1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,500 In the verses that are before us today, our Lord speaks of his 2 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,900 crucifixion in very direct terms. 3 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,600 In fact, in verses 32 and 33, it tells us that very thing. 4 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:20,700 Jesus said, if I am lifted up from the earth will draw All 5 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:24,500 Peoples to myself this signifying, what death? 6 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:28,100 He would die, you know, historically the Jews, when they 7 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:31,900 executed someone they did. So by way of stoning, I'm not 8 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:33,000 going to spend a whole lot of time. 9 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:34,900 On this, but I have to make this point. 10 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:38,200 Jesus is speaking to there were Greeks their present, there were 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,700 also Jews their present but when the Jews executed, someone they 12 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:46,300 didn't do it by way of crucifixion, what they did is 13 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:49,600 they delayed the person on their back and they would be like 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,300 this, they would Elevate the Executioner twice, the height of 15 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:56,300 the person. So if he was 6 feet tall he 16 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:59,600 would be elevated. 12 feet tall standing on rocks or a little 17 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:03,700 Hill or whatever it was. And then he took a stone Own and 18 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,600 thrust it down on the chest of the victim. 19 00:01:06,700 --> 00:01:09,400 That's what a Jewish stoning was all about. 20 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,800 If the first blow did not take his life, then here comes the 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,500 second one and so on, and so forth until they die. 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,600 But Jesus was talking about something else here. 23 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,600 He was talking about being lifted up now. 24 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:26,800 Interestingly, and I think they're this is not an accident. 25 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,300 I think this is absolutely the work of God. 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,000 In ad, 30, interestingly, when Jesus began his personal 27 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,100 Ministry, there was what was considered or called in Latin 28 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,000 pox Romana and it literally meant Roman peace. 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,600 And what that was is that gave Rome and only Rome that the 30 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,900 power of the sword or the right of the sword that meant this. 31 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,900 Nobody could ever execute someone on their own court, or 32 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:58,600 their own Merit, they had to go through Rome incidentally, 33 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,400 that's why they Went to pilate not for any other reason. 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,100 They went to pilate because they had to interesting. 35 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:11,000 Jesus starts his personal Ministry and AD 3080 33, he is 36 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 crucified and it proves this point, the Jews not only could 37 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 not have executed Jesus by way of stoning, which would have 38 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,700 made the Bible a lie, but it would also been against the law. 39 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:30,100 And God no doubt, no doubt God had his handiwork in that Jesus 40 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:32,200 here. Speaking of his crucifixion, how 41 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,800 do we know that verse 34? The people answered him. 42 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,200 We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever. 43 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,400 And how can you say the son of man must be lifted up. 44 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,100 And then they said, who is this son of man. 45 00:02:48,500 --> 00:02:52,300 Apparently, the idea was very synonymous with crucifixion. 46 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:56,400 The words being lifted up. The Romans had done this tens of 47 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,900 thousands of times to people in the land of Israel. 48 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:02,800 And also to other parts of the Roman Empire. 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,900 People knew exactly what it meant to be lifted up. 50 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,400 In fact, it actually became a euphemism for being crucified 51 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:14,300 and they all knew it. Why did Jesus come though? 52 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:18,100 Is so very important by the way, because it's going to help us to 53 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:20,900 understand some passages. In just a minute. 54 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:25,500 The Bible talks about why Jesus came and understand this. 55 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,400 Everything is the plan of God, man has no power at all. 56 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,400 Everything is the plan of God. Why did Jesus come in? 57 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,500 Revelation 13 and verse 8, notice he was a lamb slain, 58 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,700 before the foundation of the world. 59 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,900 You know what that means. Look how the language says, it 60 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:48,800 says it doesn't say he would be a lamb slain before the 61 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,200 foundation of the world. It said he was a lamb slain 62 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:55,100 before the foundation of the world. 63 00:03:56,100 --> 00:03:58,700 That means that Jesus is purpose before. 64 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:02,700 The foundation of the world would not only be deity, but it 65 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:06,300 would come to this low ground of sin sickness and sorrow and he 66 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:09,500 would be the Lamb of God. In other words, that would be 67 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:12,100 his fate. That was the plan of God from 68 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:15,900 the foundation of the world. But there's more in first John 69 00:04:15,900 --> 00:04:20,600 chapter 3 and verse 5, he appeared to take away sin by the 70 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:26,000 sacrifice of himself. And may I also add this please, 71 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:30,000 this is really a big Point here. I think that all the 72 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,600 implications of obedience behavior and godliness in our 73 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,000 life are implications of the cross. 74 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:41,000 Everything. All that's implied in our 75 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,800 Behavior godliness. All the things that we do it is 76 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,400 implied or it has implications in the cross. 77 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:55,700 In other words, if he died for us, how can we not live for him? 78 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,300 You know the passage it says the love of Christ constrains us. 79 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,000 You know one translation says this the love of Christ leaves 80 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 us. No choice. 81 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:10,000 I'm tell you, you all understand. 82 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:11,500 We all understand about choice, right? 83 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:13,300 We get it. Everybody has choices. 84 00:05:13,300 --> 00:05:15,000 We free moral agents and all that stuff. 85 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 That's true. But you know, when somebody does 86 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,500 something for you, that is so great. 87 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:21,200 Sometimes we say, man, I just had no choice. 88 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,800 I just had, I just had to respond or this was so 89 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,500 wonderful. I just had no choice in this had 90 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:31,400 to that's exactly the point that I am making the love of Christ. 