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A couple of years ago, I took 
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series on the last week in the 
life of Jesus and as we got near

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the very end it would be the day
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Friday. 
I did talk about the idea of 

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pilate when Jesus was before him
from the 19th Chapter of John. 

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What I want to do today though 
is I want to back up when Jesus 

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was taken to the praetorium two 
pilots Hall and the events that 

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transpired between verses 28. 
Eight and thirty eight as a text

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though, I've chosen beginning in
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Pilate answered a mi Jus your 
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have delivered. 
You to me what have you done? 

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Jesus answered. 
My kingdom is not of this world.

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If my kingdom were of this 
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So then I should not be 
delivered to the Jews but now my

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kingdom is not from here. 
Pilate therefore said to him, 

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are you a king Vin? 
Jesus answered, you say, rightly

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that I am a king for this cause 
I was born and for this cause I 

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have come into the world that I 
should bear witness to the 

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truth. 
Everyone who is of the truth 

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hears, my voice pilate said to 
him, what is truth. 

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And when he had said this, he 
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said to them. 
I find no fault in him at all, 

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correct. 
Red and barring any mistakes 

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reads. 
Those passages of scripture that

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we read, in the 18th chapter of 
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interestingly when John in the 
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or reference to the Jews, it's 
very important to understand 

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what he meant and divinely 
inspired by the Holy Spirit when

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John wrote these things. 
So long ago, he was not talking 

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about the multiplicity of people
with Jewish blood running 

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through their veins or even 
those that were proselytized or 

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converted to Judaism. 
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religious leaders. 
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And that's when he talks about 
when he says, when he talks 

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about Jews he's talking about 
those Jewish leaders. 

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Now bringing us to the point 
where he's taking the pilot in 

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the middle of the night. 
He was taken to Caiaphas and the

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Sanhedrin. 
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again to Caiaphas and the 
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Here's the question though. 
Why did you bring Jesus to 

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pilate? 
Why did the people bring Jesus 

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to pilate understand this 
though, in the Jew, in this 

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point, in time? 
In Jewish history, not only the 

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Jews, but all of Israel was 
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oppression or under the 
governmental structure and 

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authority of Rome. 
In fact, at this time, there was

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something that was ushered in 
and it was called from Latin Pax

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Romana. 
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Roman peace and what that meant 
is Rome allowed those subjects 

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under it to have their own 
government, they could have 

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their own corks, you know, the 
juice can have that they can 

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have their own court system, 
their own legal system, but when

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it came to executing somebody, 
the right of the sword, belonged

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only to Rome and that was under 
the structure or under the idea 

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of keeping Roman peace, capital 
punishment had to be issued or 

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ushered in by row. 
Rome. 

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Now, if you go back a couple of 
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very important. 
Kai fish said it's expedient, 

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that one man should die and a 
nation be spared. 

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Now, do you remember the events 
that happened right before he 

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said that Jesus raises Lazarus 
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I put this in your mind. 
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heard that Jesus raised Lazarus 
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In other words, like a rumor, it
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knew that Jesus raised Lazarus 
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Do you remember what the men 
said when they went to Caiaphas?

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They said it's no problem. 
It'll all go away and Caiaphas 

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said, no, you don't know what 
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It's good for one man to die and
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And that that point Jesus 
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applauded. 
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mockery to carry out that plot 
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There was nothing before Anna 
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and it was really a joke in a 
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Jesus remembering the right of 
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The why does it matter why does 
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have been stoning, but in order 
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to be a crucifixion and if it 
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to be authorized or it had to be
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That's how Rome executed 
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Now, let's just back up and 
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back in the Old Testament and 
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You remember when the people 
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snakes and they died and all of 
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attention through that very act.
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The people? 
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pray to God that he takes away 
the snakes that he takes away 

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the Serpent's. 
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away. 
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Because the biting of the 
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serpent represented sin, and God
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told Moses to do is, I'm not 
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Serpent's. 
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I'm going to tell you, you put a
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when the people were bitten, 
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pole, look up to that Brazen 
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It was a look of faith 
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They would not die. 
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3 and verse 14, I believe it 
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wilderness as people looked up 
in the wilderness, that's how 

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the son of man is going to be 
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He'll be lifted up it signified.
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would die. 
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faith, believing that took away 
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the serpent in that regard. 
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too. 
I talked about the idea of a 

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Jewish execution being stoning. 
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accused Jesus of was blasphemy 
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him of blasphemy is because he 
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And by the way, the two things 
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said on the Son of God, into the
way handle the Sabbath, and they

