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>> FROM ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA
THE CARTER REPORT PRESENTS
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"THE LIVING
WORD" AROUND THE WORLD.
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CC BY ABERDEEN CAPTIONING
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>> HELLO FRIEND, I'M JOHN CARTER
WITH SOME AMAZING NEWS FOR YOU.
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A FEW DAYS AGO, A
MAN CAME TO THIS CHURCH.
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HE CAME TO SEE ME BECAUSE HE'S
HEARD ABOUT THE CARTER REPORT.
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HE CAME FROM COMMUNIST CHINA
AND HE CAME WITH A MESSAGE.
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HE SAID, "WE'VE GOT
OVER THERE 1.2 BILLION SOULS,
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AND THESE PEOPLE NEED TO
HEAR THE TRUTHS ABOUT JESUS
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AND THE GREAT TRUTHS OF
THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES."
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HE SAID TO ME, "WE'VE HEARD
ABOUT THE CARTER REPORT AND WE
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WANT YOU TO BE OUR PARTNERS IN
THE PREACHING OF THE EVERLASTING
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GOSPEL TO THE CHINESE PEOPLE."
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I SAID, WHAT DO YOU WANT US DO?
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HE SAID, "IT'S NOT CLEAR.
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WE'VE GOTTA PRAY AND
WE'VE GOTTA STRATEGIZE,
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BUT WE'VE GOT SOME PLANS."
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I SAID TO HIM, YOU CAN COUNT ON
US BECAUSE WE CAN HEAR THE VOICE
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OF GOD CALLING TO US TO
WORK FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE,
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1.2 BILLION PEOPLE.
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PLEASE PRAY FOR CHINA.
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TODAY, I WAS TALKING TO A
MAN FROM ANOTHER VAST COUNTRY,
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THE LAND OF INDIA, A LAND WITH
MORE THAN A BILLION LOST SOULS
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WHO NEED TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS.
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THIS MAN'S NAMES IS
PASTOR JOHNSON JACOB.
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WHY IS HE OVER HERE IN ARCADIA
AT THE CARTER REPORT CENTER?
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BECAUSE HE IS TRANSLATING
OUR MATERIAL, OUR EVANGELISTIC
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SERMONS INTO THE TELUGU LANGUAGE
BECAUSE WE ARE BROADCASTING
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THROUGH TELEVISION OVER
THERE IN THAT VAST LAND.
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MY FRIEND, THE DOORS ARE
OPENING EVERYWHERE, PLEASE JOIN
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WITH US AND PRAY WITH US.
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AND WRITE TO ME, JOHN
CARTER, BOX OFFICE BOX 1900,
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THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA 91358.
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THANK YOU, IN JESUS' NAME.
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>> THE TOPIC TODAY IS
"FACES AROUND THE CROSS."
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LAST SABBATH, I
SPOKE ON THE CRUCIFIXION
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AND THE BLOOD ATONEMENT.
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THIS IS THE
SECOND IN THE SERIES.
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WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT
THE PEOPLE THAT STOOD AROUND
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THE CROSS, THE GOOD, THE
BAD AND THE UGLY AND THE PEOPLE
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WHO PUT HIM THERE.
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WE'RE GOING TO ASK OURSELVES
THE QUESTION: WHAT WOULD WE
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PERSONALLY HAVE DONE
OURSELVES IF WE'D STOOD THERE ON
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THAT BLACK FRIDAY
ALMOST 2,000 YEARS AGO?
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BEFORE WE START, THOUGH, I
WANT TO HAVE A PRAYER WITH YOU
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AND PRAY THAT GOD'S
GONNA BLESS US HERE TODAY.
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I FEEL HIS NEED TODAY.
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DEAR FATHER, WE THANK
YOU FOR YOUR GREAT MERCY
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AND YOUR GOODNESS.
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WE THANK YOU FOR CHRIST WHO CAME
DOWN FROM GLORY AND WITH HIS OWN
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BLOOD, PAID THE PRICE FOR ALL
OF OUR SINS TO BRING US TO GOD.
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FATHER, TODAY AS WE THINK
OF THE PEOPLE WHO STOOD AROUND
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THE CROSS, CAIAPHAS, MARY AND
ALL THE REST OF THOSE PEOPLE,
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WE PRAY THAT YOU'LL HELP US TO
UNDERSTAND A GREAT TRUTH TODAY
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AND THAT IS EVERY
ONE OF US WAS THERE.
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AND SO BLESS US FOR JESUS' SAKE.
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AMEN.
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REMEMBER LAST SABBATH, I
USED A LITTLE EXPRESSION.
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DO YOU REMEMBER IT?
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THE CAT, WHAT DOES THE CAT DO?
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HMM?
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CAT LOOKS AT THE KING, BUT
THE CAT DOESN'T SEE THE KING
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BECAUSE THE CAT HAS GOT WHAT?
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SIGHT, BUT IT
DOESN'T HAVE INSIGHT.
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SO WE NEED TODAY TO ASK
GOD TO GIVE US SOMETHING
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THAT THE CAT DOESN'T
HAVE AND THAT IS INSIGHT.
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WHAT WOULD I, JOHN CARTER, HAVE
DONE IF I HAD LIVED WHEN JESUS
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WAS TORTURED AND MURDERED BY HIS
OWN CHURCH AND HIS OWN COUNTRY?
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WOULD I HAVE BEEN A COWARD?
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WHOSE SIDE WOULD
HAVE I HAVE BEEN ON?
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WHEN HE NEEDED A FRIEND,
WOULD I BEEN HIS FRIEND OR WOULD
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I BEEN HIS ENEMY, OR
LIKELY, SOMEONE JUST TOO PLAIN
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INDIFFERENT TO CARE?
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WE'RE TOLD THAT
THE ROMAN SOLDIERS.
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THE WORDS OF THE
BIBLE ARE EXPLICIT.
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SITTING DOWN THEY WATCHED
HIM THERE AND SO AS HE WAS DYING
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A HORRIFIC DEATH, THEY
WERE PLAYING CARDS AND EATING
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AND DRINKING AND GAMBLING,
DOING ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
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THE MULTITUDE THAT
STOOD OFF, THEY WERE NOT
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SO MUCH HIS ENEMIES.
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THEY WEREN'T HIS FRIENDS,
THEY JUST WERE INDIFFERENT.
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SO THE TOPIC IS
"FACES AROUND THE CROSS."
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WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE YOUR
BIBLES AND TURN TO ACTS 2:22
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AND ONWARDS.
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ACTS 2:22-24.
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ACTS 2:22-24 IN THE BIBLE.
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IT SAYS, "MEN OF ISRAEL, LISTEN
TO THIS: JESUS OF NAZARETH WAS
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A MAN ACCREDITED BY GOD TO YOU
BY MIRACLES, WONDERS AND SIGNS,
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WHICH GOD DID AMONG YOU THROUGH
HIM, AS YOU YOURSELVES KNOW.
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THIS MAN WAS HANDED OVER TO
YOU," NOW NOTICE THESE WORDS,
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"BY GOD'S SET PURPOSE AND
FOREKNOWLEDGE; AND YOU, WITH
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THE HELP OF WICKED MEN, PUT
HIM TO DEATH BY NAILING HIM TO
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THE CROSS."
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THIS IS A RATHER AMAZING TEXT.
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THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESUS
WAS HANDED OVER TO THOSE PEOPLE
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BY GOD'S SET PURPOSE.
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SO THIS WASN'T JUST
HAPPENING BY ITSELF.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US IT WAS
THE PURPOSE OF GOD THAT HE
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SHOULD DIE FOR OUR SINS.
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BUT THE BIBLE DOES BALANCE THAT
STATEMENT BY SAYING, IT WAS DONE
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BY THE HELP OF WICKED MEN.
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YOU WITH THE HELP OF
WICKED MEN PUT HIM TO DEATH.
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I WANT YOU TO TURN OVER NOW TO
MATTHEW 27, THAT HAS AN ACCOUNT
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OF HIS DEATH.
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MATTHEW 27:32 AND ONWARDS.
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AND MEMBER LAST WEEK, WE SPOKE
ABOUT THE BLOOD ATONEMENT OF
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THE LORD.
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WE SPOKE ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THE MORAL INFLUENCE THEORY
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IS COMPLETELY FALSE AND AS A
CHURCH, AS A DENOMINATION, WE
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BELIEVE IN THE BLOOD ATONEMENT.
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MATTHEW 27:32 AND ONWARDS.
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"AS THEY WERE GOING OUT,
THEY MET A MAN FROM CYRENE,
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NAMED SIMON, AND THEY
FORCED HIM TO CARRY THE CROSS."
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MOST LIKELY, THIS
MAN WAS A BLACK MAN.
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WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER HE
ACTUALLY GOT TO THE CROSS.
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WELL, HE PROBABLY CARRIED
IT RIGHT TO THE VERY PLACE.
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WE BELIEVE THAT IS SO.
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WHETHER HE STAYED OR NOT WE
DON'T KNOW, BUT HE WAS A BLACK
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MAN, MOST LIKELY AND THEY
FORCED HIM TO CARRY THE CROSS.
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"THEY CAME TO A PLACE
CALLED GOLGOTHA (WHICH MEANS
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THE PLACE OF THE SKULL).
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THERE THEY OFFERED JESUS
WINE TO DRINK, MIXED WITH GALL;
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BUT AFTER TASTING IT,
HE REFUSED TO DRINK IT."
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HE WANTED TO HAVE
HIS HEAD CLEAR, YOU SEE?
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WANTED HIS MIND TO BE CLEAR.
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"WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED
HIM, THEY DIVIDED UP HIS CLOTHES
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BY CASTING LOTS.
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AND SITTING DOWN, THEY
KEPT WATCH OVER HIM THERE.
