1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,640 It's wonderful to be here with all of you today and we have a 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,280 wonderful crowd and we're grateful for your presence. 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,480 It's good to see some folks that I haven't seen in a while, but 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,520 and we even have visitors here that are among us today. 5 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,280 And we want you to know that you are honored guest and we welcome 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,720 you back every time we have an occasion to meet. 7 00:00:21,240 --> 00:00:25,800 I was asked to preach a sermon on the subject that is before us 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,160 today and I actually have a sermon or had a sermon on this 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,200 subject and I preached it about seven or eight years ago here. 10 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,520 Now a couple of things. First of all, I make a sermon 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:40,880 that is 7 or 8 years old is fair game if you want to re preach 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,600 it. But I didn't want to do that. 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,320 So just like I did when I preached on the Beatitudes a 14 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,560 second time when I went through the Sermon on the Mount, I wrote 15 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:55,240 a new sermon on an old subject. And I hope that it is edifying 16 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,800 and encouraging to you, and I really hope that the subject 17 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,640 matter will give you a greater appreciation for Jesus Christ 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,680 and for everything that he has done for us. 19 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,440 The title of our lesson, as it is on the screen, is Arrested in 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,840 the Garden. We're going to talk about when 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,760 Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane and they came and 22 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,680 they took him away. We're going to talk about how 23 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,840 Jesus was totally in control, that he was no man's victim. 24 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,960 He was the ultimate victor. You've heard me say that phrase 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,400 regarding the crucifixion of Jesus many, many times, but he 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,240 was totally in control, even in the garden. 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,400 And we want to point some of those things out today. 28 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,200 I appreciate it so much. The choice of the songs today, I 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,600 was wonderful. I even heard, you know, Tina 30 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,120 will tell you, she reminds me and she's right, that even with 31 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,920 my hearing aids and I can't hear Thunder most of the time. 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,200 And that's really true. I can't help it, but that's 33 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,960 really true. But I did hear this this the 34 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,440 sound of some young voices singing today. 35 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,760 And I got to tell you something. I got a little emotional. 36 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:07,640 It got me because I thought about how much Jesus must really 37 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,680 love that. And then I thought about when 38 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,160 Jesus said suffer little children to come on to me and 39 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,560 forbid them not for of such as the Kingdom of heaven. 40 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,840 That's a wonderful thing, and when we meet and assemble in one 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,560 assembly with older folks or more seasoned folks, 42 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:30,120 intermediate folks, and some young folks, we all worship God 43 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,480 together. It's a wonderful, wonderful day. 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,040 Our introductory text will be taken from the book of John. 45 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,800 The 18th chapter will begin in verse one and verse 2, and then 46 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,160 we will make some comments. When Jesus had spoken these 47 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,840 words, He went out with his disciples over the Brook Kidron, 48 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,040 where there was a garden which he and his disciples entered. 49 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,960 And Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus 50 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,160 often met there with his disciples. 51 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,080 Let me just say as an introduction, apart from the 52 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:08,000 cross, there's nothing that brought any greater agony to any 53 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,560 human being in all of mankind than the agony that our Lord was 54 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,080 under in the Garden of Gethsemane on that night as He 55 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,960 anticipated what He was going to do. 56 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,840 That's true. As He anticipated what He was 57 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,160 going to do for all mankind. In fact, His sorrow was so 58 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,840 severe, His struggle was so massive, that Jesus even said 59 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,480 these words. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful 60 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,480 even unto death. The Bible describes it like this 61 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:39,880 and says it like this. In this way. 62 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,480 His sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling to the 63 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,280 ground. He was in anguish, and he was in 64 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,400 agony before he ever went to the cross. 65 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,920 In Matthew, Mark, and Luke's account, it shows the suffering 66 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,960 and the humiliation that made him suffer. 67 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,640 But today, folks, John does not present that at all. 68 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:11,440 John's account presents Jesus in majesty, the majestic power of 69 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,040 Jesus. It presents him as something 70 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,320 that glorifies him, Jesus in his deity. 71 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,840 From John's account, we actually see the supremacy of Jesus 72 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,720 Christ and is demonstrated in four features. 73 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,000 And I got to tell you, here's feature number one, and don't be 74 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,520 alarmed, OK? There's 4 features that we're 75 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,000 going to talk about today. We're going to spend the 76 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,200 majority of our time on number 1. 77 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,520 So when we spend all this time on number one, you think, man, 78 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,360 we got three more. Don't think I'm going to be like 79 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,560 Paul and continue my speech until midnight. 80 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,000 I promise I'm not going to do that. 81 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,320 OK? We're going to spend most of our 82 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,760 time on number one. And then two and three are very 83 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:56,120 brief and #4 is actually in the conclusion we're going to spend 84 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,120 a lot of time on #1 The feature that we find in the Garden of 85 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,840 Gethsemane, the preeminent feature sowing the supremacy of 86 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:10,720 Christ is his supreme courage. When you think about Jesus could 87 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,920 have stopped the whole thing, you have to understand He could 88 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:21,440 have put a stop to all of it. How many times are we faced with 89 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,360 a choice and we have no choice at all? 90 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:27,880 And sometimes we do something or we carry through something 91 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:29,760 because really we have no choice. 92 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,840 What if you did have a choice? The greatest things we ever do 93 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,080 is when we make the right choice. 94 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,880 That's the most difficult choice. 95 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,000 Even when we have a choice to do something else, that's the 96 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:45,280 greatest things that we ever can do. 97 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,400 How about Jesus, He could have put a stop to the whole thing. 98 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,240 How do I know that? In Matthew 26, beginning in 99 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:56,240 verse 53, Jesus says or do you not think, or do you think that 100 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,120 I cannot now pray to my Father and He will provide me with more 101 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:05,400 than 12 legions of angels? And how then the then could the 102 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:10,640 Scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen thus, how many was 103 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,120 that? How many are 12 legions of 104 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,800 angels? Well, first of all, a legion is 105 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:23,160 6000. So 6000 * 12 is 72,000 angels. 