In the beginning
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of creation
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when the world
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was formed
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though God in His splendor
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this world He had rendered
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still, the best
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was yet to come.
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God's
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greatest glory...
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the world's
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love story
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written just
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for me:
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Jesus
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is God's
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greatest glory.
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From His birth in a manger
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to His death on Calvary
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He fulfilled
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the Father's plan.
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Jesus Christ...
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the sacrifice...
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giving hope
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to every man.
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God's
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greatest glory...
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the world's
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love story
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written just for me:
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Jesus
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is God's
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greatest glory...
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Jesus
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is God's
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greatest glory.
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Amen! Thank you Melody.
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Lisa?
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There's a land
that is fairer than day,
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and by faith
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we can see it afar.
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For the Father
waits over the way
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to prepare us
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a dwelling place there.
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In the sweet
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by and by
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we shall meet
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on that beautiful shore.
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In the sweet
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by and by
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we shall meet
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on that beautiful shore.
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To our bountiful Father
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above... Sing it with us now...
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we will offer a
tribute of praise
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for the glorious
gift of His love -
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and those
blessings - and the blessings
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that hallow our days.
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In the sweet
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by and by
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we shall meet on
that beautiful shore.
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In the sweet
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by and by
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we shall meet on that beautiful
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shore...
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We shall meet
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on that beautiful
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shore...
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beautiful shore.
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All right! Thank you,
girls. Thank you, Jim.
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Danny, we have
really appreciated so much
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the sermons that Pastor Dwight
Nelson has been bringing us.
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Amen. And Pastor Stephen Bohr
was with us earlier in the week.
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He had another appointment
this weekend so when he
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wrapped up yesterday he
rushed right out of here
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for his next appointment.
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But as we have continued
this series on the cross
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what a blessing it has been.
Amen. As I mentioned earlier
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in the week, Pastor
Dwight Nelson for thirty years
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has been the pastor of
the Pioneer Memorial Church.
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He went there when he
was 15 years old and he...
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It's amazing. There
are not very many pastors
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that last thirty years. I
think Dwight and maybe one other
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is all I've ever heard of.
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So his wife Karen
is right by his side
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and his son Kirk lives
there in Berrien Springs.
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He's married. By the way
they're expecting a grandchild
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in October and we're
looking forward to that.
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Kristen, his
daughter, is married as well.
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She lives in the
Portland, Oregon, area.
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And so Pastor Dwight
will be bringing us the sermon
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this morning: Near the
Cross Finis - which is Latin for
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Finish - The Last Word.
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Before he does, Danny
Shelton is going to sing for us
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one of my
all-time favorite songs -
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and there's no one I'd
rather hear sing it than Danny -
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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
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O soul, are you weary
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and troubled?
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No light in
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the darkness you see?
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There's light for a look at
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the Savior,
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And life so abundant
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and free!
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Turn your eyes
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upon Jesus,
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Look full
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in His wonderful face;
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And the things of earth
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will grow strangely dim
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In the light of His glory
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and grace.
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His word
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will not fail you
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He's promised;
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Believe Him
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and all will be well:
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Then go to a world
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that is dying,
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His perfect salvation
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to tell. Sing it with me now...
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Turn your eyes
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upon Jesus,
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Look full in
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His wonderful face;
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And the things of earth
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will grow strangely dim
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in the light
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of His glory
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and grace.
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In the light
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of His glory
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and grace. Amen!
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Oh, that was beautiful!
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That's why we come to worship.
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We come so that He
might be the vision
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that we
encounter... that we take away
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every time we go to church.
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Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
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Well, I'm happy to tell you
that in the federal penitentiary
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just south of Marion, Illinois,
this morning they had worship.
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Amen.
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And it was such an
honor to leave here at 7:00 AM
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and head down there
with a team of dedicated
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3ABN workers.
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Talking about Brian
Hamilton, the treasurer of this
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organization, his wife Diane,
a volunteer here named Dan,
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the Marshalls. And they're
not only doing Sabbath morning.
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They've got another
twice a month Sabbath afternoon
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at another jail service.
They'll be there this afternoon.
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They have a Thursday
night every week at another jail
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and then they're with
the women on Monday nights
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at another jail. Absolutely
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a God-anointed ministry.
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You know, I just kept
thinking of it as I was there.
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I had the
privilege of preaching there.
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Jesus said: "I was in
prison and you took the time. "
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He didn't say what
I was in prison for...
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He just said:
"I was in prison. "
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Doesn't mean just visit those
who are wrongfully accused.
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That means anybody in jail.
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And this is an
incredible ministry.
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So Dan led in a little
praise time before the teaching.
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And all right, OK,
anyone give praise?
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And one prisoner's hand
went up; his name is Mark.
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And he said:
"You know I praise God
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I listen to 3ABN on the radio. "
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He said: "I praise God because
I've been getting all this
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interference, interference,
interference and then
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the penitentiary reconfigured
all the televisions... "
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in his wing at least
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and he said: "The interference
is gone, Hallelujah! "
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Amen. You know, you take
3ABN for granted where you are.
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You watch it, you listen
to it, you get it online.
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But here is a prisoner
in a federal penitentiary...
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that's a lifeline for him.
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So when they receive an
offering at this Camp Meeting
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season of the year I
hope you do something more
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than just a dollar
bill in that bucket.
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This ministry goes 24/7
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to the entire planet...
penitentiaries included.
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Amen! "I was in
prison and you came to Me
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through the
radio. " What a gift!
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Praise God is right!
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I want to pray with you
and then plunge into our
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teaching this
morning. Father, thank you
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for that call through Danny
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to turn our eyes...
turn our eyes upon Jesus.
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May He be front
and center right now.
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He's whom we
want to go home with.
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So let Him be
clear... let Him be seen.
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Hide me... hide all of us
in the shadow of His presence.
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We pray in His name, Amen.
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So I go to
Google and I type in...
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you can ask Google anything
you want and so I type in:
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"Can you die of
a broken heart? "
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1.27 second later it gives me
what? 500,000 different answers.
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I took the first
one... Washington Post.
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Have it right
here... let me read this.
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Can you die of a broken heart?
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"The idea that someone
can die from a broken heart
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has long been subject
of folklore, soap operas,
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and literature. Researchers have
known that stress can trigger
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heart attacks in
people prone to them,
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and a syndrome resembling
a heart attack in otherwise
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healthy people after
acute emotional stress
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has been reported in Japan"
- where I was born and grew up
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for 14 years. "But very little
was known about this phenomenon
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in this country and no one
had any idea how it happened. "
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Now quoting Ilan Wittstein
of the Johns Hopkins School
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of Medicine in Baltimore
he said: "When you think about
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people who have
died of a 'broken heart'
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there are probably
several ways that can happen. "
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His research, by the way,
reported in the New England
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Journal of Medicine. He goes on:
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"A broken heart can kill you
and this may be one of the ways:
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a traumatic break up,
the death of a loved one,
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or even the shock of a surprise
party can unleash a flood of
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stress hormones that can
stun the heart causing sudden
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life-threatening heart spasms
in otherwise healthy people
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researchers have reported. "
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Now the condition is
called stress cardiomyopathy.
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OK?
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They're
studying this phenomenon.
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The study should help improve
treatment for patients who
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might otherwise receive
drugs or other therapies
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that could do
more harm than good. "
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"I think I'm having a
heart attack... " so they
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give you the heart attack
drugs. No, you're not having
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a heart attack...
this is a stress attack.
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The treatment is
completely different
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so it's a big deal.
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One more line here
quoting Wittstein again:
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"Our hypothesis is that massive
amounts of these stress hormones
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can go right to the
heart and produce a stunning
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of the heart muscle that causes
this temporary dysfunction
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resembling a heart attack.
