Participants: Pr. Walter Pearson
Series Code: BOL
Program Code: BOL000428
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00:02 Announcer: BREATH OF LIFE PRESENTS: EXPERIENCE THE POWER
00:08 WITH WALTER L. PEARSON, JR. 00:10 (theme music) Announcer: JOIN US NOW AS 00:15 PASTOR PEARSON CONTINUES HIS MESSAGE ENTITLED 00:17 "THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD." 00:20 (theme music) Walter Pearson: JESUS COMES 00:26 NOW TO THE FEET OF JUDAS AND TAKES HIS FOOT IN HIS HAND. 00:33 AND THAT WRITER--FAVORITE OF MINE--SAYS THAT A 00:35 SHOCK WENT UP HIS LEG. 00:40 THERE HE FELT THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 00:44 NOT AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. 00:47 IT WAS A LOVE SHOCK, AND WHEN IT CAME TO HIS HEART AND TO HIS 00:52 HEAD, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 00:55 AND SO HE FOUGHT, BECAUSE HAD HE NOT FOUGHT, HE WOULD HAVE 00:59 SURRENDERED AND HIS PLANS WOULD HAVE CHANGED, BECAUSE WHEN JESUS 01:04 TOUCHES YOU, EVEN YOUR FEET, SOMETHING CHANGES INSIDE OF YOU. 01:10 HE HAD TO FIGHT IT OFF. 01:13 AND HE WAS IN DANGER OF BEING SAVED UNTIL HE GOT UP, AND LET 01:19 ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, I WANT TO BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU. 01:22 JESUS WILL COME AND TOUCH EVERY ONE OF YOU. 01:25 HE'LL DO IT BEFORE THIS SERMON IS OVER, AND 01:27 YOU'VE GOT A CHOICE. 01:29 YOU CAN LET HIM KEEP HIS HANDS ON YOU, AND HIS 01:33 TOUCH WILL CHANGE YOU. 01:36 OR YOU CAN PULL AWAY. 01:38 THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL BE ABLE TO RESIST HIM IS TO GET UP AND 01:42 WALK AWAY, BECAUSE IF YOU STAY WHERE JESUS IS, I PROMISE YOU 01:47 THAT NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME. 01:49 HE HAS THAT POWER. 01:50 SO JESUS IS IN GETHSEMANE. 01:53 THE DISCIPLES LOOK AT HIM AND HE FRIGHTENS THEM. 01:57 THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. 01:59 THERE ARE DOTS OF BLOOD ON HIS FACE, THAT FACE THAT 02:02 THEY LOVED TO BEHOLD, AND THEY WONDER WHAT'S WRONG, BUT 02:06 PRESENTLY, YOU KNOW THERE WASN'T MUCH TIME BETWEEN THOSE MOMENTS 02:11 AND WHEN THE GUARDS CAME. 02:13 AND THEY CAME AND JUDAS WENT TO PUT A, A KISS, 02:19 WHAT A TERRIBLE KISS. 02:22 THERE ARE CHRISTIANS WHO KISS LIKE THAT. 02:25 AND AS JESUS WENT UP AND ALLOWED HIM TO KISS, THE 02:29 SOLDIERS CAME AND TOOK HIM. 02:30 PETER TAKES OUT HIS SWORD. 02:32 SOMETIMES PETER DOES EXACTLY WHAT I THINK I WOULD HAVE DONE. 02:38 AND IF YOU THINK THAT PETER WAS AIMING AT THAT GUARD'S EAR, 02:44 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND PETER. 02:47 PETER MISSED. 