91 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,200 That was extended to all mankind to die for the sins of the world 92 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,000 leaves us. No choice but to serve him. 93 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:42,300 So all the implications about our life in a Godly way, are 94 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:47,100 implications of the cross. Why can't we live for him now? 95 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:51,000 Regarding our passage, it's the expansive truth and reality 96 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,100 regarding the death of Jesus. Now, whatever day it was and I 97 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:58,800 do believe it was still Tuesday. I want you to picture in your 98 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,800 mind's eye. Here is Jesus, and he's having a 99 00:06:01,808 --> 00:06:03,800 conversation. He had already done so many 100 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,500 things. He had already shut down. 101 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:10,700 So many people, it's Tuesday, but his mind is on Friday. 102 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,500 That's all he can think about is Friday. 103 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,200 Can you imagine what was going through the Lord's mind at the 104 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,300 time? What about this? 105 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:22,500 Have you ever stopped to consider? 106 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,100 What went through his mind? His entire life. 107 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,700 You know, when we pray we thank God for Jesus because he lived a 108 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:32,500 life that was in view of his death. 109 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,400 In other words, that's the entire purpose. 110 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,700 He was a lamb slain before the foundation of the world. 111 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 His mind is on Friday. He speaks of his own death, in 112 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,100 fact, in verse 27 of our text, we find a mystery to us, the 113 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:54,100 Lord opens up a mystery, or an enigma, which is another word 114 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:56,800 for mystery that's revealed. There are three things that are 115 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,000 revealed in the cross 3, far-reaching and profound 116 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,900 things. Number one, as our Lord is 117 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:08,100 looking to the Cross. We see the mystery of the sun's 118 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:14,200 anguish We see the mystery of the sun's anguish or the Enigma 119 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,600 of the sun's Amos anguish verse 27. 120 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,100 Jesus says this, this is very puzzling. 121 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:27,000 Very disturbing. He said my soul is troubled, you 122 00:07:27,008 --> 00:07:30,500 know, I wondered how a soul like Jesus heard or being deity. 123 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,700 Jesus Is God, how could he be troubled? 124 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,600 You know what people say? People say, oh, wait a minute, 125 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,400 this is why he was troubled. It was The Human Side of Jesus. 126 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:48,100 Now I got to make this point, you know, this Jesus our Messiah 127 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,600 was both human and divine. We know that he's the son of man 128 00:07:51,700 --> 00:07:55,000 and he's the son of God. So what people try to do is they 129 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,200 try to say no, wait a minute. His soul was troubled because of 130 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:06,900 the human side of Jesus. Not so fast as they say, not 131 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:09,700 quite so fast. How could he be troubled? 132 00:08:09,700 --> 00:08:12,600 He is God. Some people say, well, as his 133 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:17,000 humanness now, think about it this way, if God was, if Jesus 134 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,900 was both human and divine, don't you think that his Divine side 135 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:26,900 can suppress the human side is? He more man than God one scholar 136 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:29,200 said it that way? Is he more man than God? 137 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:33,500 What does it actually mean? He says he was troubled in fact 138 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:37,500 What people do is they go right to the fact of the physical 139 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:40,200 suffering of Jesus, that's too easy. 140 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:43,400 Why was he trouble? Well, the physical suffering. 141 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,400 He had to go through to easy Reuben Creek. 142 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,500 Bomb, gave me a book that I have known about all my life, but he 143 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:53,100 gave me a copy of it to my office and foxes book of 144 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:57,000 Martyrs, okay. And foxes book of Martyrs, it is 145 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,200 filled with people that were burned at the stake that were 146 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,300 executed for their faith. Do you know what they did? 147 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,200 Men like polycarp, he was 86 years old. 148 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,500 And they said all you have to do is renounce Jesus right now, 149 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:14,900 that's all you got to do and you go free, you know what? 150 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:18,300 He said, 80 and six years have I served him? 151 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,400 He has never left my side. How can I do that? 152 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:26,200 And you know what they did? They burned him at the stake. 153 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:31,100 How about men like Peter? When they decided they were 154 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:32,900 going to crucify Peter in the same way? 155 00:09:32,900 --> 00:09:35,300 They crucified Jesus, you don't Peter said, nope. 156 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,100 Nope, unworthy crucify me upside down. 157 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:42,900 Here's my point. Folks, it's too easy to say that 158 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:46,900 he was troubled because of the physical suffering that was in 159 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:49,800 front of him. That's too easy. 160 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,600 We find all these Martyrs that were impervious to what was 161 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,100 going on. They were praying to God. 162 00:09:56,100 --> 00:09:59,500 Proclaiming the gospel singing hymns as they lost their life. 163 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,300 So how is the Son of God troubled in his soul? 164 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,100 Well, we already know that it was possible because in John 165 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:09,300 chapter 11, this is possible showing that the Lord can be 166 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:12,900 troubled in his soul. In John chapter 11, remember 167 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:15,400 that? Remember when Jesus was going to 168 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,900 go and raised Lazarus from the dead? 169 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:23,200 He comes on the scene and when he comes on the scene, here, he 170 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,200 is. And he noticed his Mary, and 171 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,800 Martha and their weeping. And then it says, and he noticed 172 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:34,700 his also, the Jews also weeping and it says he groaned in his 173 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:39,400 spirit and was troubled. The word grown there means he 174 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,200 was filled with indignation. Do you know why we all know 175 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,600 this? He was filled with indignation, 176 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,100 because of the hypocrisy of the Jews. 177 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,600 The professional mourners that came on the scene, and they went 178 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,800 through the going through the motions of wailing and weeping 179 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,700 and all of that. So he groaned in the spirit. 180 00:10:58,700 --> 00:11:01,300 So we know that Jesus did that? What else? 181 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:05,700 What about another time? How about when Jesus talked 182 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:10,200 about the realities of betrayal? John 13 and 21. 