As I mentioned, just a moment ago, there were two trials.
And these things happen after Jesus was in The Garden of
Gethsemane, I'm going to fast forward through the Garden of
Gethsemane. As I said, I wasn't going to
preach specifically on it because I've done that before at
this place several times. But you remember that Jesus
identified the betrayer Judas. Jesus told his disciples, he
said all of you will be offended because of me this night and
Peter says, no, I don't care what they do if I have to die
with you. I will not deny you And Jesus
says tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three
times. They go to the Garden of
Gethsemane and the disciples slept as Jesus prayed.
And finally Jesus said to his father, if there's no other way
except I drink it, he said thy will be done and looking out and
seeing the multitude that was coming his way, the Bible says
that Jesus led his disciples and they went out, then the Betrayal
kiss of Judas and then they arrested.
Jesus. Well, there was a religious
trial that took place and then there was the Civil Trial what
I'm doing now is I'm fast-forwarding through the
religious trial, and we're going to pick it up at the Civil
Trial. When Jesus is before Pilate, now
he's found guilty of absolutely nothing.
In fact, when they brought Jesus to him, he says, what has he
done? What is the accusation?
You know what they said? I think it's interesting.
They said, basically do you think that we We would have
brought him to you if he wasn't such a bad guy or he wasn't that
evildoer. In other words, they're saying
the pilot. You're stepping on our
integrity. Of course, there's something
wrong with Jesus, of course, he's guilty of something.
Are we would have never brought him to you, but did you get the
point? Did you see the point?
There was nothing. There was no accusation at all,
at that time when he's first, brought to Pilot well, pilot
realizes as he looks Upon Jesus. He's got A real problem.
He looks at his demeanor, he looks at his humble attire and
he realizes, we have a problem as pilot would say, not once not
twice, not five times. But six times during the course
of this period of time, pilot says, I find no fault in him,
but his problem is, he can't give him back.
There'll be a riot. If he did such what's he going
to do? So he gets an idea.
I got it Harry. It's in town.
And by the way, Herod is From Galilee.
Jesus was originally from Galilee who is Herod really?
As I use today's common vernacular, maybe pilot was
thinking, you know, haratz the big Carriage, The Big Cheese
over there in Galilee, we'll send him to Herod.
But they beat him a little. And looked him over a little and
sent him back. And now he's Pilots problem
again. You know, I think that there is
a spiritual I think there's a spiritual parallel here, and I
think it's really true of every person.
And that is this pilot tried, really hard to not have to make
the decision about. What am I going to do with
Jesus? But he couldn't.
And I think that's a picture of every person today.
You cannot remove your choice, the freedom of choice.
Am I going to follow Jesus? Am I going to be a Christian?
Or am I going to be in sin? I have to make a choice in my
life. You have to make a choice in
your life and pilot had to make a choice in his life to he had
to choose. Am I going to choose Jesus and
do the right thing or not? Well I wouldn't notice three
things three proposals that pie Eyelet actually came up with
because really, these were failing proposals because after
all he wanted to get rid of Jesus, he knew he was innocent
and here they come proposal. Number one, he says I got an
idea. He says, why don't you take him
and why don't you judge him for yourself?
You know what they said? Oh no pilot.
It's unlawful for us to do that. Do you know why?
You know this, I've taught this before in ad 31.
The law changed, it was called Pax Romana, and that literally
means Roman peace. What that means is, Rome was the
only one that had the power of the sword.
Meaning Rome was the only one that could execute someone.
And they knew it, that began in a D30.
It's now a t-33. If the Jews would have taken
Jesus and put him to death because he said, I am the Son of
God, which later they're going to say, we have a law that you
have to die. If you say that, if they would
have done it their way, they would have stoned Jesus to
death. And if that was the case, the
Bible is not true. Remember what Jesus said of
himself? He said, if I be lifted up, I
will draw All Peoples unto me. He's talking about the way he
would die. He's talking about being on a
cross in the Old Testament. You know what it says, it says
he would hang on a tree, so they said this no pilot.
We can't do that. It's unlawful for me for us to
do that. What else does he say then?
Well, then he says this. He says, we have a custom or you
have a custom that during the period of the Passover.
Somebody would be released. So he gets an idea and he says,
surely they'll release the king of the Jews.
I honestly think as we pause here, I honestly think that
pilot thought this was going to work.