02:51 I THINK HE WAS HEADED FOR RIGHT ABOUT HERE. 02:54 HE MISSED AND GOT AN EAR. 02:56 AND EVEN IN THE MIDST OF HIS TRIAL, JESUS PUTS THE EAR BACK. 03:00 NOBODY PAYS MUCH ATTENTION TO THAT, BUT EVEN WHEN YOU ARE 03:03 AGAINST HIM, EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE SOLD HIM OUT, EVEN WHEN YOU COME 03:07 TO ARREST HIM, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO ACCOMPLISH HIS DEATH, 03:11 JESUS IS STILL IN HEALING MODE. 03:14 HE DOES IT THAT WAY. 03:15 NOW HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS. 03:16 LET'S, LET'S LOOK CAREFULLY. 03:18 THE FACT IS THAT JESUS GOES FROM ONE FROM ONE JUDGE TO ANOTHER. 03:22 HE WENT FIRST TO THE JEWISH JUDGES: ANNAS, CAIAPHAS; 03:26 THEN THE RELIGIOUS SANHEDRIN, FROM ONE O'CLOCK IN THE 03:29 MORNING TO SUNRISE. 03:31 HE WALKS FROM ONE COURTHOUSE TO ANOTHER, BUT THERE'S NOT 03:35 ONE RIGHT SENTENCE ISSUED. 03:39 IN FACT, AT SUNRISE HE IS PROBABLY AT THE POLITICAL 03:43 SANHEDRIN, WHERE THEY CONVICT HIM, AGAIN, OF BLASPHEMY. 03:48 WHEN HE WAS CONVICTED BY THE RELIGIOUS SANHEDRIN, 03:51 HERE IS WHAT THE LEADERS OF THE JEWISH CHURCH DID. 03:56 THEY PUT ON HIM SYMBOLS THAT REPRESENTED KINGSHIP. 04:03 THEN THEY BLINDFOLDED HIM. 04:05 THEY FILLED THEIR MOUTHS WITH SALIVA AND SPAT ON HIM. 04:13 THEN WITH THEIR FISTS, THEY BEAT HIS FACE, TRYING THEIR BEST 04:19 TO DISFIGURE HIM BECAUSE EVEN WITH ALL OF THEIR POWER, THEY 04:24 COULDN'T TAKE ANYTHING FROM HIM. 04:27 HE WAS MORE POWERFUL UNDER THEIR PRESUMED POWER THAN HE EVER WAS. 04:36 SO HE ALREADY HAD ONE BEATING WHEN THEY TURNED HIM LOOSE, 04:39 AND WHEN HE WENT TO THE POLITICAL SANHEDRIN THEY 04:41 CONVICTED HIM AGAIN. 04:42 NOW, HE COMES TO THOSE ROMAN JUDGES. 04:46 HE GOES FIRST TO PONTIUS PILATE, WHO SAYS, THOUGH 04:48 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH HIM. 04:51 THEY TAKE HIM TO HEROD, THE TETRARCH OF GALILEE, AND 04:54 THIS MAN SAYS, WELL I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 04:56 AND FINALLY, WHEN THE CROWD CONTINUES TO SCREAM, AND 04:59 YOU MUST LISTEN TO ME, NEVER, NEVER TRUST THE MAJORITY. 05:07 YOU'VE GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT THE MAJORITY IS DOING. 05:09 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SPEND THEIR LIVES FOLLOWING 05:12 THE MAJORITY. 05:13 EVERYTHING THEY DO THEY CHECK THE WIND TO SEE WHICH 05:16 WAY THE MAJORITY IS GOING. 05:18 TOO MANY POLITICIANS CHECK THE WIND TO SEE WHICH WAY THE WIND 05:22 IS BLOWING, WHEN RIGHT OUGHT TO BE THE SIGN THAT YOU FOLLOW. 05:27 BUT WHEN HE COULD FIND NOTHING WRONG, THE PEOPLE IN THAT 05:30 CROWD BEGAN TO CHANT, "CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM." 05:36 THERE IS EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE DEVIL MINGLED 05:39 IMPS IN THE CROWD, DISTRIBUTED DEVILS, DEMONS IN THE CROWD 05:49 AND THEY WERE THE ONES WHO PRECIPITATED THE CHANT. 