1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,000 As I mentioned, just a moment ago, there were two trials. 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:08,800 And these things happen after Jesus was in The Garden of 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,600 Gethsemane, I'm going to fast forward through the Garden of 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,000 Gethsemane. As I said, I wasn't going to 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,200 preach specifically on it because I've done that before at 6 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,600 this place several times. But you remember that Jesus 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,500 identified the betrayer Judas. Jesus told his disciples, he 8 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:30,300 said all of you will be offended because of me this night and 9 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:33,400 Peter says, no, I don't care what they do if I have to die 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,700 with you. I will not deny you And Jesus 11 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:40,600 says tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,800 times. They go to the Garden of 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,100 Gethsemane and the disciples slept as Jesus prayed. 14 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,600 And finally Jesus said to his father, if there's no other way 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:54,400 except I drink it, he said thy will be done and looking out and 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,700 seeing the multitude that was coming his way, the Bible says 17 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:03,500 that Jesus led his disciples and they went out, then the Betrayal 18 00:01:03,500 --> 00:01:05,700 kiss of Judas and then they arrested. 19 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,600 Jesus. Well, there was a religious 20 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,400 trial that took place and then there was the Civil Trial what 21 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,700 I'm doing now is I'm fast-forwarding through the 22 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:17,500 religious trial, and we're going to pick it up at the Civil 23 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:22,400 Trial. When Jesus is before Pilate, now 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,700 he's found guilty of absolutely nothing. 25 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,300 In fact, when they brought Jesus to him, he says, what has he 26 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:30,600 done? What is the accusation? 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,000 You know what they said? I think it's interesting. 28 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,100 They said, basically do you think that we We would have 29 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:40,300 brought him to you if he wasn't such a bad guy or he wasn't that 30 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:42,700 evildoer. In other words, they're saying 31 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:44,600 the pilot. You're stepping on our 32 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,800 integrity. Of course, there's something 33 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,800 wrong with Jesus, of course, he's guilty of something. 34 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:52,700 Are we would have never brought him to you, but did you get the 35 00:01:52,708 --> 00:01:54,800 point? Did you see the point? 36 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,800 There was nothing. There was no accusation at all, 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,300 at that time when he's first, brought to Pilot well, pilot 38 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:06,700 realizes as he looks Upon Jesus. He's got A real problem. 39 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:12,900 He looks at his demeanor, he looks at his humble attire and 40 00:02:12,900 --> 00:02:17,700 he realizes, we have a problem as pilot would say, not once not 41 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:22,000 twice, not five times. But six times during the course 42 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,800 of this period of time, pilot says, I find no fault in him, 43 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,700 but his problem is, he can't give him back. 44 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,100 There'll be a riot. If he did such what's he going 45 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:35,800 to do? So he gets an idea. 46 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,400 I got it Harry. It's in town. 47 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:41,900 And by the way, Herod is From Galilee. 48 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,700 Jesus was originally from Galilee who is Herod really? 49 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:50,100 As I use today's common vernacular, maybe pilot was 50 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:53,100 thinking, you know, haratz the big Carriage, The Big Cheese 51 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:56,900 over there in Galilee, we'll send him to Herod. 52 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:04,100 But they beat him a little. And looked him over a little and 53 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:07,600 sent him back. And now he's Pilots problem 54 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,000 again. You know, I think that there is 55 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:17,600 a spiritual I think there's a spiritual parallel here, and I 56 00:03:17,608 --> 00:03:19,400 think it's really true of every person. 57 00:03:20,500 --> 00:03:24,700 And that is this pilot tried, really hard to not have to make 58 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:27,400 the decision about. What am I going to do with 59 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Jesus? But he couldn't. 60 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:33,900 And I think that's a picture of every person today. 61 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,800 You cannot remove your choice, the freedom of choice. 62 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,600 Am I going to follow Jesus? Am I going to be a Christian? 63 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:45,400 Or am I going to be in sin? I have to make a choice in my 64 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,400 life. You have to make a choice in 65 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,900 your life and pilot had to make a choice in his life to he had 66 00:03:51,900 --> 00:03:54,800 to choose. Am I going to choose Jesus and 67 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,400 do the right thing or not? Well I wouldn't notice three 68 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,700 things three proposals that pie Eyelet actually came up with 69 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,900 because really, these were failing proposals because after 70 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:10,400 all he wanted to get rid of Jesus, he knew he was innocent 71 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:14,100 and here they come proposal. Number one, he says I got an 72 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,399 idea. He says, why don't you take him 73 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,700 and why don't you judge him for yourself? 74 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:23,700 You know what they said? Oh no pilot. 75 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,800 It's unlawful for us to do that. Do you know why? 76 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 You know this, I've taught this before in ad 31. 77 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,300 The law changed, it was called Pax Romana, and that literally 78 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:40,500 means Roman peace. What that means is, Rome was the 79 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:43,400 only one that had the power of the sword. 