183 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,900 When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in 184 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:16,500 spirit. And testified and said most 185 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:21,100 assuredly, I say to you. One of you will betray me. 186 00:11:21,100 --> 00:11:25,600 So here's my point. If Jesus could be troubled, what 187 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,600 is the word actually mean? And what is it referring to 188 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,900 number one, the word comes from the Greek word Torah. 189 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:37,500 So, and it means to shake up or disturb, that's what the word 190 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:40,300 means. In a literal sense. 191 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:44,200 It brings the connotation of somebody in the kitchen, 192 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,400 stirring something it's an action word. 193 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:52,900 That's the literal sense of the word but there's a figurative 194 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:58,100 sense to and the figures give senses this when it says he was 195 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:01,200 troubled, it means he was in anguish. 196 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:08,000 It means he was in anguish, he was agitated deeply Disturbed. 197 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:12,600 He was uh, nups ette, he was unsettled sometimes. 198 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,400 The word can be translated as terrifying, frightening or 199 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,100 horrified. It's a very strong word. 200 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:23,000 In fact, it's the same word used by Jesus when Jesus was walking 201 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,300 on the water. Remember that? 202 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:28,800 The Bible says that Jesus walking on the water and the 203 00:12:28,808 --> 00:12:32,000 disciples see, Jesus coming in the night and they look out and 204 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,900 they think it's a ghost in there scared. 205 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:37,100 You know what it said they were troubled, they were scared. 206 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:41,900 They were terrified, same word and by the way I'm setting all 207 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:44,100 this up, I got to pull mate. We're going to drive it home in 208 00:12:44,108 --> 00:12:46,300 a minute. I'm setting all this up to show 209 00:12:46,300 --> 00:12:50,700 you the power of this word and what it's referring to because 210 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:53,800 Jesus was troubled in his spirit. 211 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:58,100 Same word that's used for a frightened terrified. 212 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:01,400 It's also the same word used to describe the attitude of the 213 00:13:01,408 --> 00:13:05,100 disciples in the upper room. The night that Jesus rose from 214 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:06,400 the dead. You remember that? 215 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:11,600 He raises from the dead, he goes to Emmaus, sends the disciples, 216 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,500 seven miles back to Jerusalem. And you remember where they 217 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:17,800 were, they were in the upper room and the door was shut. 218 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:21,300 Can you imagine this? And all of a sudden door was 219 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:24,200 shut and Jesus walks through the wall? 220 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:30,400 Through the wall. And it says, they were 221 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,800 terrified, you know, Jesus says, let not your heart be troubled. 222 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,900 He said that more than once same work, talking about the same 223 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,400 thing. In Luke 24 and 30 80 comes to 224 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,600 the wall. He says this. 225 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:46,300 Why are you troubled? And why are your thoughts 226 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:50,500 arising in your hearts? Jesus actually used the word on 227 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,500 Thursday night in the upper room, with his disciples. 228 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:58,400 He said, in John 14 and one, let not your heart, be troubled. 229 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,800 All right, all that being said, how can he be troubled? 230 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:05,500 How can he be agitated? How can he be destroyed? 231 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,600 Stressed, how can he be less than a martyr? 232 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,500 Why the distress Especially when many were very calm as they went 233 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:16,700 to their death. Is it weakness? 234 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,400 No. And don't you buy it. 235 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,200 Don't you buy it when you read from a commentator that says 236 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:28,400 that this shows his weakness, not not our Lord. 237 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,600 Not our Lord at all. I'm going to taste something 238 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,000 folks. You know, when people talk about 239 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,900 submission, people talk about submission in such a negative 240 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:40,100 way. In fact, they use it in a 241 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:42,600 negative connotation. Meaning it's a sign of weakness. 242 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:46,300 Remember, last time we talked about the Widow's mites, when I 243 00:14:46,300 --> 00:14:49,200 said meekness, and I said, sometimes, people think meekness 244 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,400 is weakness, but it's not. It is a willful choice. 245 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,000 When the Lord submitted himself to what his fate was supposed to 246 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,900 be. And he did that. 247 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,900 That was the ultimate Act of strength. 248 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:09,200 Our Lord was not weak at all. It is Constitution. 249 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:14,100 He was not weak at all. He was not agitated because he 250 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:17,800 was going to be scourged. He was not afraid because he was 251 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,500 going to be beaten. He was not afraid that he was 252 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:22,500 going to be nailed to a Roman cross. 253 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,700 That was not it at all. That's not what tormented him. 254 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:29,500 And what people think though is they think this is evidence that 255 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:33,700 his Humanity was more powerful than his deity. 256 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:36,500 And that's not true. It's the flip side of that. 257 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:40,700 Did you get that? This is evidence that his deity 258 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,100 is more powerful than his Humanity. 259 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,800 Do you know why? Right here. 260 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,000 His trouble came not from anticipating physical suffering. 261 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:59,200 But anticipating Divine wrath that spiritual suffering. 262 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Divine Wrath. You know why? 263 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:11,000 You have got the perfect sinless Lamb of God. 264 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,800 That lived for about 33 years and never send one time. 265 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,300 He was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin 266 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:25,500 and because of that God accepted that as a spotless lamb. 267 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,800 He accepted that as a spotless land. 268 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,700 Now, what if your Jesus and you are the Spotless lamb but you 269 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:36,500 have to bear the sins of the world. 270 00:16:37,900 --> 00:16:40,700 You've got the shame and let's not forget about the shame. 271 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:43,400 Let's not forget about the shame and Hebrews. 272 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,800 The Bible tells us in the book of Hebrews that Jesus despised 273 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,400 the shame. He had to Bear the sins of the 274 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:55,000 world. It wasn't a physical problem, 275 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,200 folks. He had to Bear the sins of the 276 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,500 world and you know what else? He would have to do it without 277 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:06,000 the father. That's because of God's Wrath. 