From the campus of
Andrews University,
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this is New Perceptions
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
have I ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
have I ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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You are the life
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
Truth and the Way
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Wish I can see Him
again. No sweeter name.
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
have I ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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No sweeter name
have I ever known
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No sweeter name
than the name of Jesus
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You are the life
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
Truth and the Way
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
Truth and the Way
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Truth and the way
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Jesus
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Jesus
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Take the name of Jesus
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Jesus
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Oh, Jesus
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Jesus
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Take the name of Jesus
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Jesus
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You are the life to
my heart and my soul
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You are the light to
the darkness around me
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You are the hope to
the hopeless and broken
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You are the only
Truth and the Way
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Truth and the way
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This week we ask Andrew students
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a very important question.
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What does the
gospel mean to you?
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The gospel to
me means good news.
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Freedom. Salvation.
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The gospel to me
means His unfathomable love.
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The gospel to me is a gift.
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The gospel to me means Joy.
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The gospel to me means love.
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The gospel to me is a solution
from everyday's struggles.
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The gospel means to me that
there is a hope for my future.
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To me a gospel I said,
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a think that
makes people change.
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To me the gospel means
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evaluating my own
life and giving up
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something in mind to
replace over something
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that God tells
me to replace with.
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To me the gospel means
the reassurance of my faith.
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To me the
gospel makes me realize
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how unworthy I'm at salvation.
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And just knowing that God
care so much about my life is
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it just truly sets me
free and we ritually guides us.
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The gospel is we hope to see
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family members and
loved ones that I've lost.
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Gospel to me the
literal transition of the word
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gospel is good news.
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So the only thing I think about
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when I think of the phrase
good news is Jesus Christ.
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The gospel means peace to me,
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I just think about the gift of
the friendship of Jesus Christ
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and it just overwhelmed
from the peace knowing that
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even if all else fails
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if nobody is here
for me today or tomorrow,
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I have Jesus and that's peace.
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So what's the
gospel mean to you?
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If they put a camera in
your face and asked you,
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how would you respond?
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What is the gospel
to this generation?
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I hope that by the time
this teaching is through,
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you will know the answer.
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God.
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Gospel means good
news, we know that much
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but what so good
about the good news?
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What would you say to
us through holy scripture?
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What would you tuck deep
within our minds, our spirits,
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our souls, so that when you--
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when we hurry
out of this sanctuary
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into the world that awaits us,
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the good news goes with
us, make it clear please.
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For Jesus glory in
His name, we pray, amen.
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One of the most
provocative paintings for me,
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I can't talk for you,
I'm not an art critics
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so don't come up
to me afterwards.
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One of the most
provocative paintings for me
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from the day Jesus
was crucified, all right,
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is the oil canvas
work of the 19th-century
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Italian artist
named, Antonio Ciseri.
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The title of the
painting "Ecce Homo."
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It means behold the man.
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I'll put it on the
screen for you in just a minute
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but I have so
moved by this painting,
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I really this is a
special painting to me,
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I put it as I
was writing this week
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I put it as the
desktop for my laptop
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just so can I see
it watch that picture.
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Ciseri, 19th-century is known
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for his almost
photographic effect,
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it looks like a photograph,
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take a look we put it
on the screen right now
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Ecce Homo, there it is.
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How many here
seeing this picture before?
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Come on, you seen
it, haven't you? Yeah.
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Ecce Homo, Latin
behold the man there in
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Pilate's praetorian residence,
the governor has pulled away
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from his throne of judgment,
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he's standing
leaning over the banister
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above the rocastin of the rabble
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who are screaming for
the blood of this prisoner.
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Pilate points back at Jesus,
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you see Jesus striped to
the waist crown of thorns.
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If you could see with
clarity like my laptop screen
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you would see his
eyes are looking down,
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He's not looking at anybody,
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He's just looking
down as if lost in thought.
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Pilate is framed by a centurion,
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you see the execution,
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he has the scourge or
the flagram in his hand.
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I think that's probably
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Mrs. Pilate in
one of her attendees
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and then some minor
government officials,
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that's the judgment scene.
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No where is that judgment
scene were finely nuanced
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then the gospel of John,
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the fourth gospel our theme book
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and in three
weeks it's all over,
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this is three
Sabbaths coming today.
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I want to go
back to that moment,
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I want to go to
Pilate's judgment hall.
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And so without
any further we do.
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What is the gospel mean to me?
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Let's find out John
Chapter 19, open your Bible,
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you didn't bring your
Bible we'll put it on the screen
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for you wind
symphony, and by the way
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beautifully done today.
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Didn't she love
the collaboration
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with wind symphony and
organ and worship team.
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I'll tell you there
is no other worship place
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where you can have
this many musicians,
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minister the way
you did, thank you
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Allan Mitchell,
very much, bless you.
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All right, so if
you don't bring your,
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can't read your
Bible, you can see on it
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look at the monitor up there
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and on the pew as well.
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Okay, enough talking.
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John 18, we'll
pick it up John 18.
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I'm in the New
Revised Standard version.
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This is the most
significant narrative
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in the history of the universe.
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So if you didn't
bring your Bible,
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do yourself the favor
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of pulling the pew
Bible out in front of you.
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I'll give you the page number,
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you've got to track
this, page 729, John 18.
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John 18:28, "Then,"
okay, Peter is just deny Jesus,
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the last time you
and I are together
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two Sabbaths ago.
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"Then," after Peter's denial,
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"They," this is
the Judean aristocracy.
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"They led Jesus from
Caiaphas to the Praetorium,"
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Pilate sermon residence.
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"And it was early morning.
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But they themselves did
not go into the Praetorium,
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lest they should be defiled,
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but that they
might eat the Passover."
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I tell you what the scrupulous
duplicity of Jerusalem's elite
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is almost breathtaking,
you can't believe it.
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They're-- here they
are illegally railroading
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an innocent man to his
death and they know it.
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And yet they hypocritically
pretend, obedience
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to divine law and moral purity
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when they are more
guilty than the pagan governor
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to whom they've
just deliver Jesus.
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They fear ritual contamination
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when they are
plagued with moral rot.
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Verse 29.
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"Pilate," catering
to there insensibilities
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comes out to them verse 29,
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"And Pilate went
out to them and said,
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What accusation do you
bring about this man?"'
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They come with this
nifty little well, governor
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we wouldn't be here
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if he wasn't
worthy of your action.
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Pilate steps back
and you've got courts
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taken him to your own system.
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Now the crafty--
have to acknowledge
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that they are subjugated
people and they remind him,
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"Listen we cannot
execute capital punishment.
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So we brought him to you."
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Bring the prisoner in.
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Sits inside the
praetorium, Jesus bound,
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no longer gag before him.
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Are you the king of the Jews?
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Now they say that's the charge.
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Are you the king of the Jews?
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Jesus looks into
the governor's eyes.
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Are you asking that of yourself?
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Or have others said that of me?
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Your leaders, your
nation brought you to me.
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And the king is
not of this world.
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If our king were of this
world, my followers will fight.
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Oh, you are a king then.
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And Jesus replies,
this is what verse 37
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"Jesus answered,
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'you say rightly
that I am a king.
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For this cause I was born,
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and for this cause I
have come into the world
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that I should bear
witness to the truth.
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Everyone who is of
the truth hears my voice.'
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Verse 38 and
"Pilate said to him,
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"What is truth?"
