Welcome back, we're here
in Hebrews chapter 5, verse 7,
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"In the days of His
flesh, Jesus offered up prayers
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and supplications
with loud cries and tears
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to him who was able
to save Him from death,
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and He was heard
for His godly fear."
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Glenn, we have
here a few details
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that we have to keep in
mind in order to understand
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what was going on in
the Garden of Gethsemane.
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So we already
noticed that gospel says
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that Jesus went
about stones throw--
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at least one hundred
yards, it's during the night
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but the disciples were
able clearly to hear Jesus
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praying and the
words of that prayer.
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Hebrews says, thatJesus was
praying with the loud crying.
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We don't here an ordinary
prayer of Jesus, you know,
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"Father be with me,"
falling down on the ground.
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It was a cry of
agony it was aloud cry.
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So, Glenn, what was
going on here in the scene?
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Because this is the
crucial issue of His whole life,
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His whole ministry
and all of human history.
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This is where Jesus
has to face the fact
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that he cannot be the
messiah without the cross.
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But can you realize something?
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You know, as we were
going through the life of Jesus
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in the gospel of Mathew, we
see a constant effort of Satan
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to prevent Jesus to
go there to the cross.
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But now in the
Garden of Gethsemane,
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evidently Satan with
all his army is there.
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We are here dealing
with a most decisive battle,
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or actually point of the
battle, that great controversy.
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The most decisive
moment has come and no wonder,
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can you imagine
that pressure on Jesus
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knowing the Satan is there.
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The demonic forces are there
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and there is Satan
almost invisible form there,
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picking up on Jesus.
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By the way I will
really like this moment to read
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a statement that made great
impact on me from the book,
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"Desire of Ages" page 690.
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It says, "Jesus
was praying in agony.
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The faith of humanity
trembled in the balance.
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Christ might even now
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refuse to drink the cup
apportioned to guilty man.
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It was not yet too late.
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He might wipe the
bloody sweat from His brow,
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and leave man to
perish in his iniquity.
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He might say,
let the transgressor
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receive the penalty of his sin,
and I will go back to My Father.
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Will the Son of God drink
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the bitter cup of
humiliation and agony?
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Will the innocent
suffer the consequences
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of the curse of
sin, to save the guilty?
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The words fall tremblingly
from the pale lips of Jesus,
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'O My Father, if this cup
may not pass away from Me,
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except I drink it,
Thy will be done.'"
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I am sorry, Glenn, I
cannot contemplate of everything
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what was going on there
in Garden of Gethsemane.
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I have tears in my eyes.
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That I cannot be
grateful to my savior
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what he put the stake there
in order to save you and me.
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We are talking about cross,
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and rightly doing that,
but Jesus agony on the cross
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actually begin here in
the Garden of Gethsemane.
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You cannot separate the two.
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And this is the extension
of that Philippian, chapter 2.
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Philippians, chapter
2. That condescension.
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He stepped down, he
stepped down even to the death.
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To the point of death.
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And we see the
beginning of the separation.
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It will come to its
fullness on the cross.
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But he is being
pulled away from his father
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as he bears our sins.
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You know then people talk
about Garden of Gethsemane
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they said, you know,
"Jesus was God of course,
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He knew that the
grave could not hold him."
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But keep in mind
here we have a clear
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that human aspect
of Jesus, you know,
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I wanted at this point to
say something to the viewers
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and among the
Christians there is a belief
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that death is actually nothing
terrible to be afraid of.
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The death is simply
transition from this life
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into that next life to go
when human soul leaves the body
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and you know human
beings they continue to live.
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Actually Swiss
scholar Oscar Cullman,
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he wrote a book on
immortality of the soul
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and he uses the
situation of Jesus.
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And he says, if death
is really nothing terrible,
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it's just transition from
this life into the next one,
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then why was Jesus
so much afraid of death?
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Much afraid to die? He
is telling that the death,
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actually death, is an
enemy of the human race.
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The biblical teaching of
death is it is the enemy.
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And we cannot
take death lightly.
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By the way there is
only one instance that Jesus,
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actually two
instances, that Jesus cried.
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One when Lazarus
died, and second one
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at the destiny of Jerusalem
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what was supposed to happen
to them it's again over death.
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The only, the only instances.
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So death is an
enemy of the human race
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but there is another point is,
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but the death is
a conquered enemy.
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Because God himself,
by becoming human being,
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went through the
experience of death.
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And by his own death
he defeated that enemy
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so that you and me,
we all, have that hope
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that death is not the
last word of the human race.
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One day the last enemy will be
defeated totally and completely
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at the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
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That's what we see on this side.
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But at that
time He could not see
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beyond the
cross except by faith.
