1 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:05,800 We're going to continue now. Our series, The Apostles Creed 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,700 You can turn in your Bible to John chapter 18. 3 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,900 So we've been using the Apostles Creed to study, the Bible, the 4 00:00:36,900 --> 00:00:40,900 Apostles Creed is not the Bible. It's not equal to the Bible, but 5 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:43,900 the Apostles Creed is useful. The Apostles, Creed is something 6 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:47,400 that the church has been using for roughly two roughly 1500 7 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,000 years to say, hey, let's clarify Doctrine. 8 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:53,000 Let's make sure that we can focus on the things that matter. 9 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,200 Most, the things that are most essential, you can't reduce, you 10 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,000 can't take anything out of the Apostles Creed and still have 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,800 solid Christian doctrine. Everything that's there, is 12 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,300 there for a purpose. Is there is there for a reason? 13 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:05,800 You can't go well that one doesn't really matter. 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,700 No, we boiled it down till we got to the essence of it. 15 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:10,900 Could you add things on? Could you add other doctrines? 16 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:12,400 And we're Christians could disagree. 17 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,500 Most certainly, there's lots of Freedom there but we've got the 18 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:18,400 Apostles Creed as a way to say, hey this is the central thing 19 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:22,900 and this is good because we can unify around that Christians are 20 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:24,600 known for according to the word of God. 21 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,000 For our Unity. You might be surprised to hear 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,900 that. Sometimes it would seem like 23 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:31,900 that's not the case, but Unity is the thing that we got going 24 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:35,500 for us because we're Unified I'd around the name of Jesus where 25 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:39,100 unified, and we glorify the name of Jesus above everything else 26 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,700 Beyond everything else. He is what we come together on. 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,300 So these core doctrines helped us to see what's true, what's 28 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:47,000 good? What's vital, what's most 29 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,600 important? So if you have a copy of the 30 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,200 Creed with you, we passed some out. 31 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,100 If everybody got one great, if you didn't get one, that's okay. 32 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:57,100 But we're going to read through the Creed together, ready? 33 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,200 I believe in God, the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and 34 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:07,500 Earth, Believe in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord, who was 35 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:11,800 conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. 36 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:16,600 He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified died and was 37 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,100 buried. He descended to Hell. 38 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,100 The third day. He rose from the dead. 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,200 He ascended to heaven. And is seated. 40 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,100 At the right hand of God, the Father Almighty from there. 41 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:33,100 He will come to judge the living and the dead, I believe in. 42 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,300 The Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion 43 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:41,500 of saints, the Forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the 44 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:44,900 body and the life Everlasting. Amen. 45 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,400 So the Apostles Creed starts with I believe and then two more 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:52,400 times in the Creed I believe we've highlighted different 47 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,600 things today specifically we're focusing on the section about I 48 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,000 believe in Jesus Christ. His only son our Lord but 49 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,500 specifically we're looking at he suffered under Pontius Pilate 50 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,500 was crucified. If I'd died and was buried and 51 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:07,900 that's where we're going to the word today. 52 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:11,000 So John chapter 18, if you're there we're going to look in 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,200 verse 33. We're going to read a large 54 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,100 portion. We're going to go into vert into 55 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:18,600 chapter 19, as well. So stay with me. 56 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:22,700 Steal your mind. John 1833. 57 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,300 So pilate entered his headquarters again, quick 58 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:30,600 context Jesus has been arrested. He was arrested last night. 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,100 Now, it's early morning. They're doing all of this 60 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:34,700 quickly before the city wakes up. 61 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:36,400 They don't want the people to rise up. 62 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,700 They want to move things along. So the Jewish leadership is 63 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:42,400 going to Pilot pilot says y'all got some enter Jewish thing 64 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,700 going on, I don't like this. You go take him to Herod Herod. 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,200 Beach Jesus mocks, Jesus sends him back to pilate, sends him 66 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,600 back to here. It sends him back to pilate, and 67 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,600 now he's back to pilate again. All is nonsense has happened in 68 00:03:55,608 --> 00:03:59,600 the night unjust. Unfair obviously, there's no 69 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,600 legitimate accusations against the only innocent human being to 70 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,700 ever live the God man. Jesus Christ. 71 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,200 And so now he's with pilot again. 72 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,500 So pilate entered his headquarters again and called 73 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:14,700 Jesus and said to him. Are you the king of the Jews? 74 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,000 Jesus answered. Do you say Of your own accord or 75 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,800 did others say it to you about me? 76 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,700 Pilate answered am IA Jew, your own nation and the chief priests 77 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:28,200 have delivered you over to me. What have you done? 78 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,100 Jesus answered. My kingdom is not of this world. 79 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:35,200 If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have 80 00:04:35,208 --> 00:04:37,800 been fighting that. I might not be delivered over to 81 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,100 the Jews, but my kingdom is not from the world then pilate said 82 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:45,200 to him. So you are a King, Jesus 83 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,800 answered. You say that, I'm a king for 84 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,200 this purpose. I was born and for this purpose 85 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,900 I have come into the world to Bear witness to the truth 86 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:58,800 everyone who listens to the truth, listens to my voice and 87 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,900 pilate said to him what is truth? 88 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,800 Unfortunately pilot admits that sermon Jesus had said that 89 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,300 before I am the truth is what Jesus said. 90 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:10,600 There's times where it's right here. 91 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,000 He talks about revealing the truth. 92 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,700 He says I came to bear witness to the truth but earlier he's 93 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,800 Vide. I am the truth. 94 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:21,200 This is the distinct claim of Jesus. 95 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:24,500 Is what we said before, you've got to reconcile with Jesus, you 96 00:05:24,500 --> 00:05:26,300 can't just go. Jesus was a good man. 97 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,600 No, he wasn't. He wasn't just a good man. 98 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:34,500 He said, I am the truth. Unlike every other false 99 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:37,200 religion that leader of those religions said, hey, I found the 100 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:42,200 truth everybody, I found it. Come look, Come See, Come listen 101 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,400 Jesus doesn't say hey I found it. 102 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,300 Everybody come check it out. Jesus says I am It when someone 103 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:50,600 makes that claim you have to do something with that man, you 104 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,500 have to say he's a liar. He hasn't he's not the truth. 105 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,100 You have to say he's crazy bless his heart. 106 00:05:56,100 --> 00:06:00,900 He thinks he's the truth or you have to say he's Lord and He is 107 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:03,500 the truth. Pick. 108 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:05,900 Well, I refuse to pick. Well, then you still picked. 