80 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,800 Meaning Rome was the only one that could execute someone. 81 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:51,300 And they knew it, that began in a D30. 82 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,900 It's now a t-33. If the Jews would have taken 83 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:58,300 Jesus and put him to death because he said, I am the Son of 84 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:02,000 God, which later they're going to say, we have a law that you 85 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,500 have to die. If you say that, if they would 86 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:06,900 have done it their way, they would have stoned Jesus to 87 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:08,600 death. And if that was the case, the 88 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,300 Bible is not true. Remember what Jesus said of 89 00:05:12,308 --> 00:05:16,600 himself? He said, if I be lifted up, I 90 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,300 will draw All Peoples unto me. He's talking about the way he 91 00:05:20,300 --> 00:05:22,400 would die. He's talking about being on a 92 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,300 cross in the Old Testament. You know what it says, it says 93 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:30,300 he would hang on a tree, so they said this no pilot. 94 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:33,900 We can't do that. It's unlawful for me for us to 95 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:36,100 do that. What else does he say then? 96 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,600 Well, then he says this. He says, we have a custom or you 97 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,400 have a custom that during the period of the Passover. 98 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:48,600 Somebody would be released. So he gets an idea and he says, 99 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,400 surely they'll release the king of the Jews. 100 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:57,400 I honestly think as we pause here, I honestly think that 101 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,000 pilot thought this was going to work. 102 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:05,500 I honestly thought that when he brings out Barabbas and Barabbas 103 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:10,200 is standing there and Jesus is standing there and Jewish custom 104 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,000 was released one prisoner at Passover time. 105 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,700 I honestly think he felt that would work, but here they stand 106 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,100 now, why would he think that? Do you remember a few days ago? 107 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:24,100 And you remember why I told you that I wanted to write this 108 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:26,600 sermon? This series, I wanted to notice 109 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,900 what happened between Sunday when they said Hosanna to the 110 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:33,200 highwomen. Highest until this day and they 111 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,000 said crucify him. What happened in between? 112 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,200 Well we talked about that, he overturned the tables of the 113 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,100 moneychangers, he preached things that were very difficult 114 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:46,800 to hear and all the things that Jesus did so no doubt he angered 115 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,400 people I get that but there's more first of all, he's standing 116 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,600 there and he's standing next to Barabbas and just maybe though 117 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,500 pilot in his mind is thinking maybe there are some people out 118 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:03,500 here that when he came in. Into Jerusalem on the back of a 119 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:05,500 donkey. Maybe they were the ones that 120 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:12,000 said Hosanna to the highest. And by the way, You remember why 121 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,400 he was on a donkey? This all fit, stay with me off. 122 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,200 It's a promise. Do you know why? 123 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:21,300 He was on a donkey? He was on a donkey for a good 124 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,100 reason. And a number of months ago, when 125 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:28,100 I started this series, I told you that I had always thought 126 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:31,100 that the reason that he was on the back of a Colt of a donkey. 127 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:35,100 And not a horse is to show that his kingdom was not of this 128 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:39,200 world now, that's true. But that's not why I've even 129 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,100 said that maybe it was part of his His humiliation, he would 130 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:45,200 come on the back of a Colt of a donkey. 131 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:50,200 That's not why he wrote in, on the back of a Colt of a donkey 132 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,400 because that's what Kings did. When kings came in, peace, in 133 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,600 fact, when a king would lead troops into battle, you know 134 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,500 what? They rode, they rode a horse 135 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:02,300 when they win in peace. They rode a donkey. 136 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:08,300 What is Jesus? The prince of peace. 137 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:11,600 What is the kingdom? The kingdom of peace. 138 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:14,400 They said Hosanna but they didn't really know what they 139 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:15,900 were saying. Stay with me. 140 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:20,300 Now, all of a sudden Barabbas is there, Barabbas is 141 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:24,600 representative of the kind of man that Jesus spoke of in the 142 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,000 parable of the Good Samaritan. When the man fell among Thieves, 143 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:31,200 he said there was a man like that a robber. 144 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:32,900 There was a man that was a bandit. 145 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:34,900 There was a man that was a Highwayman. 146 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:38,900 And Jesus describes such a man in the parable of the Good 147 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:41,799 Samaritan. Incidentally, he's now standing 148 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,200 next to that kind of a man. Now, can't you just figure this? 149 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,500 The pilots thinking? Surely. 