278 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,500 He had to do it without the father no doubt. 279 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,200 Jesus said those words so long ago when he was hanging on the 280 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,700 cross he said my God, my God. Why hast Thou forsaken me? 281 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:21,099 You know, what else, in the Old Testament, the Old Testament 282 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:24,300 prophecy of that, exact phrase, that Jesus said on the cross, 283 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:29,800 says it like this, my God, my God, why are you so far from 284 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,500 helping me? That's what it says. 285 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:35,900 So you know what, the Lord was troubled about? 286 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,200 He was troubled, that he had to Bear the sins of the world, all 287 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:43,000 the sin of the world, be placed on himself as he was pure and 288 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,300 sinless and perfect. Number two, he would endure 289 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,400 God's Wrath. Number 3, God would turn his 290 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:50,700 face and he would do it all alone. 291 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,400 Yeah, I think I'd be trouble too. 292 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,400 I think I'd be trouble to, don't you see folks if you just say 293 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,400 it's the physical suffering, it's way too easy. 294 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,300 And there's a lot of people that had the courage to endure 295 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:07,100 physical suffering. You remember, when you remember, 296 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,700 Stephen, remember what happened with Steve? 297 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:12,400 And he was the first martyr that died for his faith in X chapter 298 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,700 7. He was the first one that died 299 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:17,000 for his faith. Do you remember what the Bible 300 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,700 says? It says he looking up saw Jesus 301 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:22,400 standing on the right hand of God. 302 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,400 Do you know why? He was looking up? 303 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,800 Just the reason that I just described before about a stoning 304 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:33,800 because he was laying on his back and he looked up He didn't 305 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:39,900 chicken out. No he took it polycarp didn't 306 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:42,900 chicken out, either took it. Peter didn't chicken out either. 307 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:48,300 Finally, finally he took it and he died for his faith folks. 308 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:50,500 These people are not better than the Lord and they're not 309 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:51,600 stronger than the Lord physically. 310 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,300 No way. Jesus was talking about 311 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,600 something else. He was troubled about something 312 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,700 else. Now, watch this. 313 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,500 I have heard this phrase right here red, when somebody has 314 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,400 waited on the table or preached on the crucifixion and they say 315 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,400 it like a statement. It's not a statement. 316 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,400 It fits the whole context and they read it like this. 317 00:19:12,500 --> 00:19:15,100 What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. 318 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:18,600 Like it's a statement like Jesus was saying, please save me from 319 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,400 this hour, that's not, it's a question. 320 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:23,800 Look what he says. Now, my soul is troubled 321 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,000 anguish, but what shall I say? In other words, what 322 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,200 hypothetical question should I should I ask what shall I say? 323 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:35,300 Shall I say? Father, save me from this hour, 324 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:38,400 don't you see? That's the reason I'm here. 325 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:40,100 That's the whole reason I'm here. 326 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:42,800 So would it be right for me to say father, save me from this 327 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,000 hour. It's a question. 328 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,500 The very next phrase. But for this purpose, I came to 329 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:54,500 this hour. You know, in chapter 7, in John 330 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:59,800 7, verse 38, he said He said my hour has not come remember that. 331 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:05,000 How about 8:20 only said, again my our hasn't come now. 332 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,100 His hour had come in fact in John Chapter 13 and verse 1. 333 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:12,300 It says Jesus knowing that his hour had come. 334 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:16,300 So Jesus was now at that hour he knew he was at that hour. 335 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,100 He knew that he came for the purpose of that hour and he's 336 00:20:19,100 --> 00:20:23,000 saying what will I say? Father, take me from this hour. 337 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:28,000 Save me. Certainly not. 338 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,900 Please understand this. You've heard me say this many 339 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:35,500 times you're going to hear me. Say it again. 340 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:37,200 I love to say that love saying it. 341 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:41,900 Jesus was no man's victim. How do I know that for absolute? 342 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,400 Sure right here. I know that for absolute 343 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,800 certain, this is what the Lord could have done in Matthew 26 344 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:54,300 and 53 or do you think that I cannot now pray to my father and 345 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:57,000 he will provide me with more than Twelve. 346 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,000 Legions of angels. Do you know what that means? 347 00:21:00,300 --> 00:21:03,000 That means that if Jesus would have put a stop to it, if you 348 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,500 wanted to God, would have allowed him to. 349 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,300 In fact, he said, I could pray to the father and the father. 350 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:13,700 Father would provide me twelve Legions of angels. 351 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,300 How many are they how many are twelve Legions of angels? 352 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,000 You know, I don't know about the innumerable host in heaven. 353 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,300 I don't. But I know that he wasn't asking 354 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:27,300 for all of them. Some, how many angels are in 355 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:30,100 heaven and Jesus was not saying, I could have asked for all the 356 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:32,800 angels of heaven. No, he said I could ask for 357 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,700 twelve Legions. How many is that a legion is 358 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:42,200 6,000? So, 6,000 times 12 is 72 359 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,300 Thousand. Angels. 360 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:47,100 Jesus said, if I wanted to I could have asked my father and 361 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:49,900 he would have sent 72,000 Angels. 