1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:04,000 It certainly is good to be here with you this morning and we 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,900 appreciate the presence of all that have come to be with us. 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,000 We have a number of visitors here in our assembly and we 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 welcome you today. I hope that what's considered 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,000 for a little while. This morning will be helpful and 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,700 encouraging to you in some way as I have on the board, I have 7 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:24,400 John the 18th chapter verses 1 through 11 and will notice those 8 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,400 verses this morning, but just for a text will read verses 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,500 three through five. John chapter 18. 10 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:35,800 Then Judas having received a Detachment of troops and 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,300 officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. 12 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,100 Came there with lanterns, torches and weapons Jesus. 13 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,100 Therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him went 14 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:49,700 forward and said to them. Whom are you seeking? 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,500 They answered him. Jesus of Nazareth. 16 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:54,500 Jesus said to them. I am. 17 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:59,100 He and Judas who betrayed him. Also stood with them. 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,099 Les Lord's day, we talked about when Jesus revealed who it was, 19 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:07,300 that would betray him. But now they've left the upper 20 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:10,200 room and Jesus. Now, with his disciples going, 21 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,300 to enter The Garden of Gethsemane, and will entitle our 22 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:16,700 remarks Jesus betrayed and arrested. 23 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:20,800 Before we do though, at this time, we want to pray Apart from 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,200 the cross. No greater Agony has ever been 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,700 experienced by any being who has ever lived in this world in 26 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:31,700 human form. No man has ever suffered in this 27 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,100 way. In fact, this is the second 28 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:37,000 greatest Agony that our Lord would ever experience. 29 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,400 The first certainly being that which would to come on the cross 30 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:45,100 itself. This is the second, great Agony. 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,900 This is the Apex of his life of sorrow and grief. 32 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,900 This is the high point of torturous suffering. 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,600 This is the night when Jesus anticipates drinking of the cup 34 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,200 of divine wrath. That would be his in full on the 35 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,700 next day on the cross. And again, his sorrow was so 36 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:07,100 severe. And his struggle was so massive 37 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,699 that Jesus, while in the Garden of Gethsemane, would say, my 38 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:16,100 soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death in Matthew, 39 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:18,600 Mark, and Luke secounds. We find included there. 40 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,100 The agony in the garden where we see Jesus Christ breaking down 41 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:27,400 from the anticipation of becoming the bearer of sin For 42 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,900 All Mankind. Those accounts include all of 43 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:35,000 the things that humiliated This and all the things that made him 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:39,100 suffer, but John's account does not include those things. 45 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 And let me just say that if we wanted to get the total picture, 46 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:47,500 we would have to study all four of the Gospel accounts, but as 47 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:51,200 we look at John's account only this morning, we find that its 48 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,800 purpose is to present Jesus Christ as deity. 49 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:57,500 You won't find the anguish in the garden. 50 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:00,500 You won't find the crying in the garden. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,700 You don't find the sweating as it were. 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,400 Were great drops of blood falling to the ground. 53 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,600 You don't find anything degrading or debasing or 54 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:16,000 humiliating in John's gospel. In fact, we find opposite, we 55 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,100 find as Jesus Was going about to be arrested that John points 56 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:23,100 out. It glorifies Jesus Christ in 57 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:27,000 every way and the 11 verses that are before our consideration 58 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,900 this morning, we're going to see the supremacy of Jesus Christ. 59 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,400 There are four preeminent features in these verses that 60 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:40,000 show us the supremacy of Jesus Christ and what could certainly 61 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,700 be a humiliating thing as he's arrested as a common criminal 62 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:47,400 actually exalts him to the very highest. 63 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,800 And so the first of these preeminent features is this, 64 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,700 when we look at these 11 verses, we see first and foremost, the 65 00:03:54,700 --> 00:04:01,400 Lord here and we see his Supreme Courage. 66 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:09,000 We see his Supreme courage. Now, the obvious statement is 67 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,800 this that his courage is, is certainly seen in his 68 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,800 willingness and determination to go to the Cross. 69 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:19,300 Now obviously, it's very courageous when a man would be 70 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:24,400 willing to die for a cause or die for someone else. 71 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:28,200 It's a very courageous thing to be martyred for a truth that a 72 00:04:28,207 --> 00:04:31,800 man refuses to reject. In fact, we would consider that 73 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,600 in our society, something that is Is Noble, but the purpose in 74 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,400 your mind to go to the Cross knowing that it means that all 75 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,400 of your Purity, all of your sinlessness, all of that 76 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,100 everything that you've ever been would be violated when you bore 77 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:53,600 the sin, every sin of every man that has ever lived lived and to 78 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,100 add to that to be on that cross of Calvary with those 79 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:02,800 nail-pierced hands and feet and be abandoned by God so much. 80 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,200 So that when Jesus Was going through the greatest pain and 81 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,600 shame of all. He said, my God, my God. 82 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:12,000 Why hast Thou forsaken? Me. 83 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:16,500 But friends, that's the kind of Courage that is infinite Supreme 84 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:19,600 courage. And when Jesus sets his face to 85 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,400 go to the Cross, he does so undaunted. 