1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:04,400 It certainly is wonderful to be with all of you today. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,700 As has been mentioned, we have a wonderful crowd and we 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:11,700 appreciate your presence. So, very much today is the most 4 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:15,600 significant day of our week. It's the Lord's day. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,400 We have an opportunity to worship God today in spirit, and 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:22,300 in truth, for which we are thankful, and which we are 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,100 grateful. I hope that what we have to 8 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:27,800 consider for a little while perhaps might give you a greater 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,200 appreciation for Jesus and what Jesus went through for the sins 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,100 of the entire world. So long ago, our texted me found 11 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:39,300 in the Book of John, the 19th Chapter and we want to begin 12 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:44,500 reading there in verse 14. Now, it was the preparation day 13 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:48,300 of the of the Passover and about the sixth hour. 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,900 And he said to the Jews, behold your king but they cried out 15 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:55,800 away with him away with him. Crucify. 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,900 Him pilate said, to them, shall I crucify your king? 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,600 The chief priests answered. We have no King. 18 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:06,600 But Caesar, then he delivered him to them to be crucified. 19 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,800 So they took Jesus and led him away. 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,200 One more passage. I'd like to notice in our 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,100 introduction and that's found in Matthew chapter 27 and verse 22. 22 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:20,000 Pilate said to them, What then shall I do with Jesus? 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,700 Who is called Christ? They all said to him, let him be 24 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,000 crucified. After Jesus was tried in Pilots 25 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,500 Hall pilot had to make a choice. Even though he knew that Jesus 26 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:37,400 was innocent, you remember that there were two trials, there was 27 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,300 the religious trial and there was the Civil Trial By the time. 28 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,400 Jesus, is now, before Pilate, he had already been really 29 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:47,000 convicted of nothing. He was guilty of nothing in the 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,800 religious trial and all of a sudden now pilot has to make a 31 00:01:50,808 --> 00:01:52,400 decision. And I think there's something 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,500 that even Rings true today. What am I? 33 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:00,400 Going to do about Jesus and in all the times and in all the 34 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,600 instances where Pilot wanted to pass the buck and not make that 35 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,000 decision, he had to make that decision. 36 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:10,600 And you know what? So do we everybody has to make 37 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,700 the decision in their life. What am I going to do about 38 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,600 Jesus? And nobody could ever make that 39 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,200 decision for you and God will not make that decision for you, 40 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,300 either. You got to make that choice. 41 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:25,400 You got to make that decision. Where am I going? 42 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:27,000 Play it. How am I going to be? 43 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:32,000 What is my decision about Jesus? Well, pilot is faced with the 44 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,700 problem. And interestingly when John 45 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:39,300 chapter 18, when they bring Jesus before Pilate and pilate 46 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:42,800 says, for the first time, what evil has he done? 47 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,500 What is he guilty of? What did he do? 48 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,600 It's interesting what they respond to. 49 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,800 This is how they said, they didn't say, well, he was guilty 50 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,600 of X y&z, the first thing out of their mouth. 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,300 They said, do you really think we would have brought him to you 52 00:02:56,300 --> 00:03:01,400 if he really wasn't a bad man? In other words, don't indict us. 53 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:05,300 We're pretty important people. And yet they had nothing to say, 54 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:09,300 and they came to Jesus, they came and brought Jesus to 55 00:03:09,300 --> 00:03:12,300 pilate. And now pilot has to make a 56 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,200 choice. You know the spiritual 57 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,400 application. I think applies to all of us 58 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,400 today. What does pilot do? 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,400 First thing he does is he sends him to Herod Herod was the big 60 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,300 cheese. I guess you might say in Galilee 61 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:30,200 back then. Jesus was From Galilee and so 62 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,700 pilate sins Jesus to Herod Herod. 63 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:36,300 Basically says, it's not my problem and send him back to 64 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:39,200 pilate. And again, pilot has to make a 65 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,700 decision. Well, as we move into John 66 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:45,700 18:39, we're going to show three things. 67 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,400 Number one, we have Pilots failing proposals. 68 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,700 Number two. We have Pilots fatal panic. 69 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:57,000 And number three. We have Pilots final 70 00:03:57,100 --> 00:03:58,600 pronouncement. Let's begin. 71 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,100 Now, with five Pilots failing proposals. 72 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:03,200 He doesn't want to make the decision. 