Welcome back to
3ABN, our live camp
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meeting here in
Southern Illinois.
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We've got some
music coming right
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up we're not gonna
do much time talking
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because we want
to get as much get to
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next two three
songs and then we're gonna
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be favored and
blessed once again by
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Pastor Ty Gibson.
This time I would like
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to ask our friend
Darrell Marshall to
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come out and bless
us with another song.
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I've never made a fortune
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And it's probably too late now.
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Oh but I don't
worry about that much,
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'Cause I'm happy anyhow.
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As I go along life's journey,
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I'm reaping better than I sow.
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I'm drinking from my saucer,
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'Cause my cup has overflowed.
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Haven't got a lot of riches,
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Sometimes the going's rough.
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But I've got a friend in Jesus
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And that makes me rich enough.
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I thank God for
all his blessings on me
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And the mercy
that He's bestowed.
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I'm drinking from my saucer,
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'Cause my cup has overflowed.
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You know my
friend sometimes sadness
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and sorrow comes
our way in, that doesn't
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seem to be much
we can do about it
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but I remember one
day when I was at my
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very lowest, I
looked up into heaven and
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I touched his
precious nail scarred hands.
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God promised us
that he would be faithful
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to reach down, pick us
up and restore us to new.
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Aren't you thankful
for that, tonight? Yes.
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So Lord, help me not
to grumble and complain
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About the tough
rows that I've hoed.
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You see, I'm
drinking from my saucer,
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'Cause my cup has overflowed.
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Now listen, And if
I should go on living
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And if my way
gets steep and rough.
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I'll not ask
for other blessings,
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'Cause I'm
already blessed enough.
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May I never be too busy?
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To help others bear their loads.
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I'm drinking from my saucer,
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'Cause my cup has overflowed.
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Yes I'll be
drinking from my saucer Lord
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Oh yes I will,
this cup has overflowed
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Has your cup
overflowed. Yes amen, amen.
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You all like my tie.
It's a picture of Danny.
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Wait a minute. Is
that a picture of me?
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Yeah. Brandy come
here a second honey.
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Come here.
Alright. Is that look,
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first of all my
name, my picture could be
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copyrighted so I
don't think you got
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permission to do
this. Oh, oh yeah.
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But I want, I want
to show everybody out
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there I want to
shut your eyes for just a
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second, me, alright yeah,
you got to shut your eyes.
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You got them shut. Yeah. I shut.
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Alright promise.
Yeah. I can't see a thing.
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You're not peeking. No. Alright.
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Oh man. If that's my
picture I should have
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it right.
Alright. Tammy come on out
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and sing for us Honey.
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I told Mr. Gilly
that he was better looking
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than you but I have to
tell Mr. Marshall he is
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not as good
looking as you. Thank you.
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You're welcome.
Siblings have to stick together.
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This world is not my
home I'm just passing through
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Aren't you glad for that? Yes.
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My treasures are laid up
somewhere beyond the blue
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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O Lord you know I
have no friend like you
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If Heaven's not my home
Lord, Lord what will I do?
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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Just over in Glory
Land we'll live eternally
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The Saints on every
hand are shouting victory
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Their songs of
sweetest praise drifts
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back from Heaven's shore
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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O Lord you know I
have no friend like you
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If Heaven's not my home
Lord, Lord what will I do?
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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They're all expecting me
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and that's one thing I know
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My savior pardoned
me and now I onward go
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I know He'll take me through
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though I am weak and poor
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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The angels beckon me
from Heaven's open door
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And I can't feel at
home in this world anymore
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I was just a child when
I felt the Savior leading
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I was drawn to what
I could not understand
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And for the cause of Christ,
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I have spent my days believing
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That what He'd
have me be is who I am
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As I've come see
the weaker side of me
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I've realized his
grace is what I need
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When sin demanded
justice for my soul
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Mercy said no I'm
not gonna let you go
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I'm not gonna let you slip away
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You don't have to be afraid
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Mercy said no Sin
will never take control
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Life and death
stood face to face
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Darkness tried to
steal my heart away
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Thank you Jesus Mercy said no
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For God so loved the world that
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He sent His Son to save us
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From the cross He
built a bridge to set us free
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Oh but deep within our hearts
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there is still a war that rages
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And makes the
sacrifice so hard to see
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As midnight fell
on crucifixion day
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The light of hope
seemed oh so far away
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And as evil tried to
stop redemptions' flow
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Mercy said no I'm
not gonna let you go
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I'm not gonna let you slip away
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You don't have to be afraid
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Mercy said no Sin
will never take control
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Life and death
stood face to face
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Darkness tried to
steal my heart away
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Thank you Jesus Mercy said no
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And now when heaven looks at me
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It's through the blood of Jesus
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Reminding me of one day long ago
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Mercy said no I'm
not gonna let you go
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I'm not gonna let you slip away
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You don't have to be afraid
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Mercy said no Sin
will never take control
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Life and death
stood face to face
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Darkness tried to
steal my heart away
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Thank you Jesus Mercy said no
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Thank you Jesus Mercy said no.
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Thank you Melody,
oh what a blessing.
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How are you tonight? Great.
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Praise God for all the
good music we've had here.
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I don't know if
you're aware of thus but the
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Bible actually
tells us that God himself,
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the creator of the
universe is a vocalist
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and a songwriter,
did you know that?
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Some of you like
you're questioning it.
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Zephaniah 3:17,
the Lord says very
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clearly, I will
quiet you with my love
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I will rejoice
over you with singing.
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According to that
scripture God is a singer,
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God is a singer,
and how do I derive
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that God is also a songwriter,
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I mean come on just
think it through for a minute.
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This is the
creator of the Universe,
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He is omniscient,
he's infinitely wise,
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He is certainly not
singing other people songs.
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He is writing his
own music, composing it
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and writing his own
lyrics and according
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to that scripture not
only is God a vocalist
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and a songwriter but guess what?
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We, you and me we're
the topic of his song.
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Just like we are
down here writing songs
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about God he is composing songs
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about you and
me. Can you imagine
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what it's gonna be like
to hear God actually sing?
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Doing special
music at Sabbath service,
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the special music today will be
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delivered by the
creator of the universe,
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Wow that's gonna be incredible.
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I don't know if
you know this but the
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ancient Greeks
actually had a theory
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that the whole Universe was sung
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into existence by
God and the reason they
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arrived at this
conclusion is because
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they were mathematicians
the Greeks were, and
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they having
studied the mathematical
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composition of the
Universe and noting
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all the geometric
shape, they also then
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noticed that
music is mathematical.
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And they said wow maybe God is a
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singer, and maybe
the whole Universe is
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created on a musical score.
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It was just an idea they had,
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they weren't reading
the scriptures but do
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you know that scripture actually
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hints at this? By the way this
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isn't my topic
tonight. Do you know that in
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Job 38 when Job is
spoken to by God the
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Lord, the Lord
says were you there when
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I laid the foundation
of the earth, when the
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morning stars and
all the sons of God
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shouted for joy and one
version says sang for joy.
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There was singing
during the creation process.