86 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,400 And without hesitation, let me just make a point here that I 87 00:05:26,407 --> 00:05:28,100 think we need to understand all of us. 88 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:33,900 Now, before we go any further, when Jesus was in the garden, 89 00:05:34,300 --> 00:05:40,000 And when Jesus was arrested, he was not tricked, he was not 90 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 trapped, and he was not surprised. 91 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,500 Nothing happened to Jesus that he didn't know was going to 92 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:52,600 happen. He wasn't trapped, he wasn't 93 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,800 tricked. And he wasn't surprised. 94 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,800 And so, we find Our Lord demonstrating infinite courage, 95 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,500 determined to go to the Cross to die, for the sins of the whole 96 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:05,900 world. Now, look with me. 97 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:14,400 Now in verse number 1, When Jesus had spoken these words, he 98 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,200 went out with his disciples, over the brook Kidron where 99 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,700 there was a garden which he and his disciples entered. 100 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,600 Now from this text we find that after he had spoken these words 101 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,600 and these words were the words that were spoken in prayer in 102 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,800 the 17th chapter. And as soon as he did that he 103 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:38,000 the Bible says he went forth. Evidently our Lord had left the 104 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,400 upper room. And also the city of Jerusalem 105 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:45,200 with his faithful followers. His faithful disciples. 106 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,300 He went over the brook Kidron and there was a garden there. 107 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:53,100 And the Bible says that he enters that garden with those 108 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,500 disciples, he moved immediately to the Garden of Gethsemane 109 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,400 which had been his custom. He had spent many evenings there 110 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,100 on the Mount of Olives in that Garden. 111 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:08,400 In fact, it was his custom accustomed to retire there in 112 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,600 the evenings. In John chapter 7, at the end of 113 00:07:11,608 --> 00:07:19,100 the chapter, it says this, every man went to his own house that 114 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,100 were in. Jesus go verse 8, begins with 115 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:26,300 the words and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 116 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:30,700 This was the closest thing that our Lord had a home in this 117 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:32,100 world. You remember that? 118 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:35,300 Jesus on one occasion? Would say that the foxes have 119 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:39,100 holes and the birds have nests. But what did he say about the 120 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:41,600 son of man? Man, Jesus says, but the son of 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,800 man, hath, not where to lay his head. 122 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,900 He had no home in this world and the closest thing that he had 123 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:54,500 for a home was a place that he would go to be close to his 124 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:57,300 father and speak to his father and prayer in the evenings a 125 00:07:57,300 --> 00:07:59,800 place. He would retire and that was on 126 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,200 the Mount of Olives In The Garden of Gethsemane. 127 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:06,400 You know, there was another place that Jesus would go from 128 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,900 time to time. There would be times he would go 129 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:11,800 up the Mount of Olives, he'd make a little turn and a 130 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:13,800 scholar. I read this week said, it would 131 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,300 have been a right turn. He would make a right turn and 132 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:17,400 go. Around the mountain. 133 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:19,600 Let me go to a place called Bethany. 134 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,400 Remember who was in Bethany some, dear friends, Mary Martha 135 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:28,000 and Lazarus. In fact, in the account when 136 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,700 Jesus goes to raise Lazarus from the dead, we hear those 137 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:35,100 wonderful words and we see Jesus there in the Bible, says he 138 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:38,400 wept, you know what they said in response to that? 139 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:41,799 Oh, how he loved him? That word. 140 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,400 Love Is Not the Same Love. The Lord has For All Mankind and 141 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,500 It's not the kind of love in the Bible. 142 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:51,400 That is commanded love, that word love. 143 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,600 Right there means close affection. 144 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:58,100 That's The Human Side of Jesus. He had close friends in this 145 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:02,100 world, too. But he wouldn't go there on this 146 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:05,400 night. He wouldn't go to Bethany and 147 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:11,300 see his friends on this night. It was time for guest cemani and 148 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:16,000 so he entered that fatal garden and Jesus knew exactly what was 149 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,000 going to happen. In fact, not only did he know 150 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,100 what was going to happen but he planned every detail. 151 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,800 Jesus had gone there. Several times, a number of times 152 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:36,000 with his disciples and get this Judas knew exactly the place. 153 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:43,500 And Jesus knew that Judas knew that was the place stay with me 154 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:49,500 and Jesus knew that Judas would bring those soldiers to that 155 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:52,700 place on that night to arrest Jesus. 156 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,600 He wasn't going to Bethany the hide. 157 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,000 He was going to just cemani and lay it all out. 158 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:04,500 Lay it all out. Supreme infinite, courage. 159 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,000 And so, Jesus goes to the Garden of Gethsemane at the Mount of 160 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,900 Olives. You know, that brings up an 161 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:14,200 interesting point from the Old Testament, and I'll not spend a 162 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,500 lot of time on this, but I'll just mention this briefly. 