109 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:08,800 You've rejected him in some way, shape or form. 110 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,400 But you've got to reconcile. If I said I'm a poached egg, you 111 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,000 got to do something with that. John Michaels a liar, he knows 112 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,700 he's not a poached egg or John Michaels crazy bless his heart. 113 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,300 He thinks he's a poached egg or you might say, Behold a poached 114 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:27,100 egg, but, but you've got a cast your vote. 115 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:29,200 When I, when I make that claim, there's something you got to do 116 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,200 with that. You can't just go out, you know, 117 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,100 John Michaels a decent guy. John Michaels a moron. 118 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:35,500 Okay. That's you. 119 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:37,900 It's okay to say that. It's okay to tell the truth. 120 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:42,000 It's right to tell the truth pilot says, what is truth. 121 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,200 The truth is staring him in the face. 122 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,700 Just like the truth had been staring the Jewish leaders in 123 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:51,600 the face after he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews 124 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,900 and told them, I find no guilt in him, but you have a custom 125 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,800 that I should release one man for you at Passover. 126 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:02,600 So the Roman rulers oppressing, the Jews. 127 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,200 Use every year, the Romans just as a as a kindness as a way to 128 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,900 pacify, the people that they were ruthlessly dominating, they 129 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:13,200 would say, we'll give you back one of your criminals every 130 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:14,700 year, someone that we've arrested. 131 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,900 So Pilots saying I'll use this to get Jesus free because 132 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:20,500 Pilot's Wife, by the way, it had a dream in the middle of the 133 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:23,500 night where the Lord warned her to warn pilot to say, have 134 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:25,100 nothing to do with this man's death. 135 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:28,000 So she's begging her husband. Don't do anything with this 136 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,200 Jesus guy, so he knows stuff is up. 137 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,000 He knows something Supernatural. Is gone. 138 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,100 Jesus. Is the only man who's ever stood 139 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:37,200 in front of pilate and not been intimidated by Pilot and Jesus 140 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,900 going Pilots going. Hey, man. 141 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,600 Don't you know who I am? Jesus Kwon. 142 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,100 Do you know who I am? That's my breath. 143 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:45,400 That you're breathing. By the way. 144 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,400 I find no guilt in him, but you have a custom that I should 145 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,400 release one man for you at the Passover. 146 00:07:51,500 --> 00:07:54,500 So do you want me to release the king of the Jews? 147 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:56,800 They cried out again. Not this man. 148 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,500 But Barabbas now Barabbas was a robber. 149 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:03,200 Another gospel tells us. He was a robber and Murderer. 150 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,000 So, you turn to your neighbor right now and say I'm Barabbas. 151 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,800 It's me. This is us like oh this filthy 152 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:13,700 awful dot. Yeah. 153 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:15,500 Welcome to looking in the mirror. 154 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:18,500 This is what we're about to see this Beautiful Exchange yet 155 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:21,100 again. The innocent man goes down so 156 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:25,600 that Barabbas goes free. That's not just no it's not but 157 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,000 thankfully Jesus chose it, he called for it 19:1, then pilate 158 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,700 took Jesus and flogged. Him one, simple word, it's hard 159 00:08:35,700 --> 00:08:38,100 to encapsulate all the suffering that took place in it. 160 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,000 The Your tells us though that the beating and flogging in the 161 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,300 things they did to Jesus, he was so savagely beaten that. 162 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:47,500 By the time he gets to the Cross, you can't tell that it's 163 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:49,200 a human being hanging on the cross. 164 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,400 A flogging involved. The Ripping of human skin off of 165 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,200 a human's back. So you're being flayed alive, 166 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,100 and the Romans are really good at their job. 167 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:03,900 They had mastered the art and they had mastered the art of 168 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:05,600 crucifixion. They had mastered the art of 169 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,700 Torment. It was the best that humans 170 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:09,800 could come up with. With so that people could suffer 171 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,600 in the most agonizing ways possible. 172 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,500 This is what the crucifixion was going to be about in a couple of 173 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:18,300 hours for him as well. The reason they would nail your 174 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,800 hands and your feet is because eventually as you sag and sag 175 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,600 and sag on the cross, the only way to get a fresh breath 176 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:27,700 because the way breathing happens of course is the vacuum 177 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:30,400 of your lungs. The vacuum that your that your 178 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,600 ribs create is a expand, you have to press off of your feet 179 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,700 so you have to stand up to capture the next breath. 180 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,100 Only to Sag again for a moment of rest to try and bring relief 181 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:43,500 in, even out the pains between your hands and Your feet trying 182 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:46,000 to Just Bounce. It's time to breathe again and 183 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,600 you have to stand up again with the rod of iron that's shoved 184 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,700 through your feet. Why are you talking about this? 185 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,300 Because he suffered under Pontius Pilate, he was 186 00:09:56,300 --> 00:09:59,700 crucified, he died and he was buried. 187 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:05,500 They flogged him in the soldiers Twisted together, a crown of 188 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:09,400 thorns, and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple 189 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,200 robe. And they came up to him saying 190 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,900 hail King of the Jews and they struck him with their hands, the 191 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:20,100 mocking the insults, if they probably got him to themselves 192 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:21,200 for a bit. I mean, there's all this 193 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:22,700 transition stuff that's happening. 194 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:25,600 You got a bunch of brutes. These guys have killed, a lot of 195 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,300 people. They've done a lot of wicked, 196 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:29,900 wicked things, Two Men, and two women. 197 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,800 And this is, this is just who they are, this is what a Roman 198 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,600 soldier would do another go, what some some Jewish guy. 199 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:37,300 What are we beating him for? I don't know. 200 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,900 But let's beat him because we're Wicked, they put a crown of 201 00:10:40,908 --> 00:10:42,900 thorns on his head. Remember where did Thorns come 202 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,200 from? Thorns are part of the curse. 203 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,400 So this isn't just another torture device but it's all 204 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:51,100 representing. What Jesus is taking away, he's 205 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:55,100 removing the curse, he's breaking the curse, it will 206 00:10:55,100 --> 00:10:58,100 fully be done eventually. But still, he's taking the crown 207 00:10:58,100 --> 00:11:01,200 of thorns, the Thorns that come because of Adam, Us in Jesus 208 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,500 says, you've been avoiding Thorns. 209 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:05,400 He says, I'm going to bring them onto my own head. 210 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:08,200 The Curse Of God is coming on to Jesus. 211 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,100 Head, is what we're to see here, God's penalty, for all of 212 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,900 humanity sin, for Barabbas Asim for John Michaels, Sim 213 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,900 Somebody's gotta pay. But God says, I don't want to 214 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:20,300 crush John Michael and give him what he deserves. 215 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,200 I love him. So I'll go, I'll be the one. 216 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,000 This is the significance of Jesus coming. 