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John is a mater of
irony in the fourth gospel
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as we've already
noted in the series.
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Already in this narrative,
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he is juxta oppose
the Jewish hierarchies
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scrupulous execution
of the pass over meal
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all the while they
unwittingly collaborate
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to kill the
genuine pass over lamb.
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Now the patent governor
asked a universal question,
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you, what's truth?
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When embodied, incarnated
before him is the answer,
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I am the way the
truth in the life.
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Pilate won't wait, what's truth?
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Gone.
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"Pilate said to
Him, 'What is truth?'
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And when he had said this,
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he went out again to
the Jews, and said to them,
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'I find no fault in Him at all."
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Put the pause
button right there.
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Because right
now in this narrative
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a series of seven
threes, seven trios,
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seven triples is gonna emerge.
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Unique only to the forth gospel,
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the gospel of John,
each of these trios,
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an insightful
point for you and me.
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And I think we got to
scribble all seven down.
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Only in John, the seven trios,
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seven triples
that yield one truth.
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So grab your study guide,
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let's do it right now,
come you got a study guide,
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pull it out of
your worship bulletin.
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Ushers, let's go, let's
get a study guide to everybody,
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you gonna want, you
gonna want these seven trios
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that lead to one truth.
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So hold your hand up,
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our friendly ushers
are coming your way up
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in the balcony over
flow you're sitting there.
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Glad to have you and those
of you watching on television
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we're delighted
to have you as well.
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Let me cut to chase with you,
let me put it on the screen,
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I want you to have
the same study guide,
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the seven trios,
you're gonna want these seven.
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So let's put on
screen right now,
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there it is www.pmchurch.tv,
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that's our website.
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And you are looking for
the series "The last days".
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Is it the last days of John,
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it's a two part
series and it's--
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Rather it's a two series
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in the forth
gospel, the last the--
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The last word and
then the last days.
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Three Sabbaths and it's history.
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So you're looking for
the series "The last days"
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tied up today's teaching,
you see it on the screen there.
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Finis, Latin for end,
what really happened that day.
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It's a study guide right beside
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that title, you
got it, let's go.
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All right, seven
threes that form one truth,
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all you need to, John,
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all you need to
the forth gospel.
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Trio number one right
it down, 3 "no faults".
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Put the
quotation marks around it
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because those
are Pilate's words.
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There times "no fault",
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three "no
faults" before the cross.
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Pilate comes out to the cross
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and we just read
it here in verse 38,
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"I find no fault in him at all."
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Drop down to chapter 19:4,
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I find no fault in
him, drop down to verse 6,
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I find no fault in him.
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Three times this pagan
governor early Friday morning
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declares to the leaders
of the Judean aristocracy
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and the rabble, he's not guilty,
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I'm telling you
he is not guilty.
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What's the point--
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What's the point John is making,
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two obvious
points, point number 1,
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the roman judicial system
clearly found Jesus innocent.
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The Jewish courts did
not, but the roman courts did.
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The other obvious
point however don't miss it,
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the roman governor
intentionally sacrifices
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an innocent man,
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he knows to be
innocent for the sake personal
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and political experience.
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How many times
have we sacrificed
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somebody in the
office, somebody in the dorm,
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somebody in my circle of
friends for the sake of me?
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Let him go, who cares.
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Pilate is no
different, three times.
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You see John
has been really hard
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on the Jewish elite.
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Always dealing with
the leaders in his gospel,
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hard on them,
but here at the end
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he wants to make
sure that we understand,
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it's not only
the Jewish leadership
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it's also the roman leadership
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that collaborate
together to execute the Messiah.
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You're very clear now,
you've got to see this.
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Okay, trio number two,
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three titles before
the cross, three titles.
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You remember the forth gospel.
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It was like two years ago
but it's just a few months ago
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when we opened the
forth gospel together,
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you remember John the
Baptist thundered these words.
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Jot down these three titles
found in the gospel of Mark,
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gospel of John rather.
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This is John 1:29
"The next day John,
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the Baptist saw
Jesus coming toward him,
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and he said,
'Behold! the Lamb of God,
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who takes away
the sin of the world!"
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Title number one write that down
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behold the lamb,
behold the Lamb of God.
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Title number two,
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pick it up in
verse 1 of chapter 19,
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right here, the
bible is open before you.
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"So then" verse 1
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"Pilate tool
Jesus and scourged Him."
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We are talking about barbaric,
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bloody a
pre-execution, execution.
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In fact some
suggested executioners
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actually out of
mercy for the prisoners,
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no, we have long and protracted
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death would arrive on the cross.
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Hastened it, shredding the skin,
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to the skin is flat
and hanging on your back.
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Then Pilate to
Jesus and scourged Him.
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Innocent man, by
the way, he believed.
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Verse 2 "And the soldiers
twisted a crown of thorns
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and put it on His head,
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and they put on
him a purple robe."
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Verse 3 "Then they said,
'Hail, King of the Jews!'
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and they struck
Him with their hand
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and the Greek means they kept
slapping him back and forth.
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Verse 4 "Pilate then went
out again and he said to them,
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'Behold, I am
bringing Him out to you,
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that you may know that
I find no fault in Him.'
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And here comes verse 5,
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"Then Jesus came out
wearing the crown of thorn
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and the purple robe.
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And Pilate said to
them, 'Behold the Man!""
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write it down.
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Title number
two, behold the man.
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But the pagan governor
is not through with titles.
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Turn-- drop down to verse 13
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"When Pilate
therefore heard that saying,
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he brought Jesus out
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and he sat down in the
judgment seat in a place
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that is called The Pavement,
but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
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I have knelt on that stone,
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it's under building
now, it's crawl space,
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I have knelt on that stone.
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So moved, I'll tell you
let the whole tour group leave,
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I was all alone, so
moved with the realization,
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it's the very stone
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from the time of
Pilate, Gabbatha.
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Verse 14,
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"Now it was the
Preparation Day of the Passover,
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and about the sixth hour.
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And he said to the Jews,"
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here comes title number
three 'Behold your king!"
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Three titles before the cross.
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By the way this is the
Antonio Ciseri Movement.
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Just put that picture backup
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This is exactly the moment.
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Now I'm going to read
"Desire of Ages" for you.
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You have it in your study guide
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but just look at the
picture, you can read it later.
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Just look at that picture,
there stood the Son of God
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wearing the robe of mockery
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and the crown of
thorns stripped to the waist,
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his back showed
the long cruel stripes
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from which the
blood float freely,
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his face was stained with blood
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and bore the marks
of exhaustion and pain.
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But never had it appeared
more beautiful than ever.
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I wish I had a DVD, I wish
I could look into those eyes.
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Never ever has this face
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appeared more
beautiful than now.
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Wow.
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Every feature express
gentleness and resignation
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and the tenderous
pity for his cruel foes.
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In his manner
there was no weakness,
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but the strength and
dignity of long suffering
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and notice this last line,
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even the priest and
rulers were convicted
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he was all that
he claimed to be.
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He is God, He is.
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Let's kill anybody.
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Behold the lamb, behold the man,
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behold the king,
behold your savoir,
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question, is he
your savior today?
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Trio number
three, write it down,
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"3 languages, 3
languages at the cross."