163 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:20,700 There are two kinds of Prophecy that are found in the Old 164 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:25,000 Testament. One is called verbal predictive 165 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:31,000 prophecy, and the other is called typical prophecy verbal 166 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,900 predictive prophecy is prophecy that says, words like this a 167 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:37,700 very familiar. Verse for unto us. 168 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:44,600 A child is born unto us a son is given that verse gives us 169 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,500 detailed verbalization of the coming of Jesus Christ. 170 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:55,000 But typical prophecy is prophecy in pictures or types. 171 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,600 For example, in the Old Testament, every Old Testament 172 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,300 sacrifice was a picture of Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice that 173 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:07,500 he would make, therefore, it became a prophecy that A final 174 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:12,400 sacrifice would come also, we find in the New Testament. 175 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,900 There were man that actually by their lives were types of Christ 176 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,800 men. Like Moses, whom, Moses 177 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,400 typified, Jesus and that Moses was the deliverer of God's 178 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,800 people, and Jesus is the Fulfillment of all of that. 179 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,900 The ultimate deliver For All Mankind. 180 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,800 We can look to Joseph. In fact, one scholar said that 181 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,700 he counted over 100 points of likeness between Joseph and 182 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:45,700 Jesus, even when he was sold into slavery, he was sold by his 183 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:48,700 brothers for the price of a slave sound familiar. 184 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:51,900 What about David? We talked about David last 185 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,800 Lord's day, I'm not going to that story again, but remember 186 00:11:56,300 --> 00:12:00,700 Jesus would be a king like David and I told you a little story 187 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:04,700 that's found in second, Samuel chapter 15 about David and a 188 00:12:04,708 --> 00:12:08,200 hit, the fill a hit. The fell was David's own 189 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:13,300 familiar friend and that friend betrayed his friend David. 190 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:19,700 What did David do after that second Samuel 15 says they 191 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:22,000 escaped. They went out the gate of 192 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,100 Jerusalem. They went down the slope sound 193 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:28,100 familiar, they crossed the Kidron and they went up to the 194 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:33,400 Mount of Olives and who went worthy his faithful followers. 195 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,700 And that sound familiar. Jesus left the city of 196 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:43,000 Jerusalem, he crossed the Kidron and he went up to the Mount of 197 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,700 Olives to the Garden of Gethsemane with his faithful 198 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:50,700 followers to and they were called the eleven Apostles, a 199 00:12:50,708 --> 00:12:54,100 hit the fell and David is in that little incident, then 200 00:12:54,100 --> 00:12:57,800 becomes a perfect picture in the Old Testament of what is to 201 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,200 come. When the true king would come 202 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,900 the king of kings and Judas becomes, even more treacherous 203 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,500 than a hit the fell. You know, you might ask yourself 204 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,000 the question. Well, Jesus knew all that was 205 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,700 going to happen. Why did he choose the Garden of 206 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:17,000 Gethsemane? Why did Jesus go there? 207 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,800 Well, there are a variety of reasons and we'll notice just a 208 00:13:19,808 --> 00:13:27,500 few Number one, it was a place of prayer and he wanted to talk 209 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:30,300 to his father. You know, this account doesn't 210 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:34,100 describe the agonizing prayer that Jesus prayed, but he did 211 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:37,400 pray an agonizing prayer. He would pray to his father. 212 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,900 If it be possible, let this cup pass from me but not as I will, 213 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:46,800 but thy will be done. Oh, he prepared an act prayed of 214 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,300 agonizing prayer, no doubt. This was a place, he wanted to 215 00:13:50,308 --> 00:13:54,100 be close to his father. Number two, To he, perhaps went 216 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:56,300 there because it was a place of rest. 217 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,100 It was a place where he can get away from all the conflicts in 218 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:02,800 the world. Thirdly, maybe he went there 219 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,600 because it was a place of fellowship with his disciples. 220 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:09,400 A place that they could be alone together. 221 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:14,200 And while every one of these reasons is true, every single, 222 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:18,300 one of these reasons is secondary to the primary reason 223 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,500 why Jesus took his disciples and went to the Garden of 224 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:24,500 Gethsemane. Gethsemane, I believe the 225 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:28,600 primary reason he went there is because he knew that Judas would 226 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,500 go there and bring those soldiers to arrest him and he 227 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:35,800 was making it easy for them to do. 228 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,600 So. Now. 229 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:48,000 Jesus wasn't surprised at all. He knew in the Old Testament, it 230 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 details Judas, and what he was going to do, not only in typical 231 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,500 Prophecy with a hit the fell, but in a very very accurate 232 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:02,700 verbalization, it even tells him the selling price of 30 pieces 233 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,900 of silver. And it says that they took that 234 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:09,500 money to buy The Potter's field in the Old Testament. 235 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:15,600 I believe Jesus was forcing the confrontation that would result 236 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,800 in his death in The Garden of Gethsemane. 237 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:21,500 And Jesus knew that Judas would be there. 238 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:23,900 And that Judas knew the place. Look at verse 2. 239 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:31,400 And Judas, who betrayed him. Also knew the place for Jesus 240 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:36,000 often met there with his disciples Jesus. 241 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,400 Wanted his final betrayal to be in the garden. 