73 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,500 He doesn't want to crucify Jesus. 74 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:10,200 Here, they are proposal number one in John, chapter 18 and 75 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:16,000 verse 31, you take him and judge him yourself, you remember? 76 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,700 They said, they said, you know, it's unlawful pilot, we can't 77 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:22,900 crucify anybody. We can't execute anybody. 78 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,400 You have to do that. And by the way, a little side 79 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,000 note here, you've heard me preach this. 80 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,900 You've heard me say this, I'm going to say it again. 81 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:32,700 I just love it because there's no other way to put it other 82 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:37,200 than God's Towing control. At the time of the crucifixion 83 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:43,800 at the time of the Lord's, sentenced to die in ad 33, the 84 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,200 power to or the power to or the authority to inflict capital 85 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:52,200 punishment, the right of the sword only belong to Rome that 86 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,700 was at a t-33. When did the law change? 87 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:59,700 Not by accident in about ad, 30 the law changed. 88 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,100 So in other words about the whole time that Jesus would be 89 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:06,200 on the face of the Earth preaching and Personal Ministry, 90 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,700 beginning in ad, 30 and ending in a t-33. 91 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,500 The right of the sword only belonged to Rome. 92 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:21,000 Brilliant God was because if the Jews had that Authority, they 93 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,600 would have stoned Jesus to death. 94 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,700 And if they did that, the Bible is not true. 95 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:30,000 Jesus even said, if I be lifted up, he means on the cross. 96 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,600 I will draw All Peoples under myself. 97 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:36,600 The Old Testament, refers to Jesus being hung on a tree. 98 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,100 He has to be elevated and crucified. 99 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:42,900 God is totally in control. So yes, pilot says. 100 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:47,200 Now, you judge him. Yourself and they said we can't 101 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,900 we don't have the authority to do that. 102 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:52,500 So here was another failing proposal. 103 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,700 Shall I recently released the king of the juice and you know 104 00:05:57,707 --> 00:06:00,100 what's interesting about this? There was a custom you remember 105 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:05,500 around Passover time That they would release someone and pilate 106 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:08,200 said this, that we would release someone to you during the 107 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,000 Passover, do you? Therefore want me to release you 108 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,100 the king of the Jews? Now, can you just put yourself 109 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:19,200 in the mind of pilot? Maybe he's thinking about a week 110 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,400 prior. Obviously, the religious leaders 111 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,700 want to crucify Jesus, right? What about the people? 112 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:29,700 Maybe the people will rise up in fact only a week before when 113 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:33,000 Jesus came in and he made his triumphal entry on the back of a 114 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,600 Colt of a donkey into Jerusalem. It was Hosanna to the highest. 115 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,500 It was Hosanna to the King, right? 116 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:44,200 Surely, somebody will say, no, we don't want Jesus to be 117 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,800 crucified. And you remember this to a 118 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,400 little side, note about the donkey. 119 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,700 I used to think that when Jesus rode in on the Colt of a donkey, 120 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:56,800 I thought the donkey was part of the humiliation part of the huge 121 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,500 humbling of our King and so forth and so on coming in like 122 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:06,200 no other king ever had, I was wrong in that the donkey had 123 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,500 nothing to do with his humiliation at all. 124 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:14,900 When a king in the Old Testament rode into battle, he rode a 125 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:18,300 horse. When a king came in a time of 126 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:23,200 Peace, he wrote a donkey. Jesus being our King setting up 127 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:27,600 a kingdom of Peace Road. The peaceful animal called a 128 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:34,400 donkey into Jerusalem. Amazing. what God did, just 129 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:39,600 maybe some of these people say No, let's not crucify Jesus. 130 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,100 Jesus is there now between standing next to a man named 131 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:47,400 Barabbas, he was a robber in the Greek. 132 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,300 It means Bandit or Highwayman. I just little thought here. 133 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,100 Have you ever wondered didn't anybody cry out for Jesus? 134 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:02,300 And if they did, how loud was their voice. 135 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:06,000 Didn't anybody stand up for Jesus? 136 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,300 Here you have the worst of all men, standing next to the Lord. 137 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:15,500 And pilot says, which one of these do you want me to release? 138 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,000 They didn't say Jesus. But did anybody? 139 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:26,000 Did anybody cry out for Jesus? Kind of the same thing today. 