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It doesn't kill the heart muscle
like a typical heart attack
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but it renders it
helpless... it just stops. "
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Amazing.
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We've been going to
Calvary... you and I...
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these last few
sessions together.
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Wednesday night we were at
Thursday night - the upper room.
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Then Thursday night it's Friday.
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Last night it was
Friday in the gospels.
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This morning it's Friday.
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Tonight we end. Sunday,
Sunday... don't miss tonight.
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I want to go one last time
to the story of Calvary here.
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And there's one gospel
we haven't gotten to yet:
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and that would be
the gospel of? John.
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So let's go to
John... the gospel of John.
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Open your Bible up. Can
you die of a broken heart?
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John chapter 19.
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You know, you read... If
you read the Calvary story
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every single
morning of your life,
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just weave it into your worship,
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you could do a whole
lot worse, couldn't you?
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Remember that idea I
got from Roger Morneau:
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every day read
the story of Calvary.
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So I read it in Matthew 27
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but you can rotate your
way through the gospels.
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If you were reading John,
you might begin at the beginning
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of chapter 19. This is
John chapter 19 verse 1.
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I'm in the New
King James version.
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Whatever translation
you have that's fine by me.
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Verse 1: "So then Pilate...
" The Roman curator or the
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governor... "took
Jesus and scourged Him. "
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It is a bloody and
barbaric form of torture
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pre execution.
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A wooden handle
with leather strips in it
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bone, metal, and rock
tied into the leather strands.
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And the executioner will wrap
those strands around your body -
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you're naked -
around your naked torso
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and then yank it back and
it's just like a shredder.
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Just shreds open the
human torso... the chest.
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"So Pilate took
Jesus and scourged Him. "
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Verse 2: "And the soldiers
twisted a crown of thorns
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and put it on His head. And
they put on Him a purple robe
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and then they said:
'Hail, King of the Jews'
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and they struck
Him with their hands. "
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Then verse 4:
"Pilate went out again
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and he said to the
crowd" - to the rabble
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screaming for His blood -
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"behold I am bringing Him
out to you that you may know
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that I find no fault in Him. "
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Hit the pause
button right there.
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Fascinating in the gospel
of John. Just fascinating.
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There are seven
triples - seven trios -
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seven treys... seven 3's -
that are unique to the gospel
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of John's account
of the crucifixion
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and I want to
examine every one of these.
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Seven threes that combine
together with one compelling
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truth that we must
go home with today.
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Trio #1: three times Pilate
will announce to the rabble
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what we just heard
him say here in verse 4:
00:19:12.00\00:19:15.34
"I find no fault in Him. "
00:19:15.54\00:19:18.60
Three times:
chapter 18 verse 38,
00:19:18.90\00:19:20.78
at the end of verse 38: "I
find no fault in Him at all. "
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Drop down to verse 6:
Pilate said to them: 'You take
00:19:23.52\00:19:25.97
Him and crucify Him for
I find no fault in Him. ' "
00:19:26.17\00:19:29.38
Three times... no fault.
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What's John trying
to tell us? Number 1:
00:19:32.04\00:19:34.52
the Roman judicial
system found Him innocent.
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The Jewish court - that
rump court - found Him guilty.
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And number 2: Pilate -
who found no fault in Him -
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is therefore just as culpable
00:19:49.10\00:19:51.63
as the clerics of
Judaism for the death of Jesus.
00:19:51.83\00:19:54.73
He sent an
innocent man to death.
00:19:55.03\00:19:57.44
"I find... " three
times... "no fault in Him. "
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That's trio number 1.
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Now comes trio number 2.
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Three titles given to
Jesus in the gospel of John
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before the cross. You
remember the first time:
00:20:07.95\00:20:10.35
John chapter 1 verse 29 the
Baptist... John the Baptist.
00:20:10.55\00:20:13.50
My friend Steve Bohr took us
powerfully through that Elijah
00:20:13.70\00:20:16.91
motif. John the Baptist
- John chapter 1 verse 29-
00:20:17.11\00:20:21.62
John the Baptist sees Jesus
coming and he puts that finger
00:20:21.72\00:20:23.84
up in Harry Anderson's picture
and he points that other finger
00:20:23.94\00:20:26.01
at Jesus and he thunders the
words: "Behold the Lamb of God
00:20:26.11\00:20:30.38
who takes away the
sin of the world. "
00:20:30.49\00:20:32.07
Title number 1.
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Pilate now at the end of
the gospel steps in for two more
00:20:34.04\00:20:36.53
titles. Verse 5:
"Then Jesus came out... "
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Jesus came out wearing the crown
of thorns and the purple robe
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and His shredded skin.
00:20:44.96\00:20:47.41
"And Pilate said to them:
'Behold the... ' How does it go?
00:20:47.71\00:20:52.02
'Behold the man. ' "
There's one more title.
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Verse 13: "Then Pilate
therefore heard that saying,
00:20:55.11\00:20:58.80
he brought Jesus out and he
sat Him down in the judgment
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seat in a place that is called
The Pavement but in Hebrew
00:21:01.40\00:21:04.09
Gabbatha. Now it
was the Preparation Day
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of the Passover and
about the sixth hour.
00:21:06.80\00:21:08.71
And he said to the
Jews: 'Behold now... ' " What?
00:21:08.91\00:21:11.47
The King.
00:21:11.57\00:21:12.66
"Behold the Lamb,
" "behold the Man, "
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"behold the King. " Now
the same language in the Greek.
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Three titles.
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The question is: it's not
the title. Is He your Savior?
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Is He your... is
He REALLY your Savior?
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Going to find out in a
moment what that means if He is.
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All right, seven threes.
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Three no faults; three titles.
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Jesus now stands:
"Behold the King. " Stripped
00:21:37.01\00:21:40.24
in that cloak...
that purple cloak.
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I need to let Desire of
Ages just intervene right here.
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Ellen White there. Let
me quote this... page 735:
00:21:46.43\00:21:49.26
"There stood the Son of God
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wearing the robe of
mockery and the crown of thorns
00:21:52.05\00:21:54.33
stripped to the waist, His back
showing the long, cruel stripes
00:21:54.54\00:21:58.41
from which the blood flowed
freely... " And I mean freely
00:21:58.61\00:22:02.15
when you've been shredded open.
00:22:02.35\00:22:04.18
"His face was stained with blood
00:22:05.21\00:22:07.09
and bore the marks
of exhaustion and pain
00:22:07.30\00:22:09.77
but never had it appeared
more beautiful than now. "
00:22:09.97\00:22:14.24
There was
something in that face...
00:22:15.10\00:22:17.47
something in
that face of beauty.
00:22:17.87\00:22:21.38
"Every feature expressed
gentleness and resignation
00:22:22.64\00:22:25.80
and the tenderest
pity for His cruel foes.
00:22:26.00\00:22:28.99
In His manner there
was no cowardly weakness
00:22:29.29\00:22:31.46
but the strength and the
dignity of longsuffering.
00:22:31.66\00:22:34.28
Even the priests and
rulers were convicted
00:22:34.48\00:22:37.57
that He was all
that He claimed to be. "
00:22:37.77\00:22:40.71
He IS the Son of God!
00:22:40.91\00:22:42.37
They knew it; they saw
it; and they sensed it.
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Three no faults.
Number 2: three titles.
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Here's trio
number three languages.
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Pick it up in verse 17.
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"And He... " that would be
Jesus... "bearing His cross. "
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There's no Simon
carrying the cross in John.
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No Simon at all. Jesus carried
the cross all by Himself.
00:23:09.34\00:23:14.29
We'll see why in a moment.
