I've tried so hard to see it
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Took me so long to believe it
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That You'd
choose someone like me
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To carry Your victory
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Perfection could never earn it
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You give what we
don't deserve and
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You take the broken things
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And raise them to glory
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'Cause You are my champion
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And giants fall and
You stand undefeated
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Every battle You've won
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And I am who You say I am
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You crown me with confidence
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I am seated
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In the heavenly place undefeated
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With the One Who
has conquered it all
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Now I can finally see it
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You're teaching
me how to receive it
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So let all the striving cease
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This is my victory
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And You are my champion
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And giants fall
When You stand undefeated
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Every battle You've won
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And I am who You say I am
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You crown me with confidence
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I am seated
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In the heavenly place undefeated
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With the One Who
has conquered it all
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When I lift my voice and shout
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Every wall comes crashing down
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I have the authority
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Jesus has given me
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Let me end those verses.
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And when I open up my mouth
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Miracles start breaking out
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I have the authority
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Jesus has given me
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And when I lift
my voice and shout
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Every wall comes crashing down
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I have the authority
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Jesus has given me
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And when I open up my mouth
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Miracles start breaking out
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I have the authority
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Oh, Jesus has given me
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'Cause You are my champion
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Giants fall
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Giants fall when
You stand undefeated
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Every battle You've won
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And I am who You say I am
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You crown me with confidence
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I am seated
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In the heavenly place undefeated
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By the power of Your name
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I am seated
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in the heavenly place Undefeated
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With the One,
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With the One Who
has conquered it all
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Before we plunge
into a plaintiff's story,
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I'm gonna pray with you.
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Father,
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our hearts have
already been lifted heavenward,
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it was beautiful Spring Sabbath.
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What wondrous love is this?
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The maker of all
things loves and wants me?
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How come and why me?
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As we worship in the Word now,
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speak to us we
pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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I'm marveled
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that Jesus
survived until His death.
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I mean, there
He is having supper
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with His closest
followers on earth,
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in an upper room,
borrowed quarters.
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One of the 12 gets up
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and with hardly a goodbye
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disappears into
the night shadows
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that are gathering.
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And yet Jesus
stays in that upper room,
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begins to share
some of the most esoteric
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and profound truths
that humanity has ever heard.
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Let alone the 11 who are left.
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When He's through,
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they all push
away from the table.
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Hurry down the flight of stairs
to the now empty alleyway.
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They're going to
their favorite hideaway.
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It's in the heart of a garden
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called the olive
press or Gethsemane.
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But as they
arrive at that garden,
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something's,
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something's
going wrong with Jesus.
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And He's very
transparent about it.
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He said,
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"Guys, I don't know
what's happening to me.
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I am overwhelmed with sorrow
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and I feel like
I'm gonna die now."
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Emotions then.
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You guys pray here.
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You three, pray there.
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As He stumbles alone
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into the very
depths of the garden
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to cry out to His Abba Father.
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This is no getaway for Him.
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And clearly it's not
death that He's fearing now,
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there's obviously
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the torture of a demon's whisper
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in His mind,
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that is assuring Him,
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that if He proceeds
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down this path
that He has chosen,
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He will never come back again.
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Sometime in the
middle of the night,
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His own disciple
betrayer shows up,
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lead man in a
pack of temple guard
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and riffraff ruffians.
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And when he walks up
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and plants that kiss
on Jesus' bearded cheek,
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all hell breaks
loose, and guess what?
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All the disciples,
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every single
one of them, please.
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Leaving Jesus alone
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to be roped and dragged
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by evil men.
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And, of course, there is
the obligatory examination
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by the titular
high priest Anise.
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He's an old man.
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Nothing comes from that
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barium to Annas' son-in-law
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who is the acting
high priest Caiaphas.
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He has a palace.
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Jesus is bound.
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The gag is
loosed from his mouth.
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I tell you what?
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It's a kangaroo
court from the beginning.
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No witnesses can
agree, not even two of them.
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And the prisoner refuses
to answer a single question.
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And finally, the
vile Caiaphas is desperate
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for some action tonight,
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feigns shock
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as he grills the prisoner.
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Are you an under oath?
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Are you the Messiah,
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the Son of God
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and shoved into that corner.
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The prisoner has to speak.
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You say so,
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but I tell you the day is coming
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when you will see the Son of man
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riding upon the
clouds of heaven,
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sitting beside glory,
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and then comes that dramatic
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well-rehearsed act
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as he shrieks and rips
his sacerdotal garments.
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What say you jury
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and they vote
unanimously, get this.
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They vote
unanimously this verdict.
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He deserves death.
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It's the greatest lie
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in the history
of the human race.
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He deserves death.
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And then for a second time,
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all hell breaks loose
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as the gathered rabble
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now are permitted
access to the prisoner
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and with fang
and fury and spittle
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and shrieks of curse,
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they descend and
pummel the prisoner.
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I say at the
beginning, I say it again.
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I marvel
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that Jesus survives
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until His death.
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And the Roman procurator
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is ticked to high heavens
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for the rude
early morning awakening,
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interrogation by the governor
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seems so innocent and inquiring.
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But when the mob for hire
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begins to chant for
the prisoners' crucifixion,
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every political instinct
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of the governor's mastery
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of survival kick in.
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Yes, he will
confess three times.
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I find no fault in
him, three confessions.
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They aren't confessions at all.
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They're covering his tale.
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I don't understand
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how Jesus could have
survived one scourging,
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let alone two,
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but scholars believe
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He may have
suffered scourging twice
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in those few hours.
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Strip naked,
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the executioner
with other wooden handle
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and leather
straps are fixed to it,
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tied into each leather
strap bone and metal and rock
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literally shredding the victim
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as he yanks back
and the skin tears open.
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I marvel
00:13:03.28\00:13:06.65
that Jesus survived
00:13:06.68\00:13:09.88
until His death.
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Why would a God
do that for whom?
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You're kidding me.
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And Pilate at last brings
out the purple robed prisoner
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for the last time.
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Now we see the morality
tale that Pilate has become.
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We see that behind his facade
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of authority and power
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is a craving heart.
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He's already hanging by a thread
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with the
imperial throne in Rome.
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He knows that
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if he doesn't play
the last card right,
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he loses his position and
power and possibly his life.
00:14:01.74\00:14:06.21
And nobody that
morning will exchange places
00:14:06.24\00:14:11.41
with this innocent prisoner.
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That's why it makes me so mad
00:14:14.12\00:14:16.48
every single time
I come to this line.
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I want you to open your Bible
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to John Chapter 19.
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Find it nothing
going on the screen.
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Find it in your
device, your Bible,
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the crucifixion of Christ.
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The fourth gospel's version,
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John 19 drop down to verse 12.
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"From then on,
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Pilate tried to set Jesus free,
00:14:42.78\00:14:45.71
but the Jewish
leaders kept shouting,
00:14:45.75\00:14:47.68
'If you let this man go,
you are no friend of Caesar.
