Welcome back, we're talking
about the killing of Jesus.
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We're gonna
answer this question now
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that we brought up
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in the last part of the program,
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what mottos were involved
in the killing of Jesus?
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Well, sorted, petty, little sins
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that most of us folks practice.
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Would you come over
here to Matthew 27:15-18,
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that's a text in
the New Testament.
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Matthew 27:15 and onwards,
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"Now at the feast the governor
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was accustomed to release
the multitude one prisoner
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whom they wished.
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And at that time
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they had a notorious
prisoner called Barabbas.
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Therefore, when they
had gathered together,
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Pilate said to them,
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'Whom do you want
me to release to you?
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Barabbas, or Jesus
who is called Christ?'
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For he knew they had
handed Him over because of..."
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What?
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'Cause of envy, not a
really big sin, is it?
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Not like murder,
just a little sin,
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most people have got
a bit of envy in them.
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The Jews were envious of
Jesus because of His popularity.
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We're talking
about the Jewish leaders.
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Because of His
power, His influence,
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they are the same sins
today that you find in politics.
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A envy, also not only
I'm talking about politics
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in the church,
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politics in the church
and politics in Washington,
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in the world.
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Then it was Pilate,
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Pilate's big problem of
course was job security.
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You know, if you let
this man go, you know,
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friend of
Caesar's and so he said,"
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Well, I guess when it
comes to the bottom line,
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it's better for
me to keep my job
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than to follow Jesus.
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Also pride.
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And that doesn't
seem to be such a big sin,
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oh, the pride,
people don't go to job
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because of pride.
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Look at John 11:47 and onwards.
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My dear friends,
John 11:47 and onwards.
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"Then the chief
priests and the Pharisees
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gathered a council and
said, 'What shall we do?
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For this Man works many signs.
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If we let Him alone,
everybody will believe in Him,
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and the Romans will come
and take away both our place
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and nation.'
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And one of them, Caiaphas,
being high priest that year,
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said to them, 'You
know nothing at all,
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nor do you consider
that it is expedient for us
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that one man
should die for the people,
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and not the whole
nation should perish.'
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" This was a form of
nationalism or racism.
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You know, we are the
greatest nation in the world.
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And if anything happens,
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we are going to lose our nation,
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that's a very common sin today.
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These sins, these sinners
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were not so
different to you and to me,
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not big glaring sins
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but the common nasty little sins
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of the common people.
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Do Bible believe
in Christians believe
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in slaughterhouse religion?
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The moral influence
theory, let me talk about it.
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The people who believe in
the moral influence theory
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and it is centered
really any place of the world
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where it centered
is southern California.
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The moral
influence theory says this,
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"Does a loving
God demand a sacrifice
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before He can forgive us?"
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I say, I forgive my children,
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we forgive our children
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without demanding
a blood sacrifice.
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God forgave the prodigal son
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when he came home
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without demanding
a blood sacrifice.
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Why would God demand
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a blood sacrifice on the cross?
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Gandhi said, "Jesus
was a great example,
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greatest in the world."
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But he said, "No one can
die for the sins of another."
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And the Muslims of course
say exactly the same thing,
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no person can die
for the sins of another.
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Liberal theologians
like Dr. Leslie Weatherhead
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who wrote the marvelous book
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'The Transforming
Friendship' said this.
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"The idea that a loving
God demands a propitiation
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at a blood sacrifice,
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this idea is a pagan idea
that crept into the church."
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And he said,
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"All enlighten Christians
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will give up the
idea of propitiation
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and a blood sacrifice
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to atone for the wrath of God."
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I want you to notice some text,
I want you to think about this.
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Romans 1:18,
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Romans 1:18 says,
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"For the wrath of God
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is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness
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and unrighteousness of men,
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who suppress the
truth in unrighteousness..."
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Look at me, the Bible teaches,
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this is the most unpopular
teaching in the world today.
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The Bible teaches
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that God is righteous
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and holy,
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and therefore,
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He has a
righteous wrath against sin.
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The Bible says,
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the wrath of God
is revealed otherwise,
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why did God destroys Sodom
and Gomorrah, please tell me?
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Why did God destroy
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the world of the antediluvians?
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God is not a big,
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woolly teddy bear,
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He's a God of love,
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but the Bible tells me,
He is a God of holiness.