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ABOVE HIS HEAD THEY PLACED THE
WRITTEN CHARGE AGAINST HIM: THIS
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IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
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TWO ROBBERS WERE CRUCIFIED
WITH HIM, ONE ON HIS RIGHT
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AND ONE ON HIS LEFT.
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THOSE WHO PASSED BY HURLED
INSULTS AT HIM, SHAKING THEIR
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HEADS AND SAYING, 'YOU WHO
ARE GOING TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE
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AND BUILD IT IN
THREE DAYS, SAVE YOURSELF!
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COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS,
IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD!'
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IN THE SAME WAY THE CHIEF
PRIESTS, THE TEACHERS OF THE LAW
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AND THE ELDERS MOCKED HIM.
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'HE SAVED OTHERS,' THEY SAID,
'BUT HE CAN'T SAVE HIMSELF!
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HE'S THE KING OF ISRAEL!
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LET HIM COME DOWN NOW FROM
THE CROSS, AND WE WILL BELIEVE
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IN HIM.
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HE TRUSTS IN GOD.
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LET GOD RESCUE HIM NOW IF
HE WANTS HIM, FOR HE SAID,
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I AM THE SON OF GOD.' IN
THE SAME WAY THE ROBBERS WHO
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WERE CRUCIFIED WITH HIM
ALSO HEAPED INSULTS ON HIM."
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THEY WERE A MOTLEY
CROWD AS WE WILL SEE TODAY.
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THERE WAS A LITTLE GROUP OF
DECENT GOOD PEOPLE, BUT MOST
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OF THE PEOPLE, INCLUDING
THE ARCH RELIGIONISTS, WERE
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FILLED WITH A SPIRIT FROM HELL.
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I WANT YOU TO NOTICE TODAY,
PLEASE, SOME OF THE PEOPLE
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WHO WERE THERE PHYSICALLY
OR THERE IN SPIRIT BECAUSE
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OF THEIR INVOLVEMENT.
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NOW A PERSON WHO WAS NOT THERE
PHYSICALLY, BUT IN SPIRIT WAS
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A MAN BY THE NAME OF JOSEPH.
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DO YOU KNOW OF
WHOM I'M REFERRING?
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JOSEPH CAIAPHAS AND HE, OF
COURSE, WAS THE HIGH PRIEST,
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THE ULTIMATE CHURCH POLITICIAN,
POWERFUL, UNSCRUPULOUS, WORLDLY
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WISE, CUNNING PERSON, WHO
RULED WITH A.D. 18 TO AD 36.
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RULED, YES HE DID.
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THERE WERE 20,000 PRIESTS WHO
SERVED HIM, MOST OF THEM WERE
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PARASITES LIVING OFF THE
SYSTEM BECAUSE THIS WAS RELIGION
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GONE TO SEED.
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HE WAS, AS FAR AS THE JEWS WERE
CONCERNED, THE LIVING VOICE OF
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GOD AND HE OOZED, AS
ONLY A RELIGIOUS PERSON CAN,
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HE OOZED PRIDE.
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WE'RE GOING TO NOTICE TODAY
THAT THE SINS THAT ACTUALLY
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PUT HIM ON THE CROSS, OUR LORD,
WERE VERY, VERY COMMON SINS.
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THEY'RE THE SINS WE FIND
IN CHURCH IN THE WHITE HOUSE
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WHERE--THEY'RE THE SINS OF
HUMANITY, YOUR SINS AND MINE.
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THEY WERE NOT THE SINS SO MUCH
OF SPECIALISTS, BUT THEY WERE
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THE SINS OF ORDINARY
PEOPLE AND THIS MAN OOZED PRIDE.
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NOBODY, MY FRIEND, CAN SHOW MORE
PRIDE THAN A RELIGIOUS LEADER.
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HE HAD A JOB.
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YOU KNOW WHAT HIS JOB WAS?
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TO PRESERVE
TRADITIONAL RELIGION.
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COME OVER HERE TO JOHN 11.
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MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND JOHN.
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JOHN 11:47 AND ONWARDS.
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JOHN 11:47 AND ONWARDS
AND NOTICE IT IN YOUR BIBLES.
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THIS IS A BIBLE-READING CHURCH,
A BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCH.
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"THEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND
THE PHARISEES CALLED A MEETING
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OF THE SANHEDRIN."
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THAT WAS THEIR BIG COMMITTEE.
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"'WHAT ARE WE
ACCOMPLISHING?' THEY ASKED.
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'HERE IS THIS MAN PERFORMING
MANY MIRACULOUS SIGNS.
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IF WE LET HIM GO ON LIKE THIS,
EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE IN HIM,
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AND THEN THE ROMANS WILL COME
AND TAKE AWAY BOTH OUR PLACE
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AND OUR NATION.'
THEN ONE OF THEM, NAMED
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CAIAPHAS, WHO WAS HIGH
PRIEST THAT YEAR, SPOKE UP,
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'YOU KNOW NOTHING AT ALL!
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YOU DO NOT REALIZE THAT IT
IS BETTER FOR YOU THAT ONE MAN
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DIE FOR THE PEOPLE THAN
THAT THE WHOLE NATION PERISH.'"
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WHAT A PERSON WAS THIS?
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HE BELIEVED IN THE IDEA,
LISTEN TO THIS, THAT THE END
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JUSTIFIES THE MEANS.
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HAVEN'T YOU HEARD THE SAME
ARGUMENT EVEN IN THIS COUNTRY?
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IF WE CAN EXTRACT INFORMATION,
THEN LET US TORTURE.
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HAVE YOU NOT HEARD IT?
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HAVE YOU NOT HEARD IT?
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ARE YOU AFRAID TO TELL ME?
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I'VE HEARD IT.
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I'VE SEEN IT IN WRITING.
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THAT IS THE ARGUMENT OF
CAIAPHAS, THE HIGH PRIEST.
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IT'S BETTER THAT ONE PERSON
DIE THAN THAT THE WHOLE NATION
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PERISH.
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COME NOW TO MATTHEW 26.
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MATTHEW 26:57.
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VERSE 57.
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"THOSE WHO HAD ARRESTED JESUS
TOOK HIM TO CAIAPHAS, THE HIGH
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PRIEST, WHERE THE TEACHERS
OF THE LAW AND THE ELDERS HAD
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ASSEMBLED.
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BUT PETER
FOLLOWED HIM AT," WHAT?
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"A DISTANCE."
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DON'T FORGET THAT.
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VERSE 59, "THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND
THE WHOLE SANHEDRIN WERE LOOKING
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FOR FALSE EVIDENCE AGAINST
JESUS SO THAT THEY COULD PUT HIM
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TO DEATH.
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BUT THEY DID NOT FIND ANY,
THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES
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CAME FORWARD.
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FINALLY TWO CAME FORWARD
AND DECLARED, 'THIS FELLOW SAID,
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I AM ABLE TO DESTROY THE
TEMPLE OF GOD AND REBUILD
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IT IN THREE DAYS.'
THEN THE HIGH PRIEST STOOD
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UP AND SAID TO JESUS,
'ARE YOU NOT GOING TO ANSWER?
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WHAT IS THIS TESTIMONY
THAT THESE MEN ARE BRINGING
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AGAINST YOU?' AND
JESUS REMAINED SILENT.
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THE HIGH PRIEST SAID TO
HIM, 'I CHARGE YOU UNDER OATH BY
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THE LIVING GOD: TELL
US IF YOU ARE THE CHRIST,
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THE SON OF
GOD.'" THEN JESUS SAID,
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"'YES, IT IS AS YOU SAY.
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BUT I SAY TO ALL OF YOU: IN
THE FUTURE YOU WILL SEE THE SON
00:15:00.90\00:15:06.23
OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND
OF THE MIGHTY ONE AND COMING
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ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.'
THEN THE HIGH PRIEST TORE
00:15:09.20\00:15:11.76
HIS CLOTHES AND SAID,
'HE HAS SPOKEN BLASPHEMY!
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WHY DO WE NEED
ANY MORE WITNESSES?
00:15:14.60\00:15:16.43
LOOK, NOW YOU HAVE
HEARD THE BLASPHEMY.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK?'
'HE IS WORTHY OF DEATH,'
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THEY ANSWERED.
00:15:21.73\00:15:23.23
THEN THEY SPIT IN HIS FACE,"
THESE WERE THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE,
00:15:23.23\00:15:30.03
"THEY SPIT IN HIS FACE AND
STRUCK HIM WITH THEIR FISTS.
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OTHERS SLAPPED HIM AND
SAID, 'PROPHESY TO US, CHRIST.
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WHO HIT YOU?'"
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE
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IF YOU HAD BEEN IN CHARGE
OF THE WHOLE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM?
00:15:43.20\00:15:48.60
CAIAPHAS CONDONED TORTURE, LIES,
FALSE WITNESSES, ALL IN THE NAME
00:15:48.60\00:15:55.93
OF GOD AND FOR THE SECURITY
OF THE CHURCH AND THE NATION.
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DOES THAT MAKE SOME
OF YOU UNCOMFORTABLE?
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MAYBE IT SHOULD.
00:16:09.30\00:16:11.20
DR. MCKAY SAID, ONE OF OUR
SERIOUS TROUBLES IN THE CHURCH
00:16:11.20\00:16:14.30
TODAY, HE SAID, "IT HAS BEEN
LEGITIMATE TO BE INSTITUTIONAL.
00:16:14.30\00:16:19.60
THE MOMENT THE CHURCH
BECOMES COMPLETELY PROGRAMMED
00:16:19.60\00:16:22.80
AND DEPERSONALIZED,
IT BECOMES A MONUMENT
00:16:22.80\00:16:26.20
TO GOD'S MEMORY AND NOT AN
INSTRUMENT OF DIVINE POWER."
