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>>HELLO FRIENDS, AND WELCOME
TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE
JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR
THIS IN-DEPTH BIBLE STUDY.
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I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME OUR
MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH. THANK YOU
FOR COMING OUT THIS
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BEAUTIFUL SABBATH MORNING
AND STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER.
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FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS WE HAVE
BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY DEALING
WITH THE GOSPEL OF LUKE.
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN
THE FINAL LESSON ON THE SERIES -
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LESSON #13 - ENTITLED
CRUCIFIED AND RISEN .
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES
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IT'S AN AMAZING
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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THIS MORNING, WE WOULD LIKE TO
INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME
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OUT AND JOIN ME AND WE'RE GOING
TO BEGIN WITH PRAISE FOR GOD'S
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GOODNESS TO US. THANK YOU.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
AS WE ALWAYS DO BEFORE EACH OF
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OUR STUDIES TOGETHER,
WE LIKE TO SING TOGETHER.
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SO I INVITE YOU TO TURN IN YOUR
HYMNALS ON PAGE 166 - HYMN #166
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- CHRIST THE
LORD IS RISEN TODAY .
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WE ARE GOING TO SING THE FIRST,
THE SECOND, AND THE LAST VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>CHRIST THE LORD IS
RIS'N TODAY, ALLELUIA!
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SONS OF MEN AND
ANGELS SAY, ALLELUIA!
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RAISE YOUR JOYS AND
TRIUMPHS HIGH, ALLELUIA!
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SING, YE HEAV'NS, AND
EARTH, REPLY, ALLELUIA!
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LIVES AGAIN OUR
GLORIOUS KING, ALLELUIA!
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WHERE, O DEATH, IS
NOW THY STING? ALLELUIA!
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ONCE HE DIED OUR
SOULS TO SAVE, ALLELUIA!
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WHERE'S THY VICTORY,
BOASTING GRAVE? ALLELUIA!
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SOAR WE THEN WHERE
CHRIST HAS LED ALLELUIA!
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FOLLOWING OUR
EXALTED HEAD, ALLELUIA!
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MADE LIKE HIM, LIKE
HIM WE RISE, ALLELUIA!
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OURS THE CROSS, THE
GRAVE, THE SKIES, ALLELUIA!
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>>YOU KNOW THAT IS THE
CULMINATION OF THE REDEMPTION
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STORY THAT CHRIST DIED AND ROSE
AGAIN AND THAT WAY, SINCE HE
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ROSE AGAIN AND HE GIVES US LIFE
AND HE WANTS TO IMPART THAT LIFE
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TO US RIGHT NOW, WE CAN
EXPERIENCE HIM EVEN BEFORE HE
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GETS HERE. WHAT A
PRIVILEGE THAT IS.
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LET'S TURN TO HYMN #171 -
THINE IS THE GLORY -
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WE'LL SING ALL
THREE VERSES - HYMN #171.
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(MUSIC)
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>> THINE IS THE GLORY,
RISEN, CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS
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IS THE VICTORY THOU
O'ER DEATH HAST WON!
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ANGELS IN BRIGHT RAIMENT ROLLED
THE STONE AWAY, KEPT THE FOLDED
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GRAVE-CLOTHES
WHERE THY BODY LAY.
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THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN,
CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS IS THE
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VICTORY THOU
O'ER DEATH HAST WON!
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LO, JESUS MEETS
THEE, RISEN FROM THE TOMB!
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LOVINGLY HE GREETS THEE,
SCATTERS FEAR AND GLOOM; LET HIS
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CHURCH WITH GLADNESS, HYMNS OF
TRIUMPH SING, FOR THE LORD NOW
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LIVETH; DEATH
HATH LOST ITS STING!
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THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN,
CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS IS THE
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VICTORY THOU
O'ER DEATH HAST WON!
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NO MORE WE DOUBT THEE, GLORIOUS
PRINCE OF LIFE; LIFE IS NAUGHT
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WITHOUT THEE; AID US IN
OUR STRIFE; MAKE US MORE THAN
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CONQUERORS, THROUGH THY
DEATHLESS LOVE; BRING US SAFE
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THROUGH JORDAN
TO THY HOME ABOVE.
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THINE IS THE GLORY, RISEN,
CONQUERING SON; ENDLESS IS THE
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VICTORY THOU
O'ER DEATH HAST WON!
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>>AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS WILL
HAVE PRAYER AND WE WILL GET INTO
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OUR STUDY.
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>>I INVITE YOU JUST TO BOW YOUR
HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU,
ONCE AGAIN, THAT WE HAVE THIS
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OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER
TOGETHER AND STUDY THE BIBLE.
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AND TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT THE RESURRECTION
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OF OUR LORD -
JUST A WONDERFUL THEME.