242 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:45,800 Now, picture this, what if Jesus allowed the Betrayal to happen 243 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,300 in the downtown streets of Jerusalem in the city? 244 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:54,000 You ever thought about that? Why did he go to a secluded 245 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:58,100 Place, privately a place of solitude and all that? 246 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,300 Why not right up there in the open? 247 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:04,600 Let everybody see the shame and let everybody see how Jesus was 248 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,200 a victim. You know why? 249 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:12,800 Because Jesus was not a victim, Jesus was a Victor, he was the 250 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,300 ultimate Victor. I think they didn't do it 251 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:19,700 downtown Jerusalem because think about this. 252 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:23,900 Jesus was popular, you know? Even those that follow Jesus, 253 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:26,900 they didn't recognize him as the Messiah, they followed him. 254 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:29,800 He was popular. Why he healed their diseases? 255 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,400 He fed them, he did many things like that. 256 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,800 Can you imagine if they would have done it and downtown 257 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:39,200 Jerusalem? Can you imagine the riot? 258 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,100 Maybe there would have been a riot that destroyed and tore up. 259 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:47,900 The city may be his disciples. Those faithful 11 with their 260 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:51,200 minut faith, not understanding. All of that would have gone with 261 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,900 swords the fight against that, and maybe there would have been 262 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:56,700 a tremendous Insurrection and revolution. 263 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:06,400 So, he gathers them in a private place, a place where he knew 264 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,200 they would come and take him without resistance. 265 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,500 This is voluntary. Willful surrender. 266 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:19,900 In John chapter 10 and verse 17. It says, therefore my father 267 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:23,500 loves me because I lay down my life that I might take it again. 268 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,300 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 269 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,800 I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it 270 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:37,500 up again. Let's not forget that part this 271 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:41,500 command I received from who from my father. 272 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,000 Listen folks, a coward would have gone anywhere but the 273 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,600 garden. A coward would have gone any 274 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,900 other place, but the Garden of Gethsemane. 275 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,200 You know, there were other times when Jesus, hid from danger, 276 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:01,700 there were other times when he fled, but the reason for his 277 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:06,600 hiding and fleeing wasn't that he was a coward or afraid, this 278 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,300 is the most courageous man that ever walked on the face of this 279 00:18:10,300 --> 00:18:15,400 Earth and all the men in all the annals of History, all the Great 280 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:17,700 Men of Courage, no one, it all pay. 281 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:20,500 In comparison to the courage of our load. 282 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,600 Why did he flee in days past and days gone by? 283 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,800 He would hide and flee because it wasn't his our yet. 284 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:35,700 It wasn't his time yet. But now everything's changed. 285 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,400 Now it's the appointed hour. It's the appointed hour that God 286 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:44,100 designed that Jesus should die and incidentally, you think it's 287 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:46,500 a coincidence. That's now the Passover season. 288 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:51,300 All of those Old Testament. Passover sacrifice has all of 289 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:55,700 those Lambs that were slain for all of those years typify, the 290 00:18:55,700 --> 00:19:00,500 Supreme sacrifice of God's lamb the ultimate sacrifice. 291 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,600 You think it's a coincidence and on this Passover season God's 292 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:08,000 lamb, the ultimate lamb is going to be slain. 293 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:14,600 It was time. And Jesus by his actions as it 294 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,300 is as if he is saying since my hour has come, I'll make it easy 295 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:23,000 for them to arrest me. Proving again, no victim, but a 296 00:19:23,008 --> 00:19:26,400 Victor in Matthew 26 and Matthews account. 297 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,900 It says that a great multitude came with what with swords and 298 00:19:30,900 --> 00:19:34,400 staves and clubs and they were ready for action. 299 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,900 Can you imagine these were skilled men of violence and all 300 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:42,600 of that. And they all come with swords 301 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,700 and staves. And, you know, the best that I 302 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:48,300 can tell is the Temple Police, probably were the ones that use 303 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:52,100 the clubs, and the soldiers of Rome, use the swords and the 304 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:56,200 staves, and they all come here to get Jesus. 305 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:03,000 Look at verse 3, Then Judas having received a Detachment of 306 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,300 troops and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees. 307 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,500 Came there with lanterns torches and weapons. 308 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,400 Now a point of Interest here, how many men were in this group 309 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,400 of men that were coming to find Jesus in the garden, we don't 310 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,700 know for absolute. Certain in the new King James, 311 00:20:23,700 --> 00:20:27,800 it says a Detachment of troops in the King James, it says, a 312 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,300 band of men. That phrase a band of men means 313 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:36,600 a Roman cohort. Now, how many were involved in a 314 00:20:36,608 --> 00:20:40,300 Roman cohort? One historian says, it was at 315 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:47,200 least 200 men and could have been as much as 1,200 men. 316 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:50,900 Now let's just do this, let's just split the difference. 317 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:56,300 Let's just say 600 men. That means in this Roman band of 318 00:20:56,300 --> 00:21:03,300 men, this Roman cohort, hundreds of men showed up But not only 319 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:07,200 that guess who else came the chief priests and the Pharisees, 320 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:10,800 who else? A great mob, also followed 321 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:16,200 along. Hundreds of men, and they come 322 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,800 with staves and swords and clubs and all of that. 323 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,500 You know what, a compliment to Jesus that they would send so 324 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:30,900 many men to go pick up a Galilean Carpenter and his 325 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:33,800 friends. Now, why would I say it like 326 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,500 that because they didn't recognize Jesus as Son of God? 327 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,400 They didn't recognize Jesus as the Messiah, in fact, they just 328 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,500 called him Jesus, his name of Nazareth where he was from, 329 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:51,600 that's it, and they got hundreds of men, going to find Jesus. 