Wow! Second night of Camp
Meeting here in West Frankfort.
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Danny, it's a
beautiful time, isn't it?
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Oh, it's been beautiful
weather and beautiful folk here.
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Give yourself an "Amen, "
all right? Amen! All right!
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Praise the Lord that
you all made it here safely
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from many many states
and a few countries - yeah -
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around the world. So
what we want you to do
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is turn off your cell phone.
I'm doing this 'cause I just
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now remembered mine wasn't off.
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So you want to shut off your
cell phone if you don't mind
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because they may
go... Yours on too?
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Yeah, it was. But the
only one I worry about is you
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because you're the only one that
calls me when I'm on the air.
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Yeah, that's right.
I called him one night.
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I should have
been watching 3ABN.
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I called him and he answered
it and he was on the air
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doing a live program. So...
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Well I can't get it
back in the holster now.
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OK, well just
anywhere works. All right.
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So you do yours the
same way, OK? Thank you.
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Mollie Sue, we're
glad that you're here.
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Oh, it is a joy to be here.
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Are you all glad to
see Mollie? Amen! Amen!
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Thank you; thank you.
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Mollie and Hal have been
through some stormy weather
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in the last few months
starting off with the car wreck.
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Just driving down the
road minding our own business -
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yeah - and a lady
lost control of her car.
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Wasn't her fault,
just... Any of you ever lost
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control of your car?
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See, I don't
know that I ever have.
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But if I ever do, I hope that I
don't barrel right into somebody
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head-on. That was
just a very difficult thing
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that we went through.
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But then as a result of that
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some of the scans that
they did on me showed that I had
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some things that
were pre-existing.
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And so the encouragement I got
from the hospital in St. Louis
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that was looking at the areas
of problems that I had from
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the accident
said: "When you get home
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you need to go
see your oncologist. "
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That was a bit frightening.
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And as a lot of you know
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the diagnosis from
that was pretty frightening.
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But I'm here to tell you
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that through the
grace and mercy of God
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after the diagnosis
there was a prognosis.
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Do ya'll know the difference
in a diagnosis and a prognosis?
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Diagnosis are the facts...
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and the fact is
it's pretty grim.
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But "you shall know the truth"
and what will the truth do?
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Set you free. See, it's
the truth that sets you free
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not those facts.
And the prognosis is
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although it may not be
curable it's controllable.
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Do you know who encouraged I was
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when that doctor
said controllable?
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That became my
favorite word. All right!
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It's controllable. All right.
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And I have had some people that
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found it difficult to think that
I would go to a cancer center
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and have some treatment.
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But I had to make
some decisions on my own.
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You can't let somebody
else make decisions for you
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when you're in a difficult time.
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And praying and trusting
God with my whole life...
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First and
foremost, I trust God. Amen!
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He was... and I
know the scriptures...
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the scriptures that say He was
"wounded for my transgression;
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He was bruised
for my iniquities.
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The chastisement of
my peace was upon Him
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and by His
stripes... I am healed. "
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And I have total
confidence in God's Word
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and total confidence in Him.
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First and foremost,
that is my confidence:
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in Christ my healer. Amen.
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But secondarily, I truly believe
that God works through doctors.
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And so I am looking at and using
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modern technology, modern
science, the medical field.
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And thirdly, you know there's
another area that helps us
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and that is natural remedies.
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Those things that
boost your immune system.
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So the decision I made
for this grim diagnosis
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was: "I'm going to
trust God with my life. "
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All right. "I'm going
to allow modern medicine
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to do what it can for me.
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And of course, I'm going
to use those immune boosters
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and those things that will
help me through natural... "
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But this is what I ask of you.
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Please continue to pray as
the Lord lays you on my heart...
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or lays me on your heart.
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I appreciate that so much.
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Your prayers have sustained me
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and God is my
source and my supply.
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So I thank you all
so very much. Amen!
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I had someone say: "Well you
know there's no use for doctors.
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It's wrong... you
shouldn't go to doctors. "
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And I said: "If you're in
a car wreck and your arm gets
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cut off, what
are you going to do?
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You can't take a pill or
you know take a healthy drink
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to help fix your arm. " So
there is a use for doctors,
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right? Sometimes we
must be wise and be prudent.
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And you're very wise and
very prudent. We're thankful for
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Loma Linda that treated you
so well and did a great work
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with you out there.
They did an incredible job
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and I appreciate it so
much. All right! A great place,
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and we believe the
Lord has led in this.
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We think that even
out of the accident
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Mollie might not
have known so soon if...
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And that word "controllable. "
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That has been... That
is a good word. You see,
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controlled until the Lord comes:
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that's a healing, isn't it?
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Amen! And so that's
what we're looking for.
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You know, sometimes I bet
you wish Hal was controllable.
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But he's not. This
is what I am saying,
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and this - I mean
it with all my heart:
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I will live with
cancer until I die of old age.
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Amen. We love
it; we love it. Amen!
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All right. And you know,
a lot of people live with
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a lot of things.
You do... you know that.
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Some of you are
walking-around miracles.
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In fact, I mentioned last night
and maybe I'd better not...
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I'd better let him say
it, but someone that was here
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on the platform last
night - and it wasn't Dwight -
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said to me that his
father for like twenty years
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has lived with
multiple myeloma, a bone cancer.
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So... But it's
been controllable.
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He's lived with it 20-25
years but he takes his treatment
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and takes care.
And that just shows
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God is ultimately in control.
Our lives are in His hands.
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Amen! Well again,
for those of you watching
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thank you for joining us
for Spring Camp Meeting 2013
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here at 3ABN.
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Right now we're going to
invite some folk to come out
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and sing with us. We have
Bruce Fjarli and his group
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the Valley View Quartet.
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Where are they? And C.A. Murray:
are you part of the group?
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You're not dressed the
same. C.A.'s not dressed...
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John, Pastor John, they
did their own thing, you know.
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Oh yeah; so all right. So we've
got a whole group of singers.
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We're going to sing
Showers of Blessing.
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We want you all to
sing with us, all right?
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Let's get the
words up on the screen.
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Do that chorus again.
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Tonight, heavenly
Father, we do plead
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for the showers of blessing.
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Father, we're just
so thankful tonight
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that Mollie can be here. Amen!
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That she and Hal
survived a terrible accident
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and that even after that
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when that diagnosis came
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that You were right
there with both of them:
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helping Hal through his recovery
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and helping Mollie through hers.
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Thank you, Father. Thank
you for all Your blessings.
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We praise You. We realize,
Lord, that You are coming soon.
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We want to be ready.
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In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen!
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Well we have some
special music tonight.
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And my baby sister, Tammy
Chance, is going to come out.
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And I think she's
doing Sweet, Sweet Spirit.
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Sister Tammy,
thank you for being here.
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You look pretty tonight!
Tammy look pretty tonight?
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All right. You can
pay me afterwards but...
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I started to say "I'm shocked. "
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When does he ever
say anything nice?
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The older you get like
this you learn it's easier to...
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My brother once said: "I
just want peace in my life. "
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So now, you look
beautiful, Tammy.
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You're the best sister I have.
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You're the most
wonderful sister I have.
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Boy that's great. I only
have one but she's a good one.
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It's true. Thank you.
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Tammy's got a great
gift of music and we're glad
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you share it for
Jesus. Thank you.
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There's a sweet
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sweet Spirit
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in this place
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and I know
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that it's the Spirit
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of the Lord.
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There are
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sweet expressions
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on each face
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and I know
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that it's the presence
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of the Lord.
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Sweet Holy Spirit,
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Sweet
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Heavenly Dove,
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Stay
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right here with us,
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Filling us
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with Your love,
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And for
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these blessings
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we lift our hearts in praise,
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Without a doubt we'll know
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that we have been revived
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when we shall
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leave
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this place.
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Amen.
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Thank you, Tammy.
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That was
beautiful, wasn't it? Amen.