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Verse 17 let's read it
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"And he, Jesus
bearing His cross,"
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Oh, where is Simon the Cyrene
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the Libyan, where is the Libyan,
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he's not here, John
leaves in completely out
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and we'll notice
why in just a moment.
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John "As Jesus is
carrying His cross
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and he bearing his
cross went out to a place
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called the Place of a Skull,
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which is in
Hebrew called Golgotha."
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Isn't that amazing?
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Gabbatha where Pilate sits
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is the judgment
seat of the governor,
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Golgotha where Jesus was hanged
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is the judgment seat of God.
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Two judgment
seats and they rhyme.
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Verse 18 "When they came to
Golgatha they crucified Him,
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Jesus and two others with Him,"
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See Dwight there is
another three, you are right.
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But that's not unique to
John, all four have the three.
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One on either side and
Jesus in the center verse 19
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and "Now Pilate wrote a title
and put out it on the cross.
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And the writing
was: Jesus of Nazareth,
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the king of the Jews.
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Then many of the
Jews read this title,
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many of them read the title,
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for the place where was
crucified was near the city."
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And here it comes "It
was written in that title
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in Hebrew that would be
Aramaic and Greek and Latin."
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I don't care where are
you from in the Roman Empire,
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you're gonna get the point.
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This is the king of the Jews.
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Now the priest are furious,
they come to Pilate verse 21
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"Therefore the chief priests
of the Jews said to Pilate,
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'Do not write,
'The King of the Jews,'
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You should write 'He said,
'I am the King of the Jews.""
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And Pilate with
cold steel in his eyes
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where he was
railroaded in to his decision
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and he knows it a
leader that he was,
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cold steel what I have
written, I have written.
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You see the priest
overplayed their hand,
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the charge against
Jesus they told Pilate
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was he-- King of the Jews,
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boom, he puts it in writing.
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And they are stuck.
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Trio number four, write it down,
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three Mary's at the cross.
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You know that
only John, only John.
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Let's read the
verse 25 got down to 25,
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"Now there stood by the
cross of Jesus His mother,"
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What's His mother's name?
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Mary.
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"And His mother's sister,
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Mary the wife of
Clopas, and Mary Magdalene."
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There they are, three
Mary's only John notes it.
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And by the way,
they are all women.
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Where are the men,
where are all the big,
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where are all the
big bragioso boys?
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They were "I'll die for
you, where are all the men,
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one man is a boy, John boy.
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The only eye witness of Calvary,
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the only account
that is eye witnessed.
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All the men have fled.
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I tell you what in a day and age
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when some are
wondering whether women
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ought to be granted a place
close to Jesus in ministry,
00:27:04.11\00:27:08.09
the story of
Calvary seems to indicate
00:27:08.12\00:27:11.09
that perhaps they
ought to be there first.
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Passion of a women for Christ.
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Unexcelled.
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The only John boy
there to receive Jesus
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dying bestole of his
mother to John's care,
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mother's day is
just a few weeks away.
00:27:31.14\00:27:34.55
And how is it
with your own mother,
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do you care for her and love her
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in all your preoccupied business
00:27:39.83\00:27:42.28
on this campus
and in your career?
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Trio number five jot it
down, "3 words from the cross,
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the Christian world
is long commemorated,
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Christ seven
words from the cross.
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Not gone through my
gospels and I've numbered them,
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I know exactly
the sequence 1, 2, 3.
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But John unique has
three that nobody else has,
00:27:59.61\00:28:04.20
here are John's 3 that
happened to be numbers,
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they happen to be numbers 3, 5
00:28:07.27\00:28:10.14
and 6 of the seven.
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Let's go to, let's go
to his first word in John,
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that will be verse 26
00:28:13.99\00:28:15.02
"When Jesus
therefore saw His mother,
00:28:15.05\00:28:16.53
and the disciple whom He loved"
00:28:16.56\00:28:17.82
That would be John boy
00:28:17.85\00:28:18.92
"Standing by,
Jesus said to his mother,
00:28:18.95\00:28:20.85
'Woman, behold your son!'
00:28:20.88\00:28:24.36
Then He said to the
disciple, 'Behold your mother!'
00:28:24.39\00:28:26.88
'And from that hour John
boy took her to his own home."
00:28:26.91\00:28:32.13
Jesus had no
siblings to commend her to,
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he gives her to John.
00:28:35.82\00:28:37.75
And John counts
it his highest honor
00:28:37.78\00:28:39.10
for the rest of his
life until she dies,
00:28:39.13\00:28:42.35
to be her care provider.
00:28:42.38\00:28:46.90
It's word number
one, you need word,
00:28:46.93\00:28:48.35
you need word number
two, here comes the verse 28
00:28:48.38\00:28:50.31
and "After this, Jesus, knowing
00:28:50.34\00:28:52.24
that all things
were now accomplished,
00:28:52.27\00:28:54.19
that the Scripture
might be fulfilled said,
00:28:54.22\00:28:56.36
'I thirst!'
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verse 29 "Now a vessel full
of sour wine was sitting there;
00:28:59.43\00:29:03.31
and they filled a
sponge with sour wine,
00:29:03.34\00:29:05.26
put it on hyssop, and
put it up to His mouth."
00:29:05.29\00:29:08.96
Matthew and Mark
both quote Psalm 22:1,
00:29:08.99\00:29:11.88
My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?
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not a breath of it from John,
but he will elude to Psalm 22
00:29:14.62\00:29:18.65
from when that those
words came in Matthew and Mark
00:29:18.68\00:29:22.00
because in Psalm 22
00:29:22.03\00:29:23.21
the Messiah's
tongue becomes so dry,
00:29:23.24\00:29:25.41
it sticks to the
roof of his mouth,
00:29:25.44\00:29:26.98
it's like dust in his mouth.
00:29:27.01\00:29:29.00
And John inserts,
John inserts I thirst,
00:29:29.03\00:29:35.04
remember that from
it's very beginning
00:29:35.07\00:29:37.08
the forth gospel has attempted
00:29:37.11\00:29:38.56
to show the utter
humanity of Jesus.
00:29:38.59\00:29:42.51
Our humanity so he sees--
00:29:42.54\00:29:43.80
He sees this merit
woman, says woman--
00:29:43.83\00:29:46.00
Woman I'm dying
of thirst, you have--
00:29:46.03\00:29:47.72
Can you give me
some of this water?
00:29:47.75\00:29:49.76
John who began
dine, Jesus thirsty
00:29:49.79\00:29:52.79
and this is gospel
showing again his solidarity
00:29:52.82\00:29:55.47
with the human race,
00:29:55.50\00:29:56.53
I'm still human and I'm thirsty,
00:29:56.56\00:29:59.27
he shows it twice
confirming that the savior
00:29:59.30\00:30:02.84
is the one with us.
00:30:02.87\00:30:04.61
And then there is a third word,
this is the one we all know,
00:30:04.64\00:30:06.31
verse 30 "So when Jesus
had received the sour wine,
00:30:06.34\00:30:09.50
He said, 'It is
finished!' in those transitions
00:30:09.53\00:30:15.42
"And bowing His head
he gave up His spirit."
00:30:15.45\00:30:18.89
There they are,
three words from the cross.
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Trio number six jot it down,
"3 actions from the cross."
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This is fascinating,
absolutely fascinating,
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listen to this, you
remember a moment ago
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and we noted that
Jesus carried his own cross
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there is no
Simon or Libyan around,
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John leaves him believe me
Jesus carries his own cross,
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what's up with that?
