preferably.
That's almost what he's saying. 

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He's saying I'm presenting 
before you life and death, but 

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choose life. 
If you choose life, there are 

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so. 
Many benefits that come from it.

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And the question today, even 
today, is this, would you choose

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life or would you choose death? 
When we look at the story of 

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Jesus's death, what we are 
actually looking at is different

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people who made a choice at that
moment either for death or for 

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life. 
And we're going to be looking at

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three different sets of 
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And so I titled today's message 
as life versus death because as 

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much as these men, these 
ordinary men unschooled, some of

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them, some of them were 
criminals, some of them were 

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leaders, as much as they had a 
momentous choice to make, you 

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and I have the same choice every
day, Every single day we make 

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choices that either lead us into
life or they lead us into death.

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If you are married, you know 
that sometimes in an argument, 

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some of the things that we say, 
some of the words that we use, 

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some of the declarations we make
don't necessarily promote life, 

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but promote death. 
Maybe you've spoken that over 

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your child. 
Maybe as a child you received 

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such words. 
And so you so understand when 

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the writer of that verse in the 
Bible says that you know your 

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tongue has the power of life and
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And so every single day we are 
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death. 
And today I want to present that

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to you, life versus death. 
What will you choose? 

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The first set of players. 
That I want to look at are 

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herid. 
And Pilate, King Herod, he was 

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the local ruler at the time. 
Him and Pilate were actually 

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enemies. 
They became friends during the 

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trial of Jesus. 
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when Herod saw Jesus. 
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for a. 
Long time he had been wanting to

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see him. 
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him, he hoped to see him perform
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He plied him with many 
questions, but Jesus gave him no

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answer. 
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teachers of the law were 
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accusing him. 
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ridiculed and mocked him, 
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They sent him back to Pilot. 
Now, if you have read the book 

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of Matthew, the last Matthew 26 
and 27, you will see the moral 

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crisis and dilemma that Pilot 
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He's got Jesus has come into his
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He's about to be. 
He's coming in for sentencing. 

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Pilot knows this man is 
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Pilot also applies him with 
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Jesus doesn't respond and he 
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There are so many claims against
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then. 
And he said, do you know, I have

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the authority to put to hand you
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And he says you have no 
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given you. 
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And Pilot knows he's in a he's, 
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hard place. 
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a dream. 
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the court saying, I have nothing
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Just man, I have suffered in a 
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So all of this is on Pilot's 
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And yet he's forced by the chief
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sentence Jesus to death. 
So he subjects him to flogging 

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and sends him to death. 
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of showing people that he didn't
want any blame in this, he very 

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ceremoniously washes his hands 
before the people, as if that 

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could cleanse. 
A broken conscience, as if that 

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could cleanse him of the guilt 
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It couldn't. 
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this towards the end of that 
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John chapter 19, it talks about 
a different thing that Pilate 

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did. 
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Jesus, he was hoping for some 
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Herod seemed to be all about, 
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You can see that when he, even 
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Baptist, he had this dramatic. 
He had a flair for the dramatic.

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But Pilate on the other hand, 
towards the end, it says in John

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chapter 19 verses 19 to 22, 
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and put it on the cross. 
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king of the Jews. 
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inscription, for the place where
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city, and it was written in 
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So the chief priest of the Jews 
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king of the Jews, but rather 
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Jews, Pilot answered. 
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written. 
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believe it's a very pivotal 
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more I read God's word that 
everything that is put in there 

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that seems like a seemingly 
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It is there to highlight 
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about God. 
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I feel like Pilot redeems 
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Yes, he condemned Jesus, but 
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will. 
He did everything that was in 

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alignment with God's will. 
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He probably did. 
He probably had to go back home 

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and answer his wife. 
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do that? 
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innocent. 
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a stand for the truth. 
I think it's in the book of Luke

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or John when having a 
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Jesus said that I testify to the
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a sarcastic reply. 
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And I think he asked the wrong 
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truth was before him. 
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standing before him. 
He says what is truth, right. 

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And at that moment on the cross 
when he put that multilingual 

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label, the truth about who Jesus
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Jews disowned him. 
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publicly declared who he was. 
I believe it was a moment of 

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redemption. 
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he maybe had grappled with the 
truth and declared what he 

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believed to be true. 
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Herod and Pilate both had 
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Each made one Herod ridiculed, 
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Pilate, yes, wrote him off, 
declared him guilty, released an

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innocent, released a guilty guy 
in in lieu of Jesus who was 

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completely innocent. 
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He said he, it says the text 
says that he knew that the chief

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peas were jealous of Jesus and 
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in and yet he didn't do what was
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But in this moment he takes up 
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He puts that mantle on and says 
what I have written, I have 

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written. 
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many of us grapple just like 
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at work, at home, in our 
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the places that we interact with
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We have moments where we get to 
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get to defend the truth, where 
we get to defend things that God

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would defend. 
And at that moment, what do we 

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do? 
That's a question for us to 

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grapple with. 
That's a question for us to 

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ponder, and I hope that we don't
know what happened to Pilate and

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his wife after this, but my hope
is that her having that dream 

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about Jesus must have been a God
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Those kind of dreams where God 
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is from God. 
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that Pilate and his wife had a 
new life after that, just 

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knowing who Jesus was, 
understanding what he did for 

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them on that cross. 
The second set of people are 

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going to be looking at is 
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You remember Jesus was crucified
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criminals, right? 
And this is what Luke chapter 23

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verses 39 to 43 says. 
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were hanged railed at him saying
are you not the Christ save 

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yourself and us? 
But the other rebuked him, 

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saying. 
Do you not fear God since you 

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are under the same sentence of 
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And we indeed justly, for we are
receiving the due reward for our

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deeds. 
But this man has done nothing 

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wrong. 
And he said, Jesus, Remember Me 

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when you come into your Kingdom.
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to you today you will be with me
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I I for one find this to be one 
of the most poignant passages in

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the New Testament because there 
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the Kingdom of God. 
This man proved it. 

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He knew the truth. 
The truth set him free. 

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He was at the, the, you know, 
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He was right at the end. 
And at that moment he knew who 

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Jesus was. 
And he doesn't pray the sinner's

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prayer. 
He doesn't say, get me baptized.

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And then we can, you know, see 
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At that moment, all he said was 
Jesus, Remember Me when you 

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enter paradise, when you come 
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Wow, I don't know if he heard 
Jesus preach before that, if he 

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had heard about something about 
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I don't. 
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death, 1 railed at Jesus, one 
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There are many times when I I 
watch the arguments between my 

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children and if one wants a 
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don't have the tact to ask for 
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Well, they accuse and insult the
other one, hoping they'll get on

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their side and do the work for 
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And it's the worst tactic. 
And this man was not helping his

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case. 
He's insulting Jesus and saying 

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get us off the cross and get 
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Utter disbelief, mockery. 
Whereas the other man, in that 

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crucial moment, just as his life
was ebbing, he made the right 

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choice. 1 screamed, 1 demanded. 
One felt you know what? 