I honestly thought that when he brings out Barabbas and Barabbas
is standing there and Jesus is standing there and Jewish custom
was released one prisoner at Passover time.
I honestly think he felt that would work, but here they stand
now, why would he think that? Do you remember a few days ago?
And you remember why I told you that I wanted to write this
sermon? This series, I wanted to notice
what happened between Sunday when they said Hosanna to the
highwomen. Highest until this day and they
said crucify him. What happened in between?
Well we talked about that, he overturned the tables of the
moneychangers, he preached things that were very difficult
to hear and all the things that Jesus did so no doubt he angered
people I get that but there's more first of all, he's standing
there and he's standing next to Barabbas and just maybe though
pilot in his mind is thinking maybe there are some people out
here that when he came in. Into Jerusalem on the back of a
donkey. Maybe they were the ones that
said Hosanna to the highest. And by the way, You remember why
he was on a donkey? This all fit, stay with me off.
It's a promise. Do you know why?
He was on a donkey? He was on a donkey for a good
reason. And a number of months ago, when
I started this series, I told you that I had always thought
that the reason that he was on the back of a Colt of a donkey.
And not a horse is to show that his kingdom was not of this
world now, that's true. But that's not why I've even
said that maybe it was part of his His humiliation, he would
come on the back of a Colt of a donkey.
That's not why he wrote in, on the back of a Colt of a donkey
because that's what Kings did. When kings came in, peace, in
fact, when a king would lead troops into battle, you know
what? They rode, they rode a horse
when they win in peace. They rode a donkey.
What is Jesus? The prince of peace.
What is the kingdom? The kingdom of peace.
They said Hosanna but they didn't really know what they
were saying. Stay with me.
Now, all of a sudden Barabbas is there, Barabbas is
representative of the kind of man that Jesus spoke of in the
parable of the Good Samaritan. When the man fell among Thieves,
he said there was a man like that a robber.
There was a man that was a bandit.
There was a man that was a Highwayman.
And Jesus describes such a man in the parable of the Good
Samaritan. Incidentally, he's now standing
next to that kind of a man. Now, can't you just figure this?
The pilots thinking? Surely.
They'll pick Jesus. but the Bible says that the chief
priests and the Elders of the people, they stirred them up and
then they all said Barabbas, you know, I've often wondered I saw
a little depiction, I saw a little show, one time on TV and
movie. And it was on something about
the crucifixion. And those precious women that
would be there at the end. That would be there at the
Sepulchre when the stone was rolled away.
They would be eyewitness. Testimony, that Jesus rose from
the dead. And in this movie, it showed
them, they were standing there. And when the chief priests and
Elders were rounding up the people and they were screaming
for Barabbas to be released it just showed these women by
themself, and they were yelling out Jesus.
I just wonder how many people cried for Jesus.
How many people chose Jesus? Wasn't there, anybody?
Was he all alone? Remember this to everyone I said
is all going to fit about the donkey.
It's going to fit, okay? It's going to fit.
When you look up the word Hosanna, okay, it will say
praise and adoration, it'll say a word of Honor.
That's what it'll say. You can Google it, don't do it
now but later on, get your phone out and not now and Google that
it'll tell you something like that.
It'll say something along the lines of praise and adoration,
okay? But did you know that Hosanna is
the Greek form of the Hebrew, plea to God, for help?
In fact, in the Hebrew, you know what it's called.
Oh, Shia. Nah, what were they actually
saying? When they said Hosanna where
they praising him, know what they were saying?
When they said Hosanna they were saying hoshea Na and ho
shayanna, literally means get this save.
Now we pray or Give victory. Don't, you see when Jesus came
in, on the back of a Colt of a donkey, there was great support
there because they believe that Jesus was going to establish an
Earthly Kingdom. And just maybe it would lift the
thumb of repression of, Oppression, of Rome off of them.
Well, guess what? A weeks gone by and they know
the difference. And they say crucify him.
One little side note here before we go further.
You know, I think that this is a picture sometimes of people
today, when it's Hosanna day, it's three, cheers for Jesus.
But later on, it's crucify him. It's kind of like, people in the
religious world today, don't you think on the 25th of December?
It's three, cheers for Jesus. And then the rest of the year,
it's Whatever. Or on Easter Sunday.
I can't tell you the number of times, I have gone and held a
gospel meeting that happened to close on Easter Sunday, and I'm
telling you that place is packed with Bonnets and hats, and
rabbits, and eggs and Canyon people coming to visit visitors,
right? Three.