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And no doubt God was leading the
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singing, just one
more thing on music since
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we've had so much
of it here and that is
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there's a scientist
right now who has a hunch
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that the Aurora
Borealis, you know what that is,
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I'm from Washington
State way up north in
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the west and on
certain nights we can
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see these beautiful moving,
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living colors of
purple and pink and red and
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brushes of white
in the far distant
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northern sky,
sometimes called the
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northern lights,
the Aurora Borealis.
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Well this scientist
he has a hunch that the
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Aurora Borealis, as
it moves alive in the sky
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with all its color
has a musical background
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that it's
emitting. So He is right now
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trying to create
some kind of device that
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can measure and actually record
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the sounds that
are coming from the
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Aurora Borealis interesting huh.
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And finally on music,
chapter 32 and verse 7
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of Psalms, it says
that God actually delivers
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us with songs of
deliverance which is
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another scripture
that says God is a singer
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and that he uses
song to deliver us,
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well the message tonight is best
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introduced by calling
our attention to a little
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considered but
very obvious human
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phenomenon that
we all experienced.
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As soon as I
begin to explain it,
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you'll say yeah
exactly. I go through that all
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the time. Now this phenomenon of
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human experience,
is sometimes referred
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to with the
terminology memory triggers.
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What does it referred
to as, memory triggers.
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For example, a simple example,
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you're in your
house in one room right,
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and you're on a mission to go do
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something in another
room so you take your
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journey into the
other room right.
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And when you get there you can't
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remember what in the
world you came in the
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room for so what do you do?
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I don't know what
you do but I retrace my
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steps back into
the other room and what
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am I hoping for, even
if I haven't thought it
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through what am I hoping for?
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I'm hoping that I'm
going to see something,
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smell something, feel something,
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hear something
that will trigger the
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memory of what it is
that I went in that room for.
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Sometimes it works,
sometimes it doesn't.
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It is a very
bothersome experience.
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You've been all
through that haven't you?
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But let me give a
couple other examples
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one negative and
one positive from my own
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experience and
you'll begin to identify and
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you'll see why this
is important for our
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message this
evening. A negative memory
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experience I
have, memory trigger
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happened when I was
just 14 years old in
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Southern California
driving my mom's car
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without a license.
And I had a fender-bender,
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I wrecked the car not
into a tree, not into a
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stop sign, into another car,
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this was bad, right.
And there was a lot of
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emotion involved
in the experience,
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the woman jumped
out of the car came
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back and she was shouting at the
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window that I just
rolled down about an
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inch and I
looked up into her eyes
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and she told me so many things.
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But here's what
happened when I had
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this very traumatic
emotional experience,
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there was a
particular song playing on the
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radio, I won't tell
you the song because
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I don't want to put
it in your memory and
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associate it with this message.
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But there was a
particular song on the radio,
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okay that's the kind
of experience you want
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to forget it,
right. 18 years later I'm
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in an auto parts
store and that song's
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playing on the
radio and I feel kind of
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uncomfortable,
like oh I hate that song
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and in the next
second or two I realized why
00:21:47.40\00:21:51.74
I was so uncomfortable
with that song because
00:21:52.12\00:21:53.97
I could see that
lady's face at the window
00:21:53.98\00:21:56.44
screaming at me and
that whole experience
00:21:56.94\00:21:58.99
came back
through that one sensory
00:21:59.00\00:22:01.56
stimuli of that
auditory trigger,
00:22:01.57\00:22:05.17
that's what sensory stimuli is.
00:22:06.15\00:22:08.76
Every experience
that you have as a human
00:22:09.18\00:22:11.25
being, every experience
that I have is attached
00:22:11.26\00:22:14.15
to certain sensory stimuli,
00:22:14.74\00:22:16.77
that's happening
kind of as a background
00:22:17.04\00:22:19.23
track to life,
right. You don't even know
00:22:19.24\00:22:21.70
what's going on
around you really but
00:22:21.71\00:22:23.92
as you are there in
a given experience you
00:22:23.93\00:22:27.91
are surrounded
with sites and there are
00:22:27.92\00:22:31.14
sounds and
there are textures and
00:22:31.15\00:22:34.43
there are smells,
right. You can feel lumber
00:22:34.44\00:22:38.51
and be brought back 20 years to
00:22:38.98\00:22:40.76
a time in your
life. You can hear a song
00:22:40.77\00:22:43.02
and see yourself in
the 9th grade that's kind
00:22:43.25\00:22:45.83
of scary, you can
just smell something and
00:22:45.84\00:22:50.24
relive on
experience from the past.
00:22:50.25\00:22:53.93
Isn't that true? Let me
give you a positive one.
00:22:54.30\00:22:55.86
When I was a
little boy, us children,
00:22:56.72\00:22:59.32
myself, my two younger brothers,
00:22:59.94\00:23:01.49
my younger sister
and a bunch of our
00:23:01.88\00:23:03.30
cousins were
spending part of the summer
00:23:03.31\00:23:05.65
at grandma's
house. And my grandma was
00:23:05.66\00:23:08.00
the classic grandma
she was the real deal.
00:23:08.01\00:23:10.53
She had long gray
hair that was twisted
00:23:11.36\00:23:13.57
up in a bun, she
made all her own dresses
00:23:13.58\00:23:18.64
from calico material
at her sewing machine
00:23:18.65\00:23:20.91
that had a pedal
type thing on it with no
00:23:20.92\00:23:23.88
electricity, her
teeth were in a jar by the
00:23:23.89\00:23:27.14
bed and she had a loaded
shotgun by the front door.
00:23:27.15\00:23:30.43
This was my grandma
she was an incredible
00:23:31.70\00:23:33.73
lady and she made
these long dresses that
00:23:33.74\00:23:36.97
went all the way
down to the ground
00:23:36.98\00:23:38.71
and I remember
thinking that grandma
00:23:39.23\00:23:40.59
is so big because
they didn't have a dryer,
00:23:40.60\00:23:43.39
and all the
clothing was hung on the line
00:23:44.27\00:23:45.98
and I saw
grandma's underwear and
00:23:45.99\00:23:49.58
I remember as a
little boy looking up and
00:23:49.59\00:23:51.09
thinking oh those
are big and it may have
00:23:51.10\00:23:56.67
just been a
relative thing because my
00:23:56.68\00:23:59.56
little boy undies
were hanging right next to
00:23:59.57\00:24:02.21
hers and by comparison you see
00:24:02.22\00:24:04.31
what I'm saying they looked big.
00:24:04.32\00:24:06.29
So I am at grandma's
house this one summer, okay.
00:24:07.28\00:24:09.79
And grandma was
a pancake artist.
00:24:10.92\00:24:14.12
Every morning,
early in the morning she
00:24:15.13\00:24:16.64
would making what
she called cakes on
00:24:16.65\00:24:19.08
the griddle and
she would use food
00:24:19.09\00:24:21.61
coloring and they
were made to order,
00:24:21.62\00:24:23.65
you could ask for a
giraffe, you could ask
00:24:23.66\00:24:25.58
for an elephant,
you could ask for
00:24:25.59\00:24:27.31
whatever you
wanted and she would make
00:24:27.65\00:24:29.10
shapes on the
griddle and turn them over
00:24:29.11\00:24:30.98
and serve them up
to the little kids,
00:24:30.99\00:24:33.02
she was such a cool grandma.