00:16:26.20\00:16:30.53
YOU SEE, WHEN MEN BUILD
INSTITUTIONS THAT BECOME THEIR
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ULTIMATE END, INSTEAD OF
JUST THE MEANS TO AN END,
00:16:35.66\00:16:39.70
THAT IS AN IDOLATRY.
00:16:39.70\00:16:43.63
MEN BUILD AND BUILD AND
THEY FORGET THE PURPOSE OF
00:16:43.63\00:16:47.33
THE BUILDING.
00:16:47.33\00:16:48.90
INSTITUTIONS BECOME
MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE.
00:16:48.90\00:16:52.43
THERE ARE NO SHEPHERDS IN
THE INSTITUTION ANY LONGER,
00:16:52.43\00:16:56.66
ONLY PEOPLE TRYING TO
PREVENT THE SHIP FROM ROCKING.
00:16:56.66\00:17:01.33
THEN IT IS THAT TRUTH SUFFERS
AND GOOD MEN ARE CRUCIFIED.
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WHERE WOULD YOU HAVE STOOD?
00:17:10.80\00:17:14.50
WOULD YOU HAVE SAID, "I
MUST PRESERVE THE NATION,
00:17:14.50\00:17:18.63
I MUST PRESERVE THE CHURCH.
00:17:18.63\00:17:20.66
LET HIM BE CRUCIFIED."
00:17:20.66\00:17:23.80
REMEMBER, THESE PEOPLE WERE
THE ULTIMATE RELIGIONISTS IN
00:17:23.80\00:17:29.70
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
00:17:29.70\00:17:31.50
THERE WAS SOMEONE-- NOW
HE WASN'T THERE IN PERSON,
00:17:31.50\00:17:34.40
BUT HE WAS THERE IN SPIRIT.
00:17:34.40\00:17:36.63
BUT SOMEONE, THE VERY
OPPOSITE WAS THERE IN BODY AND
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HER NAME WAS MARY MAGDALENE.
00:17:43.66\00:17:47.70
SHE WAS CALLED MARY MAGDALENE
TO DISTINGUISH HERSELF.
00:17:47.70\00:17:52.06
THEY WANTED TO SAY,
"WELL, HERE'S MARY MAGDALENE.
00:17:52.06\00:17:56.83
HERE'S MARY, THIS OTHER MARY."
00:17:56.83\00:17:59.13
THERE WERE LOT OF MARYs AND
BECAUSE SHE CAME FROM THE LITTLE
00:17:59.13\00:18:02.40
TOWN OF MAGDALA, THEY
CALLED HER MARY MAGDALENE.
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WOULD YOU COME
OVER HERE TO LUKE 8:1-3?
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IN THE SERMON TODAY, THE
WOMEN COME OUT VERY WELL INDEED.
00:18:12.53\00:18:17.50
THE MEN DON'T COME OUT VERY WELL
AT ALL, SO PLEASE NOTICE IT.
00:18:17.50\00:18:21.80
BUT ASK YOURSELF,
WHERE WOULD I HAVE STOOD?
00:18:21.80\00:18:24.83
LUKE 8:1-3, "AFTER THIS, JESUS
TRAVELED ABOUT FROM ONE TOWN
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AND VILLAGE TO ANOTHER,
PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS
00:18:28.93\00:18:31.83
OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:18:31.83\00:18:33.46
THE TWELVE WERE WITH HIM,
AND ALSO SOME WOMEN WHO HAD
00:18:33.46\00:18:36.56
BEEN CURED OF EVIL SPIRITS
AND DISEASES: MARY (CALLED
00:18:36.56\00:18:40.43
MAGDALENE) FROM WHOM SEVEN
DEMONS HAD COME OUT; JOANNA
00:18:40.43\00:18:44.90
THE WIFE OF CUZA, THE MANAGER
OF HEROD'S HOUSEHOLD; SUSANNA;
00:18:44.90\00:18:49.26
AND MANY OTHERS.
00:18:49.26\00:18:50.63
THESE WOMEN WERE
HELPING TO SUPPORT THEM OUT
00:18:50.63\00:18:53.13
OF THEIR OWN MEANS."
00:18:53.13\00:18:57.36
NOW, IT IS COMMONLY
BELIEVED THAT MARY MAGDALENE
00:18:57.36\00:19:05.00
WAS THE TOWN PROSTITUTE.
00:19:05.00\00:19:10.76
THAT IS MORE A TRADITION
THAN A BIBLICAL DOCTRINE.
00:19:10.76\00:19:17.50
BUT IT IS A BIBLICAL DOCTRINE
THAT THIS WOMAN HAD ONCE HAD
00:19:17.50\00:19:23.40
SEVEN DEMONS AND
SEVEN IS A PERFECT NUMBER.
00:19:23.40\00:19:28.30
IT MEANS SHE WAS FULL OF EVIL.
00:19:28.30\00:19:33.26
SO THIS TELLS ME THERE'S
HOPE FOR THE VERY WORST PERSON,
00:19:33.26\00:19:39.66
FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
00:19:39.66\00:19:42.36
SO HERE'S A WOMAN, WHETHER SHE'S
A PROSTITUTE, WHATEVER SHE IS,
00:19:42.36\00:19:46.30
MY FRIEND, IT IS PLAIN THAT SHE
WAS A WOMAN FILLED WITH EVIL.
00:19:46.30\00:19:55.26
BUT SHE WAS DIFFERENT FROM
CAIAPHAS IN ONE MAJOR FACTOR.
00:19:55.26\00:20:01.50
YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS?
00:20:01.50\00:20:03.60
SHE SAW HER DESPERATE NEED.
00:20:03.60\00:20:09.50
CAIAPHAS WAS OOZING PRIDE.
00:20:09.50\00:20:15.73
CAIAPHAS WOULD NEVER
COME FORWARD IN AN ALTAR CALL
00:20:15.73\00:20:20.86
TO REPENT OF HIS SINS BECAUSE
HE HAD NO SINS TO REPENT OF.
00:20:20.86\00:20:26.23
BUT MARY KNEW
THAT SHE WAS A SINNER.
00:20:26.23\00:20:35.66
ONE GREAT SCHOLAR SAID THIS,
"MOST RELIGION IS BAD, UNLESS
00:20:35.66\00:20:44.43
IT MAKES THE BELIEVER KIND
AND COURTEOUS, TENDER-HEARTED
00:20:44.43\00:20:50.90
AND FULL OF PITY AND
MINDS AND HEARTS OPEN TO GOD,
00:20:50.90\00:20:57.60
IT IS A RELIGION FROM BENEATH."
00:20:57.60\00:21:02.63
SO MOST RELIGION IS BAD.
00:21:02.63\00:21:08.36
GOING TO CHURCH DOESN'T MAKE YOU
A RIGHTEOUS PERSON ANYMORE THAN
00:21:08.36\00:21:16.60
GOING TO A GARAGE
MAKES YOU A MOTOR CAR.
00:21:16.60\00:21:22.43
BUT MARY WAS REDEEMED BY CHRIST.
00:21:22.43\00:21:27.16
SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH JESUS
BECAUSE JESUS SAVED HER SOUL.
00:21:27.16\00:21:32.90
GLORY BE TO GOD.
00:21:32.90\00:21:34.53
COME OVER HERE TO JOHN 19:25.
00:21:34.53\00:21:38.46
JOHN 19:25.
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.20
I DON'T PROMISE TO GET
THROUGH ALL THE FACES TODAY.
00:21:41.20\00:21:45.23
AS FOR USUAL, I'VE GOT
ENOUGH HERE FOR SEVERAL SERMONS.
00:21:45.23\00:21:49.16
JOHN 19 AND I
THINK IT'S VERSE 25.
00:21:49.16\00:21:55.60
"NEAR THE CROSS OF JESUS STOOD
HIS MOTHER, HIS MOTHER'S SISTER,
00:21:55.60\00:22:04.33
MARY THE WIFE OF
CLOPAS, AND MARY MAGDALENE."
00:22:04.33\00:22:10.96
YOU NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS?
00:22:10.96\00:22:12.90
THE OTHER WOMEN WERE THERE ALSO.
00:22:12.90\00:22:16.03
SHE WAS NOT ALONE.
00:22:16.03\00:22:19.13
BUT MOST OF THE MEN HAD
SULKED AWAY, THEY'D RUN AWAY.
00:22:19.13\00:22:26.70
BUT MARY WAS
THERE, MARY THE EVIL WOMAN
00:22:26.70\00:22:31.53
WHO HAD BEEN REDEEMED.
00:22:31.53\00:22:34.43
WHEN JESUS NEEDED HIS
FRIENDS, MARY WAS THERE.
00:22:34.43\00:22:39.23
SO WERE THE OTHER WOMEN.
00:22:39.23\00:22:42.20
MARY WAS COURAGEOUS,
STEADFAST, LOVING AND TRUE.
00:22:42.20\00:22:48.06
SO UNLIKE ANOTHER FACE NOT THERE
AT THE CROSS BECAUSE THAT FACE
00:22:48.06\00:22:55.13
ALREADY WAS DEAD, THE
FACE OF JUDAS, JUDAS ISCARIOT.
00:22:55.13\00:23:04.20
HE'S CALLED ISCARIOT BECAUSE HE
CAME FROM THE TOWN OF KERIOTH.
00:23:04.20\00:23:08.43
HE WAS THE MOST-TALENTED
PERSON ON THE JESUS TEAM.
00:23:08.43\00:23:15.70
BUT IT'S INTERESTING AS I
READ THIS WEEK, NEVER IS THERE
00:23:15.70\00:23:19.33
A RECORD IN THE GOSPELS THAT
JUDAS EVER CALLED JESUS LORD.
00:23:19.33\00:23:27.40
NEVER KNEW THAT.