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There's a sweet,
sweet Spirit in this place.
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And I tell you, if we ever
needed those showers of blessing
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it would have to be this
moment in earth's history.
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Oh, we're praying up
at Andrews University
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"God, do a new thing. "
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You know that line
"showers of blessing? "
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That's right out of
the book of Ezekiel.
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God said there will
be showers of blessing.
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We need those showers.
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Thank you,
Tammy, for singing that.
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And that testimony of
Mollie's: isn't that something?
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What God has done!
God bless Mollie and Hal.
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We never know.
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You wake up at the beginning...
it's just another day.
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But life can be
irrevocably changed
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in just a split second.
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But praise God she's here.
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I talked to Hal tonight.
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When you step out onto
the road, you put your life
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in your hands. I go running
everywhere I go to preach.
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So this morning I
said: "I'm going to run. "
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I have a little gizmo
that tells me how far I've run.
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So I said: "I'm going to
run into Thompsonville. "
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You've heard of
the place near here.
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"I'm going to run
into Thompsonville. "
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I have no idea what
the neighbors are like;
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I have no idea
what the traffic is like
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at this time of the morning.
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But beautiful countryside.
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And you come into the little
town and I'm making my way
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just past...
There's a major intersection
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where the road
shoots off to your right.
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And then all of
a sudden I hear...
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And a runner's ears
are always tuned to hear...
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because those are the nails
of a dog coming up behind you.
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And there were two of them. God
bless those Thompsonville dogs.
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There were two of them
and you never know with a dog.
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It's just... And you
yell at the top of your lungs
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and hope that that will
somehow instill respect.
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But they just kept going
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so I kept running
as fast as I could.
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I went running once...
Had just flow over to London
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for a satellite series.
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Early in the
morning... woke up with jet lag.
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"Ah, I've got to
shake this off. "
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So it was... the
sun had just come up.
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About 6:30... whatever.
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Wintery February.
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Frigid still air.
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So I go out running.
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About 1/2 mile from where I
was staying at Newbold College
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outside of London
crossed a parking lot.
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A pub, you know,
those little restaurant/bars
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that they have: pubs...
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Can't remember the name
but I think it's something like
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Roebuck or something like that.
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Empty parking
lot. As I run across
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for some reason...
There's a telephone pole
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and my eyes for some reason
are attracted up the telephone
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pole and here is a sign
that's just been nailed up.
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And I looked up at the
sign and I read the words.
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I scribbled them
down; have them right here.
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Fatal collision...
This was a Thursday morning.
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Fatal collision
here Sunday 10:38 PM.
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If you have information,
call the police at...
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and then the
English telephone numbers.
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I tell you what:
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you can be minding your
own business just running
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through life, but
when you come to a place
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'cause I quickly
did the arithmetic.
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Today's Thursday.
Good night. Four...
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four days ago somebody's life,
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somebody's dreams,
00:16:23.65\00:16:26.16
somebody's prayers,
somebody's everything:
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10:38 at night...
Gone just like that!
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It's a sobering
experience, isn't it?
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I mean, I'm driving
down here yesterday.
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Black cross in the
middle of the median.
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What's that tell
you? White cross later
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on the side of the
road. What does that tell you?
00:16:42.30\00:16:44.09
Somebody perished here.
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It is a sobering experience
whenever you stand on the...
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stand beside the
place someone has died.
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Tonight I want
to stand with you.
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There'll be no
balloons, no little teddy bears,
00:16:59.34\00:17:02.12
no flowers, no plastic roses...
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just a cross.
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But I want to stand
with you and for a moment
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take in the drama
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that made that cross
possible. Let's pray together.
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Oh God. We're
thankful for Mollie and Hal.
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Could have been a
cross beside the road.
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You spared their lives;
doesn't always happen that way.
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Certainly didn't
happen that way, holy Father,
00:17:32.17\00:17:35.10
on that fateful Friday
afternoon they now call good...
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but it was an
awful, awful Friday.
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Didn't happen that
way 2,000 years ago.
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As we step back out of
time into that distant memory
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let Calvary come alive.
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Let us know the truth,
and may the truth set us free.
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We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
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Open your Bible with me
to the story of Calvary.
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Let's go to Calvary.
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Last night was Thursday night
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in the Passion Weekend.
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I know the days of the week, but
last night was Thursday night.
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We went to the upper room...
Jesus there with the eleven.
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Tonight Friday; tomorrow Friday.
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We're moving... We're moving
toward the Sabbath and Sunday
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before our time
together is over.
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Let's go to Matthew chapter 27.
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This is the... the apex
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of the gospel story.
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You know that the
gospels are really crucifixion
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stories with an introduction.
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Predominant portion of Matthew
and Mark and Luke and John:
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all crucifixion story...
and resurrection, of course...
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with a tacked on introduction.
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Everything in the
history of the universe
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moves to Calvary. Calvary
is the center of all time.
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Matthew chapter 27.
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I want to read this with
you. Think, brood, with you
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through these familiar verses.
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I want to pick it up...
Let's begin in verse 24.
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This is Matthew 27. I'll be
in the New King James version.
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Whatever translation you have
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I'm just glad
you've got your Bible.
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Thank you for
bringing it tonight.
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Matthew chapter 27 verse 24:
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"When Pilate saw that
he could not prevail at all
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but rather that a tumult
was rising, he took water... "
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And what'd he do?
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"He washed his hands
before the multitude saying:
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'I am innocent of the
blood of this just person.
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You see to it. ' And all the
people answered and said... "
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Read those words
out loud with me.
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"His blood be on us
and on our children. "
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I don't know how many times
I have read the crucifixion
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account and I've
always seen in those verses
00:19:49.25\00:19:51.16
just this self-curse as it were.
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People calling down:
"Put His blood on us. "
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"Go ahead and kill
Him... we don't care. "
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Then I came across a gentleman
with whom I had the privilege of
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becoming friends
with before he died:
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Roger Morneau. Does that
name ring a bell with you?
00:20:10.51\00:20:12.72
That great prayer
warrior Roger Morneau. Yeah.
00:20:12.92\00:20:15.00
So I never met Roger Morneau.
We were going to fly him out
00:20:15.33\00:20:17.75
to lead a prayer
service just before Net '98.
00:20:17.95\00:20:21.98
Are you old enough
to know about Net '98?
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Did you hear about it? Yeah, OK.
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So we were going to
fly Roger from California
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out to pray with us before
Net '98... having a big day
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of fasting and
prayer. And three days before
00:20:31.34\00:20:34.36
he was to fly he
died of a heart attack
00:20:34.56\00:20:36.23
so I never had the privilege
of meeting him face to face.
00:20:36.43\00:20:38.77
But a great... a
giant of a prayer man.
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And you have read his books:
00:20:41.82\00:20:43.59
Answers to Incredible Prayer;
00:20:43.89\00:20:45.37
More Answers to
Incredible Prayer.
00:20:45.47\00:20:46.84
You're holding up
one right now. All right.
00:20:46.87\00:20:49.02
You can get them at the ABC.
00:20:49.13\00:20:50.50
Anyway, through Roger I
learned this. Roger says:
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"You know what? Every
morning of my life I read
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Matthew chapter 27
verse 24 through verse 54. "
00:20:55.54\00:20:58.61
He said: "I figure that if
I can go to the highest place
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a human can kneel and
bow at the foot of Calvary
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and I can begin
every day at Calvary
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I'll be doing all right. "
00:21:08.44\00:21:09.90
And I said to myself:
"You know what? If a great man
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like Roger, the great prayer
warrior, will go to Calvary
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every day... a little guy
like me? I should be going
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to the same place.
" So thank you, Roger.
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He taught me that
journey... every morning.
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Read it just this morning.
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But it was in that re-reading
every day that I suddenly
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realized: "Wait a minute!
Verse 25? This isn't a curse...
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this is a powerful prayer. "
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What did the
people cry out and say?