00:24:33.62\00:24:34.93
And we were
running around while the
00:24:35.76\00:24:37.56
aroma of these
pancakes were filling
00:24:37.57\00:24:41.13
the air, and we were
playing hide and seek.
00:24:41.14\00:24:44.80
And I was the last
little kid standing in
00:24:45.64\00:24:49.04
the kitchen,
frantic because all the good
00:24:49.05\00:24:51.59
hiding places
were taken and I was
00:24:51.60\00:24:54.02
looking here and
there and everywhere
00:24:54.03\00:24:55.43
I didn't know
where to go or what to do
00:24:55.44\00:24:57.14
and I could hear my
older cousin counting
00:24:57.49\00:25:00.73
and I was about to
get caught and grandma
00:25:01.06\00:25:03.70
standing at the
stove turning the cakes on
00:25:03.71\00:25:05.55
the griddle she
said you want the best
00:25:05.56\00:25:07.25
hiding place ever.
And I said yes, I want
00:25:07.26\00:25:11.67
the best hiding place ever.
00:25:11.68\00:25:13.54
And she looked down
into my eyes and she
00:25:14.48\00:25:17.49
said I'll let you
have this hiding place but
00:25:17.50\00:25:20.12
I'm telling you, I'm commanding
00:25:20.13\00:25:22.32
you do not look
up. Now I didn't know
00:25:22.33\00:25:27.83
what she was
referring to at this point.
00:25:28.27\00:25:30.78
And I just looked up
and I said yes I agree
00:25:32.14\00:25:34.47
to the terms of the contract.
00:25:34.48\00:25:36.11
And just then my
grandma lifted her
00:25:37.92\00:25:40.59
calico dress up to
reveal her very white
00:25:40.60\00:25:44.19
bonnie grandma
knees and she motioned
00:25:44.20\00:25:47.68
with her hand as
the count was taking
00:25:47.69\00:25:49.76
place and I knew
exactly what to do,
00:25:49.77\00:25:52.62
I crunch down underneath and she
00:25:52.97\00:25:54.90
dropped this panoply around me,
00:25:54.91\00:25:57.06
tell me that's
not the best hiding
00:25:59.46\00:26:01.03
place in the world.
Nobody is going to be
00:26:01.04\00:26:05.67
lifting up grandma's dress.
00:26:05.68\00:26:07.35
I know as a little
boy I will not get caught.
00:26:09.30\00:26:12.80
I know this and I'm
just thinking there yes
00:26:13.16\00:26:17.07
and I'm so selfish as
little boy I'm thinking
00:26:17.08\00:26:19.25
I hope grandma
never shows this hiding
00:26:19.26\00:26:21.44
place to anyone
else. And all my cousins
00:26:21.45\00:26:27.13
and my brothers and
my sisters looking all
00:26:27.14\00:26:29.68
around they can't
find me and times going
00:26:29.69\00:26:32.52
by and she's
just standing there,
00:26:32.53\00:26:33.59
flipping cakes on the griddle.
00:26:33.60\00:26:34.76
And they say where
is he grandma and she
00:26:37.51\00:26:40.50
says go outside and
look and they all ran
00:26:40.51\00:26:43.52
out the doors
she lifted her dress
00:26:43.53\00:26:46.26
I emerged and she
looked at me and she
00:26:46.27\00:26:47.95
said told you. That was the best
00:26:47.96\00:26:52.22
hiding place and she knew it.
00:26:52.23\00:26:53.93
Now here's the
thing that experience is
00:26:54.71\00:26:59.41
relived in my mind,
I see my grandma over
00:26:59.42\00:27:04.26
and over again
anytime I smell cakes
00:27:04.27\00:27:06.96
on the griddle even at Denny's,
00:27:06.97\00:27:08.78
doesn't matter
where am I at, if I smell
00:27:08.79\00:27:10.88
pancakes I think of my grandma
00:27:10.89\00:27:13.49
and that
experience. But let me tell you
00:27:13.50\00:27:15.89
that it was also associated with
00:27:15.90\00:27:18.44
something that
was very traumatic
00:27:18.45\00:27:20.15
because while we
children were running
00:27:20.36\00:27:22.35
around playing hide and seek
00:27:22.36\00:27:23.93
that home, grandma's
home was a place of refuge.
00:27:26.42\00:27:31.12
Because my mother
was lying on the bed
00:27:31.89\00:27:35.57
in one of
grandma's bedrooms having
00:27:36.54\00:27:39.92
escaped from an
abusive marriage,
00:27:39.93\00:27:43.12
her face scabbing
over, nursing broken ribs
00:27:43.70\00:27:48.31
and so all of
that emotion is relived
00:27:49.86\00:27:54.13
in that one memory
trigger when I smell
00:27:55.26\00:28:00.28
cakes on the
griddle. Are you aware that
00:28:00.29\00:28:05.66
Jesus had a very
specific and special
00:28:05.67\00:28:11.92
memory trigger
that attended him every
00:28:13.07\00:28:19.45
step of the way
through the darkest
00:28:19.46\00:28:22.23
hours of his
experience in this world?
00:28:22.89\00:28:26.77
Are you aware that
there was a face that
00:28:27.80\00:28:31.38
would come to
his memory with every
00:28:31.39\00:28:34.90
gasp of air as he
hung on the cross?
00:28:34.91\00:28:38.97
But there was one
person one individual
00:28:40.12\00:28:43.94
who embodied what
the Gospel potentialed
00:28:43.95\00:28:50.15
in human
experience, there was one person
00:28:50.16\00:28:54.15
that gave Jesus
deep and abiding hope
00:28:54.99\00:28:59.71
for you and for me.
Turn with me in your
00:29:01.11\00:29:04.69
Bibles to Matthew
chapter 26 and let's
00:29:04.70\00:29:09.12
note the
chronology here, in verse 1,
00:29:09.13\00:29:12.71
now it came to
pass when Jesus had
00:29:12.72\00:29:15.97
finished all these
sayings that he said to
00:29:15.98\00:29:20.06
his disciples you
know that after two
00:29:20.07\00:29:23.21
days, after how
long? Two days, after two
00:29:23.22\00:29:25.78
days is the
Passover and the son of man
00:29:25.79\00:29:29.27
will be delivered
up to be crucified.
00:29:29.28\00:29:32.61
Notice that Jesus
explicitly told the
00:29:32.95\00:29:36.71
disciples he would be crucified.
00:29:36.72\00:29:39.49
But they didn't get it.
They were still planning
00:29:40.15\00:29:44.35
to crown him King
and to rule over the
00:29:45.06\00:29:47.42
Romans and to be
seated on the little
00:29:47.43\00:29:49.76
thrones around
him. They pushed the
00:29:49.77\00:29:53.13
thought out of their minds,
00:29:53.14\00:29:54.65
they didn't understand
what he was talking about.
00:29:54.66\00:29:58.13
And notice that
Jesus says that he is going
00:29:59.10\00:30:01.40
to be crucified
from the point of this
00:30:01.41\00:30:03.23
declaration in
how long? Two days.