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Use your power one last time, 
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life. 
I love that Jesus says truly. 

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I say to you today you will be 
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What joy for that man that as 
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life on eyes here on earth, he 
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Can you? 
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lives on earth are just a dot, 
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It's almost like a mist, like 
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tomorrow. 
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everything. 
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And so, so many times we're 
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earth through houses and cars 
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What am I doing in the now that 
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That is the question and this 
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and Judas. 
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One was probably he. 
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circles, had a certain idea of 
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invade the Roman Empire. 
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That was Peter who was an 
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pro at his craft, right? 
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He he had a brother who had 
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This is these are the two guys 
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quarters for three years with 
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Judas. 
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talking to the elders and 
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betray his master. 
What a sad thing and adamant 

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says at that Last Supper. 
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and he left it to go meet with 
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Jesus knew what he was going to 
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Jesus washed the feet of his 

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disciples that night. 
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Judas. 
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Judas was so hardened by the 
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his soul so much. 
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the man he was going to betray 
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washing his filthy feet. 
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Peter, Peter also got his feet 
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So he was like, you know what, I
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He says you're already clean. 
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about Judas, but he said I want 
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do that for each other that 
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that you would serve each other 
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that you belong to me because of
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So Jesus modeled this and then 
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these guys. 
Judas goes on to betray Jesus 

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comes and kisses him in the 
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over to the elders. 
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distance once he's arrested and 
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the the area where Jesus was 
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He. 
Goes on to. 

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Deny Jesus three times, servant 
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Ask him, Hey, weren't you with 
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You have a Galilean accent. 
Are you sure you weren't with 

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Jesus? 
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And when the rooster crows, this
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Luke chapter 22, verses 61 and 
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The Lord turned and looked 
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before the rooster crows. 
Today you will disown me three 

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times. 
And he went outside and wept 

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bitterly. 
I don't know if I can even 

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condemn Peter at this point. 
Because what would you and I 

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have done if we were placed in 
that position where everything 

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we had believed and had run 
based on for three years was now

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at stake? 
When the man who had spearheaded

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our movement was standing there 
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there would be a tendency to 
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sustain this. 
I don't know if I can carry 

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this. 
Should I say that I know him, 

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That I love him? 
That, that he he's the most 

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incredible thing that happened 
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But then look at what Judas did.
Matthew 27 verse 5 S Judas threw

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the money. 
This is the money, the 30 pieces

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of silver that they paid him to 
betray Jesus and left. 

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Then he went away and hanged 
himself. 

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Peter saw Jesus, felt remorse, 
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while, but Jesus calls him back.
Once Jesus is resurrected, he 

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calls him out of the water, 
reinstates him for the three 

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denials. 
He reaffirms his love three 

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times for him. 
He calls him three times. 

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Will you feed my sheep? 
Will you feed my lambs? 

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Will you look after my sheep? 
He was literally giving him a 

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fresh assignment. 
He was giving him an assignment 

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for the rest of his life. 
He reinstated him. 

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He forgave him, His grace, 
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hand, Judas prematurely gave up.
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The shame, the guilt, all of it 
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realized. 
The depths of his sin. 

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He will use us to fulfill His 
purposes. 

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He will use us to speak that 
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He will use us to set someone's 
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He will use us and demolish us 
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He has false. 
Promises false claims. 

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Everything that he says he wants
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something else. 
There are hidden agendas. 

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There's fine print that we miss 
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But Jesus, when he invites us 
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is no fine print, there is no 
hidden agenda. 

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He says come to me, all who are 
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will give you rest. 
There is no agenda, no motive 

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except for Him to embrace us and
love. 

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US. 
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Judas missed the point. 
He knew this man for three 

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years. 
He saw that every time he heals 

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someone, he would say your sins 
are forgiven, Go, your faith has

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healed you. 
He knew that this man had the 

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power to forgive sins. 
And yet Judas missed it. 

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Judas thought what he did was 
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He missed the point of the 
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And so he chose death, as we 
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situations. 
Each of them had a choice. 

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These were very pivotal moments.
These were hard pressed moments.

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They were not easy. 
These were moments when everyone

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was watching them and yet they 
had to make a call between life 

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or death and to understand the 
gravity of the life that Jesus 

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actually gave us when he died, 
which feels oxymoronic because 

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Jesus died and how can he give 
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But I want you to just watch the
short clips from one of my 

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favorite Disney movies is movie 
Hercules. 

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And there's this little clip of 
where, of course, it's a 

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different story in the sense 
that Hercules falls for a woman,

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right? 
He falls with this woman. 

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And actually, she's 1 of Hades 
Hinch women. 

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She's one of the bad girls. 
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conscience and she does what is 
right. 

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And so Hercules goes to rescue 
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lap of Hades, which is the 
underworld. 

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He's a Lord of the underworld, 
and he comes there to rescue 

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Meg. 
That's the girl. 

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And that's the scene outing 
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they work for Hades. 
They work in the underworld when

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they cut. 
This is all part of Greek 

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mythology. 
I don't believe in it, but it's 

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very interesting reading, and it
really applies to what we're 

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looking at today. 
These three women, the Furies, 

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work in conjunction with Hades. 
The minute they cut the life 

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threat, someone dies and their 
soul goes to hell, Right? 

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And they're about to do that to 
Hercules, who so selflessly is 

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going to rescue this woman who 
is good to him, even though she 

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first started out, as, you know,
seducing him and, you know, 

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trying to get him by hook or 
crook for Hades. 

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She eventually comes to a place 
of actually doing what is right 

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and this guy goes to save her 
and in the process his divinity 

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comes to the surface and they 
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So did you notice it became 
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He was immortal. 
And I believe that when Jesus, 

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and this is spoken of by the 
episodes of how Jesus descended 

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into the depths of hell and then
rose again victorious and in the

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descending to hell, He was the 
perfect sacrifice. 

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His sacrifice covered every man,
woman and child sin from before 

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unto eternity. 
The length, depth and the breath

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of God's plan is beyond our 
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We cannot understand it. 
But the beautiful thing is this 

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Jesus, his life didn't really 
end in death. 

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He brought all of His life and 
if you notice when he comes out,

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he just gives a punch to Hades 
ending it. 

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And I want you to remember this.
This is what Jesus died for. 

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Jesus died to triumph over the 
enemy, over every scheme, over 

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his minions, over his Kingdom. 
He's brought his dominion down 

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on earth. 
And not just that, he did that 

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so that you and I can live 
victoriously also. 