00:30:37.22\00:30:38.73
John is making a point
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and he wants us to get
it by these three actions,
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jot the point down first.
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Jesus was in control of His life
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and death to the very end.
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He is in control,
nobody else says, I am.
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All His ministries has
been saying my hours not yet,
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my hours not
yet, my hours not yet.
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But when his hour comes,
he didn't tumble into it,
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he didn't trip into
it, he chose his hour.
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Number one, John
shows him carrying no cross.
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Nobody-- I should rephrase that,
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nobody carries
his cross but Jesus.
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Number two, look at
this, action number two,
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the three
actions from the cross,
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did we put the slide
up the three actions?
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That's it,
that's the history-did
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we put it up?
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Okay.
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Action number
one, he bores on cross.
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Check action number two.
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He chooses his last
words of completion.
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He decides when
it's gonna be finished.
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He chooses it.
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And action number
three, only in John.
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Notice the sequence
you read just a moment ago
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in verse 30, how Jesus died.
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And when you and I die,
this is the way we ill die.
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If Jesus doesn't come,
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you and I are
gonna breathe our last.
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This is the way we're gonna die.
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We're gonna- There
goes our last breath
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and after we
breathe our last breath,
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boom, our head will go down.
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Isn't that how it
happens in the movies?
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I mean I'm figuring
that's the way it goes.
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I've been with
people when they died.
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I know that's the way it goes.
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Not with Jesus.
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He doesn't go,
phew, last breath, boom.
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Jesus goes like this.
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He bows his head,
then breathes his last.
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Intentional action.
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Three actions to
show that he is in control
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and look how
quick Keener puts it.
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Put it on the screen,
you have to fill this in.
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"The crucifixion in
John is Jesus' triumph."
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The synoptic is focused on
his passion, his suffering.
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Oh, my Lord,
what you went through.
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None of that in John.
Jesus ends the conqueror.
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He ends in triumph.
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My hour has finally come.
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Final trio
number 7, jot it down.
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There are three
woundings because of the cross.
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You need to, John.
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Now the first two
are in all the gospels.
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Wounding number
one, that's the flagrum,
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that's when that,
that those leather straps
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embedded with
bone and metal and rock
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are wrapped around
you by the executioner.
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Once he gets it
around you, your bare,
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he yanks it and it
just shreds your skin.
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It just shreds.
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He has already
been wounded once.
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The other wounding
of course is Calvary.
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But the third
wounding nobody else knows.
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Let's pick it up in verse 31.
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He has just died.
"Therefore--" Verse 31.
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"-because it was
the Preparation Day,
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that the bodies
should not remain
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on the cross on the Sabbath
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for that Sabbath was a high day,
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the Jews asked Pilate
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that their legs might be broken,
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and that they
might be taken away."
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You see the barbaric form
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of crucifixion is
slow asphyxiation.
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You will strangulate to death
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because in order to breathe,
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you have to raise yourself up,
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suck it, and
then sink back down.
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It is such searing pain
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that the Latin has
coined a word excruciatus.
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From whence comes our word
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and it means from out of
the cross-- excruciating.
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The next time you have
an excruciating headache,
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you are saying my pain
is from out of the cross.
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Excruciatus.
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So when they
want to hasten death,
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what do they do?
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They break the
legs because you know,
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you have no strength now.
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Raise yourself up,
you will simply hang
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and they strangulate.
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'Cause you're legs are
broken, it's too painful.
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That's what they did.
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Verse 32, "Then
the soldiers came
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and broke the legs of the first
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and of the other who
was crucified with Him."
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"But-" verse 33, "-
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when they came to Jesus
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and saw that He
was already dead-"
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You don't die this fast.
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And, "-they saw
that He was already dead,
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they did not break His legs."
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Verse 34, "But
one of the soldiers
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pierced His side with a spear,
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and immediately
blood and water came out."
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Only in John.
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The third wounding.
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Isn't this
amazing? Think about it.
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Jesus rode to the cross
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that begins at the
front of the gospel.
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Begins with water turning
into wine, isn't that right?
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Water turning into wine.
00:34:49.37\00:34:51.13
His road to Calvary ends
with wine turning into water.
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They just gave Him some wine
and then it comes out water.
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Reverses the buckets,
water to wine, wine to water
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what's the big deal
John, ah, wine and water,
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blood and water, blood
and water, blood and water,
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it's embedded
throughout the entire gospel,
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blood and
water, blood and water.
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You are saved by blood
and water, blood and water.
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Here they are,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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seven unique trios woven
into John's narrative of Calvary
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but what is the one
truth. Seven trios, one truth.
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What is it?
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Listen carefully.
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What is the
gospel? They answered.
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What the gospel means to me,
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in the triumphant cry
of Jesus, it is finished.
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There is a closure
and completeness we not-
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we need not only to
intellectually grasp
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but experientially
embrace and here's what I mean.
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In our particular
community of faith,
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highly convictional
community that it is,
00:35:53.93\00:35:56.87
where right
living and right behaving
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are rightly emphasized.
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There is a
danger that we may live
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with a numinous
sense, a latent uncertainty
00:36:05.48\00:36:09.03
regarding the
status of my salvation.
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I mean, am I really saved?
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How do I know, how do
I know I'm fully saved?
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Oh, yeah, I
know, I know John 3:16.
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I know that Jesus died for me
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but do I, can I
have the assurance
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of his provision
for my salvation?
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I'm talking about
failing, fumbling,
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stumbling, sinning me.
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How can I know that
that salvation is for me?
00:36:30.90\00:36:38.01
I know he
triumphed on the cross.
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I read the story just now
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but what is God
waiting for-- for me?
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How can I rise
above this troubling sense
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that in order to be
really sure, really secure
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there is something
else I need to be doing.
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How can I know I am saved.
00:36:52.82\00:36:56.60
We all need, all of
us need to take a closer
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look at this, at this death cry.
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It is finished.
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In fact would you
jot this down please?
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The literal Greek
phrase is finished.
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Jot his down.
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The literal Greek for
is "It has been completed."
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Write that down.
It has been completed.
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Keep your pen moving.
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That Greek is in
the perfect tense.
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Now that means,
it's describing an action
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finished in the
past, jot that down.
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An action finished in the past
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whose effects
continue into the present.
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So it has happened back there
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but the effect is
still going under there.
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It would be like
you getting a FedEx,
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you get a FedEx
registered letter on Monday.
00:37:35.87\00:37:38.49
You tear it
open and you find out
00:37:38.52\00:37:40.35
it's from a law firm
00:37:40.38\00:37:41.45
you have never
heard of in your life.
00:37:41.48\00:37:43.59
Turns out that your great
uncle whom you have never met
00:37:43.62\00:37:47.16
but have heard of, turns
out your great uncle has died.
00:37:47.19\00:37:52.94
And some years before he
died and he died childless
00:37:52.97\00:37:56.09
but some years before he died,
00:37:56.12\00:37:57.66
he filled out the will
of his entire estate to you
00:37:57.69\00:38:04.55
and now that the
law firm has found you,
00:38:04.58\00:38:08.35
you are about to inherit
00:38:08.38\00:38:09.85
his entire estate
worth $3.3 billion.
00:38:09.88\00:38:16.37
I say, praise God for
great uncles like that, huh.
00:38:16.40\00:38:19.09
$3.3 billion.