05:53 CAN YOU SEE SOME WRINKLED FACED IMP STARTING QUIETLY, 05:59 "CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM." 06:04 AND HERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO KNOW GOD, WHO BEGIN 06:07 TO CHANT WHAT THEY HEAR, INSTEAD OF WHAT THEY KNOW. 06:12 THE CURSE OF GOD'S PEOPLE IS NOT SO MUCH THE DEVIL ! 06:18 WE KNOW WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO. 06:20 IT'S PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE GOD'S PEOPLE, WHO CHANT 06:24 THINGS BECAUSE THEY HEAR IT. 06:27 SO THE CHANT BEGINS TO SPREAD, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN EVEN THE 06:31 LEADERS OF THE JEWISH CHURCH ARE CRYING OUT, "CRUCIFY HIM, 06:35 CRUCIFY HIM, CRUCIFY HIM !" 06:38 AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THE PEOPLE GO AWAY, THIS TERRIBLE ROMAN 06:43 JUDGE SAYS, "DO WHAT YOU WILL. 06:46 I WASH MY HANDS OF HIM, BUT TAKE HIM. 06:50 NOW, COMES THE PROBLEM. 06:56 THE SCOURGING WAS DEATH. 06:59 IT WAS NOT THE CROSS, IT WAS THE SCOURGING. 07:03 THE FACT IS THAT THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY PEOPLE WHO 07:07 WERE KNOWN AS LICTORS. 07:10 THEY WOULD HAVE SOMETHING THAT HAD A HANDLE AND UNEQUAL LENGTHS 07:15 OF LEATHER, SOMETIMES TWINED OR BRAIDED, SOMETIMES JUST 07:20 SIMPLY HANGING ON THEIR OWN. 07:22 IN THE ENDS OF SOME OF THOSE LEATHER LENGTHS WERE IRON BALLS 07:28 TO GIVE WEIGHT TO THAT SCOURGE. 07:32 THEN THERE WERE BROKEN TEETH OF SHEEP IN OTHER LENGTHS, 07:38 SO THAT WHEN THE IRON BALLS GAVE WEIGHT, THE TEETH 07:41 WOULD CUT INTO THE SKIN. 07:45 THEY WOULD HANG THE PERSON WHO WAS ABOUT TO BE SCOURGED, 07:49 TIE HIM AT THE TOP OF A LONG WOODEN DISTANCE, AND STRIP 07:55 HIM OF ALL OF HIS CLOTHES. 07:57 THEN EITHER ONE OR TWO LICTORS WOULD TAKE TURNS MAKING AN 08:03 INVERTED "V" ON HIS BACK. 08:05 SO ONE WOULD COME DOWN THIS WAY ON THIS SIDE OF HIS BACK 08:09 GOING DOWN; THE OTHER WOULD COME DOWN THIS WAY ON THE OTHER 08:11 SIDE OF HIS BACK GOING DOWN. 08:13 THEY WOULD START AT THE NAPE OF THE NECK AND COME ALL THE WAY 08:16 PAST THE BUTTOCKS, CUTTING OPEN THE SKIN WITH THE SCOURGE. 08:21 THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO ONLY DO IT 39 TIMES, BUT EVEN THE 08:24 BIBLE SAYS THAT THEY WOULD GO FURTHER THAN THIS BECAUSE THEY 08:29 WANTED THE LIFE OF THIS MAN WHO CLAIMED SO MUCH POWER, 08:34 CLAIMED TO BE THE SON OF GOD. 08:37 SO ON THE SECOND TIME THAT THEY CAME BY, THESE TERRIBLE 08:42 LEATHER LENGTHS WENT UNDERNEATH THE SKIN THAT HAD BEEN CUT, 08:47 AND THEY STARTED GOING INTO THE SKELETAL MUSCLES. 08:51 THEY WOULD PULL FLESH FROM UNDERNEATH THE CUT SKIN, SO THAT 08:56 WHEN THEY CAME DOWN THE SECOND TIME, COMING DOWN THE SAME WAY 09:01 IN THE SAME WOUNDS, THE FLESH OF THE SON OF GOD WAS TORN AWAY ! 09:08 AND THEN HE WAS LEFT AT A MOMENT WHEN HE WAS ALMOST DEAD! 09:18 BUT HERE'S MY "EXPERIENCE THE POWER" MOMENT. 