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You and I can live and really 
live because the truth is many 

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of us just on life support, I've
said this before, many of us are

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just getting through each day. 
We're in just on surviving 

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space. 
We just get up, we just do what 

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is required and then go back to 
bed at night. 

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We don't feel like we're making 
an impact. 

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We call ourselves slaves to our 
jobs. 

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We look at the the beauty of our
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We missed the miracle in the 
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And I want to bring us back to 
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when he died, he died to give us
life, but not just an ordinary 

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life. 
It's three kinds of life. 

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The first thing is he gave us 
eternal life. 

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Like we saw that criminal he 
chose. 

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He said Remember Me in paradise 
because he realized this life. 

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Was done, but the next one was 
beginning. 

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So the first kind of life that 
Jesus died for was for you to 

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have eternal life. 
The second thing that Jesus died

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in order to give you was new 
life. 

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It was not the old, because our 
old life is distinctly 

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different. 
Jesus was coming to give us new 

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life and the third kind of life 
that. 

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Jesus desires to give us is. 
Abundant life like we see in 

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John 1010. 
And so I want to leave this with

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you today. 
The first thing, eternal life, 

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the word for it actually means 
in perpetuity, forever, 

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everlasting. 
John 316 says For God so loved 

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the world that he gave his one 
and only Son, that whoever 

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believes in him should not 
perish, but have eternal life. 

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The minute you and I are saved, 
the minute I say Jesus come into

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my life, eternity has begun. 
Up until then eternity was not 

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on my books, but the minute 
Jesus came in, eternity entered.

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And the beautiful thing is the 
writer of Ecclesiastes says he 

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has set eternity in the hearts 
of man, which means every person

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on the earth has a God sized. 
Void in their life and they're 

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trying to fill it with something
or the other, you and me 

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included. 
But the beautiful thing is when 

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I accept Jesus in, I choose 
eternal life and my life here 

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knows no end. 
It just goes. 

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When I close my life here on 
earth, I open it in paradise 

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with Jesus. 
John chapter 6 verse 54 says 

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whoever eats my flesh and drinks
my blood has eternal life and I 

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will raise them up at the last 
day. 

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Jesus is talking about the new 
covenant that he instituted on 

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that night before He died. 
When he presented the wine and 

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the bread, he said this is my 
body which is being broken. 

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This is the cup of blood which I
spill for you. 

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And when you do it every single 
time, you are doing it in 

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remembrance of what Jesus did 
for you. 

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And Jesus did it so that you 
will have eternal life. 

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Every time you have communion, 
you are remembering, wow, my 

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inheritance is eternal. 
I may not have a house here, I 

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may not have a car, I may not 
have much money, but I have 

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Jesus. 
I have eternity secure. 

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It changes how we live here and 
now. 

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But you know the problem? 
There is a problem to everything

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that we face in our lives, even 
a lot of our biblical 

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principles. 
Many times it fails at the place

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of our problem. 
We don't take it past that. 

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So while there are challenges 
and problems I want to produce, 

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I want to present to you what 
you can actually do with those 

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problems. 
Some of the problems we have 

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00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,560
that while we are here, we don't
have eternity issues. 

454
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:50,080
We have temporal issues, we have
joint pains, we have bone pains.

455
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,760
We have diseases that sometimes 
touch us. 

456
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,480
We have struggles with finances.
We have relationship problems. 

457
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,640
We have work struggles. 
We have issues knowing Our 

458
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,640
Calling, our purpose and I 
believe that the way to navigate

459
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,880
earth with a heavenly mindset 
once we are saved is very 

460
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,080
important. 
And what does that mean? 

461
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,920
Jesus taught his disciples in 
the Lords Prayer that let your 

462
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,920
will be done your. 
Kingdom come on earth as it is 

463
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,840
in heaven. 
So while we live on earth, the 

464
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,920
minute you and I have saved, 
eternity has begun. 

465
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,640
How I start to live at that very
moment matters. 

466
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,640
Do I intentionally invite heaven
to earth? 

467
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,840
Do I intentionally invite Jesus 
to invade my current reality? 

468
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,880
I'm in that hard space with the 
boss. 

469
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,280
Lord, I invite you into this 
moment. 

470
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,240
Can you tell me how to speak? 
Can you teach me how to respond?

471
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,640
They are disrespecting me. 
Lord, what do I do? 

472
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,120
What do I say? 
This marriage is taking a toll, 

473
00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:44,560
Father. 
How do I handle it? 

474
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,240
I'm inviting heaven into earth. 
Earth and eternal life begins to

475
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,640
play a role in my everyday. 
That difficult Co worker, that 

476
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,800
rocky marriage, that troubled 
child, all of it is real. 

477
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,080
Just because we're talking about
eternal life doesn't mean we 

478
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,360
negate the reality of our 
present. 

479
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,920
Because remember, we are in the 
now and the not yet. 

480
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,280
We are in the middle and it's a 
very vital stage. 

481
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,320
It's the time when we are being 
sanctified by the Holy Spirit. 

482
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,880
We are being shaped into the 
likeness of Jesus while also 

483
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,800
being prepared for eternity 
while fulfilling Our Calling on 

484
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,600
earth. 
It's a lot of things happening, 

485
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:25,080
so how we live now matters. 
So the challenge I want to offer

486
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,240
you today, yes, we are made for 
eternity. 

487
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,040
Eternal life is the is the 
destination, but it's also a 

488
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,400
present reality. 
Are you and I walking in close 

489
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,000
communion with God right now? 
Because sometimes we think, 

490
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,160
well, in eternity I'll manage. 
I know Jesus have accepted him. 

491
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,720
So eternity sorted. 
But we run our businesses. 

492
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,960
However, we live in our 
marriages, completely 

493
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,560
disconnected. 
We are not bothered about our 

494
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,360
children because, you know, the 
Sunday school we'll handle, 

495
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,920
they'll be fine. 
They'll turn out OK. 

496
00:26:54,120 --> 00:26:55,600
Someone's praying somewhere for 
them. 

497
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,320
We we look at our lives with 
scant attention. 

498
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,240
We are not soaking in the word 
and not declaring the word, but 

499
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,360
instead quoting Instagram poets 
and authors. 

500
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,360
I would urge that whatever your 
sources are, you will bring it 

501
00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:15,760
back to communion with Jesus, 
that you will come back into 

502
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,200
communion with him and you'll go
to him and say, Lord, I heard 

503
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:19,400
this, but I need to hear from 
you. 

504
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,320
I love that God has positioned 
us in such a time with social 

505
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,200
media and other influences are 
all around us. 