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Anyone who claims to
be a king opposes Caesar."
00:14:52.89\00:14:58.39
And every time I come to that,
00:14:58.43\00:15:00.66
I say in my soul,
00:15:00.70\00:15:02.26
Pilate, come on, my man,
you can stand up this time.
00:15:02.30\00:15:07.37
Don't buckle now.
00:15:07.40\00:15:09.67
Three times Pilate has declared,
00:15:13.91\00:15:17.75
'I find no fault in Him."
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Three times, listen to this,
00:15:20.75\00:15:22.08
three times Roman jurisprudence,
00:15:22.12\00:15:26.32
along with a Jewish court
00:15:26.35\00:15:31.36
attempt knowingly
00:15:31.39\00:15:34.46
to send an
innocent man to his death.
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Still happens today, by the way.
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The innocent
00:15:44.34\00:15:47.31
railroaded through trial
00:15:47.34\00:15:50.81
because every
court needs a victim.
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Will Pilate yield
00:15:56.18\00:15:58.45
to the brute political instincts
00:15:58.49\00:16:00.92
of survival?
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"And when Pilate
heard this, verse 13,
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he brought Jesus out
00:16:06.03\00:16:08.10
and sat him down
on the judge's seat
00:16:08.13\00:16:09.66
at a place known
as the stone pavement,
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which in Aramaic is Gabbatha.
00:16:11.97\00:16:14.67
It was the day of
preparation of the Passover."
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It was about noon.
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"Here is your king,'
00:16:19.21\00:16:20.94
Pilate said to the Jews.
00:16:20.98\00:16:22.81
But they
shouted, 'Take him away!
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Take him away! Crucify him!
00:16:24.85\00:16:26.98
'Shall I crucify your king?'
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Pilate incredulously asks.
00:16:30.85\00:16:33.72
'We have no king but Caesar,'
00:16:33.76\00:16:36.73
the chief priest answered.' "
00:16:36.76\00:16:39.29
And so finally,
00:16:39.33\00:16:43.37
the great disappointment for me,
00:16:43.40\00:16:46.27
Pilate handed Him over to them
00:16:46.30\00:16:48.70
to be crucified.
00:16:51.87\00:16:56.14
"So the soldiers
took charge of Jesus,
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verse 17,
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carrying his own cross.
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He went out to the
place of the Skull,
00:17:02.05\00:17:03.82
which in Aramaic
is called Golgotha.
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There they
crucified Him with two others,
00:17:07.22\00:17:09.62
one on each side and
Jesus in the middle."
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Isn't that amazing?
00:17:14.30\00:17:16.73
Jesus had been
standing at Gabbatha
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where a guilty governor
00:17:21.07\00:17:23.37
condemned to
death an innocent man.
00:17:23.41\00:17:26.41
And now Jesus is
standing at Golgotha
00:17:26.44\00:17:30.25
where guilty
sinners like you and me
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condemn an innocent Savior,
00:17:32.48\00:17:35.78
Gabbatha, Golgotha.
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Anyway, you cut it,
ladies and gentlemen,
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we are all guilty.
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Every single one of us.
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Verse 19,
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"And Pilate had
a notice prepared
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and fastened to the cross.
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It read, Jesus of
Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
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Many of the Jews read this sign
00:17:57.11\00:17:58.77
for the place
where Jesus was crucified
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was near the city.
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And the sign was written
in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
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The chief priests of the
Jews protested to Pilate,
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do not write 'the
King of the Jews, '
00:18:07.42\00:18:09.75
but that this man
claimed to be King of the Jews.'
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And for once,
00:18:13.05\00:18:15.59
Pilate has guts and he answered,
00:18:15.62\00:18:19.13
'What I have
written I have written.' "
00:18:19.16\00:18:24.60
What's the point?
00:18:24.63\00:18:26.87
F.F. Bruce,
00:18:26.90\00:18:28.77
the great New Testament
scholar put it this way.
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I put it on the
screen for you right now.
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"The Crucified
One is the true king,"
00:18:33.44\00:18:37.18
and I love this,
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"the kingliest king of all."
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Now keep reading,
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"Because it is he
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who is stretched on the cross,
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he turns an obscene
instrument of torture
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into a throne of glory
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and reigns from the tree."
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The phrase from
second century Christianity
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"reigns from the tree"
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The kingliest king of all.
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Say it's the question, guys?
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How much of all is all?
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Craig Keener, also a
bright New Testament scholar.
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Put his words on
the screen for you.
00:19:17.92\00:19:19.65
He's commenting on the
inked three language sign
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near the Jesus,
00:19:23.39\00:19:24.73
right above His head.
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And here's Keener.
00:19:26.13\00:19:27.46
"The three languages,
Aramaic, Greek and Latin.
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The three languages
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suggest the
universality of Jesus' reign.
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On the cross,
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He draws all people to Himself."
00:19:39.04\00:19:42.64
Wait a minute. Didn't
He say that on Tuesday?
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This is Friday now.
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Didn't he say that on Tuesday?
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The waning hours,
Tuesday afternoon,
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He stands in front of a
little crowd and He says,
00:19:49.22\00:19:50.85
"And I, if I be
lifted up from the earth,
00:19:50.89\00:19:54.16
I will draw all people to Me."
00:19:54.19\00:19:58.59
And thus He signified
00:19:58.63\00:19:59.96
what manner of
death He would die.
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The gospel reads,
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Oh, people,
00:20:05.53\00:20:07.80
the kingliest King of all,
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red and yellow,
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black and white,
00:20:14.28\00:20:15.98
all are precious in His sight.
00:20:16.01\00:20:18.31
Oh, people, my, oh my.
00:20:18.35\00:20:23.69
But then we
shouldn't be surprised.
00:20:23.72\00:20:25.05
We have been concentrating
on this one sentence
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all winter long,
00:20:27.99\00:20:30.33
the maker of all
things, how's it go?
00:20:30.36\00:20:33.86
The maker of all
things loves and wants me,
00:20:33.90\00:20:40.20
all people,
00:20:40.24\00:20:42.04
the maker of all things,
the kingliest King of all.
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He loves me and He wants me.
00:20:47.21\00:20:50.75
He loves and wants all people.
00:20:50.78\00:20:53.48
One of our
viewers sent me an email
00:20:53.52\00:20:56.62
just a few days ago
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and this is good.
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So he was
listening to a YouTube piece.
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I went and
listened to it afterwards.
00:21:05.23\00:21:06.56
It was a great piece.
00:21:06.59\00:21:07.93
He's listening
to a YouTube piece
00:21:07.96\00:21:09.30
by Lenny Leblanc.
00:21:09.33\00:21:10.67
You've heard of Lenny Leblanc?
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.47
The pieces we all bow down
00:21:12.50\00:21:18.24
and you know,
Lenny wrote the words
00:21:18.27\00:21:19.84
and it's just Lenny
sitting at the piano
00:21:19.87\00:21:21.78
singing those words
00:21:21.81\00:21:23.88
and, oh my, is moving.