00:30:03.24\00:30:07.14
Well then at another
part of the little town
00:30:07.76\00:30:10.81
here the chief
priests in verse 3 and the
00:30:10.82\00:30:13.69
Scribes and the
Elders they've assembled at
00:30:13.70\00:30:16.73
the Palace of
Caiaphas, verse 4 says, to plot,
00:30:16.74\00:30:20.53
to take Jesus by
trickery and kill him,
00:30:20.54\00:30:23.17
that's was
happening across town.
00:30:23.80\00:30:25.63
And then I want you
to notice that in verse
00:30:26.97\00:30:29.45
6 Jesus was in
Bethany at the house of Simon
00:30:29.46\00:30:34.57
the Leper, you
know who he is, he is a
00:30:34.58\00:30:37.62
Pharisee who had
leprosy and Jesus had
00:30:37.63\00:30:40.60
healed him and Jesus
was at his house as a
00:30:40.61\00:30:43.60
special honored
guest. We're told in another
00:30:43.61\00:30:46.96
gospel and it's
filled out in Desire of Ages
00:30:46.97\00:30:49.93
that Lazarus who
had been raised from the
00:30:50.30\00:30:52.18
dead was also an
honored guest at Simon's feast.
00:30:52.19\00:30:56.01
Jesus was seated in
the middle Simon on one
00:30:56.59\00:30:59.40
side Lazarus on the
other, this is the picture.
00:30:59.41\00:31:02.88
Now as Simon's
feast is unfolding,
00:31:03.84\00:31:06.41
something occurs here
that is absolutely straddling.
00:31:06.42\00:31:10.14
You'll notice in
verse 7 that a woman came
00:31:11.15\00:31:13.93
to him having an
alabaster flask full of
00:31:13.94\00:31:18.00
very costly fragrant
oil, notice this oil is
00:31:18.01\00:31:22.74
fragrant and she
poured it on his head
00:31:23.25\00:31:27.49
as he sat as he
sat at the table.
00:31:27.92\00:31:30.66
Later on down in
verse 12 Jesus said
00:31:31.93\00:31:36.43
that she not only
poured it on his head
00:31:36.44\00:31:39.15
but on his body
and Luke's gospel says
00:31:39.16\00:31:42.03
she also poured it
on his feet and mingled
00:31:42.04\00:31:45.81
this precious
liquid with a more precious
00:31:45.82\00:31:49.94
liquid, her tears and
her tears mingled with
00:31:49.95\00:31:54.31
this fragrant oil,
she lathered his feet and
00:31:54.32\00:31:58.24
began to wash and dry
his feet with her hair.
00:31:58.25\00:32:02.47
This is the scene,
this is the picture and
00:32:03.39\00:32:07.83
Jesus explained
something here in verse 12,
00:32:07.84\00:32:11.75
For in pouring
this fragrant oil on
00:32:12.33\00:32:14.33
My body, she did
it for My burial.
00:32:14.34\00:32:17.84
She is the only one who gets it.
00:32:18.23\00:32:21.14
She is the only
one who understands the
00:32:22.03\00:32:24.17
gospel at this
point. They're all resisting
00:32:24.18\00:32:27.52
his prophetic
words that he will be
00:32:28.15\00:32:30.11
crucified but she knows
what's going to happened.
00:32:30.12\00:32:33.62
She anoints His body for burial.
00:32:34.10\00:32:37.12
Now she made a
last minute decision,
00:32:37.13\00:32:39.66
she had intended to
use this oil believing
00:32:41.18\00:32:45.21
that he would be
crucified just like he
00:32:45.22\00:32:46.94
said is the only one
who is understanding,
00:32:46.95\00:32:49.02
she intended to
use this costly oil to
00:32:49.54\00:32:52.41
anoint his body after
death for burial and at
00:32:52.42\00:32:57.12
the last minute
she changed her mind
00:32:57.13\00:32:59.65
and for a very crucial reason.
00:33:00.50\00:33:02.32
Mary began to think in her mind,
00:33:04.11\00:33:06.08
I would like the
Savior to carry this
00:33:07.63\00:33:12.63
gift of my love
to the crucifixion;
00:33:12.64\00:33:17.90
I would like to
attend him and remind him
00:33:19.30\00:33:24.59
of my love for him.
So at the last minute
00:33:26.08\00:33:30.12
she changed her mind
and she said to herself
00:33:30.13\00:33:33.26
I will pour the oil on
him while he's still alive.
00:33:33.27\00:33:38.46
Desire of Ages page
560 explains that and
00:33:39.10\00:33:42.03
we'll read it in just a moment.
00:33:42.04\00:33:43.21
Now here's the thing
as she was doing this,
00:33:43.51\00:33:47.10
the disciples are
just absolutely incensed.
00:33:47.11\00:33:51.41
Why was this very
costly oil used in this
00:33:52.50\00:33:55.60
way, and Jesus
says to them in so many
00:33:55.61\00:33:59.80
words, this woman
understands and you don't.
00:33:59.81\00:34:04.75
I am not going
to be with you very
00:34:05.97\00:34:07.90
much longer, the
poor you will have
00:34:07.91\00:34:09.66
with you always. Do not reproach
00:34:09.67\00:34:14.02
her for her gift.
Now this gets really
00:34:14.03\00:34:17.90
amazing when in
verse 13 Jesus says,
00:34:17.91\00:34:21.37
assuredly I say to
you that wherever this
00:34:21.38\00:34:25.63
gospel is preached
in the whole world what
00:34:25.64\00:34:30.58
this woman has
done will be also told
00:34:30.59\00:34:33.45
as a memorial to
her. This woman, Mary,
00:34:33.46\00:34:36.87
is the
embodiments of what the gospel
00:34:36.88\00:34:41.54
envisions for every human being,
00:34:41.55\00:34:44.55
this woman's
experience of extravagant head
00:34:45.05\00:34:49.18
over heels love for the Savior,
00:34:49.19\00:34:52.50
represents what
God is seeking to
00:34:52.87\00:34:55.57
reproduce in
your life and mine and
00:34:55.58\00:34:58.71
everyone who hears the gospel.
00:34:58.72\00:35:01.49
The gospel
wherever it is preached will
00:35:01.86\00:35:05.42
include the telling
and the retelling of Mary's
00:35:05.43\00:35:09.86
experience with the
Savior, because dear
00:35:09.87\00:35:12.66
friends she is in
fact the one who best
00:35:12.67\00:35:19.34
reveals to us what
the ultimate reality of
00:35:19.73\00:35:24.83
Christian experience
is going to look like
00:35:24.84\00:35:28.19
when it comes to
fruition in your life
00:35:28.56\00:35:31.20
and mine. She is the
only one who gets it,
00:35:31.21\00:35:33.34
she anoints his
body and then what
00:35:33.96\00:35:36.11
happens in verse
17 now the feast,
00:35:36.12\00:35:38.52
on the feast, on the
first day of the feast
00:35:38.78\00:35:41.39
of unleavened bread
the disciples came to
00:35:41.40\00:35:43.51
Jesus and said,
where do you want us to
00:35:43.52\00:35:45.31
prepare to eat the Passover?