217 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,600 Jesus, the God man coming to take the penalty for our sins, 218 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,300 pilate went out again and said to them. 219 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:37,000 See I'm bringing him out to you so that you may know, I find no 220 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,500 guilt in him. So at this point, Jesus has the 221 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,100 robe on him. The crown of thorns staggering 222 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,900 from the massive blood loss, from The Savage beating. 223 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:49,300 He's taken He came out wearing the crown of thorns and the 224 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:51,900 purple robe. Pilate said to him, behold the 225 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,600 man Pilots, like, please let me get away with not killing this 226 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,200 guy. I was told, I know I'm not 227 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,100 supposed to kill him. It's not that Pilots, a gentle 228 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:03,500 person by any means. Don't get the wrong idea, is not 229 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:06,400 a man of great compassion, but it's a man who's looking out for 230 00:12:06,408 --> 00:12:08,200 his own. Neck is a man who's paying 231 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:10,400 attention to his own? Well, being a typical 232 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,100 politician. What's best for me is, what's 233 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:16,900 best was his viewpoint, but the chief priests and the officers 234 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:18,500 saw him. And they cried out. 235 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:23,500 Crucify him, crucify him pilate said to them take him yourselves 236 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:26,700 and crucify him for, I find no guilt in him, the Jews answered 237 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:27,800 him. They said we know better, we're 238 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,600 not allowed to kill anybody. Only the Romans are we have a 239 00:12:31,608 --> 00:12:34,500 law and according to that law, he ought to die because he has 240 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:38,300 made himself the Son of God. When pilate heard this 241 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:40,300 statement, he was even more afraid. 242 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,000 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus. 243 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:47,800 Where are you from? But Jesus gave him, no answer. 244 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,600 So pilate said to him, you won't speak to me, do you not know 245 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,500 that I have the authority to release you and the authority to 246 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:56,000 crucify? You and now? 247 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,600 Jesus speaks. Because he has to bring 248 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,400 correction to a misunderstanding here. 249 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:03,500 You would have no authority over me, unless it had been given to 250 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:09,300 you from above Pilot has never been spoken to this with before 251 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:12,600 Pilate, usually has people begging for their lives. 252 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Crucifixion was a horrific way to die and everybody in Roman 253 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 World knew it the Romans crucified thousands and 254 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,100 thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of 255 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:25,800 people during their reign. They would make you carry your 256 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,500 own cross to the place of your crucifixion with horror with 257 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:32,500 trembling with fear. And meanwhile they're beating 258 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:35,500 you because you don't want to go but you but this pain behind you 259 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,400 and eventually they'll Lead you all the way to the Cross where 260 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,200 eventually they force you down, they pin you down, they pin you 261 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,900 to the Cross, you've been stripped naked long ago. 262 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,900 And now you're hanging on the roadside. 263 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:49,700 They would put the crew, the crucifix is along the roadside 264 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:51,700 so that every traveler just going about your day. 265 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:54,100 With your wife, with your children, with your family. 266 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:57,100 You're seeing people suffering and dying calling out. 267 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,600 Please come, please give me water. 268 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:01,500 Please help me as they've been defecating and urinating on 269 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:05,000 themselves. Shamed, humiliated broken, its 270 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,400 Savage Savage. The Romans did that to 271 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,800 intimidate to show you, rise up against Rome, this is what you 272 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:19,800 can expect. Jesus wanted pilot to 273 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,200 understand, you have no Authority, except the authority. 274 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,500 That's been given to you. We talked about this often 275 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,400 because it's important, God's Authority is the only Authority. 276 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:33,000 Every other authority has been delegated from God in the hole, 277 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,600 three spheres, the sphere of the household, that's God's 278 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:36,900 Authority delegated to a husband. 279 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:40,400 And father, it's not just his own, I have authority and I have 280 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,400 power says who. Well, it comes from the Lord for 281 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:47,700 a purpose to bless, to love to serve to protect like the lord, 282 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:49,800 loves his people. People the same thing in the 283 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,000 church, I'm the pastor. I have the power and authority. 284 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,500 Well, yeah, to what end to what purpose to represent the love of 285 00:14:56,500 --> 00:15:00,500 the father to care for the flock of Jesus that Authority comes 286 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:04,500 from somewhere, the government, the almighty government right 287 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:06,200 now, they surely there's Supreme right? 288 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,600 Not at all. Christ is Lord. 289 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,300 The government is to bend the knee to the Lord Jesus. 290 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,800 I thought there was supposed to be a separation between church 291 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,100 and state. I wonder who made that up. 292 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:20,400 I bet it was the state. So, Truth is Jesus is Lord over 293 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,600 everybody and everything. Everything should go his way 294 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,400 according to his will Jesus is revealing to Pilot pilot. 295 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:29,800 I'm not the called in your wheel, buddy. 296 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:34,500 You're the called in mind. I'm not a I'm not I'm not 297 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:37,200 rolling along with your game today, you're playing your 298 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,100 point, you're taking your role in mind. 299 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:46,400 I have ordained this moment. I preordained I predestined that 300 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,000 I would be here. I put Put myself here you have 301 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,800 no authority over me. Unless it has been given to you 302 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,400 from above. Therefore, he who delivered me 303 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,900 over to you has the greater sin. He's giving him a little bit of 304 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:02,300 comfort. Oh, you have SIM for sure, but 305 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:04,700 there was a greater, some may have heard it. 306 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:07,800 Said before, my Bible says, Sin is Sin, that's not true. 307 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,800 But the Bible is very clear that there's a spectrum to sin, 308 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,100 right? We know this like Common Sense. 309 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:15,500 Natural law would tell you that we understand that the 310 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:18,200 punishment should fit the crime all sin. 311 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,900 Makes us guilty, of course, before the Lord, but all sin is 312 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:23,500 not created equally and we know that we know that when we're 313 00:16:23,500 --> 00:16:25,800 sending against, I can't believe you said that. 314 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,100 That's what that hurt a little bit. 315 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:30,500 That's different from cutting off my arm, right? 316 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:32,700 Or you know, where chaining me in the basement, like a serial 317 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:35,500 killer, like this is different. There's a, there's a, there's a 318 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:37,300 spectrum here. One of these things is not like 319 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:42,400 the other So he who delivered you over to me, he is he has the 320 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,300 greater Sin from then on pilot sought to release him but the 321 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,000 Jews cried out. If you release this man, you are 322 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,400 not Caesars friend. The Jewish leaders knew what 323 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,900 they were doing. There are saying Island. 324 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:58,700 We're going to tell Will tattle to Caesar if you don't do right. 