00:21:23.91\00:21:25.78
In fact, I've got
the words right here.
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I printed them
off, this is beautiful.
00:21:27.18\00:21:29.75
Princess and
paupers Sons and daughters
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Kneel at the throne of grace
00:21:32.92\00:21:35.82
Losers and
winners Saints and sinners
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One day we'll see his face
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.43
And we all bow down
00:21:41.46\00:21:43.83
Kings will
surrender their crowns
00:21:43.87\00:21:46.37
And worship Jesus
for He is the love
00:21:46.40\00:21:48.54
Unfailing love He
is the love of God
00:21:48.57\00:21:51.17
Now it goes on.
00:21:51.21\00:21:52.54
Summer and winter
The mountains and rivers
00:21:52.57\00:21:55.24
Whisper our Savior's name
00:21:55.28\00:21:57.85
Awesome and holy A
friend to the lonely
00:21:57.88\00:22:01.02
Forever His love will reign
00:22:01.05\00:22:03.25
He's the light of the
world And Lord of the cross
00:22:03.28\00:22:07.36
And we all bow down
00:22:07.39\00:22:10.89
Kings will
surrender their crowns
00:22:10.93\00:22:13.83
And worship Jesus
00:22:13.86\00:22:15.36
Worship Jesus Worship Jesus
00:22:15.40\00:22:19.67
For He is love Unfailing love
00:22:19.70\00:22:24.11
He is the love of God
00:22:24.14\00:22:27.54
It's a beautiful song.
00:22:27.58\00:22:29.24
I'd never heard it before.
00:22:29.28\00:22:31.35
So why is this
guy send me an email
00:22:31.38\00:22:32.71
about that song?
00:22:32.75\00:22:34.08
Because after he
listened to the song,
00:22:34.12\00:22:36.62
he goes to the comments section.
00:22:36.65\00:22:38.75
You know how on YouTube,
00:22:38.79\00:22:40.12
you can, you respond
to whatever's going on.
00:22:40.16\00:22:42.99
And he reads
the comments section
00:22:43.02\00:22:44.89
and he comes across a comment
00:22:44.93\00:22:47.63
that has a
typographical error in it.
00:22:47.66\00:22:50.10
And he wants to
tell me about it.
00:22:50.13\00:22:52.90
Now the commenter
00:22:52.93\00:22:54.50
is, is reacting to
that beautiful song
00:22:54.54\00:22:58.07
with a beautiful testimony.
00:22:58.11\00:22:59.44
I heard this song and
gave my life to Christ.
00:22:59.47\00:23:02.84
Praise God.
00:23:02.88\00:23:04.28
I heard this song and
gave my life to Christ.
00:23:04.31\00:23:06.98
When I was still a
sinner, Christ died for me.
00:23:07.02\00:23:11.52
That's beautiful.
00:23:11.55\00:23:12.89
Only his left fourth finger
00:23:12.92\00:23:17.03
missed the key
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.69
and hit the next
door neighbor key
00:23:19.73\00:23:22.43
so that it ended
up reading like this.
00:23:22.46\00:23:24.27
Let me put it on
the screen for you.
00:23:24.30\00:23:26.43
"I heard this song and
gave my life to Christ,
00:23:26.47\00:23:30.11
when I was still a
dinner Christ died for me."
00:23:30.14\00:23:36.04
And this bright viewer,
00:23:36.08\00:23:37.58
because the viewers
00:23:37.61\00:23:38.95
that watch New
Perceptions are bright.
00:23:38.98\00:23:41.45
This bright
viewer sends me an email
00:23:41.48\00:23:43.28
and he responds to that.
00:23:43.32\00:23:45.29
What was it? What
was the line again?
00:23:45.32\00:23:48.42
Without Jesus...
00:23:48.46\00:23:49.79
Well, you've
got to read it here.
00:23:49.82\00:23:51.19
I'll just read it to you.
00:23:51.23\00:23:52.96
So he writes to me,
it is obviously a typo
00:23:52.99\00:23:55.26
as the D and the S
are next to each other
00:23:55.30\00:23:57.27
on the keyboard,
00:23:57.30\00:23:58.63
but it is still so appropriate.
00:23:58.67\00:24:00.57
The devil is walking around
like a hungry roaring lion
00:24:00.60\00:24:03.51
and without Jesus,
we were indeed dinner.
00:24:03.54\00:24:07.74
He got the gospel.
00:24:07.78\00:24:09.78
That typographical
error taught the gospel.
00:24:09.81\00:24:13.45
I was not just a sinner.
00:24:13.48\00:24:15.45
I was a dinner.
00:24:15.48\00:24:18.35
I love it.
00:24:18.39\00:24:22.12
Why?
00:24:22.16\00:24:25.13
Because without Jesus,
00:24:25.16\00:24:26.83
we were indeed dinner
00:24:26.86\00:24:30.07
because we are all sinners,
00:24:30.10\00:24:32.73
victims and dinners
for the roaring lion Satan.
00:24:32.77\00:24:36.57
And because of the
maker of all things
00:24:36.60\00:24:38.47
loved and wanted us
00:24:38.51\00:24:40.34
and loves and still wants us.
00:24:40.38\00:24:45.18
He was willing to
exchange His place
00:24:45.21\00:24:49.68
and die for you and me.
00:24:49.72\00:24:53.92
Not for a day exchange places,
00:24:53.96\00:24:56.99
not for a
lifetime exchange places,
00:24:57.03\00:25:01.06
but forever and
ever exchange places.
00:25:01.10\00:25:04.17
You live forever, I die forever.
00:25:04.20\00:25:07.64
That's the gospel.
00:25:07.67\00:25:09.17
Jesus became the
dinner for Satan,
00:25:09.20\00:25:14.21
so that you wouldn't
have to be dinner for him.
00:25:14.24\00:25:19.35
My, oh my.
00:25:19.38\00:25:21.85
How did Jesus
put it there in John?
00:25:25.39\00:25:26.89
Put it on the screen, John 12,
00:25:26.92\00:25:28.42
"And I, when I am
lifted up from the earth,
00:25:28.46\00:25:32.23
I will draw all people to Me."
00:25:32.26\00:25:35.40
How did Jesus say it
to Nicodemus that midnight
00:25:35.43\00:25:40.84
rondevu?
00:25:40.87\00:25:42.84
Let's read these
words out loud together.
00:25:42.87\00:25:44.81
"For God so loved the
world that He gave His only Son,
00:25:44.84\00:25:50.98
that whosoever believes
in Him should not perish
00:25:51.01\00:25:55.92
but have everlasting life."
00:25:55.95\00:25:59.09
Wow.
00:25:59.12\00:26:00.92
And the John who wrote
the majestic fourth gospel
00:26:00.96\00:26:04.59
also wrote a letter
00:26:04.63\00:26:06.19
before the New Testament closed.
00:26:06.23\00:26:08.80
It's at the very
end of your Bible
00:26:08.83\00:26:10.40
before the apocalypse.