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WHAT HOPE WE FIND IN THE
SCRIPTURES FOR A PROMISED
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RESURRECTION WHEN
JESUS COMES THE SECOND TIME.
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FATHER, WE ASK FOR THE HOLY
SPIRIT NOW TO GUIDE OUR HEARTS
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AND OUR MINDS, FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. I
WANT TO WELCOME, AGAIN, THOSE
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WHO ARE A PART OF THE EXTENDED
FAMILY STUDYING THE SABBATH
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SCHOOL LESSON WITH US
FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN A MOMENT WE'LL GET TO OUR
LESSON, BUT YOU KNOW, TODAY'S
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LESSON - #13 - IS THE LAST
IN THIS QUARTER'S STUDY AND I'M
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EXCITED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT FOR
THE NEXT 13 WEEKS, STARTING NEXT
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WEEK - AT LEAST IN OUR
CLASS HERE - WE'RE GOING TO
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BE STUDYING
BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES.
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AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING,
WHAT WE DO HERE AT THE GRANITE
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BAY CHURCH IS WE STUDY THE
LESSON THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE SO
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THOSE WHO ARE STREAMING IT
RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE
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WATCHING A LESSON THAT REALLY
WILL NOT BE STUDIED BY THE
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WORLDWIDE CHURCH
FOR ANOTHER THREE WEEKS.
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THIS GIVES US TIME TO EDIT.
WE ALSO NEED TO CLOSED CAPTION
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THE LESSON SO THAT IT IS
PREPARED FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE
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READING THE SUBTITLES/CLOSED
CAPTIONING ON THE SCREEN, AND
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GET IT OUT TO
THE VARIOUS NETWORKS.
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AND SO, THAT'S PART
OF THE REASON FOR THAT.
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BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
STUDYING BIBLICAL MISSIONARIES.
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ALRIGHT, WITH THAT WE'RE
GOING TO GET INTO OUR LESSON.
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I'VE ENJOYED THE STUDY ON LUKE
AND TODAY'S LESSON #13 - HE
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IS RISEN -
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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I ALWAYS ENJOY IF YOU CAN SAY
IT WITH ME - A SHORT ONE - IT'S
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FROM LUKE 24:7 -
LUKE 24:7 - ARE YOU READY?
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"THE SON OF MAN MUST BE
DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF
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SINFUL MEN AND BE CRUCIFIED
AND THE THIRD DAY RISE AGAIN."
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NOW THAT WAS FORETOLD BY
JESUS MANY TIMES AND SO WHEN IT
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HAPPENED, IT WAS AMAZING
THAT THE DISCIPLES HAD FORGOTTEN
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BECAUSE, IN FACT, THE ENEMIES OF
JESUS REMEMBERED THAT AND THEY
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WENT TO PILATE. SO TO
BEGIN OUR FIRST SECTION,
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FOR SUNDAY'S LESSON, WE'RE
GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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GETHSEMANE. GETHSEMANE.
NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME OF
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YOU MAYBE HELP US
READ A FEW VERSES.
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I'LL GET SOMEONE
SET UP REAL QUICK.
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WHO HAS JOHN 18:1 AND 2? OKAY?
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WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A MOMENT.
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AND I'D LIKE TO START BY READING
FROM LUKE 22 - LUKE 22, VERSES
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39 TO 46, "COMING OUT, HE WENT
TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AS HE
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WAS ACCUSTOMED, AND HIS
DISCIPLES ALSO FOLLOWED HIM."
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- THIS WAS COMING FROM THE LAST
SUPPER - "WHEN HE CAME TO THE
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PLACE, HE SAID TO THEM, 'PRAY
THAT YOU MAY NOT ENTER INTO
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TEMPTATION.' AND HE WAS
WITHDRAWN FROM THEM ABOUT A
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STONE'S THROW, AND HE KNELT DOWN
AND PRAYED, SAYING, 'FATHER, IF
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IT IS YOUR WILL, TAKE THIS CUP
AWAY FROM ME; NEVERTHELESS NOT
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MY WILL, BUT YOURS, BE
DONE.' THEN AN ANGEL APPEARED TO
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HIM FROM HEAVEN,
STRENGTHENING HIM.
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AND BEING IN AGONY,
HE PRAYED MORE EARNESTLY.
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THEN HIS SWEAT BECAME LIKE GREAT
DROPS OF BLOOD FALLING DOWN TO
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THE GROUND. WHEN HE
ROSE UP FROM PRAYER, AND
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HAD COME TO HIS DISCIPLES, HE
FOUND THEM SLEEPING FROM SORROW.
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THEN HE SAID TO
THEM, 'WHY DO YOU SLEEP?
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RISE AND PRAY, LEST YOU
ENTER INTO TEMPTATION.'" NOW YOU
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NOTICE HE SAYS THAT TWICE?
YOU CAN SEE IN VERSE 40, "PRAY
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THAT YOU MAY NOT
ENTER INTO TEMPTATION."