00:23:15.44\00:23:16.73
"And He, bearing His
cross, went out to a place
00:23:17.13\00:23:19.89
called The Place of the
Skull which is called in Hebrew
00:23:20.10\00:23:23.59
Golgotha. "
Isn't that something?
00:23:23.69\00:23:25.59
Pilate sits on his
judgment seat at Gabbatha.
00:23:26.55\00:23:29.95
God sits on His
judgment seat at Golgotha...
00:23:30.25\00:23:33.86
the Supreme Judge now.
00:23:34.78\00:23:37.04
"So they went to a place
called in Hebrew Golgotha
00:23:37.98\00:23:40.36
where they crucified
Him and two others with Him
00:23:40.46\00:23:42.26
one on either side
and Jesus in the center.
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Now... " verse 19... "Pilate
wrote a title that was put
00:23:45.03\00:23:47.42
on the cross and the writing was
00:23:47.53\00:23:49.17
JESUS OF NAZARETH
THE KING OF THE JEWS.
00:23:49.37\00:23:52.70
And many of the Jews
read this title for the place
00:23:53.00\00:23:55.19
where Jesus was
crucified was near the city.
00:23:55.29\00:23:57.27
And it was written
in... " how many languages?
00:23:57.47\00:23:59.84
Hebrew or Aramaic
depending on your translation...
00:24:00.14\00:24:02.68
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
00:24:02.98\00:24:07.08
Three languages.
00:24:07.38\00:24:09.09
Those were the
three dominant languages
00:24:11.12\00:24:14.14
in the Mediterranean
world at the time of Christ.
00:24:14.34\00:24:17.34
John inserts the
little side... nobody else.
00:24:17.74\00:24:21.72
John inserts this
side note that King...
00:24:21.92\00:24:25.12
JESUS, THE KING OF THE
JEWS, is in the languages of the
00:24:25.36\00:24:28.93
Roman Empire.
Already a huge hint
00:24:29.03\00:24:34.76
that the One who dies
today is the universal King.
00:24:35.06\00:24:39.24
In any language He is the King
00:24:39.54\00:24:42.35
and the Jews are ticked.
00:24:42.65\00:24:46.08
They go to
Pilate... where is this?
00:24:46.28\00:24:48.15
They go to Pilate in verse 21:
00:24:48.25\00:24:49.58
"Therefore the chief priests
of the Jews said to Pilate"
00:24:49.68\00:24:51.54
Huh, come on... "do not
write the King of the Jews.
00:24:51.74\00:24:54.41
but you ought to write: "He said
'I am the King of the Jews. ' "
00:24:54.61\00:24:58.00
And Pilate now... A
weak king, remember that?
00:24:58.20\00:25:01.11
We talked about
that with Steve Bohr.
00:25:01.31\00:25:02.70
A weak king now steels himself
00:25:02.90\00:25:07.59
cold iron in his
eyes and he says:
00:25:07.79\00:25:10.88
"What I have
written I have written...
00:25:10.98\00:25:14.21
Adios. "
00:25:14.51\00:25:17.08
The hand of God in that
wishy-washy Roman governor
00:25:17.58\00:25:21.43
made sure, locked in
every language of the Empire,
00:25:21.63\00:25:24.62
the three dominant
languages: "He's the King...
00:25:24.82\00:25:28.10
He IS the King. "
00:25:28.40\00:25:30.70
Seven trios. Trio number 4:
00:25:32.67\00:25:35.01
did you know that there
are three Mary's at the cross?
00:25:35.21\00:25:38.85
Only John catches that.
00:25:39.05\00:25:40.37
Watch this...
drop down to verse 25:
00:25:40.57\00:25:41.99
"Now there stood at the
cross of Jesus His mother. "
00:25:42.19\00:25:44.50
What's His mother's name? Mary.
00:25:44.60\00:25:46.66
So... "there stood at the
cross of Jesus His mother Mary,
00:25:46.90\00:25:50.21
and His mother's sister
Mary the wife of Clopas,
00:25:50.42\00:25:53.79
and... " Another Mary and what's
her name? "Mary Magdalene. "
00:25:53.99\00:25:57.42
By the way...
three women at the cross.
00:25:59.49\00:26:04.12
Where are all of
these big, tough, anointed
00:26:04.93\00:26:10.73
apostles? Where are they?
00:26:10.93\00:26:13.49
The only one from the
apostolic band is a boy.
00:26:13.79\00:26:16.97
John Boy. You've got
John Boy and three women.
00:26:17.27\00:26:21.15
John Boy and three women.
00:26:22.14\00:26:24.65
Isn't it something?
00:26:25.05\00:26:26.80
The women were
there... where are the guys?
00:26:27.10\00:26:30.57
Hiding behind locked doors.
00:26:31.57\00:26:33.81
Three Mary's.
00:26:34.89\00:26:36.64
Seven treys...
seven trios... triples.
00:26:37.77\00:26:43.59
This is trio now number 5.
00:26:44.71\00:26:47.21
The Christian world understands
00:26:47.91\00:26:51.57
and in fact I have gone
through and numbered them
00:26:51.67\00:26:53.06
in my four gospels... The
Christian world recognizes
00:26:53.16\00:26:56.03
that Jesus spoke
seven times from the cross.
00:26:56.23\00:26:58.56
Seven... They're called "the
seven last words of Christ. "
00:26:58.86\00:27:00.96
You've heard that? Of course.
00:27:01.06\00:27:02.47
Three of the
seven are here in John.
00:27:02.67\00:27:05.75
Three words...
there's another trio.
00:27:05.95\00:27:08.74
Three words that
Jesus speaks from the cross.
00:27:09.04\00:27:11.29
OK, John has just
identified the three Mary's.
00:27:12.47\00:27:15.37
Now here comes that...
the first word from the cross
00:27:15.57\00:27:18.70
in John - verse 26:
00:27:18.90\00:27:20.35
"When Jesus
therefore saw His mother
00:27:20.66\00:27:23.75
and the disciple
whom He loved... "
00:27:24.05\00:27:25.98
The Greek rendition of
"disciples whom He loved"
00:27:26.18\00:27:28.42
is "the disciple
He kept on loving. "
00:27:28.62\00:27:31.83
John never identifies
himself in the entire gospel.
00:27:32.13\00:27:37.03
He has this little cryptic line
00:27:37.27\00:27:39.99
which is really a
line of utter humility:
00:27:40.19\00:27:43.03
"I'm the one that
Jesus kept on loving.
00:27:43.33\00:27:46.03
He could have quit
but He kept on loving. "
00:27:46.33\00:27:49.17
So Jesus looks
down from the cross...
00:27:50.31\00:27:52.90
He saw His mother. Mother's
Day was what? A month ago?
00:27:53.10\00:27:56.68
Is your mother still alive?
00:27:56.98\00:27:59.16
Do you think of your mother
00:27:59.76\00:28:01.79
like the Lord
thought of His mother?
00:28:02.09\00:28:05.52
Your mother is closer
to death than you are.
00:28:05.72\00:28:08.48
That woman
00:28:11.18\00:28:13.02
that God used to
bring you into this life
00:28:14.13\00:28:17.63
deserves your gratitude
00:28:17.83\00:28:20.87
no matter how she
may have treated you.
00:28:20.97\00:28:23.86
Jesus looked down on His mother
00:28:25.52\00:28:28.05
and He sees the disciple whom
He loved standing beside her
00:28:28.25\00:28:30.90
and He said to
His mother: "Woman,
00:28:31.10\00:28:33.29
behold your son. "
00:28:33.49\00:28:35.04
Can he point? No, He's
doing this all with His head.
00:28:35.24\00:28:37.17
He said: "Woman,
behold your son. "
00:28:37.37\00:28:39.23
And then He said to the disciple
00:28:40.87\00:28:42.80
"Behold... behold your mother. "
00:28:43.01\00:28:45.50
John knew exactly
what He was saying.