325 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:01,800 We know you don't want no uprisings of Jews around here. 326 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:04,599 So this is an issue that's important to us. 327 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:06,900 You're going to give us this. You're going to kill this man 328 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:08,599 today. You're going to crucify him will 329 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:12,099 manipulate you A pressure, you will insinuate you're no friend 330 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:15,300 to Caesar. So when pilate heard these 331 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:18,200 words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the Judgment seat in 332 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,599 the place called The Stone pavement and Aramaic. 333 00:17:20,599 --> 00:17:22,599 It was gabbatha. Now, it was the day of 334 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:26,000 preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour, he 335 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,900 said to the Jews, behold your king away with him away with 336 00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:34,700 him, crucify. Him pilate said, to them, shall 337 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:38,100 I crucify your king and the chief priests answered. 338 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:44,000 We have no King but Caesar hoof. What a what a name. 339 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:45,900 B meant they just put on themselves. 340 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,800 Those are words that they would have to answer for to the king 341 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,200 himself. We have no King but Caesar, 342 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:56,300 Church we say, just the opposite. 343 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:59,600 This is part of the Kree. This is part of the strength of 344 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,000 having something like the Apostles Creed why? 345 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:06,200 Because to say, that Jesus is Lord, is to say that no one else 346 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,800 is. This is why Christians were 347 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,000 regularly crucified because they wouldn't offer their bit of 348 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,700 incense to the gods because they wouldn't bend the knee. 349 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,800 They would say, hey, we'll honor Caesar will obey the laws. 350 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,900 We're going to be the best citizens this nation has ever 351 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:22,500 had. Which is what Christians will 352 00:18:22,500 --> 00:18:23,800 do. Christians will be the best 353 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,800 citizens any country's ever had. Except where it would conflict 354 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,700 with the one who's actually Lord over you, who think your lures 355 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,700 and that'll get you thrown to the Lions or that'll get or 356 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:38,100 nowadays in our modern culture. Won't get you thrown to the 357 00:18:38,108 --> 00:18:40,500 Lions and we get your Instagram canceled, it'll get your 358 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:42,600 employer called. It'll get you fired. 359 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,100 Not the same though, right? Being thrown two lines, would be 360 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:49,400 worse, we could agree. You know, there's a spectrum 361 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,400 here. But still to say that Jesus is 362 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,900 Lord, is to say that nobody else is. 363 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,700 We have no King, but Caesar, they claim, so he did. 364 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:03,300 So he delivered him over to be crucified and they took Jesus 365 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,200 and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the 366 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,700 skull in which in Aramaic is called Golgotha and there, they 367 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:12,900 crucified him with two others, one on either side and Jesus 368 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:14,200 between them. So they had a couple other 369 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,600 people who are actually guilty and needed to die that day and 370 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,300 pilate wrote an inscription, and put it on the cross and it read 371 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:22,600 Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. 372 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,500 So it was this war between pilate and the Jews. 373 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,000 I was like Pilots trying to get himself out of it as much as 374 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,300 possible. He did the he washed his hands, 375 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:34,300 like, somehow God's gonna go. Oh, you use water to wash your 376 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:38,200 hands, you're no longer guilty of the death of my son, but he 377 00:19:38,208 --> 00:19:40,200 was doing everything he could to say, hey, I didn't want to do 378 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,500 this. So many of the Jews read the 379 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,000 inscription, where piloted put Jesus of Nazareth, King of the 380 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,100 Jews and they saw, he was crucified near the city was 381 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:52,200 written in Aramaic and Latin and in Greek. 382 00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:55,200 So the chief Priests of the Jews said to pilate, do not write the 383 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,200 king of the Jews but rather right. 384 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,800 This man said that, I am the king of the Jews, pilate 385 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,200 answered what I have written. I have written when the soldiers 386 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,000 had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them 387 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,400 into four parts. With each different soldiers 388 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,500 also his tunic but the tunic was seamless woven in one. 389 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:15,300 He's from top to bottom so they said to one another, let us not 390 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:21,100 tear it but let us cast lots. For it to see whose it shall be. 391 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,000 This was to fill to fulfill the scripture which says they 392 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,600 divided my garments among them. And for my clothing, they cast 393 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:33,100 lots the suffering of Jesus, he suffered under Pontius Pilate, 394 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,100 he was crucified, he died, and he was buried. 395 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,100 What do we see here? We see that Jesus suffered in 396 00:20:38,100 --> 00:20:43,100 every way, physically, mentally, spiritually, and in doing so, 397 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,400 Jesus fulfilled. All of the over 300 prophecies 398 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:52,900 that have been made about him. Just through just through the 399 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,000 mathematical computations that they've made. 400 00:20:56,100 --> 00:20:58,900 It's an astronomical impossibility to be able to 401 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,600 accomplish all the things that Christ accomplished and yet, of 402 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:04,200 course he did it because he is the Messiah that has been 403 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,700 prophesied about for the ages to ages passed before he came. 404 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,000 The Messiah is going to do this. He's going to do this. 405 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 He's going to do this. Jesus did it all. 406 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,500 Why do we say suffered under Pontius Pilate? 407 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,700 It's kind of weird that Pilots name gets to make it into the 408 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:18,500 cree. Right? 409 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,800 Is he that big of a deal? Well, this is just a point where 410 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,300 the church is making making on the fact that this happened in 411 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:27,000 time. And in space, this isn't a myth, 412 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:31,600 this isn't a story, no Pontius Pilate that that Roman ruler. 413 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,300 He was the one. This is the one he was. 414 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:37,700 This is the who the priest was here is who the Roman ruler was 415 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:39,600 Pontius. Pilate was the one who crucified 416 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,800 Christ they wanted to make it plain, especially at the time 417 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,500 when the Creed was written, the idea was like, Hey everybody, 418 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:48,600 this isn't just some mythical story, you know, sometimes 419 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,200 preachers will tell or he's we get into it. 420 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,900 Really. So there was this lady and her 421 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:53,500 mom and you're like, oh, you don't know if it's a true story 422 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:56,000 or not, you know, you just got like okay, it'll be an analogy, 423 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,600 it'll be a metaphor, it'll be helpful. 424 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:00,100 That's not what that's not what the Creed is seeking to do at 425 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:03,100 all the curry is going. Hey, this literally happened, 426 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,000 just so everybody knows, this is what the calendar is built on. 427 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,900 Like Christ's death is where the calendar a Justice is. 428 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:14,100 Okay, From This Moment forward, we will now measure Time by God 429 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:16,800 by the Lord himself coming and joining us. 430 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,200 So he suffered under Pontius Pilate. 431 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,700 He was crucified, he died and he was buried. 