And we're back.
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Thank you for joining us in this
program "Books of the Book."
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Dr. Shepherd, you were talking
about Isaiah Chapter 53. Yeah.
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Is there any special meaning
to this chapter in Isaiah?
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Yeah, Well, Isaiah Chapter 53,
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it's the servant of
the Lord's suffering,
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the very famous passage
that the New Testament takes
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and applies to the
sufferings of Jesus.
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Now what we want to
notice here is what happens
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in these verses
in 2 Peter Chapter 2.
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I want to point out just
one interesting thing about
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verse 21 before
we go on too much.
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And that is the
beautiful alliteration.
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Read it in
English for us, verse 21.
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"For to this you were called,
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because Christ
also suffered for us,
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leaving us an example, that
you should follow His steps."
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Ah, okay, "suffered for us,"
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because my Greek version
here it says "Suffered for you,"
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leaving you an example.
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There's a text of variant,
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but probably the more
original is "Suffered for you."
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And it gets kind of molded
and changed a bit over time.
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But what I wanted
to show you was that,
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there are five words
in a row that all start
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with the same letter in
Greek, in the text here.
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It reads like this.
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First, it's the "Apothen"
that's Christ suffered, okay.
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"Christon
apothen" Christ suffered.
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And then he says
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So it's for you, to
you leaving an example.
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And it's all these
words beginning with
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the Greek letter upsilon.
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He just has this
beautiful way of writing
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where he strings words
together sometimes like that,
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you know, and has a great, great
facility for a good writing.
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But now we come to the
interesting use of Isaiah 53.
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All right, read verse 22.
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"Who committed no sin nor
was deceit found in his mouth."
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This is a quotation
from Isaiah 53:9, okay.
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Now read verse 23 and 24.
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"Who, when He was reviled,
did not revile in return,
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when He suffered,
He did not threaten,
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but committed Himself to
Him who judges righteously.
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Who Himself bore our sins
in His own body on the tree,
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that we, having died to sins,
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might live for righteousness by
whose stripes you were healed."
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Yeah, now so in verse 24,
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we have a quote from
Isaiah 53:4 and Isaiah 53:5.
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Now read verse 25.
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"For you were like
sheep going astray,
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but now have
returned to the Shepherd
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and Overseer of your souls."
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All right, and that's
a quote from Isaiah 53:6.
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Now I don't know if
you notice the pattern
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that we were following.
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Did he follow
Isaiah 53 in order?
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Uh, don't seem. Don't
seem to be. He doesn't.
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He first quotes
from a later verse
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then he goes back to
earlier verses, okay.
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And that's kind of interesting.
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It may strike us
as a little bit odd.
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Why doesn't he quote Isaiah 53
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in the same
order as Isaiah 53 is?
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Well, there's a good reason.
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And the reason is,
he's actually following
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the path of Jesus to the cross.
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He doesn't quote Isaiah
53 in the order of Isaiah 53.
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He orders Isaiah 53,
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in accordance with
the story of Jesus,
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with His suffering,
with His being beaten,
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with His carrying His cross,
with His going to Golgotha,
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with His dying on
the cross there for us
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to save us from our sins, okay.
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So he reorders Isaiah 53
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because he's creating
this beautiful meditation,
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on the meaning of
the death of Jesus.
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And that meaning seems to have
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kind of a twofold
pattern to it, all right.
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If we want to express
this, the first is the,
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first, that he
describes as the example
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and the second he
describes is the sacrifice.
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The example and
the sacrifice, okay.
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So the example is
found in verses 20.
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Well, starting in verse 21,
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but then going
through verse 22 and 23,
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where he says that firstly,
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over all thing Christ
suffered for you, right?
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Leaving you an example so that
you may follow in His steps.
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Then in verse 22,
he describes 22 and 23.
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He describes four
things that Christ did not do.
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What are those four things?
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No sin. He did
no sin. No reviling.
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Yeah, well. Yeah,
no reviling is there--
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No guile. No
guile. That's deceit.
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No revealing,
reviling, and no threatening.
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No threatening. Yeah.
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And so he does no
sin, he has no guile.
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He has no
reviling, and no threatening.
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No sin, in a
sense you could say,
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"It's like a
summary of His life."
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He was spotless lamb, right?
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His life was a life of
holiness, a life of goodness.
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And there is no
deceit found in His mouth.
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Somebody says, "Well, why
mention that in his trial?
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Well, what do
they do at His trial?
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False witnesses, wasn't that?
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And they try to,
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you know, portray Him
as somebody that He wasn't.
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Then He fearlessly portrays
Himself that He is the Messiah.
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They ask Him,
"Are you the Messiah?"
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He says, "Yes. I'm the Messiah."
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And you will see
the Son of man sitting
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at the right hand of power.
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They say, we've heard it
ourselves let's kill Him,
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you know, let's
send Him to the cross.
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And so He has no guile, no sin
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and then there is
no reviling, you know.
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He doesn't revile in
return and He doesn't threaten.
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There is an ongoing
kind of pattern about this.
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You know, he kept on.
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In my translation, the ESV,
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I think expresses some
of that picture it says,
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"When He was reviled, He
did not revile in return,
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when He suffered,
He did not threaten,
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but entrusted Himself to
Him who judges justly, okay.
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So there's fourth
things He didn't do.
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And then there's
two things that He did.
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So what are the
two things He did?
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As you said He
entrusted Himself to God.
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My version says committed
Himself to Him, to God.
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And what would be the other one?