00:23:27.40\00:23:29.13
ALWAYS CALLED HIM RABBI,
BUT HE NEVER SURRENDERED TO
00:23:29.13\00:23:35.73
THE LORDSHIP OF
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.
00:23:35.73\00:23:38.60
JUDAS HAD SOME GREAT QUALITIES.
00:23:38.60\00:23:41.86
HE WAS GREAT WITH MONEY.
00:23:41.86\00:23:43.80
HE WAS THE MOST
TALENTED OF THE DISCIPLES,
00:23:43.80\00:23:47.76
BUT HE HAD ONE BIG PROBLEM.
00:23:47.76\00:23:50.90
HE WAS A MONEY LOVER.
00:23:50.90\00:23:56.50
HE WOULD HAVE DONE WELL IN
THE DEBACLE ON WALL STREET.
00:23:56.50\00:24:03.23
A GREEDY MAN.
00:24:03.23\00:24:06.66
SOME YEARS AGO IN THIS GREAT
COUNTRY OF THE UNITED STATES,
00:24:06.66\00:24:09.66
WE WERE ACTUALLY SAYING ON
TELEVISION, "GREED IS GOOD."
00:24:09.66\00:24:15.43
WELL, BECAUSE OF OUR GREED
IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'VE SENTENCED
00:24:15.43\00:24:21.43
MILLIONS OF CHILDREN TO
DEATH BECAUSE OF THE COLLAPSE OF
00:24:21.43\00:24:27.93
THEIR ECONOMIES.
00:24:27.93\00:24:32.76
GREED IS GOOD.
00:24:32.76\00:24:34.60
HE WAS FULL OF GREED.
00:24:34.60\00:24:37.03
HE WAS A HARD MAN.
00:24:37.03\00:24:39.66
AND ALSO, SUPER-DUPER RELIGIOUS.
00:24:39.66\00:24:45.20
COME OVER HERE
TO MATTHEW 26:6-14.
00:24:45.20\00:24:50.70
MATTHEW 26:6-14.
00:24:50.70\00:24:55.06
MATTHEW 26:6-14.
00:24:55.06\00:25:00.63
"WHILE JESUS WAS IN BETHANY IN
THE HOME OF A MAN KNOWN AS SIMON
00:25:00.63\00:25:06.13
THE LEPER, A WOMAN CAME TO HIM
WITH AN ALABASTER JAR OF VERY
00:25:06.13\00:25:10.90
EXPENSIVE PERFUME," IT'S WORTH
ABOUT $60,000 OR $70,000, "WHICH
00:25:10.90\00:25:16.26
SHE POURED ON HIS HEAD AS
HE WAS RECLINING AT THE TABLE.
00:25:16.26\00:25:19.93
WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAW
THIS, THEY WERE INDIGNANT.
00:25:19.93\00:25:22.50
'WHY THIS
WASTE?'" THAT IS THE CRY OF
00:25:22.50\00:25:27.33
THE PHARISEE, "WHY SPEND
MONEY ON JESUS AND THE GOSPEL?
00:25:27.33\00:25:33.96
WHY THIS WASTE?"
00:25:33.96\00:25:36.73
"THIS PERFUME COULD HAVE
BEEN SOLD AT A HIGH PRICE AND
00:25:36.73\00:25:40.16
THE MONEY GIVEN TO THE POOR."
00:25:40.16\00:25:42.06
OH, YEAH.
00:25:42.06\00:25:43.70
"AWARE OF THIS, JESUS SAID
TO THEM, 'WHY ARE YOU BOTHERING
00:25:43.70\00:25:46.46
THIS WOMAN?
00:25:46.46\00:25:47.83
SHE HAS DONE A
BEAUTIFUL THING TO ME.
00:25:47.83\00:25:49.90
THE POOR YOU WILL ALWAYS
HAVE WITH YOU, BUT YOU WILL
00:25:49.90\00:25:51.96
NOT ALWAYS HAVE ME.
00:25:51.96\00:25:53.40
WHEN SHE POURED THIS PERFUME ON
MY BODY, SHE DID IT TO PREPARE
00:25:53.40\00:25:56.50
ME FOR BURIAL.
00:25:56.50\00:25:58.33
I TELL YOU THE TRUTH,
WHEREVER THIS GOSPEL IS PREACHED
00:25:58.33\00:26:00.83
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, WHAT
SHE HAS DONE WILL ALSO BE TOLD,
00:26:00.83\00:26:03.63
IN MEMORY OF HER.'"
NOTICE VERSE 14, "THEN ONE OF
00:26:03.63\00:26:08.66
THE TWELVE--THE ONE
CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT--WENT TO
00:26:08.66\00:26:12.70
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SAID,
'WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE
00:26:12.70\00:26:15.33
ME IF I HAND HIM OVER TO YOU?'
SO THEY COUNTED OUT FOR HIM
00:26:15.33\00:26:20.93
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER."
00:26:20.93\00:26:27.83
WHAT A DESPICABLE CHARACTER.
00:26:27.83\00:26:33.60
THIS MAN WHO WENT TO THE ENEMIES
OF THE LORD AND SOLD HIM OUT
00:26:33.60\00:26:40.13
FOR THE PRICE OF A
SLAVE, 30 BITS OF SILVER.
00:26:40.13\00:26:46.53
AND IT ALL STARTED, MY FRIEND,
BECAUSE HE WAS A GREEDY MAN.
00:26:46.53\00:26:52.73
AND WHEN HE SAW THE WASTE, THIS
WOMAN, MAYBE MARY OR SOMEBODY,
00:26:52.73\00:26:57.43
THIS WOMAN POURING $60,000,
$70,000 WORTH OF PERFUME
00:26:57.43\00:27:02.63
ON THE LORD.
00:27:02.63\00:27:04.36
HE SAID, "THAT'S IT?"
00:27:04.36\00:27:05.90
WHY THIS WASTE?
00:27:05.90\00:27:07.43
SO HE WENT OFF AND BETRAYED HIM.
00:27:07.43\00:27:13.20
AND THEN LATER ON
YOU KNOW THE STORY.
00:27:13.20\00:27:18.16
HE LED THE GANG, THE GANG INTO
THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE AND
00:27:18.16\00:27:24.66
CAME UP TO JESUS AND
HUGGED HIM AND KISSED HIM.
00:27:24.66\00:27:30.36
SAID, "HAIL MASTER."
00:27:30.36\00:27:33.56
HE BETRAYED THE LORD WITH
A KISS, A HUG INCIDENTALLY
00:27:33.56\00:27:39.06
IS NOT ALWAYS SINCERE.
00:27:39.06\00:27:44.03
THE DEVIL KNOWS HOW TO HUG ALSO.
00:27:44.03\00:27:46.56
I'M NOT AGAINST HUGS.
00:27:46.56\00:27:49.30
BUT THIS MAN WAS ALSO
A HUGGER AND A KISSER.
00:27:49.30\00:27:58.56
AND YOU KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED, DON'T YOU?
00:27:58.56\00:28:01.63
HE GOT SO REMORSEFUL WHEN THEY
CAME AND GOT JESUS, HE GOT SO
00:28:01.63\00:28:06.80
REMORSEFUL, HE GOT SO GUILTY,
BUT GUILTY IS NOT ENOUGH.
00:28:06.80\00:28:14.76
HE FELT SO REMORSEFUL, THE BIBLE
SAYS HE WENT OUT, HE GOT A ROPE.
00:28:14.76\00:28:20.86
HE PUT THE ROPE AROUND HIS
NECK AND HE HUNG HIMSELF, BUT
00:28:20.86\00:28:27.13
THE ROPE BROKE AND HE FELL DOWN.
00:28:27.13\00:28:29.56
THE BIBLE SAYS
HIS BOWELS BURST OUT.
00:28:29.56\00:28:37.26
AND AS JESUS WAS TAKEN ALONG
THE VIA DOLOROSA TO CALVARY,
00:28:37.26\00:28:42.73
THE RUMOR WAS ALREADY OUT.
00:28:42.73\00:28:46.00
LOOK OVER THERE AND YOU
WILL SEE THE BOWELS OF THE MAN
00:28:46.00\00:28:50.40
WHO SOLD THE LORD.
00:28:50.40\00:28:54.06
SO THERE WAS JUDAS.
00:28:54.06\00:28:55.60
HE NEVER MADE IT TO THE
CROSS AND NEITHER DID PETER.
00:28:55.60\00:29:01.43
HE'S THE NEXT PERSON.
00:29:01.43\00:29:02.80
WHERE WAS PETER?
00:29:02.80\00:29:04.80
MAYBE WATCHING FROM AFAR.
00:29:04.80\00:29:07.46
WOULD YOU COME OVER HERE
TO JOHN 1:42 BECAUSE LIKE MOST
00:29:07.46\00:29:11.10
OF THE MEN IN THE
STORY, PETER HAD RUN AWAY.
00:29:11.10\00:29:16.36
JOHN 1:42, BUT NOT THE WOMEN.
00:29:16.36\00:29:21.30
"AND HE BROUGHT HIM TO JESUS."
00:29:21.30\00:29:23.06
JOHN 1:42, "JESUS
LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID,
00:29:23.06\00:29:25.76
'YOU ARE SIMON SON OF JOHN.
00:29:25.76\00:29:28.00
YOU WILL BE CALLED
CEPHAS' (WHICH, WHEN TRANSLATED,
00:29:28.00\00:29:31.56
IS PETER."
00:29:31.56\00:29:33.13
YOU'RE PETER, SON OF JOHN.
00:29:33.13\00:29:36.96
IF HE WERE LIVING TODAY, WE
WOULD HAVE CALLED HIM PETER.
00:29:36.96\00:29:43.13
NOW THERE'S A TRANSLATION FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE OUT IN AUSTRALIA.