00:38:19.12\00:38:20.72
See, long ago, that will
was completed with you in mind,
00:38:23.81\00:38:27.15
it was all signed,
sealed and delivered back there
00:38:27.18\00:38:29.83
but now they finally find you
00:38:29.86\00:38:31.37
and the effects
of that closure back
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there now
continues to reap its effect.
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That's what's
happening in the Greek tense
00:38:36.57\00:38:38.80
of "It is finished."
00:38:38.83\00:38:39.86
It's that same
reality. Now listen up.
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When Jesus died for
the entire human race,
00:38:41.94\00:38:45.13
something was culminated.
Something was completed.
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In a very certain sense,
00:38:48.80\00:38:49.86
his mission of
salvation was finished.
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Finish. It was
finished at the cross.
00:38:53.06\00:38:56.01
But, like your
great uncle's will,
00:38:56.04\00:38:58.63
the effects keep
rolling throughout history
00:38:58.66\00:39:01.84
as one human being after another
00:39:01.87\00:39:04.32
discovers that she, that
he is named in Christ's will
00:39:04.35\00:39:08.34
and it's all
there for the asking.
00:39:08.37\00:39:10.62
All you have to do
is trust the benefactor,
00:39:14.39\00:39:18.37
believe his will or his
word and receive the gift.
00:39:18.40\00:39:24.31
It is finished.
00:39:24.34\00:39:26.20
Means, we can rest secure
and Jesus finished mission
00:39:26.23\00:39:29.60
and work at the cross.
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In fact would you
write this down, please?
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What counts is
not- that's my typo-
00:39:35.87\00:39:39.24
What counts is not
my unfinished work-
00:39:39.27\00:39:46.10
but rather His finished work.
00:39:46.13\00:39:50.64
Get that down.
00:39:50.67\00:39:52.80
The secret to overcoming
00:39:52.83\00:39:54.14
our apprehension
over our salvation
00:39:54.17\00:39:56.38
is to shift the
focus from us to Him.
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Otherwise, we are gonna be
00:39:58.63\00:40:01.03
as guilty as the medieval church
00:40:01.06\00:40:03.05
in making the same
mistake they made for centuries.
00:40:03.08\00:40:05.92
And that reminds you
about the medieval church.
00:40:05.95\00:40:07.86
Their scholars
all thought and taught
00:40:07.89\00:40:10.98
that the earth was
the centre of the universe
00:40:11.01\00:40:13.77
and all the
stars and all the suns
00:40:13.80\00:40:16.78
rotate around the earth.
00:40:16.81\00:40:18.65
Then along comes a
little scientist named Galileo.
00:40:18.68\00:40:21.11
He says, I got to
change this notion, guys.
00:40:21.14\00:40:23.55
I looked up
there and guess what,
00:40:23.58\00:40:24.62
the sun does not
revolve around us.
00:40:24.65\00:40:27.27
We revolve around the sun.
00:40:27.30\00:40:31.30
We are not the
centre of attraction.
00:40:31.33\00:40:34.12
The sun is.
00:40:34.15\00:40:37.26
I fear that too many
of us have constructed
00:40:37.29\00:40:40.90
a faulty salvation/theological
paradigm that places us
00:40:40.93\00:40:45.95
as the centre of attention,
as the centre of attraction,
00:40:45.98\00:40:51.27
salvation revolves
around me, so that what I do,
00:40:51.30\00:40:54.79
or do not do make
all the difference.
00:40:54.82\00:40:56.88
What I accomplish
or do not accomplish,
00:40:56.91\00:40:58.75
that's what makes
all the difference.
00:40:58.78\00:41:00.39
I become the
centre of my own universe.
00:41:00.42\00:41:05.87
Calvary, when
you hear that shout,
00:41:05.90\00:41:09.74
"it is finished"
declares that thinking is wrong.
00:41:09.77\00:41:15.31
Simply bankrupt.
00:41:15.34\00:41:17.61
Calvary is a closure.
00:41:19.17\00:41:20.91
It is the completeness.
00:41:20.95\00:41:22.43
It is the
finishing of God's salvation.
00:41:22.46\00:41:24.34
Oh, yes, you're right,
you're right, you're right.
00:41:24.37\00:41:25.79
In heaven's sanctuary, in
the throne room right now,
00:41:25.82\00:41:28.75
the saving work
of Christ continues
00:41:28.78\00:41:31.13
but that hardly
minimizes or negates
00:41:31.16\00:41:34.39
the triumphant finish
once for all sacrifice
00:41:34.42\00:41:37.33
of the Lord Jesus
Christ 2,000 years ago.
00:41:37.36\00:41:42.98
I repeat, the reason some of us
00:41:43.01\00:41:48.17
feel apprehension
of our salvation today
00:41:48.20\00:41:51.31
is because like
the medieval church
00:41:51.34\00:41:53.66
we believe we are the centre
00:41:53.69\00:41:55.02
around which the
savior and salvation revolve
00:41:55.05\00:41:57.75
but how silly,
how sad, I mean, look,
00:41:57.78\00:42:04.19
if I am the centre and
I know how weak and frail,
00:42:04.22\00:42:07.51
I know how sinning I
am, how utterly helpless,
00:42:07.54\00:42:11.08
if I am the centre,
no wonder I have no hope.
00:42:11.11\00:42:14.13
No wonder there
is no courage for me.
00:42:14.16\00:42:17.33
But if Christ is the
center of attraction,
00:42:17.36\00:42:20.15
if he is the center
of thy completed work,
00:42:20.18\00:42:23.81
then everything I
have is pinned on him.
00:42:23.84\00:42:27.99
My hope, my assurance,
my salvation securing Him.
00:42:28.02\00:42:32.19
Jot this down, will you? Please.
00:42:35.43\00:42:37.46
"The truth is--"
This is critical.
00:42:37.49\00:42:39.14
"The truth is that the Son-"
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And by the way,
that's capital "SON."
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"The son does not
revolve around us-
00:42:44.08\00:42:47.83
we revolve around the Son."
00:42:47.86\00:42:51.02
Jesus is the
center of attraction
00:42:55.40\00:42:57.53
for salvation not you.
00:42:57.56\00:43:00.31
Shrilling on me.
00:43:00.34\00:43:02.46
No wonder as soon as Jesus dies,
00:43:02.49\00:43:04.02
John immediately,
did you notice this,
00:43:04.05\00:43:05.34
immediately he starts
talking about the Sabbath
00:43:05.37\00:43:06.83
and blood or water.
00:43:06.86\00:43:07.89
What's up with that, John?
00:43:07.92\00:43:09.52
Why the Sabbath? Jot this down.
00:43:09.55\00:43:10.95
"In the Creation
story-" You remember this.
00:43:10.98\00:43:13.03
"In the
Creation story, on Friday
00:43:13.06\00:43:15.21
God declares His finished
work- and it was 'very good'
00:43:15.24\00:43:18.09
and on the
seventh-day Sabbath He rests."
00:43:18.12\00:43:22.99
"In the Redemption
story-" Keep writing.
00:43:23.02\00:43:25.18
The same God, "--on Friday
declares His finished work-
00:43:25.21\00:43:30.97
and it was 'very good'
00:43:31.00\00:43:32.67
and on the seventh-day
Sabbath He rests in the tomb."
00:43:32.70\00:43:38.79
Once salvation is
finished, He rests.