140 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,600 Sometimes Jesus is now standing next to a man that he described 141 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,500 himself. When the story of the Good 142 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:37,799 Samaritan, he said that a man goes from Jerusalem to Jericho 143 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:41,000 and he fell among Thieves. You know what kind of thief he 144 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,799 was talking about, he was talking about this exact kind of 145 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,100 a man, a horrible man, a terrible man. 146 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:50,300 And now he's standing next to the Lord and pilot says, which 147 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:54,500 one you want me to release Jesus, the king of the Jews. 148 00:08:55,500 --> 00:09:00,400 And they said, no. They said, no, interestingly 149 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,000 about the word Hosanna when they came in a week. 150 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,500 Before saying, when Jesus came in, they said Hosanna, if you 151 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:11,400 look up the word Hosanna by definition, you will find this 152 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,000 one. Definition is this, it's an 153 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,900 expression of adoration praise or Joy. 154 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:24,000 Now, what were they actually doing the phrase that we're 155 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,900 reading about? In the New Testament? 156 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,300 Hosanna is a Greek form of the Hebrew appeal, to God, for help. 157 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:32,700 In fact, you know what it's called? 158 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:37,100 It's called OSHA. Nah, and it means this save. 159 00:09:37,100 --> 00:09:39,500 Now we pray. Give us victory. 160 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,700 They weren't praising Jesus. They were saying, give us 161 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:46,800 Victory. What kind of Victory? 162 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:51,500 Maybe National Victory, take the thumb of Rome of the oppression 163 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,500 that they were under and lifted. Jesus is going to be a king. 164 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,100 He's going to establish a kingdom. 165 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,600 They misunderstood they followed him into Jerusalem as he wrote 166 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,800 in the culprit, code of a doggy. You said, Hosanna to the king to 167 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:13,000 the heist. amazing, you know, I reach this series Back in, I 168 00:10:13,008 --> 00:10:13,700 don't know. Three. 169 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,300 Four years ago you remember on the last week in the life of 170 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:19,500 Jesus? I will tell you this. 171 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:24,300 It was one of the most enjoyable studies for me that I have ever 172 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:25,900 done or series that I've ever done. 173 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:30,600 And the reason that I did the series was really this I did 174 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,100 this series because I wanted to know what happened from the time 175 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:37,100 that they said, Hosanna to the time, they said crucify him. 176 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:43,000 Hosanna day to crucify day. And I enjoyed that study very 177 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,000 much. I learned quite a bit. 178 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,100 So all the people follow, like, sheep in fact, in Mark, chapter 179 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:53,900 15 and verse 11 and the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so 180 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:56,800 that they should rather release Barabbas, to them. 181 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,900 And the people followed like sheep and you know what's 182 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:03,100 amazing? Jesus is the very best man ever 183 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:04,900 that lived. And he standing next to the 184 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:11,700 worst and they chose Barabbas, again, folks the life of a June 185 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:13,700 is the greatest life you will ever live. 186 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,700 It really is but sometimes people don't look at the life of 187 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,000 a Christian as a life. That's all that fun. 188 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,300 It is the greatest life you ever live. 189 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,500 Some people choose a life of sin and Barabbas represents sin and 190 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:32,900 all the bad stuff you can be and some people choose Barabbas in 191 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:36,700 their life, but the choose Jesus means to change your life and 192 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,800 have a life that's better than any life you can ever have, and 193 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,900 that's the life of a Christian. So failing proposal. 194 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:47,600 Number one, here's another one. So, then pilate took Jesus and 195 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,900 scourged him. This amazing is the second 196 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:53,000 proposal here. He scourged him. 197 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:59,100 Kind of a way of compromise. Have you ever wondered though, 198 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:02,800 if you really found, no fault in him at all? 199 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,500 Why you going to beat him? It was a compromise, but if you 200 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:13,100 really found no fault in him, why are you going to beat him? 201 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,100 I want to talk about this for just a moment. 202 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,200 This was a Roman Scourge and it's awful. 203 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,100 It was a thick stick wrapped with leather. 204 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:24,500 At the end of it were leather thongs, have some length. 205 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,400 And in the end of those thongs were held bits of brass and lead 206 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,300 and Bone filed, the sharp points. 207 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:35,400 The victim was then either stretched flat on the ground 208 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,600 with his backup or tied to a post. 209 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,600 Hanging or strap suspended from the ground. 