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Now, would you
notice 1 Thessalonians 1:10?
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1 Thessalonians 1:10,
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"And to wait for
His Son from heaven,
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whom He raised from the dead,
even Jesus who delivers us..."
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What does it say?
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"From the wrath to come..."
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So the concept
of God having wrath
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is a concept that
is taught in the Bible.
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The Bible says,
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"When Jesus comes
and destroys the wicked,
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it will be as an expression
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of His holy wrath."
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A very unpopular
doctrine but it is true.
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Come over here to...
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What else can I show you?
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Come over to
Romans 5:8, it says,
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"But God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
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in that while we
were still sinners,
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Christ died for us."
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Look at me.
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The most important
characteristic of God
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is not His wrath,
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but His love.
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He is a God
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that is full of love,
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otherwise, why did He come down
and died on the cross for us?
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So He is full of
love, but the Bible says,
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He's a holy God and therefore,
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He has wrath against sin.
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Now, I come to the
most important truth
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that I can explain unto you
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and this truth will withstand
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the powers of doctrines.
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God and Christ
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took our sins upon Himself
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and satisfied His own justice
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and His wrath against sin.
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I want you to think about it.
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I want you to come over here
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to one of the most
important passages in the Bible
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and that is the
Book of Romans 3:19.
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And if you want to be saved,
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you need to understand
and read the Book of Romans.
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Romans 3:19 says,
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"Now we know that
whatever the law says,
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it says to those
who are under the law,
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that every mouth may be stopped,
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and the whole world
become guilty before God."
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The Bible tells us,
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the whole world
is guilty before God
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because we've all
broken the law of God
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and we're all sinners.
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The Bible says,
"For all have sinned..."
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That's every one of us.
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"And fall short of
the glory of God..."
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That's every one of us,
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"Being justified,
or declared righteous,
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freely by His grace
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through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus,
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whom God set forth
as a propitiation."
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This is a correct
translation in the New KJV
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and in the old KJV and
many other translations.
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The Bible says,
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"The Christ was
propitiation by His blood,
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through faith, to demonstrate
His righteousness..."
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The cross
demonstrates His righteousness,
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"Because in His forbearance
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God had passed over the sins
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that were previously committed
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to demonstrate
at the present time
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His righteousness..."
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The cross
demonstrates His righteousness,
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"That He might be just..."
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God is got to be just,
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"That He might be just
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and the justifier of the one
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who has faith in Jesus."
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Now the Bible tells me,
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that Christ hanging on the cross
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was a propitiation,
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and it was necessary
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so that our
righteous God could be just,
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when He forgives our sins.
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Now this is called
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the doctrine of the atonement.
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Otherwise, please explain to me
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the cry of
dereliction from the Son of God,
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when He hung on the
cross and He cried out
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and said, "My God, my
God, why have You forsaken Me?"
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Was this theatrics?
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Or where this the
wonderings of a demented mind?
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Now this was a soul,
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this was God in Christ
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taking His own medicine
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and bearing the
sin of the world.
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That is why the
moral influence theory
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as been damned as a heresy
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by all mainstream Christians.
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Look at Galatians 3:13
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which is one of the
most amazing disturbing texts
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in the Bible written by Paul,
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the great Jewish
scholar, Galatians 3:13.
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"Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law..."
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There's nothing
wrong with that law,
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but when we break it,
we come under a curse,
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"The curse of the law,
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having become a curse for us..."
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Christ to curse for us...
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"For it is written,
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'Cursed is everyone
who is hanged on a tree.'"
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So the Bible teaches
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that when Christ
was hung on a tree,
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the Bible said,
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"He was cursed for us".
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Now, these are disturbing texts,
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but they showed the mind of God.
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Charles Ryrie, the
Bible scholar said this,
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"Propitiation means
the turning away of wrath
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by an offering."
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In relation to Soteriology,
the doctrine of salvation.
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"Propitiation means
placating or satisfying
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the wrath of God
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by the atoning
sacrifice of Christ."
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Let me explain this to you
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because this is the
very heart of the Bible
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and this is the heart
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of the character of God.
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The Bible tells me
that God must be just
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because He's a righteous God,
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He's not just a teddy bear
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that you can play with.
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And the Bible says,
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that when we sinned
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and broke the law of God,
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we came under the wrath of God.