506
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,360
We have YouTube and other things
which need to be supplements to 

507
00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:32,600
our primary diet of Him, which 
means I need to be in such close

508
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,200
communion to Him that all of 
those things only confirm or 

509
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,320
reconfirm the things He's 
already telling me. 

510
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,680
Do you obey His word to you? 
That's how you live with an 

511
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,640
eternal mindset. 
God, I believe I'm set for 

512
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,480
eternity, but right now I will 
obey You. 

513
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,960
Do I know His desire for me? 
Do I desire to share the good 

514
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,840
news that changed my life with 
others? 

515
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,080
Do I use my resources for 
Kingdom pursuits? 

516
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,840
Jesus himself talked about this.
Don't accumulate things on earth

517
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,720
where it will, you know, grow 
rust and moths would attack it. 

518
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,920
But start investing in things 
that will last for eternity in 

519
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:14,160
people, in bringing people to 
the light of the gospel. 

520
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,920
Are you investing in those 
things? 

521
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,480
Do I speak with the 
consciousness that every word I 

522
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,680
have has eternal ramifications? 
It always scares me when Jesus 

523
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,240
says that. 
I think he says in one of the 

524
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,040
Gospels, he says you will have 
to give account for every word 

525
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,240
spoken. 
And I think, Oh my goodness, 

526
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,840
I've had it. 
Thank God for his forgiveness. 

527
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:34,560
Thank God for the gift of 
repentance. 

528
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,600
There's so many times in a week 
that I've had to go, God, I'm 

529
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,120
sorry I said that. 
I'm sorry. 

530
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,720
I thought that that was not 
right. 

531
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,520
That was not something that 
could please you. 

532
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:48,360
Imagine if we start looking at 
every rupee or dollar you earn 

533
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,720
and viewing it with eternity in 
mind. 

534
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,440
Lord, what do I invest this into
so that eternally there is 

535
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,320
rewards, There's a harvest. 
If every glance that I do, the 

536
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,920
second look that I give, every 
choice that I make in friendship

537
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,960
in in life choices, if every 
single thing I do, I'm more 

538
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,680
intentional in because it's 
eternal. 

539
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,240
Think about the changes in my 
life. 

540
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,640
Heaven touching earth is a 
possibility. 

541
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:21,480
When I start inviting Jesus into
everything I have begun. 

542
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,120
This is something that I do very
subtly even. 

543
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,160
We're dealing with my maids, 
right? 

544
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,800
One has a daughter who is 
pregnant, one has a mum who's 

545
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,680
very ill and ailing, is in a 
terminal season of cancer. 

546
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,280
And when I deal with them, as 
much as they're not able to come

547
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,480
to work, I keep inviting the 
Holy Spirit into that moment 

548
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,360
where I have so much work. 
Lord, I can't cook. 

549
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,120
I can't clean all of the time. 
But to be so compassionate, what

550
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,960
would Jesus ask me to do in this
moment? 

551
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,600
To grant them those leaves, to 
manage a meal or two by myself, 

552
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,640
To give them that extra 
something to help them buy 

553
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,400
medicines at home? 
That's on me because God has 

554
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,800
called me to eternity. 
How do I bring heaven into this 

555
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,920
moment, Lord, with that that 
argument with a spouse? 

556
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,920
How do I stay mindful of what 
I'm speaking? 

557
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,720
How do I not speak death over my
spouse in this moment, but 

558
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,400
choose life even in that heart 
moment, even if it means being 

559
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,320
quiet so that I sort out what 
I'm going to say? 

560
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,880
Jesus talked about the Kingdom 
of God, you know, like being so 

561
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,760
subtle yet being so complete. 
He talked about E, which is 

562
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,120
being mixed into flour, that 
it's mixed and then it the whole

563
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,600
flour rises up. 
He talks about the mustard seed 

564
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,440
being so small and growing into 
the largest tree where all the 

565
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,440
birds come and perch. 
What was he saying? 

566
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,800
He was saying the Kingdom of God
is small and subtle, but it's 

567
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,400
powerful and it's 
all-encompassing. 

568
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,440
And therefore when we talk about
having an eternity mindset, 

569
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,000
talking about heaven coming to 
earth, it begins with the small 

570
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,880
things, It begins with the right
words being spoken to each 

571
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,080
other. 
It begins with that 

572
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:59,720
compassionate look or touch. 
It begins with doing what is 

573
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:03,680
right even in secret. 
And then heaven begins to invade

574
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,120
like never before. 
So that's the first thing, 

575
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,200
choosing the eternal life. 
When Jesus died, he gave us 

576
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:13,840
eternal life. 
Would you choose that? 

577
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,840
The second kind of life that 
Jesus died to give us was the 

578
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,680
new life, right. 
And the new life, actually the 

579
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,000
word for it is kinos. 
Kinos means fresh. 

580
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,520
When we look at the New 
Testament, Jesus says that he's 

581
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,520
pouring new wine into new 
wineskins. 

582
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,200
And it doesn't mean that you 
take the old wineskin and throw 

583
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,480
it away and get a new one, much 
like some what some of us who 

584
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,200
try to declutter do we, We are 
clearing things out. 

585
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,920
We threw it on. 
Then later, a month later, you 

586
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,800
realize you needed that thing 
that you threw out, so you have 

587
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,400
to go buy a fresh thing. 
That's not what he's talking 

588
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,160
about. 
In that case, the wine skin has 

589
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,280
got an old and brickle. 
It cannot hold wine molecules 

590
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,800
that are fast fermenting and 
growing in volume. 

591
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,800
So what they do is they invert 
the the, you know, the wine 

592
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,960
skin. 
They soak it in olive oil and 

593
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,280
what the olive oil does as it 
soaks in it, it starts making 

594
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,560
the skin supple again. 
This is made from animal 

595
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,840
bladders. 
So the more they soak in the 

596
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,440
oil, they get supple and they're
able to hold the ever expanding 

597
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,720
and fermenting wine. 
Fresh is the new we're talking 

598
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,160
about. 
We're not talking about throw 

599
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,440
the old out, get the new thing. 
That's not what we're talking 

600
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,160
about, but the important thing 
to understand about the new life

601
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,360
that we have in Christ. 2 
Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17, 

602
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,080
it says if anyone is in Christ, 
he is a new creation. 

603
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,680
Old things have passed away. 
Behold, all things have become 

604
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,520
new. 
In a Indian context, when we say

605
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,600
someone has died, we say they 
passed away. 

606
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,240
In this context, the old things 
have passed away means the old 

607
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,440
things have died. 
I have crucified myself with 

608
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,200
Christ so that it's not just me 
living, but Christ living in me.

609
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,280
That's what it looks like, and 
many times for many of us. 

610
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,960
The old feels familiar, the old 
feels comfortable. 

611
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,280
You know that? 
That way in which I snap, that 

612
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,320
just gives me it makes me who I 
am. 