00:43:38.82\00:43:45.00
Nothing to add.
00:43:45.03\00:43:47.22
I can't add
anything to creation, can I?
00:43:47.25\00:43:48.78
Oh, God, I want
to add, I want to add
00:43:48.81\00:43:49.84
little something to creation.
00:43:49.87\00:43:51.16
You can't add anything.
00:43:51.19\00:43:53.02
If I can't anything to creation,
00:43:53.05\00:43:54.32
how could I add
anything to salvation?
00:43:54.35\00:43:55.75
It's finished.
00:43:55.78\00:43:56.81
2,000 years ago, it
was done before I was born.
00:43:56.84\00:43:59.30
Sabbath is embedded
in John's Calvary story
00:44:04.76\00:44:07.18
to assure us that it is finished
00:44:07.21\00:44:09.57
means it really is finished.
00:44:09.60\00:44:13.69
You can rest.
00:44:13.72\00:44:14.89
You can rest in Him.
00:44:14.92\00:44:18.29
But why the blood and the water?
00:44:18.32\00:44:19.36
Good question.
00:44:19.39\00:44:20.85
When that soldier took
his lancet up to the rib cage,
00:44:20.88\00:44:24.62
it burst the
pericardial sack of Jesus' heart
00:44:24.65\00:44:27.34
releasing that
trickle of blood and water
00:44:27.37\00:44:30.37
that John had,
boy, himself witnessed.
00:44:30.40\00:44:32.60
He saw it running down
the chest of his dead master.
00:44:32.63\00:44:37.18
John wants us to remember
all through the fourth gospel,
00:44:40.41\00:44:44.93
it's been blood and
water, blood and water,
00:44:44.96\00:44:47.63
water-baptism, water
to wine, blood and water,
00:44:47.66\00:44:50.85
blood and water
all the way through.
00:44:50.88\00:44:53.18
And when we get to
the climactic moment
00:44:53.21\00:44:55.80
of the universe's
history, John declares,
00:44:55.83\00:44:59.18
it's blood and water,
all Jesus for our salvation.
00:44:59.21\00:45:05.04
Not my blood and
water, His blood and water.
00:45:05.07\00:45:09.29
We are secure in Him.
Jot this down, will you?
00:45:09.32\00:45:13.43
"The blood of His
finished sacrifice-"
00:45:13.46\00:45:14.49
What's that all about?
00:45:14.52\00:45:15.55
"--that covers
my sins in the past,
00:45:15.58\00:45:17.34
the water of His
continuous purification-"
00:45:17.37\00:45:18.66
What's that all about?
00:45:18.69\00:45:19.72
"--that cleanses my
life in the present."
00:45:19.75\00:45:21.32
Isn't this amazing?
00:45:21.35\00:45:22.48
Listen, guys. Look at this.
00:45:22.51\00:45:23.68
John has made sure that
00:45:23.71\00:45:25.40
we're not only
dealing in the past.
00:45:25.43\00:45:26.72
Oh, come on.
Everything's 2,000 years ago.
00:45:26.75\00:45:28.17
Yeah, that's good.
00:45:28.20\00:45:29.23
The blood covers everything
00:45:29.26\00:45:31.09
but those are the words
but what about the present
00:45:31.12\00:45:33.39
when I mess up,
mess up, mess up.
00:45:33.42\00:45:35.04
We have water for cleansing now.
00:45:35.07\00:45:37.28
So there's- Jesus
covers us in the past
00:45:37.31\00:45:39.23
and He covers us in the present
00:45:39.26\00:45:40.91
and He would journey
with us into his future.
00:45:40.94\00:45:44.38
Blood and water.
00:45:44.41\00:45:46.30
Oh, you don't have
to be apprehensive,
00:45:46.33\00:45:48.20
you don't have to worry
00:45:48.23\00:45:49.61
about the state
of your salvation,
00:45:49.64\00:45:51.40
is there something
more I should be doing, God?
00:45:51.43\00:45:53.17
I don't feel very
secure. Forget it.
00:45:53.20\00:45:56.88
It is finished means
it really is finished.
00:45:56.91\00:46:02.72
Just how finished these
words from the century ago,
00:46:05.98\00:46:08.90
you've never seen this quote,
00:46:08.93\00:46:09.96
I'll put it on
the screen for you,
00:46:09.99\00:46:11.16
you have it in your study guide,
00:46:11.19\00:46:12.74
"Christ planted the
cross between heaven and earth,
00:46:12.77\00:46:16.44
and when the Father
beheld the sacrifice of His Son,
00:46:16.47\00:46:19.57
He bowed before it
00:46:19.60\00:46:21.14
in recognition
of its perfection.
00:46:21.17\00:46:23.25
It is enough, 'He said.
00:46:23.28\00:46:25.37
'The atonement is complete."
00:46:25.40\00:46:27.78
There it is, it is
enough, it is complete,
00:46:27.81\00:46:31.88
it is finished three of them.
00:46:31.91\00:46:34.63
It is enough,
00:46:34.66\00:46:36.74
it is complete,
00:46:36.77\00:46:38.77
it is finished.
00:46:38.80\00:46:40.90
Oh, child of God who are you?
00:46:40.93\00:46:43.86
Where should I be
looking right now, child of God.
00:46:43.89\00:46:47.86
Be at peace, be at peace.
00:46:47.89\00:46:50.96
No worry, no fear,
00:46:54.45\00:46:57.45
it's all done,
00:47:00.06\00:47:01.93
it is finished means
it really is finished.
00:47:01.96\00:47:06.40
He did it, it's
your, the will, it's yours,
00:47:06.43\00:47:12.26
everything, it's
yours, it is finished
00:47:12.29\00:47:17.33
means it really is finished,
00:47:17.36\00:47:22.67
Jesus paid it all.
00:47:22.70\00:47:25.91
All to he might owe, sin
had left a crimson stain,
00:47:25.94\00:47:32.14
but he washed me white as snow
00:47:32.17\00:47:34.92
that old gospel him puts
the blood and water together
00:47:34.95\00:47:37.07
and I want to
sing just one stanza
00:47:37.10\00:47:38.52
right now, don't go, don't move,
00:47:38.55\00:47:40.54
just stay seated I want to put--
00:47:40.57\00:47:42.28
we got to see
Pilate one more time,
00:47:42.31\00:47:43.80
that picture is so moving,
00:47:43.83\00:47:45.88
there you go hymn 184,
00:47:45.91\00:47:47.37
you don't even
have to look it up,
00:47:47.40\00:47:48.43
the words would be right here
we're going to sing a stanza,
00:47:48.46\00:47:50.35
just sing it of the
screen, you see Jesus there,
00:47:50.38\00:47:54.06
it is finished,
Jesus paid it all,
00:47:54.09\00:47:56.81
let's sing that together
just a chord would be fine.
00:47:56.84\00:47:59.58
It's up on the screen,
sing about the blood and water.