106 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,000 Now we're going to find when they came to arrest Jesus, 107 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:27,320 there's going to be a lot of guys there. 108 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:28,960 A lot of people are opposed to Jesus. 109 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,680 A lot of people there were against him, right? 110 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,760 But they would not have stood up to more than because that's 111 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:38,000 where he says more than 72,000 angels. 112 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,560 He could have done that, but Jesus says I can't do that. 113 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,640 Why? Because how would the Scripture 114 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:52,120 be fulfilled that it must happen thus it just has to be in Johns 115 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,320 10 and 17. Jesus said, therefore my Father 116 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,640 loves me because I lay down my life that I may take it again. 117 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:03,640 Jesus even further said, he said no man takes my life. 118 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:10,760 I my life I freely give. And by the way, that's why fast 119 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,960 forwarding to the cross when Jesus totally in control, Jesus 120 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,280 says it's finished, it's accomplished. 121 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,360 I've done it. Everything you sent me to do, 122 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,960 Father, I've done. And finally he says, Father, 123 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,120 into your hands. I come in my spirit. 124 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,320 And the Bible says he bowed his head. 125 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,560 The word bowed, as you heard me say many times, is a word that 126 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,960 is described to somebody that willfully pillows their head. 127 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,120 That's not the posture of a victim. 128 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,480 That's somebody that gives his life and says this, I lay it 129 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,680 down, you sent me to do it, I've done it, it's finished, and now 130 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,680 I'll die. Wow, I just got chills on that. 131 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:57,800 That's what Jesus said, OK, He wasn't unwilling, but that 132 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,520 doesn't mean there was no anguish. 133 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,680 And that's evident in his prayer. 134 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,600 When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, he prays three times 135 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,200 to his father. In Luke's account in Luke 22 and 136 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:20,160 42, he said, Father, if it is your will, take this cup away 137 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,640 from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but 138 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,040 yours be done. All right, My question to all of 139 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,520 us is this. It's a rhetorical question. 140 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,440 I'm going to answer it in a minute, but let me just throw it 141 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,600 out in a general sense. What's the cup? 142 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,960 Well, I'm going to tell you what everybody says, everybody 143 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,400 deduces this is the cup, and I've heard it in my whole life. 144 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:50,640 The cup is the cup of suffering is what most people say. 145 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,280 And when they say or what they're suggesting, when they 146 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,320 say the cup of suffering, they're suggesting the cup of 147 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,360 physical suffering. In other words, what Jesus was 148 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,280 going to have to do physically on the cross. 149 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,160 Let me just suggest this to you, please. 150 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,560 I'm not minimizing the pain, the awfulness of the cross. 151 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:21,520 It was so horrible that even a Roman historian said that Roman 152 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:25,800 soldiers, literally even, and Roman citizens shuddered to even 153 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,840 speak about the crucifixion. It was so awful that a Roman 154 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,720 citizen could never be crucified. 155 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,800 In fact, it was for foreign slaves and criminals. 156 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,360 They're the ones that got crucified. 157 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,040 So I'm not minimizing the pain of the cross. 158 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:42,320 Please don't think I'm doing that. 159 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,680 But to say that the cup that Jesus was saying and to his 160 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:50,840 Father three times, let this cup pass from me is just physical 161 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:55,120 suffering that is way too easy. What is it? 162 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,320 In fact, by the way, if you look at Fox's Book of Martyrs, you 163 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,000 know what you find? You find a whole lot of people 164 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,480 that were martyred for their faith. 165 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,080 You know what they did? They went courageously to their 166 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,880 death. Stay with me. 167 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,680 I got a point here. They went courageously to the 168 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,000 death. In fact, some of them, you know 169 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,040 what they did? They went singing hymns and 170 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:21,280 praying and praising God. Was Jesus less courageous than 171 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,640 they? How about Polycarp when he's 172 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,320 about to be burned at the stake and they said all you got to do 173 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,480 is denounce Jesus. That's all you got to do and you 174 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:33,640 will not be burned. You know what Polycarp said? 175 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,920 You know the phrase, very ancient phrase. 176 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,840 We all know it. Here it is 80 and six years have 177 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:41,640 I served him, and he's never done me wrong. 178 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:48,480 How then could I blasphemy the name of my king, the one who 179 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:54,440 saved me? How about Stephen when he's 180 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,880 being martyred for his faith? The very first one in Acts 181 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,640 Chapter 7, he looks up into the heavens. 182 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:03,240 He says he saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God and all he 183 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,880 has to say is Lord lay not their sin to their charge and he was 184 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,960 executed for his faith. What about Paul who was beheaded 185 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:19,520 headed What about Peter who was going to be crucified on a Roman 186 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:23,440 cross? And tradition says that he said 187 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,720 I'm not worthy to be crucified like my Lord, crucify me upside 188 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,560 down. Was he more courageous than 189 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:32,320 Jesus? Absolutely not. 190 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:35,240 In fact, Peter chickened out a few times, didn't he? 191 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:43,840 Jesus shows supreme courage. So what is the cup and why was 192 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,400 he troubled in spirit? Let me take it a step further. 193 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:52,200 Hebrews 12 and two, OK, looking under Jesus, the author and 194 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,680 finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him 195 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,720 endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the 196 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:02,480 right hand of the throne of God. So that's something else we're 197 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,440 adding here. What do we have? 198 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,440 We have the pain of the cross. He endured it. 199 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:07,280 We've got the shame of the cross. 200 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,080 He endured that too. OK, all of those things are 201 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,760 true. What was on the Lord's mind that 202 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,560 was troubling Him in spirit with regards to the cup? 203 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,280 I submit to you the cup. Please get. 204 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:30,720 This is the cup of divine wrath. It is the cup of divine wrath. 205 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,240 And that was terrifying. That was a terrifying reality. 206 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,200 In other words, the Lord wasn't troubled because of what He was 207 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,040 going to anticipate physically or physical suffering. 208 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:48,200 He was troubled because he anticipated divine wrath from 209 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,360 God and that is spiritual suffering. 