432 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:24,700 We're going to look at some of the prophecy that was made of 433 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:26,100 him. I'm going to have you go to 434 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:32,200 Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53, verses 3 through 12 435 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,500 is what I'm going to read to you, for he grew up. 436 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:38,200 This is prophecy about Christ. He grew up like a young plant, 437 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,800 like a root out of dry ground. He had no form of or Majesty 438 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,600 that we should look at him. No beauty that, we should desire 439 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,700 him. What's that mean? 440 00:22:46,100 --> 00:22:48,300 It means that there was nothing unique about Jesus. 441 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,300 You would look at that guy. Walking on the road. 442 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:51,200 Go! Whoa! 443 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:53,800 Look at that guy. There was nothing to him apart 444 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,100 from. Like there's another guy. 445 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:59,100 He get lost in a crowd before his Tree before his popularity. 446 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:01,900 Grew is just yeah, that's Jesus. He lives there, someone still 447 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:03,100 lives there. Some solos there. 448 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,500 He's just a guy, there's nothing about him. 449 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:06,300 You go. Wow. 450 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,700 Like look at those muscles, there's nothing about her. 451 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:10,200 Like wow. He's the most handsome man I've 452 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,700 ever seen is nothing about him. Like he's so rich. 453 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,900 There's nothing about in those. He's so powerful. 454 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,600 He was a guy. What did he look like? 455 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,000 Well, it's not important but there was certainly nothing 456 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,300 spectacular about him. So he wouldn't have been picked 457 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:25,800 among another group of his peers. 458 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,700 Go, like he's the best for anyway. 459 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:32,700 To just Behold Him in the natural sense, he was despised 460 00:23:32,700 --> 00:23:36,700 and rejected by Men. A Man of Sorrows and acquainted 461 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:40,000 with grief. And as one from whom men hide 462 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:46,900 their faces, he was despised and we esteemed him not surely. 463 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:52,800 He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet. 464 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,300 We esteemed him stricken Smitten by God and Afflicted, but he was 465 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:01,400 pierced, Rest for our transgressions, he was crushed 466 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:08,300 for our iniquities. upon him was the chastisement that brought us 467 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:13,800 peace and with his wounds We are healed. 468 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,300 We all like sheep have gone astray. 469 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:22,700 We have turned every one to his own way and the lord has laid on 470 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:25,100 him. The iniquity of us. 471 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:28,400 All you see the back and forth. You see the substitution, he 472 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,400 took the hit, we got the blessing, he suffered, we get to 473 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,700 be glorified with him now. He was oppressed. 474 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,200 And he was afflicted yet. He opened. 475 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,300 Not his mouth like a lamb that is led to the slaughter and like 476 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,900 a sheep that is before, it's Shearer's is silent. 477 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 So he opened not a man. Opened not his mouth by 478 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,400 oppression and judgment. He was taken away. 479 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,400 What are we reading about his suffering? 480 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:00,700 And as for his generation who considered that he was cut off 481 00:25:00,700 --> 00:25:03,900 from the land of the living stricken for the transgression 482 00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:07,800 of my people, and they made his grave with the wicked. 483 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,100 That means he died on the cross with actually wicked men and 484 00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:14,400 with a rich man in his death, why what about a rich, man? 485 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,400 They buried him in a rich man's tomb. 486 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,800 Another prophecy, fulfilled fulfilled fulfilled. 487 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,900 And although he had done no violence, there was no deceit in 488 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:28,200 his mouth yet. It was the will of the Lord to 489 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:33,600 crush him. He has put him to grief. 490 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,200 It was the will of the Lord to crush him. 491 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,500 It was the will of the father to crush Jesus. 492 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,500 The enemies of Christ, they enemies of the church, say 493 00:25:47,500 --> 00:25:50,400 foolish and ignorant things like that's child abuse. 494 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:54,000 God, the Father crucifying, his son on the cross. 495 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,700 It's a strong man. A straw man argument is where 496 00:25:56,700 --> 00:26:01,000 you build a really weak man, you build them out of straw and you 497 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,500 go look at this stupid thing and then you go kick it over easily 498 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,800 and go, haha, see how easily that fell apart, but that's that 499 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,900 wasn't our argument. That was never our argument. 500 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:13,900 This is not child abuse. Christ, chose and Christ. 501 00:26:13,900 --> 00:26:16,800 Willfully. Wanted to rescue his bride. 502 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,400 He did it all for the joy that was set before him for the love 503 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,100 that he has for you. He gave his life so it was the 504 00:26:25,100 --> 00:26:27,400 will of the father. It was the will of the sun and 505 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,200 it was the will of the Holy Spirit, which is why the father 506 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,700 is pleased, which is why the Holy Spirit was please. 507 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:37,200 The fullness of God was pleased to dwell in him bodily and which 508 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,600 is why the father is now given him the name above every name. 509 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:44,900 Because he was so pleased with what Christ has done in Christ. 510 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:47,400 Did it for the joy that was set before him. 511 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:50,200 It was the will of the Lord to crush him. 512 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:54,700 He has put him to grief when his soul makes an offering for Guilt 513 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,900 Jesus. Suffered in his soul, he 514 00:26:56,900 --> 00:27:00,200 suffered in his Spirit. When his soul makes an offering 515 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,800 for Guilt. He shall see his offspring. 516 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,800 Offspring did Jesus have children? 517 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:09,400 Yes, he did. We are them, we are the children 518 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,400 of God Christ's sacrifice, makes us now. 519 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,200 Children, the Son of God gets treated like an enemy of God, so 520 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,500 that the enemies of God can become the sons of God. 521 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:23,300 This is again, the substitution that he makes did Jesus have 522 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:26,400 actual children. Know, The DaVinci Code may be a 523 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,200 clever book or a fun movie. I don't know. 524 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,800 I haven't read it or seen it but no, it's absolute nonsense to 525 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,400 say that Jesus had children on the earth. 526 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,400 He didn't. But yet, does he have many 527 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,500 offspring? He does. 528 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,900 He rescued the world and reconciled us through himself. 529 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:45,400 He shall see his offspring. He shall prolong his days. 530 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:47,400 What's that making reference to his resurrection? 531 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:49,400 He's not just going to die and be forgotten to go. 532 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,700 Well, at least we get to live. We know what happens three days 533 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:55,700 later while spoiler alert, he comes back to life. 534 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:01,000 The will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand out of the 535 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,800 anguish of his soul. He shall see and be satisfied by 536 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,200 his knowledge shall the righteous one. 537 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,600 My servant make many accounted righteous and he shall bear 538 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,700 their iniquities. Therefore, so because he does 539 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:18,700 all that the father is speaking therefore, I will divide him a 540 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:21,500 portion with the mini and he shall divide the spoil with the 541 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:25,300 strong because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered 542 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:27,400 with the transgressors transgressors. 