362 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:55,900 Who's in control and who is willing and determined to die 363 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:59,000 for your sins. Oh, he could have. 364 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,300 But this is why. This is why he didn't. 365 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,600 Therefore, my father loves me because I lay down my life. 366 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:13,300 Then I might take it again. This is not unwilling father 367 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:19,000 folks this is totally completely and thoroughly willing, but that 368 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 doesn't mean because he was willing that there was no 369 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,200 anxious anguish. In fact, when Jesus prayed in 370 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:29,100 the garden and Luke chapter 22 he said father if it is your 371 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:35,900 will This is the new King James. Take this cup away from me. 372 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,700 Nevertheless not my will, but yours be done. 373 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:45,000 All right, this is later on this is about Thursday night or so. 374 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:52,000 And I want to know this, what is the cup now, let me just say the 375 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,700 cup has to be something that we've already established, it 376 00:22:55,700 --> 00:23:00,300 has to be something more than just the cup of suffering has to 377 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:05,100 be It has to be more than that. In fact, did you know this that 378 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:09,100 the phrase cup of the Lord in the Old Testament, it goes all 379 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:12,900 the way back to the Old Testament, it speaks of God's 380 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,700 Divine wrath. What he's saying is, he says, if 381 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:21,200 it's possible if it is, your will, please take the Divine 382 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,800 wrath away from me. Jesus wasn't afraid of the 383 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,500 physical punishment on Golgotha. He was troubled. 384 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:31,900 Because It was God's Divine wrath. 385 00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:34,500 It was the sins of the entire world. 386 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,600 It was the fact Jesus had to do it alone and even God turned 387 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,800 away his face. That's what he said. 388 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:45,200 That's what the word cup means. It means God's Divine wrath. 389 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,200 That concept, as I said, it's in the Old Testament to Now, I have 390 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,800 to say this though. I have to say this, please do 391 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,200 not leave here today. Please do not do that. 392 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,700 Please do not leave here today and think that I'm diminishing 393 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:01,100 the painful suffering on the cross. 394 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:06,900 I am not and please don't leave here thinking that Jesus was not 395 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:10,500 human to the point that he could feel every bit of the pain of 396 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:12,800 the Cross. I'm not saying that either. 397 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,900 I saying this that crucifixion was so awful, it was so 398 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:22,800 terrible, that a Roman citizen literally shuddered to even 399 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,500 speak of it. It was so bad that a Roman 400 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,800 citizen could never be crucified. 401 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:34,300 And crucifixion was for foreign slaves and criminals, that's 402 00:24:34,300 --> 00:24:37,600 what it was for. So please don't leave here 403 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,400 thinking, oh, he just downplayed what Jesus did on the cross 404 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,500 physically. I didn't say that. 405 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:43,200 I'm not saying that, that's not what I'm saying. 406 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:46,900 What I'm saying is what terrified him? 407 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,800 And what troubled him was the cup, he spoke of In The Garden 408 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,700 of Gethsemane which was the Divine wrath of God, bearing, 409 00:24:56,700 --> 00:25:03,500 the sins of the entire world Now, we know that he was in 410 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:04,600 agony. Luke 22. 411 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:09,500 Says he was praying fervently And his sweat became like drops 412 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:13,100 of blood falling to the ground and incidentally, you know, I've 413 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,500 often wondered about that. I'll tell you what, I believe. 414 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:19,100 That passage is actually saying, I believe it. 415 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:22,300 What it's saying is that his sweat was and sometimes we can 416 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:24,900 get. So physically worked up that, 417 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:29,000 our sweat drops, like great big drops, kind of like blood would 418 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,200 drop and Blood using drops with a bigger drop bigger, drip 419 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,600 bigger drop and splatters when he hits the ground, that's what 420 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,400 blood does. And normal sweating doesn't do 421 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,300 that. Just kind of runs down, okay, 422 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:45,100 little beads So sometimes when we are really up so we're really 423 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:46,700 worked up. We have sweat. 424 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:48,400 That's like that. I think that's what it's saying 425 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,600 here. Although some Scholars say that 426 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,200 it he was in such anguish over the cup of God's Divine wrath 427 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,700 and all that he would have to do for the sins of the world from 428 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:01,800 the standpoint of putting the sins on him was so terrible. 429 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,600 That the capillaries busted at all about any actually sweat 430 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,600 blood. I don't know that to be a fact, 431 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,400 but I do know I can it makes a whole lot of sense because it 432 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:15,200 says about sweat because his sweat was As it were great drops 433 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,900 of blood. It doesn't say, he sweat actual 434 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:17,900 blood. Okay. 435 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,700 That's a little freebie as my fall in love with say, But 436 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:27,200 notice what Jesus says, he says this. 437 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:30,700 What am I going to say? Save me from this hour. 438 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,300 Why would I do that? This is the purpose that I came 439 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,000 to this hour. And then he said, father, 440 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:42,400 glorify your name. In other words in my death, 441 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,200 glorify your name. How does the cross? 442 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,600 Glorify the Father, the cross, glorifies the father in several 443 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,300 ways. First of all, the cross puts on 444 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:56,600 displaying. All of God's attributes. 445 00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:01,300 In other words, God is glorified when we are aware or made aware 446 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:05,500 of who he is. Okay, so how does the cross 447 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:11,400 glorify God just like this. We see God's love in action for 448 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,000 God. So loved the world that he gave 449 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,700 his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him 450 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,100 should not perish but have everlasting life. 451 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:20,600 Make no mistake about it and God is glorified when we all 452 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,400 recognize who he is and all that he is in his attributes. 453 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,600 God is loves. This is God's love and action. 454 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,100 Number two. We see God's grace in action. 455 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,400 Grace is unmerited favor. You know what that means? 456 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,000 I didn't deserve it. And when Jesus went to die for 457 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,700 my sins, I didn't deserve that, he did that for me. 458 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:43,600 Therefore, when I have salvation is by grace and I don't deserve 459 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:44,700 it. And neither do you. 460 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:47,400 We see God's grace in action on the cross. 