00:29:43.13\00:29:47.23
AND PETER IS CALLED
PETER JOHNSON BECAUSE THAT'S
00:29:47.23\00:29:53.76
WHAT WE WOULD HAVE CALLED
HIM, PETER THE SON OF JOHN.
00:29:53.76\00:30:01.36
AND PETER WAS A REGULAR GUY.
00:30:01.36\00:30:05.20
PETER WAS NOT, THANKS BE TO
GOD, A NAMBY-PAMBY OR A WIMP.
00:30:05.20\00:30:14.43
PETER WAS A FISHERMAN WHICH
IS AN HONORABLE PROFESSION.
00:30:14.43\00:30:18.96
HE WAS MARRIED.
00:30:18.96\00:30:20.63
HE HAS A STRONG GALILEAN
ACCENT THAT WOULD GIVE HIM AWAY.
00:30:20.63\00:30:24.06
HE WAS IN THE INNER CIRCLE.
00:30:24.06\00:30:26.83
PETER, JOHN.
00:30:26.83\00:30:31.33
HE WAS OUTSPOKEN, IMPULSIVE.
00:30:31.33\00:30:35.26
AT THE LAST SUPPER HE
LEANS ACROSS WHEN JESUS SAID,
00:30:35.26\00:30:38.76
"SOMEONE'S GOING TO BETRAY ME,"
PETER LEANS ACROSS AND SAYS,
00:30:38.76\00:30:42.90
"JOHN, TELL ME WHO IT IS."
00:30:42.90\00:30:45.90
YOU KNOW WHY?
00:30:45.90\00:30:48.80
BECAUSE THAT MAN
WOULDN'T HAVE GOT OUT ALIVE.
00:30:48.80\00:30:51.90
PETER WOULD HAVE FINISHED
THAT MAN WITH HIS SWORD.
00:30:51.90\00:30:55.20
PETER WAS LOYAL,
IMPULSIVE AND BIG-HEARTED.
00:30:55.20\00:31:01.40
WE WOULD HAVE LIKED PETER.
00:31:01.40\00:31:03.90
NOW COME TO JOHN 18 AND
WE'LL READ A LITTLE BIT OF THIS.
00:31:03.90\00:31:08.36
JOHN 18:-15-27, "SIMON
PETER AND ANOTHER DISCIPLE
00:31:08.36\00:31:16.30
WERE FOLLOWING JESUS.
00:31:16.30\00:31:18.63
BECAUSE THIS DISCIPLE WAS KNOWN
TO THE HIGH PRIEST," THAT'S
00:31:18.63\00:31:21.33
JOHN, "HE WENT WITH JESUS INTO
THE HIGH PRIEST'S COURTYARD,
00:31:21.33\00:31:25.23
BUT PETER HAD TO
WAIT OUTSIDE AT THE DOOR.
00:31:25.23\00:31:27.50
THE OTHER DISCIPLE, WHO
WAS KNOWN TO THE HIGH PRIEST,"
00:31:27.50\00:31:30.43
THAT MEANS JOHN HAD INFLUENCE,
"CAME BACK, SPOKE TO THE GIRL ON
00:31:30.43\00:31:34.10
DUTY THERE AND BROUGHT PETER IN.
00:31:34.10\00:31:36.96
'YOU ARE NOT ONE OF
HIS DISCIPLES, ARE YOU?'
00:31:36.96\00:31:38.96
THE GIRL AT THE
DOOR ASKED PETER.
00:31:38.96\00:31:41.40
HE REPLIED, 'I AM NOT.'
IT WAS COLD, AND THE SERVANTS
00:31:41.40\00:31:47.96
AND OFFICIALS
STOOD AROUND A FIRE
00:31:47.96\00:31:50.16
THEY HAD MADE TO KEEP WARM.
00:31:50.16\00:31:51.46
PETER ALSO WAS STANDING
WITH THEM, WARMING HIMSELF."
00:31:51.46\00:31:57.83
AND IF YOU COME DOWN A LITTLE
BIT FURTHER, DOWN TO VERSE 25.
00:31:57.83\00:32:03.63
"AS SIMON PETER STOOD
WARMING HIMSELF, HE WAS ASKED,
00:32:03.63\00:32:06.80
'YOU ARE NOT ONE OF
HIS DISCIPLES, ARE YOU?'
00:32:06.80\00:32:09.23
HE DENIED IT,
SAYING, 'I AM NOT.'
00:32:09.23\00:32:12.20
ONE OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S
SERVANTS, A RELATIVE OF THE MAN
00:32:12.20\00:32:15.40
WHOSE EAR PETER HAD
CUT OFF, CHALLENGED HIM,
00:32:15.40\00:32:18.06
'DIDN'T I SEE YOU WITH
HIM IN THE OLIVE GROVE?'
00:32:18.06\00:32:21.06
AGAIN PETER DENIED
IT, AND AT THAT MOMENT
00:32:21.06\00:32:24.70
A ROOSTER BEGAN TO CROW."
00:32:24.70\00:32:28.00
IN ANOTHER ACCOUNT, I THINK
IT IS FOUND IN MATTHEW THAT WE
00:32:28.00\00:32:31.30
DON'T HAVE TIME TO TURN TO NOW.
00:32:31.30\00:32:33.53
THE BIBLE TELLS US IT WAS A
CONFRONTATION WITH THIS SLIP
00:32:33.53\00:32:37.96
OF A GIRL.
00:32:37.96\00:32:42.73
A MAN WOULD NOT HAVE GOT
TO HIM, BUT A GIRL GOT TO HIM.
00:32:42.73\00:32:48.63
PETER STARTED TO
CURSE AND TO SWEAR.
00:32:48.63\00:32:53.80
AND THE BIBLE TELLS US IN
ANOTHER PLACE, AND THE LORD
00:32:53.80\00:32:57.86
TURNED AND LOOKED UPON
PETER AND PETER REMEMBERED.
00:32:57.86\00:33:04.83
AND PETER GOES OUT AND HE
WEEPS AND HE CRIES AND HE SAYS,
00:33:04.83\00:33:09.76
"WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
00:33:09.76\00:33:13.53
YOU KNOW WHAT
PETER'S PROBLEM WAS?
00:33:13.53\00:33:16.16
WELL, IT'S YOUR
PROBLEM, MY PROBLEM.
00:33:16.16\00:33:18.93
THIS IS THE BIG PROBLEM.
00:33:18.93\00:33:21.13
YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?
00:33:21.13\00:33:23.53
SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
00:33:23.53\00:33:31.76
POOR OLD PETER SAID, "EVEN
THOUGH EVERYBODY ELSE DENIES
00:33:31.76\00:33:34.76
YOU, LORD, I'M
NEVER GONNA DO IT.
00:33:34.76\00:33:36.40
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME."
00:33:36.40\00:33:40.83
SO PETER WAS A PERSON WHO FELT
NO REAL NEED OF HELP BECAUSE
00:33:40.83\00:33:49.50
HE SAID, "I CAN DO IT."
00:33:49.50\00:33:54.10
YES, WE CAN.
00:33:54.10\00:33:56.63
"YES, I CAN.
00:33:56.63\00:34:00.56
I CAN DO IT."
00:34:00.56\00:34:02.60
YES, WE--AND EVERYBODY
SAID WITH HIM, "YES, WE CAN."
00:34:02.60\00:34:10.16
AND POOR OLD
PETER TRIED TO DO IT.
00:34:10.16\00:34:12.43
HE PULLED OUT HIS SWORD.
00:34:12.43\00:34:13.70
HE CHOPPED OFF THIS GUY'S EAR.
00:34:13.70\00:34:16.26
HE WASN'T EVEN
GOOD WITH THE SWORD.
00:34:16.26\00:34:18.40
HE MISSED HIS HEAD, MISSED
HIS NECK, CHOPPED OFF HIS EAR.
00:34:18.40\00:34:22.00
AND PETER--AND THE LORD
PUTS UP HIS HAND, HEALS THE MAN.
00:34:22.00\00:34:25.50
ISN'T THAT A BIT AMAZING?
00:34:25.50\00:34:27.70
THEY DIDN'T SAY
HALLELUJAH, THIS IS THE MESSIAH.
00:34:27.70\00:34:30.46
THEY SAID,
"LET'S CRUCIFY HIM NOW."
00:34:30.46\00:34:34.16
BUT POOR PETER
TRUSTED IN HIS OWN STRENGTH.
00:34:34.16\00:34:37.53
I WONDER WHAT
WE WOULD HAVE DONE.
00:34:37.53\00:34:39.86
I ASK YOU, WHAT
WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
00:34:39.86\00:34:44.10
IF YOU'D THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT,
"HEY, IF I'M IDENTIFIED WITH
00:34:44.10\00:34:48.23
HIM, THEY'RE GONNA
PUT ME ON THE CROSS ALSO,"
00:34:48.23\00:34:51.10
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE SAID?
00:34:51.10\00:34:59.00
ANOTHER CHARACTER WHO DOESN'T
COME THROUGH VERY WELL IS
00:34:59.00\00:35:01.63
ANOTHER MAN PONTIUS PILATE.
00:35:01.63\00:35:05.13
HE WASN'T THERE IN PERSON.
00:35:05.13\00:35:06.36
HE WAS THE
PROCURATOR OR THE GOVERNOR.
00:35:06.36\00:35:10.23
HE WAS DRAGGED OUT OF
BED, HAD TO LEAVE HIS WIFE.
00:35:10.23\00:35:13.80
HE WAS PROBABLY COLD.
00:35:13.80\00:35:15.43
HE WAS ALL UNDER A--ALREADY
UNDER A CLOUD WITH ROME BECAUSE
00:35:15.43\00:35:19.10
HE'D MADE SOME
REALLY BAD DECISIONS.
00:35:19.10\00:35:21.63
HIS JOB WAS ON THE LINE.