Cheers for Jesus. On that day.
What about the child of God? What about the Christian Sunday
morning at three. Cheers for Jesus, the rest of
the week, though, whenever I want.
Forget about him. Let's not be like that, let's
not do that. So, all of a sudden, here we go.
Remember this. He says you take him and judge
him among your stuff, they said, nope, it's unlawful.
I will release the king of the Jews.
Surely you want him? They said, nope, Barabbas.
What else? This is what he said.
I don't understand this at all. He knows.
He's innocent so he says I'll just do this.
I'll just beat him and Scourge him.
That's what I'll do instead. you know, what's interesting is, if
he knew that he was innocent why in the world Did he skirts him?
Maybe he thought, I'll just pacify the people now, over the
years, especially my family's heard me.
Say this, maybe you have heard me say this too, but if you ever
heard me talk about the scourging and I will, and I will
Fray. I use the phrase.
They took that cat of nine, tails, and thrust it across his
back. Maybe you've heard me say that.
This was not a cat of nine tails.
I've been wrong for years. Let me tell you what a cat of
nine tails was a cat of nine tails.
Was a handle that was wrapped in leather.
It had nine straps that hung off of that.
In the tip of each strap was a razor blade.
So what they would do is when they used a cat of nine tails
they would use that and thrust it on the back of someone and it
was extremely painful, but it was different than a Scourge
Stay With Me. The razor blades would cut the
skin as a razor blade. Might, you might think I'm going
to talk about something that's worse.
I'm going to talk about a Roman Scourge or if leg room.
That's how Jesus was beat. And this is what it was.
It was a fixed stick wrapped with leather at the end of it
were thongs leather thongs of some length.
And in the end of those thongs were held bits of breasts and
led and Bone and they were filed.
The sharp points. The victim was then either
stretched flat on the ground with his back up.
Or tied to a post hanging or strap suspended from the ground.
The soldier would thrust The Scourge across the back of the
victim, tearing the flesh from his back.
It probably looks something they say, like, this right here and
do you notice here these are LED bulbs here, which give it
weight. In other words, it wasn't just
leather straps with razor blades on the end.
That would have been bad enough, but this was designed as they
throw Rushed it and pulled it back.
It would rip, and tear the flesh from the body.
And make no mistake about it, by the way, get 39 out of your
head. Get the number 39 out of your
head. I know a preacher one time that
for affect stood at the pulpit and he went like this 39 times
and he waited patiently until he hit it 39 times.
He said that's how many times the Lord was hit.
Nope. No, sir Rome didn't have that
law, the children of Israel could not, they could not go
beyond 40 so what they do, they kept the 39, to make sure they
didn't go over. Okay.
That's corporal punishment. Physical punishment, under the
Old Law. This is different.
This was a scourging, this is with a flagrant.
This is terrible and Rome didn't have such a law.
What I believe with all of my heart is they beat Jesus, almost
to death, he was unrecognizable No Doubt.
Then. they suspended him up on some sort of a pole and I wanted
to show you this too for this reason, just for the pole
Sometimes people have different depictions of Jesus laying down
or humped over hunched. Over, in my research about this,
it is pretty much understood or believed that it was something
like this because this was, there was no mercy there, you're
hanging. And there's absolutely no relief
at all. You can't hunker down, you can't
lay down, you can't roll over. You just take it off.
That's what Jesus did. For us.
But then there's more in. The Bible says, they Twisted a
crown of thorns and they put it on his head.
And put a purple robe on him and then they said hail King of the
Jews and they struck him with their hands.
Now, interestingly about this every time that you see a
picture or a depiction of the crown of thorns, it looks like
that. Okay, and I got to say in
advance, I wasn't there, I don't know.
But let me just tell you some things that I have read.
What I have read is it probably was not or could have not been
exactly like this and I'll tell you why.
If you look at the crown of thorns, can you imagine the
hands of the person that had to weave all of that together, you
would tear their hands apart? But in our mind we have the
depiction well it's got to be a crown.
So Crown is around, will make it in the shape of a crown and will
show a picture of thorns coming out.
Okay. It is said, I read that probably
Jesus didn't have a crown of thorns.
He had a helmet of thorns. It would have looked like this,
and this would hurt worse, because inside would have been
all of those. All of those Thorns pressing on
the top of his head, too. Historian said, typically,
that's kind of what they had because it was easier to make
not because it was any kind of relief at all.