461 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,500 What else? How about this? 462 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,300 We see God's mercy and action, too. 463 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:54,900 Mercy, that's extended to all mankind. 464 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,300 What else? His Justice, folks? 465 00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,300 I'm going to tell you something. God, hates sin. 466 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:07,000 And God hates sin for a very important reason. 467 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:11,100 First of all number one, he's pure and he can't even look upon 468 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,000 it. That's number one. 469 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,700 Okay, we get that against the ugliness of sin, but understand 470 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:19,100 this too. When sin happens, somebody has 471 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:23,300 to pay a price. So when Justice had to kick in, 472 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:27,000 somebody had to pay the penalty, somebody had to pay the fine. 473 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,400 Somebody had to be the propitiation for it all. 474 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,000 What do I see? That's God's. 475 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:36,400 Somebody paid the fine, somebody paid the price. 476 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:40,000 What else? Well, we do see God's Wrath. 477 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:43,300 We see God's wrath upon the sin of the world. 478 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:48,700 We see God's judgment. We see God's wisdom and finally 479 00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:51,500 the Fulfillment of all the prophetic accounts. 480 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:55,300 Concerning this idea, we see true that is Vindicated, even 481 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:58,700 though there were many people that rejected that this was true 482 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:04,100 All of these things happened on the cross prophecies fulfilled. 483 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:09,100 We see the power declared all of this is glorified in this event. 484 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,900 This is great comfort for us, too. 485 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:13,100 Because I want to say something to you, please hear this, please 486 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:17,000 get this. Conflict. 487 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,000 With sin. Is not sin. 488 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,700 Who do you mean by that? I didn't say, sinning isn't sin 489 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:34,300 and say that. I said conflict with sin is not 490 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:41,100 sin. Jesus had a conflict with sin 491 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:46,000 and yet he did not sin. Did you know that? 492 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,900 If you're going to live a Christian Life, you're going to 493 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:51,600 live in conflict. With sin. 494 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:59,100 Do you know that? There was Agony in the tortured 495 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,200 soul of Christ over the thought that he would have to bear the 496 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,900 sin of the world be encouraged though. 497 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:10,700 Because you know what, the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 7 498 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,900 now picture this he was not only a Christian, he was a chosen 499 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:19,100 vessel of Jesus. He was one that would be the 500 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:22,500 great Apostle Paul divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. 501 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:24,600 He would write over two-thirds of the New Testament. 502 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,100 Do you know what? Paul said? 503 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:28,300 Paul? Paul said, I got some serious 504 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:32,800 conflict. He says, when I would do this, 505 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,300 talk about the Flesh and the spirit, I would that when I 506 00:30:36,308 --> 00:30:38,300 would do, this evil is present with me. 507 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,800 He said, I find then a law that when I would do good evil is 508 00:30:42,808 --> 00:30:44,600 present with me. You know, that means that means 509 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,100 a Christian is going to have a conflict with the outward ways 510 00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:54,000 of sin, all of his life. But conflict in itself without 511 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,600 succumbing to, it is not sin. We that are trying to live a 512 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,900 Godly life, folks are confronted by Evil all the time. 513 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,700 And we and wages War all the time but please be encouraged. 514 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:12,800 Let me encourage you with this your genuineness as a Christian 515 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,600 your authenticity. As a Christian is as much 516 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,400 manifest by your conflict as it is by your joy. 517 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,500 Who you are as a Christian is manifested by your conflict too. 518 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,400 And not just by your joy and your peace. 519 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:33,600 Do you think for one minute? This is going to be an easy way. 520 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:40,200 You're sadly mistaken. It's not We're in a fight. 521 00:31:41,300 --> 00:31:45,300 The fight is for our soul and is for our entire life. 522 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,200 So guess what, guess what? If you're a Christian, and 523 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,100 you're in conflict and your warning against the outward, 524 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,200 things that are coming your way in The Temptations, your way, 525 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,600 you know what that means? If you are resisting that, let 526 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,600 me just tell you this. It is Manifest of what you are. 527 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,600 You're genuineness your authenticity, not just by your 528 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:09,200 peace and not just by your joy. The Lord's in anguish here. 529 00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:12,300 He's totally obedient though, and this is really the mystery 530 00:32:12,300 --> 00:32:14,800 of the Lord's. Anguish, a real struggle, a real 531 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,400 battle in his soul, but he was perfect. 532 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,200 He had willing loving obedience to the father, but in addition 533 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,800 to this, we also see something else. 534 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,200 We see the mystery or the Enigma of the father's answer while 535 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:31,400 Jesus was praying. He said, this, my soul is 536 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,500 troubled, then he said in verse 28. 537 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:39,000 Father, glorify your name. Here's the here, is the Father's 538 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000 response. Then a voice Came From Heaven 539 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,800 saying, I have both glorified it and it meaning his name and will 540 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,200 glorify it again. Powerful Passage. 541 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:58,500 In other words, I have glorified my name through you Jesus in 542 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:03,700 your life and now I'm going to glorify my name again in your 543 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:07,900 death. I did it for your life, I'll do 544 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:10,400 it through your death going. Back to verse 29. 545 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,800 Now, we're going to get back to this in just a minute. 546 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,600 This is when God spoke here. Obviously now the father did 547 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,200 speak from heaven. two other times, remember, in Matthew 548 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,700 chapter 3 and verse 17, When Jesus was baptized remember when 549 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:29,100 John, the Baptist said that? Wait a minute, wait a minute. 550 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,500 You should be baptizing me and John. 551 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:34,600 The Baptist had to learn that to baptize. 