150 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:51,900 They'll pick Jesus. but the Bible says that the chief 151 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:58,100 priests and the Elders of the people, they stirred them up and 152 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:06,900 then they all said Barabbas, you know, I've often wondered I saw 153 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:10,000 a little depiction, I saw a little show, one time on TV and 154 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,600 movie. And it was on something about 155 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:18,400 the crucifixion. And those precious women that 156 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,100 would be there at the end. That would be there at the 157 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,000 Sepulchre when the stone was rolled away. 158 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:27,700 They would be eyewitness. Testimony, that Jesus rose from 159 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:30,500 the dead. And in this movie, it showed 160 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:34,700 them, they were standing there. And when the chief priests and 161 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:37,500 Elders were rounding up the people and they were screaming 162 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:41,100 for Barabbas to be released it just showed these women by 163 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:44,000 themself, and they were yelling out Jesus. 164 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,800 I just wonder how many people cried for Jesus. 165 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,600 How many people chose Jesus? Wasn't there, anybody? 166 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:09,200 Was he all alone? Remember this to everyone I said 167 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:10,800 is all going to fit about the donkey. 168 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,200 It's going to fit, okay? It's going to fit. 169 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:19,000 When you look up the word Hosanna, okay, it will say 170 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,300 praise and adoration, it'll say a word of Honor. 171 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:24,800 That's what it'll say. You can Google it, don't do it 172 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,500 now but later on, get your phone out and not now and Google that 173 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:29,500 it'll tell you something like that. 174 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:34,600 It'll say something along the lines of praise and adoration, 175 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:39,800 okay? But did you know that Hosanna is 176 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:44,700 the Greek form of the Hebrew, plea to God, for help? 177 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:47,700 In fact, in the Hebrew, you know what it's called. 178 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,800 Oh, Shia. Nah, what were they actually 179 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,300 saying? When they said Hosanna where 180 00:10:53,300 --> 00:10:56,300 they praising him, know what they were saying? 181 00:10:56,300 --> 00:11:01,200 When they said Hosanna they were saying hoshea Na and ho 182 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,400 shayanna, literally means get this save. 183 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:11,100 Now we pray or Give victory. Don't, you see when Jesus came 184 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,000 in, on the back of a Colt of a donkey, there was great support 185 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 there because they believe that Jesus was going to establish an 186 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,300 Earthly Kingdom. And just maybe it would lift the 187 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:25,300 thumb of repression of, Oppression, of Rome off of them. 188 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,300 Well, guess what? A weeks gone by and they know 189 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:32,200 the difference. And they say crucify him. 190 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,500 One little side note here before we go further. 191 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:39,600 You know, I think that this is a picture sometimes of people 192 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:44,100 today, when it's Hosanna day, it's three, cheers for Jesus. 193 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,700 But later on, it's crucify him. It's kind of like, people in the 194 00:11:50,700 --> 00:11:54,800 religious world today, don't you think on the 25th of December? 195 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,100 It's three, cheers for Jesus. And then the rest of the year, 196 00:11:58,100 --> 00:12:03,300 it's Whatever. Or on Easter Sunday. 197 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:06,700 I can't tell you the number of times, I have gone and held a 198 00:12:06,700 --> 00:12:10,000 gospel meeting that happened to close on Easter Sunday, and I'm 199 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,400 telling you that place is packed with Bonnets and hats, and 200 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:17,300 rabbits, and eggs and Canyon people coming to visit visitors, 201 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,000 right? Three. 202 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,200 Cheers for Jesus. On that day. 203 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:26,900 What about the child of God? What about the Christian Sunday 204 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:29,800 morning at three. Cheers for Jesus, the rest of 205 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,600 the week, though, whenever I want. 206 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,100 Forget about him. Let's not be like that, let's 207 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:39,300 not do that. So, all of a sudden, here we go. 208 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,400 Remember this. He says you take him and judge 209 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,700 him among your stuff, they said, nope, it's unlawful. 210 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,400 I will release the king of the Jews. 211 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,300 Surely you want him? They said, nope, Barabbas. 212 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:51,200 What else? This is what he said. 213 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,600 I don't understand this at all. He knows. 214 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,100 He's innocent so he says I'll just do this. 215 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,600 I'll just beat him and Scourge him. 216 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:06,700 That's what I'll do instead. you know, what's interesting is, if 217 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:14,700 he knew that he was innocent why in the world Did he skirts him? 218 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:20,800 Maybe he thought, I'll just pacify the people now, over the 219 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,700 years, especially my family's heard me. 220 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:26,800 Say this, maybe you have heard me say this too, but if you ever 221 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,800 heard me talk about the scourging and I will, and I will 222 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,300 Fray. I use the phrase. 223 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,600 They took that cat of nine, tails, and thrust it across his 224 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,100 back. Maybe you've heard me say that. 225 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:39,900 This was not a cat of nine tails. 226 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:41,600 I've been wrong for years. Let me tell you what a cat of 227 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,400 nine tails was a cat of nine tails. 228 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:48,100 Was a handle that was wrapped in leather. 229 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:53,600 It had nine straps that hung off of that. 230 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:58,200 In the tip of each strap was a razor blade. 