09:22 THE BIBLE SAYS WITH HIS STRIPES. 09:36 OH, HOW I LOVE JESUS, FOR HE STOOD THERE AND LET THEM DO 09:43 IT BECAUSE HE KNEW EVERY TIME THEY HIT HIM THERE WAS A 09:47 FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD WITH A RESERVOIR OF HEALING POWER SO 09:54 THAT NO MATTER HOW DEEP MY SIN MAY BE, EVERY TIME THEY PUT A 10:00 SCAR ON HIS BACK, THEY GAVE MORE POWER TO SAVE ME FROM 10:05 MY SINS WITH HIS STRIPES ! 10:10 I AM HEALED. 10:12 I'M SORRY THAT THEY BEAT MY JESUS LIKE THAT, BUT I'M 10:16 GLAD I AM HEALED BY THE STRIPES THEY PUT ON HIS BACK. 10:22 EVERY TIME THE DEVIL SAYS THAT I CAN'T MAKE IT, I 10:26 POINT BACK TO THE STRIPES. 10:29 I SAY I'M HEALED BY THE STRIPES YOU PUT ON HIM, SO YOU ARE 10:34 DUMB TO DO WHAT YOU DID BECAUSE YOU FILLED UP A FOUNTAIN, AND 10:43 TODAY I'M SAVED BY HIS BLOOD AND BY HIS STRIPES. 10:51 WHAT THEY HAD DONE BEFORE, THEY HAD TAKEN THOSE TWO TO 10:56 FOUR INCH THORNS, TWINED THEM TOGETHER, PUT THEM ON HIS HEAD. 11:07 REMEMBER THAT HIS SKIN WAS ALREADY FRAGILE AND THIN, BLOOD 11:11 HAD ALREADY OOZED THROUGH IT. 11:14 THEY PRESSED IT DOWN ON HIS HEAD. 11:17 AND THEN THEY TOOK THE STICK THAT THEY PUT IN HIS HAND AS 11:20 A SCEPTER AND BEAT IT ON HIS THORNS, DROVE THEM DEEPER 11:28 INTO THE SKIN OF HIS FACE. 11:31 IT WAS ALREADY STAINED BY BLOOD THAT HAD OOZED THROUGH 11:33 HIS SKIN BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMA OF THE SUFFERING. 11:37 AND NOW THE THORNS DIG INTO HIS SKIN. 11:41 AND THEN THEY TAKE HIM FROM THAT PLACE, WRAPPED A GARMENT 11:46 AROUND HIM, TAUNT HIM, SPIT ON HIM, BEAT HIM. 11:53 DOGS RAN BESIDE HIM, AND AS THEY RAN THEY TALKED 11:57 ABOUT HIS PARENTAGE. 11:59 SOMEBODY MADE A CRUEL JOKE ABOUT HIS MOTHER, WHO CLAIMED 12:03 THAT SHE HAD A VIRGIN BIRTH. 12:08 I DON'T KNOW THE NAMES THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE CALLED HIM IN THEIR 12:10 LANGUAGE, BUT WHAT THEY SAID WAS YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A DADDY. 12:19 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT GOD MUST HAVE FELT ? 12:23 THEY'RE TELLING HIS SON THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE A DADDY. 12:26 GOD COULD HAVE GRABBED THE EARTH AND HURLED IT, BUT BECAUSE 12:37 GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE ALLOWED IT TO CONTINUE. 12:45 SO NOW, HAVING WRAPPED JESUS AGAIN, THEY PUT 12:49 UPON HIM THE CROSS. 12:52 THERE IS DISSENSION, NOW, I KNOW MOST OF YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE, 12:55 I FINALLY SAW IT, AND I KNOW THAT THEY HAVE A TALL CROSS 12:59 COMPLETELY ON THE BACK OF JESUS. 13:01 THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION DISAGREES. 