552 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,500 Jesus was to fulfill all righteousness that had to 553 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:38,900 happen. Okay? 554 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,800 When Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in the River Jordan, 555 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,600 however, it sounded. But from Heaven, the voice said, 556 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:52,700 this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased God, spoke 557 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:54,300 their number one. Guess what? 558 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,000 Matthew 17. God spoke again on the Mount of 559 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,200 transfiguration. When Peter has his great idea, 560 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,400 let's build. Three, Tabernacles. 561 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,700 We all know the story. All of a sudden when they fell 562 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,400 prostrate on the ground because of the voice from Heaven, The 563 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,900 Voice from Heaven, said, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well 564 00:34:10,900 --> 00:34:16,400 pleased hear, ye him, so he spoke number one at the baptism. 565 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,400 He spoke at the Mount of transfiguration and guess what? 566 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:24,600 He spoke right here. He spoke right here in John 567 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,000 chapter 12. Verse 29. 568 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:31,600 Therefore the people who stood by it though. 569 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,300 And heard it said, it thundered, others said, an angel has spoken 570 00:34:36,300 --> 00:34:37,600 to him. I'm going to get back to that in 571 00:34:37,607 --> 00:34:39,400 just a minute. We need to look at verse 30, 572 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:44,800 look at verse 30, Jesus answered and said, this voice did not 573 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:50,100 come because of me, but, for your sake now, who's he talking 574 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:52,800 to? When he says, for your sake, I 575 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,400 think he's talking to the disciples. 576 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,800 I think he's talking to the ones that Jesus had to indict time, 577 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,800 and Time again. Oh, you of little faith. 578 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,500 I think he's talking to the disciples, the followers of 579 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:09,400 Jesus, that struggled, mightily, with the whole concept of 580 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,600 everything that was going to happen. 581 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:13,600 So I think that's exactly what he was saying. 582 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:17,300 Jesus said, I already knew what my father would say. 583 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,500 I know those facts and the father didn't say it for my 584 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,500 benefit. The father said it for your 585 00:35:23,500 --> 00:35:26,600 sake, for your benefit. That's the disciples, right? 586 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,200 Now, on the other hand, what about the rest of the crowd? 587 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:40,600 Some of them said, it thundered. Thunder. you know, I think 588 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:46,400 today, I think this is very fitting Here was the voice of 589 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,100 God. Jesus said it was said for you, 590 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,900 the disciples your sake, but there were others there you 591 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:57,200 don't. They said oh Did it thunder? 592 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:00,900 You know, sometimes people hear the word of God. 593 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,700 They hear the word of God to hear what they need to do to be 594 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,000 saved. And you preach right from it, 595 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:12,400 you read right from it and some people are persuaded to obey the 596 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,500 gospel. Some people just hear noise, 597 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:18,100 empty noise and walk on out. It thundered. 598 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,600 If thundered. They were talking about. 599 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:28,800 A weather event. They were taking the voice of 600 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:34,400 God and the words of God and reducing it to a weather event. 601 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:37,800 Did it thunder? Do it thunder. 602 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,300 Not only that, though. Here's some others do and there 603 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:45,300 and these others are closer but they're still missing the point. 604 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:48,800 No some other said no it was an angel has spoken to him. 605 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,800 In other words it was a supernatural event. 606 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,700 So some said it was nothing but whether thundering and all that 607 00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:57,200 and other said, no it's a supernatural event. 608 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,200 It was an angel that spoke to Jesus. 609 00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:03,500 Now you can imagine that they're trying to understand all of 610 00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:06,200 this, he's saying all kinds of things to them. 611 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:09,500 You got to mix crowd and so forth and so on maybe there was 612 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,500 still great That were there that came to see Jesus there, there 613 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,100 may be the leaders in the temple are there and they're trying to 614 00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,700 figure out what happened. And by the way, let me just say 615 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:25,400 as a side note here, Thunder in the Old Testament is often used 616 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,900 as a word to describe the word or the mouth of God. 617 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,800 I think that's a rather interesting point quickly now 618 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,800 Exodus 19 God thundered second Samuel, 22 and 14. 619 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:43,000 The Lord thundered From Heaven and uttered his voice joke, 37 620 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,200 and five God Thunders marvelously with his voice, 621 00:37:46,300 --> 00:37:50,300 Jobe, 40, and verse 9. Can you thunder with a voice 622 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:55,300 like that? So Thunder was associated with 623 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:57,500 the voice of God. Okay. 624 00:37:58,300 --> 00:38:02,600 But that's not what they meant. They said, oh, she's the rumble. 625 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:03,900 It's just the Rumblings out there. 626 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:06,500 It's just whether that's what they meant. 627 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:11,300 I think very sadly some people fall into that same category. 628 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:14,100 There were those others though. They thought it was an Angelic 629 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:18,700 event, it's a little closer. But the bottom line is this God 630 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:23,400 had spoken and God had validated authenticated and affirmed the 631 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,700 death of his son. And in that we see the mystery 632 00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:30,200 of the sun's anguish, we see the mystery of the father's answer. 633 00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:35,500 And finally we see this, we see the mystery of the Cross as 634 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,100 accomplishment. In other words, what began is 635 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:43,000 anguish and torture and Terror in the soul of Our Lord. 636 00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:46,500 All of a sudden is terms to Triumph and it's found in Verses 637 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:50,900 31 and 32 now is the Judgment of this world. 638 00:38:50,900 --> 00:38:54,800 Now, the ruler of this world will be cast out and if I be 639 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,200 lifted up from the earth will draw All Peoples to myself, 640 00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,100 three massive statements. Look at this. 641 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:05,200 In other words, He's troubled early on in the statement about 642 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,600 the cross but then he says this look what's going to happen. 