00:28:45.80\00:28:47.62
And from that hour
that young John Boy took her
00:28:48.75\00:28:52.46
Mary... mother
Mary... into his own home.
00:28:52.66\00:28:55.72
Desire of Ages says
for the rest of his life
00:28:56.02\00:28:58.23
while she lived she
was a perpetual reminder
00:28:58.33\00:29:01.52
of his Lord and Savior.
00:29:01.72\00:29:03.35
Her Lord and Savior
too, by the way. Yeah.
00:29:03.55\00:29:07.10
Three Mary's... three words.
00:29:07.92\00:29:10.88
There's the first word,
now here comes the second word.
00:29:10.98\00:29:13.15
Verse 28: "And after this Jesus,
knowing that all things now
00:29:13.35\00:29:15.97
were accomplished that the
scripture might be fulfilled. "
00:29:16.07\00:29:19.30
And what scripture would
that be? That would be Psalm 22.
00:29:19.40\00:29:22.16
Two nights ago you
and I lived Psalm 22.
00:29:22.36\00:29:24.40
The cryptic clue to the
heartbreaking mental anguish
00:29:24.43\00:29:30.41
on that center
cross: "My God, My God,
00:29:30.54\00:29:32.94
why have You forsaken Me? "
00:29:33.04\00:29:34.13
John says not a word...
not a word from Psalm 22.
00:29:34.33\00:29:37.39
Matthew talks about it,
Mark talks... John? Not a word.
00:29:37.59\00:29:40.64
This is his only nod
to that Messianic song.
00:29:40.84\00:29:43.69
He pulls the line
out about Jesus' thirst.
00:29:43.89\00:29:46.18
"And after this Jesus,
knowing that all things were
00:29:46.48\00:29:48.30
accomplished now and that
scripture might be fulfilled. "
00:29:48.40\00:29:50.98
What scripture? The
one He's praying through
00:29:51.18\00:29:52.72
under His breath. Remember?
00:29:52.82\00:29:53.89
Praying through that
prayer under His breath
00:29:54.09\00:29:56.24
Jesus now says: "I thirst. "
00:29:56.45\00:29:59.39
Word number 2 in
John's crucifixion account.
00:29:59.69\00:30:03.09
And now verse 29: "A
vessel full of sour wine
00:30:03.29\00:30:06.24
was sitting there and they
filled a sponge with sour wine
00:30:06.34\00:30:08.42
and they put it on a hyssop
and they rubbed it against His
00:30:08.62\00:30:10.50
mouth. And when Jesus... "
His lips were now moistened.
00:30:10.60\00:30:14.81
"When Jesus had
received the sour wine... "
00:30:15.01\00:30:17.71
Here comes word
number 3: "He said... "
00:30:17.81\00:30:20.25
What did He say?
00:30:20.45\00:30:21.80
"It is finished! "
00:30:22.00\00:30:25.48
"And bowing His head
He gave up His spirit. "
00:30:27.50\00:30:31.86
Three last words.
00:30:33.66\00:30:35.84
Seven triples... seven
triples in the fourth gospel.
00:30:36.24\00:30:40.56
Isn't it something that
Jesus begins the fourth gospel
00:30:41.72\00:30:44.69
thirsty in John 4.
00:30:44.89\00:30:47.26
A Samaritan woman comes
along and He says: "Woman,
00:30:47.56\00:30:50.08
I need something to drink. "
00:30:50.18\00:30:51.96
The same gospel will
now end with Jesus asking
00:30:52.36\00:30:56.22
some pagan soldiers:
"Anybody have anything to drink?
00:30:56.42\00:31:00.94
I'm thirsty. "
00:31:01.14\00:31:02.47
John, who accentuates
not only Jesus' divinity
00:31:02.67\00:31:06.58
but upholds His humanity
as well - the "thirsty One. "
00:31:06.78\00:31:10.37
Trio number 6: three
actions from the cross.
00:31:12.36\00:31:16.77
This is one you wouldn't catch
unless you examined it closely.
00:31:16.97\00:31:20.95
Jesus takes three
actions from the cross.
00:31:21.15\00:31:24.67
Remember a moment ago John
leaves out Simon the Cyrenian
00:31:24.87\00:31:28.42
picking up the
cross? You remember that?
00:31:28.62\00:31:30.29
The others all mention...
only John leaves out...
00:31:30.69\00:31:34.00
leaves out
Simon. Do you know why?
00:31:34.20\00:31:35.85
Because in John
his passionate intent
00:31:36.25\00:31:39.93
is to teach the truth
that Jesus is in control
00:31:40.13\00:31:43.74
till His very last breath.
00:31:43.94\00:31:46.88
He's not a wimp;
He's not the defeated foe.
00:31:47.18\00:31:50.51
He IS the King in 3 languages,
00:31:50.71\00:31:52.39
the languages of
the Mediterranean.
00:31:52.49\00:31:54.06
He IS the King...
He's the universal King
00:31:54.26\00:31:56.71
and He's in control all
the way through His life.
00:31:56.91\00:32:00.27
He controls the
time of His death. Amen!
00:32:00.37\00:32:02.34
John wants to show
that Jesus is not caught
00:32:02.54\00:32:07.12
by circumstances in a corner.
He has chosen all of this
00:32:07.32\00:32:11.11
and He's in control. So John
doesn't say a word about Simon.
00:32:11.31\00:32:13.86
Jesus carries His
own cross, thank you.
00:32:13.96\00:32:16.37
Number 2: the second action.
00:32:17.36\00:32:19.39
John shows Jesus
choosing His death cry.
00:32:19.59\00:32:23.12
"It is finished! " And then
00:32:24.26\00:32:27.38
John for the third
action shows Jesus controlling
00:32:27.58\00:32:31.50
His time of death. Now we just
read it but you didn't catch it.
00:32:31.60\00:32:34.64
I want you to note that again.
00:32:34.74\00:32:36.58
We'll read that
death cry here in verse 30.
00:32:36.68\00:32:39.10
"So when Jesus had
received the sour wine He said:
00:32:39.30\00:32:41.78
'It is finished! ' "
And now notice the line:
00:32:41.98\00:32:44.38
"And bowing His head
He gave up His spirit. "
00:32:44.58\00:32:47.86
Now ladies and
gentlemen, when you and I die
00:32:48.06\00:32:50.36
it'll be like this. If
Jesus doesn't come soon
00:32:50.56\00:32:52.80
we will all die. If
we're conscious when we die,
00:32:52.90\00:32:57.15
it will be like this. When
we come to that moment of death
00:32:57.35\00:33:01.25
we could be talking to somebody.
We could be in the middle
00:33:01.35\00:33:03.73
of a prayer. We could
be in the middle of sleep.
00:33:03.83\00:33:06.60
But all of a sudden
our breath will stop
00:33:07.42\00:33:10.80
and our head will drop
00:33:11.20\00:33:13.52
if we're sitting
up. Isn't that right?
00:33:13.82\00:33:15.30
Yeah. The breath
stops then the head drops.
00:33:15.50\00:33:18.70
Did you just
notice what you read?
00:33:18.90\00:33:20.75
Jesus lowers His
head and then says:
00:33:21.67\00:33:26.31
"This is My last breath. "
00:33:26.61\00:33:28.57
He's in control to the very end.
00:33:28.87\00:33:33.22
And if He can control
His life to the very end
00:33:33.42\00:33:36.93
do you suppose He could
do the same for your life
00:33:37.13\00:33:41.00
if you let Him? Huh? Yes!
00:33:41.20\00:33:43.55
Don't you suppose He can?
00:33:43.85\00:33:46.05
He's the Master of the universe.