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hated him for it, especially 
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Pharisees, but in Leviticus says
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guilty of blasphemy would be 
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Now, it can't be a Jewish state.
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crucifixion. 
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is, is this law right here, pox,
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law began in ad 30. 
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Do you see the connection? 
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Ministry in a T30 and for about 
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That's when Jesus was on this 
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about in his life. 
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The law changed in ad 30. 
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someone legally and he died in 
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There's really no, I don't think
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You might send a wait a minute, 
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Wait a minute, wait a minute. 
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remember when Stephen stood 
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stoned him to death, So, what 
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You know, a stone was a horrible
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What about Steven? 
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to Steven. 
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It wasn't lawful they broke the 
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There were so angry, they broke 
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execution, a legal execution. 
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it began at a T30. 
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able to or they did Stone 
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Now, what's ironic here though? 
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was the Friend of Sinners and he
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Sinners. 
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what dominates the scene is his 
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In fact, not once, not twice, 
but six times pilot said, I find

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no fault in him. 
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Completely innocent. 
You know, pilot doesn't want the

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blood on his hands. 
He wants to say, I find no fault

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in him. 
The three parts of the religious

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trial were over. 
There was the trial before Annas

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The next morning was the mock 
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they had done illegally at night
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the morning, they brought Jesus 
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know why? 
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court and the Roman Court began 
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Sunset. 
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here they come with Jesus. 
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Then they LED Jesus from 
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it was early morning but they 
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praetorium. 
Lest they should be defiled, but

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that they might eat the 
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You know what's interesting here
this is really A classic case of

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hypocrisy. 
They don't want to go into the 

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Pretoria more the house of a 
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to be defiant. 
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You know why? 
Because we want to eat the 

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Passover. 
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They take Jesus and they're 
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That was the Fulfillment of the 
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That was Jesus Christ. 
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when Jesus dealt with aspects of
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about hypocrisy in great detail 
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I'm just going to make this 
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Remember what Jesus said to 
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They were really good one time 
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points out. 
They were really good at even 

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making a tithe of even the 
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for God 94. 
Me one forgot. 

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In other words, things that they
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And Jesus says, what's your 
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like, you're like one who 
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camel. 
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about this Annette was the 
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A camel was the largest of 
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And the Bible says about unclean
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that they could eat. 
For example, would be one that 

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chewed its cud and had a cloven 
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Leviticus says that a camel, 
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have a cloven hoof. 
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of Leviticus Guess they're for a
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Now what did Jesus mean when he 
said you're straining out a gnat

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and swallow a camel, you might 
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They took a strainer cloth and 
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over a cup and they would pour 
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strainer cloth. 
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They didn't even want a little 
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One scholar said, some of these 
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the beverage through clenched 
teeth to keep the bug from going

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down their throat. 
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are, you know what you are, 
You're straining out a gnat, but

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you're swallowing a camel. 
He hits him again. 

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In Matthew 23, here he goes, the
greatest preacher ever. 

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He said, you know, what, you're 
like, you're like whitewashed 

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tombs. 
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example, around the time that 
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Passover time because in 
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after the rains, and everything 
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would take lime powder, and mix 
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to all the tombs and they will. 
Whitewash, the tombs with that 

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lime powder that they mixed with
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Do you know why? 
Because the Bible says, under 

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the Old Testament that a man 
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be ceremonially unclean for 
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Therefore, it's Passover, time 
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Millions of people perhaps to 
come into Jerusalem and be 

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unclean at Passover time. 
So they whitewashed the tombs 

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Jesus said to them. 
That's what you are on the 

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outside. 
But inside, you're just Dead 

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Man's Bones. 
You're just a grave with dead 

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men's bones. 
That's what you are. 

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You know, I get this idea as 
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They're doing the same thing. 
They don't want to enter, 

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they're not going in. 
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House of a gentile, but we're 
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Fulfillment of the Passover. 
You are dead men's bones. 

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Now in the next verse pilot, 
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what accusation Ation do you 
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Pilate knew that Jesus was 
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dummy. 
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The problem that pilot had was 
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It takes courage to stand in the
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courage to stand in the face of 
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opposition can do you harm in 
any way. 

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I don't want to have any harm 
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It's easy to Have Courage when 
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choice, right? 
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Pilot looks out and they 
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I don't want to be defiled, so 
he looks out. 