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And the devil as you have
said was pressing upon him
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and saying look
it's not worth it. Yeah.
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It's not worth--why you
gonna go through all this?
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And you can imagine the
devil saying something like,
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"look, I sinned in
heaven and I was cast out
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and now you're gonna
carry the sins of the world?"
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Not only had that
Satan pointed to him,
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"you are dieing, for whom?
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For those people just in
few hours they will shout,
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'crucify him, crucify him.'
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You want to die for
bunch of your disciples there?
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They're sleeping they
then do not care about you."
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Jesus had all the reason
to say to pack things seems
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and go for journey to
return where he came from.
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But praise God,
I'm moved with emotion,
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he decided to go to cross
because I was on his mind.
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And dear viewers,
you were on his mind.
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He saw you and me that one day
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we will accept that
merits of his sacrifice.
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We'll accept him as
our personal savior.
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And he made the decision,
"I am going to the cross
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to save those--
for human beings."
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I know that he died for
me. Glenn, He died for you.
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He died for each one of us.
It's love that compelled him.
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It's the love.
That's the only explanation.
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And it was love that
faced such loneliness.
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He goes through this alone. Yes.
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So Jesus made
decision He came there
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to his disciples
over they're sleeping.
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They don't
understand what is going on
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and dear viewers, while you
are now watching this program
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you'll just--watching
this program and you look one
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strange accent here and our
human efforts to illustrate,
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to explain what is
written in the gospel of Mathew.
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But as you're
watching this program
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you don't understand that
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what is going on
behind the scene.
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There is a struggle
for you soul. That's right.
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There is Satan who
like to destruct you.
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What was going on there
in Garden of Gethsemane.
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It was just a part of
that great controversy
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that we still
participant in that warfare.
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And the surrender of
Jesus' will is a critical point.
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He had a choice to make
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and he surrendered his
will to the Father's will.
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And so we each have
a choice. Yes, to make.
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We also, just like our
savior, need to decide,
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"will we
surrender to God's will?
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Will we give God our lives?"
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And that's the
point of Gethsemane.
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I am so thankful for
the Jesus lead the way.
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I am so thankful of
that my savior said,
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"yes I will go."
Not an easy thing.
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History hung in the
balance as you said.
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This is a cosmic destiny.
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But he makes a
decision to be faithful to God,
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to be faithful to his
mission and his purpose.
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He said," I came to
seek and to save the lost."
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So as Jesus was
talking to his disciples.
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As they were trying to
wake up He says "just look."
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And suddenly, you
know, it was very dark.
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But suddenly lights
appeared, who was coming?
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May I read verse 47 as
following? Please, Glenn.
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"While He was still speaking,
Judas came, one of the twelve,
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and with him great
crowd with swords and clubs
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from the chief priest
and the elders of the people.
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Now the betrayer had
given them signs saying,
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'the one I shall kiss
is the man, cease him.'
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And he came up to
Jesus at once he said,
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'hail master,'
and he kissed him.
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And Jesus said to him, 'friend,
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why are you here?
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'Then I came up and laid
hands on Jesus he ceased them
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and behold one of
those who were with Jesus
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stretched out his
hand and drew his sword
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and struck the
slave of the high priest
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and cut off his ear.
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Jesus said to him, 'put
your sword back in its place.
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For all who have taken the
sword will perish by the sword
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Do you think that I
cannot appeal to my father?
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And he will at once send,
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send me more than
twelve legions of angels.
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But how then shall the
scriptures be fulfilled?
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That it must be so." The
constant feature of the--
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everything is-- the
scripture to be fulfilled.
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Now when Judas comes, Ranko,
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and he brings this
motley crowd, this mob,
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it's such a
paradox they couldn't come
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during the day time
because the crowds would react.
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So they have to
come at night as cowards.
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Actually from this point
on everything what's going on
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in the gospel of Mathew
and also in other gospel is,
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the arrest in Gethsemane,
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the trial in the
high priest's house there,
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a trial before Pilate,
irregularity after irregularity.
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Nothing is regular here.
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The Jewish
leaders were determined
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to destroy Jesus, Can I say?
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This was not
about blood and flesh.
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They're being used. Satan--
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they simply function as
agents in Satan's hands.
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And I think in our
next program we'll explore
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some of the illegalities
of the trials and the arrest.
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But then begins with something,
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one of the most
prominent disciples
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is participant in that.
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And we will
see-- With the kiss--
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We will see next
time another disciples,
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prominent
disciples-- What is going on?
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Praise God we have a
wonderful savior, Amen.
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Who did not look his own
conformity, his own good.
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He came down to
die for you and me.
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That's the main
reason why He came.
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And as we're
studying this topic we can say
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"Thank you Jesus for everything
that you have done for us."
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