00:26:10.43\00:26:12.73
We want to end with this verse.
00:26:12.77\00:26:14.10
So go to John, 1 John, 1
John, a little tiny letter,
00:26:14.14\00:26:18.91
1 John Chapter 4.
00:26:18.94\00:26:22.61
And I wanna draw your
attention to verse 10.
00:26:22.64\00:26:27.12
1 John 4:10,
00:26:27.15\00:26:28.48
"This is love:
00:26:28.52\00:26:31.25
not that we love God,
00:26:31.29\00:26:33.66
but that He loved
us and sent His Son
00:26:33.69\00:26:36.73
as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
00:26:36.76\00:26:41.00
Calvary is the truth
00:26:41.03\00:26:43.57
that the maker of all
things who loves and wants me
00:26:43.60\00:26:47.57
became an atoning sacrifice.
00:26:47.60\00:26:49.87
That's code language
in the Greek and English
00:26:49.90\00:26:53.68
for He exchanged places
00:26:53.71\00:26:57.05
with you and me,
00:26:57.08\00:26:58.65
so that by dying for
forever, we might live forever.
00:26:58.68\00:27:03.15
I don't understand
that, but it's the gospel.
00:27:03.18\00:27:06.65
And it happens to
be the gospel truth.
00:27:06.69\00:27:09.76
He exchanged places
00:27:09.79\00:27:12.76
for you and me
00:27:12.79\00:27:16.87
willing to die forever.
00:27:16.90\00:27:19.23
And what kind of specimens
did He lay down His life for?
00:27:19.27\00:27:24.14
Refresh my memory, Dwight.
00:27:24.17\00:27:25.74
Well, how about Judas?
00:27:25.77\00:27:28.68
How about Peter?
00:27:28.71\00:27:31.61
How about Caiaphas?
00:27:31.65\00:27:35.05
The two thieves?
00:27:35.08\00:27:36.75
Yep.
00:27:36.79\00:27:38.12
You and me?
00:27:38.15\00:27:39.49
Oh!
00:27:39.52\00:27:40.86
Jen Pollock Michel
in her wonderful book,
00:27:43.36\00:27:47.13
surprised by paradox
00:27:47.16\00:27:49.70
describes us
proud sinners this way.
00:27:49.73\00:27:52.20
You got to get
this, proud sinners
00:27:52.23\00:27:54.34
and she borrows
from the language
00:27:54.37\00:27:55.70
of GK Chesterton,
00:27:55.74\00:27:57.07
one of the great 20th
century English writers.
00:27:57.11\00:27:58.54
All right.
00:27:58.57\00:27:59.91
So we'll put the
words on the screen.
00:27:59.94\00:28:02.04
"Christian humility, she writes,
00:28:02.08\00:28:04.51
is both great pride as
well as great prostration.
00:28:04.55\00:28:08.88
On the one hand,
we must recognize
00:28:08.92\00:28:10.35
that we are the
chief of creatures,'
00:28:10.39\00:28:12.02
wow,
00:28:12.05\00:28:13.39
"crowned with glory and honor,
00:28:13.42\00:28:14.76
to quote the
words of the psalmist.
00:28:14.79\00:28:16.12
Unlike anything
else in all creation,
00:28:16.16\00:28:18.03
we alone, think of this.
00:28:18.06\00:28:19.93
We alone bear the image of God.
00:28:19.96\00:28:22.33
But on the other hand,
00:28:22.36\00:28:23.93
we must acknowledge that
00:28:23.97\00:28:25.30
we are not just
the chief of creatures.
00:28:25.33\00:28:27.04
We are also the
chief of sinners.
00:28:27.07\00:28:29.84
We would greedily vie
for all that is God's...
00:28:29.87\00:28:32.84
The consistent
testimony of Scripture is
00:28:32.87\00:28:35.01
how good humans
are at screwing up."
00:28:35.04\00:28:40.92
And that's the gospel truth.
00:28:40.95\00:28:45.05
Now let me speak plainly to you.
00:28:45.09\00:28:48.52
The risk of
focusing too intently
00:28:48.56\00:28:51.36
and I hope we haven't.
00:28:51.39\00:28:53.06
On this single line,
00:28:53.09\00:28:54.43
the maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:28:54.46\00:28:57.37
The risk is...
00:28:57.40\00:29:00.44
A subtle
subconscious downplaying
00:29:00.47\00:29:03.67
of our innate sinfulness.
00:29:03.71\00:29:07.01
Well, you know
what? I'm not that bad.
00:29:07.04\00:29:08.78
Oh, sure.
00:29:08.81\00:29:10.15
I screw up now and then,
but so does everybody else,
00:29:10.18\00:29:12.35
and besides the
maker of all things
00:29:12.38\00:29:13.75
loves and wants me.
00:29:13.78\00:29:15.12
So what's not
to like about that?
00:29:15.15\00:29:17.49
That's a danger
00:29:17.52\00:29:18.85
because it usually
takes a moral meltdown
00:29:22.46\00:29:25.16
of some sort or magnitude.
00:29:25.19\00:29:28.80
Peter's denial.
00:29:28.83\00:29:30.83
Judas' betrayal,
00:29:30.87\00:29:32.20
and by the way, Judas, if
he had, after the betrayal,
00:29:32.23\00:29:34.14
gone to Jesus
sincerely and had repented,
00:29:34.17\00:29:36.57
he would have
been received as back,
00:29:36.60\00:29:38.21
back as fast as
Peter was received back.
00:29:38.24\00:29:42.24
But he didn't,
he killed himself.
00:29:42.28\00:29:44.75
David's moral crash and burn.
00:29:47.98\00:29:53.59
Saul who became
00:29:53.62\00:29:54.96
Paul's
slaughter of the innocence
00:29:54.99\00:29:58.29
to choke off his
guilty conscience
00:29:58.33\00:30:01.83
over Steven's death.
00:30:01.86\00:30:05.13
It oftentimes not always,
00:30:05.17\00:30:07.64
but it oftentimes
takes a moral meltdown
00:30:07.67\00:30:10.51
of some sort to break us
free from our delusional.
00:30:10.54\00:30:13.58
I'm okay. You're okay.
00:30:13.61\00:30:15.21
Deception. That is a deception.
00:30:15.24\00:30:17.11
We are not okay.
00:30:17.15\00:30:20.38
I know the maker of all
things loves and wants us,
00:30:20.42\00:30:23.12
but that's to His
credit, not you, not mine.
00:30:23.15\00:30:27.62
We're not okay.
00:30:27.66\00:30:30.09
We are sinners.
00:30:30.13\00:30:32.26
And one day we will stand
00:30:32.29\00:30:33.63
before the God of this universe,
00:30:33.66\00:30:35.00
who is the judge
of all life forms,
00:30:35.03\00:30:38.53
a God whose eye reads
us as if we were naked
00:30:38.57\00:30:41.67
and reads every
truth about us that exists.
00:30:41.70\00:30:47.31
You try to blow that off.