613
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,280
I'm I'm witty and I can be 
sharply witty and hurt someone, 

614
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,280
but that's who I am. 
I'm used to that, but when the 

615
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,480
Holy Spirit starts working in 
me, he shapes how I speak, he 

616
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,080
shapes how I respond. 
My response time slows down. 

617
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,960
I don't speak everything that's 
on my mind. 

618
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,160
I I want to be more consistent 
and not as Moody as I was in the

619
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,160
old life. 
You see what I'm saying? 

620
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,800
The old seems comfortable. 
The old seems easy. 

621
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:38,920
And we're like, well, I've lived
with this. 

622
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,920
My family is like this. 
We have anger issues, but we're 

623
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,720
OK. 
We, we, what if Jesus is saying 

624
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,880
the old was OK, but I want to 
give you fresh because in the 

625
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,320
fresh wine skin is where the new
anointing flows. 

626
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,240
There won't be room in the old 
wine skin for the new. 

627
00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,560
And God desires to fill us with 
more. 

628
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,000
It says that He gives the Spirit
without measure. 

629
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,880
But in order for that the old 
stuff has to be cleared out, and

630
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,600
the way we do it is putting it 
to death. 

631
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,760
Luke chapter 22 verse 20 says in
the same way after the supper he

632
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,800
took the cup, saying this cup is
the new covenant in my blood 

633
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,199
which is poured out for you, a 
new covenant. 

634
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,560
What was the old covenant? 
It was a law, it was the Mosaic 

635
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,360
law. 
It was given to Moses, told to 

636
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,000
the people, he offer these 
sacrifices. 

637
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:28,800
If you've done this, this is for
atonement. 

638
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,920
This is a guilt, sin, offering, 
burnt offering, grain offering, 

639
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,960
wave offering. 
If I lived in that time, I would

640
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,040
have failed at those things. 
I would have not kept track of 

641
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,120
it. 
My husband and I would have 

642
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,400
probably messed it up. 
I am so grateful for the new 

643
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,239
covenant that I live in. 
I'm so grateful that Jesus was 

644
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,920
the perfect sinless one time 
offering who was the perfect 

645
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,480
atonement for me. 
He was the scapegoat who carried

646
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,639
all my sin. 
I'm so grateful to him for that,

647
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,720
that today I just can walk into 
that throne room because I am 

648
00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:03,680
clothed with the the robes of 
righteousness that Jesus placed 

649
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,800
on me. 
I am so glad for the gift of 

650
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:10,200
repentance that when I mess up, 
which I do, I can say Jesus 

651
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,760
forgive me, forgive me, and he 
is faithful and justice to 

652
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,240
forgive me of every sin and give
me access once more. 

653
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,680
Isn't that amazing? 
So the New Covenant requires me 

654
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:26,200
to be fresh and open and 
available to the work of God in 

655
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,120
my lives, which means the old 
has got to go. 

656
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:32,880
The old has got to go, which 
means you don't use this as 

657
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,960
license to say, well, my, that 
marriage that I had in my days 

658
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,360
of being unsafe, that has got to
go. 

659
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,560
I need to look a fresh no. 
It means that you get rid of 

660
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,160
those old biases, those old 
thoughts and thought patterns 

661
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,400
and attitudes and say, Lord, I'm
ready to learn. 

662
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,160
I'm ready to make this marriage 
the best possible thing that you

663
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,840
could help me do. 
It is looking at your children 

664
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,720
with fresh eyes and saying I 
will not speak death over them. 

665
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,080
I will not believe that this is 
that all is lost. 

666
00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,760
I will pray them through 
anything. 

667
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,160
I will stand in the corner and 
cover them. 

668
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,720
It is believing that Jesus is 
doing a fresh work, not just in 

669
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:09,160
me but in others also. 
So it's giving others the room 

670
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,080
to change. 
It's giving myself permission to

671
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:16,880
change. 
The Old Covenant was powerful in

672
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,240
its own way because it made 
people aware of sin. 

673
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,720
If I didn't know don't steal was
a law, I would have not known 

674
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,160
stealing was a sin. 
So the law made me aware of 

675
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,000
where I was messing up, but the 
law couldn't save me. 

676
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,120
In fact, the law added more 
judgement on me. 

677
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,480
And so therefore I needed grace 
to come in. 

678
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,120
And where grace came, sin 
couldn't stand a chance. 

679
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,560
Because now I realize, Oh my 
gosh, God's unmerited favor is 

680
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,560
on me and I had to renounce my 
sinful ways and come in 

681
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,320
alignment with Jesus. 
That is what this new covenant 

682
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,360
entails. 
And it's amazing that when I 

683
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:57,440
keep choosing this new life, I'm
able to do the new things that 

684
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,160
God created me for. 
Imagine Pilate's wife may not 

685
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,800
have ever had a dream about a 
holy man before that. 

686
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,200
Until that very day when her 
husband is going to judge this 

687
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,080
so-called King of the Jews, she 
has a dream about the very same 

688
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,000
man saying have nothing to do 
with that just man. 

689
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,840
I have suffered much in a dream 
because of him. 

690
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,720
We don't know the details of 
that dream, but God saw it fit 

691
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,240
to meet with her. 
And I believe on some level that

692
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,760
was not for nothing. 
It was the beginning of a new 

693
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,760
life. 
And I want to ask you, when God 

694
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,960
has met you through salvation, 
how has it changed you? 

695
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,040
Are you still living like the 
old person that you were? 

696
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,960
Are you still living in those 
old problematic sin cycle cycles

697
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,760
of not trusting cycles of losing
your cool? 

698
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,760
Cycles of completely abandoning 
your faith when the going gets 

699
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,680
hard. 
Or are you saying, Lord, I'm 

700
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,720
willing? 
I'm willing to embrace the new, 

701
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,080
which means I trust you and 
quiet confidence. 

702
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,600
It means that I'm steady in the 
way I follow you. 

703
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,640
Even if there are days when I 
falter and fumble, I'll still 

704
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,480
keep my eyes on you. 
What if that is the fresh thing 

705
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:11,000
God wants to do in you? 
God desires to pour Himself out 

706
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,920
on your life. 
He desires to enliven your work.

707
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,040
He desires to enliven your 
marriage. 

708
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,560
He desires that you would 
connect with your children on a 

709
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,000
level you have not been 
connected with by your parents. 

710
00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:26,520
But it has to happen in a place,
in a setting where you move the 

711
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,880
old out and you say, Jesus, I'm 
emptied out, will you fill me? 