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AND THEN HE SAYS AGAIN, IN
VERSE 46, "WHY DO YOU SLEEP?
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RISE AND PRAY, LEST
YOU ENTER INTO TEMPTATION."
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SO ONE THING WE LEARNED FROM
THIS STUDY ON GETHSEMANE - WHAT
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IS SOMETHING PRACTICAL WE CAN DO
TO AVOID THE TYPICAL TEMPTATIONS
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THAT COME? PRAY.
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AND THAT MIGHT MEAN PRAYING -
GETTING UP A LITTLE EARLIER WHEN
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YOU MAY BE SLEEPY AND
DEDICATING TIME TO PRAY.
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IT REALLY DOES GIVE
YOU SPIRITUAL FORTITUDE.
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AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT
PHYSIOLOGICALLY, BUT THE LORD
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CAN SOMEHOW COMPENSATE AND THAT
EXTRA 15 MINUTES OF SLEEP THAT
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YOU MAY HAVE LOST, YOU CAN GET
NEW ENERGY THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF
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GOD, THAT WILL SUSTAIN
YOU. YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WAS
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WITNESSING TO THE WOMAN AT THE
WELL, HE HADN'T EATEN ALL DAY.
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HE HAD LOW BLOOD SUGAR AND THE
DISCIPLES SAID, 'OH LORD, QUICK
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- EAT!' HE SAID,
'I'VE GOT FOOD YOU
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DON'T EVEN KNOW
ABOUT.' HE HAD BEEN REFRESHED.
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HE HAD BEEN INVIGORATED BY
BEING ABLE TO SHARE HIS FAITH.
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PRAYER CAN DO
THAT FOR YOU AS WELL.
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AND JESUS WAS JUST AS TIRED
AS THEY WERE, IF NOT MORE TIRED,
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BUT HE KNEW HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS
TO PRAY THAT HE WAS COMPLETELY
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SURRENDERED AND
CONNECTED TO GOD.
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WHAT HAPPENED THERE IN THE
GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE REALLY
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REPRESENTS THE SUPREME
BATTLE THAT ANYBODY COULD FIGHT.
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NOW, BEFORE WE SAY MORE ABOUT
THAT, I FORGOT, WE HAVE A VERSE
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WE WANT TO READ FROM JOHN.
SO WHY DON'T WE DO THAT NEXT?
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JOHN - WHAT IS IT?
18:1 AND 2? GO AHEAD.
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>>"WHEN JESUS HAD SPOKEN THESE
WORDS, HE WENT OUT WITH HIS
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DISCIPLES OVER THE BROOK KIDRON,
WHERE THERE WAS A GARDEN,
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WHICH HE AND HIS
DISCIPLES ENTERED.
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AND JUDAS, WHO BETRAYED HIM,
ALSO KNEW THE PLACE; FOR JESUS
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OFTEN MET THERE
WITH HIS DISCIPLES."
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>>ALRIGHT, JOHN GIVES
US A LOT OF OTHER INSIGHTS
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IN ADDITION TO LUKE.
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FOR ONE THING, THEY CAME FROM
THE LAST SUPPER IN JERUSALEM.
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THEY WENT DOWN
TOWARD THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
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THEY HAD TO GO
ACROSS THE KIDRON.
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NOW THAT'S SIGNIFICANT FOR
PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS
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HAPPENING THAT WEEK.
THEY WERE HAVING THE PASSOVER.
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WHERE DID THE BLOOD GO
FROM THE TEMPLE FROM THOSE?
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JOSEPHUS TELLS US THAT DURING
THE PASSOVER WEEK THERE COULD BE
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AS MANY AS 250,000 LAMBS
SACRIFICED IN THE TEMPLE.
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THERE WAS A VIRTUAL RIVER OF
BLOOD THAT WAS FLOWING FROM THE
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TEMPLE. NOW IF ANY
OF YOU - HAVE ANY OF
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YOU BEEN TO ISRAEL? DID
YOU GO TO THE DOME OF THE
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ROCK? YOU KNOW
HOW THERE'S THAT BIG
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HOLE INSIDE THE
DOME OF THE ROCK?
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THAT IS A CAVE - IT IS A PIPE
THAT GOES FROM WHERE THE ALTAR
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OF WHERE THE TEMPLE USED TO
BE, DOWN TO THE KIDRON VALLEY.
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THEY USED TO RUN THE BLOOD AWAY
FROM THE TEMPLE INTO THE KIDRON
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- IT WOULD EVENTUALLY WASH
DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA FROM THERE.
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MEANING THAT, DURING THAT
PASSOVER WEEK, WHEN JESUS WENT
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ACROSS THE KIDRON - DURING THE
PASSOVER, CROSSING THE KIDRON
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MEANT 'CROSSING THE BLOOD.'