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The Bible teaches this,
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but the Bible tells me this,
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that on the cross,
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God in Christ
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provided satisfaction
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for His holiness.
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You know, a mother
sometimes says to a child,
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I want you to
take this castor oil,
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child says, "It's
awful, it tastes bad."
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The mother says, "Let
me take some for you."
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So she takes her own medicine.
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God on the cross
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demanded righteousness.
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When man sinned,
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God demanded righteousness
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because God is a
righteous and a holy God,
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don't you understand
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that God cannot live with sin.
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People say that
everybody is going to be saved,
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that is the
doctrine of the devil,
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that's nowhere
taught in the Bible.
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The Bible says,
when Christ comes back,
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it says, He
comes back with wrath
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and He destroys a world
that is turned away from Him...
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but what a tragedy
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because Christ died
for the sins of every man,
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woman and child
so that every man,
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woman and child can be
saved and go to heaven.
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And the greatest sin of all
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is the rejection of
the cross of Christ.
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And so on the cross,
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God suffered
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the vengeance of
His own holy nature.
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It wasn't the case of God
pushing out an innocent Son
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and saying, "You go to the cross
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and I'm going to stay back here
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and I'm going to watch it all."
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Not at all,
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God was in Christ
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and on the cross.
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Christ, the Bible says
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became our propitiation.
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And He paid the price.
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Now, got to tell you a story.
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How did the affairs of David
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and especially one affair.
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How did the affairs
of David, king of Israel
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and his family
help me to understand
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God's problem and the gospel?
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I look you in the eye and
let me tell you something,
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people today play with sin
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because they have no idea
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that sin means death.
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And when Christ
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took our sin upon Himself,
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it was death and hell.
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And crying out my God, my
God, why have You forsaken Me?
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That is the last
cry of the last person
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who dies shut out
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from the kingdom of God
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without Christ.
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Either He bears our sin
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or we bear it alone.
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Why do you think He came down?
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These are the
characters in our play is David,
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he's the king.
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Now the king has
got a special job.
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When he was the king of
Israel, the people of God,
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David had one great job,
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uphold the law.
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David is the law giver,
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David upholds the law.
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Then, number two character,
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a beautifully, not
totally innocent woman,
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her name is Bathsheba.
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And David sees her taking a bath
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and on the top of the roof,
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2 Samuel 11:2.
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Here is the text,
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"Then it happened one
evening that David..."
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The person who
upholds the law, the king.
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"Arose from his bed
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and walked on the
roof of the king's house.
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And from the roof
he saw a woman bathing,
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and the woman
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was very beautiful to behold."
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Now the first look was not sin,
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but when he said
to his attendant,
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find me the
binoculars, then it was.
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And so the
first look is not sin,
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but sin indulged
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is another thing.
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Now this beautiful woman,
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not totally
innocent has a husband.
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He's good man, he's one
of David's mighty soldiers,
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his name is Uriah.
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He's not even an Israelite,
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he's a Hittite.
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And so David tells him
to come from the battle,
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he comes from the battle.
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And he says, "Don't
go back to your house."
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You know why?
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Because the woman
had already told David,
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send him a letter I'm pregnant
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and you are the father.
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So the king calls in Uriah
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and then the Bible
tells me he gets him drunk.
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Why does he get him drunk?
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So he gets him drunk
and he says, now go home,
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but Uriah says,
"No, how can I go home
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when the ark of God
is out in the field?
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So he doesn't go home.
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So what does the king do?
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King murders him.
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His job was to uphold the law.
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Then David had a lot
of sons and daughters.
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One son was the young
guy by the name of Amnon.
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He's got a half sister,
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her name, goodness me,
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her name was Tamar
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and she's a beautiful girl.
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And this young guy,
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this young guy
Amnon deceives her,
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rapes her, rejects her.
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You know what David does?
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The Bible says, the Bible says,
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uses the word David is furious.
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What does he do?
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Nothing.
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You know, why he does nothing?
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He does nothing because
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of what he's done
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with Bathsheba
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and also Uriah.
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He was a man
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who was supposed
to uphold the law.
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He represented God.
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Then there is the dandy,
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his name is Absalom.
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He's the brother of Tamar,
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he becomes
tremendously indignant,
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rightly so,
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he's a beautiful young
man, he's got thick hair.