330 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:59,400 Now, Also, we find that he they come with lanterns and torches. 331 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:05,700 An interesting point, I read this week that historians tell 332 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:10,200 us that at that time of the Passover, then there would have 333 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,200 been or should have been a full moon. 334 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,800 I thought this was interesting. I'll just pass it along if there 335 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,800 probably was a full moon. At that time, another words, a 336 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,800 full moon at that time. What a lit up Jerusalem, there 337 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,300 would have been plenty of light. They wouldn't have needed 338 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:31,600 torches and lanterns to find their way on that short 339 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,500 distance. Didn't from Jerusalem to the 340 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,400 Mount of Olives. Interesting. 341 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:40,900 So why in the world do they have torches and lanterns on this 342 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:43,900 journey from Jerusalem to guest cemani? 343 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,200 You know I'll tell you something. 344 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,200 I think it's this I think they thought Jesus would be hiding 345 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,900 somewhere. I think these soldiers thought 346 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:55,400 that they were going to have to take these torches and lanterns 347 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,500 and go search out all the nooks and crannies. 348 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:02,800 To look in in caves and all manner of places, looking for 349 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,300 Jesus. Here's the irony, though. 350 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:12,900 The irony is, they are with torches searching for the light 351 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:16,500 of the world. And they are with swords. 352 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:19,400 Searching for the Prince of Peace. 353 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:23,900 What a tremendous insult would accrue misinterpretation of what 354 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:26,500 Jesus was and all he stood for in right out in front of them, 355 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:31,300 all guess what is Judas? His familiar friend, who has 356 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:35,400 lifted up his heel against him, literally crushing the neck of 357 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,100 Jesus. And what does he do? 358 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:41,300 When he arrives the other gospel accounts? 359 00:23:41,300 --> 00:23:45,600 Say, when they arrived Judas kissed Jesus. 360 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:51,100 Now, interestingly in Mark, chapter 15 and verse 44, we find 361 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:54,800 in marks account, they make the deal and Judas tells them. 362 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,200 Whoever I kissed that's him. Lay hold of him. 363 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:01,200 That's the one. But in verse 45 when they got 364 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:06,600 there, it says he kissed him interesting, word. 365 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,000 That word there is the form of the verb form for kiss in verse 366 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,100 44. And it means this, a continuous 367 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:19,800 expression of affection, it means he kissed him repeatedly. 368 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:23,800 You know, it's bad enough that he would betray him and kissing 369 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:27,700 one time a form of greeting and love and respect and all of 370 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,700 that. But he didn't do that at all by 371 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:33,700 the definition of that verb form of that word, he kissed him 372 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:37,400 repeatedly. All he had to do was Point him 373 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,500 out, that's him. All he had to do was walk up and 374 00:24:40,500 --> 00:24:43,300 give them a quick kiss on the cheek and they would have known. 375 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:50,100 But this vile traitor. Kissed him repeatedly. 376 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:52,900 What? A devilish refinement of a kiss 377 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:54,200 and you don't know where else did. 378 00:24:54,200 --> 00:25:02,500 We find a disciples kiss coupled with a Traders sign. neighbors, 379 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:06,700 for Jesus. Therefore, knowing all things 380 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:12,000 that would come upon him went forward and said to them, whom 381 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,000 are you seeking? I'm so glad that John includes 382 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,900 this here because it says Jesus, therefore, knowing what knowing 383 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,500 all things that were specific that we're going to happen. 384 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:30,400 And what did he do? He initiated the whole thing. 385 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,500 Now, we might put the gospel accounts together. 386 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:35,500 We might think that Judas made the kiss first and maybe he did, 387 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,200 but Judas didn't initiate anything. 388 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,300 Jesus did Jesus says, the Bible says, he know what was going to 389 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:45,500 happen. Everything. 390 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,200 And so he went forth and not only that. 391 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:53,000 He said, what he says, whom are you seeking the first action 392 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,400 after the kiss was Jesus and he initiated the whole thing. 393 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,000 Ng. This is humble willing 394 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,500 self-sacrifice. Now. 395 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:08,400 He asked the question whom are you seeking Jesus? 396 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,800 Initiating, everything saw them coming. 397 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:15,500 He saw before when he was in the upper room, Jesus knew that. 398 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:19,500 Excuse me, that Judas, that Judas was going to betray him, 399 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,100 he knew the Tunas, put it all together, surprise victim, 400 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:26,900 absolutely not. He knew everything and he 401 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:30,200 initiated the confrontation, right here. 402 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:34,100 This friends is majestic boldness and it's the courage 403 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:37,400 that our And had to go to the cross for us. 404 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:42,000 Now verse 5, they answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. 405 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,900 And Jesus said to them. I am he and Judas who betrayed 406 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:48,300 him. Also, stood with them. 407 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:51,500 Notice Jesus responds. He says, who are you seeking? 408 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:55,200 They said, Jesus of Nazareth, his name, and where he was from, 409 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:04,000 and Jesus says, I am he now, interestingly the word he there? 