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Now notice this though, in 
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then on pilot sought to release 
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But the Jews cried out saying if
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Caesars friend. 
Whoever makes himself a king 

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speaks against Caesar. 
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doing is they're blackmailing 
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tell on you. 
We're going to tell on you and 

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later we're going to get to 
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Jesus says I'm a king so 
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accusation and what they're 
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you know, there's only one king 
where there's only one king 

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pilot. 
You better do the right thing 

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pilot. 
And they were blackmailing him 

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to do the right thing. 
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keep your job, you gotta do the 
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But notice this right here, what
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this man? 
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first fair thing ever stated 
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What did he do, wrong? 
What accusation do you bring 

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against this, man? 
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to trial, they wanted an 
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went to pilate also. 
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to him if he were not an 
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delivered him up to you. 
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Pilot says, what's the 
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They said there was no 
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they said? 
Oh, you knew how we are. 

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You know, how we are. 
We're great. 

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Men of character. 
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Skirting the issue in that way. 
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They just say. 
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wouldn't have brought him to 
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don't have a charred that would 
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a moment ago. 
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want to about blasphemy. 
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of blasphemy because he said, I 
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know this, that charge does not 
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from didn't care about that. 
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all. 
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that. 
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He is without sin, he would die 
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He was perfect in every way and 
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Then pilate said to them, you 

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take him and judge him according
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Therefore, the Jews said to him,
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to death that the saying of 
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he spoke signifying by what 
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prophetic God, here's a point of
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32. 
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the way, this is before John 
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going to Jerusalem, and Jesus 
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were amazed. 
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afraid that he took the twelve 
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them the things that would 
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the son of man will be betrayed 
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scribes and they will condemn 
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the Giles. 
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these very things that are going
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Then pilate said to them, you 
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to your law. 
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it's not lawful for us to put 
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You know? 
You've heard me say this over 

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the years and I really think 
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times. 
Jesus Christ was no man's 

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victim. 
He was no man's victim. 

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That's what makes his sacrifice 
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It's one thing to just willfully
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your way. 
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whole thing and be totally in 
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and set aside that and then died
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makes the sacrifice even 
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NOW Watch, What Happens pilot 
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So pilate says, you take him and
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law. 
In other words, pilot was saying

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I'm giving you the right to 
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then they said, It's not lawful 
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Then in verse 32 that the saying
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which he spoke signifying, but 
what death, he would die. 

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You know. 
Jesus spoke about this in John 

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chapter 12 and verse 32 he said 
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earth will draw All Peoples to 
myself now, I heard somebody say

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one time that what this means is
this If practically I Lift Jesus

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up in my life. 
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Jesus up in their life, it will 
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Christ. 
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separate and apart since. 
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that's not what the Lord meant 
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I be lifted up from the earth on
the cross, what he was speaking 

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of, I will draw All Peoples to 
myself. 

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Verse 33 says this signifying. 
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Totally in control. 
Pilot says go ahead do it 

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yourself. 
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We can't do. 
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God uses the wrath of men to 
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He was a perfect man. 
He's the prophetic God in every 

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33 37. 
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John exalts, Jesus. 
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the juice finally came up with 
something that they thought 

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would stick. 
They thought I got one. 

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Luke said, and they began to 

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accuse him saying we found this 
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that's a lie. 
Forbidding to pay taxes to 

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Caesar. 
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Say that he himself is Christ a 
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that they thought we got him on.
now, picture this picture this 

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When Jesus is portrayed as 
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as a revolutionary, and he's 
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something by way of a Revolt. 
That's the only thing that might

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have touched the mind of pilot. 
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That's the only thing. 
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one point, they said we have no 
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But Caesar. 
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Is the Jews. 
Absolutely hated Caesar but they

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said we have no King but Caesar 
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or they said he was claiming to 
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idea was he's going to start a 
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back up a little bit. 
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coming into Jerusalem a week ago
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Got headed towards Jerusalem and
there were people that were 

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following with him, you know, 
that there were many people that

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followed Jesus because they 
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Jerusalem, he would establish an
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And when he did Did maybe it 
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Rome and lift that thumb of 
repression over off of them once

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and for all an Earthly Kingdom, 
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So he's accused of perhaps 
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So now in verse 33 Then pilate 
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called Jesus said to him. 
Are you the king of the Jews? 

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You know, it's interesting at 
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It seems like he's just asking 
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Really does in the English 
language and you can look at all

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the translations and it just 
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question but there's so much 
more. 

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It doesn't say it like this in 
the Greek. 

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In the Greek. 
It says this. 

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You are the king of the Jews. 
Did you get that? 

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He wasn't saying are you the 
king of the Jews? 