00:33:46.35\00:33:47.87
In every language He's the
King of kings and Lord of lords
00:33:47.97\00:33:51.30
and He is in control.
00:33:51.50\00:33:54.77
Seven trios...
seven trios in one gospel.
00:33:54.97\00:34:00.35
Unique to John
there's a seventh one.
00:34:00.59\00:34:03.57
Only John mentions
this seventh one as well.
00:34:03.78\00:34:06.73
There are three
woundings of Jesus.
00:34:07.74\00:34:11.21
Wounding number 1 we noted a
moment ago when we were reading
00:34:11.51\00:34:13.91
in chapter 19. You
remember the scourging?
00:34:14.01\00:34:15.79
Just was shredded. OK,
that's the first bloodshed.
00:34:15.99\00:34:18.71
Number 1. Wounding number
when they yank His arms out.
00:34:19.65\00:34:24.07
Last night we heard Luke
record Jesus' prayer as they are
00:34:24.38\00:34:28.26
pinning Him to that
cross. "Father, forgive them...
00:34:28.36\00:34:31.11
they don't know
what they're doing. "
00:34:31.31\00:34:32.89
That's wounding number 2,
but only John has wounding #3.
00:34:33.09\00:34:37.08
Read it with me please.
00:34:38.34\00:34:40.16
Let's read it right here
in... Let's just pick it up
00:34:41.26\00:34:44.05
in verse 30 again. "So when
Jesus had received the sour wine
00:34:44.15\00:34:46.70
He said: 'It is finished! '
00:34:46.90\00:34:48.76
and bowing His head
He gave up His spirit.
00:34:49.06\00:34:51.12
Therefore, because it
was the Preparation Day... "
00:34:51.22\00:34:54.90
What day of the week would
that be? Just refresh my memory.
00:34:55.00\00:34:57.08
What day of the week
do we call good when it's
00:34:57.28\00:34:58.96
the Passion Weekend? What's the
day of the week we call good?
00:34:59.06\00:35:01.63
We are absolutely convinced
that Friday is "good Friday"
00:35:01.93\00:35:05.49
and we're absolutely convinced
that resurrection Sunday
00:35:05.79\00:35:08.44
is Sunday, so we're going
to find out in one split second
00:35:08.64\00:35:13.41
what's the day between.
00:35:13.51\00:35:15.38
"Therefore because it
was the Preparation Day... "
00:35:15.79\00:35:18.07
that awful Friday
that we now call good...
00:35:18.28\00:35:20.37
"that the body should not remain
on the cross on the Sabbath
00:35:20.57\00:35:23.06
for that Sabbath was a high
day... " It was a feast Sabbath.
00:35:23.26\00:35:26.50
"the Jews asked Pilate
that their legs might be broken
00:35:26.70\00:35:29.11
that they might be taken away. "
00:35:29.14\00:35:30.94
The reason you break
their legs... I used to think
00:35:31.14\00:35:33.06
"Well they wanted
to break their legs
00:35:33.16\00:35:34.19
so they couldn't run away. "
00:35:34.22\00:35:35.65
It has nothing to
do with running away.
00:35:36.55\00:35:38.22
Because you're dying in a
barbaric form of strangulation
00:35:38.42\00:35:42.48
you get weaker and weaker.
00:35:42.78\00:35:44.95
You're having to put all
your weight on your shins
00:35:45.25\00:35:47.49
to lift yourself. And
when you put your weight
00:35:47.59\00:35:50.60
to your legs it produces
this red-hot searing pain
00:35:50.80\00:35:55.21
that shoots through your body.
00:35:55.31\00:35:56.38
Hence the Latin word excruciatus
00:35:56.58\00:35:58.84
which means from out of
the cross whence comes our word
00:35:59.04\00:36:01.33
excruciating.
00:36:01.54\00:36:02.86
So in order to
hasten death what they do is
00:36:03.06\00:36:05.91
they break the shins.
They just shatter both legs.
00:36:06.11\00:36:09.02
You don't have the
pain threshold now to even
00:36:09.32\00:36:13.10
push yourself up.
It's just... it's over.
00:36:13.20\00:36:16.75
And so because you're
hanging down and you can't
00:36:17.05\00:36:19.69
raise yourself you drown...
you drown in your body fluids.
00:36:19.80\00:36:23.40
You just stop... you asphyxiate.
00:36:23.51\00:36:26.00
You just stop breathing.
00:36:26.20\00:36:27.55
So that's what they asked:
"Pilate, come on. Get these
00:36:28.86\00:36:31.09
bodies off. We've got a big... "
00:36:31.19\00:36:32.70
Can you imagine that? We
are right about which day
00:36:32.90\00:36:34.85
of the week is the Sabbath
but we have just crucified
00:36:34.95\00:36:38.56
the Lord of the Sabbath.
00:36:38.66\00:36:40.23
Boy, that's a reminder.
00:36:40.54\00:36:41.97
That is a reminder to
Sabbatarians the likes of you
00:36:42.27\00:36:44.97
and me. We can be absolutely
right about the day of worship
00:36:45.07\00:36:48.29
and be wrong about
the Jesus of that Sabbath.
00:36:48.49\00:36:51.05
You think just because you
have the seventh day down pat
00:36:52.11\00:36:54.88
that you have a
one-way ticket to eternity?
00:36:55.08\00:36:58.31
There is no Sabbath keeping
that will get you into eternity.
00:36:58.41\00:37:00.87
Not a single day
of Sabbath keeping.
00:37:01.07\00:37:03.15
It's only the Lord of
the Sabbath who will get you
00:37:03.46\00:37:06.05
into eternity. And if you
have the day of the Lord right
00:37:06.15\00:37:10.18
but you're wrong
about the Lord of the day
00:37:10.28\00:37:12.50
you are as lost as anybody else.
00:37:12.80\00:37:16.08
Let us not be as foolish
as the Jews and hide behind
00:37:16.28\00:37:19.33
our Sabbatarian orthodoxy
and believe that God has to
00:37:19.53\00:37:23.89
save me because I'm
keeping the Sabbath.
00:37:23.99\00:37:25.98
He doesn't have to
save a single soul,
00:37:26.18\00:37:28.13
but out of His goodness
and His love for you and me
00:37:29.21\00:37:32.03
you take the Savior...
you'll have salvation. Amen!
00:37:33.16\00:37:37.61
"What are you saying, Dwight?
Are you against the Sabbath? "
00:37:37.84\00:37:40.10
Give me a break.
00:37:40.23\00:37:41.66
I preached in Net '98, 40
languages around the world.
00:37:42.85\00:37:46.05
Don't you talk to me
about what I believe.
00:37:46.15\00:37:48.53
Listen to me carefully: the
day won't save a single soul.
00:37:48.73\00:37:52.49
The Pharisees hurried
home to keep the Sabbath
00:37:52.80\00:37:55.52
and they just killed
the God of this universe.
00:37:55.72\00:37:58.20
Something's wrong about
Sabbath keeping like that.
00:37:58.50\00:38:01.17
Something is terribly wrong
about getting the Sabbath right
00:38:01.37\00:38:04.12
and you kill God in the process.
00:38:04.23\00:38:06.58
That just cannot
be right... cannot be.
00:38:06.78\00:38:09.37
Which means you can't be
saved by your Sabbath keeping.
00:38:09.70\00:38:12.50
You will be saved by
your Savior, trusting...
00:38:12.80\00:38:15.67
and there is a difference.
00:38:15.87\00:38:17.56
So they come.
00:38:20.12\00:38:21.74
Say: "Pilate, come
on, get these bodies off.
00:38:21.94\00:38:23.29
It's almost sundown. Please! "
00:38:23.39\00:38:25.28
Verse 32: "Then the
soldiers came and broke the legs
00:38:25.58\00:38:27.85
of the first... "
that would be the thief...