231 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:02,400 So what they would do is when they used a cat of nine tails 232 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:06,300 they would use that and thrust it on the back of someone and it 233 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:09,300 was extremely painful, but it was different than a Scourge 234 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:12,000 Stay With Me. The razor blades would cut the 235 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,900 skin as a razor blade. Might, you might think I'm going 236 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:18,200 to talk about something that's worse. 237 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,300 I'm going to talk about a Roman Scourge or if leg room. 238 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:25,100 That's how Jesus was beat. And this is what it was. 239 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:29,800 It was a fixed stick wrapped with leather at the end of it 240 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,800 were thongs leather thongs of some length. 241 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:38,000 And in the end of those thongs were held bits of breasts and 242 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 led and Bone and they were filed. 243 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,800 The sharp points. The victim was then either 244 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,300 stretched flat on the ground with his back up. 245 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:51,600 Or tied to a post hanging or strap suspended from the ground. 246 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,300 The soldier would thrust The Scourge across the back of the 247 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:57,500 victim, tearing the flesh from his back. 248 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:02,100 It probably looks something they say, like, this right here and 249 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:05,800 do you notice here these are LED bulbs here, which give it 250 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,300 weight. In other words, it wasn't just 251 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,000 leather straps with razor blades on the end. 252 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,000 That would have been bad enough, but this was designed as they 253 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 throw Rushed it and pulled it back. 254 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,600 It would rip, and tear the flesh from the body. 255 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:27,100 And make no mistake about it, by the way, get 39 out of your 256 00:15:27,108 --> 00:15:31,200 head. Get the number 39 out of your 257 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,600 head. I know a preacher one time that 258 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:39,000 for affect stood at the pulpit and he went like this 39 times 259 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,500 and he waited patiently until he hit it 39 times. 260 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:44,300 He said that's how many times the Lord was hit. 261 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:49,700 Nope. No, sir Rome didn't have that 262 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:53,500 law, the children of Israel could not, they could not go 263 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:56,600 beyond 40 so what they do, they kept the 39, to make sure they 264 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,800 didn't go over. Okay. 265 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,900 That's corporal punishment. Physical punishment, under the 266 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:04,900 Old Law. This is different. 267 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,200 This was a scourging, this is with a flagrant. 268 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,800 This is terrible and Rome didn't have such a law. 269 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:14,900 What I believe with all of my heart is they beat Jesus, almost 270 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:18,100 to death, he was unrecognizable No Doubt. 271 00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:29,000 Then. they suspended him up on some sort of a pole and I wanted 272 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,900 to show you this too for this reason, just for the pole 273 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,700 Sometimes people have different depictions of Jesus laying down 274 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:42,300 or humped over hunched. Over, in my research about this, 275 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:47,200 it is pretty much understood or believed that it was something 276 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,500 like this because this was, there was no mercy there, you're 277 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:52,900 hanging. And there's absolutely no relief 278 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:55,600 at all. You can't hunker down, you can't 279 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,500 lay down, you can't roll over. You just take it off. 280 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,800 That's what Jesus did. For us. 281 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:06,599 But then there's more in. The Bible says, they Twisted a 282 00:17:06,608 --> 00:17:08,599 crown of thorns and they put it on his head. 283 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,599 And put a purple robe on him and then they said hail King of the 284 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:17,599 Jews and they struck him with their hands. 285 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:23,200 Now, interestingly about this every time that you see a 286 00:17:23,208 --> 00:17:27,200 picture or a depiction of the crown of thorns, it looks like 287 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,900 that. Okay, and I got to say in 288 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:32,800 advance, I wasn't there, I don't know. 289 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,300 But let me just tell you some things that I have read. 290 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,100 What I have read is it probably was not or could have not been 291 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:41,800 exactly like this and I'll tell you why. 292 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:45,500 If you look at the crown of thorns, can you imagine the 293 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:49,500 hands of the person that had to weave all of that together, you 294 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:53,200 would tear their hands apart? But in our mind we have the 295 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,900 depiction well it's got to be a crown. 296 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:58,100 So Crown is around, will make it in the shape of a crown and will 297 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:00,400 show a picture of thorns coming out. 298 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,900 Okay. It is said, I read that probably 299 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:06,900 Jesus didn't have a crown of thorns. 300 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:10,500 He had a helmet of thorns. It would have looked like this, 301 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,500 and this would hurt worse, because inside would have been 302 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,400 all of those. All of those Thorns pressing on 303 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:23,400 the top of his head, too. Historian said, typically, 304 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,200 that's kind of what they had because it was easier to make 305 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:30,100 not because it was any kind of relief at all. 306 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:35,100 Now picture this, they put a purple robe on him. 307 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,000 Now picture, he is scourged. He is bloody. 