13:04 THEY SAY THAT THE VERTICAL PART OF THE CROSS WAS IN PLACE, AND 13:11 THAT IT WAS THE PATIBULUM, THE HORIZONTAL PART OF THE CROSS 13:16 THAT WEIGHED FROM 75 TO 125 POUNDS THAT THEY BENT HIM OVER 13:21 AND PUT IT ACROSS HIS NECK AND THEN TIED HIS HANDS TO IT. 13:25 LET ME TELL YOU, IF JESUS COULD HAVE STOPPED BEING 13:30 HUMAN, HE WOULD HAVE WALKED THAT THING FOREVER. 13:37 HE'D ASK WHERE'S THE REST OF THE CROSS ? 13:44 THIS ALL YOU GOT ? 13:48 BUT HE COULD NOT CARRY THE CROSS AS GOD. 13:51 HE HAD TO CARRY IT AS A MAN. 13:54 HE HAD HAD A MINISTRY THAT INVOLVED WALKING, SO JESUS WAS 13:57 IN GREAT PHYSICAL CONDITION. 13:59 EVERYWHERE HE WENT, HE WALKED. 14:00 IN FACT, FROM NINE O'CLOCK ON THURSDAY NIGHT TO NINE 14:04 O'CLOCK ON FRIDAY MORNING, HE HAD GONE WITHOUT FOOD, 14:07 WITHOUT WATER, WITHOUT SUSTENANCE, AND HE HAD ONLY 14:10 BEEN BETRAYED AND BEATEN AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE 14:15 HAD HAPPENED TO HIM AND THIS IS THE HUMAN BEING UPON WHOM THEY 14:19 PUT THIS, THIS, THIS PATIBULUM. 14:24 AND HUMANITY CARRIES IT FOR A LONG TIME, ATTESTING TO 14:27 HIS PHYSICAL FITNESS. 14:29 THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO SEE JESUS AS SOME WISPY 14:32 LITTLE, GENDERLESS FIGURE. 14:37 IT'S NOT MY JESUS. 14:42 I BELIEVE THAT WHEN THEY PUT IT ON HIM, HIS MUSCLES RIPPLED. 14:48 HE HAD WORKED WITH HIS FATHER IN A CARPENTER'S SHOP. 14:51 HE DID NOT MAKE BIRD HOUSES. 14:56 THEY CARRIED THE WOOD FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER. 14:58 SOMETIMES OVER TWO HOURS JUST TO GET TO THE PLACE 15:02 WHERE THEY WORKED, AND THEN THEY BUILT HOUSES. 15:04 SO WHEN YOU SAW JESUS WALK, YOU DID NOT SEE SOMEBODY WHO 15:08 LOOKED LIKE HE WAS VULNERABLE. 15:11 IN FACT, EVERY MAN WHO COULD HAVE SEEN JESUS, IF IT HAD 15:14 NOT BEEN THAT GOD DID NOT WANT HIS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE TO DRAW 15:19 US, IF GOD HAD NOT MADE IT SO THAT WE DID NOT BECOME DRAWN 15:24 BY HIS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, JESUS WOULD HAVE BEEN SO 15:27 MUSCULAR THAT EVERY MAN WOULD HAVE WANTED TO BE LIKE HIM. 15:32 HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SO HANDSOME THAT EVERY WOMAN WOULD HAVE 15:34 SWOONED WHEN SHE SAW HIM. 15:37 BUT IN ISAIAH IT SAYS THAT HE HAD NO FORM OR COMELINESS. 15:42 GOD DIDN'T WANT YOU TO FOLLOW JESUS BECAUSE OF 15:45 WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE. 15:45 HE WANTED YOU TO FOLLOW HIM BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE. 15:48 SO HE WAS BUILT SO THAT YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW HIM 15:50 BECAUSE OF THAT. 15:51 HOWEVER, I'M TELLING YOU THAT HE CARRIED THAT THING UNTIL 15:54 HUMAN POWER COULD DO NO MORE. 15:57 THERE WAS THIS BLACK MAN--I APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE WHO 16:02 CANNOT TAKE IMMEDIATE PRIDE IN THE FACT THAT HE'S BLACK. 