210 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:43,500 The soldier would thrust that Scourge across the back of the 211 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:48,800 victim, tearing the flesh from his back, man. 212 00:12:50,900 --> 00:12:54,100 I used to say this, you've heard me say they took us, they 213 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:56,100 scourged him. Maybe they took a cat of nine 214 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:57,600 tails. Okay. 215 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:01,000 That's not what they did. Did a little research about a 216 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,600 cat of nine tails, it was different than a Roman Scourge. 217 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,900 A cat of nine, tails, by the way, was something that did have 218 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:10,400 straps, but it had razor blade type edges. 219 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,100 And all that was all that did when they thrust the cat of nine 220 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:19,200 tails on the back of a victim. It superficially cut the skin. 221 00:13:19,300 --> 00:13:21,700 That's bad enough, right? Right, that's not what they did 222 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:25,000 here. A Roman Scourge is also called a 223 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,800 flagrant and what it would be is, you've got sheep bones, 224 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:31,900 short, shared their, you have lead. 225 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,100 You have a lead ball. You have a LED piece, you got 226 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:38,600 all this stuff and when they thrust it across the back of the 227 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:45,400 victim, it took the flesh off. If you knew he was innocent. 228 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:52,200 Why did you beat him? Why? 229 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:56,800 Did you know that as we've always said? 230 00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:03,900 That death by crucifixion or dying on a cross, on a Roman 231 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:06,200 cross was so awful. How many times we said this? 232 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:11,200 It was so awful. That a Roman citizen could never 233 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:17,900 be crucified. it was a form of execution for foreign slaves and 234 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,900 criminals, we've said that many times But did you also know that 235 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:27,200 the scourging that happened prior to the crucifixion was 236 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,400 also? So difficult also. 237 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:34,000 So horrible and horrifying a Roman citizen could never be 238 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,100 scourged either. What does pilot do takes an 239 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:41,700 innocent man, I got an idea, I'll just beat him. 240 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,900 I'll Scourge him and maybe that will suffice and maybe it goes 241 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:51,200 away. I don't know if they laid Jesus 242 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,500 flat on the ground. I don't know if they suspended 243 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:58,100 him up like that, I don't know. But that's what they did to 244 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:00,000 those victims. That was one of the two ways 245 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,500 that they did that tearing the flesh from his back, from his 246 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:06,500 body. What else did they do? 247 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,000 They put on a crown of thorns and the purple robe. 248 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 They put on a crown of thorns and a Purple Rope. 249 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,200 You know, I've probably thought in my mind it would have looked 250 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,400 like a crown like that, right? And that they would take it and 251 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,400 press it down on the head of Jesus. 252 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:35,200 I read a scholar though. It said, you know, It may have 253 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,900 been worse than that. It may have been a helmet of 254 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:44,800 thorns. Where the Thorns would cover the 255 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:49,100 entire head? And they would press down on the 256 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:51,500 thorns and they would do this because the outer Thorns would 257 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:53,900 not prick. The hands of the one that put it 258 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:58,100 on his head. And they would shove it down on 259 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:02,600 Jesus head like that. Perhaps, and the blood streaming 260 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:07,400 down his back. But not just that they put on a 261 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:11,000 purple robe. Why would they do that? 262 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:16,000 Why would they put on a purple robe and what else do they do? 263 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,500 And they smote him. They hit him with their hands in 264 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:23,800 the original. The Greek translation, get this 265 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:29,800 and they kept saying, hail King of the Jews and they kept on 266 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:34,800 punching him in the face. So, why? 267 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,700 He was wounded for our transgressions. 268 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,800 He was bruised for our iniquities. 269 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,800 And by his stripes, we are healed. 270 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,200 Prophecy fulfilled. Why the purple robe? 271 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,700 You know what they do? I read as historian said this, 272 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:54,900 they had a game, okay? Had a game. 273 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:58,100 And the game was for with idiots and imbeciles. 274 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,500 Said that's a direct explanation. 275 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:05,200 And what they would do is they would take people that had some 276 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,099 challenges. And I hate that when people take 277 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:11,900 off, pick up somebody or take on somebody that's less fortunate, 278 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:13,500 in some way and make fun of them. 279 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:16,400 Had an awful thing. But that's what they would do 280 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,200 with these idiots and imbeciles, they would take them here. 281 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,800 What they do, they would put a purple robe on them and they 282 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,700 would bow down before them like they were some kind of King and 283 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:32,800 they would make fun of them. That's what they did to the Lamb 284 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,200 of God. The king of kings. 