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What did the people cry out
to Pilate? What did they say?
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"His blood... " Say
it out loud with me.
00:21:37.12\00:21:38.66
"His blood be on us
and on our children. "
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And so every morning when
I get two verses into that
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thirty-verse recitation
of Calvary every morning,
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two verses in and I
come across that line
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I stop right there and I say:
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"God, I want You to be
with Kirk; I want You to be with
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Kristy; I want You
to be with Karen and me.
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May His blood be on
us. " Rather than a curse
00:21:59.37\00:22:01.78
it occurs to me: this is a
beautiful, powerful prayer.
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"God, let the blood of
Jesus be on me today. "
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What would happen if the
children of the church were
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prayed over every
single day across this land
00:22:11.74\00:22:14.10
and every mother, every
grandmother, every grandpa,
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.07
every father would pray
at the beginning of the day
00:22:16.17\00:22:17.96
"Oh God, Your blood be on
my daughter; Your blood be on
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my son; Your blood
be on my grandchildren
00:22:20.61\00:22:22.86
and on me too. "
00:22:23.06\00:22:24.52
Can you imagine our
kids going out into the day
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under the blood? Now I'm
praying for Kirk and his wife
00:22:27.69\00:22:30.76
and Kristy and her husband.
00:22:30.96\00:22:32.33
"Oh God, may Your
blood be on Kirk and Chelsea
00:22:32.36\00:22:34.31
and may Your blood be
on Kristy and Andrew. "
00:22:34.51\00:22:36.67
And guess what? We just
found out a few months ago
00:22:36.87\00:22:39.48
that we're going to
become grandparents in October!
00:22:39.68\00:22:42.31
And so I'm praying
because it's Kirk and Chelsea
00:22:42.71\00:22:45.13
having the baby, so
I'm praying "Oh God,
00:22:45.34\00:22:46.71
and may Your blood be on little
baby Nelson... whatever it is. "
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Actually they've
taken the picture.
00:22:50.70\00:22:52.10
They know what the baby is.
00:22:52.31\00:22:53.68
But the kids these days...
you know what they're doing?
00:22:54.13\00:22:56.01
Something I've
never heard of before.
00:22:56.22\00:22:57.59
They have these
gender coming out parties.
00:22:57.62\00:22:59.24
So they're the
only ones who know.
00:23:00.71\00:23:02.08
Everybody's going to
come at the end of June...
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All the family and friends are
going to be gathered together
00:23:03.83\00:23:05.50
and then they're going to
slice a cake. And if it's pink
00:23:05.70\00:23:07.55
you know what it'll
be and if it's blue.
00:23:07.76\00:23:09.13
They kind of do these
things. Can you believe that?
00:23:09.21\00:23:10.98
What's gotten
into this generation?
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Just tell everybody.
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But what a powerful prayer.
Verse 25: "And all the people
00:23:17.05\00:23:20.32
answered and said to
Pilate: 'His blood be on us
00:23:20.42\00:23:22.46
and on our children. ' "
00:23:22.76\00:23:25.45
You know, maybe Roger
Morneau was onto something.
00:23:25.75\00:23:27.59
Maybe you'll read the story
of Calvary every single day
00:23:27.79\00:23:31.01
for the rest of your life.
00:23:31.22\00:23:32.59
Don't tell me your
worship is too busy,
00:23:32.67\00:23:34.04
you don't have the
time. You can slip the story
00:23:34.07\00:23:35.72
of the cross in. I try
to read it every single day.
00:23:35.82\00:23:39.44
I come to verse 25:
00:23:39.64\00:23:41.13
"His blood be on us
and on our children. "
00:23:41.53\00:23:43.72
"Then... " verse 26...
"Pilate released Barabbas
00:23:43.92\00:23:46.34
to them and when he had
scourged Jesus he delivered Him
00:23:46.44\00:23:48.58
to be crucified. "
00:23:48.61\00:23:49.98
Some scholars believe there
were up to three scourgings.
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THREE scourgings.
00:23:52.98\00:23:54.35
You know, the Latins
coined a word: excruciatus
00:23:55.37\00:23:58.67
which means in Latin
"from out of the cross. "
00:23:58.97\00:24:01.53
From whence comes
our English word...
00:24:01.83\00:24:03.28
What English word do you
think comes from excruciatus?
00:24:03.48\00:24:05.94
Excruciating.
The next time you say
00:24:06.24\00:24:08.35
"I have an excruciating
headache" you're saying
00:24:08.56\00:24:10.51
"I have pain that comes
from out of the cross. "
00:24:10.61\00:24:12.89
Whatever the scourging is about,
00:24:13.19\00:24:15.52
whatever this barbaric
form of execution in which you
00:24:15.82\00:24:18.95
in which you
actually asphyxiate...
00:24:19.15\00:24:21.64
you drown, you're
unable to breathe.
00:24:21.74\00:24:25.71
You're nailed in a position
that forbids you to suck your
00:24:25.91\00:24:29.28
diaphragm up finally
far enough to drink in
00:24:29.38\00:24:33.20
a morsel of air.
00:24:33.50\00:24:35.45
You drown.
00:24:35.65\00:24:37.73
Three scourgings. "And
when he released Barabbas
00:24:38.43\00:24:41.35
to them he had Jesus scourged
00:24:41.46\00:24:43.29
and he delivered
Him to be crucified. "
00:24:43.39\00:24:45.12
Drop down to verse 32:
"And now as they came out" -
00:24:45.62\00:24:48.27
this is the Roman
soldiers and Jesus -
00:24:48.47\00:24:50.04
"they found a man of
Cyrene, Simon by name.
00:24:50.34\00:24:53.53
Him they
compelled to bear His cross.
00:24:53.73\00:24:56.18
And when they had come
to a place called Golgotha,
00:24:56.38\00:24:59.22
that is to say 'Place of
the Skull, ' they gave Jesus
00:24:59.42\00:25:01.73
sour wine mingled
with gall to drink.
00:25:01.93\00:25:04.26
But when He had tasted
it He would not drink. "
00:25:04.57\00:25:06.95
If this were a room
full of college students
00:25:07.25\00:25:10.14
which I have the
privilege of serving
00:25:10.44\00:25:12.04
I probably would pause right
there and say: "Wait a minute.
00:25:12.44\00:25:14.51
did you catch what happened?
00:25:14.61\00:25:15.98
They're passing a bottle
around and when it came to Him
00:25:16.21\00:25:18.83
He would not drink. "
00:25:19.13\00:25:21.78
Verse 33: "And when they had
come to a place called Golgotha,
00:25:24.11\00:25:27.53
that is to say
'Place of the Skull, '
00:25:27.73\00:25:29.62
they gave Him sour wine
mingled with gall to drink
00:25:29.73\00:25:32.53
but when He had
tasted it He would not drink.
00:25:32.67\00:25:34.96
Then... " Why
wouldn't He drink by the way?
00:25:35.26\00:25:38.13
Why wouldn't He drink?
00:25:38.44\00:25:39.81
Because He can't risk
a moment of inebriation.
00:25:40.23\00:25:42.86
He can't go one split second
without His mind in instant
00:25:43.06\00:25:46.93
contact with the
King of the Universe.
00:25:47.13\00:25:49.45
I see some younger faces in
this room and so I'm going to
00:25:49.65\00:25:51.71
pause to just remind
you: that's why the devil
00:25:51.81\00:25:54.93
is so big on alcohol.
00:25:55.03\00:25:57.16
The moment you ingest
that fluid it begins slowly
00:25:57.36\00:26:02.21
to put your brain to sleep.
And when you brain is asleep
00:26:02.41\00:26:07.04
it's a heyday for hell.
00:26:07.44\00:26:10.48
God cannot intervene.
When your brain is asleep
00:26:10.78\00:26:14.46
you won't cry for help.