643 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:13,100 It's going to be the Judgment of this world. and may I say may, I 644 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:17,200 say, Folks, God's judgments are always right? 645 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,400 There are things that we cannot fathom. 646 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,900 We can understand when it comes to judgment. 647 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,000 I might be able to judge according to whatever. 648 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:31,500 But I'm so thankful that I am not the righteous judge. 649 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,200 All I know is because of the Cross. 650 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,500 Jesus Christ will be the righteous. 651 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:42,200 Judge, he is our savior. Now, when this world is over, 652 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,200 he'll be the judge and whatever he determines will be right, 653 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:50,600 please get that. It'll be right. 654 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,400 Why? Because of the Cross. 655 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:54,900 What else? I love this. 656 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,200 Be encouraged by this. The ruler of this world will be 657 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:00,700 cast out. Do you know who that is? 658 00:40:01,300 --> 00:40:04,200 He is also called The Prince of the power of Darkness, the 659 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,700 prince of the power of the air. That is Satan, the God of this 660 00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:09,800 world. Did you understand that the 661 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:15,400 cross at the cross? The devil took a definite final 662 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,300 weapon. He is a relinquish fo folks and 663 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:23,200 he has no control over you in your life that you do not allow, 664 00:40:23,300 --> 00:40:25,000 and he's bound now by the word of God. 665 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,200 What else? So what's going to happen? 666 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,700 Jug of this world will come as a result of the Cross. 667 00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:34,200 Satan will be cast out according to this, and finally, look at 668 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,500 this. And if I be lifted up from the 669 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,900 earth will draw All Peoples to myself, I love that. 670 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:47,800 Now. this does not mean as I've heard it interpreted, this does 671 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,500 not mean that if I lift up Jesus with my life. 672 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,500 I will draw people or the Lord will draw people to to him if I 673 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:59,400 and my life lift up Christ. Now that is a principle that we 674 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,400 need to do in our life. We need to be crushed like an 675 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,500 all that that has nothing to do with this passage. 676 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,600 When he said, if I be lifted up, he's talking about being lifted 677 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,000 up on a Roman cross. He's talking about dying in a 678 00:41:12,008 --> 00:41:15,700 different way, than the Jews would have assumed that he would 679 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:20,300 die, which was by stoning. He is saying, if I be lifted up 680 00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:25,300 from the earth, literally will draw All Peoples to myself. 681 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:27,700 And you know what folks Bible says? 682 00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:30,000 There's no other name given among men whereby we must be 683 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:31,000 saved. No, no other. 684 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,800 There's no other way. Jesus says, I am the way, the 685 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,900 truth and the life. I am the way, the truth and the 686 00:41:36,908 --> 00:41:39,000 life. Jesus says, no one comes unto 687 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,100 the father except by or through me. 688 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:43,800 Why is that? Because he was lifted up from 689 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:47,000 the Earth. On calvary's Cross. 690 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,800 Here's the response and then I'm finished. 691 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000 Now, you know, it's interesting. Remember when I started the 692 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,400 series, I said that for a long time, I said for a long time, I 693 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,200 wanted to preach on this because I wanted to find out what 694 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,900 exactly happened as we went along the change. 695 00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:06,200 People's thinking that went from hosanna in the highest, to let 696 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,400 him be crucified. He says all of this right? 697 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,600 You know how they responded? This Is How They responded. 698 00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:15,800 This he said signifying, what death? 699 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,500 He would die, by the way, that's how I know that. 700 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:20,000 That's what lifting up means. The Bible just tells me that I 701 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,600 didn't guess that. The people answered him. 702 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:28,900 We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever. 703 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,700 And how can you say the son of man must be lifted up. 704 00:42:32,700 --> 00:42:38,800 Who is this son of, man? Now he had already established 705 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:43,800 that, he is the only one that could fulfill the fleshly 706 00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:49,000 Bloodlines or the criteria of fleshly Bloodlines and also 707 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,400 fulfill the criteria of being deities. 708 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,900 The only one we already studied that, you know, they said, oh 709 00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:56,800 wait, wait, wait, wait. We heard the crisis going to 710 00:42:56,808 --> 00:42:59,900 live forever. It's gonna remain forever, and 711 00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:03,200 you're saying that the son of man is going to be lifted up and 712 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,400 they knew what that meant. They knew that make crucifixion, 713 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,600 people rejected Jesus because they rejected the fact that he 714 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,600 had to die, they misunderstood the whole thing, they 715 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,300 misunderstood the whole point. And you know what they've done? 716 00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:21,800 Folks on Sunday. They said, oh, hosanna in the 717 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,200 highest on Tuesday. They said, wait a minute. 718 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,300 I don't know about that. Okay. 719 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:31,400 My Thursday night. Friday, let him be crucified. 720 00:43:33,300 --> 00:43:38,600 Be encouraged today. Please be encouraged. that when 721 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,200 you think about all the things in your life, when you think 722 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,400 about all the things that happen in your life, the greatest thing 723 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,200 that will ever be done for you has already been done. 724 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:56,100 That's a fact. So if he died for me, Surely I 725 00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:59,400 can live for him and you know Jesus said if you're faithful 726 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,700 unto death I'll give you a Crown of Life. 727 00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:04,800 Let's go do that. We thank you for listening to 728 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,600 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 729 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:13,200 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 730 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,500 information, or you would like to receive a free Bible 731 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:21,900 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at her 732 00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,400 Church of Christ Bakersfield.com. 733 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,200 Our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 734 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,700 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to join us. 735 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,400 We would love for you to be our honored guest.