00:30:47.34\00:30:48.68
Well, that's not for me.
00:30:48.71\00:30:50.05
Oh, it is, sir, for you.
00:30:50.08\00:30:53.42
We are all sinners
and we are not okay.
00:30:53.45\00:30:58.92
And we hang on to
this desperate solitary
00:30:58.95\00:31:01.29
hope that the
maker of all things
00:31:01.32\00:31:02.66
who loves and wants us
00:31:02.69\00:31:04.03
will have mercy on us
and grant us the forgiveness
00:31:04.06\00:31:06.29
we so desperately need.
00:31:06.33\00:31:07.90
That's what we hold to.
00:31:07.93\00:31:11.13
That's our only hope,
00:31:11.17\00:31:14.67
our word dinner.
00:31:14.70\00:31:16.04
And by the way, even
though we don't sin here, huh?
00:31:18.94\00:31:23.45
We don't sin here,
00:31:23.48\00:31:25.78
but we sin up here
00:31:25.81\00:31:28.98
and this is as damning as this.
00:31:29.02\00:31:34.92
And then we have
the sin of pride,
00:31:34.96\00:31:36.69
the most damning of all sins.
00:31:36.73\00:31:38.86
I thank God.
00:31:38.89\00:31:41.33
I'm not like her.
00:31:41.36\00:31:43.20
I'm not like him.
00:31:43.23\00:31:45.17
Thank you, Jesus.
00:31:45.20\00:31:47.10
You are like her,
00:31:47.14\00:31:49.14
you are just like him.
00:31:49.17\00:31:52.34
Neither of you is okay
00:31:52.37\00:31:55.24
without what we've
come to celebrate right now.
00:31:55.28\00:32:00.32
How's that go again?
00:32:00.35\00:32:01.68
Verse 10,
00:32:01.72\00:32:03.05
"This is love:
not that we loved God,
00:32:03.08\00:32:05.72
but that He loved
us and sent His Son
00:32:05.75\00:32:07.49
as an atoning
sacrifice for our sins."
00:32:07.52\00:32:10.56
But hallelujah,
it doesn't end there.
00:32:10.59\00:32:11.99
I want you to drop down
to verse 19 one more line,
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our last line.
00:32:14.83\00:32:16.16
"We love Him
because He first loved us."
00:32:16.20\00:32:22.00
Does your Bible read that way?
00:32:22.04\00:32:23.51
We love Him
because He first loved us.
00:32:23.54\00:32:27.11
There's
something deep inside of us
00:32:27.14\00:32:30.31
that responds to
the story of Calvary
00:32:30.35\00:32:35.05
and is called reciprocal love,
00:32:35.08\00:32:38.79
reciprocal love.
00:32:38.82\00:32:41.86
For the maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:32:41.89\00:32:43.69
Guess what?
00:32:43.73\00:32:45.06
I love, and I want Him back.
00:32:45.09\00:32:47.20
Don't you?
00:32:47.23\00:32:49.90
When parents say to their kids
00:32:49.93\00:32:51.27
and kids shout it
back to mom and dad,
00:32:51.30\00:32:53.27
even as they get older,
00:32:53.30\00:32:54.64
I love you back, Dad,
00:32:54.67\00:32:56.87
I love you back, Mom.
00:32:56.91\00:32:58.67
When friends say
that to each other,
00:32:58.71\00:33:00.21
one expresses love
00:33:00.24\00:33:01.58
and the other
quickly, I love you back.
00:33:01.61\00:33:04.58
It's reciprocal love.
00:33:04.61\00:33:08.02
And when you come to
the foot of this cross
00:33:08.05\00:33:10.12
that we are at now,
00:33:10.15\00:33:12.15
that's what gets birthed.
00:33:12.19\00:33:15.36
I love you back.
00:33:15.39\00:33:17.29
I love you and want you back.
00:33:17.33\00:33:21.80
And by the way, I
just learned this week.
00:33:21.83\00:33:23.73
As I read it in the
original language of Greek,
00:33:23.77\00:33:26.87
amazing.
00:33:26.90\00:33:28.24
This loving back kind of love.
00:33:28.27\00:33:29.77
May I put it on the
screen for you this way.
00:33:29.80\00:33:32.11
We agapao, oh,
00:33:32.14\00:33:33.88
that means we,
00:33:33.91\00:33:35.38
the agapao is the
first person singular
00:33:35.41\00:33:37.28
of two love self-sacrificingly.
00:33:37.31\00:33:40.18
We agapao or love Him.
00:33:40.22\00:33:42.08
God with self-sacrificing love
00:33:42.12\00:33:44.55
because He first
agapao or loved us
00:33:44.59\00:33:47.52
with self-sacrificing love.
00:33:47.56\00:33:49.22
It's not enough to know that
00:33:49.26\00:33:50.59
the maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:33:50.63\00:33:52.76
That truth goes like this.
00:33:52.79\00:33:57.13
Take my hand then.
00:33:57.17\00:33:58.87
You're right.
00:33:58.90\00:34:00.24
It's nail scarred.
00:34:00.27\00:34:03.07
I want you to love me back
with self-sacrificing love.
00:34:03.10\00:34:09.68
You may have to
sacrifice your career.
00:34:09.71\00:34:12.18
You may have to sacrifice
00:34:12.21\00:34:13.55
the major that you were pursuing
00:34:13.58\00:34:14.92
because the Spirit of God
00:34:14.95\00:34:16.28
is leaning hard on
you to move another way.
00:34:16.32\00:34:18.49
You may have to
sacrifice the relationship
00:34:18.52\00:34:20.52
that is taking you further
down every hour it endures.
00:34:20.56\00:34:25.43
You may have to
sacrifice financially,
00:34:25.46\00:34:28.23
money that you
have been hoarding,
00:34:28.26\00:34:29.60
money that you've been saying,
00:34:29.63\00:34:30.97
well, I'll just
use this for myself.
00:34:31.00\00:34:32.87
Thank you God anyway.
00:34:32.90\00:34:35.50
Self-sacrificing love means
00:34:35.54\00:34:37.27
just that you
sacrifice yourself.
00:34:37.31\00:34:40.28
I love you back.
00:34:40.31\00:34:41.64
How, Dwight?
00:34:41.68\00:34:43.01
I love you back.
00:34:43.04\00:34:44.55
Self sacrificingly.
00:34:44.58\00:34:48.55
Show me.
00:34:48.58\00:34:51.52
Peter, you love me?
00:34:51.55\00:34:55.62
I already know everything.
00:34:55.66\00:34:58.79
You know the truth.
00:34:58.83\00:35:01.66
Peter, do you love me?
00:35:01.70\00:35:07.17
You know my heart,
00:35:07.20\00:35:08.90
you know everything.
00:35:08.94\00:35:10.71
Peter,
00:35:10.74\00:35:14.58
do you love me?
00:35:14.61\00:35:18.65
Oh, God,
00:35:18.68\00:35:21.48
I love You and I want you back.