And in that inebriated state
00:26:14.76\00:26:18.34
you may drive a car,
00:26:18.64\00:26:20.31
you may make a sexual decision
00:26:20.51\00:26:22.34
that you'll regret
for the rest of your life.
00:26:22.44\00:26:24.25
But in that inebriated state
it's curtains for moral control.
00:26:24.55\00:26:30.11
That's why alcohol is HUGE
00:26:30.98\00:26:34.78
in the devil's arsenal tonight.
00:26:35.08\00:26:37.58
That's the only reason:
it puts your mind to sleep
00:26:37.78\00:26:40.66
and you can't think.
You say: "I just drink... "
00:26:40.96\00:26:42.92
"I'm not really a big drinker. "
00:26:43.12\00:26:44.78
Any drink: your mind begins
to nod and you're dead meat.
00:26:45.69\00:26:51.62
You learn something
from Jesus right here.
00:26:52.83\00:26:54.69
He would not touch it.
00:26:54.99\00:26:56.36
He will not drink even a
sip. He's dying of thirst.
00:26:56.39\00:26:59.77
He won't touch that liquid.
00:26:59.90\00:27:02.00
Verse 35: "And
then they crucified Him.
00:27:05.55\00:27:07.75
And they divided His garments,
casting lots that it might be
00:27:07.95\00:27:10.44
fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophet
00:27:10.54\00:27:12.32
'They divided My garments
among them and for my clothing
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.48
they cast lots. ' " Verse 36:
00:27:14.68\00:27:16.20
"And sitting down they
kept watch over Him there. "
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.72
That's what you can do every
single morning: just sit down,
00:27:18.92\00:27:21.66
open up Matthew 27. If
you get tired of Matthew 27,
00:27:21.86\00:27:24.90
then you go to Mark 15.
If you get tired of Mark 15,
00:27:25.10\00:27:27.28
you go to Luke 23. If
you're tired of Luke 23,
00:27:27.38\00:27:29.14
then you go to John 19. If
you're tired of the gospels,
00:27:29.24\00:27:31.24
then you read Isaiah 53.
00:27:31.34\00:27:32.71
You've got five
cycles you can go through
00:27:32.96\00:27:35.34
every day and go to Calvary.
00:27:35.45\00:27:37.47
And you'll be a better man
for it; you'll be a better woman
00:27:37.67\00:27:40.32
for it. Go to the foot of
the cross every single day.
00:27:40.42\00:27:43.88
That's what you do.
"Sitting down they kept watch. "
00:27:44.18\00:27:47.41
That's what we're going to
do tonight: we're going to keep
00:27:47.61\00:27:49.45
watch on the figure
on the center cross.
00:27:49.55\00:27:52.25
"Sitting down they
kept watch over Him there. "
00:27:52.56\00:27:54.43
Verse 37: "And they
put up over His head
00:27:54.74\00:27:57.45
the accusation
written against Him:
00:27:57.55\00:27:59.48
THIS IS JESUS
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
00:27:59.79\00:28:02.40
Then two robbers
were crucified with Him,
00:28:02.60\00:28:04.78
one on the right and
the other on the left.
00:28:04.98\00:28:06.35
Those who passed
by blasphemed Him
00:28:06.55\00:28:09.22
wagging their heads and saying
'Ha! You who destroy the temple
00:28:09.42\00:28:12.34
and build it in three
days: save yourself! '
00:28:12.54\00:28:14.52
'Yo! If You're the Son of
God come down from the cross. '
00:28:14.82\00:28:17.87
Likewise the chief priest
also mocked Him with the scribes
00:28:18.27\00:28:21.26
and the elders saying:
'He saved others... Himself
00:28:21.46\00:28:24.20
He cannot save. If He
is the King of Israel,
00:28:24.30\00:28:26.74
let Him come down from the cross
and we will believe in Him.
00:28:26.95\00:28:28.88
He trusted in God...
let Him deliver Him now
00:28:29.18\00:28:31.15
if He will have Him for He
said: I am the Son of God. ' "
00:28:31.35\00:28:34.63
Count them in the New
King James: three times
00:28:34.93\00:28:36.55
the word "if"
appears... three "ifs. "
00:28:36.65\00:28:38.81
Matthew ends with three "ifs. "
00:28:39.11\00:28:40.85
Guess what? Matthew
begins with three "ifs. "
00:28:41.15\00:28:44.57
Have you heard
those "ifs" before?
00:28:44.78\00:28:46.47
Somebody met Him
after 40 days and 40 nights
00:28:47.51\00:28:50.93
without water or food
and said "if, if, if. "
00:28:51.03\00:28:56.95
Someone meets Him. This is the
desperate and final showdown,
00:28:57.26\00:29:02.07
and the three "ifs" are
embedded in those taunts.
00:29:02.27\00:29:05.05
If, if, if.
00:29:05.25\00:29:07.98
If Jesus goes through,
00:29:09.26\00:29:11.20
if He is as victorious
as He was in the wilderness,
00:29:11.40\00:29:15.04
it's finis for Lucifer...
00:29:15.45\00:29:19.57
and he knows it.
00:29:19.88\00:29:21.43
If, if, if.
00:29:21.73\00:29:24.74
"Even the robbers... "
verse 44 Matthew reminds us:
00:29:26.29\00:29:28.71
"Even the robbers who were
crucified with Him reviled Him
00:29:28.81\00:29:31.54
with the same thing. "
Now here we go... here we go.
00:29:31.65\00:29:33.64
Verse 45: "Now from the sixth
hour... " That would be noon.
00:29:35.03\00:29:38.02
"until the ninth hour...
" That would be 3 o'clock
00:29:39.85\00:29:41.82
in the afternoon.
"there was darkness
00:29:41.92\00:29:43.94
over all the land
and about the ninth hour
00:29:44.14\00:29:47.49
Jesus cried out
with a loud voice... "
00:29:47.80\00:29:49.78
Megas lephone in the Greek.
00:29:49.98\00:29:52.01
Megas lephone. What English
word sounds like megas lephone?
00:29:52.22\00:29:55.82
Megaphone!
00:29:56.12\00:29:57.53
Some people think that
this is a little sob, a whimper.
00:29:57.73\00:30:00.54
"Oh My God! " This is no sob.
00:30:00.74\00:30:03.80
This is no whisper.
00:30:04.10\00:30:05.65
This is a scream in the dark!
00:30:05.85\00:30:07.51
"My God, My God,
00:30:07.81\00:30:11.73
why have You forsaken Me? "
00:30:12.62\00:30:13.99
"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? "
00:30:14.18\00:30:16.31
"My God, My God, why
have You forsaken Me? "
00:30:18.51\00:30:23.81
When you stand at the
site of someone's death
00:30:25.48\00:30:29.03
it is a sobering experience.
00:30:29.23\00:30:32.14
What's happening
in that naked scream?
00:30:39.80\00:30:43.21
What's transpiring
in that desperate cry?
00:30:45.62\00:30:51.50
What's up?
00:30:52.26\00:30:53.88
Richard John Neuhaus
00:30:55.00\00:30:56.37
in his book Death
on a Friday Afternoon:
00:30:56.40\00:30:58.78
He jots it down:
"Something has been lost.
00:31:00.42\00:31:03.16
Something has been withdrawn
00:31:03.46\00:31:05.24
and it cannot be called back. "
00:31:05.44\00:31:09.69
Something dreadful
is transpiring now.
00:31:11.11\00:31:16.59
Matthew Arnold, the English
poet... Let me read this to you.
00:31:19.68\00:31:22.89
He captures the sense of lost-
ness in his poem Dover Beach.
00:31:23.99\00:31:27.51
You remember that from
English literature days?
00:31:27.71\00:31:30.68
Dover Beach. Let me
just read a line, a stanza,
00:31:30.98\00:31:32.89
from that poem. The sea of faith
00:31:33.00\00:31:34.89
was once, too, at the
full, and round earth's shore
00:31:35.29\00:31:38.67
lay like the folds of
a bright girdle furled.
