Warning. This video may upset certain
people because I'm going to show you the three worst punishments
in all of the Bible. Number one, king Agrippa was
punished for Pride, Herod Agrippa was the king over all of
Judea the three years and one day he fell out with the people
of Tyre and sidon. Now, the scripture doesn't tell
us what this argument was about, but many Bible scholars believe
is to do with the trading of Food, you see, tyre and sidon
which are seaports, and they didn't have a lot of Farmland,
but on the other hand do deer, had many crops lots of farmland
and some where it's believed that they had a falling out.
Now, whatever the reason was for this falling out, there's one
thing we do know and it's this King, Agrippa found a solution.
He brought reconciliation to both sides have because of it.
The people of Judea loved him. And one day King Agrippa
presented himself before the crowds he was wearing his Royal
robes. He sat on his throne and he gave
an address and because the people was so Starstruck with
his message, they cried out. This is the voice of God and not
a man, a gripper had two choices.
He could either correct. The people just like Paul and
Barnabas did when they were being worshipped and say to
them. Stop it, guys.
Stop it at once. I am just a fallen human being
like you are you must not worship me or the second option
is He could keep quiet. He could let the people believed
that he was some kind of Daya T and he could Rob the glory of
God. Well, sadly King Agrippa chose
the latter choice. And what happened?
Next will make your stomach churn.
Are you ready for it? The Bible says, then immediately
an angel of the Lord struck him. Because he did not give glory to
God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
So here is this king? Who thought he was something
special and he died the most? Humiliating death, some kind of
parasite likely Nordo is insides and then his three-year Reign
and three years. And now King Agrippa is
forgotten and I can guarantee one thing to you.
If you go into your local town and you walk on the streets and
you ask people who was Herod Agrippa, I guarantee 99% of the
people will never have heard of him, but if you go on the
streets and you ask the same people, have you heard of Jesus
Christ, I guarantee that Nine percent of the people have heard
of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why? Because the next verse in the
Bible says, but the word of God grew and multiplied.
So herod's lost his rain after 3 years.
But the word of God, the glory of God continued because heaven
and earth will pass away. But God's word, the Bible will
never pass away. So let that be a warning to you
and I that somewhere there is an invisible line, there is an
invisible line between God's patience and Roll and King
Agrippa crossed that line. So let you and I beware that
every time we have a good gift every time we have a win.
Every time we have a success that while always attributed it.
Back up to the Lord God and saying, no not me, don't give
glory to me. And my name give glory to the
most high God, because everything comes from his hand,
the good and the bad. It's all from The Sovereign,
lord of the universe, the legend of Jeremy Lin continues, take us
through that last shot. You were trying to push me left
and he backed up a little bit and I just thank my Lord.
My Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ for that shot, man.
That was thankful thankful that I went in, let me let you into a
secret. When I first saw that clip I
didn't really know how to process it because I wasn't
sure. Can we really give thanks for
something as trivial as a basketball game when there's all
the serious things going on in the world can we really sort of
say thank you. Lord, Jesus for that and then
this verse entered into my mind, he holds all things together.
Even Three-point line and praise God.
That he isn't saying it was my skill, but made that three-point
shot know. I give all the praise, all the
glory to the Lord. Jesus Christ.
Number two, Absalom was punished for his Rebellion against his
parents in the Bible. We often read about people who
were beautiful. Joseph was beautiful.
Rachel was David was Rudy and good-looking but there's none in
the Bible who is described more elaborately than Absalom.
The scripture says now, in all this rain, Well, there was no
one who was praised as much as Absalom for his good.
Looks from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
There was no blemish in him every year.
Absalom would take part in a rather unusual ritual because
his hair was so thick because it was so luscious because it was
so long. And I can see you laughing at me
right now because his hair was. So if you like beautiful, do you
know what it do? He'd get a razor and he'd shave
it off once he had all of the hair.
Together. He put it in one big club and
then he'd way, it's yes. How much is hair way?
It was 200, shackles which is about the same weight as a bag
of flour. In other words, absalom's Beauty
went to his head, we've all met the person who is really very
attractive and we know them and we've seen how getting lots of
validation getting lots of Praise, has gone to their head.
It's filled them with an ego. That is very unsightly at times
and that's what I believe happened to Absalom.
I believe if he's being told all the time you are the most
beautiful man in Israel, it filled him with a sense of
self-importance where eventually he believe that he truly would
be a better King than God's appointed Man.
David. He thought he should be on the
throne instead and just like any over ambitious person, just like
anyone who's jealous Absalom, went to Great Lengths to deceive
people to try and win the people of Israel.
David's. For himself so that he would get
more Fame and more Glory. This was absalom's plan early in
the morning, he would stand by The City Gate and there you
would take advantage of people who'd come to see King David,
they come with their problems with their complaints and
Absalom would say to them. I'm sorry.