Now picture this, they put a purple robe on him.
Now picture, he is scourged. He is bloody.
He's beaten almost unrecognizably.
They take a crown of thorns or a helmet of thorns or whatever it
looked like and they pressed it down hard on his head, then they
put on a purple robe and they mocked him and they said hail
King of the Jews. Interestingly about that it was
a Roman custom. In fact it was a Roman game and
what they would do is the Romans would do this.
They would get someone that was less fortunate and mentally.
They would get someone that was as one historian put it.
I'd like an imbecile and they would take that person and they
would make fun of him. They would bow before him.
They would take him. Put a purple robe on him Elevate
him and treat him. Like he's a king making fun of
him. That was a Roman game.
Let me tell you how farther they took it with Jesus, though.
With Jesus, they took this Roman game and they put a crown of
thorns on his head, and they put the purple robe on him, and
they're having all their fun. And the Bible says, and I just
read to you, they hit him with their hands.
Do you know what it says, in the Greek text, it says this and
they kept on saying, hail King of the Jews and they kept giving
him blows with their hands. You know, another words what
that means. They You'd to punch him in the
face. Now he's beaten.
That's what they did to the Lamb of God.
That's what they did to the king of kings, and Lord of lords.
So then we get to this passage here.
Pilot says, we did all this. We did all this that you may
know that I find no fault in him.
Surely this will be enough. Surely this will suffice.
And finally pilate said to them, behold the man, does he really
look like a dangerous King? Behold the man.
Surely this will be enough. Does he really look like a king
but verse 6 says therefore the chief priests and officers saw
him they cried out. and they said crucify him, crucify him
again, another failed proposal Finally.
Pilot says, you take him and crucify him for I find no fault
in him, by the way, that's the fifth time that pilot said that
but notice they said no, wait a minute now, wait a minute.
They said we have a law though. We got a law.
That if somebody says that he is the Son of God, we have a law
among us that he has to die. Okay?
Now, let's just notice some of the in summary of all the
proposals of everything that happened.
This is what they accuse Jesus up.
Watch They said he threatened to destroy the temple.
Wasn't true. That didn't work.
They said he was an evil doer. That didn't work wasn't true.
They said he tried to pervert. The nation that wasn't true.
That didn't work. They said he forbade, paying
taxes to Caesar. Jesus already said Render unto
Caesar that, which is Caesars and that wasn't true.
They said, oh wait a minute, he's stirring up.
The people still had. No wait, they said he's a
political revolutionary that didn't work either.
But finally, finally they said he makes himself.
Self to be the Son of God. Now we got a problem.
You know what they were saying? They were saying this.
He's a false god and we don't like false gods pilot.
Now he's got Pilots attention. Now he's got his attention. and
by the way, Did you know that Rome Romans were very
superstitious people? And did you know that they
actually believe that God's small G small G that God's
literally came down to earth and dwelt among people remember
acts, 14, remember what they said about Paul and Barnabas
they called him Jupiter and Mercury member also, they did it
again to Paul and x28 my point is, they actually believed that
God's came. Down and God's actually.
Dwelt among people, they believe that.
And can you imagine what pilots thinking now Pilots thinking?
Wait a minute, I may have just scourged, the Son of God.
So notice here's his fatal Panic Pilots fatal panic.
In fact, the Bible says in chat and chapter night, John, 19, and
verse 8. Therefore when pilate heard that
saying, he was more afraid. You know what that word?
Those two words more freight actually me in the original, he
went into a frenzied, panic. Now.
Can you imagine? How he must have felt.
I may have just beaten the son of God.
And so he has to go back and talk to Jesus again.
And he goes to Pilots praetorium.
Now Sister Gayle has been there now, I don't know if this is the
actual place. I read that it was this was
actually the what is remaining of Pilots hall or Pilots?
Praetorium, is that true? I have no idea.
I'm just putting it up there, just to show.
He went to a place obviously like that went to Pilots Hall.
That's where Jesus was pilot went back in there and he talked
to Jesus again. And he wants to know this.
He wants to know. Where are you from?
He wasn't asking. I'm him.
What's your address over there in Nazareth?
He wants to know if you are the Son of God.
Where did you come from? Did you come from the place?
Where the gods come from? That's what he wants to know.
What's know where you from? And you know what the Bible
says? The Bible says, he said nothing.
Why did he say nothing to reasons?