308 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,400 He's beaten almost unrecognizably. 309 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,100 They take a crown of thorns or a helmet of thorns or whatever it 310 00:18:45,100 --> 00:18:48,600 looked like and they pressed it down hard on his head, then they 311 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,600 put on a purple robe and they mocked him and they said hail 312 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,100 King of the Jews. Interestingly about that it was 313 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:59,400 a Roman custom. In fact it was a Roman game and 314 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,200 what they would do is the Romans would do this. 315 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:05,800 They would get someone that was less fortunate and mentally. 316 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,200 They would get someone that was as one historian put it. 317 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,900 I'd like an imbecile and they would take that person and they 318 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,100 would make fun of him. They would bow before him. 319 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:19,300 They would take him. Put a purple robe on him Elevate 320 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:22,400 him and treat him. Like he's a king making fun of 321 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,500 him. That was a Roman game. 322 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:29,300 Let me tell you how farther they took it with Jesus, though. 323 00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:35,500 With Jesus, they took this Roman game and they put a crown of 324 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:39,700 thorns on his head, and they put the purple robe on him, and 325 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:43,500 they're having all their fun. And the Bible says, and I just 326 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:45,900 read to you, they hit him with their hands. 327 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:50,400 Do you know what it says, in the Greek text, it says this and 328 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,500 they kept on saying, hail King of the Jews and they kept giving 329 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:58,200 him blows with their hands. You know, another words what 330 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,500 that means. They You'd to punch him in the 331 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:05,500 face. Now he's beaten. 332 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:07,200 That's what they did to the Lamb of God. 333 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,200 That's what they did to the king of kings, and Lord of lords. 334 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:12,900 So then we get to this passage here. 335 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:18,600 Pilot says, we did all this. We did all this that you may 336 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,300 know that I find no fault in him. 337 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:25,200 Surely this will be enough. Surely this will suffice. 338 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:31,000 And finally pilate said to them, behold the man, does he really 339 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,700 look like a dangerous King? Behold the man. 340 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:39,800 Surely this will be enough. Does he really look like a king 341 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:44,000 but verse 6 says therefore the chief priests and officers saw 342 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000 him they cried out. and they said crucify him, crucify him 343 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,600 again, another failed proposal Finally. 344 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:58,300 Pilot says, you take him and crucify him for I find no fault 345 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,800 in him, by the way, that's the fifth time that pilot said that 346 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,900 but notice they said no, wait a minute now, wait a minute. 347 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:09,600 They said we have a law though. We got a law. 348 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,500 That if somebody says that he is the Son of God, we have a law 349 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:17,200 among us that he has to die. Okay? 350 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,500 Now, let's just notice some of the in summary of all the 351 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:22,400 proposals of everything that happened. 352 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,800 This is what they accuse Jesus up. 353 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,000 Watch They said he threatened to destroy the temple. 354 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,300 Wasn't true. That didn't work. 355 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,800 They said he was an evil doer. That didn't work wasn't true. 356 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,700 They said he tried to pervert. The nation that wasn't true. 357 00:21:34,700 --> 00:21:37,300 That didn't work. They said he forbade, paying 358 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:39,900 taxes to Caesar. Jesus already said Render unto 359 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:43,000 Caesar that, which is Caesars and that wasn't true. 360 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,300 They said, oh wait a minute, he's stirring up. 361 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:48,000 The people still had. No wait, they said he's a 362 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,100 political revolutionary that didn't work either. 363 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,900 But finally, finally they said he makes himself. 364 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,800 Self to be the Son of God. Now we got a problem. 365 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:01,700 You know what they were saying? They were saying this. 366 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,400 He's a false god and we don't like false gods pilot. 367 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:15,000 Now he's got Pilots attention. Now he's got his attention. and 368 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,700 by the way, Did you know that Rome Romans were very 369 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,800 superstitious people? And did you know that they 370 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:29,200 actually believe that God's small G small G that God's 371 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:34,300 literally came down to earth and dwelt among people remember 372 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,400 acts, 14, remember what they said about Paul and Barnabas 373 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:41,300 they called him Jupiter and Mercury member also, they did it 374 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:46,200 again to Paul and x28 my point is, they actually believed that 375 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,200 God's came. Down and God's actually. 376 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,100 Dwelt among people, they believe that. 377 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:55,700 And can you imagine what pilots thinking now Pilots thinking? 378 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:58,500 Wait a minute, I may have just scourged, the Son of God. 379 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:04,100 So notice here's his fatal Panic Pilots fatal panic. 