AND THAT WAS A REAL PASSOVER FOR
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JESUS. AND JUST
SOMETHING LIKE WHEN THE
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CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH
THE RED SEA, JESUS WENT ACROSS
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THE KIDRON THERE. AND IT
ALSO TELLS US THAT IT WAS
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A PLACE JUDAS WAS AWARE OF.
IT WASN'T THE FIRST TIME HE HAD
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GONE THERE. HE OFTEN
WENT THERE TO BE ALONE.
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HE COULD HAVE, MAYBE
STAYED IN ONE OF MANY HOMES.
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SOMEONE WOULD HAVE DONATED
AN UPPER ROOM FOR HIM TO STAY.
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JESUS LIKED JUST BEING OUT IN
NATURE SLEEPING UNDER THE TREES
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SOMETIMES. IT WAS SPRING.
AND SO HE WENT THERE TO PRAY.
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NOW THE NAME FOR GETHSEMANE,
IT MEANS 'OIL PRESS' OR 'PLACE
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WHERE GRAPES - OLIVES - ARE
CRUSHED' AND SO JESUS ACTUALLY
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WENT THROUGH A CRUSHING THERE.
IT WAS A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION -
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TO THE POINT WHERE HE
ACTUALLY PERSPIRED BLOOD.
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AND I COULD BE MISTAKEN, BUT
I THINK LUKE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO
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MENTIONS THAT
AND, BEING A PHYSICIAN,
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THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE.
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BUT I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME
OF THE CONDITION - THERE IS A
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MEDICAL TERM FOR A CONDITION
- WHERE A PERSON IS EXPERIENCING
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SO MUCH INTERNAL STRESS THAT
THEIR CAPILLARIES CAN ACTUALLY
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BREAK AND THEY CAN
APPEAR TO PERSPIRE BLOOD.
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AND SO JESUS, THE STRESS THAT
HE WENT THROUGH THERE IN THE
00:15:48.74\00:15:52.01
GARDEN, IS
INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO YOU AND ME.
00:15:52.05\00:15:54.62
AND SO THERE HE IS, IN THAT
GARDEN PRESS, AND HE'S BEING
00:15:54.65\00:15:58.99
CRUSHED - SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S
INTERESTING, ONE OF THE TITLES
00:15:59.02\00:16:02.96
FOR JESUS IS NOT ONLY 'THE SON
OF MAN' - HE WAS CALLED THE SON
00:16:02.99\00:16:05.86
OF WHO? THE SON OF GOD -
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>>SON OF DAVID. >>SON OF DAVID.
00:16:09.06\00:16:11.00
DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A STORY
WHERE DAVID LEFT WITH A FEW
00:16:11.03\00:16:15.10
FOLLOWERS FROM JERUSALEM.
HE CROSSED AND HE WENT UP THE
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MOUNT OF OLIVES WEEPING BECAUSE
THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT BEING MADE
00:16:18.54\00:16:22.78
TO DESTROY HIM BY ONE
OF HIS OWN. BY HIS OWN SON.
00:16:22.81\00:16:28.02
HERE, NOW, JESUS, WITH A
FEW FOLLOWERS, LEAVES JERUSALEM,
00:16:28.05\00:16:33.79
CROSSES THE KIDRON, BECAUSE ONE
OF HIS CREATIONS - LUCIFER - IS
00:16:33.82\00:16:37.59
TRYING TO DESTROY HIM. AND
SO JESUS IS ACTUALLY ECHOING
00:16:37.63\00:16:40.96
AN EXPERIENCE THAT DAVID
HAD HAD THAT WAS VERY SIMILAR.
00:16:40.96\00:16:45.60
SO HE GOES TO THIS BATTLE - GOD
SENDS AN ANGEL TO COMFORT HIM.
00:16:45.63\00:16:51.24
I THINK LUKE, ALSO, IS THE ONLY
ONE WHO MENTIONS THIS ANGEL.
00:16:51.27\00:16:53.74
WAS THERE AN ANGEL WHO CAME TO
HELP ELIJAH IN THE WILDERNESS?
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>>AMEN. >>WERE
THERE ANGELS THAT CAME TO
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JESUS AND MINISTERED
TO HIM AFTER HIS 40 DAYS?
00:17:00.32\00:17:05.22
AND HERE YOU HAVE
AN ANGEL IN THE GARDEN.
00:17:05.25\00:17:07.99
I THINK THE ANGEL CAME AFTER HE
PRAYED THE THIRD TIME AND SAID,
00:17:08.02\00:17:12.03
'NOT MY WILL BUT THY WILL BE
DONE.' IN ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS
00:17:12.06\00:17:16.40
WHEN WE ARE STRUGGLING
WITH TEMPTATION, DOES GOD SEND
00:17:16.43\00:17:20.37
ANGELIC HELP FOR
US. THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW.