285 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:43,800 The Lord of lords. And Jesus says nothing amazing. 286 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:52,100 so, then what? He's beating his scourged and 287 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:56,200 then brought before the people as if to say, you will know that 288 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:03,100 I find no fault in him. In fact, in verse 5, pilate said 289 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:08,800 to them behold the man Can you imagine the bloody mess? 290 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,500 The Lord was a takes him before the people and he said, behold 291 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:16,400 the man, isn't it enough? Isn't it enough? 292 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:20,900 Does he really look like a king? Does he really liked it? 293 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:22,400 Look like he's gonna hurt anything. 294 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:26,500 I think pilot really thought this would suffice. 295 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:31,000 Dangerous though, look at him. Look at him. 296 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,500 It's bad enough for an innocent man, to be beaten. 297 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:37,500 They should have said that's enough, but that wasn't enough. 298 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,800 And by the way, it wasn't enough because God said it wasn't 299 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,900 enough. When you look and you see that 300 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:46,300 God was thoroughly in control, it should give you a greater 301 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:50,500 appreciation for Jesus. That God was doing this for you 302 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:55,000 and Jesus who could have called down those Legions of angels and 303 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,800 put a stop to the whole mess. It ought to give you a greater 304 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,900 appreciation. That Jesus was no man's victim. 305 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:04,200 He was the ultimate Victor and he was totally in control. 306 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:08,100 It doesn't lessen, the pain of the beatings and the 307 00:19:08,108 --> 00:19:11,200 crucifixion. It just gives you a greater 308 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:15,600 appreciation. It was done on purpose for you 309 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:22,600 finally, though this You take him and crucify him for I find 310 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:27,900 no fault in him. And by the way, this is time 311 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:33,100 number five, of six times. Pilate said, I find no fault in 312 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:37,900 him, but there's more There's more. 313 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:42,600 Finally, they said this. He's got to die. 314 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:45,300 Because he said he was the son of God. 315 00:19:47,300 --> 00:19:49,900 He said he was a Son of God. The Son of God. 316 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,800 Let's notice in summary now, all the things, they accuse Jesus 317 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,300 of, this is what they said and why he had to be crucified. 318 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:58,900 All, this is what the Jews said. Here we go. 319 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,600 Number one, they said he threatened to destroy the 320 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,600 temple. I didn't work. 321 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,000 They said he was an evil doer. No, I wasn't. 322 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,000 They said he tried to pervert the nation. 323 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:15,400 Nope, that didn't work. They said he forbade paying 324 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,900 taxes to Caesar. That's not what Jesus said. 325 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,100 Jesus says, Render unto Caesar that, which is Caesars Render 326 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:24,500 unto God, that which is God's Render unto Caesar, that, which 327 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,300 is Caesars, that didn't work either. 328 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:29,700 There's more then they said, oh, he's stirring up the people. 329 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:34,100 That didn't work. They said he was a political 330 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:37,100 revolutionary going to come in and start a new kingdom against 331 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:38,500 Caesar, right? That didn't work. 332 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:44,500 But then this they said he makes himself. 333 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:51,100 To be the son of God. That means this, this is what 334 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:55,900 they were saying. He's a false god pilot and we 335 00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:58,800 don't like those guys. He's a false. 336 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,200 God. Now I'm going to tell you 337 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,900 something, put yourself in Pilots place. 338 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:11,600 Now, put yourself right there. Do you remember in the New 339 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,700 Testament when in Acts chapter 14, when Paul and Barnabas were 340 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:20,400 called Jupiter and Mercury? They actually believed it was 341 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,700 Idol Gods, but they believe that the idol Gods, the gods 342 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:27,500 somewhere where they were, they came down to the Earth and they 343 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,600 actually inhabited the Earth and dwelt among men. 344 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:34,200 So that's why on Acts chapter 14 when they look, they see. 345 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,000 Oh, look at these two guys here. There's Paul and Barnabas, it's 346 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,600 Jupiter and Mercury. Can you imagine Pilots thinking? 347 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:44,600 Now, I just scourged the son of God. 348 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:53,500 I discourage the son of God. now, what Pilot saw the 349 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:56,600 character of Jesus, he's concerned about his moral 350 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,300 judgment. He understands all of this, he 351 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:04,000 understands that his wife even said, do nothing about this man. 352 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,800 I've heard some things in a dream. 