380 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,600 In fact, the Bible says in chat and chapter night, John, 19, and 381 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,300 verse 8. Therefore when pilate heard that 382 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:13,900 saying, he was more afraid. You know what that word? 383 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:17,500 Those two words more freight actually me in the original, he 384 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:22,600 went into a frenzied, panic. Now. 385 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,000 Can you imagine? How he must have felt. 386 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,500 I may have just beaten the son of God. 387 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,200 And so he has to go back and talk to Jesus again. 388 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,100 And he goes to Pilots praetorium. 389 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:46,800 Now Sister Gayle has been there now, I don't know if this is the 390 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,100 actual place. I read that it was this was 391 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:52,300 actually the what is remaining of Pilots hall or Pilots? 392 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:54,500 Praetorium, is that true? I have no idea. 393 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:56,200 I'm just putting it up there, just to show. 394 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,400 He went to a place obviously like that went to Pilots Hall. 395 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,100 That's where Jesus was pilot went back in there and he talked 396 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:05,700 to Jesus again. And he wants to know this. 397 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:09,700 He wants to know. Where are you from? 398 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,700 He wasn't asking. I'm him. 399 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:14,000 What's your address over there in Nazareth? 400 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,400 He wants to know if you are the Son of God. 401 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,200 Where did you come from? Did you come from the place? 402 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,500 Where the gods come from? That's what he wants to know. 403 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:28,300 What's know where you from? And you know what the Bible 404 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:32,800 says? The Bible says, he said nothing. 405 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,400 Why did he say nothing to reasons? 406 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:41,400 One's obvious. One reason is Isaiah 53 and 7 as 407 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,000 a sheep before her Shearer's is dumb so he opened not his mouth. 408 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:46,900 That's reason number one obviously that's significant 409 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:50,400 right we get that But in there, something else here, too. 410 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:56,100 He knew Pilots heart. He had already told pilot, I'm a 411 00:24:56,108 --> 00:24:59,800 king not of this world meant nothing. 412 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,400 The pilot. I'm a king not of US World. 413 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,100 He's nothing. Here's complete rejection. 414 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:10,900 And I just wonder, does there come a period of time in life 415 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,900 when the Lord finally is silent? I think in a figurative way. 416 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,600 Yes. All of a sudden here was pilot 417 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,400 standing there, he had rejected who Jesus was, do you remember 418 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,400 what John 18:37? Jesus said, everyone, who is of 419 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:35,300 the truth, hears, my voice. Now, in chapter in verse 10 and 420 00:25:35,300 --> 00:25:40,500 verse 10, he says where you from and then he says, don't you know 421 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,100 that I have the power to crucify you or the power to release you 422 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:50,000 What else? The next verse Jesus says, you 423 00:25:50,008 --> 00:25:52,900 would have no power at all, unless it had been given you 424 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:56,500 from above now. Also, he says this, he said 425 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:59,600 therefore the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin 426 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,300 and I'm going to get back to the point that I was making just a 427 00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:03,800 minute ago. I had to get this part out, 428 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,700 notice. Okay, he's in a frenzied Panic 429 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:13,100 where you from Jesus, gee, he pilot wants Jesus to know. 430 00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:14,900 I got this power. He said you wouldn't have the 431 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,000 unless my father gave it to you. And then he said this the one 432 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,800 that delivered me to you has the greater sin. 433 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,500 Who is that? Judas? 434 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,900 No. It's Caiaphas. 435 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,600 It's the religious leaders. It's the ones that are arrested. 436 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,500 Jesus, it's the ones that tried to try Jesus with nothing wrong. 437 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:38,300 They didn't have the legal right to do it. 438 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:40,700 They didn't have the moral right to do it and they didn't have 439 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:45,200 their spiritual right to do it. It was nothing wrong with Jesus, 440 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:50,100 you know what he said, the ones that delivered me to you have 441 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:52,900 the greater sin. Now. 442 00:26:55,700 --> 00:27:00,000 Do you think for a minute? Do you think that a person could 443 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,200 ever be that guilty? Yes. 444 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:09,600 Yes. As guilty as the ones that 445 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,100 scream for the blood of Jesus. That's somebody that knows the 446 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:17,300 truth and rejects it. According to Hebrews 6, he's 447 00:27:17,300 --> 00:27:20,100 guilty of crucifying the Son of God afresh and putting him to an 448 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:23,500 open shame. And that's exactly what happens 449 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:26,900 when men, reject, Jesus, reject the truth. 450 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:31,900 And may I say this to there's a good example here, does there 451 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:35,900 come a point in time in somebody's life when the Lord 452 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:41,600 becomes silent? Yes, let me give you an example. 453 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,500 Do you remember when Judas, who was at the left of Jesus and 454 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:49,100 John's to the right of Jesus and they're in that upper room and 455 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:52,400 Judas is in a position of honor and he dips the bread and he 456 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,400 gives it to him like you would a guest of honor and then all of a 457 00:27:55,408 --> 00:27:58,900 sudden, Jesus says, you're going to betray me and then finally 458 00:27:58,900 --> 00:28:01,800 Jesus says whatsoever, thou doest, do it quickly. 