00:48:06.60\00:48:10.16
I hear the Savior say
00:48:10.19\00:48:15.76
Thy strength indeed is small
00:48:15.79\00:48:21.36
Child of weakness watch and pray
00:48:21.39\00:48:27.13
Find in Me thine all in all
00:48:27.16\00:48:33.62
Jesus paid it all
00:48:33.65\00:48:39.08
All to Him I owe
00:48:39.11\00:48:44.45
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:48:44.48\00:48:50.93
He washed it white as snow
00:48:50.96\00:48:58.46
I want to sing
that chorus again,
00:48:58.49\00:48:59.72
I want to sing that chorus
00:48:59.75\00:49:00.78
that's the truth
of it is finished,
00:49:00.81\00:49:02.15
that's the truth
of the blood of--
00:49:02.18\00:49:03.72
The blood and the
water, he paid it all,
00:49:03.75\00:49:05.38
I owe everything to Him.
00:49:05.41\00:49:06.70
Sin left us crimson,
awful stain in my life
00:49:06.73\00:49:10.89
but he has
washed it white as snow.
00:49:10.92\00:49:12.31
Let's sing that,
sing that chorus again.
00:49:12.34\00:49:14.32
Jesus paid it all
00:49:14.35\00:49:20.40
All to Him I owe
00:49:20.43\00:49:26.29
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:49:26.32\00:49:33.03
He washed it
00:49:33.06\00:49:37.05
White as snow
00:49:37.08\00:49:41.37
My dear fiends,
that's the gospel.
00:49:41.40\00:49:43.82
Somebody puts a camera
in your face and asks you,
00:49:43.85\00:49:45.75
that's the gospel,
everybody who was on the screen
00:49:45.78\00:49:47.85
had it right, but
that's the gospel.
00:49:47.88\00:49:50.99
He's paid it all.
00:49:51.02\00:49:52.45
All to Him I owe,
that's the gospel.
00:49:52.48\00:49:56.25
So do I-- What
next step do I take,
00:49:56.28\00:49:57.80
I mean I got to do something
I can't just hear about Calvary
00:49:57.83\00:49:59.95
and not take another step,
00:49:59.98\00:50:01.55
could you pull your-- Your
connect card out right now,
00:50:01.58\00:50:04.20
our closing moment, I
want to draw your attention
00:50:04.23\00:50:06.10
to this card,
there is a next step,
00:50:06.13\00:50:08.07
surely here that you
can take, Jesus paid it all,
00:50:08.10\00:50:12.24
all to Him I owe,
sin had a crimson stain,
00:50:12.27\00:50:16.85
he washed me, he
washed it white as snow.
00:50:16.88\00:50:21.44
Look at that-- You've
already written on this side,
00:50:21.47\00:50:23.53
you're going to turn
this in, in just a moment.
00:50:23.56\00:50:25.07
Thank you for-- for
your name there but--
00:50:25.10\00:50:28.50
But go the back side it
says my next step today is--
00:50:28.53\00:50:33.10
Is next step to
design to fit every teaching.
00:50:33.13\00:50:36.31
Here are two that I'd
suggest, here are two,
00:50:36.34\00:50:39.49
I want to spend
some time everyday
00:50:39.52\00:50:40.96
this next week thanking God
00:50:40.99\00:50:42.19
that it is finished
really means it is finished.
00:50:42.22\00:50:45.51
Why not, everyday
when you have your worship
00:50:45.54\00:50:47.89
you just say,
hey, God this week--
00:50:47.92\00:50:49.94
This post ester
week I'm celebrating
00:50:49.97\00:50:52.68
that it is finished
really means it is finished.
00:50:52.71\00:50:55.87
Every morning you'll
need a little reminder,
00:50:55.90\00:50:58.11
you can just do it.
00:50:58.14\00:50:59.61
Put a check mark there, yeah--
00:50:59.64\00:51:01.25
Dwight I'll join you in that
00:51:01.28\00:51:02.39
and here's another
one I would like to share
00:51:02.42\00:51:04.36
John 19's "It is finished story"
00:51:04.39\00:51:06.48
with someone who
needs this assurance,
00:51:06.51\00:51:08.75
now listen to me carefully,
00:51:08.78\00:51:09.83
I'm going to be
misunderstood probably
00:51:09.86\00:51:11.63
but I'm going to say it anyway,
00:51:11.66\00:51:13.20
the older you get sometimes
00:51:13.23\00:51:15.38
in this particular
community of faith,
00:51:15.41\00:51:18.78
the more
apprehensive you can become.
00:51:18.81\00:51:22.07
My dear grandmother,
she rests in Jesus now,
00:51:22.10\00:51:25.40
died at 99 years of age
00:51:25.43\00:51:26.82
but I remember visiting
her once out of Loma Linda,
00:51:26.85\00:51:29.52
I was pasturing here
00:51:29.55\00:51:30.58
and went out
there to see grandma
00:51:30.61\00:51:32.04
and you know,
she'd be watching on T.V
00:51:32.07\00:51:34.08
and it's her boy
and knowing all that,
00:51:34.11\00:51:35.64
but she said, Dwight,
00:51:35.67\00:51:37.06
you know tell me
again, how it works.
00:51:37.09\00:51:41.34
I mean, she has--
She has been a world--
00:51:41.37\00:51:43.90
world church
leader and all but why,
00:51:43.93\00:51:45.93
she just because
the older you get
00:51:45.96\00:51:47.66
I guess probably the
nearer you get to death
00:51:47.69\00:51:50.13
you're just
saying, do I really have
00:51:50.16\00:51:51.78
all my bases
covered, is everything okay?
00:51:51.81\00:51:54.70
Now at your age you're saying,
00:51:54.73\00:51:56.37
"Hey, of course I
got, it's great, hallelujah
00:51:56.40\00:51:59.97
but there may be
somebody in your circle,
00:52:00.00\00:52:06.23
in your neighborhood circle,
00:52:06.26\00:52:07.48
in your family circle,
in your friendship circle,
00:52:07.51\00:52:12.02
who struggles with knowing
00:52:12.05\00:52:13.74
the good news of
the 'It is finished'.
00:52:13.77\00:52:15.60
That's what the
second sentence is,
00:52:15.63\00:52:16.95
look it I would
like to share John 19's
00:52:16.98\00:52:18.70
'It is finished' story
with someone who needs it.
00:52:18.73\00:52:21.31
God if you leave
me to somebody to--
00:52:21.34\00:52:23.07
Somebody this next
week or five weeks from now,
00:52:23.10\00:52:25.45
I'm not gonna forget this.
00:52:25.48\00:52:26.77
I know the good
news is it is finished,
00:52:26.80\00:52:29.25
means it really is finished
00:52:29.28\00:52:31.24
and so help me to just
be able to tell that story.
00:52:31.27\00:52:37.10
Sat beside an agnostic
00:52:37.13\00:52:38.29
when I was flying out to Germany
00:52:38.32\00:52:39.50
just a few days ago for
ester weekend out there,
00:52:39.53\00:52:42.59
want to tell you next Sabbath
00:52:42.62\00:52:44.27
that
conversation with an agnostic
00:52:44.30\00:52:46.14
from Norte Dame University.
00:52:46.17\00:52:48.07
I'll share that story with you.
00:52:48.10\00:52:50.67
There will be somebody
that will come in your life
00:52:50.70\00:52:52.44
that you can
share the gospel with.
00:52:52.47\00:52:54.65
Just say God I make
myself available please,
00:52:54.68\00:52:56.77
if there is
somebody that needs it,
00:52:56.80\00:52:58.19
I want to-- I want to help.
00:52:58.22\00:53:01.05
Somebody you're
saying, you know, Dwight,
00:53:01.08\00:53:02.23
I really need to
come to the savior,
00:53:02.26\00:53:04.58
I mean, he died for me.