16:08 JUST COME ON AND EXPERIENCE THE POWER ANYWAY. 16:19 I POSIT TO YOU THAT IF SIMON HAD LOOKED WEAK, THEY WOULD 16:22 NEVER HAVE CHOSEN HIM. 16:24 SO HE MUST HAVE BEEN A REAL BLACK MAN. 16:36 LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN, IT TAKES A REAL MAN TO BE 16:40 ABLE TO EXPRESS SENSITIVITY. 16:44 IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR GENDER, YOU 16:47 CAN NEVER SHED A TEAR. 16:51 YOU CAN NEVER BE TOUCHED. 16:53 YOU'VE GOT TO ALWAYS BE STRONG AND MACHO. 16:58 BUT IF YOU'RE A REAL MAN, IF YOU CRY, YOU'RE STILL A MAN. 17:05 A MAN, RIGHT ? 17:07 IF YOU SHOW SYMPATHY, YOU'RE STILL A MAN. 17:10 SO THIS MAN SHOWED SYMPATHY AND THE ROMAN SOLDIERS SAW IT, 17:14 AND THEY SAW HE WAS POWERFULLY BUILT, NO DOUBT, AND SAW 17:17 THAT HE WAS IN SYMPATHY. 17:18 "SAY YOU, COME HERE !" 17:20 HE DIDN'T VOLUNTEER. 17:21 LET'S DON'T MAKE IT BETTER THAN IT IS. 17:23 BUT THEY CALLED HIM AND SIMON CARRIES THE CROSS. 17:26 AND WHEN HE CARRIES IT, IT CHANGES HIM. 17:34 YOU CAN'T CARRY THE CROSS AND STAY THE SAME ! 17:37 THERE'S REASON TO BELIEVE THAT HIS WHOLE FAMILY WAS 17:39 CHANGED BECAUSE HE BORE THE CROSS, AND JESUS IS TAKEN 17:43 TO THE PLACE CALLED GOLGOTHA. 17:49 THEY TAKE HIS GARMENTS, RIP THEM OFF HIS BACK. 17:58 THE BLOOD HAS CEMENTED THE CLOTH TO HIS BACK, 18:07 SO THEY TEAR IT OFF. 18:12 THEY THROW HIM DOWN ON THE GROUND SO THAT NOW THE 18:16 DIRT, THE BLOOD STAINED DIRT OF GOLGOTHA, WHERE MANY HAVE 18:22 DIED, AND THEIR DRIED BLOOD IS CAKED IN THE EARTH. 18:27 SO THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK THAT EVERY DISEASED PARTICLE, 18:32 EVERY THING THAT COULD BRING HIM ILLNESS IS THERE AND THEY 18:35 PRESS HIM DOWN AND STRETCH HIM. 18:39 HIS HANDS, THOSE HANDS THAT HAD TOUCHED FEVERED BROWS 18:44 AND THE FEVER DISAPPEARED. 18:46 THOSE HANDS THAT HAD MINGLED SPITTLE WITH CLAY AND JUST 18:50 PUT IT ON SOMEBODY'S EYE. 18:52 AND THE MAN SAID I CAN SEE BUT IT'S NOT REAL CLEAR. 18:56 HE SAID, LET ME GET IT ONE MORE TIME. 18:59 HE PUTS IT ON AGAIN. 19:00 I SEE, I SEE CLEARLY NOW. 19:03 THOSE HANDS THAT HAD TOUCH THAT FUNERAL PYRE. 19:07 YOU REMEMBER THAT WIDOW THAT CAME OUT WITH HER SON ? 19:11 JESUS AND HIS CROWD MET THEM. 19:14 ONE CROWD SHOUTING FOR JOY; ONE CROWD MOURNING OF SADNESS, AND 19:19 ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CACOPHONY OF SOUND COMES TOGETHER. 19:23 JESUS STOPS ALL THE NOISE ! 19:26 THOSE SAME HANDS GO OVER AND SAY, LADY, LET ME 19:30 TAKE CARE OF THIS. 19:31 AND HE TOUCHES THAT DEAD BOY. 19:33 AND HE GETS UP. 19:35 SO NOW THE TWO CROWDS ARE MAKING THE SAME NOISE BECAUSE 19:39 THE FUNERAL HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A SHOUTING BRIGADE AND 19:43 THEY ALL SING THE PRAISES OF JESUS TOGETHER. 