543 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:31,100 Yet, he bore the sin of many and makes intercession for the 544 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:34,700 transgressors, Hallelujah. He made intercession for us. 545 00:28:34,900 --> 00:28:37,100 He went between the great high priest. 546 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:40,200 Like, we talked about last week, the one who goes into the temple 547 00:28:40,300 --> 00:28:43,200 and takes the sacrifice. Jesus said, I'm going in to the 548 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,700 holy place and I am the sacrifice. 549 00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:50,500 I'm going all the way Galatians. 2:20 says it this way, I have 550 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:54,000 been crucified with Christ. This is a Christian, this is 551 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,200 what the Christian says, on the back end now of the cross, I 552 00:28:57,500 --> 00:29:01,100 I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live but 553 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:04,400 Christ who lives in me and the life. 554 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,200 I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who 555 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,400 loved me and gave himself for me. 556 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,100 What does this mean for us? My old life was crucified, Not 557 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:16,200 only was Christ crucified on the cross. 558 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,900 This is special. This is big. 559 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,100 Your old life was crucified on the cross your old life, what 560 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:24,200 happened to it? You just kind of go away, just 561 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,800 gotta ignore it. No, not at all. 562 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,100 He says legally. Speaking, he crucified it. 563 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,200 So as far as God's concerned you were on the cross, that's the 564 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,000 point. It's not an injustice, it's 565 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,500 mercy and his grace, but he says, I did crucify you on the 566 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:43,000 cross through Christ. Through your faith in Christ, 567 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,200 you were also crucified with him. 568 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,300 That's good news. My old life is really dead. 569 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:51,500 That's what our baptism represents my old, life has died 570 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:55,700 and buried, but now I've been washed and raised to New Life in 571 00:29:55,700 --> 00:30:00,800 Christ Jesus. Our old life was crucified with 572 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,700 him go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. 573 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,200 What else is his suffering mean for us? 574 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,500 His suffering actually leads us to do something. 575 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:16,500 We talked about how the Creed is practical, is it important to 576 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:18,700 have solid Doctrine? And it doesn't know what's true? 577 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:20,100 And what's false? Absolutely. 578 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:23,000 But we also said, there's practicality to all of it. 579 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,200 It means something it does something. 580 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,600 What does it mean? What's the big deal? 581 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:29,300 How will I live differently? If I believe that? 582 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:31,900 He suffered under Pontius Pilate, if I believe he was 583 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:34,200 crucified, he died and he was buried. 584 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:35,600 How's that going to affect my Monday? 585 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:39,300 What's it gonna do? Here's what it does for your 586 00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:50,600 Monday. 2nd Corinthians, 5:18 All, this is from God who 587 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:54,200 through Christ reconciled us to himself. 588 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,600 And gave us the ministry of reconciliation. 589 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:05,300 That is In Christ, God was reconciling the world to 590 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:07,800 himself. The world was not in right 591 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,900 standing with God, the account was out of whack. 592 00:31:10,300 --> 00:31:13,100 They were the we owed him. A lot of money, the account was 593 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:16,200 not the count was in the red. We owed him a lot of money and 594 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,300 that's a big problem. So he wants to reconcile the 595 00:31:19,300 --> 00:31:25,200 world to himself through Christ. That is verse 19, that is in 596 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,300 Christ. God was reconciling the world to 597 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:32,000 himself not counting their trespasses against them and 598 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,800 entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 599 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,900 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ. 600 00:31:40,100 --> 00:31:45,000 Making his appeal through us God making his appeal through us. 601 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,800 We implore you on behalf of Christ be reconciled to God for 602 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,500 our sake. He made him who knew no sin to 603 00:31:55,500 --> 00:32:00,000 be sin, so that in him, we might become the righteousness of God. 604 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,300 What will it matter if I believe? 605 00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:04,700 He suffered under Pontius Pilate? 606 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:07,600 If I believe he was crucified, he died, and he was buried. 607 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:09,900 It's going to mean, you're going to tell somebody the gospel of 608 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,100 the Kingdom. It's going to mean like Hudson 609 00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:14,300 on the playground. I got to tell people. 610 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,800 I got to tell people here, these little girls, using the lord's 611 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,700 name in vain over and over and he was grieved by he's going, 612 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:21,100 huh? He didn't just go over and say, 613 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:23,100 don't say that. Although that would have been a 614 00:32:23,100 --> 00:32:25,800 bad place to start, but he went over and said, hey, did you 615 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,900 know, God is our father and he's our creator and he started to 616 00:32:28,908 --> 00:32:30,900 tell them the good news. Why? 617 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:33,400 Because God's not wanting to hold your sins against you. 618 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,800 He's already held him against Christ. 619 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,900 He's already somebody paid for him so when you go to the 620 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:42,300 grocery store to grab your groceries and you just go to 621 00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:44,000 walk out, he's gonna. Yeah, they're already paid for. 622 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:47,200 I want you to enjoy that but I want you to do it with faith. 623 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,700 I don't you. I don't want you to do it with 624 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:51,700 pride. You don't do it and go. 625 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,600 I just Deserve these though you don't know you don't want to 626 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,100 talk about what you deserve, that would be an unwise 627 00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:01,700 conversation for you to have. You don't want to discuss or 628 00:33:01,708 --> 00:33:03,500 even think about what you deserve. 629 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:07,000 But if you want to talk about what God has given freely 630 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,800 through his grace, well, that that's something special. 631 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:14,000 So, when we believe that he suffered, when we really believe 632 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,100 it, not just, I know the facts. Yeah, yeah. 633 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:18,700 Yeah. But when I believe it, it's 634 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:20,400 going to lead me to do something about it. 635 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,300 I gotta tell somebody. Hey, did you know, God's not 636 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:24,900 counting up your sin against you? 637 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,900 He's not holding it against you. He held it against Christ. 638 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,100 You can be free from the wrath of God. 639 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:31,300 I thought you just said, I am free. 640 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,400 Well, my point is, you can walk in his grace. 641 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:38,400 And receive his Mercy because if you don't, then you definitely 642 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,600 won't. There is wrath stored up for 643 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,300 anybody who rejects the sun, because that's how the Lord 644 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:47,000 considers it at that point. It's not that you're just dying 645 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,400 for your sins but you're also dying for the rejection of the 646 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,100 blood, the precious blood of Jesus, The Father loves the 647 00:33:52,108 --> 00:33:54,300 blood of Jesus, The Father loves his son. 648 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:58,700 He he is proud of his son, he is honoring, the Lord Jesus Christ, 649 00:33:58,700 --> 00:34:01,100 and he will not let one drop of Jesus blood. 650 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:04,000 Go to waste. And if I could get to heaven, 651 00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:08,300 Without the sacrifice of Christ, then the sacrifice of Christ was 652 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:13,100 worthless. If anybody can be saved without 653 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:16,800 the blood of Jesus, then the blood of Jesus is meaningless. 