00:38:27.95\00:38:29.67
"and of the other who
was crucified with Him. "
00:38:29.77\00:38:31.44
Shattered those bones.
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.76
"But... " verse 33...
"when they came to Jesus
00:38:33.96\00:38:37.34
and saw... 'Mercy,
He's already dead...
00:38:37.54\00:38:42.08
Unusual... He's dead... ' "
00:38:42.28\00:38:44.72
He picked the time, the
moment of His death by the way.
00:38:45.02\00:38:47.75
"But when they came to Jesus
and saw that He was already dead
00:38:48.05\00:38:51.42
they did not break His
legs. But one of the soldiers
00:38:51.62\00:38:54.37
instead pierced His
side with a spear. "
00:38:54.47\00:38:57.51
Just to make sure. They're
not going to bury a living man.
00:38:57.81\00:39:03.04
And John Boy who was there -
00:39:04.19\00:39:05.69
the only
eyewitness of the disciples -
00:39:05.89\00:39:09.25
And John Boy wrote,
verse 35: "And he who has seen
00:39:09.56\00:39:13.58
has testified and
his testimony is true
00:39:13.78\00:39:16.80
and he knows that
he's telling the truth
00:39:16.91\00:39:18.37
so that you may believe.
00:39:18.57\00:39:21.20
For these things were done
that the scriptures should be
00:39:21.41\00:39:26.73
fulfilled: 'Not one of
His bones shall be broken. ' "
00:39:26.83\00:39:28.94
Verse 37: "And again
another scripture says
00:39:29.24\00:39:31.68
they shall look upon
Him whom they pierced. "
00:39:31.78\00:39:34.86
Now notice verse 34:
00:39:35.26\00:39:37.83
When that spear
pierced the pericardial sac
00:39:38.03\00:39:43.02
of the heart, what did
John Boy see come spilling out
00:39:43.22\00:39:47.85
of that open chest?
What came spilling out
00:39:48.05\00:39:51.45
of that chest. Tell
me what your Bible says.
00:39:51.65\00:39:54.20
What does your Bible say?
00:39:54.40\00:39:56.41
Blood and water.
The third wounding
00:39:56.61\00:40:00.14
shown only in the
gospel... the fourth gospel.
00:40:00.34\00:40:03.35
Blood and water.
Isn't that amazing?
00:40:03.55\00:40:06.21
John... John begins
his gospel with Jesus
00:40:06.51\00:40:09.23
turning the water into wine
00:40:09.43\00:40:12.71
and he ends his gospel
with Jesus taking a sip of wine
00:40:12.91\00:40:16.72
and it's now water.
00:40:16.92\00:40:19.55
Blood and
water... wine and water.
00:40:21.99\00:40:26.35
Sacrifice and death.
00:40:27.55\00:40:29.80
All of it wrapped up
in that graphic image
00:40:30.20\00:40:34.98
of the chest slit
open and then this clear
00:40:35.18\00:40:39.20
liquid alongside the
trickling, coagulating blood.
00:40:39.30\00:40:44.99
"I saw it... " "He
who saw these things
00:40:45.96\00:40:49.77
testifies. "
00:40:49.97\00:40:52.08
Seven trios...
one compelling truth.
00:40:53.33\00:40:59.28
You say: "Dwight, get to
the compelling truth, please.
00:40:59.48\00:41:02.08
What is the compelling truth? "
00:41:02.18\00:41:03.68
Well...
00:41:04.08\00:41:05.70
because we are a highly
convictional community -
00:41:08.45\00:41:14.38
I say that with
gratitude to God...
00:41:14.58\00:41:17.96
In a highly
convictional community like ours
00:41:20.29\00:41:23.08
where right living and
right behaving are rightfully
00:41:24.02\00:41:27.96
emphasized, there
is the possibility -
00:41:28.16\00:41:33.26
not so small - that we may
live with a sense of numinous
00:41:33.46\00:41:38.73
apprehension, latent
uncertainty about our salvation.
00:41:38.94\00:41:44.86
I have a blessed
grandmother who sleeps in Jesus.
00:41:46.20\00:41:50.39
She lived to be
99... almost 100.
00:41:50.49\00:41:52.86
Preacher's wife.
General Conference VP's wife.
00:41:53.16\00:41:57.21
Missionary wife.
00:41:57.51\00:41:59.57
I used to come out and
visit her in Loma Linda
00:42:01.82\00:42:04.05
while pastoring at Pioneer.
00:42:04.25\00:42:06.26
And every now and then
Grandma would say to me:
00:42:06.47\00:42:09.16
"Dwight, how do
we know for sure?
00:42:09.36\00:42:14.06
How do we know for
sure that it's OK? "
00:42:15.99\00:42:19.75
The only reason I mention
my Grandmother is because
00:42:20.81\00:42:23.06
in my short life of pastoring
I've found that it's true
00:42:23.16\00:42:26.29
the older you get sometimes
the more uncertain you become.
00:42:26.49\00:42:31.92
When you're young it's... I
admit, I say it's all by faith.
00:42:32.42\00:42:36.11
I understand that. But
when death starts becoming
00:42:36.22\00:42:39.23
and ever-present reality
00:42:39.33\00:42:42.33
you start re-negotiating life.
00:42:42.53\00:42:45.09
You start re-thinking: "What
is it that really counts? "
00:42:45.39\00:42:49.05
And in a highly-convictional
community like ours
00:42:49.25\00:42:52.40
where right behaving
is rightfully emphasized
00:42:52.60\00:42:55.56
you begin to wonder: "I
wonder if I behaved right enough
00:42:55.86\00:43:00.96
long enough?
00:43:01.16\00:43:02.56
Maybe... maybe this isn't quite
as sure as I once thought. "
00:43:02.76\00:43:08.16
That's the community I
love and that I've grown up in.
00:43:10.59\00:43:13.76
You don't need to give
me any lectures about it.
00:43:13.96\00:43:15.65
I'm a 5th generation Adventist
00:43:15.75\00:43:17.34
and a 4th generation
preacher within this community.
00:43:17.54\00:43:20.29
I know it well.
00:43:20.49\00:43:21.99
I'm telling you that
the older you get sometimes
00:43:23.01\00:43:26.40
the more difficult
that certainty can feel.
00:43:26.80\00:43:31.18
I had the joy of being
able to visit with Grandma
00:43:32.56\00:43:35.18
and assure her that
the gospel is the gospel.
00:43:35.28\00:43:38.21
But I want to draw your
attention to something in that
00:43:39.29\00:43:41.37
little phrase... that
last word of Jesus in John:
00:43:41.47\00:43:44.34
"It is finished! "
00:43:44.44\00:43:46.34
Now I want you to listen now
how the Greek actually reads.
00:43:46.44\00:43:48.92
It's in the perfect
tense and it reads like this -
00:43:49.12\00:43:51.90
it can be rightfully translated:
"It has been completed. "
00:43:52.13\00:43:57.98
"It has been completed. "
00:43:58.77\00:44:00.77
OK? Completed.
00:44:00.97\00:44:02.99
It takes a past action
to show that the past action
00:44:04.67\00:44:09.79
still has continuing
effects in the present.
00:44:10.09\00:44:12.84
But the action is in the past
and it's all done back there.
00:44:13.04\00:44:15.83
It would be like you
getting a Fed-Ex envelope
00:44:16.13\00:44:18.57
to your house and you discover
00:44:18.77\00:44:21.23
a great uncle that you
never knew, never met...
00:44:22.33\00:44:25.47
Well you knew about him,
you'd heard about him, but
00:44:25.67\00:44:27.56
you get this Fed-Ex
envelope from a law firm that is
00:44:27.66\00:44:31.16
representing your great
uncle who died 2 or 3 years ago.