353 00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:10,900 Don't touch him. Here's his fatal Panic, folks. 354 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:15,900 His fatal panic. What have I done now? 355 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,800 And when the Bible says, when pilate heard that he was more 356 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,500 afraid, it literally means he was in a frenzied panic. 357 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:30,600 I just scourged the Son of God a frenzied Panic. 358 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:35,600 What am I going to do with John chapter 19 and verse 9? 359 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 All of a sudden Jesus is taken two. 360 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,200 Pilots praetorian, okay? And Pilots trying to figure out, 361 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,600 how am I going to get out of this? 362 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,100 He took him two pilots. Pretoria I said, where are you 363 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:50,400 from? I guarantee he didn't mean hey, 364 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,400 what's your address over there Nazareth? 365 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,300 No. He wanted to know if you're the 366 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:58,000 Son of God, where'd you come from? 367 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,700 Where you from? Scared to death. 368 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,700 At Pilots Pretoria. Jesus already admitted. 369 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:11,200 He was a king. He was a king not of this world 370 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,400 and pilot wasn't impressed. But now he says, I'm the son of 371 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,700 God. You know, it's interesting when 372 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,900 he's asked the question. Where are you from? 373 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,500 Get this now. Very powerful, Jesus answers. 374 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:29,000 Nothing why did Jesus answer nothing? 375 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:32,600 He said absolutely nothing for two reasons. 376 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:36,400 Reason number one, Isaiah chapter 53 and verse 7. 377 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,700 I think it is and Isaiah chapter 53. 378 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:44,000 Yes. In verse 7 as a sheep before her 379 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,800 Shearer's is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 380 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,200 It was prophesied. That's exactly what happened. 381 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:50,500 But have you ever stopped to consider? 382 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:52,400 That might be a second reason to. 383 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,400 There was a second reason to Jesus had already said that. 384 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,500 He was a king from another world but pilot didn't buy. 385 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:04,800 It had nothing at all to do pilot rejected that had nothing 386 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,000 to do at all with pilot didn't mean a thing. 387 00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:16,400 And so Jesus was silent. I think there's a lesson for us 388 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,200 folks. I really do. 389 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:21,100 I think there's a lesson for all of us. 390 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,500 We're going to get to that lesson just a second. 391 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:28,000 Look at first 10 though and verse 10 don't you know that I 392 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,500 got the power to crucify you in the power to release you. 393 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:32,900 He answered absolutely nothing. But don't you know I got the 394 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:35,700 power to crucify you or release you. 395 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:40,200 Then the next verse Jesus says, you would have no power at all. 396 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,800 Unless it had been given you from above. 397 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,300 In other words, all of that is ordained of God anyway. 398 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:51,200 Then Jesus says this get this. Therefore, the one who delivered 399 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:55,400 me to you has the Later sin. What does that mean? 400 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,400 And who's he talking about? So he's before Pilate and pilate 401 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,000 had the was the guy that could say that if Jesus would be 402 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 crucified or Not, Jesus said, you wouldn't have that Authority 403 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,300 if he didn't get it from my father. 404 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:10,800 And by the way, there's more the ones that deliver me to you has 405 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:15,300 the greater sin. Who is that? 406 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:24,000 Judas. He's talking about Caiaphas, 407 00:25:25,300 --> 00:25:28,600 he's talking about the religious leaders, the Jewish religious 408 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:30,600 leaders. Do you know why they did not 409 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,200 have any write any legal right to do anything to Jesus? 410 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:38,300 And when they had the greater sin, they had, they had the 411 00:25:38,308 --> 00:25:43,100 greater fault pilot had the authority to execute Jesus, but 412 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,000 they didn't. That's why you saying they had 413 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 the greater sin. Okay. 414 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,600 Have you ever stopped to think? Could anybody ever be that 415 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,100 guilty? To have the greater sin in this 416 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:06,000 regard. we take a step back in the Bible says this when 417 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,700 somebody knows, the truth teaches us, that Rejects it and 418 00:26:10,708 --> 00:26:13,300 Hebrews chapter 6. It says that we crucify, the Son 419 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:15,100 of God afresh and put him to an open shame. 