00:35:21.63\00:35:26.33
AND SO PILATE COMES OUT.
00:35:26.33\00:35:27.40
YOU READ THE STORY
JOHN 18:28 AND ONWARDS.
00:35:27.40\00:35:33.33
"THEN THE JEWS LED JESUS
FROM CAIAPHAS TO THE PALACE OF
00:35:33.33\00:35:38.00
THE ROMAN GOVERNOR.
00:35:38.00\00:35:39.73
BY NOW IT WAS EARLY
MORNING, AND TO AVOID CEREMONIAL
00:35:39.73\00:35:43.26
UNCLEANNESS--"
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?
00:35:43.26\00:35:46.20
GONNA COMMIT MURDER, BUT THEY'RE
GONNA KEEP THEMSELVES CLEAN.
00:35:46.20\00:35:51.06
"THE JEWS DID NOT ENTER
THE PALACE; THEY WANTED TO BE
00:35:51.06\00:35:54.03
ABLE TO EAT THE PASSOVER.
00:35:54.03\00:35:55.93
SO PILATE CAME OUT TO THEM."
00:35:55.93\00:35:57.76
THEY COULDN'T GO INTO SEE
HIM BECAUSE THEY'D GET DEFILED.
00:35:57.76\00:36:02.86
HOW BLIND.
00:36:02.86\00:36:05.70
AND PILATE GOES OUT TO THEM.
00:36:05.70\00:36:08.20
WHAT CHARGE?
00:36:08.20\00:36:09.33
VERSE 30, "'IF HE WERE
NOT A CRIMINAL WE WOULD NOT
00:36:09.33\00:36:11.23
HAVE HANDED HIM
OVER.' 'TAKE HIM YOURSELVES
00:36:11.23\00:36:14.76
AND JUDGE HIM BY YOUR
OWN LAW.' 'WE HAVE NO RIGHT
00:36:14.76\00:36:17.40
TO EXECUTE ANYONE.'" THEN
VERSE 33, "PILATE THEN WENT
00:36:17.40\00:36:22.40
BACK INSIDE THE PALACE,
SUMMONED JESUS AND ASKED HIM,
00:36:22.40\00:36:25.26
'ARE YOU THE KING OF THE JEWS?'
'IS THAT YOUR OWN IDEA,' JESUS
00:36:25.26\00:36:28.23
ASKED, 'OR DID OTHERS
TALK TO YOU ABOUT ME?'
00:36:28.23\00:36:31.13
'AM I A JEW?' PILATE REPLIED.
00:36:31.13\00:36:33.80
'IT WAS YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR
CHIEF PRIESTS WHO HANDED YOU
00:36:33.80\00:36:36.63
OVER TO ME.
00:36:36.63\00:36:37.53
WHAT IS IT YOU HAVE DONE?'
'MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS
00:36:37.53\00:36:41.90
WORLD,'" JESUS SAYS.
00:36:41.90\00:36:43.96
VERSE 37, "'YOU
ARE A KING, THEN!'
00:36:43.96\00:36:46.06
JESUS ANSWERED, 'YOU ARE
RIGHT IN SAYING I AM A KING.
00:36:46.06\00:36:49.40
IN FACT, FOR THIS
REASON I WAS BORN, AND FOR THIS
00:36:49.40\00:36:51.80
I CAME INTO THE WORLD,
TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH.
00:36:51.80\00:36:55.20
EVERYONE ON THE SIDE
OF TRUTH LISTENS TO ME.'
00:36:55.20\00:36:57.53
'WHAT IS TRUTH?'"
THAT'S WHERE PILATE WAS.
00:36:57.53\00:37:02.53
WHERE PROBABLY MOST PEOPLE
IN THE WORLD ARE, WHAT IS TRUTH?
00:37:02.53\00:37:10.83
TRUTH IS ANYTHING TO ANYONE
AND TRUTH CANNOT BE DEFINED
00:37:10.83\00:37:18.13
OR TIED DOWN.
00:37:18.13\00:37:20.43
HE WAS A PHILOSOPHER.
00:37:20.43\00:37:22.93
PILATE IS KNOWN FOR
THESE WORDS, "WHAT IS TRUTH?"
00:37:22.93\00:37:28.33
"BEHOLD YOUR KING"
AND WHAT'S THE THIRD ONE?
00:37:28.33\00:37:33.13
"BEHOLD THE MAN."
00:37:33.13\00:37:38.66
AND THEN MRS. PILATE SENDS HIM
A MESSAGE, "DON'T HAVE ANYTHING
00:37:38.66\00:37:43.23
TO DO WITH THAT
MAN, THAT JUST MAN."
00:37:43.23\00:37:45.70
SHE WAS ASKING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
00:37:45.70\00:37:50.30
AND SO WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE
SHOUTING AND WHEN THE PEOPLE
00:37:50.30\00:37:53.83
ARE SCREAMING FOR HIS
BLOOD, IT GETS PRETTY BAD.
00:37:53.83\00:38:00.13
CHAPTER 19:6, "AS SOON AS
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THEIR
00:38:00.13\00:38:05.00
OFFICIALS SAW HIM,
THEY SHOUTED, 'CRUCIFY HIM!
00:38:05.00\00:38:08.20
CRUCIFY HIM!' BUT
PILATE ANSWERED, 'YOU
00:38:08.20\00:38:10.36
TAKE HIM AND CRUCIFY HIM.
00:38:10.36\00:38:11.86
AS FOR ME, I FIND NO BASIS
FOR A CHARGE AGAINST HIM.'"
00:38:11.86\00:38:17.10
AND THEN YOU COME DOWN A
LITTLE BIT FURTHER VERSE 12,
00:38:17.10\00:38:22.23
"FROM THEN ON, PILATE TRIED
TO SET JESUS FREE, BUT THE JEWS
00:38:22.23\00:38:25.53
KEPT SHOUTING, 'IF YOU LET
THIS MAN GO, YOU ARE NO FRIEND
00:38:25.53\00:38:28.66
OF CAESAR.
00:38:28.66\00:38:30.50
ANYONE WHO CLAIMS TO
BE A KING OPPOSES CAESAR.'
00:38:30.50\00:38:34.26
WHEN PILATE HEARD THIS, HE
BROUGHT JESUS OUT AND SAT DOWN
00:38:34.26\00:38:37.26
ON THE JUDGE'S SEAT AT A PLACE
KNOWN AS THE STONE PAVEMENT
00:38:37.26\00:38:41.10
(WHICH IN ARAMAIC IS GABBATHA).
00:38:41.10\00:38:44.16
'HERE IS YOUR KING,'
PILATE SAID TO THE JEWS.
00:38:44.16\00:38:47.53
BUT THEY
SHOUTED, 'TAKE HIM AWAY!
00:38:47.53\00:38:49.50
TAKE HIM AWAY!
00:38:49.50\00:38:50.56
CRUCIFY HIM!' 'SHALL
I CRUCIFY YOUR KING?'
00:38:50.56\00:38:55.70
'WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR,'
THE CHIEF PRIESTS ANSWERED.
00:38:55.70\00:38:59.46
FINALLY PILATE HANDED HIM
OVER TO THEM TO BE CRUCIFIED."
00:38:59.46\00:39:03.23
WHEN HE DID THIS, OF COURSE, THE
BIBLE TELLS US IN ANOTHER PLACE,
00:39:03.23\00:39:07.20
HE CEREMONIOUSLY
REQUESTED A BASIN OF WATER.
00:39:07.20\00:39:15.13
YOU CAN'T WASH AWAY
SIN WITH A BASIN OF WATER.
00:39:15.13\00:39:19.63
AND THEY BRING OUT THE WATER AND
HE RINSES HIS HANDS AND HE SAYS,
00:39:19.63\00:39:24.00
"YOU DO IT.
00:39:24.00\00:39:24.93
I'M INNOCENT OF
THIS MAN'S BLOOD."
00:39:24.93\00:39:28.36
WHAT WAS THE SIN OF
THIS MAN, DO YOU THINK?
00:39:28.36\00:39:32.70
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WAS?
00:39:32.70\00:39:35.60
PILATE, COWARDICE,
AFRAID OF LOSING HIS JOB.
00:39:35.60\00:39:48.40
COWARDICE.
00:39:48.40\00:39:51.13
THESE ARE NOT STRANGE SINS.
00:39:51.13\00:39:54.00
PILATE WENT WITH THE MOB.
00:39:54.00\00:39:56.56
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN WITH A GROUP
AND THEY GO WITH A MOB AND YOU
00:39:56.56\00:40:00.16
HAVE A TREMENDOUS URGE IN
YOU TO GO WITH THE MOB ALSO?
00:40:00.16\00:40:07.96
DON'T DO IT.
00:40:07.96\00:40:10.16
HE YIELDED TO THE MOB.
00:40:10.16\00:40:12.30
WHAT WOULD WE HAVE DONE?
00:40:12.30\00:40:14.46
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS,
THE MOB HAS NEVER BEEN ON
00:40:14.46\00:40:20.40
THE SIDE OF TRUTH OR
JESUS, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.
00:40:20.40\00:40:28.93
AND PILATE SEALED HIS
DOOM WHEN HE HANDED HIM OVER.
00:40:28.93\00:40:35.30
ONE OF THE FACES AT THE CROSS,
A PERSON THAT WE ALL LOVE.
00:40:35.30\00:40:40.40
OUR ROMAN CATHOLIC FRIENDS CALL
HER THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.
00:40:40.40\00:40:46.43
THE WORD MARY COMES
FROM A HEBREW WORD MARAH,
00:40:46.43\00:40:50.93
WHICH MEANS BITTER.
00:40:50.93\00:40:53.30
SOME SAY IT COMES FROM
AN EGYPTIAN WORD THAT MEANS
00:40:53.30\00:40:57.06
BELOVED, BOTH ARE TRUE.