654 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:21,500 Do you think for one moment that the father God would let the 655 00:34:21,507 --> 00:34:25,699 blood of Jesus be meaningless? They ripped out his beard. 656 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,500 They punched the Lord himself in the face. 657 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,900 They mocked him. They put a crown of thorns on 658 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:35,100 his head. Do you think the father would 659 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:38,400 look at that and go? Come on everybody. 660 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,100 This is what universalism Teaches everybody is eventually 661 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:45,100 going to be saved, everybody eventually, even if there's a 662 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:47,800 temporary he'll ultimately, everybody is eventually going to 663 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:52,800 be saved the Creed rejects that when we stand on a truth, we 664 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,900 reject a million other things. When I say Natalie's, my wife, 665 00:34:57,900 --> 00:34:59,700 I'm saying about 4 billion other. 666 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:04,000 Women are not to say something is, is to say a lot of other. 667 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:10,700 Something is not, it's not well. This and also know, this is what 668 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:13,300 the Creed helps us to do to reject the nonsense of the age 669 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:15,700 that we live in. Every age has nonsense. 670 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,900 Every age has wise, why are we so adding about the lies in our 671 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:21,200 day? Because they're the lies of our 672 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,900 day. We need to fight where our fight 673 00:35:23,900 --> 00:35:25,500 is. We need to be courageous where 674 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,700 we're Supposed to be courageous so we don't we don't we don't 675 00:35:28,700 --> 00:35:31,900 even give any respect they idea. Well that's your truth. 676 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,400 There's not your truth or my truth. 677 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,400 There's just Jesus the truth. What is truth? 678 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:45,500 I'll tell you his name is Jesus. If we believe he suffered, how 679 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:46,700 will that impact? The way? 680 00:35:46,700 --> 00:35:50,100 We talk to the world around us. He was stripped naked suffered, 681 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,600 the most creatively, cruel torment, humans could come up 682 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,100 with when you believe he did that for your friend, and for 683 00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:01,100 your family, and for your acquaintances, and for your 684 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:04,200 enemies. You invite him to Bible study, 685 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,600 it'll lead to something. It won't just be like, yeah, 686 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:09,700 people ought to get right with the Lord. 687 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,700 Yeah, you are the minister of reconciliation. 688 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:16,200 He is given to you a Ministry. I'm not in the ministry. 689 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:18,600 Yes, you are. I'm sorry, you've been lied to 690 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,600 before you are in the ministry, if you're a Believer, this is 691 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,700 the high calling. This is what it means to be a 692 00:36:23,708 --> 00:36:26,300 believer. Jesus said, follow me and they 693 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:29,200 said, what for? And he said, I'll make you 694 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:37,500 Fishers of Men. Who we dodged the coffin spell 695 00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,200 there. Those on the break. 696 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:47,100 He put it. He put it in the invite right 697 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:48,500 away. It wasn't a bait and switch. 698 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,300 It wasn't like, follow me. What? 699 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:52,500 For? I have a wonderful plan for your 700 00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:54,500 life and you can go to heaven when you die. 701 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,300 Was that the invite no, follow me come. 702 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:01,800 Get on the mission. The ministry of reconciliation 703 00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:04,900 on reconciling the whole world to God through myself. 704 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,100 Come follow me. That was the invite and he also 705 00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:11,800 put in the invite, oh, but if you're not willing to take up 706 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,800 your cross and follow me then you're not worthy to be my 707 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,600 disciple. Jesus said that mr. 708 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,700 Nice guy. Are you sure? 709 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:24,000 Yeah, multiple times multiple times, not just once and I don't 710 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000 mean, just, it's recorded once in each gospel. 711 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:29,500 I mean, multiple times, it was a regular part of his invitation. 712 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:30,900 Come follow me. Why? 713 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,100 We are going to go fishing from it. 714 00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:35,100 You're fishing for fish. Nothing wrong with that, but 715 00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:37,400 there's something higher and better to fish for people. 716 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:43,400 To be a fisher of men. Because you want to see people 717 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,700 reconciled to God. That's what suffering when we 718 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:48,600 understand when we believe in his suffering. 719 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,500 That's what we'll do. The cross. 720 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:59,600 You thought I was crying. I'm not I'm running low on 721 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,600 water. Don't know what we're gonna do 722 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,200 here in a minute across, not a crown. 723 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:07,200 Not a throne, is the symbol that we use to represent our 724 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,700 religion. This is good. 725 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,300 This is right because the death of Jesus is they necessary focal 726 00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:22,100 point of our faith. Read to you from Hebrews, you 727 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:23,500 don't need to go there. I'm just going to read it to 728 00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:27,000 you, Hebrews chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 therefore since we are 729 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,800 surrounded by so great. A cloud of witnesses. 730 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,800 Let us also lay aside every weight and sin, which clings to 731 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,000 us so closely and let us run with endurance. 732 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:42,500 The race that is set, before us looking to Jesus, the founder 733 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:46,400 and the Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy, that was set 734 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,800 before him. Endured the cross. 735 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,800 Despising, the shame. That means disregarding the 736 00:38:51,808 --> 00:38:55,100 shame and is seated. At the right hand of the Throne 737 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:59,000 of God. Suffering, isn't something that 738 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000 you would think is a good tool to Market with, but we do so, 739 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,100 with great pride in Jesus, because Jesus, endured the 740 00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:09,400 cross, he disregarded the shame. And he pursued the Greater Joy 741 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,500 of pleasing, the Father, and Jesus wanted to rescue his 742 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:16,500 bride. It's Father's Day as father's 743 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:18,800 those of us who are dads, we can understand that and men in 744 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,700 general, understand this, this idea that women think is like, 745 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,100 we're just weirdos. It's like, but this Vision you 746 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:28,600 have of dying for people, like that'd be awesome. 747 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,700 It wouldn't be the happiest day of your life. 748 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,100 And at the same time, it would bring you a great joy and a deep 749 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:37,400 satisfaction because Joy is connected to purpose. 750 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,900 Joy is not just connected to circumstance. 751 00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:42,600 Sometimes people really make a strong dichotomy between 752 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:44,300 happiness and joy and that's not the point. 753 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:47,100 To make here. But I do want to emphasize that 754 00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:49,500 Joy is connected to having purpose. 755 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:52,700 And that's what Jesus did. He was able to endure suffering? 756 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,100 Christians should be able to endure suffering. 757 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,000 Why? Because a purpose in front of 758 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,700 us, I don't like this circumstance. 