00:31:38.87\00:31:42.82
But now I only hear
its melancholy, long,
00:31:43.12\00:31:46.94
withdrawing roar,
00:31:47.04\00:31:48.57
retreating, to the
breath of the night wind
00:31:48.67\00:31:50.40
down the vast edges
drear and naked shingles
00:31:50.51\00:31:53.78
of the world. "
Did you hear that line?
00:31:53.98\00:31:55.98
"Its melancholy,
long, withdrawing roar. "
00:31:56.48\00:32:00.25
Something is being lost here
00:32:00.65\00:32:05.23
that shall not be recovered.
00:32:06.68\00:32:08.79
"My God, My God, why
have You forsaken me? "
00:32:09.29\00:32:14.21
I've heard... I've heard
the scream of human pain.
00:32:18.07\00:32:23.29
I walk down the hospital.
It's part of my sacred duty
00:32:23.69\00:32:26.06
as a pastor to step into
hospitals too frequently.
00:32:26.16\00:32:29.53
I've walked down the
septic corridor of a hospital
00:32:30.03\00:32:34.40
and I've heard
behind a closed door...
00:32:34.60\00:32:35.97
I've heard the
muffled scream of human pain.
00:32:36.09\00:32:38.86
I've heard somebody
screaming behind that door.
00:32:38.97\00:32:41.38
I've heard my children
scream when they were kids.
00:32:44.28\00:32:48.10
I've heard these words "My God"
00:32:49.59\00:32:51.91
but never uttered
like this desperate prayer.
00:32:52.21\00:32:56.90
But I have never in my life
00:32:57.30\00:32:59.70
ever heard a scream like this.
00:33:00.10\00:33:04.22
You know, it is
humanly impossible...
00:33:05.83\00:33:08.30
it is humanly
impossible for you and me
00:33:08.70\00:33:12.15
to possibly fathom the depths
00:33:12.35\00:33:15.79
that are captured by that one
shattering scream in the dark.
00:33:16.49\00:33:21.49
"My God, My God, why
have You cut Me off? "
00:33:22.38\00:33:25.74
Is this the cry of human pain?
00:33:29.04\00:33:33.46
Do you suppose that's it?
00:33:33.66\00:33:35.03
"Why? Why? Why? "
00:33:35.80\00:33:37.88
Is that it do you think?
00:33:38.18\00:33:39.80
I've stood by parents...
00:33:40.11\00:33:41.56
I've stood by
all sizes of caskets.
00:33:42.85\00:33:45.23
Full-size caskets.
00:33:47.84\00:33:50.27
Tiny little 18" caskets.
00:33:51.68\00:33:54.56
I've stood beside parents
sobbing over that clay form...
00:33:55.81\00:34:00.85
the tears salty
00:34:01.35\00:34:04.68
falling onto that
lifeless promise of hope.
00:34:05.08\00:34:10.07
I've heard the question... I've
heard the question 100 times.
00:34:11.05\00:34:14.13
Why? Why? Why?
00:34:14.33\00:34:19.21
Is this the cry of human pain?
00:34:19.51\00:34:21.19
Is this the cry
of human suffering?
00:34:21.30\00:34:22.68
"God, why is this
happening to me? "
00:34:22.88\00:34:24.25
Is that what Jesus is crying?
00:34:24.38\00:34:26.18
Is He crying: "Why is
this happening to me? "
00:34:26.58\00:34:29.47
You remember Mel Gibson
and The Passion of the Christ?
00:34:31.49\00:34:33.96
Does that kind of ring
a bell? It was years ago.
00:34:34.16\00:34:36.00
Remember they came out
with this full-length Hollywood
00:34:36.50\00:34:39.06
production on the death
of Jesus. You remember that?
00:34:39.16\00:34:41.84
So I get this
little letter in the mail
00:34:42.14\00:34:44.15
and it says For Senior
Pastors only with your spouse.
00:34:44.55\00:34:47.77
Must bring photo I.D.
00:34:47.97\00:34:49.97
Come to Chicago to
a private showing -
00:34:53.99\00:34:57.54
pre-release showing - of
The Passion of the Christ.
00:34:57.74\00:35:01.30
So I went over.
00:35:03.25\00:35:04.74
In a church.
00:35:05.24\00:35:07.20
Senior Pastors
only... their spouses.
00:35:07.50\00:35:09.96
Checked your I.D. at the door.
00:35:10.46\00:35:12.45
They didn't want the
press to get an advance
00:35:12.55\00:35:14.09
because it has already stirred
up quite a bit of controversy.
00:35:14.29\00:35:16.73
And you've got to admit
it was a pretty brilliant
00:35:17.03\00:35:18.91
marketing tactic for whoever
was putting that together.
00:35:19.01\00:35:21.53
I sat beside a pastor.
00:35:21.93\00:35:23.86
I'm telling you: he
cried all the way through.
00:35:24.27\00:35:27.40
The scene of Jesus' scourging
is just... it's just revolting.
00:35:28.52\00:35:33.22
But if you watch Mel
Gibson's treatment of Calvary
00:35:33.72\00:35:36.88
you'll walk away with the
conclusion that what Calvary
00:35:37.08\00:35:39.25
is about is human pain.
00:35:39.35\00:35:40.72
"Whoa... whoa did
He suffer for me! "
00:35:40.88\00:35:44.16
And if we make the conclusion
that the cross is about
00:35:45.49\00:35:48.52
human pain we have missed
the whole point of Calvary.
00:35:48.62\00:35:51.94
I had a dear, dear
friend who died of cancer
00:35:53.48\00:35:56.36
tethered to a morphine drip.
00:35:57.54\00:35:59.97
You can't tell me
six hours on the cross
00:36:00.97\00:36:03.43
is equivalent to
three weeks of that drip.
00:36:03.63\00:36:07.71
Can't be. There have
been martyrs who have died...
00:36:08.11\00:36:11.04
My friend Steve Bohr is
taking us through the Dark Ages
00:36:11.24\00:36:13.97
with this Jezebel and
Elijah. That's good stuff.
00:36:14.47\00:36:17.48
Great teaching.
00:36:17.69\00:36:19.75
There have been martyrs who
have died more painful deaths
00:36:19.95\00:36:23.02
than Calvary. Come
on... let's be honest.
00:36:23.22\00:36:24.83
Calvary's not the
summit of human pain.
00:36:25.13\00:36:27.64
Something else is
happening at Calvary.
00:36:27.94\00:36:29.64
Something else is
transpiring in that center...
00:36:29.94\00:36:33.30
on that center cross.
00:36:33.51\00:36:34.88
Let me read this to you.
This is Desire of Ages page 753.
00:36:34.97\00:36:38.65
This classic on the life
of Jesus. Listen to this:
00:36:40.06\00:36:42.08
"All His life Christ had been
publishing to a fallen world
00:36:42.28\00:36:45.64
the good news of the Father's
mercy and pardoning love.
00:36:45.84\00:36:48.73
Salvation for the chief
of sinners was His theme. "
00:36:49.13\00:36:52.24
When Jesus is giving a theme
do you know what He's talking
00:36:52.44\00:36:54.66
about every single time?
00:36:54.76\00:36:56.33
Salvation for
the chief of sinners.
00:36:56.43\00:36:58.53
God is not
somebody to be afraid of.
00:36:58.73\00:37:00.17
God is somebody
to be a friend of.
00:37:00.27\00:37:01.64
You run not from
Him... run TO Him.
00:37:01.67\00:37:04.04
Run to Him.
00:37:04.24\00:37:05.98
Jesus' stories are
to draw us back to God.
00:37:06.18\00:37:10.26
Not a God that is the
harshest critic in the universe.
00:37:11.35\00:37:16.40
A God who is the greatest
lover, the greatest Father,
00:37:16.60\00:37:20.50
the Mother, the One
whose arms are outstretched.