210 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,920 You know why He had to bear the sin of the world? 211 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:07,680 He had to bear the sin of the world and that include God's 212 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:14,760 divine wrath on sin. Can I say something? 213 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,680 Now you know why God hates sin so much. 214 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,480 Well, the obvious things, it's beneath him, He's perfect, it's 215 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,200 ugly. Secondly, the price that was 216 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,640 paid for it, and that is the blood of His only Son. 217 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,600 But even stop to consider that God hates sin so much because 218 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,600 it's the one and only thing that'll keep us from Him for 219 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:41,960 eternity. And that's what He wants. 220 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:45,760 The Bible says the long-suffering of God is 221 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,640 salvation, not willing that any should perish, but that all 222 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,040 should come to repentance. He wants everybody to go to 223 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,920 heaven. He doesn't want that. 224 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,840 That is His desire. How do I know that? 225 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:00,480 Look at the price that he paid in order to have it. 226 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,760 OK, so the Lord was anticipating the fact that He would have to 227 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:10,200 bear the sin of the world, and therefore God's divine wrath on 228 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,200 sin. What else? 229 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,320 He would be alienated from his Father. 230 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,320 You know, I'm going to tell you what that took a tremendous 231 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,360 amount of courage to purpose in your mind to go to the cross 232 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:27,240 where all of your purity would be defiled. 233 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,880 He was perfect in every way. And by the way, that's the only 234 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:34,480 reason He was the only perfect candidate to be the Lamb of God, 235 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,120 because he was perfect in, excuse me, in every way. 236 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:47,840 His purity would be violated as He bore the sin of the world and 237 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:54,600 he would be abandoned by God. In Matthew 27 and 46 in about 238 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,600 the 9th hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying Ili ili 239 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,920 la masa bakhtani. That is my God. 240 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,640 My God, why have you forsaken me? 241 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,560 This is a direct quote from the book of Psalms in Psalm 22 and 242 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,680 one my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 243 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,680 Why are you so far from helping me and my and the words in my 244 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:23,480 groaning. All right, most people think and 245 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:28,160 maybe it's true. I don't know when the we talk 246 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,080 about God's turning his face, even the songs that we sing, 247 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:35,200 because the Bible talks about and the Scriptures teach the 248 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:42,960 concept of God turning his face. And the easy answer is this. 249 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,560 And I know that most people say that's because God can't look on 250 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,960 sin. And maybe that's true, but 251 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,000 there's a lot of debate that that's not what that means. 252 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,880 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about what we 253 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,360 actually do know for sure. What we do know for sure is 254 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,480 exactly what the Scripture says from the book of Psalms. 255 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,360 Notice this is what we know for sure. 256 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,560 This is the symbolic turning the face of God away from Jesus. 257 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,880 Why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping 258 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,200 me and from the words of my groaning? 259 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:25,280 OK, what do we know? We know this God, Jesus and the 260 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,400 Holy Spirit have always worked together. 261 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,680 What else do we know? They are one in purpose, they 262 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:37,760 are one in unity. They are one in every aspect of 263 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:39,640 what they do. But they're three separate 264 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:44,120 personages in the Godhead in the very beginning in Genesis 265 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,440 chapter 1 and verse 26, let us make man in our image after our 266 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:49,720 likeness. Who was there? 267 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,960 God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit doing what? 268 00:16:54,080 --> 00:17:01,080 Working together in the entire life of Jesus in heaven and on 269 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:07,480 the earth, except in this one instance, God was there side by 270 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,960 side, if not in heaven literally, but figuratively, 271 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,480 while Jesus walked on the earth. God was with Jesus every step of 272 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:23,359 the way until now. And the reason for that is he 273 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,960 had to do this all by himself. He had to do it all on His own. 274 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,760 That is infinite supreme courage. 275 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,440 He does so undaunted and without hesitation. 276 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,320 But before we go any further, when it comes to the garden, as 277 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,920 you've heard me say this phrase about the crucifixion, I'll say 278 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:44,800 it again. Here we go. 279 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,720 He's not trapped in the garden, He's not tricked in the garden, 280 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,440 and He is not surprised in the garden. 281 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:53,880 Let's go to John 18 and verse one. 282 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:57,440 When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with his 283 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,880 disciples over the Brook Kidron where there was a garden which 284 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,920 he and his disciples entered. OK, this phrase right here after 285 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,240 he had spoken these words is referring to John chapter 17. 286 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,680 And if you want to know, by the way, what the Lord's Prayer is, 287 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,640 that's the Lord's Prayer. That's the prayer the Lord 288 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,680 prayed. OK, I know that there's another 289 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,440 passage that people call the Lord's Prayer, but nobody, the 290 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,080 Lord never called it the Lord's Prayer. 291 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,040 Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, so forth. 292 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,080 OK, the Lord didn't call it that, and neither does the 293 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:36,080 Scripture man calls it that. That was a prayer that Jesus 294 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,600 gave as a model, not words to be regurgitated, but a model on how 295 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,360 to pray before the Kingdom came. OK, if you want to know what the 296 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:48,560 Lord's Prayer is, it's John 17. When He spoke those words in His 297 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:54,360 prayer in John 17, what happens? He and his disciples, they left 298 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:58,560 the upper room, they left the city of Jerusalem, they went 299 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,720 down a little slope. They crossed the Brook Kidron 300 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:07,480 and they went to the Mount of Olives, to the Garden of 301 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,200 Gethsemane, and that's where they went immediately. 302 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,400 You know, that was a place that Jesus spent a lot of evenings 303 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,840 there. It was a place that scholars say 304 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,880 or would refer to it like this, the closest thing the Lord ever 305 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:29,160 had to a place on the earth. It was a place where he would 306 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,800 retire at evening time. According to John chapter 8. 307 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,840 It was a very familiar place, the Garden of Gethsemane. 