759 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:02,800 I don't want this circumstance. I wouldn't have chose to 760 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,900 circumstance and yet I can endure suffering why? 761 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:10,400 Well, because Jesus went first, he showed me what it looks like. 762 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,300 He showed me how it's done and I have the Holy Spirit so I can 763 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:16,800 endure anything. Because I know that there is 764 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,800 purpose in it, that doesn't mean everything that's happening to 765 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:24,400 me, is God's will because my own flesh could have gotten me here, 766 00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,700 the broken world could have gotten me here, the devil could 767 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:28,400 have gotten me here so don't hear. 768 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:32,100 Don't miss, he or something. But in everything, there's still 769 00:40:32,100 --> 00:40:36,500 purpose in every trial and every tribulation in an every test. 770 00:40:38,300 --> 00:40:41,500 We can see how this idea of joy and suffering applies to us in a 771 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,800 much smaller degrees, but it's still real. 772 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,900 Some days. Our work can have a lot of 773 00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:48,900 suffering in it and yet there can still be a deeper Joy. 774 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,700 They might not show up as a smile on our face but there's 775 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,800 still a purpose in a pleasure behind it because Joy is 776 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,100 connected to purpose, not just circumstances. 777 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,100 As a parent, everything's not always happy, right? 778 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,300 Dad's were not always happy but if you stay focused on your 779 00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:07,800 purpose, you will experience Joy. 780 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,700 You press through because of the joy that set before you because 781 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:13,200 of the purpose. There's a mission here, 782 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:15,300 something's being accomplished and that brings me a joy. 783 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,000 That brings me a deeper satisfaction. 784 00:41:19,100 --> 00:41:23,600 Verse 11 in Hebrews 12 says, for the moment, all discipline seems 785 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,400 painful rather than pleasant. But later, it yields the 786 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,700 peaceful. Will fruit of righteousness to 787 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:31,100 those who have been trained by it? 788 00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:34,500 That's what Christians are keeping their eyes focused on. 789 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:37,200 Is there suffering is there difficulty? 790 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,200 Yes, but no matter what discipline I'm enduring, whether 791 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,300 its self-imposed or externally imposed I know that there's 792 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:47,900 going to be peaceful fruit of righteousness, we don't want to 793 00:41:47,900 --> 00:41:51,700 suffer, but we can suffer well under anything because Jesus 794 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:53,800 went first. He showed us how it's done and 795 00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,600 he calls us to take up our cross and to follow him. 796 00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,300 If you're still in Isaiah, I'm gonna read from chapter 50. 797 00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:07,600 Now, chapter 50 verses 5 through 7, the Lord God has opened my 798 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,000 ear. This is prophesy of Christ. 799 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,100 This is Christ speaking. Hundreds of years, before Christ 800 00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:15,800 came to the Earth, the Lord God is opened my ear. 801 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,300 And I was not rebellious. I turned not backward. 802 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,000 I gave my back to those who strike. 803 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,000 Jesus surrendered his back. He didn't say, please don't 804 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,200 please give me a minute. He gave his back to those who 805 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,300 strike and my cheeks. To those who pull out the beard, 806 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,700 I hid, not my face from disgrace and spitting but the Lord God 807 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:41,700 helps me. Therefore, I have not been 808 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:45,100 disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face, 809 00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:49,600 like a flint. And I know that I shall not be 810 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:54,900 put to shame. When looking to Jerusalem the 811 00:42:54,900 --> 00:42:58,000 week of his crucifixion and Jesus is moving forward, and 812 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,700 he's been telling everybody, hey, I'm going to go. 813 00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:01,100 I'm going to go be crucified now. 814 00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:03,400 They're like no. No that's not the idea we have 815 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,600 for the Messiah. We thought you were going to 816 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:06,300 find the like free us from the Romans. 817 00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:08,600 He's going to say he's saying I'm gonna free you from 818 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,700 everything. I do for you from everybody 819 00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:14,000 actually, but not the way that you thought the Bible tells us 820 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,300 that he set his face to go to Jerusalem and there in Isaiah 821 00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:20,000 says he set his face. Like Flint, what does that mean? 822 00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:22,900 Who is who's this Flint guy? Well, it's not a person but 823 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,200 Flint was a rock, a very, very hard rock. 824 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,400 And it was used to show in scripture, choose to show a 825 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,300 hardness of toughness and a determination. 826 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:34,300 That's how Jesus goes to the Cross. 827 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:36,900 He doesn't go to the Cross begging for mercy. 828 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,500 He goes embracing suffering because he's really focused on 829 00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:43,800 Joy, that's past it. Jesus died on the cross, as our 830 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,800 substitute, our replacement our sacrifice and yet he tells us 831 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,300 take up your cross and follow me. 832 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,400 This means that for the joy set before us which is what Living 833 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,300 in fellowship with God, there were willing to lay down our 834 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:57,800 life. We're willing to lay down our 835 00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,100 flesh. So when we Face tests and 836 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,400 trials, whether they're from God or the world, or the flesh, or 837 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:08,400 the devil, we believe our savior suffered under Pontius Pilate. 838 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,200 He was crucified, he died. He was buried. 839 00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:15,400 And we know that the students are not greater than the 840 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:19,900 teacher. So if he endure, we will as 841 00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:23,600 well. In this world, we will have 842 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,500 trouble, but we are of good cheer because he has overcome 843 00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:30,600 the world. Christians are not strangers to 844 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:33,000 suffering. In our Lord showed us how to 845 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,500 endure it by seeing through to the Joy on the other side. 846 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,900 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your perfect plan and we 847 00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:42,500 thank you for your perfect strength. 848 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,600 Jesus, you're the perfect servant, the perfect son, the 849 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,900 perfect, Lord and Master. And you are worthy to receive 850 00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:57,500 all praise, glory honor, and reverence you suffered for the 851 00:44:57,500 --> 00:44:59,000 joy. That was set in front of you, 852 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,800 the joy of rescuing the people that you love, pleasing the 853 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:09,400 father And glorifying your own name. 854 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,800 God we pray that you would continue to bring Revelation to 855 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,200 us, but bring conviction that leads us to action, don't just 856 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:22,900 fill, our don't let our heads be filled with facts but let our 857 00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:26,400 hearts be changed by truth. So that we would be Fishers of 858 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,800 Men that we would go into all the world, starting with our 859 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,500 closest neighbors, our friends, our family, our loved ones, and 860 00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,400 our enemies and telling them the good news of the Gospel of the 861 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,400 Kingdom. There is a king in heaven. 862 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,600 He has come, he has not counting up your sins against you, he 863 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,100 counted them Against Christ repent and believe the gospel. 864 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,700 It is the power of God. It is the Salvation for those 865 00:45:48,700 --> 00:45:53,200 who will believe Lord fill us with the Holy Spirit and with 866 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,400 power, make us bold to tell the good news to tell the truth 867 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,400 about the one who is the truth We thank you for it in Jesus 868 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,900 name. And now the Lord bless you and 869 00:46:05,900 --> 00:46:09,500 keep you the Lord, make his face shine down upon you and be 870 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:12,500 gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance 871 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:16,300 upon you and give you great. Peace in Jesus name. 872 00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:17,300 Amen.