00:37:20.60\00:37:23.99
Salvation... Did you catch that?
00:37:25.91\00:37:28.65
"Salvation for the chief
of sinners was His theme.
00:37:28.85\00:37:31.86
But now with the terrible
weight of guilt He bears
00:37:32.06\00:37:34.46
He cannot see the
Father's reconciling face.
00:37:34.66\00:37:38.05
The withdrawal of the divine
countenance from the Savior
00:37:38.48\00:37:40.55
in this hour of supreme anguish
00:37:40.75\00:37:42.62
pierced His heart with a
sorrow that can never be fully
00:37:42.82\00:37:45.27
understood by man. " Now
listen: "So great was this agony
00:37:45.37\00:37:48.94
that His physical
pain was hardly felt. "
00:37:49.14\00:37:51.14
Is Calvary about physical pain?
00:37:51.64\00:37:54.01
No it is not.
00:37:54.41\00:37:55.78
It's not about pain.
That movie was wrong.
00:37:55.93\00:37:58.54
Calvary is not about human pain.
00:38:00.29\00:38:03.04
Calvary is about
the divine price.
00:38:03.54\00:38:06.79
The divine price to
redeem us from that pain...
00:38:07.30\00:38:10.78
this painful existence.
00:38:11.08\00:38:13.02
Well Dwight, are you saying that
there's no pain in this story?
00:38:14.30\00:38:18.23
Are you serious?
00:38:18.43\00:38:20.53
This is brutal to the max!
00:38:21.03\00:38:24.39
This is no
anesthetized picnic for Jesus.
00:38:26.86\00:38:29.73
Excruciatus, remember? Barbaric!
00:38:32.05\00:38:35.35
From out of the
cross He's suffering.
00:38:35.65\00:38:37.48
But how did she put it here?
00:38:37.89\00:38:39.63
"So great was this agony
00:38:39.83\00:38:41.43
that His physical
pain was hardly felt. "
00:38:41.53\00:38:42.90
What agony are
you talking about?
00:38:43.00\00:38:44.37
She's talking... "I'm
talking about, " she said,
00:38:44.47\00:38:46.73
"the mental agony.
" The mental agony.
00:38:46.93\00:38:50.67
Something is happening.
00:38:50.87\00:38:52.76
That's why that cross
goes dark for three hours -
00:38:53.06\00:38:55.59
pitch black - because God
said "I'm not letting anybody
00:38:55.79\00:39:00.13
in this universe
see this moment now. "
00:39:00.23\00:39:01.88
"I will be in those
shadows along with My Son. "
00:39:02.19\00:39:04.78
"Nobody will see
this... He won't even know. "
00:39:05.08\00:39:07.74
"My God, why
have You cut me off? "
00:39:07.94\00:39:09.92
But in that
funerial pall of blackness
00:39:11.31\00:39:15.95
something's happening.
00:39:16.19\00:39:18.03
Something's happening.
The only cryptic clue we have
00:39:18.24\00:39:22.62
to what is
happening on that center cross
00:39:22.82\00:39:25.26
is this line...
this naked scream.
00:39:25.56\00:39:29.64
Read verse 46 again:
"And about the ninth hour
00:39:30.14\00:39:32.58
Jesus called out with a... "
megaphone... "with a loud voice
00:39:32.78\00:39:35.01
saying 'Eloi,
Eloi, lama sabachthani? '
00:39:35.21\00:39:37.34
That is: 'My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me? ' "
00:39:37.54\00:39:42.37
Where did Jesus get that line?
00:39:44.19\00:39:45.92
Where did the
Savior of the world find
00:39:46.94\00:39:52.19
that line?
00:39:52.22\00:39:53.59
It's a prayer. It's a
prayer from the Old Testament.
00:39:54.62\00:39:56.92
I want you to go to
that one little prayer
00:39:57.12\00:40:00.50
and the cryptic
clue is embedded there.
00:40:00.70\00:40:02.24
Go back to Psalm 22.
00:40:02.44\00:40:05.11
Psalm 22.
00:40:06.48\00:40:08.29
It is more than obvious
the moment we begin to read
00:40:09.73\00:40:12.86
Psalm 22 that there's
only one person in the universe
00:40:13.06\00:40:16.65
that could possibly
ever have prayed this prayer
00:40:16.85\00:40:19.84
in its entirety. Can't be David.
00:40:20.04\00:40:21.82
It cannot be David... it
must be the Son of David.
00:40:22.02\00:40:24.94
Psalm 22... I want you
to go back to Psalm 22.
00:40:25.25\00:40:27.71
Turn back... don't
miss this in your own Bible.
00:40:28.01\00:40:30.68
You'll be amazed at
what you see now in Psalm 22.
00:40:30.88\00:40:33.93
Jesus has reached
back to that ancient prayer
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.94
and He has put it on His lips
and we hear only the first line.
00:40:37.14\00:40:43.04
Some scholars believe
that there was a practice in
00:40:43.95\00:40:46.07
synagogues where the leader
up front would begin a prayer,
00:40:46.27\00:40:50.97
a Psalm, by
reciting the first line.
00:40:51.07\00:40:54.07
And then all the worshipers,
having learned that prayer
00:40:54.98\00:40:58.75
as they did, all the worshipers
would then quietly under their
00:40:58.85\00:41:02.31
breath be repeating the
prayer all the way through.
00:41:02.41\00:41:04.89
What is amazing is that it works
for the middle cross at Calvary.
00:41:06.02\00:41:11.42
The opening line of
the prayer is cried out
00:41:11.72\00:41:14.23
by our Lord Himself.
00:41:16.62\00:41:18.48
Psalm 22 verse 1:
"My God... " There it is!
00:41:18.88\00:41:22.11
"My God... why
have You forsaken Me?
00:41:22.31\00:41:25.10
Why are You so
far from helping Me
00:41:25.30\00:41:27.58
from the words of my groaning?
00:41:27.78\00:41:29.49
Oh My God, I cry in the
daytime but You do not hear
00:41:29.69\00:41:32.25
and in the night
season I am not silent. "
00:41:32.46\00:41:34.71
"Where are You? "
00:41:35.47\00:41:37.23
"I'm crying to You.
Can You not hear Me now? "
00:41:37.53\00:41:41.39
Something is happening in
the mind of the one praying.
00:41:45.63\00:41:49.19
Watch this.
Drop down to verse 6:
00:41:49.39\00:41:51.10
"But I... "
What's it say in yours?
00:41:51.30\00:41:53.62
"I am a... I am a worm. "
00:41:53.82\00:41:56.31
"I am a worm and no
man, a reproach of man
00:41:57.58\00:42:01.61
and despised by the people. "
00:42:01.71\00:42:03.34
"I am a worm. "
00:42:03.74\00:42:05.51
Jesus, You're not a worm!
00:42:05.81\00:42:08.80
You're the eternal God
incarnated in human flesh.
00:42:09.20\00:42:11.83
That's what You are...
don't forget it, Jesus.
00:42:11.96\00:42:13.73
No! "I am a worm. "
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.79
Something has happened to
Jesus because just hours earlier
00:42:16.29\00:42:19.53
in that high priestly
prayer on the way to Gethsemane
00:42:19.73\00:42:21.83
John 17 He says:
"Oh Father, by the way,
00:42:22.03\00:42:24.16
remember the glory
that I shared with You
00:42:24.46\00:42:27.17
from the beginning. "
00:42:27.47\00:42:29.30
He knew then who He was.
00:42:29.70\00:42:33.14
But now: "I am a worm
and no man, a reproach
00:42:33.44\00:42:38.65
to man and
despised by the people. "
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.74
What is happening to Jesus?
00:42:41.04\00:42:42.58
I'll tell you, ladies and
gentlemen, what is happening
00:42:42.78\00:42:44.20
to Jesus. Isaiah 53 verse 6.