00:35:45.32\00:35:47.11
Jesus explains to
them in verse 18 that my
00:35:48.53\00:35:51.71
time is at
hand. Down in verse 20
00:35:51.72\00:35:56.76
when evening
had come He sat down
00:35:56.77\00:35:59.63
with the 12, simultaneously
00:35:59.64\00:36:03.70
as the woman as
anointed Jesus Judas
00:36:04.52\00:36:07.54
takes off across town on
this mission of betrayal.
00:36:07.55\00:36:10.13
Now please notice
that as Jesus eats the
00:36:11.72\00:36:15.46
Passover feast
with His disciples
00:36:15.47\00:36:17.67
we have not seen
very much time transpire.
00:36:19.47\00:36:23.86
His hair, His
beard, His body, His feet,
00:36:25.76\00:36:28.89
His clothing drenched
with this fragrant oil,
00:36:29.20\00:36:32.04
every step of the
way with every breath
00:36:33.02\00:36:36.14
He remembers this
woman's great love.
00:36:37.10\00:36:41.05
Desire of Ages page
560, please note this
00:36:41.06\00:36:43.85
with so much
attention and interest
00:36:43.86\00:36:47.84
"The fragrant
gift which Mary had
00:36:48.15\00:36:52.08
thought to lavish
upon the dead body of our
00:36:52.09\00:36:56.00
Savior, she now
poured upon his living form.
00:36:56.01\00:36:59.77
At the burial its
sweetness could only
00:37:00.80\00:37:04.43
have pervaded the
tomb, now it gladdened his
00:37:04.75\00:37:10.28
heart with the assurance
of her faith and love."
00:37:10.29\00:37:14.52
Now notice this,
Mary pouring out her love.
00:37:14.53\00:37:20.82
I thought it was fragrant oil,
00:37:20.85\00:37:22.20
well the fragrant
oil was just a symbol
00:37:23.51\00:37:27.49
of the
outpouring of her affection,
00:37:28.63\00:37:31.24
her love every bit
of her passionate energy
00:37:31.42\00:37:35.10
upon her Savior.
Mary pouring out her
00:37:35.11\00:37:39.16
love upon the
Savior while he was
00:37:39.17\00:37:42.44
conscious of her
devotion, you see her agenda?
00:37:42.45\00:37:47.64
Now, was anointing
him for burial and as
00:37:48.98\00:37:55.32
He went down into
the darkness of his
00:37:55.33\00:37:58.33
great trial he
carried with him the memory
00:37:58.34\00:38:03.74
of that deed
which was an earnest,
00:38:04.60\00:38:07.83
which means a down
payment of the love,
00:38:07.84\00:38:12.94
Ellen White
continues, that would be His
00:38:13.32\00:38:16.04
from the redeemed
forever. Mary anointed Him
00:38:17.32\00:38:24.97
while He was living and her deed
00:38:24.98\00:38:27.89
represented to
the Savior's memory
00:38:28.38\00:38:31.77
a continual, alive
sense of the love that would
00:38:32.02\00:38:37.68
be His from all the redeemed,
00:38:37.69\00:38:40.13
an eternity future.
Three scriptures that
00:38:40.14\00:38:43.06
seem to point in
this direction regarding
00:38:43.07\00:38:45.81
the Savior's
hope for the future,
00:38:45.82\00:38:47.52
first of all Isaiah
53 where Jesus poured
00:38:47.97\00:38:51.65
out His soul unto
death Isaiah prophesized but
00:38:51.66\00:38:55.26
notice this while
he was pouring out his
00:38:55.27\00:38:57.83
soul in death
Isaiah says that in the
00:38:57.84\00:39:00.72
process of that
infinite sacrifice he could see
00:39:00.73\00:39:06.01
the travail of his
soul and he was satisfied.
00:39:06.50\00:39:10.18
Travail meaning
the labor of his soul
00:39:10.19\00:39:12.90
giving birth to
the new creation of men
00:39:12.91\00:39:16.95
and women in children who would
00:39:16.96\00:39:18.73
experience the
reproduction of his
00:39:18.74\00:39:20.69
self-giving love in
their hearts and lives.
00:39:20.70\00:39:23.26
Jesus on the cross
saw the result of his
00:39:23.81\00:39:29.62
sacrifice and it brought
satisfaction to this heart.
00:39:29.63\00:39:32.67
And what about
Hebrews chapter 12
00:39:33.41\00:39:35.25
looking unto Jesus,
Paul says the author
00:39:36.18\00:39:38.86
and finisher of our
faith who for the joy
00:39:38.87\00:39:42.53
that was set before
him endured the cross
00:39:43.07\00:39:46.43
despising the shame.
What was the joy that
00:39:46.44\00:39:49.55
was set before him,
what was it that Jesus
00:39:49.56\00:39:52.68
was conscious of
while He endured that
00:39:52.69\00:39:55.36
great suffering
that brought Him joy and
00:39:55.37\00:39:57.72
satisfaction?
John chapter 17 in his
00:39:57.73\00:40:02.43
prayer to the Father,
Jesus explains exactly
00:40:02.44\00:40:06.93
what it is that
His heart is looking
00:40:07.31\00:40:10.56
forward to?
Please don't miss this,
00:40:10.57\00:40:13.71
chapter 17 of John,
Jesus praying to the
00:40:14.93\00:40:17.29
Father, starting
with verse 24, Father,
00:40:17.30\00:40:20.06
I desire that they
also, whom you have given
00:40:20.07\00:40:24.88
me, may be with me where I am.
00:40:24.89\00:40:29.21
I want you to think
for a minute, is there
00:40:29.22\00:40:30.84
anybody in this
world, in this life that you
00:40:30.85\00:40:33.98
just like being
with. Someone you just like
00:40:33.99\00:40:37.15
hanging out with,
a friend, a spouse,
00:40:37.16\00:40:40.13
a grandson, a
grandma, your mom, your dad,
00:40:41.24\00:40:48.01
is there anyone you
just like being with that,
00:40:48.02\00:40:50.24
I mean you are just
totally comfortable in
00:40:50.25\00:40:51.62
their presence and
you can just be silent
00:40:51.63\00:40:53.61
with them on a long
drive and you're not
00:40:53.62\00:40:55.34
nervous at all,
you're just kind of,
00:40:55.35\00:40:56.87
and you can slobber
in their presence and
00:40:56.88\00:40:59.56
it doesn't bother you
are not self conscious
00:40:59.57\00:41:01.33
in their presence.
My wife is like that
00:41:01.34\00:41:03.79
for me, we've been
hanging out since she
00:41:03.80\00:41:05.25
was 13 and I was
14 we've never parted
00:41:05.26\00:41:08.18
company, we've been
best friends since then
00:41:08.19\00:41:09.69
now we've been
married for 26 years.
00:41:09.70\00:41:11.51
I love this lady
and know her she loves
00:41:11.86\00:41:14.25
me and knows me and
I'll tell you what there
00:41:14.26\00:41:17.46
is nothing like
just being with her.
00:41:17.47\00:41:22.59
But that's is
exactly what Jesus longs for.
00:41:23.64\00:41:27.21
Jesus says,
Father, I want them and put
00:41:27.90\00:41:30.71
your name there
because it's very
00:41:30.72\00:41:31.94
personal he knows you by name.