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Every time he has his hair cut,
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its' five or six
ponds, the Bible says.
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So he plots
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and there is a big
party at Absalom's house.
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He says to the king,
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"Can all the king
sons come, will you come?"
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And David says,
00:20:33.93\00:20:35.26
"No, no, my son
you just go ahead."
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So there is the big party,
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they get Amnon drunk
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and then Absalom says,
00:20:42.70\00:20:44.47
"kill him,"
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so they kill him.
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What a story.
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This is in the Bible.
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Absalom
escapes, the king grieves
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and once his boy Absalom back,
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but you know what he does?
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Nothing.
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Finally, David
allows him to come home,
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what should the king have done?
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Justice,
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uphold the law.
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And then when Absalom gets back,
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like the devil
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he undermines
the king's authority.
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And soon there is a
tremendous rebellion
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and I want you to
notice how it finishes.
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2 Samuel 18:7,
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14-15.
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"The people of Israel
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were overthrown there
before the servants of David,
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and a great
slaughter of twenty thousand
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took place that day."
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We won't read the rest of it.
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Absalom is caught
hanging up in a tree.
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They threw darts into his heart.
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There are 20,000 widows,
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maybe 50,000 orphans that day.
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Twenty thousand killed,
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you know, why?
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Because the king did not know
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how to be a king and a father,
00:22:08.49\00:22:12.39
you see?
00:22:12.43\00:22:13.76
So what does the father do?
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Well, a father loves.
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Father loves,
what about the king?
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He loves, he upholds justice.
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And think of God's problem.
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God is a father,
therefore He loves.
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God is the judge,
00:22:30.75\00:22:32.11
God is God, what does He do?
00:22:32.15\00:22:36.08
He upholds the law.
00:22:36.12\00:22:39.62
What is God's answer to our sin
00:22:39.65\00:22:42.82
because God did a
lot better than David.
00:22:42.86\00:22:47.63
What is God's answer?
00:22:47.66\00:22:50.23
God loves us like
David loved his children.
00:22:50.27\00:22:54.64
But God becomes a man
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and God is punished
00:22:59.17\00:23:02.51
for the sin of the world.
00:23:02.54\00:23:04.25
So God upholds the law
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as He loves us
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that He might be just,
00:23:19.19\00:23:21.23
and the justifier the
person who has faith in Jesus.
00:23:21.26\00:23:24.73
This is called the true gospel.
00:23:24.77\00:23:27.10
Anything less is
a heresy and a lie.
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This gospel forgives my sin
00:23:32.14\00:23:35.84
and God says, "I'm just,
00:23:35.88\00:23:38.88
because I borne it."
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And it changes my life
00:23:41.78\00:23:44.09
like it did for Luther,
00:23:44.12\00:23:47.22
he couldn't understand this.
00:23:47.26\00:23:49.42
Priest, the
Roman Catholic priest
00:23:49.46\00:23:51.49
couldn't understand it,
00:23:51.53\00:23:52.86
and one day he
was found kneeling
00:23:52.89\00:23:54.86
before a crucifix and crying,
00:23:54.90\00:23:56.90
it dawned upon him,
00:23:56.93\00:23:58.57
the justice of
God, the atonement.
00:23:58.60\00:24:01.17
My God, my God he is saying,
00:24:01.20\00:24:03.81
for me, for me,
00:24:03.84\00:24:06.27
that's the gospel.
00:24:06.31\00:24:08.04
And here's another
text from the days of David,
00:24:08.08\00:24:11.38
2 Samuel 14:14,
00:24:11.41\00:24:16.05
an amazing text,
00:24:16.08\00:24:18.09
look at this.
00:24:18.12\00:24:21.19
Here are the words of
the wise women from Tekoa,
00:24:21.22\00:24:25.79
"Like water
spilled on the ground,
00:24:25.83\00:24:28.06
which cannot be recovered,
00:24:28.10\00:24:29.60
so we must die.
00:24:29.63\00:24:33.97
But that is not what
God desires rather..."
00:24:34.00\00:24:37.61
Look at this, "He devises ways
00:24:37.64\00:24:40.81
so that a banished person
00:24:40.84\00:24:43.01
does not remain
banished from him."
00:24:43.04\00:24:47.22
God works out a way.
00:24:47.25\00:24:50.29
We've got to dive, Bible says,
00:24:50.32\00:24:53.52
so what is God's answer?