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He's saying you you the king of 
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In other words, it's ludicrous 
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And he sees Jesus, you the king 
of the Jews standing there with 

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a garment of a peasant, you the 
king of the Jews standing before

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me with hands bound. 
You don't look like a king to 

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me. 
They said he's the king of the 

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Jews. 
He said that he was the king of 

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the Jews. 
He said, you the king of the 

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Jews. 
It's unbelievable to pilate. 

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It's unbelievable. 
But here's the Dilemma. 

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If Jesus says, yes, I'm a king. 
The problem is pilot only 

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understood an Earthly King. 
So he would lead the Jews in a 

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Revolt. 
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would deny his kingship. 
So, he qualifies to question. 

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This is how he responds. 
Jesus answered him. 

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Are you speaking for yourself 
about this or did others tell 

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you this concerning me? 
Brilliant. 

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Absolutely brilliant. 
He clarifies the question. 

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Pilate said, am I a Jew? 
Your own nation and the chief 

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priests have delivered you to 
me, and then he said this, 

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please get this. 
What have you done? 

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You know, I didn't know this. 
Till I studied some history 

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about this. 
But, you know, pilot broke the 

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law right here. 
Pilot, broke the law. 

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It was kind of a fifth amendment
deal that we might relate to. 

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But here's really the point. 
Another word, the Fifth 

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Amendment says that you don't 
have to say something that will 

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incriminate yourself, okay? 
You plead the fifth, you don't 

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incriminate yourself, but it's 
more. 

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There was a law, a Roman law 
that stated. 

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You could not be executed. 
You cannot be convicted based 

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upon your own testimony of 
yourself. 

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In other words, there was no 
other testimony. 

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There was no other accusation 
that stood up. 

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So finally he said this what 
have you done? 

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Give me the charges and you'll 
legal question and a desperate 

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question to you couldn't be 
condemned by your own testimony.

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And Jesus said this, my kingdom 
is not of this world. 

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If my kingdom were of this 
world, my servants would fight 

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so that I should not be 
delivered to the Jews, but now 

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my kingdom is not from here. 
You know, Earthly kings are 

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appointed by the people, right? 
They're appointed by the people,

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when King Saul was appointed, he
was the People's Choice. 

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God didn't choose King. 
Saul. 

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The people chose King Saul 
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Shoulders above everyone. 
He was one of the men. 

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The four men in the Bible that 
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Built. 
Well, he wanted to be a king of.

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They wanted to have a king that 
was like all the other nations 

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and he stood up above everyone. 
So they picked it. 

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I was the People's Choice. 
Okay. 

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God, chose David. 
That was God's choice and the 

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Bible says that Jesus would be a
king like David. 

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And in many ways he was a king, 
like, David. 

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And I don't have time to go into
all of those things. 

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But I will say this, he was a 
king like, David specifically 

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here in that he was God's 
choice. 

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Jesus was God's choice to be 
king, king of kings, and Lord of

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lords. 
Oops. 

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You know, really when they were 
in the garden and they came to 

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arrest Jesus. 
This whole thing plays out 

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because Malcolm is pulls out his
sword and he cuts off the right 

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ear or a Peter pulls out his 
sword and cuts off Mal kisses 

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right ear. 
And when he does, so Jesus puts 

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it back on and he told Peter, 
put your sword away. 

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For they that lives by the 
sword, shall also perish By The 

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Sword. 
Jesus also said that if my 

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kingdom were of this world, my 
servants would fight. 

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He could have called down 
twelve, Legions of angels and 

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put a stop to the whole matter. 
I appreciate our brother leading

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that song in Pilots Hall that we
just guilty of loving me that we

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just saw Thousands of angels, 
hovering nigh. 

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Waiting to hear the Lord's. 
Famous cry. 

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But Jesus instead chose the 
cross. 

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Willingly and willfully. 
You know why? 

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His kingdom was not of this 
world? 

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Then verse 37. 
Pilate therefore said to him, 

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are you a king then? 
Jesus answered, you say, rightly

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that I am a king for this, cause
I was born and for this cause I 

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have come into the world that I 
should bear witness to the 

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truth. 
Everyone who is of the truth 

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hears, my voice, I want to spend
a little time on breaking this 

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passage down for the first thing
we want to notice, is this? 

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It is when Jesus says for this, 
cause I was born, okay? 

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Well, the born part is The Human
Side. 

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Everybody, that's human is born.
But the Bible talks about Jesus 

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as being the son of man, meaning
fully human. 

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Our Messiah was fully human. 
That's this part. 

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He was to be a king and for 
this, cause he was born in human

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form. 
What else? 

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He says, also for this cause I 
have come into the world. 