420 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:20,600 Have you ever stopped to consider that? 421 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,300 There may be a time, please hear me. 422 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:25,900 This is important. There may be a time in the life 423 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:29,600 of a person when the Lord is silent. 424 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,800 And when I mean silent, I mean the Lord has no longer has an 425 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:40,300 influence in their life. Remember, what happened to 426 00:26:40,300 --> 00:26:43,400 Judas? All of them wonderful appeals in 427 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,200 the softness and the love in the Heart of Jesus. 428 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:49,900 In all that, he said, even in the Last Supper, as they sat 429 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:53,300 down there and it's to the Lord's, Supper it was Judas put 430 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:58,400 to the left of Jesus, which was the ultimate position of honor 431 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,400 and he turned and gave him first. 432 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,400 But there was a time when Jesus spoke no more everything changed 433 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,000 member that and finally Jesus says, whatever you're going to 434 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:14,500 do do it quickly then it says get this and Satan entered 435 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,600 Judas. You know what that means? 436 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,600 That meant that Satan was now directing his ways. 437 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,700 Not Jesus. Jesus was now silent. 438 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,300 All right. Listen to this. 439 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:38,500 That's why. When somebody drifts away. 440 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:43,100 That's why we have to be the lighthouse. 441 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:51,800 That's why we don't write people off. if you're drifting out at 442 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:57,900 sea, but you can faintly see the lighthouse on the shore. 443 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,000 And you can barely hear the sound of the horn from a 444 00:28:02,008 --> 00:28:05,400 distance. At least, you know your way 445 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,300 back. We do too much, right? 446 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:16,200 And off folks. when you're too much writing off and it just 447 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,800 can't be Now, you're not the light. 448 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,100 You are not, I am not. Jesus is the light. 449 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,800 But we are the lighthouse. And sometimes people drift so 450 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,600 far, you know, what happens. It goes so long, they drift so 451 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,900 far, they forget where they came from and they forget how to get 452 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:45,400 back 3 years ago, held a gospel meeting in Texas. and I went out 453 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:50,200 one morning and I was, I just felt good and I started to run 454 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:53,800 And I ran and I ran I just felt better and better. 455 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,300 It got that second win. I just felt great. 456 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,100 I literally quit paying attention to where I was. 457 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:05,600 I just kept running. I ran for one hour in the 458 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,200 opposite direction of where I was staying. 459 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,900 Wow! Finally I had enough and I 460 00:29:09,908 --> 00:29:13,000 thought, wait, I got it back. And I turned around, you know 461 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,100 what happened? I was completely lost. 462 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,000 I was so lost. I forgot how to get back. 463 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,200 I made a phone call to a guy. I said, hey I need brother 464 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,400 so-and-so's address, he said I don't have it but I got his 465 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,700 number. I had to call the guy was 466 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:34,600 staying with and ask him what's the address. 467 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:42,400 So I could put it in my phone. And I can figure my way back. 468 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:50,100 Because I was lost. When people drift, folks, we 469 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:53,500 have to still be some kind of an influence in their life so that 470 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,800 they can see clearly some day perhaps. 471 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:01,800 How to get back. How to get back. 472 00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:08,600 Verse 12, verse 11 from that point on pilate sought to 473 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,500 release him verse 12. Pilots still can't get rid of 474 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,400 Jesus, though. He knew he was innocent but 475 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,600 notice what the Jews said they finally said. 476 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,100 If you let this man go, you're not Caesars friend. 477 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:27,400 Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar and we 478 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,100 know that they hated Caesar. That's how bad the hated Jesus. 479 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400 They were so clever to twist it all around, and pilate knew it 480 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,200 would be the end of his life. Pilate knew that to tolerate a 481 00:30:39,208 --> 00:30:40,400 traitor. Was the end. 482 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,500 Tiberius would never tolerate a traitor. 483 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,800 So this did it. Finally pilot had to choose 484 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:53,900 between neck and so. And now we have Pilots final 485 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:56,300 pronouncement. Here it is. 486 00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:02,000 John chapter 19. Verse 13 pilot took his judgment 487 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:09,500 seat. verse 14, he says, behold your king verse 15. 488 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:12,600 Once more shall I crucify your king? 489 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:16,400 They said, let his blood be on us and on our children. 490 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,600 Can you imagine saying something that bad? 491 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,000 Let his blood be on us and on our children. 492 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,100 What else? Then he delivered him to be 493 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:35,300 crucified and they led him away. Folks, what's that saying about? 