00:53:04.61\00:53:05.80
This thing really hit
me, those seven trios,
00:53:05.83\00:53:08.02
they're just-- it's inescapable.
00:53:08.05\00:53:10.19
He did this in advance for me.
00:53:10.22\00:53:12.72
He signed the
will and I am in it,
00:53:12.75\00:53:15.74
and I've never
formally come to Jesus
00:53:15.77\00:53:17.91
and if that's you my friend
00:53:17.94\00:53:19.12
just put a
little check mark here.
00:53:19.15\00:53:20.18
I'd like to begin,
I'm gonna soon begin
00:53:20.21\00:53:21.60
a relationship with
Jesus, I'll send you an email
00:53:21.63\00:53:23.78
we put-- We'll put
material in your hand.
00:53:23.81\00:53:26.30
There you go, we'll put material
00:53:26.33\00:53:27.66
in your hand to help you.
00:53:27.69\00:53:29.46
You can do it.
00:53:29.49\00:53:30.69
Jesus is ready,
you're in the will.
00:53:30.72\00:53:34.08
It's all signed.
00:53:34.11\00:53:35.55
It's finished.
00:53:35.58\00:53:36.88
Baptism, we are
having some beautiful Baptism
00:53:37.58\00:53:39.55
next week and
then the following week
00:53:39.58\00:53:41.20
and then you'll say,
Dwight I'm really all prepared
00:53:41.23\00:53:42.46
I just need to do it.
00:53:42.49\00:53:43.78
Put a check mark right there,
00:53:43.81\00:53:45.44
I'm interested in Baptism
00:53:45.47\00:53:46.91
and we can work you
in either next Sabbath
00:53:46.94\00:53:48.43
or the last
Sabbath of school year.
00:53:48.46\00:53:50.41
Why not you are ready,
00:53:50.44\00:53:51.47
you don't need to take a whole
bunch of classes you're ready.
00:53:51.50\00:53:54.59
If you're not, we wont,
'cause nobody gets Baptized
00:53:54.62\00:53:57.30
unless they feel
that this is the moment.
00:53:57.33\00:53:59.44
Put a check mark there.
00:53:59.47\00:54:00.57
There are the boxes you
can put a check mark on,
00:54:00.60\00:54:02.35
always happy to
be in touch with you.
00:54:02.38\00:54:03.81
Everyone in those
boxes, in that small box,
00:54:03.84\00:54:05.51
you put a check mark
there, you get an email.
00:54:05.54\00:54:07.42
Within 48 hours,
you'll get an email
00:54:07.45\00:54:09.43
explaining the next step for you
00:54:09.46\00:54:11.61
in one of those responses.
00:54:11.64\00:54:12.85
This is the time when we receive
00:54:16.04\00:54:17.26
our morning
tithes and offerings.
00:54:17.29\00:54:19.87
Freely you have received
Jesus said, now freely give.
00:54:19.90\00:54:23.79
Oh, the day,
whatever the offering is for
00:54:23.82\00:54:26.98
it doesn't matter to
you just give, give today.
00:54:27.01\00:54:30.33
You have tithes you
want to return, give today.
00:54:30.36\00:54:32.88
As the--As the ushers come
by as they will in just a moment
00:54:32.91\00:54:35.51
I want to have a
dedication prayer with you.
00:54:35.54\00:54:37.10
This is where you drop
your little white card,
00:54:37.13\00:54:38.71
just drop it and
we'll take it from there,
00:54:38.74\00:54:40.06
we'll be in touch
with you don't worry.
00:54:40.09\00:54:41.71
Don't take it and
hand it at the door, no,
00:54:41.74\00:54:43.63
just-- Just drop it
in that offering plate.
00:54:43.66\00:54:46.69
Want to sing that
chorus one more time,
00:54:46.72\00:54:48.72
when we're through but the--
00:54:48.75\00:54:50.80
We got simple gifts coming up
00:54:50.83\00:54:52.86
and it's beautiful
from the wind symphony
00:54:52.89\00:54:54.47
and so I'm gonna pray first
and they'll play while they--
00:54:54.50\00:54:57.19
returning our,
sending our cards.
00:54:57.22\00:54:59.36
Oh, God, this is it,
00:54:59.39\00:55:02.17
this is--This is Calvary,
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what's the good news
to us the good news is,
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is that God
finished 2,000 years ago.
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We place all our
weight on the word of Jesus,
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not the word of anyone
else, the word of Jesus
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and I pray for every
heart here Holy father please
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don't let anybody go
home with an apprehension,
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I'm just not sure what, what--
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bring peace to
that troubled heart,
00:55:30.84\00:55:33.30
bring calm to
that agitated mind.
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Go back to Calvary
with her or with him,
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point to the one who
is the savior of the world
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and let us all leave this place
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full of grace
and truth in Christ.
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We return our
tithes and offerings.
00:55:50.70\00:55:54.08
How could we
repay you for Calvary,
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we're in the
will, we're in the will.
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We have it all, please
receive our humble gifts
00:55:58.86\00:56:02.95
and gratitude in Jesus name.
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Amen.
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I'd like to take a moment here
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at the end of the
service to tell you about
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one of the most
important groups of people
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that make this
ministry possible.
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They are a team of people,
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they are not afraid to get down
into this thick of life itself.
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Which is why
you're going to find them
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you will find them
moving forward on their knees.
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They are our prayer partners,
00:56:27.84\00:56:29.70
a group of men and
women and young adults
00:56:29.73\00:56:32.82
who believe that this
humble television ministry
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has been raised up by
God for such a time as this.
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And so they pray earnestly,
that God will use the preacher,
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that God will use me,
00:56:41.34\00:56:42.37
that God will use the
countless other volunteers
00:56:42.40\00:56:44.91
to spread the everlasting gospel
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and the Word of God in ways
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we could ever
have imagined before.
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They are the
ones who are praying
00:56:50.59\00:56:52.14
that God is going to
open up the hearts of people,
00:56:52.17\00:56:55.08
open up the hearts of viewers
00:56:55.11\00:56:56.71
around the
world for the message,
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the critical message for
this end time generation.
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And what I'd
like to do is ask you,
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would you be willing to
be a prayer partner with us?
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A prayer partner
with New Perceptions?
00:57:07.83\00:57:09.57
You don't have to
call our toll free number,
00:57:09.60\00:57:11.11
you don't have to
go online to register.
00:57:11.14\00:57:13.29
All I need to know
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is that you'd be willing to
lift this little ministry up
00:57:14.44\00:57:19.58
day after day after day.
00:57:19.61\00:57:21.80
Pray that somehow through radio
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and television and the web.
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God will open
up new doors, new--
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New regions on earth,
00:57:28.09\00:57:29.94
where the everlasting
gospel can be proclaimed.
00:57:29.97\00:57:32.67
There is no
question the power of prayer
00:57:32.70\00:57:35.28
has potential to
take this ministry
00:57:35.31\00:57:36.98
to place this we could
never have imagined before.
00:57:37.01\00:57:40.32
So, that's it,
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would you please be willing
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to partner with me in prayer?
00:57:43.36\00:57:45.07
The times are
urgent, the need is critical
00:57:45.10\00:57:48.88
and I hope you'll say yes.
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Till we are together,
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next time may the
prayer answering God
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accompany you
every step of the way.
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