One's obvious. One reason is Isaiah 53 and 7 as
a sheep before her Shearer's is dumb so he opened not his mouth.
That's reason number one obviously that's significant
right we get that But in there, something else here, too.
He knew Pilots heart. He had already told pilot, I'm a
king not of this world meant nothing.
The pilot. I'm a king not of US World.
He's nothing. Here's complete rejection.
And I just wonder, does there come a period of time in life
when the Lord finally is silent? I think in a figurative way.
Yes. All of a sudden here was pilot
standing there, he had rejected who Jesus was, do you remember
what John 18:37? Jesus said, everyone, who is of
the truth, hears, my voice. Now, in chapter in verse 10 and
verse 10, he says where you from and then he says, don't you know
that I have the power to crucify you or the power to release you
What else? The next verse Jesus says, you
would have no power at all, unless it had been given you
from above now. Also, he says this, he said
therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin
and I'm going to get back to the point that I was making just a
minute ago. I had to get this part out,
notice. Okay, he's in a frenzied Panic
where you from Jesus, gee, he pilot wants Jesus to know.
I got this power. He said you wouldn't have the
unless my father gave it to you. And then he said this the one
that delivered me to you has the greater sin.
Who is that? Judas?
No. It's Caiaphas.
It's the religious leaders. It's the ones that are arrested.
Jesus, it's the ones that tried to try Jesus with nothing wrong.
They didn't have the legal right to do it.
They didn't have the moral right to do it and they didn't have
their spiritual right to do it. It was nothing wrong with Jesus,
you know what he said, the ones that delivered me to you have
the greater sin. Now.
Do you think for a minute? Do you think that a person could
ever be that guilty? Yes.
As guilty as the ones that
scream for the blood of Jesus. That's somebody that knows the
truth and rejects it. According to Hebrews 6, he's
guilty of crucifying the Son of God afresh and putting him to an
open shame. And that's exactly what happens
when men, reject, Jesus, reject the truth.
And may I say this to there's a good example here, does there
come a point in time in somebody's life when the Lord
becomes silent? Yes, let me give you an example.
Do you remember when Judas, who was at the left of Jesus and
John's to the right of Jesus and they're in that upper room and
Judas is in a position of honor and he dips the bread and he
gives it to him like you would a guest of honor and then all of a
sudden, Jesus says, you're going to betray me and then finally
Jesus says whatsoever, thou doest, do it quickly.
And then what does the Bible say?
The Bible says Satan entered Judas.
You know what that means? That's not demonic possession.
That means he was totally controlling his choices and
actions, the Lord had no more voice.
Folks, that's why it's so important that we never drift.
Because you know, what happens when you drift at some point in
time, you stopped listening to the Lord and the voice is no
longer there in time. And you know what happens to
folks, sometimes people drift so far, they forget where they came
from and they don't know how to get back.
I'm gonna tell you a story. Something happened to me, I
don't even think I told my. I don't think I told Tina, maybe
I did. But I just held a meeting in
Arlington, Texas. And, and it just hit me when
this happened. This point it.
Me and I decided to go for a run beautiful, crisp morning, got my
sweats on got a hoodie on man. It felt great, it was great,
weather. My back wasn't hurting, and it's
good day. And I just took off and I
started running. And man, I ran and ran and ran,
and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran and ran.
Ran ran ran ran. I did not put in the address of
where I started from. I just kept running I felt
fantastic. All I was doing is looking at
the scenery all the new stuff I'm running having a great time
right after an hour and a half. Man, I've been running a long
time. Art half.
I was lost. I didn't know how to get back.
That was an embarrassing phone call.
Cohen Smith said, man. There's a sermon in there.
So, I decided I said yeah, that'll preach.
I decided to say it first so he has to steal it from me.
Okay. But I'm going to tell you,
that's really kind of what happens with sin.
Sometimes you drift so far. That you forget where you came
from? And you forget how to get back.
And that is why we have to have influence on those that drift.
That's why. That's why so just maybe we can
be the light to help them. See their way back out of
Darkness. Maybe to help him.
Here's the address is where you started.
This is the address to get back. Here's the GPS. so, and chapter
and verse 12, finally. From then on pilot sought to
release him. Now, you remember what they said
though, they said no, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Wait a minute. Wait, a minute.
Did you says, wait pilot if you let this man go, you are not
Caesars friend. Whoever makes himself a king
speaks against Caesar. So he had to choose between his
neck and his soul. That's what he had to do.