410 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,200 Is in italics. And what we find there is it was 411 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,900 not in the original. It was added by the translators, 412 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:17,300 let's just do that. Jesus says, I am. 413 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,500 You know, the Bible says, Jesus speaking of himself before 414 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:30,300 Abraham was I what I am. I am is a name for God Jesus. 415 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:33,200 God the son. What does he say? 416 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:38,700 I am in response to what they said, we're looking for Jesus of 417 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:45,600 Nazareth. he says, I am he or I M, that is significant to when 418 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,800 we look at the next Point. That's our second Point. 419 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,000 Not only did the Lord show Supreme courage but the Lord 420 00:27:51,000 --> 00:28:03,200 also showed Supreme power. He showed supreme power when 421 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,700 Jesus look at verse 6 now, when he said to them, I am. 422 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:10,300 He that what happened? They drew back and they fell to 423 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:15,400 the ground. Now I think Judas is there and 424 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,700 the Bible describes that Judas was there to looking on, I think 425 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:23,200 Judas was there to prove the Judas and show everybody else to 426 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,100 show all the disciples whom Jesus says, one's going to 427 00:28:26,108 --> 00:28:30,100 betray me that Judas was there and he has no power whatsoever. 428 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:35,600 When Jesus responded, I am what happened. 429 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,500 It says they drew back and they all fell to the ground. 430 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,100 That is an amazing passage of scripture. 431 00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:52,000 Now, I think that Jesus was showing that he's in control 432 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,000 here that he was laying down his life that nobody was taking his 433 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,200 life from him. And Jesus, simply says, I am and 434 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,400 hundreds of men fall down. Let me know to something with 435 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,800 you. Some commentators are all over 436 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,500 the map on this one. Commentator said this, that, 437 00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:15,500 when this Roman cohort showed up that somebody in the front row, 438 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,900 step back and stumbled. And when he did, He tipped 439 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:23,300 himself into somebody else and they like dominoes can you 440 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,600 imagine this 600. They like dominoes just fell 441 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,700 down. They just fell down. 442 00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:37,900 If you pardon today's common vernacular really, is that 443 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:42,400 really what you're going with? Can you imagine a Roman cohort 444 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,700 being so ignorant? They knew how to line up. 445 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:48,900 They knew how to March. And they wouldn't be pressed up 446 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,300 against each other. So closely that if one fell down 447 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:53,100 there, be absolutely. So uncoordinated. 448 00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:59,600 They're all going to fall too. Another commentator said this oh 449 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,900 they thought they were going to have to go and take those liners 450 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:05,000 and search out Jesus and find him and they were so shocked. 451 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,200 When they found that it was he they just fell down in amazement 452 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,900 astonishment. I like this better. 453 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:20,100 The Bible says when Jesus said these words, they drew back and 454 00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:23,400 fell. I like that better. 455 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,700 I like what the book says? They fell. 456 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:30,200 Let me ask you something. Now, who's got the power? 457 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,500 May I ask who's in control? Their float from Jesus, such a 458 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:39,000 power and such a commanding Authority, that he made him so 459 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,000 infinitely strong that they couldn't even stand in his 460 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000 presence and they had no idea what was going on. 461 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:50,500 Again, another sign that Jesus is no victim and you know, that 462 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:53,600 interestingly brings up a point about the words that Jesus 463 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,000 spoke. The Bible says that God created 464 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:03,300 the world by what by his word, you remember in the creation, 465 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:05,400 the Bible. God said, let there be light and 466 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,300 there was what, like God said, let there be this. 467 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:12,500 And that was what this God said, let there be that. 468 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:18,300 And there was what that. Now, when Jesus Christ comes in 469 00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:23,500 Judgment, at the End of Time, the Bible says, he has a sharp 470 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:28,200 sword and where is it? Coming out of his mouth. 471 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,900 You see the word of God is that powerful? 472 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,100 The word of God will judge men. It's the word of God that will 473 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:39,000 condemn, man. It's the word of God. 474 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,900 That's incisive. And the Bible says, he will 475 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:45,900 judge the World by the word of his mouth. 476 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:51,100 And just maybe this mob tasted a little bit of the Judgment power 477 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,500 of Jesus Christ, as they fell helpless at his feet. 478 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,900 Victim. No sir, not Jesus. 479 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:06,000 He is the Majestic Son of God. Displaying his supreme power. 480 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:11,800 Thirdly. Jesus also demonstrates. 481 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,000 Something is it's beautiful here. 482 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:21,100 He demonstrates his Supreme. Love. 483 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:25,800 He demonstrates his Supreme love. 484 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:31,300 Now it's one thing to say Jesus had love let's not think to 485 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:33,600 demonstrate it by your actions. Your actions are always greater 486 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,200 than words, they are. We want to see people's actions. 487 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:42,700 Look what Jesus Does by way of his actions that proved his 488 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:48,100 Supreme love. We see something as Jesus 489 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:53,100 anticipates the cross, he's never concerned about himself. 490 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:58,200 He ever stop to see that he is never concerned about himself. 491 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:04,800 He is always concerned about his disciples They constantly are on 492 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,600 his mind here, we see the selflessness of Jesus. 