00:17:20.40\00:17:23.67
BUT WAS IT ONE
PRAYER OR THREE PRAYERS?
00:17:23.71\00:17:26.64
WHAT IS THE HARDEST
PRAYER THAT ANYBODY CAN PRAY?
00:17:26.68\00:17:29.58
IT'S THE PRAYER
THAT JESUS PRAYED.
00:17:29.61\00:17:31.98
'NOT MY WILL, THINE BE DONE.'
NOT MY WILL, THINE BE DONE.
00:17:32.01\00:17:37.62
ISN'T THAT PART
OF THE LORD'S PRAYER?
00:17:37.65\00:17:39.69
'THY WILL BE DONE IN
EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN'?
00:17:39.72\00:17:42.72
OUR BIG BATTLE IS WHO - WHOSE
WILL ARE WE GOING TO SURRENDER
00:17:42.76\00:17:47.10
TO? HIS WILL OR OUR WILL?
00:17:47.13\00:17:49.83
NOW, WHAT WAS JESUS SO
CONCERNED ABOUT IN THE GARDEN?
00:17:49.86\00:17:53.50
WHAT WAS THE
GREATEST BURDEN THAT HE BORE?
00:17:53.54\00:17:55.77
WAS IT THE ANTICIPATION OF
THE TORTURE OF THE CRUCIFIXION?
00:17:55.80\00:18:00.81
OR WAS IT, PERHAPS, HIS DREAD
OF BEING, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
00:18:00.84\00:18:05.65
ETERNITY,
SEPARATED FROM THE FATHER?
00:18:05.68\00:18:08.75
WAS IT THE DREAD THAT HE FACED
THE SECOND DEATH FOR YOU AND ME,
00:18:08.78\00:18:14.29
WHICH IS ETERNAL
SEPARATION FROM GOD?
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AND HE WHO HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED
SIN WAS NOW GOING TO FEEL,
00:18:17.03\00:18:21.80
WEIGHING UPON HIS
SOUL, THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
00:18:21.83\00:18:25.33
THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE
EXPERIENCE WAS THE TURNING
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POINT. MANY TIMES
IN JESUS' LIFE AND
00:18:28.87\00:18:33.27
MINISTRY HE SAID, 'NOW IS NOT
MY HOUR.' YOU REMEMBER WHEN HIS
00:18:33.31\00:18:37.31
MOTHER SAID, 'LET'S
TURN THE WATER INTO WINE'?
00:18:37.35\00:18:39.15
HE SAID, 'MY HOUR IS NOT YET
COME.' AND HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES
00:18:39.18\00:18:41.65
ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS - HIS
BROTHER SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT TO GO
00:18:41.68\00:18:43.99
UP TO THE FEAST.' HE SAID, 'MY
HOUR IS NOT YET COME.' SEVERAL
00:18:44.02\00:18:46.72
TIMES HE SAID THIS
IS NOT MY HOUR YET.
00:18:46.76\00:18:48.72
WHEN HE GOT TO THE GARDEN OF
GETHSEMANE, THREE TIMES HE SAID,
00:18:48.76\00:18:51.09
'NOW IS THE HOUR.' WHEN DID
THE SUFFERINGS OF JESUS BEGIN?
00:18:51.13\00:18:56.36
ONE THE CROSS OR
THURSDAY NIGHT? >>THURSDAY.
00:18:56.40\00:19:01.84
>>THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE
YOU'LL READ IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
00:19:01.87\00:19:04.77
12 AND, OH, I THINK IT'S VERSE
38, JESUS SAID, 'IT'S AN EVIL
00:19:04.81\00:19:08.68
AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION THAT
SEEKS AFTER A SIGN AND NO SIGN
00:19:08.71\00:19:11.45
WILL BE GIVEN BUT
THE SIGN OF JONAH.
00:19:11.48\00:19:14.05
FOR AS JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND
THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE
00:19:14.08\00:19:17.05
FISH, SO THE SON OF MAN WILL BE
THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN
00:19:17.09\00:19:21.12
THE HEART OF THE EARTH.' AND
A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MISTAKENLY
00:19:21.16\00:19:24.33
THOUGHT 'HEART OF THE
EARTH' MEANT THE TOMB.
00:19:24.36\00:19:26.46
'HEART OF THE EARTH'
MEANT THE CLUTCHES OF THE WORLD.
00:19:26.49\00:19:28.53
THE WORD 'HEART' THERE IN GREEK
IS THE WORD CARDIA - WHERE WE
00:19:28.56\00:19:31.47
GET, LIKE, CARDIAC ARREST.