00:41:31.95\00:41:33.68
Jesus says, I
desire Father that they
00:41:34.67\00:41:37.03
would be with me.
Now he wants us to
00:41:37.04\00:41:39.47
be with Him for a
very specific purpose.
00:41:39.48\00:41:42.59
Watch this, I
desire that they would be
00:41:43.04\00:41:45.16
with me where I am
that they maybe hold
00:41:45.17\00:41:47.48
my glory which
you have given me and
00:41:47.49\00:41:50.87
then he defines that
glory that we will be
00:41:50.88\00:41:53.11
witnessed to
and participants in.
00:41:53.12\00:41:56.16
For you Father
loved me before the
00:41:56.58\00:42:00.04
foundation of the
world. To the question what
00:42:00.05\00:42:03.62
were the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit doing
00:42:03.63\00:42:05.46
before creation,
before any humans
00:42:05.47\00:42:08.40
or angels even
existed. What were they doing?
00:42:08.41\00:42:11.90
Jesus says, well we
were loving each other.
00:42:12.42\00:42:15.07
Father, you loved me
before the foundation
00:42:16.26\00:42:18.67
of the world, in
all eternal ages passed.
00:42:18.68\00:42:22.16
The Father, Son
and Holy Spirit were
00:42:22.37\00:42:23.83
engaged in an
incredible circuit,
00:42:23.84\00:42:28.81
Ellen White calls
it, of benevolence.
00:42:28.82\00:42:30.95
A circle of
constant outgoing self-giving
00:42:31.64\00:42:37.27
love and it is that
self- giving other centered
00:42:37.94\00:42:42.20
love that in the
fall we forfeited.
00:42:42.21\00:42:45.00
Ellen White defines
the essence of the fall
00:42:45.87\00:42:48.20
of mankind in the
book Steps to Christ
00:42:48.21\00:42:50.44
with the simple
words; she says that
00:42:50.72\00:42:53.41
in the fall "selfishness
took the place of love."
00:42:53.42\00:42:57.11
We were created
in the image of God's
00:42:58.03\00:43:00.17
love, to love like God's love.
00:43:00.18\00:43:03.44
And in the fall
we forfeited that,
00:43:04.96\00:43:06.56
we began to live and
to think and feel and
00:43:06.57\00:43:10.19
behave, all for
ourselves. And Jesus came into
00:43:10.20\00:43:15.12
the world and he said, Father,
00:43:15.13\00:43:17.14
I want them to be
with me where I am
00:43:17.15\00:43:19.77
where you and I
in eternity past were
00:43:19.94\00:43:21.88
involved in this
constant ebb and flow of
00:43:22.14\00:43:24.43
beautiful
relational love but don't miss
00:43:24.44\00:43:28.57
verses 25 and 26.
He says, oh righteous
00:43:28.58\00:43:33.00
Father, can you
hear the pleading tone in
00:43:33.01\00:43:35.20
his voice, the
world has not known you
00:43:35.21\00:43:38.95
what is Jesus diagnoses of our
00:43:38.96\00:43:41.96
problem as human
beings. The world doesn't
00:43:41.97\00:43:44.06
know you Father,
that's the problem,
00:43:44.07\00:43:46.87
but I have known
you and these have known
00:43:47.30\00:43:51.34
that you have sent
me. Verse 26, And I have
00:43:51.35\00:43:55.94
declared to them
your name Father. Why?
00:43:55.95\00:44:01.04
And will declare it.
So that the love with
00:44:02.03\00:44:06.68
which you Father
have loved me Jesus
00:44:06.69\00:44:09.63
the son maybe in
them and I in them.
00:44:09.64\00:44:14.69
Incredible, Jesus
defines the climactic
00:44:15.47\00:44:20.23
reality of the plan
of salvation when it
00:44:20.39\00:44:22.20
really comes to the
point of what God has in mind.
00:44:22.21\00:44:26.18
Jesus defines the
plan of salvation as Jesus
00:44:27.13\00:44:31.69
re-inducting you and
me into the love that
00:44:32.32\00:44:37.22
has always
existed between the Father
00:44:37.23\00:44:38.96
and Son in eternity
past. Jesus says, Father,
00:44:38.97\00:44:42.36
I want them to be sharers and
00:44:42.37\00:44:43.92
participants in this
love that they stepped
00:44:43.93\00:44:46.78
out of, I want to
bring them back into the
00:44:46.99\00:44:50.04
circle Father
and fellowship with
00:44:50.05\00:44:53.00
them for all
eternity. What an incredible
00:44:53.01\00:44:57.73
invitation and this
is why I'm proclaiming
00:44:57.74\00:45:00.56
the gospel in
First John chapter 1,
00:45:00.57\00:45:02.64
it is put in
exactly these kind of terms.
00:45:02.94\00:45:05.18
The Apostle John
says, that which was
00:45:05.65\00:45:07.42
from the beginning
we declare to you that
00:45:07.43\00:45:11.22
you may have fellowship with us
00:45:11.23\00:45:13.93
and truly our
fellowship is with the
00:45:13.94\00:45:16.63
Father and his son Jesus Christ.
00:45:16.64\00:45:19.11
John in declaring
the gospel says the only
00:45:20.11\00:45:23.27
reason we're
preaching the gospel is to bring
00:45:23.28\00:45:25.70
you back into
the fellowship of the
00:45:25.71\00:45:28.45
father and the son
that fellowship that we as
00:45:28.46\00:45:32.81
the disciples
have been experiencing.
00:45:32.82\00:45:34.84
That was the
proclamation and Mary was the
00:45:36.07\00:45:40.36
embodiment of that experience.
00:45:40.37\00:45:43.56
She was the first
one who understood what
00:45:43.89\00:45:46.43
Jesus was talking about when He
00:45:46.44\00:45:48.67
prophesied of his
crucifixion and she
00:45:48.68\00:45:51.46
was in fact the
first one at the tomb and
00:45:51.47\00:45:54.67
the first one to
actually proclaim
00:45:54.68\00:45:57.43
the gospel to the
unbelieving disciples
00:45:57.44\00:46:00.27
when she proclaimed to them.
00:46:00.28\00:46:01.63
He is risen, He
is not in the tomb,
00:46:01.98\00:46:04.64
and they said what?
Come on I don't think so.
00:46:04.65\00:46:08.30
And they went and
looked for themselves.
00:46:08.93\00:46:10.58
She was the one,
Mary, lets go back now to
00:46:11.07\00:46:13.76
Matthew chapter
26, now as she had
00:46:13.77\00:46:17.50
anointed his body for
burial, Jesus now goes
00:46:17.51\00:46:21.50
into the darkest
hours of his experience.
00:46:21.51\00:46:25.89
In verse 34 of
chapter 26 of Matthew,
00:46:26.50\00:46:29.41
Jesus said to him to
Peter, assuredly I say
00:46:29.42\00:46:32.67
to you that this
night before the rooster
00:46:32.68\00:46:36.47
crows you, you
Peter, you will deny me.
00:46:36.48\00:46:39.11
And while Jesus
prophesied you will
00:46:39.89\00:46:41.85
deny me and he
realizes that he will be
00:46:41.86\00:46:43.83
forsaken by all
of them that night.