308 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,440 It was his custom. It was a place that he went to 309 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:43,920 be close to his Father. You know, maybe you have a place 310 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,760 like that. Maybe you have a place that you 311 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,160 just want to go and get to a quiet place, and that's the 312 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,800 place that you can get your mind right and you can pray to God. 313 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,960 You know, a symbolic sense. The Bible talks about going into 314 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,120 your closet. OK. 315 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:03,320 In other words, finding your private place or some place that 316 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,760 you want to just go and it's just you and God and you can 317 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,560 talk to God, whatever that is for you. 318 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,040 I don't know. Jesus had one too. 319 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:12,400 It's called the Garden of Gethsemane. 320 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,600 That's where the Lord went. OK. 321 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:19,200 Sometimes though, he would go up the side of the Mount of Olives. 322 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,760 He'd make a little turn, he'd take a little Rd. around the 323 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:24,000 hill, and he'd go to a place called Bethany. 324 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,720 And he would be there with dear friends Mary, Martha, and 325 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,400 Lazarus. But not this night, Not this 326 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,120 night. It was His time to go to this 327 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,040 fatal garden. And I'm going to submit to you 328 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,800 this. He did it on purpose. 329 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,560 Not only that, He knew everything that was going to 330 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,600 happen. And #3 He planned every detail 331 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,320 that happened in it. OK? 332 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,200 It was a place that the disciples knew about. 333 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:51,240 Jesus took his disciples there with him. 334 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,920 But do you know who else knew about that place? 335 00:20:54,360 --> 00:21:01,440 You know Judas, the vile betrayer. 336 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:09,320 He knew it too. He knew where it was, and Jesus 337 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:13,880 knew that Judas knew 2 reasons #1 Jesus knows everything. 338 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,080 OK, that's obvious, right? But there's another reason that 339 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,200 Jesus knew that Judas the Betrayer knew, and it's all 340 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,320 because of an Old Testament example. 341 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,520 An Old Testament passage that we can read about an Old Testament 342 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,240 example in prophecy brings up an interesting point about 343 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,040 prophecy. I'm going to be brief about 344 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,600 this, but we'll throw it on there about prophecy because 345 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,040 prophecy matters. But let's talk about it for just 346 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,000 a moment. There's two kinds of prophecy. 347 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:47,000 There's verbal predictive prophecy and there is typical 348 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:50,680 prophecy. OK, verbal predictive prophecy 349 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:56,880 is a prophecy that's verbally spoken that's going to happen or 350 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,320 be proven or fulfilled later on. Give you an example of verbal 351 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,320 predictive prophecy? Here's an easy one. 352 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,480 Here's a softball toss. Here we go. 353 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,840 For unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given. 354 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,680 That's Jesus verbal predictive prophecy. 355 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,800 Jesus fulfilled that. He was born of a virgin. 356 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,520 He did come into the world and a son, the Son of God, was given 357 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,400 to all mankind. Great stuff. 358 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:28,040 Verbal predictive prophecy. Typical prophecy is prophecy in 359 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,640 types. That's a fancy word for a 360 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:34,360 picture or an example. OK, a picture or an example in 361 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:39,800 the Old Testament fulfilled with Jesus in the New Testament, for 362 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:45,360 example, every Old Testament sacrifice was a picture of Jesus 363 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:48,920 Christ. A prophecy of a final sacrifice 364 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,080 would come. That is typical prophecy. 365 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:57,920 All right. Also in a in a distance in a, in 366 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,680 more than this or step from this with typical prophecy. 367 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,680 There were also men or characters in the Old Testament 368 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,160 who were types of Christ who by their life actually typify 369 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,520 Jesus. Give you 3 brief quick examples. 370 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:18,920 Here we go #1 How about Moses? OK, the children of Israel were 371 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,560 in Egyptian bondage for many, many years. 372 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:28,080 God sent Moses, a deliverer to deliver the children of Israel 373 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:33,480 out of Egyptian bondage in life manner, Moses became a type or a 374 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:38,360 picture of Jesus because guess what, all of us were in the 375 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:44,760 bondage of sin and God sent Jesus to deliver us from sin. 376 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,120 So therefore, Old Testament type, Old Testament picture 377 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:52,880 Moses was a picture of Jesus. Let's move on, how about Joseph? 378 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:55,520 I don't have time to go into this. 379 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,240 It's actually a sermon all in itself, but there is over 100 380 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,520 points of likeness in the life of Joseph and the life of Jesus. 381 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,280 I'm just going to give you one because I don't have time. 382 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:11,200 Here we go. One when Joseph was sold by his 383 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,880 brothers and betrayed and sold by his brothers into slavery. 384 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,680 He was sold for 20 pieces of silver, the price of a slave. 385 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:25,920 When Jesus was sold and betrayed by Judas, he was also sold for 386 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:30,160 the price of a slave and at that time it was 30 pieces of silver. 387 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:36,120 Joseph in 100 points of likeness in his life became a type of 388 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,840 Jesus Christ. What else? 389 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:42,360 Sometimes there's even a character in an event that 390 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:46,760 typify Jesus. One example would be Isaac, when 391 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:51,480 God told Abraham, Abraham, take your son Isaac, the one that you 392 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,000 love, your only son, you sound familiar. 393 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,240 Your only son, the one you love, sound familiar. 394 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,520 And God said, take him and take him to a place that I will tell 395 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,760 you and offer him as a sacrifice unto me. 396 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,360 We know the story. They leave, they leave for three 397 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:13,440 days. 03 days is significant, isn't it? 398 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,000 Three days? They leave for three days. 399 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:23,880 And by the way, in Abraham's mind, Isaac was gone from the 400 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,200 very moment that they left on that journey. 401 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,200 You know what's going to happen three days later, Abraham, the 402 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,320 father gets him back. You know what happened with 403 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,840 Jesus? He was crucified, he was buried. 404 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,720 Guess what happened? Father lost him. 405 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,760 Three days later, God got him back. 406 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:51,000 Notice, but in this instance, Isaac, who typified Christ in 407 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,400 this one event, actually carried the wood that he would be 408 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,560 sacrificed on. Can you imagine carrying the 409 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:58,880 wood that you're going to be sacrificed on? 410 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:10,840 Jesus carried the wood that he was sacrificed on to in this 411 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,720 event. Isaac typified Jesus in that 412 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,400 event. OK, give you another one. 413 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,080 And that's the reason that I'm doing this is because we're 414 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:25,440 getting to the connection of why everybody would have known what 415 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,720 Judas was going to do, and Jesus knew too. 416 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,120 And that's the character from the Old Testament, David. 