AND THE WORD FOR 'EARTH' THERE
00:19:31.50\00:19:34.00
MEANS 'THE WORLD.' JESUS
SURRENDERED ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
00:19:34.04\00:19:40.14
HE BEGAN TO BEAR THE PENALTY
FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
00:19:40.18\00:19:43.88
THURSDAY NIGHT, FRIDAY NIGHT,
SATURDAY NIGHT - THREE DAYS,
00:19:43.91\00:19:48.52
THREE NIGHTS - HE WAS IN THE
CLUTCHES OF THE ENEMY PAYING FOR
00:19:48.55\00:19:51.02
THE SINS OF THE WORLD.
JUST AS JONAH WAS CAPTURED BY
00:19:51.05\00:19:53.52
THE WHALE, CHRIST WAS
IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL.
00:19:53.56\00:19:56.12
WHEN JUDAS CAME WITH THAT MOB,
CHRIST BEGAN SUFFERING FOR OUR
00:19:56.16\00:19:59.79
SINS. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:19:59.83\00:20:01.86
IT SAYS, 'HEART OF' - 'IN THE
HEART OF THE EARTH.' WHEN YOU
00:20:01.90\00:20:05.17
PRAY 'THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH'
- DOES 'IN EARTH' MEAN THE TOMB?
00:20:05.20\00:20:07.90
NO, IT MEANS IN THE WORLD.
00:20:07.94\00:20:10.57
AND SO THAT - PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN
ASSUMED THAT MEANT THAT HE WOULD
00:20:10.61\00:20:14.34
BE - THIS WAS TALKING ABOUT THE
THIRD DAY HE'D RISE - THREE DAYS
00:20:14.38\00:20:16.58
IN THE TOMB.
IT'S NOT SAYING THAT.
00:20:16.61\00:20:19.68
BY THE WAY, IN LUKE, WHEN HE
TALKS ABOUT THE SIGN OF JONAH,
00:20:19.71\00:20:22.52
HE DOES NOT EVEN MENTION THE
THREE DAYS AND THE THREE NIGHTS.
00:20:22.55\00:20:25.62
AND SO HE SAYS, 'AS JONAH WAS
ASSIGNED TO THE NINEVITES, SO
00:20:25.65\00:20:30.66
THE SON OF MAN WILL BE TO
THIS GENERATION.' HOW IS THERE A
00:20:30.69\00:20:35.46
SIMILARITY BETWEEN JESUS
AND JONAH AND THE NINEVITES?
00:20:35.50\00:20:38.60
STILL TALKING ABOUT THE GARDEN
OF GETHSEMANE - JONAH WENT TO
00:20:38.63\00:20:42.77
NINEVEH - 'NINEVEH WAS AN
EXCEEDING GREAT CITY OF THREE
00:20:42.80\00:20:45.87
DAYS' JOURNEY' - I'M QUOTING
- 'HE ENTERED THE CITY A DAY' -
00:20:45.91\00:20:49.84
THAT MEANS HALF OF A DAY -
THE TWELVE HOURS OF THE DAYLIGHT
00:20:49.88\00:20:53.01
TIME - SO THAT'S THREE AND A
HALF - 'AND THEN HE PREACHED IN
00:20:53.05\00:20:56.42
FORTY DAYS IT
WOULD BE DESTROYED.'
00:20:56.45\00:20:58.39
THAT'S WHAT JONAH DID.
JESUS SAID, 'A GREATER THAN
00:20:58.42\00:21:01.19
JONAH IS HERE.' JESUS MINISTERED
NOT THREE AND A HALF DAYS, BUT
00:21:01.22\00:21:04.23
THREE AND A HALF YEARS AND HE
SAID, 'THIS GENERATION WILL NOT
00:21:04.26\00:21:08.40
PASS AWAY UNTIL ALL THESE THINGS
ARE FULFILLED' - NAMELY NOT ONE
00:21:08.43\00:21:12.27
STONE BEING LEFT UPON
ANOTHER IN THE TEMPLE.
00:21:12.30\00:21:15.14
EXACTLY 40 YEARS AFTER JESUS
MADE THAT PROPHECY, JERUSALEM
00:21:15.17\00:21:18.94
WAS DESTROYED.
JESUS WAS A TYPE OF JONAH.
00:21:18.97\00:21:22.88
THE PEOPLE OF NINEVEH REPENTED
AT THE PREACHING OF JONAH.
00:21:22.91\00:21:26.28
GOD'S PEOPLE DID NOT REPENT
AT THE PREACHING OF JESUS AND SO
00:21:26.31\00:21:29.58
THE JUDGMENT DID COME - NOT
40 DAYS LATER, 40 YEARS LATER.
00:21:29.62\00:21:33.62
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? HE
SAID, 'THAT'S HOW JONAH WOULD
00:21:33.66\00:21:35.42
BE A SIGN TO THIS GEN - AND, OF
COURSE, I MEAN, WHEN YOU ARE IN
00:21:35.46\00:21:37.83
A FISH FOR THREE DAYS AND YOU
COME OUT, IT'S A RESURRECTION.