459 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:03,300 And then what does the Bible say? 460 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,400 The Bible says Satan entered Judas. 461 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:11,100 You know what that means? That's not demonic possession. 462 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:15,600 That means he was totally controlling his choices and 463 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,300 actions, the Lord had no more voice. 464 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,100 Folks, that's why it's so important that we never drift. 465 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,400 Because you know, what happens when you drift at some point in 466 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,300 time, you stopped listening to the Lord and the voice is no 467 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:35,200 longer there in time. And you know what happens to 468 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,200 folks, sometimes people drift so far, they forget where they came 469 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,700 from and they don't know how to get back. 470 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:44,600 I'm gonna tell you a story. Something happened to me, I 471 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,600 don't even think I told my. I don't think I told Tina, maybe 472 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,700 I did. But I just held a meeting in 473 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:53,500 Arlington, Texas. And, and it just hit me when 474 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,300 this happened. This point it. 475 00:28:55,300 --> 00:29:01,000 Me and I decided to go for a run beautiful, crisp morning, got my 476 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,700 sweats on got a hoodie on man. It felt great, it was great, 477 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:06,600 weather. My back wasn't hurting, and it's 478 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,200 good day. And I just took off and I 479 00:29:08,208 --> 00:29:10,600 started running. And man, I ran and ran and ran, 480 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,000 and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran and ran. 481 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:15,000 Ran ran ran ran. I did not put in the address of 482 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,800 where I started from. I just kept running I felt 483 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,800 fantastic. All I was doing is looking at 484 00:29:19,808 --> 00:29:22,800 the scenery all the new stuff I'm running having a great time 485 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:28,700 right after an hour and a half. Man, I've been running a long 486 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,100 time. Art half. 487 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:37,700 I was lost. I didn't know how to get back. 488 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:40,100 That was an embarrassing phone call. 489 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,100 Cohen Smith said, man. There's a sermon in there. 490 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,400 So, I decided I said yeah, that'll preach. 491 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,500 I decided to say it first so he has to steal it from me. 492 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,600 Okay. But I'm going to tell you, 493 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,600 that's really kind of what happens with sin. 494 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:03,700 Sometimes you drift so far. That you forget where you came 495 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:07,300 from? And you forget how to get back. 496 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,600 And that is why we have to have influence on those that drift. 497 00:30:14,300 --> 00:30:19,700 That's why. That's why so just maybe we can 498 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:21,900 be the light to help them. See their way back out of 499 00:30:21,900 --> 00:30:24,400 Darkness. Maybe to help him. 500 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:27,600 Here's the address is where you started. 501 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:36,600 This is the address to get back. Here's the GPS. so, and chapter 502 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:42,300 and verse 12, finally. From then on pilot sought to 503 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:46,000 release him. Now, you remember what they said 504 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,600 though, they said no, wait a minute, wait a minute. 505 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:48,400 Wait a minute. Wait, a minute. 506 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,300 Did you says, wait pilot if you let this man go, you are not 507 00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:55,400 Caesars friend. Whoever makes himself a king 508 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,900 speaks against Caesar. So he had to choose between his 509 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,500 neck and his soul. That's what he had to do. 510 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:06,700 So now we have finally Pilots final pronouncement and it's 511 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:11,000 found in John 19 verses 13 to 16 and here it is. 512 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:15,500 First of all, in the praetorium pilot takes his Judgment seat. 513 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:27,600 Takes a seat. and he says, behold your king You know what 514 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,800 they said? really, we have no King, but 515 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:38,300 Caesar, They hated Caesar. They said, Hosanna to the 516 00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:40,900 highest because they thought they were finally going to be 517 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,800 out from under the thumb of Rome. 518 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:52,500 He said, behold your king. Then he says, well shall I 519 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,600 crucify your king? That's the title of our lesson, 520 00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:59,800 shall I? Crucify your king. 521 00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:03,100 You know what they said is really sad. 522 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:08,100 They said crucify him and then they said and be careful what 523 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:10,700 you wish for. They said let his blood be on us 524 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:17,700 and on our children. Oh let that sink in let his 525 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:22,400 blood be on. Us and on our children, finally. 526 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,200 his final pronouncement, and by the way, Pilot. 527 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,400 No doubt is remembering what his wife said. 528 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,900 We'll talk about her very much. Remember the dream, she had have 529 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:38,100 nothing to do with this man. She said And here it is. 530 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:41,400 He's a raving Maniac at this point in time and he finally 531 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,500 gives in to the people and delivered him to them to be 532 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:49,100 crucified. What is all this saying? 533 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,400 What this is saying is everybody has a choice. 