417 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:39,360 The Bible says that Jesus was a king like David, and David was 418 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:44,520 betrayed by a familiar friend and his name was a hit. 419 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:51,320 The fell Jesus was betrayed by a familiar friend and his name was 420 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,000 Judas. Now David said the following in 421 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,360 Psalm 41 and verse 9. Even my own familiar friend in 422 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,320 whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel 423 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,320 against me. I got to make this point, got to 424 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,360 make this clarification. It is true that this statement 425 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:18,400 is twofold. 2 Twofold. One, it does include Jesus. 426 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,560 It does include as if David was speaking for the mouthpiece of 427 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,880 Jesus in the book of Psalms, like he did many times talking 428 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,600 about Judas. That's true, but literally and 429 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,840 specifically, David had the same exact thing. 430 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,920 A familiar friend who he trusted lifted up his heel against him. 431 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,960 So from a prophetic type scenario, this is talking about 432 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,640 a hit the film. All right, let's talk about 433 00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:47,600 Jesus. In John 13 and 18, Jesus said 434 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,280 this. I do not speak concerning all of 435 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,080 you. I know whom I've chosen, but 436 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,920 that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 437 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,160 He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me, 438 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,480 and we know exactly who that is. That is Judas Iscariot. 439 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,920 So a hit. The fell was David's closest 440 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,160 advisor. Judas was the apostle, an 441 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,040 apostle in the Lord's inner circle. 442 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,080 What story am I referring to about hit the film? 443 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,720 I'm talking about Second Samuel, chapter 15. 444 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,320 Don't turn there, stay with me. I'll narrate it and we'll be 445 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,800 quick. Second Samuel, chapter 15. 446 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:32,040 David is king, and he's got a bad son. 447 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:39,480 He's got a wicked, corrupt son. It was his third oldest son and 448 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:44,160 his name was Absalom. Now I don't understand this, but 449 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,000 Absalom had two motives and I don't get this. 450 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,880 Number one, he wanted to kill his father. 451 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,680 Can you imagine that killing your dad? 452 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,720 He wanted to kill his father and he wanted to take away the 453 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,720 Kingdom. He wanted to reign as king, get 454 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:06,080 his dad out of there. Ahithophel, according to I think 455 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:11,040 it's First Chronicles 27, Ahithophel was David's 456 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,680 counselor. And the word in Hebrew, the word 457 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,760 counselor translated in Hebrew means one who guides. 458 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,680 So Ahithophel was supposed to be the guy that was by the David's 459 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,200 side, the King's side, and guide him. 460 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,120 That's when Ahithophel's job was, that's what he was supposed 461 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,320 to do. But remember, the Bible says 462 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,440 he's lifted up his heel against me. 463 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,520 In other words, he's opposed. He becomes the enemy of me. 464 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:40,320 OK, what do we also know about Ahithophel? 465 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,440 He was a counselor. He was a guide, yes, but he was 466 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,680 also the grandfather of Bathsheba. 467 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,000 Now, I don't know if this is true and I don't know that it 468 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,640 matters, but some people say, some scholars say that that's 469 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,120 the reason that a hit the fell rose up against David is because 470 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,040 David had an adulterous affair with Bathsheba. 471 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,840 Whether that's true or not, the Bible doesn't say that. 472 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,360 What we do know for sure, a hit the fell was David's counselor. 473 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,240 A hit the fell was Bathsheba's grandfather. 474 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,040 And one day he's going to join forces with the enemy, and 475 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,320 that's Absalom. Let's talk about Absalom for 476 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,760 just a moment. There's so much to the story we 477 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,000 can't go into. Absalom one day goes to his 478 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:28,040 father and he lies to him. He comes to David and he says to 479 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:32,440 David, I want to go to Hebron and worship God. 480 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,840 Sounds good, right? And David said, go ahead, gives 481 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,840 his blessing. The whole point is he's lying. 482 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,160 He's lying. When he gets to Jerusalem, he 483 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,440 goes out and he tells everybody, he says I am now ruling over all 484 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,760 of Israel. So here was the question, what 485 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,000 are we going to do to get rid of David? 486 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,360 A hit the fell who's supposed to be on David's side? 487 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,200 A hit the fell now is going to give counsel to the opposite 488 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:09,280 side and that is Absalom, second Samuel 17 and verse one that got 489 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,760 chopped off. That's verse one. 490 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,240 Moreover, a hit the fell said to Absalom, Now let me choose 491 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,200 12,000 men, and I will arise and pursue David. 492 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,240 Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I will come upon him while he is 493 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:28,200 weary and weak and make him afraid, and all the people who 494 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,160 are with him will flee, and I will strike only the King. 495 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,240 Doesn't that sound a little familiar? 496 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,480 What happens with Jesus when he escaped? 497 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,480 You know where he went, David. He left Jerusalem. 498 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,080 He went down the slope, He crossed the Kidron, He went to 499 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,320 the Mount of Olives with his faithful disciples or faithful 500 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,080 followers. What did Jesus do on this fatal 501 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,920 night? He left Jerusalem, He went down 502 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,640 the slope, He crossed the Kidron, He went to the Mount of 503 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,840 Olives, to the Garden of Gethsemane with his faithful 504 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:08,600 followers. So Hithephel and David in that 505 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,240 little incident become a perfect picture in the Old Testament of 506 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,200 what is to come when the true king arrives and Judas becomes 507 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,120 even more treacherous, treacherous than Hithephel. 508 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:27,200 OK, the question is, if Jesus knew that, why did he go to the 509 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,480 garden? Well, first of all, the garden 510 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,080 was threefold. Here's the obvious stuff. 511 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,680 The garden was a place of prayer, a place where He prayed 512 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,760 to His Father. The garden was a place of rest, 513 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,360 according to John chapter 8, that He went at in the evening 514 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,040 time, and the garden was a place of fellowship that He could have 515 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,360 with His disciples. All of that is obvious, but all 516 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,360 of those things are secondary, OK? 517 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,800 The primary reason that Jesus went to Gethsemane is because He 518 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,320 knew that Judas would be there and he knew that Judas knew 519 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,280 Jesus would be there and He knew Judas would take the mob 520 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:09,840 straight to him. Why Old Testament prophecy with 521 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,400 Ahithophel? But not only that with 522 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,240 verbalization, accurate verbalization. 