493 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,600 We see his Endless Love for his own. 494 00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:16,100 In fact, in marks account, and Mark 15, it talks about that 495 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:17,600 prayer. Three times. 496 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,200 He prayed, you know, what was broken up in there in the middle 497 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,500 of those three prayers? Going to see about his 498 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:29,600 disciples. Checking on his own, checking on 499 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,800 his disciples. May I ask you something, don't 500 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,600 you think the Lord had a lot on his mind right now. 501 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,600 I think the Lord was pretty busy just now, don't you? 502 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,400 I think he had a lot of things on his mind and what a picture 503 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:50,600 of beauty this is he still had time for his own If that doesn't 504 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,900 encourage us, that it doesn't make any difference. 505 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:56,500 All the hustle and bustle of this world and all the business 506 00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:59,800 all around us. The Lord still has time for his 507 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,200 own and if you are living a faithful life, there is a 508 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,600 condition. If you are living a faithful 509 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:10,800 life, he always has time for you. 510 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,000 This world is not run all by itself. 511 00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,600 He always has time. For his own. 512 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:22,900 How did he demonstrated? Look at verse 7. 513 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,400 Then he asked them again. Whom are you seeking? 514 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:36,000 And they said Jesus of Nazareth now, This is interesting because 515 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,900 all these men based on what Jesus said fell down. 516 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:45,600 It just picked himself up. And they still, they're not 517 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:50,300 affected by what he says. In fact, they still just kind of 518 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:51,900 let it go in one ear and out the other. 519 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,699 He said, I am, he said, oh well, we're after Jesus of Nazareth, a 520 00:34:56,707 --> 00:35:00,300 couple things about that. That's not something that's new 521 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:04,200 to us. How many people hear the word of 522 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,400 God? Clearly concisely and powerfully 523 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,300 preached and they know exactly what they must do to be saved. 524 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,900 They know exactly the changes they need to make in their life. 525 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,600 They hear the invitation call and then they go straight out 526 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,700 those doors and forget all about it. 527 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:25,000 Happens today. But why did Jesus ask the 528 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,700 question twice? Why did he do that? 529 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,900 Look at verse 8, then Jesus answered. 530 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:39,200 I have told you that I am. He therefore, if you seek me, 531 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,700 let these go their way. He's saying this, he is getting 532 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:48,800 them to the speak it out. He is getting them to say who 533 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,900 they're looking for twice. Brilliant. 534 00:35:54,100 --> 00:35:56,100 What talk about Jesus taking it all. 535 00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:59,800 He's taking it all. Brilliant. 536 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,500 He gets them to say, their orders were looking for Jesus of 537 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,700 Nazareth. Only, he gets him to confirm it 538 00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:10,600 twice and that Jesus says, okay, not once. 539 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:16,200 But twice the second time he said, fine, I'm he let them go. 540 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:23,500 Protecting his own. That's beautiful. 541 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,100 This is a king. This is not a victim. 542 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:29,900 This is a king commanding them in charge all the way. 543 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:32,800 Another reason to this is for good reason. 544 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,600 Jesus needed them to carry out the message. 545 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:38,700 They were going to be the ambassadors for Jesus Christ. 546 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,100 They were going to be the very first members of the church. 547 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,400 They were going to be the first leaders of the church. 548 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,900 The Holy Spirit, they'd be divinely inspired by, and they 549 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:50,900 would, they would speak the words of the Lord. 550 00:36:51,100 --> 00:36:55,000 They speak the word of God. They preach the word of God 551 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,800 before it was written. And you know something this is 552 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,000 really amazing. Because here's the enemy. 553 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,800 Here's the enemy. And here was his disciples. 554 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,300 And Jesus, stamped right in the middle, all of them. 555 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:18,800 What a beautiful concept. The Lord stands in the gap. 556 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,800 The Lord stands in the middle. And if you are living a faithful 557 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,600 life. And I don't know if you are not, 558 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,900 but if you are, I'm telling you right now, the Lord is in the 559 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:37,500 gap. He will not leave our side. 560 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:42,800 Jesus is not the kind of Shepherd who rescues the lamb 561 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:48,000 after its half eaten by the wolf, in John 10 and verse 12. 562 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,700 The Bible says, but a hireling. That's different than a 563 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:54,800 Shepherd, but a hireling, he who is not the shepherd one, who 564 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,800 does not own. The Sheep sees the wolf coming 565 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:01,600 and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the Wolf catches, the sheep 566 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,500 and scatters them. Next verse verse 13, the 567 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,900 hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care. 568 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Care about the Sheep. Verse 14, I am the Good Shepherd 569 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:20,000 and I know my sheep and am known by my own finally verse 15 as 570 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,300 the father knows me even. So I know the father and I lay 571 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:28,600 down my life for who For the Sheep. 572 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,000 That's the Shepherd that we follow right there. 