712
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,560
It requires that you empty the 
old out to make room for the 

713
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:40,000
new. 
The new covenant enables us to 

714
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,520
come into a love relationship 
with the one who made the 

715
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,040
covenant with us. 
The old covenant desired for 

716
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,080
them to draw near, but it 
actually served to keep a block 

717
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,120
because they were so afraid they
would mess up and they kept 

718
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,760
doing so. 
But in the new covenant, there's

719
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:58,880
a covenant relationship, and 
Jesus by his own blood 

720
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,440
established that relationship. 
So you and I are now in close 

721
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,920
quarters with him. 
So you don't even have to strive

722
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,000
to experience the new. 
That's the interesting thing. 

723
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,120
You know, the more I walk with 
Jesus, the more I realize that 

724
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,560
just being in communion in him 
changes certain things. 

725
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,920
He changes the way I look at 
certain situations. 

726
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,760
He look changes the way I 
perceive certain people and 

727
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,200
that's what's so beautiful about
it. 

728
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,680
So I would ask that you would 
live in the freshness that 

729
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,560
Christ. 
'S blood has brought. 

730
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,400
You he has brought you into a 
new covenant. 

731
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,160
Or that you would not live based
off the old covenant, but you 

732
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,600
would live in the new where 
there's a covenant relationship 

733
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,120
where more than pleasing anyone 
who just live. 

734
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:48,760
To know God and enjoy him. 
The third kind of life that I 

735
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:53,360
believe Jesus died to give us 
his abundant life. 

736
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,240
John chapter 10 verse tense my 
favorite verse in the Bible. 

737
00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:00,440
The enemy comes to steal, kill 
and destroy. 

738
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:04,280
I have come that they may have 
life and have it to the full. 

739
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,720
The word for steal is klepto, 
from which you get kleptomaniac 

740
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,120
thieves, people who are always 
taking something off someone 

741
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:15,960
else and that's the enemy. 
He came into Judas not. 

742
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,600
To help Judas have his agenda 
established on earth, but in 

743
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,840
order to take the life of Jesus 
away, in order to take the joy 

744
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,400
of Judas away, in order to steal
Judas's life. 

745
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,480
And Judas missed it. 
The same enemy was at work with 

746
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,000
Peter, but Peter knew better 
than to give in. 

747
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,440
I remember that interesting 
episode where Jesus turned and 

748
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,760
told his disciples, guys, I'm 
going to be betrayed, I'm going 

749
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,800
to be killed by the chief 
priests and the elders. 

750
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,480
And Peter says never, Lord, 
that's never going to happen to 

751
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:47,840
you. 
And Jesus looks at him and says,

752
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,160
get behind me, Satan. 
He was not insulting Peter. 

753
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,200
He was calling the enemy out who
was using Peter as a mouthpiece.

754
00:40:55,080 --> 00:41:01,800
Because Jesus, in complete 
contrast to Satan, desires that 

755
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,800
you and I thrive in life. 
He doesn't want you and me to 

756
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,280
just get by. 
He doesn't want us to just crawl

757
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,720
through life on our knees 
begging and hoping for the best.

758
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,600
Jesus came to give us abundant 
life. 

759
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,280
The word for it is, I think it's
perizo, which is just super 

760
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:21,400
abundance, superfluous, 
exceeding, overflowing. 

761
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,360
That is the life that you and I 
were given when Jesus came into 

762
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,000
your life. 
The enemy, on the other hand, 

763
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,840
seeks to deplete you. 
He seeks to dry you out. 

764
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,880
He seeks to leak you out of all 
your joy, your peace, leave you 

765
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,320
high and dry. 
But the Lord with this Holy 

766
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,800
Spirit who is like a river 
that's flowing within you, so 

767
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,640
that out of you will flow rivers
of living water, He fills you to

768
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,680
overflowing in abundance. 
Many times when we look at John 

769
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,840
1010, we assume, but He came to 
give us abundant life, which 

770
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,640
means that I don't have to just 
believe for one house, I can 

771
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,560
believe for five. 
I can believe for so many cars. 

772
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,240
I can believe for so much of 
jewelry and cash. 

773
00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:00,320
And I'm not going to get into 
that. 

774
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,480
I don't believe that. 
That's what it means. 

775
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,760
I believe. 
It's talking about abundance on 

776
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,040
another level. 
It's talking abund, abundance 

777
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,400
of. 
Soul, like John writes to the 

778
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,480
disciple and I think it's in 
3rd. 

779
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:14,880
John, he says. 
I pray that your. 

780
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,680
Soul prospers because most of 
our times our soul is not 

781
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,480
prospering. 
I was reading a news article 

782
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:24,840
that in India currently the 
greatest crisis is the mental 

783
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,440
health crisis that is touching 
every young person starting from

784
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,720
school kids to college students.
They're saying it's almost like 

785
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:35,200
an epidemic. 
What a tragedy that our soul is 

786
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,120
not prospering and therefore 
every part of our life struggles

787
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,520
and Jesus desires when he comes 
in salvation. 

788
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:45,280
The word salvation is not just 
saving of your soul, it is 

789
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,760
bringing wholeness into every 
part of your life, which means 

790
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,040
physically you are made whole, 
spiritually you're made whole, 

791
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,280
your soul is made whole. 
Every part of you, every 

792
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,120
dimension of you is being 
changed. 

793
00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:00,520
Isn't that amazing? 
Isn't that amazing? 

794
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:05,440
Psalm chapter 130 verse 7 says, 
O Israel, hope in the Lord, for 

795
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,320
with the Lord there is mercy, 
and with Him is abundant 

796
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,760
redemption. 
If there is abundant redemption,

797
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:18,200
which means for what I've done 
wrong for my sin, when His grace

798
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,800
covers it after my repentance, 
He brings redemption, which 

799
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,000
means He buys me back and brings
good out of that. 

800
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,200
Can you imagine? 
The possibilities are infinite, 

801
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,120
abundant. 
That is our God. 

802
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,840
His compassion towards me is 
abundant, which means that I 

803
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,960
become a not just a reservoir, 
I'm like a bubbling brook. 

804
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,760
So when He fills me with His 
redemption, I'm bubbling up and 

805
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,160
I bring redemption to others 
through my work, through my 

806
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,200
calling, through my speaking, 
through my being. 

807
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,120
The compassion I've received in 
abundance, I start to pour out 

808
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,480
on others. 
The forgiveness I've received, I

809
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,040
pour out on others. 
It's such a beautiful thing that

810
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,440
when we live under grace, we 
live with abundance. 

811
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,960
When I live under the law, I 
live constrained. 

812
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,080
I live restricted. 
But when I live under grace, I 

813
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,720
can live abundantly. 
I can live with arms open wide. 

814
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,640
I'm not gripping onto the things
I have so tight. 

815
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,800
If someone likes what I have, I 
just give it to them. 