523 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,760 It even says he would buy or sell Jesus and buy the Potter's 524 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:25,760 field. The Lord knew John 18 and verse 525 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:30,680 2, and Judas who betrayed him also knew the place, for Jesus 526 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,760 often met there with His disciples. 527 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,000 Jesus wanted the final betrayal to be in the garden. 528 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,200 If the final betrayal would have happened, by the way, in 529 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:45,280 Jerusalem, there would have been perhaps an insurrection, maybe 530 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,720 even a revolution. You know why? 531 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,080 Because there was a lot of people that hated Jesus, but 532 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,120 there was a lot of people that love Jesus too. 533 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:56,880 And with that, and with all the people that love Jesus, He 534 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,080 healed them. He fed them, did great stuff for 535 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,040 him, right There would have been an insurrection, maybe a fight 536 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,120 back, a revolution. He didn't want that. 537 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:08,280 You know why? Remember, he says, my life was 538 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,600 not taken. My life I freely gave. 539 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,400 This is voluntary, willful surrender. 540 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,880 John 1017 and 18. We read the first verse a moment 541 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,560 ago. Now we get into 18. 542 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,560 Therefore my father loves me because I lay down my life that 543 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,280 I might take it again. No one takes it from me, but I 544 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,000 lay it down myself. I have power to lay it down. 545 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,960 I have power to take it again. This command I have received 546 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,840 from my father. Listen, folks, a coward would 547 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,000 have gone any place but the garden. 548 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,760 Matthew 26 says more stuff about it. 549 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,639 Notice a great multitude came, and they came with swords and 550 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:48,800 clubs, and they were ready for action. 551 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:56,719 Can you imagine how many came? How many in John 18 and 3? 552 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,280 Then Judas having received a detachment of troops. 553 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,440 What is that? A detachment of troops is a 554 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,040 Roman cohort. How many of the Roman cohort? 555 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,680 Well, first of all, we know that by this deduction a Roman legion 556 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,760 is 10 cohorts. Therefore 10 cohorts, which is a 557 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:23,640 Roman legion was 5000 men. So 1 detachment of troops or one 558 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:34,640 Roman cohort was about 500 men. Wow, 500 guys soldiers, plus the 559 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:39,560 chief priests and the Pharisees and the angry mob. 560 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:45,240 And Judas is out in front and they come with lanterns and 561 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,480 torches. Now you'll remember this. 562 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,560 This part might be a little familiar, OK? 563 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,280 They came with lanterns and torches. 564 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:57,440 Historically, during the time that this occurred, and which is 565 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,480 during the Passover, historians say that there would have been a 566 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,960 full moon, and that moon would have lit up the sky. 567 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,080 In other words, you would not have needed lanterns and torches 568 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:14,680 to navigate down the road and go into the Mount of Olives and the 569 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,920 Garden of Gethsemane. You wouldn't have needed that to 570 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:22,440 go from Jerusalem to that place. They took lanterns and torches 571 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,480 because they thought they were going to have to search every 572 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,960 nook and cranny and find Jesus because they thought he'd be 573 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:33,080 hiding somewhere. Here comes 500 men, along with 574 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:41,000 chief priests and Pharisees and the angry mob, and Judas is out 575 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,880 front. Interesting. 576 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:50,200 The irony. They came with lanterns and 577 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:55,120 torches looking for the light of the world, and they came with 578 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,840 weapons in search of the Prince of Peace. 579 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,040 What a brutal misinterpretation of who the Lord was. 580 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,880 And here comes Judas. What happens when he arrives? 581 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,240 The other gospel accounts tell us more. 582 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:10,000 Let's go to Mark, Mark 14 and 44. 583 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,640 Now his betrayer had given them a signal saying whoever I kiss, 584 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,200 he's the one sees him and lead him away. 585 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,360 All right, Notice in verse 45, as soon as he had come, 586 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:26,000 immediately he went up and he said to him, Rabbi, Rabbi, and 587 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000 he kissed him. You might look at that and say, 588 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,720 well, what's the big deal? It just says what he said he was 589 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:33,480 going to do until you look up this word kissed. 590 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,120 This is an intensified form of the verb to kiss. 591 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,640 He said when I kiss him, that's who it is. 592 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,960 But this word is different, an intensified form of the verb. 593 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,640 In other words, a fervent, continuous expression of 594 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,920 affection, meaning He kissed him repeatedly. 595 00:37:51,400 --> 00:38:01,930 Wow. Then verse 4, Jesus. 596 00:38:01,930 --> 00:38:05,690 Therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him, He 597 00:38:05,690 --> 00:38:07,450 went forward. He knew. 598 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:09,760 He knew what was going to happen. 599 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,440 He's all knowing. But he also knew from prophecy 600 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,320 too. I do not speak concerning all of 601 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:18,960 you. I know whom I've chosen, but the 602 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,800 scripture may be fulfilled. He who eats bread with me has 603 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,680 lifted up his heel against me. This is humble, willing 604 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,040 sacrifice. OK, it may be that the kiss came 605 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:33,200 first, but I'm saying this. Nothing happened until Jesus 606 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,680 went forward. Nothing happened until he went 607 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,160 forward and he said this. Whom are you seeking? 608 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,880 Who are you looking for? So and I said, this is the 609 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,200 majority of the lesson. Now we're going to hit the next 610 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,200 three really fast. Stay with me. 611 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,760 I'm almost finished. Not only do we see the Lord's 612 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,560 supreme courage in every way, but you know what else we see? 613 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:01,640 We see his supreme power. We see his supreme power in the 614 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,520 garden in chapter 18 and verse 5 of John. 615 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,760 They answered and said Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus said to them, 616 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,320 I am he. You might remember this, the 617 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,960 word He by the way, this whole thing is in italics, but the 618 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,400 word he in the original or in the Scripture in the original is 619 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,680 not there. It is in italics in our English 620 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,920 translations, which means it was added by the translators for 621 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,400 clarity. In other words, in the original, 622 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:34,160 it simply says this I am came to notice we see a supreme power in 623 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:39,320 the next verse when he said to them, I am he or I am, they drew 624 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,520 back and they fell to the ground. 625 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,400 You remember this, This is not new, very brief. 