00:40:57.06\00:41:00.36
SHE CARED FOR HIM FOR 30 YEARS.
00:41:00.36\00:41:02.66
SHE'D GIVEN BIRTH
TO HIM IN A STABLE.
00:41:02.66\00:41:08.33
HE GREW UP IN A CARPENTER SHOP.
00:41:08.33\00:41:10.26
SHE KISSED HIS BRUISES AND
HIS CUTS, AND SHE WAS THERE.
00:41:10.26\00:41:21.60
JOSEPH WASN'T THERE
BECAUSE HE WAS DEAD.
00:41:21.60\00:41:25.60
JOHN 19:25 AND ONWARD SAYS,
"NEAR THE CROSS OF JESUS STOOD
00:41:25.60\00:41:31.83
HIS MOTHER, HIS MOTHER'S
SISTER, MARY THE WIFE OF CLOPAS,
00:41:31.83\00:41:35.20
AND MARY MAGDALENE.
00:41:35.20\00:41:37.40
WHEN JESUS SAW HIS MOTHER THERE,
AND THE DISCIPLE WHOM HE LOVED,"
00:41:37.40\00:41:40.70
THAT'S JOHN, "STANDING
NEARBY, HE SAID TO HIS MOTHER,
00:41:40.70\00:41:44.30
'DEAR WOMAN, HERE IS YOUR
SON,' AND TO THE DISCIPLE,
00:41:44.30\00:41:47.60
'HERE IS YOUR MOTHER.'
FROM THAT TIME ON, THIS DISCIPLE
00:41:47.60\00:41:52.06
TOOK HER INTO HIS HOME."
00:41:52.06\00:41:57.40
I WANT TO TALK TO THE MOTHERS.
00:41:57.40\00:42:00.73
WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
00:42:00.73\00:42:03.66
THIS IS ONE MOTHER WHO STOOD
FOR CHRIST WHEN IT WAS DANGEROUS
00:42:03.66\00:42:10.63
TO DO SO.
00:42:10.63\00:42:12.86
BUT MARY HAD
THE HEART OF A LION.
00:42:12.86\00:42:20.10
THE GREAT QUEEN ELIZABETH,
FACING THE SPANISH ARMADA RODE
00:42:20.10\00:42:24.16
OUT TO THE BRITISH TROOPS AND
SHE SAID, "YOU SEE BEFORE YOU
00:42:24.16\00:42:27.93
A FRAIL WOMAN."
00:42:27.93\00:42:31.03
BUT SHE SAID, "MAKE NO MISTAKE,
WITHIN THIS BODY IS A HEART OF
00:42:31.03\00:42:37.56
A BRITISH KING."
00:42:37.56\00:42:42.43
AND WITHIN MARY'S HEART
WAS THE COURAGE OF A KING.
00:42:42.43\00:42:49.16
I DON'T KNOW IF THIS MAN MADE
IT THERE, MAYBE HE WATCHED FROM
00:42:49.16\00:42:51.73
A DISTANCE, BARABBAS.
00:42:51.73\00:42:55.53
LET ME PUT IT UP ON THE
BLACKBOARD, BARABBAS, IF YOU
00:42:55.53\00:43:00.40
LIKE THIS WORD,
PETER JOHNSON, BARABBAS.
00:43:00.40\00:43:04.36
BAR-ABBAS.
00:43:04.36\00:43:10.73
YOU CAN WORK THIS
OUT YOUR SON, SIMON BAR--
00:43:10.73\00:43:17.23
PETER, SON OF JONAH.
00:43:17.23\00:43:23.00
BAR JONAH.
00:43:23.00\00:43:25.10
IT SAYS, BAR JONAH.
00:43:25.10\00:43:26.36
BAR MEANS SON, AND ABBA
IS THE GREEK WORD FOR FATHER.
00:43:26.36\00:43:36.13
AND THE INTIMATE TERM ALMOST
LIKE DADDY AND IN SOME ANCIENT
00:43:36.13\00:43:43.46
GREEK MANUSCRIPTS, THIS MAN
IS CALLED--DID YOU KNOW THIS?
00:43:43.46\00:43:48.43
IN SOME ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS HE'S
CALLED JESUS, SON OF THE FATHER?
00:43:48.43\00:43:55.76
JESUS, SON OF THE FATHER.
00:43:55.76\00:44:00.13
SO PILATE BRINGS OUT BOTH
MEN, JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS,
00:44:00.13\00:44:05.43
JESUS THE SON OF GOD AND
HE BRINGS OUT THIS RUFFIAN,
00:44:05.43\00:44:09.76
THIS THIEF, THIS BAD
MAN SON OF THE FATHER.
00:44:09.76\00:44:16.63
HE SAYS, "WHICH OF THE
TWO WILL I RELEASE UNTO YOU?"
00:44:16.63\00:44:21.26
AND THE CROWD SCREAMED
OUT, "AWAY WITH THIS MAN, JESUS
00:44:21.26\00:44:27.46
AND RELEASE UNTO US BARABBAS."
00:44:27.46\00:44:31.20
THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:44:31.20\00:44:33.06
THE BAD MAN GOES FREE.
00:44:33.06\00:44:37.50
THAT'S THE MEANING OF THE CROSS
BECAUSE EVERY ONE OF US HERE,
00:44:37.50\00:44:43.93
WE'RE ALL BARABBAS,
THE SON OF THE FATHER.
00:44:43.93\00:44:48.40
THE BIBLE SAYS, HE
WAS A MURDERER, TERRORIST.
00:44:48.40\00:44:52.03
PICTURE BARABBAS IN THE DUNGEON.
00:44:52.03\00:44:54.13
HE'S WAITING FOR THE SOLDIERS
TO COME AND PULL HIM OUT
00:44:54.13\00:44:57.16
AND NAIL HIM TO THE CROSS.
00:44:57.16\00:44:59.00
AND AS HE'S WAITING
THERE, HE HEARS THE SOUND OF
00:44:59.00\00:45:02.50
THE ROMAN SOLDIER AND HE
HEARS THE KEY BEING TURNED.
00:45:02.50\00:45:06.86
AND THE ROMAN SOLDIER SAYS,
"GET UP, YOU LUMP OF USELESS
00:45:06.86\00:45:12.26
WHATEVER.
00:45:12.26\00:45:14.26
YOU'RE FREE."
00:45:14.26\00:45:17.53
NO WONDER HE WENT TO CALVARY.
00:45:17.53\00:45:20.46
AND THERE IN DUMB AMAZEMENT
WATCHED AS JESUS THE SON OF
00:45:20.46\00:45:25.46
THE FATHER WAS
NAILED TO THE CROSS FOR HIM.
00:45:25.46\00:45:30.23
THAT'S THE WHOLE STORY
OF THE GOSPEL IN A NUTSHELL.
00:45:30.23\00:45:35.03
JOHN WAS THERE.
00:45:35.03\00:45:37.80
HE WAS THE SON OF
ZEBEDEE AND SALOME.
00:45:37.80\00:45:41.73
HE WAS A FISHERMAN.
00:45:41.73\00:45:43.70
HE HAD A PARTNERSHIP WITH HIS
BROTHER JAMES AND ALSO TWO OTHER
00:45:43.70\00:45:47.23
FISHERMAN, PETER AND ANDREW.
00:45:47.23\00:45:49.76
THESE MEN WERE CALLED JOHN
AND JAMES, JAMES AND JOHN, THEY
00:45:49.76\00:45:55.40
WERE CALLED SONS OF THUNDER.
00:45:55.40\00:46:01.46
JOHN WAS A LITTLE POT SOON HOT.
00:46:01.46\00:46:05.70
HE GOT HOT QUICKLY
BECAUSE HE FELT THINGS.
00:46:05.70\00:46:09.86
HE WAS NOT INSIPID.
00:46:09.86\00:46:11.36
HE WAS NOT INDIFFERENT.
00:46:11.36\00:46:13.40
JOHN WAS PASSIONATE.
00:46:13.40\00:46:18.20
NOT A WIMP, NOT A WUSS.
00:46:18.20\00:46:22.93
A LITTLE POT SOON HOT, SON OF
THUNDER, LOVING, LOYAL, DEVOTED,
00:46:22.93\00:46:27.33
HAD INFLUENCE, GOT PETER
INTO THE HIGH PRIEST'S HOUSE.
00:46:27.33\00:46:30.50
MEN, HE WAS THE ONLY
MALE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS.
00:46:30.50\00:46:35.60
WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN, I ASKED
THE MEN HERE, WOULD YOU HAVE
00:46:35.60\00:46:40.20
BEEN CHRIST'S FRIEND WHEN
THE WORLD WAS CURSING HIM?
00:46:40.20\00:46:48.96
THERE'S NO RECORD IN THE
NEW TESTAMENT OF A WOMAN EVER
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DOING ANYTHING BAD TO JESUS.
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THAT CAN'T BE SAID OF THE MEN.
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BUT JOHN WAS THERE.
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HE WAS THE BEST OF THE BEST.
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THEN THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT ALL
THOSE WHO PASSED BY, TALKS ABOUT
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THE PRIESTS AND THE MULTITUDES.
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HOW MANY WERE THERE?
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THERE COULD HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS
THERE BECAUSE HE WAS WELL-KNOWN.
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AND SO AS THE MULTITUDE
PASSED BY, THE BIBLE SAYS, THEY
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CURSED AT HIM AND THEY
SAID, "COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS
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AND WE WILL BELIEVE."
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THEY BLASPHEMED HIM,
SWORE AT HIM, SPAT IN HIS FACE.
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SOME WOULD COME
UP AND SPIT AT HIM.
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THE PRIESTS WERE THERE.
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THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE WERE THERE.