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This is the Divine side. 
In other words, if Jesus came 

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into the world, it means that he
existed somewhere else before, 

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if I come into the world, I have
to come from somewhere and that 

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somewhere was Heaven. 
That's the Divine side. 

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That's why Jesus is called the 
son of man and the Son of God. 

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Both in John, chapter 17 and 
verse 5, this shows that Jesus 

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existed before. 
And now father, glorify me with 

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yourself with the glory, which I
had with you before the world 

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was The Bible also says that in 
the beginning was the word, John

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chapter 1, and the Word was with
God. 

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And the Word was God, the same 
was in the beginning with God. 

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All things were made by him. 
And without him was not anything

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made that was made verse 14 and 
the word became flesh and dwelt 

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among us and we beheld his 
glory, the glory, as of the only

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begotten of the father, full of 
grace and truth. 

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So Jesus tells him in this 
little sermon, he's preaching a 

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pilot. 
I came to be born into this 

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world to be king for this, cause
I left where I came from to be 

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king. 
I am fully divine. 

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And then, Back In this passage 
again the end of this passage. 

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Then I should bear witness to 
the truth. 

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Everyone who is of the truth 
hears, my voice. 

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Jesus is the great proclaimer of
Truth. 

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He said, I am the way, the truth
and the life. 

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No one comes to the father, 
except by or through me, John 

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14, and 6, the great disclaimer 
of Truth. 

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One scholar said this to know, 
Jesus is to know the truth. 

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And Jesus is the king and his 
scepter is truth. 

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But notice this pilate said, 
what is truth? 

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Have you ever heard somebody say
truth is relative? 

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In other words, what you think 
is truth is okay for you. 

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But what's truth to me is, okay,
for me. 

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And everybody determines what 
their own truth is going to be. 

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I want you to notice pilot is 
doing that very thing. 

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In fact, when he said what is 
truth? 

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It literally means everyone who 
is of the truth hears. 

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My voice of Jesus said when he 
says what is truth, he is 

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referring to this. 
He's saying this there is no 

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such thing as truth. 
What's it mean to here? 

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The word here in the Greek 
literally means to listen 

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intently and Obey. 
So to hear the truth is to obey 

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the truth. 
Number one time when Jesus gave 

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a little lesson after he gave a 
parable, he said be careful how 

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you listen in other words, take 
heed, how you hear the way you 

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hear, the word of God will 
determine your spiritual 

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condition. 
One of those ways is obediently,

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you cannot hear properly without
the idea of obedience, and 

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that's what he was telling him. 
That's what Jesus was telling 

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him. 
There's no truth outside of 

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Jesus Christ. 
He went out again to the Jews 

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and said, I find no fault in 
him. 

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Everyone who is of the truth 
hears, my voice, which means, 

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intently, Listen and Obey. 
And then also this He said, 

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simply this, I find no fault. 
In here. 

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You know, many times I've tried 
to put my mind in my mind's eye.

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I've tried to go back to how it 
was for pilot. 

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Jesus appears to be on trial. 
The religious trial is over, and

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he seems to be in this other 
trial with pilate and pilate has

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the authority and the power. 
To let him go or crucify him. 

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He's got the power. 
But he never stopped to 

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consider. 
There's no indictment, there's 

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no accusation. 
Jesus really wasn't on trial 

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here pilot was In fact, in 
chapter 19, we find Pilots 

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failing proposals to try to let 
him go. 

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He knew he was innocent. 
He knew he wasn't guilty. but 

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the people said crucify him and 
he gave in so, a long time ago, 

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Jesus standing before Pilate and
Pilots Hall Starts the events 

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that we talked about today. 
And the question is this, 

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though. 
Here's the question for all of 

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us today. 
What's your response to that? 

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You know, when Jesus died on the
cross for your sins, it means 

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nothing to you if you don't 
respond to the gospel. 

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Whether the gospel saves her 
offends, is your response to it.

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The gospel is the good news of 
the death burial and 

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resurrection of Jesus. 
So what is your response to 

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that? 
If you're here, for example, and

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you are hearing the word of God,
preached, and you're hearing 

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about Jesus the invitation being
extended. 

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Maybe you've heard the 
invitation over and over again, 

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but here it is again. 
What is your response going to 

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be? 
You must hear the word of God 

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believe in Jesus repent of your 
sin. 

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Ins confess his name as the Son 
of God and be baptized in water 

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for the remission of your sins 
and contact, the blood of Jesus 

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and have your sins washed away. 
What is your response to what? 

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Jesus did for you so long ago. 
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