816
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,440
If someone wants something, 
they're welcome to take it 

817
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,400
because you know what? 
God gave me that you can have 

818
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,480
it. 
That's how we would live. 

819
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,280
We would live with fists that 
are loosened. 

820
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,440
The only thing that we hold on 
tight to is God. 

821
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:35,920
Everything else we hang loose. 
That is what the abundant life 

822
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:37,560
looks like. 
We've got it wrong many times. 

823
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,440
We think the abundant life is 
more stuff. 

824
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,280
Can I encourage you to do with, 
do more with less stuff? 

825
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,000
Give it away. 
See who you can bless with it. 

826
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:48,880
Ask. 
God, Lord, I have these things. 

827
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:49,840
What? 
Can I do? 

828
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,080
How can I bless someone else? 
How can the abundance you have 

829
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,920
blessed me with bless someone 
else? 

830
00:44:54,920 --> 00:45:01,640
God abundant life. 
By the same logic, you were not 

831
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:06,560
meant to just get by on peace on
a large scale of for the year, 

832
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,400
but he desires to give you a 
peace every single minute of 

833
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,640
every single day, which guards 
your heart and mind in Christ 

834
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:15,200
Jesus. 
Which means even at that moment 

835
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:19,680
when you're so in such a state 
of upheaval, you can still say, 

836
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,280
Lord, I'm inviting you into 
this. 

837
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,160
Can you help me to feel your 
abundant peace? 

838
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,120
Just today my son had to get his
passport renewed. 

839
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,040
So he was. 
He had gone with Geshom to the 

840
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,600
passport office. 
I was at home. 

841
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,320
I was finishing up some work and
I was so exhausted because I'd 

842
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:38,720
had a long day. 
I was out. 

843
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:40,360
So I was really tired and 
drained out. 

844
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:43,560
I was just about to rest when my
husband calls and says we don't 

845
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,200
have these documents. 
And both of us being first 

846
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,640
borns, we are extremely hard 
headed and we get in each 

847
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,280
other's business. 
So he was on the phone, He was 

848
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:53,760
tense. 
I was tense because I couldn't 

849
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,400
find the documents. 
You know, I don't know where he 

850
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,440
keeps some of these things. 
So I was at home rummaging 

851
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:58,720
through things. 
I was already tired. 

852
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,600
I was crabby, He was tense. 
And then finally, you know what?

853
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,440
I, I, you know, I had to get 
some certificates sorted. 

854
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,520
I didn't find half of it. 
We, we got off the call. 

855
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,120
He said he'll figure it out. 
In the meantime, I was doing 

856
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,920
some background to find out who 
I could get it from, etcetera. 

857
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,600
And at one point I had to just 
sit on the bed. 

858
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,360
I was so tired. 
I hadn't accomplished what he 

859
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,080
asked me to accomplish. 
I was feeling a bit like a 

860
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:25,880
loser. 
And I was just sitting there and

861
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,040
I said, Lord, I don't know if 
they're even going to let him, 

862
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,240
you know, process the passport 
appointment today. 

863
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,200
But I trust you to give him 
peace and to give me peace. 

864
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,000
We've done what we could. 
Could you just come through? 

865
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:43,080
And all of a sudden, the person 
who was in the passport office 

866
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,000
gave my husband a brilliant idea
of going through the Aadhaar 

867
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,040
portrait and finding the 
documents that we didn't have. 

868
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:53,200
Within 1520 minutes, the entire 
process got over. 

869
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,960
My husband doesn't know this, 
but I had to invite God into my 

870
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,560
moment because I was losing it. 
I was getting angry, I was 

871
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,520
getting upset. 
I was like, Oh my gosh, why 

872
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,120
didn't we know? 
We needed these things, You 

873
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,080
know? 
And it's as petty as this. 

874
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,400
It's inviting him and saying, 
Lord, this is your thing. 

875
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,920
If you don't want him to get the
passport right now, it's fine. 

876
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,680
We're completely OK with it. 
But can you please invade this 

877
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:20,720
moment And this tremendous peace
entered me. 

878
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,880
I was able to rest for 15 
minutes. 

879
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,880
I had a power nap while 
everything got sorted out there 

880
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:31,720
and they came home safe. 
And I want to ask you, maybe 

881
00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:37,160
you've been living on this edge,
tense, stressed, anxious. 

882
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,720
God desires that you live in a 
place of abundant peace, 

883
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,520
abundant joy. 
Or that we would laugh more with

884
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,880
our children, that we would just
play games with them and enjoy 

885
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,240
them. 
Because you know what it says? 

886
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:54,480
That the Father rejoices over us
with singing Zephaniah 317. 

887
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,560
He rejoices over us. 
And the original transcript 

888
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,840
actually talks about him 
twirling around us in circles. 

889
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,720
Our God is a joyful God. 
Why are we not having joy? 

890
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,440
I often pray that I say, Lord, I
want to have the joy that I had 

891
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,080
when I was younger with less 
stress. 

892
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,800
And you know, The thing is, we 
have piled up stress on our 

893
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,680
lives. 
We are trying to do so much 

894
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,360
more. 
It's the same amount of time we 

895
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,960
had back then. 
We have set these targets for 

896
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:25,560
ourselves or people have set it 
for us and we're struggling. 

897
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,720
But I want you to ask God that 
in this season, as busy as you 

898
00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:34,040
are, as hectic as life is, as as
you're balancing all these 

899
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,920
plates that you would have is 
abundant peace, abundant joy. 

900
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,320
Because when He looks at you, 
He's delighting in you. 

901
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,480
When He looks at you, His love 
is just at its fullest. 

902
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,560
How can I live any differently? 
Some of us are filling up the 

903
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,840
discontent in our lives with 
more stuff, but He's asking us 

904
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:56,800
to think about what we're 
investing these things. 

905
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,800
Abundance doesn't come from the 
abundance of things. 

906
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:03,960
It comes from knowing God and 
all His abundance so that as I 

907
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,120
experience that, I become a 
conduit to others. 

908
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,520
With that abundance, I start to 
overflow and others receive it. 

909
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:16,720
And so I ask that you won't 
settle for the meager remains of

910
00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:19,080
the salvation life and call it 
the Christian life and say, oh, 

911
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,400
you know what? 
It's I'm kind of managing. 

912
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,400
It's been stressful. 
I'm just kind of holding it 

913
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:24,640
together. 
And you don't have to live like 

914
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,720
that. 
You need to come to a place of 

915
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:29,720
saying Lord, even when this is 
really hard, I'm balancing a 

916
00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:31,800
sick parent, I'm managing my 
work. 

917
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,400
I'm still struggling for 
finances. 

918
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,840
In the midst of this, I will 
find time to experience your joy

919
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,080
over me. 
I will find time to pour your 

920
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:43,600
love over to someone else. 
It is an intentional decision. 