00:35:21.52\00:35:24.89
Okay.
00:35:24.92\00:35:27.19
One day you will
stretch out your arms
00:35:27.22\00:35:32.13
and you'll be taken to
where you didn't wanna go.
00:35:32.16\00:35:34.36
I'll understand.
00:35:37.77\00:35:39.93
And I'll be with you.
00:35:39.97\00:35:41.30
Reciprocal love.
00:35:46.64\00:35:50.41
And so we all bow down.
00:35:50.45\00:35:52.55
I mean, what else can
you do, but love Him back.
00:35:52.58\00:35:57.45
So, I want you to
listen to these words now.
00:35:57.49\00:35:58.85
My young friend,
William Dos Reis,
00:35:58.89\00:36:01.76
he's gonna come up
here to the keyboard
00:36:01.79\00:36:03.12
and he's gonna sing this song
00:36:03.16\00:36:05.49
as if he wrote it himself.
00:36:05.53\00:36:06.86
It's that beautiful.
00:36:06.90\00:36:08.83
Just think of
this reciprocal love
00:36:08.86\00:36:11.93
that William
sings about right now.
00:36:11.97\00:36:14.24
Princes and paupers
00:36:38.13\00:36:41.43
Sons and daughters
00:36:41.46\00:36:44.90
Kneel at the throne of grace
00:36:44.93\00:36:51.37
And losers and winners
00:36:51.41\00:36:54.61
All the saints and sinners
00:36:54.64\00:36:58.21
One day will see His face
00:36:58.25\00:37:04.29
And we all bow down
00:37:04.32\00:37:08.49
Kings will
surrender Their crowns
00:37:11.69\00:37:17.47
And worship Jesus
00:37:17.50\00:37:21.50
He is the love
00:37:24.94\00:37:28.24
Unfailing love
00:37:28.28\00:37:31.65
He is the love of God
00:37:31.68\00:37:35.98
And summer and winter
00:37:41.56\00:37:44.89
The mountains and the rivers
00:37:44.93\00:37:48.33
Whisper our Savior's name
00:37:48.36\00:37:54.84
Awesome and holy
00:37:54.87\00:37:57.91
A friend to the lonely
00:37:57.94\00:38:01.28
Forever His love will reign
00:38:01.31\00:38:07.42
And we all bow down
00:38:07.45\00:38:11.59
Kings will
surrender Their crowns
00:38:14.82\00:38:20.70
And worship Jesus
00:38:20.73\00:38:24.70
Oh, He is the love
00:38:27.84\00:38:31.57
Unfailing love
00:38:31.61\00:38:34.48
Oh, He is the love of God
00:38:34.51\00:38:40.88
He's the light of the world
00:38:40.92\00:38:47.82
And Lord of the cross
00:38:47.86\00:38:52.19
And we all bow down
00:39:08.11\00:39:12.51
All kings will
surrender Their crowns
00:39:15.52\00:39:21.96
And worship Jesus
00:39:21.99\00:39:28.26
And worship Jesus
00:39:28.30\00:39:35.10
And worship Jesus
00:39:35.14\00:39:40.18
For He is the love
00:39:44.31\00:39:48.45
Unfailing love
00:39:48.48\00:39:52.85
He is the love of God
00:39:52.89\00:39:59.36
And we all bow down.
00:40:18.01\00:40:20.95
All of us.
00:40:20.98\00:40:23.45
I love you back Jesus.
00:40:23.49\00:40:25.92
Reciprocal love,
00:40:25.95\00:40:28.49
I love you back.
00:40:28.52\00:40:30.33
Someday you may
go into a post office
00:40:30.36\00:40:32.09
with an
envelope that came to you
00:40:32.13\00:40:35.06
and you'll hand
it to the postmaster
00:40:35.10\00:40:36.70
and he'll grab a red stamp
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.07
and he will
stamp on that envelope,
00:40:38.10\00:40:41.77
return to sender.
00:40:41.80\00:40:45.27
That's what
we've come to do today.
00:40:45.31\00:40:48.78
Let's pray.
00:40:48.81\00:40:50.15
Oh, God.
00:40:50.18\00:40:52.51
All winter long,
00:40:52.55\00:40:53.92
we've been reminding ourselves
00:40:53.95\00:40:55.28
the maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:40:55.32\00:41:00.36
And now through
this beautiful moment
00:41:00.39\00:41:01.92
of communion,
00:41:01.96\00:41:03.29
we get to love you back.
00:41:03.32\00:41:06.53
So let this
reciprocal love bind us together
00:41:06.56\00:41:09.53
with each other
and with you right now,
00:41:09.56\00:41:12.57
we pray.
00:41:12.60\00:41:15.34
Amen.
00:41:15.37\00:41:18.47
And so we come to this COVID-19
00:41:18.51\00:41:20.44
once again, COVID-19
celebration of the cross.
00:41:20.48\00:41:24.61
I don't mind telling you that
00:41:24.65\00:41:25.98
I've actually found
these pandemic communions,
00:41:26.01\00:41:28.65
especially heartwarming for me.
00:41:28.68\00:41:33.25
That means that
the bread and the wine
00:41:33.29\00:41:35.66
that we will drink
00:41:35.69\00:41:37.03
has been carefully pre-packaged
00:41:37.06\00:41:38.69
and you already got the
packet when you walked in,
00:41:38.73\00:41:41.40
I saw you coming in
and just grabbing it.
00:41:41.43\00:41:43.67
Now some of you
may have gotten in
00:41:43.70\00:41:45.20
without getting the
packet and that's okay.
00:41:45.23\00:41:46.94
We got deacons right
now that will come to you
00:41:46.97\00:41:49.50
in this split second.
00:41:49.54\00:41:50.87
So just hold
your hand up, please.
00:41:50.91\00:41:52.74
Would you hold your hand up,
00:41:52.77\00:41:54.41
so that we can
keep your hands up?
00:41:54.44\00:41:58.08
We're gonna move
the furniture now
00:41:58.11\00:42:00.38
to put the Lord's table
right here front and center.
00:42:00.42\00:42:04.29
Our singers are gonna sing
a beautiful song, living hope.
00:42:04.32\00:42:08.89
And so you just meditate out.
00:42:08.92\00:42:10.26
Keep your hand up
00:42:10.29\00:42:11.63
if the ushers
are coming your way.
00:42:11.66\00:42:13.09
We'll be back in two minutes.
00:42:13.13\00:42:14.96
And those of you
online, you stay right there.
00:42:15.00\00:42:17.60
You've got your kit.
00:42:17.63\00:42:19.67
We'll worship
with that in a moment.