00:46:43.84\00:46:46.46
He remembers that
Mary represents what
00:46:49.65\00:46:54.47
maybe for the
disciples and for you and me.
00:46:54.48\00:46:59.28
It is the staying
power that drives him on.
00:47:00.26\00:47:04.92
Verse 36, Then
Jesus came with them to a
00:47:05.50\00:47:08.60
place called Gethsemane,
which means olive press,
00:47:08.61\00:47:12.34
place of great
pressure and intensity.
00:47:12.35\00:47:15.03
Jesus comes to
Gethsemane and here
00:47:15.99\00:47:18.16
from verses 36 to
40 we see Jesus walking
00:47:18.48\00:47:22.45
in to the mount
of olives with his
00:47:22.46\00:47:24.64
disciples and He
tells them to remain in a
00:47:24.65\00:47:26.51
certain place and
pray and then He takes
00:47:26.58\00:47:28.55
three of them, His
closest associates,
00:47:28.74\00:47:31.15
Peter, James and
John still deeper into the
00:47:32.22\00:47:34.52
heart of
Gethsemane to His own special
00:47:34.53\00:47:37.24
place of prayer that
He had visited many times.
00:47:37.25\00:47:39.62
And He tells
them to pray for Him.
00:47:40.42\00:47:42.78
We're told that it
was a full moon that night
00:47:44.30\00:47:46.29
and they could see
Him as scripture says
00:47:47.91\00:47:51.37
that He went at
stone's cast away
00:47:51.38\00:47:54.16
from them in Luke's gospel.
00:47:54.17\00:47:55.82
He was within eye
shot as He staggered
00:47:56.27\00:47:59.39
off to his place of
prayer. The disciples are
00:48:00.74\00:48:04.63
amusing,
wondering and maybe even
00:48:04.64\00:48:06.39
whispering among
themselves why is He
00:48:06.40\00:48:08.47
so burden what's going
on? He has just told them
00:48:08.48\00:48:11.98
He is going to be crucified.
00:48:11.99\00:48:13.27
They still don't get
it. Jesus breaks in to
00:48:13.40\00:48:16.63
their wonderings and
He tells them, verses
00:48:16.64\00:48:20.89
37 and 38, And He
took with Him Peter
00:48:20.90\00:48:23.75
and the two sons
of Zebedee, and He
00:48:23.96\00:48:25.98
began to be deeply distressed.
00:48:25.99\00:48:29.52
And He said to them, "My soul is
00:48:30.13\00:48:33.51
exceedingly
sorrowful, even to death.
00:48:33.52\00:48:37.00
Stay here and watch with Me."
00:48:37.33\00:48:38.86
Notice Jesus directs
their attention to an
00:48:40.23\00:48:44.57
internal agony that
He's beginning to experience.
00:48:44.58\00:48:48.16
Notice that
nothing has happened as of
00:48:49.20\00:48:51.29
yet to bring
physical torture upon them.
00:48:51.30\00:48:53.63
Is that right? There
is no whip that has been
00:48:54.71\00:48:58.68
applied to His back
yet, He has not been
00:48:58.69\00:49:01.63
struck by the Roman
soldiers, nails have
00:49:01.64\00:49:04.84
not been driven
through His hands,
00:49:04.85\00:49:07.03
the crown of
thorns has not yet been
00:49:07.50\00:49:09.63
pressed upon His
brow and yet Jesus
00:49:09.64\00:49:12.22
says, I'm dying right
here, right now in the
00:49:12.23\00:49:18.34
quietude of this midnight serene
00:49:18.35\00:49:20.65
garden, my soul is
exceedingly sorrowful
00:49:20.66\00:49:24.26
even to the point of death.
00:49:24.27\00:49:26.98
It's interesting that
the word soul there in the
00:49:26.99\00:49:29.05
Greek is the Greek word psuche,
00:49:29.06\00:49:32.15
from which we get
the English word psyche,
00:49:32.84\00:49:34.57
which refers to the
mind. And it's also interesting
00:49:35.14\00:49:39.26
to note that this
experience of Jesus
00:49:39.27\00:49:43.52
happening on an internal level,
00:49:43.53\00:49:45.72
it's spoken of multiple times
00:49:46.45\00:49:48.66
throughout
scripture. Isaiah 53, I already
00:49:48.67\00:49:51.61
cited says, that He
poured out His soul unto death.
00:49:51.62\00:49:55.53
Isaiah 53 is the
premier Old Testament prophecy
00:49:56.69\00:50:00.10
of the sufferings
of Messiah and it does
00:50:00.45\00:50:02.78
not make even a
single mention of
00:50:02.79\00:50:04.35
physical suffering.
It says rather all we
00:50:04.36\00:50:07.63
like sheep have gone
astray, we have turned
00:50:07.64\00:50:09.95
everyone to His own
way and the Lord had
00:50:09.96\00:50:12.32
laid on Him psychologically.
00:50:12.33\00:50:15.63
Not a bag on
his back, that's not
00:50:16.54\00:50:19.19
how sin is packaged.
Sin is a psychological
00:50:19.20\00:50:23.45
behavioral
reality, sin is upon Him,
00:50:23.89\00:50:27.35
whose sin, all we like
sheep have gone astray,
00:50:27.36\00:50:29.99
we have turned
everyone to his own
00:50:30.22\00:50:31.94
way and the Lord
has laid on Him the
00:50:31.95\00:50:33.83
iniquity of us
all. In the garden of
00:50:33.84\00:50:37.78
Gethsemane Jesus
begins to experience
00:50:37.79\00:50:40.23
the full ramifications
of the sin problem.
00:50:40.24\00:50:43.10
He takes into His
person, into His what
00:50:43.53\00:50:46.89
does He say, His
psyche. Jesus takes into His
00:50:46.90\00:50:50.59
heart and mind.
The full blown reality
00:50:50.60\00:50:53.89
of the collective
whole of all human
00:50:53.90\00:50:58.12
transgression in
sin. He begins to so
00:50:58.13\00:51:01.71
deeply and
personally identify with the
00:51:01.72\00:51:04.77
fallen human race
that, well, what does
00:51:04.78\00:51:08.82
Paul say in
Second Corinthians 5:21,
00:51:08.83\00:51:11.88
Second
Corinthians 5:21, He who knew
00:51:11.89\00:51:15.61
no sin became sin for
us. The very thing itself
00:51:15.62\00:51:21.56
in all it's
ugliness, he took your sin and
00:51:22.03\00:51:27.87
mine, Jesus began in Gethsemane,
00:51:27.88\00:51:30.52
to stand before the
Father and before His
00:51:30.81\00:51:34.50
Holy Law, as if
He Himself were the
00:51:34.51\00:51:38.72
guilty party in
every sin ever committed
00:51:38.73\00:51:42.08
by every human
being in all of history.
00:51:42.56\00:51:44.86
Every rape, every
active child abuse,
00:51:45.69\00:51:48.76
every murder, every
lie, every malicious
00:51:48.77\00:51:51.45
thought, every
jealousy, every backbiting
00:51:51.46\00:51:54.51
gossiping tongue, every war,
00:51:54.52\00:51:58.08
every holocaust, Jesus
bore the iniquity of us
00:51:58.09\00:52:06.02
all as He entered Gethsemane and
00:52:07.11\00:52:11.92
trudged forward to the cross.