00:24:53.56\00:24:57.06
Well, God becomes a man.
00:24:57.09\00:25:00.83
He bears the sin of the world.
00:25:00.86\00:25:02.80
He bears your sin and mine.
00:25:02.83\00:25:05.13
This is why today you
and I ought to run to Him.
00:25:05.17\00:25:09.87
We ought to run to Him
00:25:09.90\00:25:12.21
because if we reject this,
00:25:12.24\00:25:15.14
what is there left I ask you?
00:25:15.18\00:25:17.55
We ought to run to Him
00:25:17.58\00:25:19.68
because it shows you
how great is His love.
00:25:19.71\00:25:23.52
If there had
only been one sinner,
00:25:23.55\00:25:26.39
you my friend, you my friend,
00:25:26.42\00:25:28.92
only one sinner,
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.83
can you believe this,
00:25:30.86\00:25:32.19
if there had only been
one sinner in the world,
00:25:32.23\00:25:35.63
there would have been a cross.
00:25:35.66\00:25:40.07
And a crucified God,
00:25:40.10\00:25:43.34
a crucified Christ saying,
00:25:43.37\00:25:45.67
"My God, my God, why
have You forsaken Me?"
00:25:45.71\00:25:48.48
He was forsaken
00:25:48.51\00:25:49.84
so that I might
never be forsaken.
00:25:49.88\00:25:52.45
He suffered
00:25:56.02\00:25:58.09
the wrath of God against sin
00:25:58.12\00:26:02.29
so that I could
be justified by faith
00:26:02.32\00:26:07.63
and have peace with God.
00:26:07.66\00:26:11.03
This is a gospel of God.
00:26:11.07\00:26:15.37
Amen. Amen.
00:26:15.40\00:26:17.37
Hi there, I'm John
carter in Havana, Cuba,
00:26:20.54\00:26:23.35
this communist fortress.
00:26:23.38\00:26:25.71
We are here to
preach the gospel of Christ
00:26:25.75\00:26:27.68
to the public
00:26:27.72\00:26:29.05
but more than this
00:26:29.08\00:26:30.42
we are running a
school of evangelism
00:26:30.45\00:26:33.02
and biblical studies
for the Cuban pastors.
00:26:33.05\00:26:37.33
One hundred and forty pastors
00:26:37.36\00:26:39.26
coming from right
across this wonderful island
00:26:39.29\00:26:43.40
and they're coming to join
with us to study, have best
00:26:43.43\00:26:46.94
we can meet the
needs of the Cuban people.
00:26:46.97\00:26:51.07
The Cuban people are just
the most wonderful people,
00:26:51.11\00:26:54.14
they're warm, friendly.
00:26:54.18\00:26:55.98
And I'm amazed
00:26:56.01\00:26:57.35
that in the meetings every night
00:26:57.38\00:26:58.71
that we are taking,
00:26:58.75\00:27:00.08
that I think most of the
people there are young people.
00:27:00.12\00:27:04.45
And of course,
when I say young people,
00:27:04.49\00:27:05.99
I mean, people up
to say 35 years of age.
00:27:06.02\00:27:10.26
Oh, they're young to
me but they are so warm,
00:27:10.29\00:27:13.43
and they're so receptive.
00:27:13.46\00:27:15.43
And when they come forward
night by night to accept Jesus,
00:27:15.46\00:27:19.03
they come with
tremendous sincerity.
00:27:19.07\00:27:21.74
So what a privilege it is
to be here in the land of Cuba.
00:27:21.77\00:27:26.31
But remember to
pray for the pastors,
00:27:26.34\00:27:29.81
140 pastors are
coming from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:29.84\00:27:34.48
and other places right
across this island nation.
00:27:34.52\00:27:38.19
They're coming to join
forces with us, think of this.
00:27:38.22\00:27:41.46
They're coming
from Guantanamo Bay
00:27:41.49\00:27:43.99
and everywhere,
00:27:44.03\00:27:45.36
we're going to meet
with them, study with them,
00:27:45.39\00:27:47.53
pray with them
00:27:47.56\00:27:48.90
to devise the best means
00:27:48.93\00:27:50.93
of reaching this nation
00:27:50.97\00:27:53.50
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:27:53.54\00:27:55.60
And thank you for
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