So now we have finally Pilots final pronouncement and it's
found in John 19 verses 13 to 16 and here it is.
First of all, in the praetorium pilot takes his Judgment seat.
Takes a seat. and he says, behold your king You know what
they said? really, we have no King, but
Caesar, They hated Caesar. They said, Hosanna to the
highest because they thought they were finally going to be
out from under the thumb of Rome.
He said, behold your king. Then he says, well shall I
crucify your king? That's the title of our lesson,
shall I? Crucify your king.
You know what they said is really sad.
They said crucify him and then they said and be careful what
you wish for. They said let his blood be on us
and on our children. Oh let that sink in let his
blood be on. Us and on our children, finally.
his final pronouncement, and by the way, Pilot.
No doubt is remembering what his wife said.
We'll talk about her very much. Remember the dream, she had have
nothing to do with this man. She said And here it is.
He's a raving Maniac at this point in time and he finally
gives in to the people and delivered him to them to be
crucified. What is all this saying?
What this is saying is everybody has a choice.
If we have a personal private application of this in your
life, you have a choice to everybody has a choice.
Life is about choices. Everybody has a choice and if
you look at Jesus and Barabbas, what does that represent a
Christian Life, which by the way, is the best life.
It really is, or Barabbas the picture of sin.
A sinful life, everybody has a choice.
Sin is ugly. It's as ugly as Barabbas was,
and as beautiful as Jesus is to the good.
Everybody has a choice, but you have to make the choice when you
feel the invitation Don't let it grow cold.
Don't Drift so far that the Lord is finally silent.
Like, he was to Pilot so long ago.
What's coming after this, this is all that's left in
conclusion. This is all that's left.
He is delivered to be crucified. We know what happens.
He has to carry his cross. At least for a while, to fulfill
prophecy. He's got to do it, so he does,
but at some point in time, he succumbs to the exhaustion and
the pain, and all of that and he can no longer bear his cross.
So another was Failed, Simon by name, the Ceridian came and
helped. He was onto this place right
here. On to Golgotha.
Now, why was it called Golgotha? Why do we say things like why do
we say gothas brow? And why do we say Mount Calvary?
Well, this is why. In Aramaic, the word don't gotha
means skull. Okay, it's also called that
place, it's called Calvary. Now that comes from this the
Latin word calva. Which Calvin means bald head or
skull, okay. Now if there is a skull shaped
Hill in Jerusalem and you know what?
It looks like my mother lost all this.
It looks like that. That is Gotham.
You can see it looks like eyes and a mouth.
It looks like a skull. So where did Jesus go?
He went to Golgotha. He went to Mount Calvary.
He went up there to be crucified and died for the sins of the
world. And what else?
He was buried in a rich man's tomb.
Now I wanted to show you this because I don't know if this is
true or not. I don't think we can't know but
I wanted to make a point though one point I dunno.
Okay. First of all, this is also known
as the garden tomb and you could actually go to the Holy Land and
they'll have a tour and all of that and they'll say this is
where he was buried. I don't know if that was, I
don't know that. What I do know is this there was
a stone and the stone was rolled in front and therefore, to open
it, you had to roll it back the other way.
Okay, all I'm saying, is this, do you remember what the Bible
prophetically says about Jesus and his burial.
It says that his grave was to be assigned among Wicked, man, but
he would be with the rich man in his death, and it just so
happened. They had a secret disciple
Joseph of Arimathea, and he just happened to have brand-new grave
nearby. So what I'm saying is this rich,
people were buried, like this rich, people had a, I don't
know, it's kind of like if you go out there to the cemetery and
see old Buck Owens grave, it ain't like everybody else.
You know we have a headstone on the ground walk by and see.
Oh no they got a whole big marble granite looking thing
built over it like a house with guitars on the doors.
Rich people were buried differently back then, too.
They weren't just buried. They were buried in a Tunes such
as that he was buried in a rich man's tomb.
I'm so thankful For what Jesus did for the sins of the world.
and just maybe if we could always remember and keep in the
Forefront of our thinking, the price that was paid for our
sins. Then just maybe we wouldn't live
a life that selfish and we wouldn't live a life that is all
about the flesh. Just maybe we'll have a greater
appreciation for what Jesus has done for us and be better in the
future than we've ever been, in days gone by, that's the effort.
That's what I want. And I hope that's the message
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