573 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000 This is the protecting protecting power of the 574 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,700 shepherd, you know, there might be another reason to he 575 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,900 protected them. Maybe he knew they couldn't 576 00:38:44,900 --> 00:38:48,100 handle that kind of torture, you ever stopped to consider that. 577 00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,600 What kind of Faith do they have think about their faith? 578 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,600 What Jesus say about their faith? 579 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,000 Oh, ye of little faith. How many times? 580 00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,900 Maybe the Lord just absolutely knew. 581 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:01,600 They couldn't take that kind of test. 582 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,000 That coincides with other passages. 583 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:10,600 He protects them how many today fall because their faith is too 584 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,700 weak because the test is too strong. 585 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,500 You know, in 1st Corinthians, chapter 10, there's a very 586 00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:19,800 powerful passage there. That's very encouraging to 587 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,200 everyone of us. Notice chapter 10 and verse 13, 588 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:28,100 Paul said no temptation has overtaken you except such as is 589 00:39:28,100 --> 00:39:31,800 common to man, but God is faithful who will not allow you 590 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,400 to be tempted beyond that you are able, but with the 591 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,300 Temptation will also make a way of escape and you will be able 592 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:47,000 to bear it. if you're his Faithfully serving him. 593 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,300 The Lord will never let you slip through his grasp. 594 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,900 The lord always has time for his own but you can't do it on your 595 00:39:56,900 --> 00:39:58,500 own. You can't do it your own way. 596 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,700 You can't do it your own way. Sometimes we think we can 597 00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:05,500 venture out and do it on the way. 598 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,600 You know, who learn that lesson. Peter did look at the next 599 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:14,500 verse. Then Simon. 600 00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:20,700 Peter having a sword, drew it and struck the high priests 601 00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:25,600 servant and cut off his right. Ear the servants name was 602 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,600 malchus. Now, he wasn't so skill with the 603 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,500 sword that he is aimed for the ear, and, and knock the ear off. 604 00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:35,400 Peter were swinging for the cheap seats. 605 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:39,600 He was trying to cut his head off. and in missing that he 606 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,000 sliced off Mal kisses here, What did Jesus do you know that could 607 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,200 have, that could have brought on a massive riot, right? 608 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,100 Then they could kill Peter, right there. 609 00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:51,900 What's Jesus do? Jesus stands up for Peter. 610 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,100 Jesus stands in for Peter. Jesus comes to the rescue and he 611 00:40:56,100 --> 00:41:00,200 picks up the ear of malchus and he puts it back on and then he 612 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:05,000 turns to Peter and says, Peter put that thing away. 613 00:41:06,700 --> 00:41:10,200 Put it away. Other passages would say that. 614 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,200 Jesus says, if you are going to live by the sword, you will die 615 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,800 by the sword. What did the Lord do he rescued? 616 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:22,400 Peter? And the Lord rescues us, too. 617 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:29,200 When problems come in our life. Now listen closely I'm almost 618 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,200 finished, he may not stop something bad from happening. 619 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,400 But I guarantee you, he is there to rescue us if you are there 620 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,300 for him. He's there to rescue us. 621 00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:47,100 And I'm going to tell you something, to you think about 622 00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:53,200 the darkest times in your life. The Lord may not stop the action 623 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,200 from happening. But I can guarantee you he was 624 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:01,400 there to rescue again. And it is like that poem that we 625 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,700 all know the words to everybody knows his poem. when Jesus would 626 00:42:06,700 --> 00:42:09,600 say, as Jesus would be speaking, when you only saw one set of 627 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:15,100 footprints, it was then that I carried you. 628 00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:23,800 Carry you through cancer. He'll carry you through loss of 629 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,200 loved ones. He'll carry you through and even 630 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,400 if, at the end, result is a bad thing. 631 00:42:31,500 --> 00:42:36,200 Even if you lose your life, he's carrying you and he's taken care 632 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:40,300 of you and rescuing you, that you may be able to bear it. 633 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,300 He's always got time for you. Let me ask you something. 634 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:53,900 How much time you got for him? Where is he in your life? 635 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,900 Because in all the hustle and bustle of this world, he's 636 00:42:59,900 --> 00:43:02,200 there. For you. 637 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:08,400 And your busy life, are you there for him in conclusion? 638 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,600 This, our final point, I'm almost finished, we not only see 639 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:22,200 his Supreme courage power love. We see his Supreme Obedience, we 640 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,600 see his Supreme obedience. Look at verse 11. 641 00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:31,200 So Jesus says to Peter, put your sword into the sheath. 642 00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:33,600 Shall I? Not drink the cup, which, my 643 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,100 father has given me. He's saying, Peter, what are you 644 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:39,300 doing? Get out of the way. 645 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,300 It's my time, it's my destiny. It's what I was born to do. 646 00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:46,000 It's what my job is. Are you really going to stand in 647 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,100 the way Peter? Put that up and get out of the 648 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:51,000 way. I've got a cup to drink and 649 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,000 Friends. He drank it to the very bottom 650 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,300 Jesus paid a price, he didn't know. 651 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:02,500 Because we had a debt, we couldn't pay. 652 00:44:04,500 --> 00:44:08,400 And so in chapter this, check this chapter 18 and verse has a 653 00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:10,800 verse 1 through 11. We see in the Garden of 654 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:16,000 Gethsemane, the Lord Supreme courage supreme power Supreme 655 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,100 love. And finally his Supreme 656 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:20,700 obedience, I'm through this morning. 657 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,200 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 658 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:31,000 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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