19:47 THOSE HANDS, THOSE HANDS, THEY STRETCH NOW. 19:51 THERE'S EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE ROMANS HAD PHYSICIANS 19:54 TO FIND THE PLACE, IT WAS NOT, ACCORDING THE AMERICAN MEDICAL 19:59 ASSOCIATION, IN THE PALM. 20:01 I REALLY, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM. 20:04 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE THEY PUT THE NAIL, IT 20:07 JUST MATTERS THAT HE DIED. 20:09 THEY SAY IT WAS HERE--THEY SAY THAT THE PHYSICIANS 20:13 FROM THE ROMANS WOULD FIND THE EXACT PLACE WHERE 20:18 THE MEDIAN NERVE WAS. 20:23 THE MEDIAN NERVE, WHEN TOUCHED AND TRAUMATIZED, RADIATES 20:30 A BURNING SENSATION UP THE ARM AND INTO THE CHEST. 20:37 AND THEY PUT IT THERE, A FIVE TO SEVEN INCH SQUARE CUT SPIKE. 20:44 AND THEY BEAT IT NEXT TO THE MEDIAN NERVE. 20:46 IF IT SEVERS THE MEDIAN NERVE, THE HAND WILL BE FORCED INTO 20:50 PARALYSIS LIKE A CLAW. 20:53 SO IT COULD BE THAT THE HAND OF JESUS, THAT MEDIAN NERVE 20:58 BEING SEVERED, WAS PARALYZED INTO A CLAW LIKE PLACE. 21:03 BUT THEY STRETCHED THEM THERE. 21:04 THEN THEY TAKE HIS FEET AND PUT THEM TOGETHER ON TOP OF EACH 21:07 OTHER AND POUND THE SPIKE THERE. 21:10 THEY GO TO A NERVE IN THE FEET AND THEN THEY PULLED THAT THING 21:17 UP AND DROP HIM AND THERE HE IS. 21:21 THE DOCTORS SAY THAT HANGING ON THAT CROSS, INSECTS WOULD FIND 21:25 THE PLACES IN THE BACK THAT WERE CUT OPEN, AND BEGIN TO 21:30 BURROW INTO THE WOUNDS. 21:32 THEY WOULD GET AROUND HIS EYES AND BURROW INTO HIS EYES. 21:36 HE COULD FEEL THE PAIN OF INSECTS THAT HAD BEEN MADE BY 21:39 HIS OWN HAND BURROWING, NOW, INTO HIS OWN FLESH, BUT HE 21:44 COULD NOT WIPE THEM AWAY. 21:46 IN FACT, EVEN WHEN THEY OFFERED HIM AN ANALGESIC, WINE, AND 21:51 GAUL, HE PUT IT AWAY BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT UNLESS HE DRANK 21:54 THE DREGS OF SUFFERING HE COULD NOT SAVE WALTER PEARSON. 21:59 AND SO HE WOULD NOT ACCEPT THE PAIN KILLER BECAUSE 22:04 HE HAD TO SAVE ME. 22:06 NOW, LET ME MOVE QUICKLY BECAUSE HERE IS, I THINK, 22:09 THE WORST PART. 22:11 NOW MANY, MANY THINGS SAID ABOUT HOW HE DIED. 22:15 BUT HERE'S WHAT I BELIEVE. 22:17 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED WAS WHEN HE WAS HUNG ON THE 22:20 CROSS, LEGS TWISTED, WEIGHT ON HIS HANDS, HIS DIAPHRAGM 22:28 IS PULLED UP, SO THE PROBLEM WITH BREATHING IS THAT HE 22:34 CAN'T EXHALE EASILY. 22:36 SO HIS BREATHING IS SHALLOW. 22:40 (breathing sounds) IN ORDER TO EXHALE, HE'S 22:46 GOT TO PUSH UP. 22:52 IN FACT, SOME PEOPLE DIED ON THE CROSS BECAUSE THEY 22:55 COULD NEVER EXHALE. 22:58 SO THEY WERE ASPHYXIATED, ASPHYXIATED BY NOT BEING 23:03 ABLE TO BREATHE. 