00:21:37.86\00:21:40.53
AND SO JESUS AND JONAH HAVE
A TYPE OF RESURRECTION - THAT'S
00:21:40.56\00:21:44.07
ANOTHER - DID
JONAH SLEEP IN A BOAT?
00:21:44.10\00:21:46.30
DID JESUS SLEEP IN A BOAT
DURING A STORM? BOTH OF THEM?
00:21:46.33\00:21:49.50
AND SO THERE'S MANY,
MANY PARALLELS THERE.
00:21:49.54\00:21:51.44
ALRIGHT, SO THAT WAS
THE HOUR OF THE SUFFERING.
00:21:51.47\00:21:53.94
AND THEN, AFTER HE PRAYED THE
THIRD TIME HE WENT BACK TO THE
00:21:53.98\00:21:56.85
DISCIPLES. WHAT
THREE DISCIPLES DID HE
00:21:56.88\00:21:59.05
INITIALLY TAKE WITH
HIM? PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN.
00:21:59.08\00:22:02.98
SO YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS GETS
TO THE GARDEN - HE GETS INTO THE
00:22:03.02\00:22:05.55
GARDEN, HE'S GOT ELEVEN APOSTLES
BECAUSE JUDAS LEFT AT THE
00:22:05.59\00:22:09.39
LAST SUPPER. PEOPLE
THOUGHT HE WAS TAKING
00:22:09.42\00:22:11.83
CARE OF PAYING
SOME BILLS OR SOMETHING.
00:22:11.86\00:22:13.73
THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE HE WENT.
00:22:13.76\00:22:14.93
NOBODY SAID - JESUS JUST SAID,
'DO WHAT THOU DOEST QUICKLY.' HE
00:22:14.93\00:22:17.43
GETS TO THE GARDEN WITH
THE ELEVEN AND THEN HE SAYS TO
00:22:17.47\00:22:20.74
PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN,
'COME WITH ME.' HE GOES A LITTLE
00:22:20.77\00:22:23.77
DEEPER INTO THE GARDEN AND
HE SAYS, 'PRAY WITH ME.' SO THEY
00:22:23.81\00:22:26.98
KNELT DOWN AND STARTED PRAYING
WITH HIM, AND HE WENT A LITTLE
00:22:27.01\00:22:29.64
FURTHER AWAY FROM THEM. SO
YOU'VE GOT JESUS OFF HERE AND
00:22:29.68\00:22:33.82
THEN PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN,
AND THEN THE OTHER - WHAT'S LEFT
00:22:33.85\00:22:36.82
AFTER YOU TAKE
THREE FROM ELEVEN?
00:22:36.85\00:22:38.69
>>EIGHT. >>EIGHT,
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:22:38.72\00:22:40.59
AND THEN YOU'VE
GOT THE OTHER EIGHT.
00:22:40.62\00:22:42.72
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW OFTEN
AT CRITICAL TIMES IN CHRISTIAN
00:22:42.76\00:22:46.16
HISTORY, WHEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD
SHOULD BE PRAYING, INSTEAD THEY
00:22:46.19\00:22:50.50
ARE DOING WHAT? SLEEPING.
00:22:50.53\00:22:53.20
WHEN JESUS TALKS ABOUT THE
SECOND COMING AND HE SHARES THE
00:22:53.23\00:22:57.14
PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
- YOU'VE GOT FIVE WISE, FIVE
00:22:57.17\00:23:00.64
FOOLISH - THAT'S 50/50 -
WHAT PERCENT WERE SLEEPING?
00:23:00.68\00:23:03.88
>>HUNDRED PERCENT.
>>A HUNDRED PERCENT.
00:23:03.91\00:23:05.95
AND THAT WOULD PUT YOU
AND I IN WHAT CATEGORY?
00:23:05.98\00:23:09.38
THE SLEEPY CATEGORY.
00:23:09.42\00:23:10.95
WHEN JESUS TAKES PETER, JAMES,
AND JOHN UP ON THE MOUNT OF
00:23:10.99\00:23:15.62
TRANSFIGURATION AND MOSES AND
ELIJAH APPEAR, AND HE'S PRAYING
00:23:15.66\00:23:20.26
THAT THEY'LL HAVE A REVELATION
TO STRENGTHEN THEIR FAITH, WHILE
00:23:20.30\00:23:22.60
HE'S PRAYING, WHAT DO
THEY DO? THEY GO TO SLEEP.
00:23:22.63\00:23:26.50
IT SAYS IN LUKE, 'THEY WERE
HEAVY WITH SLEEP.' SO OFTEN, AT
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.74
THE CRUCIAL TIMES WHEN
GOD'S PEOPLE SHOULD BE PRAYING,
00:23:29.77\00:23:33.17
THEY'RE SLEEPING.