626 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:50,560 I got to be brief about this. Be careful when you read 627 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:55,320 commentaries and the explanation that commentaries give, because 628 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,520 sometimes a commentary can just give you what they think because 629 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,040 they're not inspired by God. And sometimes it's better just 630 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,200 to read the Bible and see what the Scripture says and what 631 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,280 makes sense. Why did they fall? 632 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,680 Commentators say, well, they were so stunned that they found 633 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,400 him so quickly, so they tipped over and fell. 634 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,200 Really. 500 men soldiers stunned? 635 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,040 Come on. Other commentators say, well, 636 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:24,280 one guy tripped. You've heard me say this. 637 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,000 One guy tripped. And like Domino's, they all 638 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:26,640 fell. Really. 639 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,920 You don't think 500 soldiers knew how to stand up? 640 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:34,120 Come on, why did they fall? They fell because of what he 641 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,560 said. He was demonstrating his supreme 642 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,880 power. He said I am because that's who 643 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:42,920 He is. He's the I am. 644 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:50,800 And they fell. Thirdly, you know what else we 645 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,720 see? Not only his supreme power, Oh, 646 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,560 we see his supreme love. Jesus anticipated the cross. 647 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,200 He never was concerned about himself. 648 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,640 He is always concerned about his disciples. 649 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,360 In fact, Mark's account says that he interrupts his prayer 650 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,840 three times to go check on his disciples in John 18 and verse 651 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,080 7. Notice then he asked them again, 652 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,400 who are you seeking? And they said Jesus of Nazareth. 653 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,520 Why did he ask them twice? The next verse Jesus answered. 654 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:27,520 I've told you that I am He. Therefore, if you seek me, let 655 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:32,520 these go their way. Picture this because I want to 656 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,280 show this as an example of what Jesus does for us today too. 657 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:44,440 OK, you got the enemy, you got the disciples who's standing in 658 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,880 the middle. I see some nodding your head. 659 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:58,240 Yeah, you get it. Jesus, the busiest man in the 660 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:00,720 world that was about to be crucified for the sins of the 661 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:06,040 world. He's protecting his disciples, 662 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,360 he said. I already told you. 663 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,880 That's why the question was asked twice. 664 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,360 I already told you that it's me that you're looking for. 665 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,840 If that's all you want, then you let these go their way. 666 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:17,400 You live that you leave them alone. 667 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,440 One man put it like this, Jesus is not the kind of shepherd that 668 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,400 rescues the sheep when he's half eaten by the wolf. 669 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,680 No, he stood in the gap and he protected his own. 670 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,360 How do I know, verse nine, that the saying might be fulfilled, 671 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,200 which you spoke of? Those who you gave me, I have 672 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,560 lost none. I believe the Lord knew they 673 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:45,240 were not ready for a test like that. 674 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:46,800 They would not have been able to handle it. 675 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,720 You know, the Bible talks about that too when it comes to us, 676 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:50,680 doesn't it? Paul dealt with that. 677 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,040 There's no temptation taken you except what is common to man. 678 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,720 But with the temptation, we're given a means of escape that 679 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:01,400 we're able to bear it. In other words, the temptations 680 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,360 that come our way are not going to be more than we're able to 681 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,320 bear. Jesus knew they were going to 682 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,400 not be able to bear that. It was too much. 683 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,640 He stood in the gap and he protected them, OK, Just like he 684 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,880 does for us today. Wow. 685 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,680 So let me just say this, if you are a faithful child of God and 686 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,240 you're doing your very best and you have something come your 687 00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:25,080 way, don't think it's too much because the Lord says, yeah, you 688 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,080 can handle it. And not only that, I'm there 689 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,520 with you all the way to help you through it. 690 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,720 Also, Jesus knew that if something happened to them, they 691 00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:38,560 wouldn't be able to carry out their Commission to proclaim the 692 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,920 gospel and do their work after he was gone. 693 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,440 This is the protecting power of the shepherd. 694 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,840 And then specifically, he protects old Peter. 695 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:49,800 Here comes impulsive Peter verse 10. 696 00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,640 Then Simon Peter having a sword, drew it and struck the high 697 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,040 priest servant and cut off his right ear. 698 00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:59,120 And the servant's name was Malchus. 699 00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,880 Luke's account says that Jesus grabbed that ear and he put it 700 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,560 back on. If you look at the original 701 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,400 language, it actually demonstrates the concept. 702 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,080 He actually made him a new ear because by the way, if you cut 703 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,200 off an ear, it's pretty, I don't know, mangled. 704 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,400 I would say he made him a new ear. 705 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:23,640 He protected him. Now, what was he actually doing 706 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,320 when he said this in Matthew 26 and 52? 707 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,760 But Jesus said to him, put your sword in its place, for all who 708 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,640 take the sword will perish by the sword. 709 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,640 First of all, what was Peter trying to do? 710 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,160 He what? He was a fisherman. 711 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000 He wasn't a skilled swordsman. He wasn't trying to just shave 712 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,400 down the side of old Malchus's face and cut off his ear. 713 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:46,960 He was trying to cut his head off. 714 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,560 He was in battle and we can try to cut his head off and Malchus 715 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,040 moved and he sliced off his ear. I believe that. 716 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,120 So because of that, people assume Jesus says put up your 717 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,840 sword from this place because if you take up the sword you will 718 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,720 perish the sword. So most people commonly think 719 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,280 what he was doing is he was protecting him from the death 720 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,600 penalty. Maybe that's true, maybe not. 721 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,440 I think there's a little better point though. 722 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:18,600 I think there's a better point. What was the Lord actually 723 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,960 saying with regards to His Kingdom? 724 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:28,520 One violence begets violence. Nothing good ever comes from 725 00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:33,280 violence. Violence begets violence. 726 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:40,400 Jesus is the Prince of Peace bringing in a Kingdom of peace. 727 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,640 It is a spiritual Kingdom, not a fleshly Kingdom. 728 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,520 So he was saying, put your sword in its place because if you take 729 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,760 the sword, you'll perish with the sword. 730 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,840 You're missing the whole point of my Kingdom, Peter. 731 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,560 And he protected him. Wow. 732 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,040 And that comes to our last point in our conclusion. 