00:44:31.26\00:44:34.18
They finally found you!
00:44:34.48\00:44:36.71
He has willed his
entire estate to you.
00:44:37.92\00:44:41.45
$3.3 billion to you.
00:44:41.96\00:44:45.74
Give me more
uncles like that I say!
00:44:49.23\00:44:51.77
He has willed his
entire estate to you.
00:44:53.24\00:44:55.40
They've been
looking for you everywhere.
00:44:55.60\00:44:57.13
It was signed,
sealed, notarized.
00:44:57.71\00:45:02.28
All handled.
They finally found you
00:45:02.48\00:45:05.81
and they announce to
you: "If you want this,
00:45:06.48\00:45:09.33
that $3.3 billion from
back then that was ratified,
00:45:09.63\00:45:12.81
you get it now. " Ladies
and gentlemen, that's what this
00:45:13.01\00:45:16.02
tense in the Greek means.
00:45:16.12\00:45:17.92
Something done long ago
still is having present effect
00:45:18.22\00:45:23.37
today. And why is it
having present effect?
00:45:23.57\00:45:26.42
Because a man comes along
and finds out about Jesus.
00:45:26.62\00:45:28.85
A woman comes
along, a child comes along,
00:45:28.95\00:45:30.59
a boy comes along, a
teenager comes along,
00:45:30.80\00:45:32.81
finds out about Jesus. And the
moment that discovery is made
00:45:33.01\00:45:35.87
what was done 2,000 years
ago now leaps into life again.
00:45:36.07\00:45:40.13
Past action with
present continuing effect.
00:45:40.43\00:45:44.17
When Jesus cries
out "It is finished! "
00:45:45.01\00:45:49.51
the word is just
like John 3:16 declares
00:45:51.21\00:45:55.72
all we have to do is
trust our benefactor,
00:45:55.92\00:46:00.18
believe that the
will is ratified,
00:46:00.38\00:46:03.17
and whatever provision is
in that will belongs to us.
00:46:03.37\00:46:06.69
Now listen carefully:
00:46:06.99\00:46:08.59
"It is finished! " means that
we can rest secure in Jesus'
00:46:10.63\00:46:14.64
mission and work at the cross.
00:46:14.74\00:46:17.08
Now hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:46:17.38\00:46:18.81
What counts is not
my unfinished work.
00:46:19.61\00:46:23.58
What matters is His
finished work. Amen!
00:46:24.52\00:46:30.38
That's what counts.
00:46:30.51\00:46:31.54
Not me... but Him.
00:46:31.94\00:46:35.06
You see, if we keep insisting
what counts is what I do
00:46:35.27\00:46:39.97
then we have the
Medieval notion of the universe.
00:46:40.17\00:46:44.33
You remember the old Medieval
scholars - we're talking about
00:46:44.46\00:46:46.52
religious scholars
and scientists as well...
00:46:46.63\00:46:49.69
they believed that the earth
was the center of the universe.
00:46:49.89\00:46:52.16
True or false? Well,
that's what they believed.
00:46:52.36\00:46:54.43
And that the whole universe
rotated around the earth.
00:46:54.63\00:46:56.81
They had an
earth-centered universe.
00:46:57.01\00:46:59.65
And then along comes a scientist
called Galileo and he goes
00:46:59.95\00:47:02.51
"Well I've got to focus.
Good night, is this true?
00:47:02.71\00:47:05.62
Gentlemen, excuse me. I
found something out today.
00:47:05.72\00:47:09.06
We're not the
center of the universe.
00:47:09.49\00:47:11.11
The sun is the
center of our solar system.
00:47:11.31\00:47:13.29
We go around the sun;
it does not go around us. "
00:47:13.69\00:47:16.90
People who believe that
their present action is going to
00:47:17.81\00:47:21.10
determine their salvation don't
live in a Son-centered universe.
00:47:21.20\00:47:26.41
They have put themselves
in the center of the universe
00:47:26.81\00:47:30.59
and they have the
Son going around them.
00:47:30.79\00:47:33.74
That is dead wrong.
00:47:34.58\00:47:36.78
The Son is in the
middle... we go around Him.
00:47:37.74\00:47:41.76
What He has done is what counts.
00:47:42.57\00:47:46.11
What He has accomplished
00:47:46.71\00:47:49.14
is what matters
00:47:51.03\00:47:53.50
because, look...
come on, come on, come on.
00:47:53.80\00:47:54.88
If I am the
center of my universe
00:47:54.98\00:47:57.54
and the Son goes around me,
00:47:57.57\00:47:59.52
knowing how weak and faulty
I am, what kind of assurance
00:47:59.56\00:48:03.80
am I going to have when
I come up to the day I die
00:48:03.90\00:48:06.18
if I have to depend on how
Dwight has handled his life? "
00:48:06.38\00:48:08.73
What kind of assurance will
I have? Zero, nada, nothing.
00:48:08.93\00:48:11.11
I mean I'm messed up.
00:48:11.21\00:48:12.50
But if I take me out of
the center of the picture
00:48:13.46\00:48:15.87
and I put the Son in the
center and my life now rotates,
00:48:15.97\00:48:18.81
revolves, orbits around Him,
00:48:19.01\00:48:21.06
what kind of
security do I now have?
00:48:21.26\00:48:23.20
I have all the security
in the universe because it's
00:48:23.40\00:48:25.04
wrapped up in the One who
is the center of my universe:
00:48:25.14\00:48:28.16
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:48:29.06\00:48:30.78
When Jesus cries out:
"It has been accomplished! "
00:48:31.08\00:48:34.06
"It has been done! " He is
saying: "It really was done. "
00:48:34.26\00:48:39.40
"It is finished! "
means it really is finished!
00:48:40.41\00:48:44.62
Finished... or He wasn't telling
the truth in His last breath.
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You come to me and
you say: "No, Dwight,
00:48:53.79\00:48:56.04
no, no, no, no, no, no, no...
00:48:56.34\00:48:58.12
I've got to do something here. "
00:48:58.42\00:49:01.34
Of course you do something.
00:49:01.74\00:49:03.27
You respond to the
One who finished the work
00:49:03.47\00:49:05.48
and you respond in
gratitude. Do you not?
00:49:05.68\00:49:08.09
Of course.
00:49:08.59\00:49:10.00
That's why it's no accident
by the way that in John -
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only in John - he
makes this big point about
00:49:13.00\00:49:17.23
the day that is coming on.
00:49:17.53\00:49:19.75
This is the Preparation
Day and the day to follow the
00:49:20.05\00:49:22.14
Preparation Day would be
the... the seventh-day Sabbath.
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The Sabbath of creation.
00:49:25.07\00:49:26.26
John inserts that right
after "It is finished! "
00:49:26.46\00:49:29.03
so that we'll be instantly
reminded that even as it was
00:49:29.23\00:49:31.68
in creation God
did His crowning work
00:49:31.78\00:49:34.68
on the sixth day. Looked it
over and said: "Whaa... this
00:49:34.88\00:49:38.07
is VERY good. " Finished
His work on the sixth day
00:49:38.17\00:49:41.69
then rested on the seventh.
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By the way, can you
add to God's creation?
00:49:45.17\00:49:47.40
What God finished on
the sixth day of creation:
00:49:47.70\00:49:49.99
can you add to it?
00:49:50.19\00:49:51.45
"I want to add just
a little more, God. "
00:49:51.66\00:49:52.75
Can you? Impossible!
00:49:52.95\00:49:54.36
Even as it was in
creation God's climactic work
00:49:54.66\00:49:59.43
is done on the 6th
day... then He rests.
00:49:59.63\00:50:02.32
Even so in salvation, His
work is done on the 6th day
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and then -
Hallelujah! - He rests.