00:42:44.30\00:42:46.79
"All we... " Say
it out loud with me.
00:42:47.09\00:42:49.13
"All we like
sheep have gone astray.
00:42:49.33\00:42:51.05
We have turned every
one to his own way and
00:42:51.25\00:42:54.85
the Lord has laid
on Him... " Tell me.
00:42:55.05\00:42:58.79
Tell me.
00:42:59.19\00:43:00.56
How much of the iniquity?
00:43:01.16\00:43:02.94
All. How many
people in this room?
00:43:03.24\00:43:05.33
How many
viewers on this network?
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How many human beings?
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All! "The Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all. "
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You say: "Dwight, what
sins would that include? "
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All. But don't worry about all
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because the
moment I said iniquity,
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the moment we
injected the word sin,
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your mind just like that saw it.
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You know what it is.
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Whatever the sin is
it doesn't matter to me.
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I have my own
struggles, trust me.
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But the moment we
think sin and iniquity
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immediately if the
conscience is working
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this vehicle through
which the Holy Spirit speaks
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just like that we got it.
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We know whatever that sin is.
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Doesn't matter
to me what yours is.
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You have it... I have it.
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"The Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all. "
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You say: "Dwight,
I don't have it. "
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We have the sin of lying so now
you're also in that category.
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We ALL have sinned.
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Isaiah 53:6: "The Lord hath laid
on Him the iniquity of us all. "
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II Corinthians
chapter 5 verse 21.
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"God made Him who knew
no sin to be sin for us
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that we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him. "
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He's made to be sin.
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You say: "No, no, no, no... I
don't see how that could work. "
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Me either.
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But the sheer naked
terror and agony of Calvary
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is proof enough it worked!
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The sins got transferred.
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"Behold the Lamb of
God... " Who does what?
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"Who takes
away... " John 1:29...
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"who takes away the
sins of the world. "
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The sin of the world.
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Something mysterious...
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something has been
unsheathed in the darkness
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and now that dagger is slowly
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being brought to the
heart of God made flesh.
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Wow! "I am a worm and no man,
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a reproach of man and
despised by the people. "
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Now keep reading. You say:
"Dwight, I don't really think
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this is Calvary. "
So the opening works but
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keep reading, verse
7: "All those who see Me
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ridicule Me. " Remember, He's
praying under His breath now.
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"All those who
see Me ridicule Me.
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They shoot out the lip, they
shake their heads saying... "
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Ha! Verse 8: "He trusted in
the Lord, let Him rescue Him.
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Let Him deliver Him
since He delights in Him. "
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Have you heard those
words before tonight?
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Have you heard the
words tonight? Yes you have.
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Who... who taunted
Him with those words?
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The rabble from the
chief priest and the thieves.
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"He trusted God,
let Him rescue Him. "
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Oh, look at verse 9:
"But You are He who took Me
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out of the womb.
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You made Me trust while
on My mother's breast. "
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There's never a mention
of the father - of a father -
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in Psalm 22.
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The only mention is of a mother.
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"He took Me from
My mother's breast. "
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Keep reading.
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"I was cast upon You from birth.
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From My mother's womb
You have been My God. "
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Hit the pause button right
there... I need to tell you
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something
fascinating right there.
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"You have been My God" in
the Hebrew reads like this:
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eli or eli attah.
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"You have been My
God. " Eli means My God...
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"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? "
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"You have been
My God. " Eli attah.
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BUT if you're listening
to somebody speaking in the
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original tongue, if you're
listening to it being prayed
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in the original language and
you're not listening carefully
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instead of hearing Eli
attah you can hear Eli attah...
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And Eli attah means Elijah come.
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And the men in the dark
at the foot of the cross
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hear this naked
scream and "Shhhh...
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He's calling for Elijah.
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Let's see if Elijah comes. "
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Steve Bohr
preaching about Elijah.
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Elijah at
Calvary. They misheard Him.
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He said: "You have
been My God. " Eli attah
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and they heard Eli attah.
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It's just where
you put the vowels.
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Still not
convinced this is a Calvary?
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That there's only one person
in the universe who could ever
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have prayed this prayer and
meant it all the way through?
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Keep reading. Verse 15:
"My strength is dried up
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like a potsherd and My
tongue clings to My jaw. "
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When does your tongue
cling to the top or the bottom
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of your mouth?
When does it cling?
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When you are thirsty!
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Don't miss Sabbath
morning... I'll talk about that.
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"My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust
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of death. " Now
look at verse 16:
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"For dogs have surrounded Me;
the congregation of the wicked
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has enclosed Me.
They pierced My... "
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There's only one person in the
universe who could have prayed
00:48:35.64\00:48:37.88
this prayer. He's
praying it right now.
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Look at verse 17: "I
can count all My bones;
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they look and
they stare at Me. "
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You know why?
Because He's raw naked.
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They've stripped
Him of His last dignity.
00:48:46.69\00:48:48.87
They're gambling
over what He had.
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Verse 18: "They
divide My garments among them
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and for My
clothing they cast lots. "
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Isn't that amazing?
00:49:00.92\00:49:03.36
"My God, My God, why
have You forsaken Me? "
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And then the prayer goes...
the prayer goes subterranean.
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The prayer goes
inside and just as muttering,
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as mumbling,
00:49:11.99\00:49:13.48
slowly praying the
great Messianic Psalm 22.
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But then something
very interesting happens.
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In fact, Felix Mendelssohn
when he decides to make this
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grand choral
composition of Psalm 22
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right there in the middle of
verse 21 he moves from the minor
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to the major key.
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Verse 21: "Save Me
from the lion's mouth
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and from the horns
of the wild oxen... "
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Pause... And some of your
newer translations actually show
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a space there...
You see that space.
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There's a space -
pause. Now in the major key
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"You have answered Me. "
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Everything now is
moving toward this positive.
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Positive, positive...
but I've got to take you
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to that last line.
Watch this... verse 31:
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"They will come... "
He's still praying...
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"They will come and declare
His righteousness to a people
00:50:01.67\00:50:03.89
who will be born
that He has done this. "
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If that phrase is
taken... if it's translated
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in the Hebrew,
instead of "He has done this"
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it can be
translated "It is finished! "
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He prayed that
prayer from beginning to end
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because we needed a cryptic
clue to know what's happening.
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If Calvary is not about human
pain, then what's it about?
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It's about the divine price.
00:50:27.15\00:50:28.52
And what is the divine price?
00:50:28.66\00:50:30.33
The divine price is you
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must pay the wages of sin.
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Romans 6:23: "For the
wages of sin is death,
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but the gift of
God is eternal life. "
00:50:45.22\00:50:47.41
What kind of death is it?
00:50:47.62\00:50:49.14
The opposite of the
gift. What's the gift?
00:50:49.55\00:50:51.47
Eternal life. Then what
kind of death would it be?
00:50:51.67\00:50:53.92
Eternal death.
00:50:54.22\00:50:55.96
Eternal death.
00:50:56.26\00:50:57.88
God made Him to be sin.
00:50:57.98\00:51:00.55
"My God, You have... "
This is it! This is it.
00:51:01.25\00:51:05.81
"You have cut Me off. "
00:51:06.05\00:51:08.36
Desire of Ages again.
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Page 753 and 772.
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"Satan with his fierce
temptations wrung the heart
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of Jesus. " Ladies, come on.
00:51:34.34\00:51:36.49
You know, you're mopping up
the kitchen after your husband
00:51:36.60\00:51:39.17
was there... and cleaning it up.
00:51:39.27\00:51:41.45
And gentlemen, we really
should be doing this ourselves.
00:51:41.65\00:51:44.16
When you take that dishcloth
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and you've wiped it all down
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what do you do
with that dishcloth?
00:51:49.61\00:51:50.98
What does it mean when
you wring that dishcloth out?
00:51:51.18\00:51:54.07
What do you do with it?