00:42:19.70\00:42:21.80
How great the chasm
00:42:43.46\00:42:47.30
That lay between us
00:42:47.33\00:42:51.10
How high the mountain
00:42:51.13\00:42:54.94
I could not climb
00:42:54.97\00:42:58.64
In desperation,
00:42:58.67\00:43:02.38
I turned to heaven
00:43:02.41\00:43:06.01
And spoke your name
00:43:06.05\00:43:08.75
Into the night
00:43:08.78\00:43:13.19
Then through the darkness
00:43:13.22\00:43:16.79
Your loving kindness
00:43:16.83\00:43:20.46
Tore through the shadows
00:43:20.50\00:43:23.63
Of my soul
00:43:23.67\00:43:27.74
The work is finished
00:43:27.77\00:43:31.37
The end is written
00:43:31.41\00:43:35.38
Jesus Christ, my living hope
00:43:35.41\00:43:40.75
Who could imagine
00:43:45.72\00:43:49.19
So great a mercy?
00:43:49.22\00:43:52.86
What heart could fathom
00:43:52.89\00:43:56.43
Such boundless grace?
00:43:56.46\00:44:00.04
The God of ages
00:44:00.07\00:44:03.64
Stepped down from glory
00:44:03.67\00:44:07.18
To wear my sin
00:44:07.21\00:44:09.91
And bear my shame
00:44:09.94\00:44:12.75
The cross has spoken
00:44:12.78\00:44:16.45
I am forgiven
00:44:16.48\00:44:21.66
The king of kings
00:44:21.69\00:44:23.93
Calls me His own
00:44:23.96\00:44:28.76
Beautiful Savior
00:44:28.80\00:44:32.33
I'm yours forever
00:44:32.37\00:44:36.34
Jesus Christ, my living hope
00:44:36.37\00:44:41.78
And Hallelujah Hallelujah,
00:44:41.81\00:44:47.12
Praise the one who set me free
00:44:47.15\00:44:50.72
Hallelujah,
00:44:50.75\00:44:54.32
Death has lost its grip on me
00:44:54.36\00:44:57.96
You have broken every chain
00:44:57.99\00:45:01.56
There's salvation in Your name
00:45:01.60\00:45:05.00
Jesus Christ, my living hope
00:45:05.03\00:45:10.57
Let's sing again.
00:45:10.61\00:45:11.94
And Hallelujah Hallelujah,
00:45:11.97\00:45:15.94
Praise the one who set me free
00:45:15.98\00:45:19.55
Hallelujah,
00:45:19.58\00:45:23.12
Death has lost its grip on me
00:45:23.15\00:45:26.79
You have broken every chain
00:45:26.82\00:45:30.36
There's salvation in Your name
00:45:30.39\00:45:33.63
And Jesus Christ, My living hope
00:45:33.66\00:45:38.83
Then came the morning
00:45:44.27\00:45:47.94
That sealed the promise
00:45:47.98\00:45:51.58
Your buried body
00:45:51.61\00:45:55.32
Began to breathe
00:45:55.35\00:45:59.02
Out of the silence
00:45:59.05\00:46:02.62
The Roaring Lion
00:46:02.66\00:46:06.33
Declared the
grave Has no claim on me
00:46:06.36\00:46:12.10
We'll do it again.
00:46:12.13\00:46:13.54
Then came the morning
00:46:13.57\00:46:17.24
That sealed the promise
00:46:17.27\00:46:20.88
Your buried body
00:46:20.91\00:46:24.45
Began to breathe
00:46:24.48\00:46:28.08
Out of the silence
00:46:28.12\00:46:31.62
The Roaring Lion
00:46:31.65\00:46:35.26
Declared the grave
00:46:35.29\00:46:37.59
Has no claim on me
00:46:37.63\00:46:42.83
Jesus, yours is the victory
00:46:42.86\00:46:47.64
And Hallelujah, And Hallelujah,
00:46:53.31\00:46:57.21
Praise the one Who set me free
00:46:57.25\00:47:00.75
Hallelujah,
00:47:00.78\00:47:04.29
Death has lost its grip on me
00:47:04.32\00:47:07.82
You have broken every chain
00:47:07.86\00:47:11.46
There's salvation in Your name
00:47:11.49\00:47:15.00
Jesus Christ, my living hope
00:47:15.03\00:47:20.34
And Hallelujah, And Hallelujah,
00:47:20.37\00:47:25.67
Praise the one who set me free
00:47:25.71\00:47:29.31
Hallelujah,
00:47:29.34\00:47:32.91
Death has lost its grip on me
00:47:32.95\00:47:36.45
You have broken every chain
00:47:36.48\00:47:40.12
There's salvation in your name
00:47:40.16\00:47:45.36
This Jesus Christ
00:47:45.39\00:47:48.03
My living hope
00:47:48.06\00:47:53.30
Jesus Christ,
00:47:53.34\00:47:55.64
My living hope
00:47:55.67\00:48:00.94
Jesus Christ,
00:48:00.98\00:48:03.35
My living hope
00:48:03.38\00:48:06.98
As we come to the Lord's table,
00:48:29.27\00:48:32.21
the maker of all
things who loves and wants me.
00:48:32.24\00:48:36.71
We go back in our mind's
eye, got two elders with us.
00:48:36.75\00:48:41.78
Julie Clayburn is
gonna read the account,
00:48:41.82\00:48:44.85
the Gospel of Mark
of that Thursday night.
00:48:44.89\00:48:49.92
"While we were
eating, Jesus took bread,
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.49
and when He had given thanks,
00:48:52.53\00:48:53.86
He broke it and gave
His, to His disciples saying,
00:48:53.90\00:48:56.53
'Take it.
00:48:56.56\00:48:57.90
This is my body.'
00:48:57.93\00:48:59.27
Then He took a cup
and we had given thanks,
00:48:59.30\00:49:01.34
He gave it to them and
they all drank from it.
00:49:01.37\00:49:04.34
'This is My
blood of the covenant,
00:49:04.37\00:49:05.87
which is poured out for many,'
00:49:05.91\00:49:07.24
He said to them.
00:49:07.28\00:49:08.61
Truly, I tell you,
I will not drink again
00:49:08.64\00:49:10.81
from the fruit of the vine
00:49:10.85\00:49:12.61
until the day
when I drink it new
00:49:12.65\00:49:14.78
in the kingdom of God.'"
00:49:14.82\00:49:18.45
Bow your head and heart with us
00:49:18.49\00:49:21.69
as Anthony Yeboah
ask God's blessing
00:49:21.72\00:49:24.23
on these elements.
00:49:24.26\00:49:28.06
Our Lord and our Savior,
00:49:28.10\00:49:31.73
in the upper room
00:49:31.77\00:49:34.17
the record says that
00:49:34.20\00:49:37.37
You took bread,
00:49:37.41\00:49:39.87
You blessed it,
00:49:39.91\00:49:42.08
You broke it and
gave it to Your disciples.
00:49:42.11\00:49:46.58
In a similar way
00:49:46.61\00:49:49.45
You give thanks for the cup.
00:49:49.48\00:49:52.22
And You told them,
00:49:52.25\00:49:54.96
drink all of you from it,
00:49:54.99\00:49:58.33
for this is the cup
of the New Testament
00:49:58.36\00:50:03.47
shed for you and for all sins.