00:50:06.07\00:50:10.14
And by the way, He
says: "You enter My rest. "
00:50:10.34\00:50:12.55
"You go into...
you rest with Me. "
00:50:12.85\00:50:14.81
If I can't add an
atom to God's creation,
00:50:15.45\00:50:19.38
can I add an
iota to His salvation?
00:50:19.68\00:50:23.76
I cannot... that's John's point.
00:50:24.06\00:50:26.70
"It is finished! "
really means it is finished.
00:50:26.90\00:50:31.52
By the way, that's also
why John shows the blood
00:50:34.33\00:50:37.36
and the water. Because you see
the sacrifice of the Lamb of God
00:50:37.57\00:50:41.29
covers the past. Covers
your past... washes it clean.
00:50:41.49\00:50:46.04
The blood covers the past.
00:50:46.24\00:50:48.64
The water trickles
right beside the blood
00:50:48.94\00:50:50.96
because I keep getting dirty.
00:50:51.16\00:50:53.00
I keep getting stained.
00:50:53.11\00:50:56.82
And the water now is the present
gift of the washing that goes on
00:50:57.12\00:51:01.70
until Jesus comes.
I'm covered in the past;
00:51:01.90\00:51:04.41
I'm washed in the present;
00:51:04.61\00:51:06.56
and I'm looking
forward to the future.
00:51:06.66\00:51:09.13
Amen! It's all
wrapped up in Jesus.
00:51:09.43\00:51:11.77
It's all wrapped up in Jesus.
00:51:12.27\00:51:14.75
Apparently, "It is finished! "
00:51:15.05\00:51:18.41
really means it is finished.
00:51:18.61\00:51:23.38
So dear Grandma, dear Grandpa,
00:51:25.59\00:51:29.94
dear middle-ager,
00:51:32.23\00:51:34.48
Boomer, dear young adult,
00:51:35.35\00:51:39.77
dear teenager...
What you did last night
00:51:41.27\00:51:46.55
matters... but
last night is past
00:51:49.04\00:51:55.01
and God has offered a
sacrifice to cover that past.
00:51:57.17\00:52:02.55
What you do today? It matters.
00:52:05.64\00:52:09.27
And God has unleashed...
00:52:10.17\00:52:12.10
There is a
fountain filled with blood
00:52:12.50\00:52:15.72
drawn from Emmanuel's veins.
00:52:15.92\00:52:18.50
And sinners
plunged beneath that flood
00:52:18.71\00:52:22.21
lose all their guilty stains.
00:52:22.41\00:52:26.77
Dear Grandma, dear
Grandma, you go ahead and die.
00:52:27.27\00:52:31.28
When Jesus is ready for
you to breathe your last,
00:52:31.58\00:52:34.25
He'll decide.
00:52:34.45\00:52:36.01
Unlike Him, we won't choose
when the last breath will be.
00:52:36.41\00:52:39.99
He'll choose. But Grandma,
when you come to your death
00:52:40.29\00:52:44.36
you can breathe that
last breath of release
00:52:44.76\00:52:49.39
into the nail-scarred
embrace of One who promises you
00:52:50.62\00:52:55.22
"I really did
finish your salvation
00:52:55.52\00:53:00.79
on Calvary. "
Amen! "I finished it. "
00:53:00.99\00:53:04.70
"Yes, I am your High Priest.
00:53:04.90\00:53:06.65
Yes, I minister for you now
00:53:06.85\00:53:08.57
but I finished your
salvation 2,000 years ago.
00:53:08.77\00:53:12.91
Girl, woman, boy, man:
00:53:13.21\00:53:17.00
rest in Me... be at peace
00:53:17.30\00:53:21.36
because 'It is
finished! ' really means
00:53:21.66\00:53:26.14
it is finished. " Amen!
00:53:26.44\00:53:31.08
Let's pray.
00:53:31.28\00:53:33.08
Oh Jesus, holy Father, holy Son,
00:53:34.34\00:53:38.35
oh we hurry
through these stories.
00:53:40.54\00:53:43.74
We're moved, we're
blessed for that split moment
00:53:43.85\00:53:47.61
that we pause, but so much
embedded in all four gospels.
00:53:47.71\00:53:52.88
And dear God, in this gospel
00:53:53.29\00:53:55.54
You are as clear as You
can divinely and humanly be.
00:53:55.84\00:54:01.18
"It's done...
salvation, the work
00:54:02.86\00:54:07.55
of My gift is accomplished. "
00:54:08.64\00:54:11.26
And so Father, I pray
for all of our hearts.
00:54:13.86\00:54:15.95
There's this numinous sense that
creeps up every now and then
00:54:16.15\00:54:19.77
"Maybe, maybe I'm not secure.
00:54:19.87\00:54:22.24
Maybe I haven't done enough. "
00:54:23.57\00:54:26.79
Oh Father, let the first word
to our hearts be the last word
00:54:27.63\00:54:32.35
from the fourth gospel.
00:54:33.33\00:54:35.28
"It is finished! Rest in Me.
00:54:35.69\00:54:39.13
The Sabbath now has come.
00:54:39.63\00:54:42.23
Rest in a completed work
00:54:42.53\00:54:45.67
and I will carry you
with these nail-scarred hands.
00:54:46.27\00:54:49.34
I will carry you
across the last Jordan.
00:54:49.55\00:54:52.21
You'll be at peace.
00:54:52.61\00:54:55.09
You are safe for
I am your Savior. "
00:54:55.49\00:54:59.20
While every head is
still bowed in prayer
00:55:00.26\00:55:02.04
we can't hurry out
of this worship hall
00:55:02.34\00:55:06.66
without reaching
out to the same Jesus.
00:55:06.90\00:55:10.82
So I'm going to ask
you: would you like today
00:55:11.12\00:55:14.58
in the presence of
the witnessing universe
00:55:14.68\00:55:16.69
to say: "Oh God, I step
into that wide-open nail-scarred
00:55:17.39\00:55:21.44
embrace and I receive
again from You the assurance
00:55:21.55\00:55:25.54
it is finished.
I receive by faith
00:55:25.84\00:55:29.82
my Savior and His salvation
00:55:30.02\00:55:32.77
today and today and
today until Jesus comes. "
00:55:33.07\00:55:37.02
You want to step into
that embrace stand to your feet
00:55:37.42\00:55:39.94
and by standing to your
feet you say: "Jesus, please,
00:55:40.05\00:55:43.31
grant me Your rest...
give to me Your peace. "
00:55:44.41\00:55:49.65
Oh God, we stand...
we stand before You.
00:55:49.85\00:55:53.74
We're all Yours... You
are all ours in Christ Jesus.
00:55:54.90\00:56:00.05
We thank you from
the bottom of our hearts.
00:56:00.25\00:56:04.27
In the name of Jesus
who is our abiding Friend
00:56:04.90\00:56:10.81
until He comes.
Sing it with me now:
00:56:10.91\00:56:13.98
Jesus keep me near the cross,
00:56:14.78\00:56:20.70
there a precious fountain.
00:56:21.28\00:56:27.26
Free to all
00:56:27.56\00:56:30.93
a healing stream
00:56:31.13\00:56:34.83
flows from Calvary's
00:56:35.13\00:56:38.76
mountain.
00:56:38.96\00:56:42.14
In the cross,
00:56:42.44\00:56:46.19
in the cross,
00:56:46.39\00:56:49.91
be my glory
00:56:50.11\00:56:53.88
ever.
00:56:54.08\00:56:57.47
Till my raptured soul
00:56:57.77\00:57:03.07
shall find
00:57:03.28\00:57:05.89
rest beyond
00:57:06.09\00:57:09.31
the river.
00:57:09.51\00:57:14.90