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THE ARCHCONSERVATIVES WERE
THERE AND THEY WERE SAYING,
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"COME DOWN."
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AND HE COULD HAVE.
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"NO MAN IS COMPELLED TO JOIN
A GROUP AND NO MAN SHOULD SELL
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HIS SOUL JUST TO BE ACCEPTED
BY A GROUP," ONE SCHOLAR SAID.
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WHAT ABOUT YOU?
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PEOPLE DO THINGS AS NATIONS,
COMMITTEES, CHURCHES AS GROUPS
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THAT THEY WOULD
NEVER DO AS INDIVIDUALS.
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PEOPLE WILL SIT ON COMMITTEES
AND VOTE THINGS THROUGH THAT
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THEY'D NEVER DO AS A NEIGHBOR.
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THAT'S THE MULTITUDE.
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AND THE GREAT SIN OF
THE MULTITUDE HERE IT IS,
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INDIFFERENCE, INDIFFERENCE.
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YEAH, WELL, YOU
KNOW ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN?
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"YEAH, OF COURSE
I'M A CHRISTIAN."
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN
KEEPING, BY THE GRACE OF GOD,
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THE COMMANDMENTS?
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"OH, WELL, YOU KNOW I
DON'T WANT TO BE FANATICAL."
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WHAT ABOUT KEEPING THE
LORD'S DAY THE SABBATH?
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"OH, WELL, YEAH, BUT AS
LONG AS IT DOESN'T INFRINGE UPON
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MY TIME."
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LET'S SAY IF WE JUST
KEEP-- DO YOU KEEP SUNDAY THEN?
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"WELL, YEAH,
BUT--" HOW DO YOU KEEP IT?
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"WELL, I GO TO
CHURCH FOR AN HOUR."
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WHAT DO YOU DO THEN?
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"PLAY GOLF AND EAT."
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SO DO YOU HAVE ANY
CONVICTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING?
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ARE YOU STRONGLY STIRRED?
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"WELL, YEAH, BUT, YOU
KNOW, I REALLY DON'T WANT TO GET
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TOO MUCH INVOLVED
IN ALL OF THIS STUFF."
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THAT'S THE MULTITUDE.
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ARE WE WITH CHRIST OR
THE SCOFFING MULTITUDE?
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BUT THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE I
MUST MENTION, THE CENTURION.
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WE DON'T HAVE TIME
FOR ALL OF THEM THERE.
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WE TALKED ABOUT THE GOOD,
THE BAD AND THE UGLY BUT NOW
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A SOLDIER.
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SOLDIERING IS A ROUGH JOB.
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ARMIES, ONE COMMENTATOR
SAID, BREAK THINGS AND KILL.
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THAT'S WHAT AN ARMY IS FOR.
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AND THAT'S WHAT
SOLDIERS ARE TRAINED TO DO.
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ROMAN SOLDIERS WERE DISCIPLINED.
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THEY WERE CRUEL AND HEARTLESS
AND THE ROMAN SOLDIERS THERE
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THAT DAY DELIGHTED
IN TORTURING JESUS.
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AND THE GUY, THE MAN IN
CHARGE OF THE CRUCIFIXION WHO
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SUPERVISED THE NAILING IN OF
THE SPIKES WAS A MAN IN CHARGE
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OF A HUNDRED MEN.
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HE'S CALLED THE CENTURION.
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THINK OF THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE
WHO GATHER AROUND THE CROSS,
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EITHER IN SPIRIT OR IN REALITY.
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CAIAPHAS, JUDAS.
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PETER, WELL HE WAS THERE MAYBE
WATCHING FROM A HILL A LONG WAY
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OFF, BUT REPENTANT AND FORGIVEN?
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BARABBAS MAY BE STANDING THERE
STAYING, "HE'S THERE FOR ME."
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BUT HERE IS A PERSON YOU WOULD
NOT WANT TO INVITE INTO CHURCH.
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HE'S BIG AND BRAWNY
AND ROUGH, BUT HE'S A MAN.
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HE'S ONE OF THE FEW
MEN HEROES IN THE STORY,
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EXCEPT FOR OUR BLESSED LORD.
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MATTHEW 27:54.
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MATTHEW 27:54, DEAR HEARTS.
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"WHEN THE CENTURION,"
ROUGH AND READY ROMAN SOLDIER
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IN CHARGE OF A HUNDRED MEN.
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"WHEN THE CENTURION AND THOSE
WITH HIM WHO WERE GUARDING JESUS
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SAW THE EARTHQUAKE AND ALL
THAT HAD HAPPENED, THEY WERE
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TERRIFIED, AND EXCLAIMED,
'SURELY HE WAS THE SON OF GOD!'"
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I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT
THAT DAY HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO
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CHRIST, AS THE
PENITENT THIEF DID.
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TWO MEN CRUCIFIED NEXT
TO CHRIST, CLOSE TO HIM.
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ONE IS SAVED AND ONE IS LOST.
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PROXIMITY TO
JESUS DOES NOT SAVE YOU.
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YOU CAN SIT IN CHURCH, YOU
CAN PRETEND TO BE RELIGIOUS.
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YOU CAN PRETEND TO
BE A MINISTER LIKE ME.
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YOU CAN MAKE A BIG PRETENSE.
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YOU CAN BE PART OF THE GRAND
AND GLORIOUS CHURCH INSTITUTION,
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AND YOU CAN DRIVE IN THE NAILS.
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I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THAT
THE CENTURION WITH THE PENITENT
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THIEF WILL BE WITH
CHRIST IN PARADISE.
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AROUND THE CROSS, THE RELIGIOUS,
LIKE US, THE IRRELIGIOUS,
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THE RUDE, THE CRUDE, THE
CRUEL, THE CURSERS, THE MOCKERS,
00:53:14.83\00:53:23.70
THE BLASPHEMERS, THE
DEVOUT, THE HOLY, THE GOOD,
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THE INDIFFERENT, THE PENITENT.
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AND IF YOU UNDERSTAND SCRIPTURE,
THIS IS NOT HOMILETICS
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WHEN I SAY THIS.
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THIS IS NOT A PLAN
WHERE IT'S--THIS IS NOT
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A CAREFULLY-THOUGHT-OUT HOMILY.
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THESE ARE THE SINS, THE COMMON
SINS THAT PUT HIM ON THE CROSS,
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PRIDE, GREED,
SELF-SUFFICIENCY, INDIFFERENCE.
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THESE ARE THE COMMON
SINS, THEREFORE THEOLOGICALLY
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WE WERE ALL THERE.
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HE WAS HANDED OVER BY THE
SET DETERMINED PURPOSE OF GOD.
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HE WENT TO THE CROSS TO
BEAR THE SIN OF THE WORLD.
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AS THE GREAT SCHOLAR SAID,
WHEN THEY CAME SEEKING JESUS
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IN THE GARDEN, CAIAPHAS WAS NOT
REALLY SEEKING HIM PRIMARILY,
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NOR JUDAS.
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WHEN THEY CAME
SAYING, "WHERE ARE YOU?
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WHERE--ARE YOU THE MAN?"
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IT WAS THE LAW THAT
CAME SEEKING HIM BECAUSE
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HE ASSUMED OUR GUILT.
00:54:37.33\00:54:40.30
AND THEN HE SAID THOSE
AMAZING WORDS, "IF YOU WANT ME,
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LET THESE GO THEIR WAY."
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HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
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"LET THESE GO THEIR WAY."
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SO HE STANDS BETWEEN THE
VENGEANCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD,
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THE LAW OF GOD.
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HE STANDS BETWEEN THE LAW AND
THE DISCIPLES AND SAYS, "TAKE
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ME, LET THESE GO THEIR WAY."
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SO YOU AND I WERE THERE WITH
OUR COWARDICE, OUR INDIFFERENCE,
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OUR PRIDE, OUR EGOS, WITH
OUR RUDENESS AND OUR CRUDENESS.
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.
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MY SINS PUT HIM THERE, MINE
ALONE WOULD HAVE PUT HIM THERE
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BECAUSE IF THERE HAD
BEEN ONE LOST SOUL, HE WOULD
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HAVE BEEN NAILED TO THE CROSS.
00:55:30.86\00:55:33.23
OUR SINS PUT HIM THERE,
THEREFORE MY APPEAL TO YOU
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TODAY, MY FRIEND, IS THIS, LET
US STAND WITH MARY THE MOTHER.
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AND MARY, THE
MARYs AND MARY MAGDALENE.
00:55:45.73\00:55:51.06
LET US STAND WITH THE WOMAN,
AND JOHN AND THE CENTURION
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AND THE PENITENT THIEF.
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NEVER LET HIM STAND ALONE.
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AMEN.
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AND GOD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS.
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[MUSIC]
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? I CAN ONLY, ? ?
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE ?
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? WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE ? ?
WHEN I WALK BY YOUR SIDE. ?
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? I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT
? ? MY EYES WILL SEE WHEN ?
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? YOUR FACE IS BEFORE
ME. ? ? I CAN ONLY IMAGINE. ?
00:56:58.46\00:57:08.23
? I CAN ONLY IMAGINE. ? ?
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE, YEAH. ?
00:57:08.23\00:57:21.40
? SURROUNDED BY YOUR GLORY,
? ? WHAT WILL MY HEART FEEL? ?
00:57:21.40\00:57:27.90
? WILL I DANCE FOR YOU, JESUS,
? ? OR IN AWE OF YOU BE STILL? ?
00:57:27.90\00:57:34.76
? WILL I STAND ?
? IN YOUR PRESENCE ?
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? OR TO MY KNEES WILL I FALL?
? ? WILL I SING HALLELUJAH? ?
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? WILL I BE ABLE
TO ? ? SPEAK AT ALL? ?
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? I CAN ONLY IMAGINE,
YEAH. ? ? I CAN ONLY IMAGINE. ??
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