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Well, then the other
one is in the last verses
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where He bore our sins.
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Okay, so He
entrusted Himself to God.
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Now the word entrust here
is a very interesting word.
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The Greek word is paradidomi.
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And it actually
has three meanings.
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Its basic meaning was to
handover, you need to handover.
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But it was used in
three different ways.
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It would be used to pass
on tradition to somebody.
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Paul uses it in 1
Corinthians 15 that way.
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I'm handing onto you,
the message that I received.
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Passing on the traditions.
It also means to entrust.
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If I went to the bank
and I entrusted the bankers
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with my money, you see.
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I entrust them with it.
But it also meant to betray.
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Now it's a little hard
for people to understand
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how the same word could
mean entrust and betray.
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But it has its basic
meaning of handing over.
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So now you're handing somebody
over to their enemies, okay.
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Now betrayal, we know
when we think of Jesus
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and betrayal,
what do we think of?
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Judas. We think of Judas.
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And what did he do in
the garden of Gethsemane?
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He handed Him over
to the authorities.
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And how did he do that?
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With a kiss. With a kiss.
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That's very interesting
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that Judas
betrayed Jesus with a kiss.
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You know, you'd
think that if he had joined
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the enemies of Jesus and,
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you know, just gonna
do the betrayal thing.
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He'd say, "There He is,
that's the man right there."
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He'd come up, "Come
on, put the stuff on Him,
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you know, tie His hands.
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You know, this is
the man. Take Him away.
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He did say though
that the man I kiss that,
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you know, that's
the one, didn't he?
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That's right. That's right.
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And you read the gospel
story. Kind of like a sign.
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A sign, right? He
comes up and he kisses Jesus.
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And Jesus says something to him.
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"Judas, do you betray
the Son of Man with a kiss."
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The kiss was the
sign of friendship.
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And he was using
the sign of friendship
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to hand Jesus
over to His enemies.
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Oh, that's why
nobody calls their son Judas
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because, you know, I
mean he betrayed the greatest.
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This was an evil name
that goes down through history.
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Betraying Jesus, okay.
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The problem is,
here's the interesting thing.
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Peter uses the same
word here in 1 Peter 2.
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But it's not Judas
this time, it's Jesus.
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Now what Jesus did was
to hand Himself over to God.
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He entrusted Himself to God.
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So there were
really two handing over's
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that took place in
the garden of Gethsemane.
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The first one
happened with Jesus
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on His knees, on the ground.
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When He said, "Father not
My will, but Your's be done."
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That was the first handing over.
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And when Judas came to
betray Him to His enemies,
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he had no power over Jesus
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because Jesus had already handed
His life over to His Father.
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So the enemies could
do whatever they wanted
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and Jesus was safe.
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Now here is the secret.
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You see people look at
this, in example of Jesus,
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they read these words and
say, "How could He do this?
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How--they're hitting
Him, they're crucifying Him,
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they're spitting on
Him? Why doesn't He respond?"
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Because He
entrusted Himself to God,
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that's the secret of
the example of Jesus.
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He entrusted Himself to God.
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If you and I
entrust ourselves to God
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in the midst of suffering,
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in the midst of
being mistreated,
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our life is in the hands of God.
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We are no longer in the
hands of these people, okay.
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Now let me say a
few words about abuse.
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I must speak about abuse.
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'Cause some people
misunderstand this passage
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and misinterpret it.
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If you are in an
abusive situation
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and you can get out of it.
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Get out of it. That's
the duty that you have.
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You are not a doormat.
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If you can get
out of that situation,
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get out, if you're being abused.
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You can also resist evil.
You can call it what it is.
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But here's a message
for those who are abused,
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who cannot get out.
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I'm not talking about
people who don't report
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or something like that.
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I'm talking about, where you're
definitely trapped physically
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and there's no way out, okay.
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If you are
silent under your abuse,
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it does not make you bad.
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If you are silent under
abuse, it is not make you bad.
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That's an important
message to those who are abused
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because they often
think of themselves
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as bad in some ways.
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Well, Dr. Shepherd,
why is it that in verse 24,
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does Peter shift to
talking about our sins?
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Yeah, I know.
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We don't have much time
to talk about this right now.
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But he talks about
Christ being the sin bearer.
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It's interesting
because he talked about us
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following the
example of Jesus before.
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And now he suddenly
turns to talk about us
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as the bad people, you know.
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Here's the key
to this whole thing.
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He talks about
dying to sin, right.
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And what happens is when
you let Jesus bare your sins,
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it makes it possible for
you to follow His example, okay.
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There are three of our problems
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that are answered by
Christ in this passage.
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He bore our sins on the
tree, that's the first one.
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We were sick and we
are healed by His wound.
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And then we were
like sheep going astray,
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and He's brought us,
we've been brought back
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to the shepherd and
the guardian of our souls.
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Here's this
beautiful illustration
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of our deepest problems,
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being solved by
the death of Jesus.
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So that we can follow the
wonderful example of Jesus,
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that He left us.
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That we can actually bear up,
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under these terrible things
that people will do sometimes,
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to those who follow the Master.
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Well, Dr. Shepherd, I
too, would like to follow
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the example of Jesus.
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And that way my surrounding
neighbors and friends
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could see that
indeed, Jesus lives in me.
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And I invite you too friend,
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that if you want Jesus
to dwell in your heart,
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just call upon His name.
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And God would
give you His strength
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so that you too
can live a godly life.
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We want to thank Dr.
Shepherd till next time.
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