Oh I am sorry. The Kings too busy to see you
today. He doesn't have time for you and
your problems but if I was on the throne, If I Ruled, I would
make sure you were Threat fairly, I'd make sure you will
listen to and each person he made feel like a million dollars
each person. He kissed and flattered to win
them, onto his side Absalon, pretended, that he cared about
the people but he didn't care his all he cared about was his
clouds, his name and building up an empire for himself.
Eventually the news leaked into David's ears that Absalom, his
son had gathered a rather large following and the people wanted
In to be king and he was going to take his place.
So David out of fear, went into hiding for the second time in
his life. But there came a point where
David felt. I cannot hide any longer.
I cannot flee with my people, any longer, they're tired,
they're weary, we must go to battle.
So he must have a number of men before him and before those men
went out into battle before they went out against the rebellion
of the people who rebelled against King David, he gave them
one order. Dear Deal gently with the young
man, Absalom for my sake and friends.
My dear friends, I see that as a beautiful picture of Our Father
Here, we are his sons, his daughters, and we've run away,
we've rebelled were the ones in the wrong, were the ones who
deserve to be wiped out. And yet God says, I want to deal
gently with you because I am a gentle God and very often when I
look around at the world and I see the pride in Men's Hearts.
I often ask the question. Lord.
When are you going to finish his off?
When is your judgment going to come?
Because I fear how arrogant men and women have become and then I
remember God is a chance or God and that truly is the reason why
I believe we've been allowed to continue in so much immorality
for such a long time. But remember, remember, King
Agrippa, he cross that invisible line and there is a day when
mercy is cut-offs with you are sitting on the fence.
Ants and you have not made a decision to follow the lord.
Jesus Christ, and you've got your foot in the world and all
this wickedness. Repent.
Now and turn to Christ while we are still in the day of Grace.
OK, back to the story, the battle between absence, man, and
David's men took place in a forest in Ephraim, and because
the Lord was with David, he started to overpower the men of
Israel, those who draw on their allegiance to Absalom Absalom.
This is the gruesome bit Absalom.
With pelting through the forest on his mule, when suddenly, his
long thick, Luscious Hair got caught on a branch, and he's
hanging in there on this branch and his mule carries on writing.
So here he is. Absalom Court hanging their
captive by this Branch. Isn't that fascinating?
He see the one thing that filth Absalom with self-importance,
the one thing that everyone worships him for became the one
thing that caused his downfall. All the scripture is, right, is
it not when it says pride comes before destruction and their
Absalom Hong for David's, most brutal Warrior Jo Hab?
Who unfortunately did not listen to The King and there he arrived
with 10 men and finished off the young man, Absalom for his
Disobedience. Number three, Jesus was punished
not for any crime, he committed. But for us and I would argue if
you look at all the punishments are all the ways to die, there
is no. It is more painful than to be
crucified in fact, because Jesus knew what the cross meant,
because he knew the physical suffering, and the spiritual
suffering. He was about to endure Bible.
Actually says, and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly,
then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to
the ground. Now, this isn't Luke, the writer
having artistic license. No, Luke was a physician and he
was describing a real. Real medical condition called
hematite grossest. And if you don't take my word
for it, listen to this modern-day doctor describe it.
Yeah, I believe that Christ suffering and the demonstration
of the kind of of physiologic stress that his human body was
under is manifested in the Garden of Gethsemane where it's
described that he was sweating blood.
There is well, documented medical condition in which
patients who are under tremendous amount of emotional
stress and physical. Logical stress can, in fact,
sweat blood because little blood vessels within the glands burst
and then the blood is expressed for Jesus was crucified.
The Bible tells us he was flogged.
Now the way the Romans used to flog people was really rather
barbaric. You see they would have a handle
and on the handle was seven strips of leather and attached
to. Each strip was bits of broken
up, glass bits of nail bits of bone.
So as they whipped the person it would take with Them a chunk of
Flesh, they'd Whip It, draw it back in until literally chunks
of tissue and muscle would drawn away from the bone.
After they flocked, the Lord Jesus Christ.
After he was beaten, they took him and they told him you must
carry your cross. So the Lord Jesus did the very
best he could, but there came a point where physically he could
not take another step, he collapsed under the weight of
the Cross, and a man, Simon the Cyrene.
Had to carry it for him. Eventually they both reach
Golgotha the place of the skull and when Jesus arrived the Roman
soldiers took the garments off him and there he stood ashamed,
totally bad. And then they took my savior and
they nailed him to a cross. Now very often in the paintings,
in the books. In the movies, we see that Jesus
Christ had nails through the very center of his faults, but I
Actually, that's not totally accurate because very recently
archaeologists found an artifact of a person's foot to had been
crucified and it proved that the nail actually went through the
side of the foot rather in the ankle that would hold them in
place and if you ask doctors, they can confirm that
anatomically. It is still classed as the foot.