921
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,800
Salvation was not just about 
saving you that one moment. 

922
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,400
It was about bringing wholeness 
into every part of your life so 

923
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,640
you can ask God for anything. 
Because that's what salvation 

924
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,280
implies. 
It means that you are wholly, 

925
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,800
completely saved by Him and you 
are saved for him so. 

926
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,040
Stop living with this cramped 
mindset of just yourself and 

927
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,920
just how you should get by. 
Abundance is God. 

928
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,840
Who can I bless today? 
When you wake up, say Lord, who 

929
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,880
can I bless today? 
Who can I encourage today? 

930
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:14,920
Who can I just call and check up
on? 

931
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,680
Who can I give a little bit of 
what you have given me too? 

932
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,920
How can I give? 
Them something, there are going 

933
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,680
to be obstacles, they're going 
to be ailments, they're going to

934
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,680
be struggles, they're going to 
be setbacks. 

935
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,960
But his abundance is not limited
limited by our circumstances. 

936
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,680
In fact, it actually 
exponentially increases because 

937
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:40,280
when I'm lacking, when I'm 
emptying myself of the old, he's

938
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,200
filling me with the fresh. 
I have a greater capacity to 

939
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,720
overflow onto others. 
So His abundance is never 

940
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:49,880
limited, not by our 
circumstances, not by our 

941
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,240
situations. 
In fact, it excites him because 

942
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:55,320
then He gets to come in with His
abundance, His super abundance, 

943
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,280
and fill us. 
Ephesians 320, another one of my

944
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,080
husband and I, my favorite 
verses. 

945
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,440
He will do exceedingly 
abundantly, more than we can ask

946
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:08,240
or imagine superfluous. 
He is going to do way more than 

947
00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:10,200
you could ever ask for. 
Think about that. 

948
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:13,600
That's the abundant life. 
So if you've been asking, God 

949
00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:17,320
bless me so I can be a blessing 
boy, is He going to make you 

950
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,400
abundant? 
If you've been saying, Lord, I 

951
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,840
want to know what my calling and
my purpose on earth is, He's 

952
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,600
going to make it abundantly 
clear to you. 

953
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:30,520
So I encourage you, even as we 
close this service, I just want 

954
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:35,720
you to remember that because of 
Jesus, because of his death, you

955
00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:38,720
have eternal life. 
But how are you living today? 

956
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,800
You live with eternity in mind. 
Are you fixated on the temporary

957
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:44,880
or are you fixated on the 
eternity? 

958
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,160
Remember also that He came, He 
died so that you would have new 

959
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,440
life. 
Not the old stuff where you just

960
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,600
got by, where you just managed 
on on. 

961
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:58,360
You know the basics on where you
just survived, but where you 

962
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:02,400
actually thrive and live in a 
fresh way because the Holy 

963
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,440
Spirit is the one who brings 
that freshness. 

964
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:10,520
He's the one that soaks you and 
brings out the new essence and 

965
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,600
owe that you would live the 
abundant life because Jesus died

966
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,680
to give you abundant life. 
Not an ordinary life, not a life

967
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:20,720
that is cramped, but He brought 
you into wide open space where 

968
00:52:20,720 --> 00:52:23,000
you will not just be blessed by 
yourself, but you'll be a 

969
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,560
blessing to many others. 
So even as we close, I just want

970
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,640
to pray this over you. 
One of the things that touched 

971
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,240
me in John 18 verses 5 to 6 was 
this. 

972
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,560
They answered him. 
Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus said to

973
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,440
them, I am He. 
Judas, who betrayed him was 

974
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,960
standing with them, and Jesus 
said to them, I am He. 

975
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,680
They drew back and fell to the 
ground. 

976
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:50,240
Verse 11 So Jesus said to Peter,
Put your sword in it, into its 

977
00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:52,680
sheath. 
Shall I not drink the cup that 

978
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,600
the Father has given me? 
I am He. 

979
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,600
Who are you? 
Seeking for today on this Good 

980
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:01,680
Friday. 
Who are you seeking for? 

981
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,320
Are you looking for a healer? 
He would say to you, I am he. 

982
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,760
Are you looking for a Redeemer? 
He would say to you, I am he. 

983
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:12,680
Are you looking for someone who 
will sanctify you from all that 

984
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,600
has defiled your life? 
He's saying I am he. 

985
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:20,440
He is everything you and I need.
I need him to be my healer. 

986
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,640
I need him to be my restorer. 
And he comes to me and says I am

987
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:28,080
he. 
And so I pray that even now as 

988
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,960
we close the service, God, I 
pray that you will reveal 

989
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,640
yourself each. 
Person as they desire you to be 

990
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,920
revealed, and I pray that you 
will do even more abundantly 

991
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:41,400
than they ask or imagine. 
Father, I pray that you will 

992
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:44,600
reveal yourself to them. 
I pray that Lord, you will bless

993
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,480
us through the season and 
beyond, into the rest of the 

994
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,080
year, that you would help us 
live with eternity in mind. 

995
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,560
Help us to live this new life 
with courage, with strength, 

996
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,600
with vigor. 
Lord, help us to live 

997
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,960
abundantly, not just for 
ourselves, not limited by what 

998
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,200
we have or don't have, but to 
look at things with a Kingdom 

999
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,040
mindset, to look at things 
through a wider perspective. 

1000
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,120
Fill us, oh God, with your 
spirit. 

1001
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,280
Spirit of God, would you soak 
into your people right now? 

1002
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:16,440
Would you begin to Lord shape 
those old wine skins into fresh 

1003
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,440
wine skins that can hold your 
glory, that can pour out your 

1004
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:24,200
anointing not just on 
themselves, but on everyone 

1005
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,520
around them? 
We love you, We thank you. 

1006
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,480
Thank you, Jesus for dying for 
us. 

1007
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:34,480
Thank you for that Good Friday 
which has made our lives 

1008
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,720
infinitely better. 
I pray that your people this day

1009
00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:41,840
onwards would choose life every 
day, would choose life every 

1010
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,000
day. 
We love you and we thank you. 

1011
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:46,880
In Jesus name I pray, Amen, 
Amen. 

1012
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,840
God bless you even as you get 
into this weekend. 

1013
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,360
I pray you know they call it 
Holy Week, but I'd like to think

1014
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,520
that every week is a Holy Week. 
And so through this year, if you

1015
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,600
could keep this in your mind 
that you would have your eyes on

1016
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,440
eternity, everything on earth 
changes, that you would keep 

1017
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:04,480
inviting heaven into earth. 
It will transform your life. 

1018
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,400
We hope you enjoyed today's 
message and we're blessed. 

1019
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,240
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1020
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1021
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,960
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1022
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1023
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