00:51:54.27\00:51:55.64
You put all the strength
you have in those delicate hands
00:51:55.67\00:51:57.81
of yours and you clutch that
cloth and you twist the hand.
00:51:57.92\00:52:00.37
And that which is in your
hands is just twisted until
00:52:00.47\00:52:03.61
the last drop of water's gone.
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"Satan with his
fierce temptations
00:52:07.12\00:52:10.88
has wrung the heart of Jesus.
00:52:11.18\00:52:13.72
The Savior could not
see... " Now listen carefully:
00:52:14.12\00:52:16.79
"The Savior could not see
through the portals of the tomb.
00:52:16.99\00:52:19.42
Hope did not present
to Him His coming forth
00:52:19.72\00:52:21.77
from the grave a conqueror
or tell him of the Father's
00:52:21.97\00:52:24.23
acceptance of the sacrifice.
00:52:24.44\00:52:25.93
Jesus feared that sin
was so offensive to God that
00:52:26.13\00:52:28.66
their separation
was to be eternal. "
00:52:28.86\00:52:32.39
"It's over... I am
gone... You have cut Me off. "
00:52:33.62\00:52:37.70
You see, we always have Jesus
dying but He knows "I'll be up.
00:52:40.12\00:52:42.99
I'll be up... no big deal.
00:52:43.29\00:52:45.28
I've died... now I'll come up. "
00:52:45.58\00:52:46.99
Satan had so wrung His heart
00:52:50.56\00:52:53.36
in the desperate last-ditch hope
00:52:53.76\00:52:57.44
that He might walk away
from this cross and say:
00:52:57.64\00:52:59.68
"You can have this sorry
lot. I'm coming home, Father. "
00:52:59.88\00:53:03.59
And could He
have? Could He have?
00:53:03.89\00:53:06.34
He could have and we
never would have been born.
00:53:06.54\00:53:10.65
Gone.
00:53:12.26\00:53:14.20
Satan wrung His heart.
00:53:16.74\00:53:19.33
Jesus believed that their
separation was to be eternal.
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Now here's page 772: "It
was not the spear thrust,
00:53:23.57\00:53:26.68
it was not the pain of the cross
that caused the death of Jesus.
00:53:26.78\00:53:29.62
That cry uttered
with a loud voice
00:53:29.92\00:53:31.80
at the moment of death,
the stream of blood and water
00:53:32.00\00:53:34.20
that flowed from His
side declared that He died
00:53:34.30\00:53:36.35
of a broken heart.
00:53:36.45\00:53:37.86
His heart was
broken by mental anguish.
00:53:38.16\00:53:40.79
He was slain by
the sin of the world. "
00:53:41.09\00:53:44.39
My sin. That darling little sin
that you refuse to let go of.
00:53:46.11\00:53:50.71
The one that came to your mind
just a moment ago when I said
00:53:51.02\00:53:53.40
"sin. " Bing... you saw it.
00:53:53.60\00:53:55.44
That sin that for some
reason we refuse to part with.
00:53:55.74\00:53:59.81
That sin killed Him.
00:54:00.66\00:54:04.57
One sin... just one.
00:54:04.87\00:54:08.47
Have mercy is
the sinner's prayer.
00:54:10.77\00:54:15.43
Have mercy on me.
00:54:16.75\00:54:18.50
I killed the Son of God.
00:54:18.80\00:54:22.22
Died forever.
00:54:23.98\00:54:25.79
Died forever. You say:
"Well He didn't die forever. "
00:54:27.45\00:54:30.66
Oh yes He did.
00:54:31.06\00:54:32.56
I heard a little
story when I was a boy.
00:54:32.96\00:54:34.44
I'll share it
with you in closing.
00:54:34.74\00:54:36.31
The story about
another little boy.
00:54:37.66\00:54:39.64
Maybe it was Uncle
Arthur's Bedtime Stories.
00:54:39.74\00:54:41.18
I don't know where I heard
this story but it's just been in
00:54:41.29\00:54:43.24
my mind ever since.
00:54:43.34\00:54:44.71
A little boy desperately ill.
00:54:44.85\00:54:48.22
Doctors examine him and
they discover that they need...
00:54:50.74\00:54:54.94
he, the boy, must have
life-saving blood or it's over.
00:54:55.08\00:54:59.27
Now in a case where a
child needs blood who do you...
00:54:59.64\00:55:03.24
whom is tested first?
00:55:03.54\00:55:05.52
Huh? Of course the mother.
00:55:05.82\00:55:07.90
The mother... she bore him.
00:55:08.20\00:55:09.59
DNA didn't work.
00:55:10.81\00:55:12.52
Next one would be? Papa.
00:55:12.82\00:55:14.75
Didn't work.
00:55:15.06\00:55:16.43
Next one? Little
sister. It worked. Yeah.
00:55:16.86\00:55:21.59
The doctors were very pleased
they found the lifesaver.
00:55:21.94\00:55:25.96
So they get down on their
knees and the papa's there
00:55:26.26\00:55:28.50
and they say: "Now listen
honey, we need your blood.
00:55:28.70\00:55:32.63
Take some of your blood...
00:55:33.86\00:55:35.23
you'll save your brother's life.
00:55:35.63\00:55:37.81
Would you be willing? "
00:55:38.01\00:55:39.38
She turned her little face away
00:55:39.51\00:55:42.35
lost in thought.
00:55:42.65\00:55:44.23
Finally she turns back and looks
up into that ring of adults
00:55:44.63\00:55:47.61
staring down at her
and she bobs her curls.
00:55:47.81\00:55:49.73
She would do it.
00:55:49.93\00:55:51.30
So they take her into the
laboratory. You've given blood;
00:55:51.47\00:55:53.73
you know it is:
chush, chush, chush...
00:55:53.83\00:55:55.20
and there it goes into
that little plastic bag.
00:55:55.23\00:55:57.26
Lifesaving blood.
00:55:57.46\00:55:59.11
When the procedure is
over hold that cotton swab.
00:55:59.41\00:56:02.60
As she's walking out of
the lab beside her daddy
00:56:02.90\00:56:05.12
she reaches up and she
tugs at her daddy's coat
00:56:05.42\00:56:07.91
and she says: "Papa,
when will I die now? "
00:56:08.01\00:56:11.37
And like a bolt out of
the blue it hit the dad:
00:56:14.85\00:56:20.20
she just went through
that procedure believing
00:56:21.12\00:56:24.32
that she would die.
00:56:25.40\00:56:27.12
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm
asking you a question right now:
00:56:27.32\00:56:29.33
did that little girl die
for her brother? Yes or no.
00:56:29.63\00:56:33.42
Of course she did.
00:56:33.72\00:56:35.09
Where did she
die? She died up here.
00:56:35.12\00:56:36.50
She paid the price:
I'm dead... you live.
00:56:36.70\00:56:39.09
Did Jesus die the forever death?
00:56:39.49\00:56:41.67
Absolutely, yes He
did... He died it up here.
00:56:42.07\00:56:45.15
"My God, You've cut Me off. "
00:56:45.36\00:56:47.04
He died it up
here forever and ever.
00:56:47.34\00:56:51.24
He was willing to die forever
00:56:51.54\00:56:52.91
so that you and I
might live forever.
00:56:53.03\00:56:55.58
He was willing to die forever
00:56:55.78\00:56:58.60
so that you and I
might live forever.
00:56:58.81\00:57:01.59
There's only one word for that.
00:57:02.30\00:57:04.08
"For I am convinced
that nothing in all creation
00:57:05.08\00:57:09.47
shall be able to
separate us from the love of God
00:57:09.68\00:57:13.27
which is in Christ Jesus. "
00:57:13.47\00:57:15.76
Let's pray.
00:57:17.31\00:57:19.12
Oh God, that love:
00:57:19.42\00:57:22.61
that love that
will not let us go,
00:57:22.81\00:57:24.75
that love that is
ours forever and ever.
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We bow in absolute...
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