494 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,000 What's it saying about us or to us today? 495 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,800 I think it's saying this It doesn't matter who you are. 496 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:47,200 It doesn't matter when you live, you have a choice to make you 497 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,000 have a decision to make about Jesus. 498 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,700 And the entire point that I want to emphasize to you this morning 499 00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:56,600 is this Pilot attempted repeatedly to get rid of Jesus 500 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,600 and he couldn't, you know, why? Because nobody can no man. 501 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,300 Can, if you think that we can wiggle out of our commitment to 502 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:07,500 Jesus Christ, and our final decision, we are wrong. 503 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,600 We are wrong. That's a choice that we need to 504 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,500 make. So, folks, listen to me when you 505 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:19,000 hear the invitation, when you hear, what the word of God says, 506 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000 about your life. You listen. 507 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,500 Now, you listen to the Lord, listen to me, you listen to the 508 00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:30,300 Lord, because it just may be that in time complete rejection 509 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:33,800 of Jesus, you'll stop hearing his voice, he has no more 510 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,800 influence. So, listen to it before the Lord 511 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,900 is silent. Now, the Lord is constantly 512 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:43,300 reaching out, wanting you to be saved, what I mean by silent. 513 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:45,700 Again, I want to clarify. So I'm not, I don't want you to 514 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:50,300 confuse this, it's not the Lord's giving up, but the Lord, 515 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:54,300 no longer has a voice. If you gave up on the invitation 516 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:57,700 on what to do, in order to be a Christian, don't ever let that 517 00:32:57,700 --> 00:32:59,300 happen. Alright in closing. 518 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:03,400 What shall I do with Jesus? Well, he was taken to Golgotha. 519 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:10,200 He was taking a gothis, brow. He was taken to a place of. 520 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,300 Crucifixion, the word gone gotha. 521 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:19,000 Why is it called that? It's Aramaic for the word skull. 522 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,900 It's also called Calvary. That word comes from the Latin 523 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:29,000 word calva and it means bald head or skull. 524 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,700 What else? The skull-shaped hill in 525 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:36,200 Jerusalem is what it's being referred to. 526 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,500 I don't know if that's it because you know what? 527 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,800 You know what? There's two different Hills like 528 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,600 I know that I've heard that I've read that, I don't know what it 529 00:33:46,608 --> 00:33:47,400 looks like. Is this the one? 530 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,700 Who knows? But this was served as a 531 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:56,000 representation there of it was of he'll similar to that. 532 00:33:56,300 --> 00:34:00,900 And it looked like a skull. And some commentators tried to 533 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:04,100 say they called it, the place of a skull because so many people 534 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:06,500 were executed, they were skulls laying there. 535 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:08,000 I don't believe that at all. I think it's talking 536 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,900 specifically about the look of the Hill. 537 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:16,900 Mount Calvary Golgotha. He was crucified. 538 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:22,400 And then he had to be buried. He was buried in a rich man's 539 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,900 tomb. Some Scholars say it would have 540 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:26,600 been something like that. I don't know. 541 00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:28,800 Some Scholars say it must have been something like that. 542 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,600 I don't know that either. But he was buried in a rich 543 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,600 man's tomb. And Joseph of Arimathea just 544 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,100 happened to be standing by with a brand new Tomb for the Lord. 545 00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:43,100 Fulfilling the prophecy. His grave was to be assigned 546 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,800 among Wicked, man, but with the rich man in his death, that's 547 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,500 what he would be. Don't you see God is taking care 548 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:53,500 of it. All he was buried. 549 00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:58,000 And on the third day that early Sunday morning, As the song we 550 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,100 used to sing up from the grave. He arose. 551 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:02,900 Up from the grave. He arose. 552 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,700 He now is sitting at the right hand of God. 553 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,700 He's on his throne. He's our King, he's our Lord. 554 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:15,800 And do you know, right now? Right now as we live in, as time 555 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,700 stands, you know what Jesus is? He's our King. 556 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:24,500 And he is our Lord. When he comes back, he will not 557 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,200 be those when he comes back, he will be the judge, and it's 558 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,900 fitting for. The Bible says, he's the one 559 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:31,300 with the nail prints in his hands. 560 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,000 He's calling out to you today. Are you not a Christian? 561 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,900 You need to be one today. You need to come today believing 562 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:42,100 in Jesus. 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