733 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:07,120 Here we go. And maybe this is the most 734 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:13,440 sobering thought of all. Maybe this one is going to get 735 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:19,040 all of us a little bit. And I hope it does me too. 736 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,320 Because you know what? We hate this word. 737 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:23,400 Society hates this word. You know what it is? 738 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:33,960 Obedience. We see supreme obedience by 739 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:39,200 Jesus. Going back to verse 11, after he 740 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,840 told Peter, put your sword into its sheath, he said shall I not 741 00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:49,680 drink the cup which my Father has given me? 742 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,560 Are you really going to stand in my way? 743 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,040 Do you really think that I shouldn't drink the cup? 744 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,520 We talked about what that is and fulfill exactly what my Father 745 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,640 sent me to do. Are you really going to stand in 746 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:05,800 my way? Remember when Jesus said get 747 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:10,760 behind me, Satan here, he's saying to Peter, I got a job to 748 00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,440 do. Are you really going to stand in 749 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:20,000 that way and notice, shall I not drink the cup which my Father 750 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,640 has given me? I'm going to ask you a question 751 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:29,760 when it comes to obedience. Do you make your decisions in 752 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:35,760 your life from a spiritual perspective based on that 753 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,400 obedience? The opposite of obedience is 754 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,000 this. I'm going to do it my way. 755 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:48,840 I like this other way instead. I know the Scripture says that, 756 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,960 but I like this. I got a friend of mine, good 757 00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,400 friend, we talk the Bible all the time. 758 00:47:55,960 --> 00:48:01,400 He said, I know the Scriptures say that, but I just choose to 759 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:06,360 decide that I'm going to believe this other instead. 760 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:18,200 Even the Lord Jesus demonstrated supreme obedience and you know 761 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,320 what he did? He paid a price he didn't owe 762 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,040 because we had a debt we couldn't pay. 763 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:27,800 Aren't you thankful that he did that? 764 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:30,960 I'm so thankful that he did that. 765 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:36,840 So in closing this morning, when Jesus went to that fatal garden, 766 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,880 he knew where he was going. He knew the whole thing. 767 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,000 And he goes to the garden of Gethsemane and four preeminent 768 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,680 features are brought out in the garden which could show him as a 769 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:51,240 victim. But he's not 4 things. 770 00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,560 Supreme courage. A coward would have gone 771 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,760 anywhere but the Garden. Supreme power. 772 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,800 He spoke the words I am, and they fell at his feet. 773 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,800 By the way, it had no effect on them. 774 00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,040 They just got right back up and, you know, bounced right back up. 775 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:06,960 No effect. What else? 776 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:11,640 Supreme love. He protected his own, and He 777 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:15,880 protects us too. And finally, supreme obedience. 778 00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:22,920 4 preeminent features found when Jesus went to the Garden of 779 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:27,080 Gethsemane. Then they took Him and it was on 780 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:32,800 to the mock trial, the beatings, and the scourging, and then to 781 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,360 Golgotha where he would fulfill God's plan. 782 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,720 Does that give you a greater appreciation for the Lord? 783 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:45,160 I hope so. He could have stopped at all, 784 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,720 but He didn't. He did that for you. 785 00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:54,480 He did it for me. What are we willing to do back 786 00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,440 in return for Him? Is He first in our life or is He 787 00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:58,640 an afterthought every once in a while? 788 00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:03,320 Is he #1 Can't say he's #1 without demonstrating it. 789 00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:06,040 So He's going to be demonstrated in my life by my actions. 790 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:11,200 Is he #1 Because guess what? You were number one to Him. 791 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:19,400 We never close a time when we teach from the Word of God, when 792 00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,120 we don't extend an invitation to somebody that might be subject 793 00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,360 to the gospel call. Are you here and not a 794 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,640 Christian? There are steps in order to 795 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,560 receive the benefits and blessings of what Jesus has done 796 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:33,480 for us. The first thing you got to do, 797 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:37,520 you got to hear the Word of God. Romans 10/17 So then faith comes 798 00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,720 by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 799 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,720 After you hear the word of God, you got a choice. 800 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:43,920 You got to believe with all your heart. 801 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,520 Hebrews 11 and 6. Without faith it's impossible to 802 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,800 please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and 803 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,080 that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 804 00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,600 Then what Jesus said you got to make some changes. 805 00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,080 You know it's true. Jesus wants you to come as you 806 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:06,640 are, that's true. But when you come to Christ, you 807 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:13,000 leave what you were behind and Jesus wants us to change. 808 00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,560 That's called repentance of our sins. 809 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,280 Acts 17 and 30. Truly these times of ignorance 810 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,120 got overlooked but now commands all men everywhere to repent. 811 00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,680 Got to change. Then we must be willing to 812 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:25,560 confess Jesus Christ as the Son of God. 813 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,720 Acts 837 Then Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, 814 00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:30,840 you may. And he answered and said, I 815 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:34,200 believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 816 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:37,800 Upon taking those steps, you are a fit candidate to go to the 817 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,720 point of salvation, and that's to be baptized for the remission 818 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:43,480 of sins. Mark 1616. 819 00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,880 He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does 820 00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,960 not believe will be condemned. The word belief means this, 821 00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,120 having the force to obey. I believe so much, I'm going to 822 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:55,520 obey. There's that word again, obey, 823 00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:59,400 I'm going to obey. And what the Lord say, be 824 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,080 baptized. Is it necessary? 825 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,320 OK, I can't give you the verse on that because the computer's 826 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,680 doing a thing. I'll quote it first. 827 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:17,480 Peter 321 Is it necessary? The like figure we're in the 828 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,640 even baptism. This is the from the King James. 829 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:26,080 I like how the King James renders it doth also now save 830 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:30,120 us. What's that mean? 831 00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:33,280 It saves us not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the 832 00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,040 answer of a good conscience toward God by the resurrection 833 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,040 of Jesus Christ. If you've never become a 834 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:40,080 Christian, you could do that today. 835 00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,680 We'd love to assist you in that. Maybe you have taken those steps 836 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,240 of obedience. Maybe there's something in your 837 00:52:45,240 --> 00:52:46,920 life that just isn't what it should be. 838 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,120 Hey, all that matters what you do now, repent of that. 839 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,800 Confess that. We'll pray with you and for you, 840 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,720 and God will forgive and restore all fixed. 841 00:52:55,240 --> 00:52:57,200 We want to be the class. Come forward while we stand, 842 00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:57,960 while we stand.