00:50:03.50\00:50:08.60
And so now,
Father, as we get ready
00:50:08.64\00:50:12.41
to partake of these emblems
00:50:12.44\00:50:15.11
of your broken body
and your spilled blood,
00:50:15.14\00:50:18.51
we ask Your blessing upon them
00:50:18.55\00:50:21.32
that we will
derive strength from this
00:50:21.35\00:50:26.02
to live for you.
00:50:26.05\00:50:28.36
That we will really remember
Your wonderful death for us
00:50:28.39\00:50:33.33
on the cross of Calvary.
00:50:33.36\00:50:35.23
Tell you, come again.
00:50:35.26\00:50:37.20
We ask this through Your name.
00:50:37.23\00:50:39.23
Amen. Amen.
00:50:39.27\00:50:40.84
Amen. Thank you, Anthony.
00:50:40.87\00:50:42.57
That Thursday night,
00:50:48.54\00:50:49.88
Jesus turned to the
closest followers He had
00:50:49.91\00:50:54.88
and what'd He said then?
00:50:54.92\00:50:56.25
He said, He says to us now,
00:50:56.28\00:50:58.55
"Take, eat this
symbol of My broken body.
00:50:58.59\00:51:02.92
Do this in remembrance of Me."
00:51:02.96\00:51:05.49
And then there's a second layer
00:51:29.25\00:51:32.42
now to remove.
00:51:32.45\00:51:33.79
Just to be safe,
turn it away from you
00:51:33.82\00:51:35.66
so that if there's,
if it's under pressure,
00:51:35.69\00:51:37.49
it won't pop all over you.
00:51:40.56\00:51:42.26
Only open it halfway,
00:51:42.30\00:51:43.73
but you can drink from it.
00:51:47.20\00:51:50.44
Here it is.
00:51:50.47\00:51:53.51
In the same way
Jesus handed the cup
00:51:53.54\00:51:57.18
to this who loved Him back.
00:51:57.21\00:52:01.62
And He says to us as well,
00:52:01.65\00:52:02.98
this is My blood,
00:52:03.02\00:52:06.65
which is shed for you.
00:52:06.69\00:52:09.39
Drink all of it.
00:52:09.42\00:52:11.49
You friends of mine
00:52:11.53\00:52:12.86
and do this in
remembrance of me.
00:52:12.89\00:52:15.10
In your own way,
you've just loved Him back.
00:52:33.35\00:52:36.48
And He's smiling.
00:52:36.52\00:52:38.59
As that reaches
out to you and me,
00:52:38.62\00:52:42.59
we will leave this
place in a few moments
00:52:42.62\00:52:45.23
to the world and
the life that awaits us.
00:52:45.26\00:52:48.60
But the maker of
all things goes with us.
00:52:48.63\00:52:51.90
So they sang a
hymn before they left
00:52:51.93\00:52:53.70
and our singers
are ready to sing
00:52:53.74\00:52:55.07
this beautiful gospel hymn,
00:52:55.10\00:52:56.84
Jesus paid it all
00:52:56.87\00:52:58.57
and they thought
Judas was going out,
00:52:58.61\00:53:00.41
getting money for the poor,
00:53:00.44\00:53:01.78
because that was a custom.
00:53:01.81\00:53:03.51
And so we're gonna receive
an emergency aid offering.
00:53:03.55\00:53:07.98
As you leave from the balcony,
from the back, from the front,
00:53:08.02\00:53:11.72
there'll be an
usher standing there.
00:53:11.75\00:53:14.16
If God's blessed you
these last three months.
00:53:14.19\00:53:15.92
Trust me
00:53:15.96\00:53:17.29
what you give
00:53:17.33\00:53:18.66
goes immediately to
work in this county.
00:53:18.69\00:53:21.33
But now let's keep worshiping
as we hum with our singers,
00:53:21.36\00:53:27.10
Jesus paid it all.
00:53:27.14\00:53:30.74
By the way, there
will be, there will be,
00:53:30.77\00:53:33.31
excuse me for interrupting,
00:53:33.34\00:53:34.74
but there'll be a
receptacle for this
00:53:34.78\00:53:36.11
when you leave.
00:53:36.14\00:53:37.48
So you just keep this
with you and you'll be fine.
00:53:37.51\00:53:39.38
I hear the Savior say
00:53:47.82\00:53:53.40
Thy strength indeed is small
00:53:53.43\00:53:58.83
Child of weakness,
00:53:58.87\00:54:01.74
watch and pray
00:54:01.77\00:54:04.67
Find in me thine all in all
00:54:04.71\00:54:11.21
Jesus paid it all
00:54:11.25\00:54:16.79
All to Him I owe
00:54:16.82\00:54:22.62
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:54:22.66\00:54:27.33
He washed it white as snow
00:54:27.36\00:54:32.87
And now complete in Him
00:54:32.90\00:54:38.37
My robe, His righteousness
00:54:38.41\00:54:43.81
Close sheltered 'neath His side
00:54:43.85\00:54:49.25
I'm divinely blest
00:54:49.28\00:54:53.86
Amen.
00:54:53.89\00:54:55.22
And Jesus paid it all
00:54:55.26\00:55:01.03
All to Him I owe
00:55:01.06\00:55:06.47
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:55:06.50\00:55:11.04
He washed it white as snow
00:55:11.07\00:55:16.34
Oh, Lord, now indeed I find
00:55:16.38\00:55:21.75
Thy power and Thine alone
00:55:21.78\00:55:27.16
Can change the leper's spots
00:55:27.19\00:55:32.46
And melt the heart of stone
00:55:32.49\00:55:38.53
Jesus paid it all
00:55:38.57\00:55:44.01
All to him I owe
00:55:44.04\00:55:49.28
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:55:49.31\00:55:53.75
He washed it white as snow
00:55:53.78\00:55:59.09
And when before the throne
00:55:59.12\00:56:04.49
I stand in Him complete
00:56:04.53\00:56:09.80
I'll lay my trophies down
00:56:09.83\00:56:15.04
All down at Jesus' feet
00:56:15.07\00:56:20.18
And we sing...
00:56:20.21\00:56:21.54
Jesus paid it all
00:56:21.58\00:56:26.68
All to Him I owe
00:56:26.72\00:56:31.99
Sin had left a crimson stain
00:56:32.02\00:56:36.46
He washed it white as snow
00:56:36.49\00:56:41.66
He washed it white as snow
00:56:41.70\00:56:47.17
He washed it white as snow
00:56:47.20\00:56:52.14
Before you go,
00:56:58.38\00:56:59.71
let me take an extra
moment to share with you
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an opportunity to
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00:57:05.69\00:57:07.02
to examine
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00:57:07.06\00:57:09.39
If you felt drawn to
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00:57:09.42\00:57:11.59
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00:57:11.63\00:57:12.96
or you're just looking for
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00:57:25.47\00:57:27.11
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00:57:27.14\00:57:28.48
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And then again,
00:57:51.13\00:57:52.47
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New Perceptions.
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