So the scripture is still very much fulfilled that says they
pierced my hands and my feet, see him there the One hanging on
that cross, his back is lacerated pressed up against a
horrible, rugged, rough cross and there.
He hangs there ashamed. On top of that, remember, he had
a crown of thorns smashed into his skull and these Thorns
weren't tiny little thistles that we might see on a rose.
Bush know the plant is believed to have been used has thorns
that were between one and two inches long and then Isaiah
writes that they plucked. Doubt the Lord Jesus Christ
beard, they plucked out the messiah's beard and could it be
when those soldiers mocked him? When they struck him and said
prophesy to his old Christ? Tell us who struck you.
Could it be as they slapped him, they took with it, a chunk of
his beard there. He is ashamed.
Bleeding there dying. What you probably didn't know is
that crucifixion was death by Suffocation.
If every single one of you just opened your arms out like this
for a moment, You'll notice it becomes harder to Exhale.
Now, imagine that for hours on end for days on end, just
holding your arms out like that slowly.
The oxygen levels in your body, decrease and you'll slowly
suffocating to the point where your lungs get damaged and your
heart gets damaged, which can even lead to the heart bursting
which is called cardiac rupture. And that is why many doctors
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died from a heart attack.
Back whilst he was on the cross. But here's the question, every
single one of you should be asking right now, well I did the
Lord Jesus Christ have to endure, such a terrible
punishment. What was the crime that he
committed that he would have to suffer such horrific death?
What did he do? The answer is nothing, the Lord,
Jesus Christ, never committed any sin.
He never laid his hands on anyone to hurt them.
So we did not deserve the nails through his hands.
He Run away to places or walked into places.
He should not be with his feet. So he did not deserve the nails
through his feet. He never thought a wrong.
Wicked on clean thought, like we do on a daily basis.
So we did not deserve the crown of thorns, the Lord.
Jesus Christ was totally obedient to God and you and I,
as we know, have totally been disobedient to our God, but what
I'm going to say next will shock some of you but did you know
this, those Physical sufferings that we've just described and
not the worst parts of the cross.
That was not the worst part of the suffering that Jesus endured
know the spiritual suffering was far worse.
The Bible says, between the sixth and the ninth hour,
Darkness fell in the land. And between those three hours,
Jesus, cried with a loud voice. My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me? And in those three hours, God,
poured out all of this. Roth, all of his judgment on
Jesus Christ. It's almost, as if God, the
Father rolled up his sleeves and he reached into every person's
heart in the world. And he pulled out all of the
Rebellion, all of the grime, all of the sin, all of the pride,
all of the vanity. All that, cine put it in one big
ball and he embedded it on the Lord Jesus Christ and there he
crushed the Lord there, he bruised him there, he punished
him there. The Roth that was on us that
abides on all of us all All of us Sons and Daughters of
Disobedience. That Roth was turned away from
owners and it was turned on to Jesus Christ.
In that one moment, that finite moment.
All the sins of the world were put on him and there he paid the
price, they're Justice was done because God felt it was
acceptable. This sacrifice the Lamb of God
who takes away the sins of the world that Christ died in my
room in my stead. He stood there so that I could
be forgiven and You remember just one thing from this video,
please remember this. Jesus did that?
Because he loves you, he loves you with an everlasting.
Love, no one pushed him to go to the Cross.
No one forced him to do that. No, Jesus says, I've laid down
my life willingly because I love you and he did that so that he
might have a relationship, a friendship with you.
And, you know, the story, well, you know, he died, he died this
terrible death. But on the third day he
conquered the grave and now He's in heaven and he's gone to
prepare a place for all those who love the Lord Jesus back.
And one day that love will be enjoyed in heaven, for all
eternity. And I want to know will you be
part of that love. Do you love the Lord?
Jesus Christ may be right now in this very moment as I've shared
everything that Jesus did for you.
You feel that your heart like John Wesley was said about him,
his heart was strangely warmed, perhaps there's something
strange going on in you right now.
Are you feel? Yes.
I really do think I love the Lord Jesus Christ with that's
happening right now, I plead with you turn from your sins,
turn from your evilness, turn from your wrongdoing, and turn
to the Lord, Jesus Christ and receive, the Forgiveness of sins
receive that Redemption that reconciliation that was paid for
with his own blood. And if you're still confused on,
how do I become a Christian? I don't understand Joel.
Please go. And watch this video because I
truly do believe it might just change your life.
Forever. If you have not yet bowed the
knee to the Lord Jesus Christ.