23:05 AND IF JESUS SAID ANYTHING FROM THE CROSS LIKE, 23:09 "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, (breathing sounds) 23:18 FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO." 23:26 EVEN WHEN HE CAME TO THE VERY END, "INTO THY HANDS 23:40 I COMMEND MY SPIRIT." 23:44 AND AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON, ON AN UGLY FRIDAY, 23:49 HIS HEAD FELL. 23:52 AND THE ROMAN GUARDS CAME TO BREAK HIS LEGS TO MAKE 23:54 SURE HE WAS DEAD, THEY SAW THAT HE WAS GONE. 23:59 A SIX-FOOT SPEAR WAS PLUNGED INTO HIS SIDE, WATER 24:03 AND BLOOD CAME OUT. 24:06 AND HERE'S WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY: IT WAS EITHER FROM HYPOVOLEMIC 24:11 SHOCK, WHICH MEANS YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BLOOD. 24:14 BLOOD ! 24:16 IT'S TOO LOW, AND YOUR HEART STRUGGLES TO FIND 24:20 ENOUGH BLOOD TO PUMP. 24:23 OR IT'S SOME STRANGE ARRHYTHMIA THAT IS THE HEART'S REACTION 24:29 TRYING TO SAVE YOU. 24:31 SO IT'S EITHER THAT HE HAS HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK OR EXHAUSTION 24:34 ASPHYXIA, BUT THE BLOOD AND THE WATER SAY THAT IT COULD HAVE 24:40 BEEN SOME INTERVENING INSTANT EVENT THAT CAUSED HIM TO DIE IN 24:45 THREE TO SIX HOURS INSTEAD OF THE DAYS THAT HE COULD HAVE 24:48 STAYED THERE BECAUSE THE JEWISH LEADERS WANTED TO TAKE HIM DOWN 24:51 BEFORE THE SABBATH CAME, SO SOME PHYSICIANS SAY THAT IT MAY HAVE 24:55 BEEN A RUPTURE OF THE HEART. 25:01 A HEART RUPTURE THAT WOULD HAVE ALLOWED PLURAL FLUID FROM 25:05 THE LUNGS TO SEEP INTO THE PERICARDIAL SAC OR THAT THE 25:09 HEART ITSELF PRODUCED WATER BECAUSE OF ITS TRAUMA AND 25:13 WHEN THAT SPEAR WENT IN, BLOOD AND WATER CAME OUT 25:17 SIGNIFYING THAT IT WAS HIS HEART THAT BROKE FOR YOU. 25:33 IF I WERE GOD AND I SAW MY DAUGHTER, MY FIRST BORN, IN AN 25:45 ELECTRIC CHAIR IN A GAS CHAMBER, LYING ON A GURNEY WHERE YOU 25:51 WOULD PUT INTO HER VEINS SOME POISON THAT WOULD KILL HER, 25:54 IF I HAD THE POWER TO SAVE HER, EVEN IF YOU WOULD DIE, MY 25:59 DAUGHTER WOULD GET UP, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I LOVE HER. 26:06 IF MY SON WERE ABOUT TO BE EXECUTED, EVEN IF YOU WERE TO 26:09 DYE, MY SON WOULD BE SAVED BECAUSE THAT'S MY SON. 26:15 BUT GOD LOVED YOU SO MUCH THAT GOD AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS PUT 26:24 ON DARKNESS LIKE OVERCOATS, GATHERED DARKNESS TO THEM 26:31 AND MET DOWN AT THE CROSS. 26:36 SO GOD, THE FATHER, AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS DRESSED IN DARKNESS 26:41 CAME NOT TO TAKE JESUS DOWN. 26:44 HE HAD TO DIE IN MY PLACE ! 26:48 SO GOD DIDN'T COME TO SNATCH HIM FROM THE CROSS, HE JUST CAME TO 26:51 STAND WITH HIM AS HE DIED IN MY PLACE, BECAUSE IT WAS GOD'S 26:57 INTENT, ALSO, THAT I DIE. 26:59 Announcer: THANKS FOR WATCHING. 27:00 JOIN US NEXT TIME FOR MORE BREATH OF LIFE WITH PASTOR 27:04 WALTER L. 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