534 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:56,000 If we have a personal private application of this in your 535 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,600 life, you have a choice to everybody has a choice. 536 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:02,900 Life is about choices. Everybody has a choice and if 537 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:06,400 you look at Jesus and Barabbas, what does that represent a 538 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,400 Christian Life, which by the way, is the best life. 539 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:14,300 It really is, or Barabbas the picture of sin. 540 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:16,400 A sinful life, everybody has a choice. 541 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:20,900 Sin is ugly. It's as ugly as Barabbas was, 542 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,800 and as beautiful as Jesus is to the good. 543 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,700 Everybody has a choice, but you have to make the choice when you 544 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:34,800 feel the invitation Don't let it grow cold. 545 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,700 Don't Drift so far that the Lord is finally silent. 546 00:33:39,700 --> 00:33:41,800 Like, he was to Pilot so long ago. 547 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,000 What's coming after this, this is all that's left in 548 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,900 conclusion. This is all that's left. 549 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,400 He is delivered to be crucified. We know what happens. 550 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:53,800 He has to carry his cross. At least for a while, to fulfill 551 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,000 prophecy. He's got to do it, so he does, 552 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:00,900 but at some point in time, he succumbs to the exhaustion and 553 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:04,500 the pain, and all of that and he can no longer bear his cross. 554 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,500 So another was Failed, Simon by name, the Ceridian came and 555 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:11,100 helped. He was onto this place right 556 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:14,100 here. On to Golgotha. 557 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:19,000 Now, why was it called Golgotha? Why do we say things like why do 558 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,900 we say gothas brow? And why do we say Mount Calvary? 559 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,600 Well, this is why. In Aramaic, the word don't gotha 560 00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:33,699 means skull. Okay, it's also called that 561 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:38,300 place, it's called Calvary. Now that comes from this the 562 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:42,500 Latin word calva. Which Calvin means bald head or 563 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:47,900 skull, okay. Now if there is a skull shaped 564 00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:50,199 Hill in Jerusalem and you know what? 565 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,699 It looks like my mother lost all this. 566 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,400 It looks like that. That is Gotham. 567 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,800 You can see it looks like eyes and a mouth. 568 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,400 It looks like a skull. So where did Jesus go? 569 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,200 He went to Golgotha. He went to Mount Calvary. 570 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:07,300 He went up there to be crucified and died for the sins of the 571 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,400 world. And what else? 572 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,500 He was buried in a rich man's tomb. 573 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:18,000 Now I wanted to show you this because I don't know if this is 574 00:35:18,008 --> 00:35:19,400 true or not. I don't think we can't know but 575 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,100 I wanted to make a point though one point I dunno. 576 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:24,500 Okay. First of all, this is also known 577 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,000 as the garden tomb and you could actually go to the Holy Land and 578 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,500 they'll have a tour and all of that and they'll say this is 579 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,100 where he was buried. I don't know if that was, I 580 00:35:31,107 --> 00:35:35,600 don't know that. What I do know is this there was 581 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,100 a stone and the stone was rolled in front and therefore, to open 582 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,100 it, you had to roll it back the other way. 583 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:46,300 Okay, all I'm saying, is this, do you remember what the Bible 584 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,800 prophetically says about Jesus and his burial. 585 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,400 It says that his grave was to be assigned among Wicked, man, but 586 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,400 he would be with the rich man in his death, and it just so 587 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,500 happened. They had a secret disciple 588 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:03,700 Joseph of Arimathea, and he just happened to have brand-new grave 589 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:07,100 nearby. So what I'm saying is this rich, 590 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:11,300 people were buried, like this rich, people had a, I don't 591 00:36:11,300 --> 00:36:15,100 know, it's kind of like if you go out there to the cemetery and 592 00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:18,500 see old Buck Owens grave, it ain't like everybody else. 593 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,600 You know we have a headstone on the ground walk by and see. 594 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,200 Oh no they got a whole big marble granite looking thing 595 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,000 built over it like a house with guitars on the doors. 596 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:36,100 Rich people were buried differently back then, too. 597 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,400 They weren't just buried. They were buried in a Tunes such 598 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,400 as that he was buried in a rich man's tomb. 599 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,200 I'm so thankful For what Jesus did for the sins of the world. 600 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:56,400 and just maybe if we could always remember and keep in the 601 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,100 Forefront of our thinking, the price that was paid for our 602 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:03,200 sins. Then just maybe we wouldn't live 603 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,200 a life that selfish and we wouldn't live a life that is all 604 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,600 about the flesh. Just maybe we'll have a greater 605 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,400 appreciation for what Jesus has done for us and be better in the 606 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,300 future than we've ever been, in days gone by, that's the effort. 607 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:18,400 That's what I want. And I hope that's the message 608 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,500 today. 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