00:52:11.93\00:52:13.65
Now dear friends,
they're in the garden
00:52:14.58\00:52:17.92
as He begins to
bear your sin and mine.
00:52:18.66\00:52:21.55
The Bible says in
verse 39 He went a
00:52:22.94\00:52:25.74
little farther from
the disciples where they
00:52:25.75\00:52:28.15
were and fell on His
face, praying, "Father,
00:52:28.16\00:52:36.54
if it is possible let
this cup pass from Me,
00:52:37.78\00:52:42.22
nevertheless, not as I
will, but as You will".
00:52:42.23\00:52:44.92
What is this
struggle what is this internal
00:52:46.26\00:52:48.13
agony he's
experiencing, what is this cup?
00:52:48.14\00:52:51.77
It's obviously not a
literal cup with literal
00:52:52.20\00:52:54.79
beverage of some kind in it,
00:52:54.80\00:52:56.19
it's a metaphor and
it's mentioned one other
00:52:56.36\00:53:00.84
place in scripture that
is highly significant in
00:53:00.85\00:53:03.89
this context and
none other than the third
00:53:03.90\00:53:07.68
angels message,
where scripture says
00:53:08.28\00:53:12.43
in Revelation 14
tha those who worship
00:53:12.44\00:53:15.86
the beast in his
image shall drink of the cup
00:53:15.87\00:53:20.65
of the wine of the
wrath of God which is
00:53:21.36\00:53:24.50
poured out without
mixture in parentheses mercy,
00:53:24.51\00:53:30.42
no mercy. The cup
Jesus that Jesus is
00:53:30.43\00:53:35.74
trembling to drink
here is the cup of the
00:53:35.75\00:53:39.02
wrath of God against
sin. He's experiencing the
00:53:39.03\00:53:43.84
totality of the
sin problem in Himself
00:53:43.85\00:53:47.65
and the massive
gap between a Holy God
00:53:48.06\00:53:52.23
and fallen sinful
humanity. He feels it to the
00:53:52.24\00:53:56.58
depths of His
being and He begins
00:53:56.59\00:53:58.91
according to Psalm
88 to be enveloped in a
00:53:58.92\00:54:03.35
darkness that is
so impenetrable in his
00:54:03.36\00:54:07.55
mind that Jesus in
Psalm 88 and verse 8
00:54:07.56\00:54:11.57
portrayed there in
this messianic prophesy
00:54:12.05\00:54:14.25
Jesus cries out in
His soul on the cross,
00:54:14.61\00:54:18.20
I'm shut up and I
cannot come forth.
00:54:18.21\00:54:21.64
That is to say,
Jesus could not for a
00:54:22.93\00:54:25.86
sustained period of
time He could not see
00:54:25.87\00:54:28.26
through the portals of the tomb.
00:54:28.27\00:54:29.60
Bright hope did
not present to Him,
00:54:30.03\00:54:31.54
His coming forth
from the grave as a
00:54:31.55\00:54:32.89
conqueror or the
restoration of His
00:54:32.90\00:54:35.32
Father's approving
smile. There was a sustained
00:54:35.33\00:54:37.89
period of time
when Jesus could not see
00:54:37.90\00:54:43.50
life for Himself
beyond the grave.
00:54:44.00\00:54:47.51
And yet He told to
Peter, no one takes
00:54:48.99\00:54:54.55
my life from Me,
if I wanted to Peter,
00:54:54.56\00:54:56.77
I can call and the
Father would send 12
00:54:56.78\00:54:59.65
12 legions of angels
to deliver me in verse 53.
00:54:59.66\00:55:02.49
Jesus' back was
not against the law,
00:55:04.03\00:55:06.28
His love held Him there
to the cross as he cried
00:55:07.20\00:55:10.01
out my God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?
00:55:10.02\00:55:13.71
And what kind of love was it?
00:55:15.85\00:55:17.19
Well it wasn't a
silly light hearted
00:55:17.96\00:55:19.88
sentimentalism,
I'll tell you that.
00:55:19.89\00:55:21.51
It was a love according
to scripture that is the
00:55:22.20\00:55:26.38
most powerful
principle in the Universe, the
00:55:26.39\00:55:29.61
very core of
the divine identity.
00:55:29.62\00:55:31.79
God's character as
a whole according to
00:55:32.53\00:55:35.69
the scripture is
love, God is love and Jesus
00:55:35.70\00:55:40.04
proved at the cross
that He literally loves
00:55:40.05\00:55:42.98
you and me more
than his own eternal
00:55:42.99\00:55:45.58
existence, have never
called for deliverance
00:55:45.59\00:55:50.06
but followed
straight through the entire
00:55:50.42\00:55:52.71
course of the gamut
of guilt and suffering,
00:55:53.09\00:55:57.25
for what purpose
again? For the joy of
00:55:58.73\00:56:03.88
restoring you and me
to eternal fellowship
00:56:03.89\00:56:08.08
with himself and
with every gasp of air as
00:56:08.69\00:56:12.37
He hung on the
cross that hope came
00:56:12.38\00:56:17.45
vividly before His
mind again and again
00:56:17.46\00:56:20.28
and the memory
trigger fired and there
00:56:23.16\00:56:25.65
was Mary upon His
heart, somebody gets it,
00:56:25.66\00:56:30.33
somebody knows, somebody has
00:56:30.75\00:56:33.17
experienced my love
and has reproduced in
00:56:33.18\00:56:35.75
her life and there
will be others Jesus knew,
00:56:36.40\00:56:41.54
there would be
others who would get it and
00:56:42.39\00:56:45.92
who would experience
it, he knew and then on
00:56:45.93\00:56:49.61
resurrection morning
because after all she
00:56:49.62\00:56:51.63
did anoint Hi
body for the burial.
00:56:51.64\00:56:54.37
you imagine the
first few seconds of his
00:56:55.59\00:56:57.63
consciousness because
what's the first thing
00:56:57.64\00:56:59.70
you do even though you've never
00:56:59.71\00:57:01.14
experienced it when
you are resurrected,
00:57:01.15\00:57:03.13
when you come back
to life what's the first
00:57:03.45\00:57:04.75
thing you do? You breathe,
00:57:04.76\00:57:08.06
praise the Lord.
Jesus opened His eyes
00:57:10.06\00:57:13.55
and took his
first breath and the
00:57:13.56\00:57:16.56
fragrant oil
reminded Him again of Mary's
00:57:16.57\00:57:22.08
love and
potentially your love and mine
00:57:22.09\00:57:28.00
all eternity
future. Dear Father God, we
00:57:28.01\00:57:32.21
so love you for who
you are thank you for
00:57:32.22\00:57:35.71
your mercy, save
us dear God by your
00:57:35.72\00:57:39.31
grace and
reproduce in us the same love
00:57:39.32\00:57:45.91
that we see represented in Mary.
00:57:46.53\00:57:48.68
And it is in Jesus
name we pray, amen.
00:57:50.06\00:57:55.08