COULD IT BE THAT IN THE LAST
00:23:33.21\00:23:36.14
DAYS, THAT'LL BE A PROBLEM?
DOESN'T JESUS SAY, IN MARK
00:23:36.18\00:23:38.85
CHAPTER 13, SPEAKING OF THE
SECOND COMING, 'WATCH, WATCH,
00:23:38.88\00:23:42.48
WATCH, WATCH, LEST HE
COME AND FIND YOU SLEEPING'?
00:23:42.52\00:23:44.62
SO IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE NOT
ALLOWED TO GO TO SLEEP, WHAT IT
00:23:44.65\00:23:48.99
MEANS IS, SPIRITUALLY, WE SHOULD
BE AWAKE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING AND
00:23:49.02\00:23:51.99
BE ALERT - BE SOBER -
BE VIGILANT THE BIBLE SAYS.
00:23:52.03\00:23:54.66
OKAY, JUDAS. NOW
JUDAS IS NOT A BAD NAME, BUT
00:23:54.73\00:23:59.37
I DON'T KNOW ANYONE WHO
NAMES THEIR CHILDREN JUDAS.
00:23:59.40\00:24:01.70
JUDAS' NAME IS A
DERIVATIVE OF ONE OF THE SIGNS -
00:24:01.74\00:24:06.01
TRIBES OF ISRAEL, JUDAH.
AND THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE
00:24:06.04\00:24:10.18
NAMED JUDAS - MOST OF THEM,
IN THE BIBLE, WERE GOOD - IN THE
00:24:10.21\00:24:13.01
NEW TESTAMENT. IT'S
- IT COMES FROM - IT'S
00:24:13.05\00:24:15.58
WHERE YOU ALSO GET THE
WORD 'JEW' - THERE COULD BE THE
00:24:15.62\00:24:18.29
FEMALE VERSION IS JUDITH AND HE
WAS - IT'S INTERESTING - DIDN'T
00:24:18.32\00:24:25.46
JESUS CHOOSE
JUDAS AS AN APOSTLE?
00:24:25.49\00:24:28.00
CHRIST SAID, 'HAVE I NOT CHOSEN
YOU TWELVE AND ONE IS A DEVIL?'
00:24:28.03\00:24:30.47
WHY WOULD JESUS CHOOSE
A DEVIL TO BE AN APOSTLE?
00:24:30.50\00:24:33.67
EVIDENTLY, HE'S THE ONLY
NON-GALILEAN, AND AS HE BEGAN
00:24:33.70\00:24:37.57
TO SEE THE POWER OF CHRIST, HE
WAS PRESSING CLOSE TO THE OTHER
00:24:37.61\00:24:42.41
DISCIPLES AND THEY KEPT
RECOMMENDING HIM TO JESUS AND
00:24:42.44\00:24:46.58
SO, TO GO ALONG WITH
THEIR RECOMMENDATION -
00:24:46.61\00:24:48.82
THEY SAID, 'OH, HE'S SO BRIGHT.
00:24:48.85\00:24:50.79
HE'S GOT SO MUCH
TALENT. HE'S A GOOD ACCOUNTANT.
00:24:50.82\00:24:52.85
HE CAN BE TRUSTED.' JESUS -
AT THEIR RECOMMENDATION - HE
00:24:52.89\00:24:57.16
INCLUDED JUDAS AS
ONE OF THE TWELVE.
00:24:57.19\00:24:59.69
IT WAS THE LAST ONE THE OTHER
DISCIPLES WOULD HAVE EXPECTED.
00:24:59.73\00:25:03.43
ALL THE GOSPELS, INTERESTINGLY
ENOUGH, WHEN THEY LIST THE
00:25:03.47\00:25:07.87
APOSTLES, WHO DO YOU THINK IS
AT THE END OF THE LIST? JUDAS.
00:25:07.90\00:25:12.67
NOW THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE WHO
IS CALLED 'JUDAS' - OR AT LEAST
00:25:12.71\00:25:16.95
SOME OF THE TIME HIS
NAME IS LISTED AS JUDAS.
00:25:16.98\00:25:19.45
SOME OF THE APOSTLES HAVE TWO
NAMES, LIKE SIMON PETER - CEPHAS
00:25:19.48\00:25:21.68
- PETER'S USUALLY AT THE TOP OF
THE LIST, JUDAS IS AT THE BOTTOM
00:25:21.72\00:25:25.19
OF THE LIST. HE WAS KNOWN
AS ALSO A MISER AND A THIEF.
00:25:25.22\00:25:31.43
PROBABLY - IF YOU READ THE BOOK
DESIRE OF AGES , THERE
00:25:31.46\00:25:35.63
THE AUTHOR SAYS - IN MATTHEW
8:19, "A CERTAIN SCRIBE CAME AND
00:25:35.66\00:25:41.00
SAID TO HIM, 'TEACHER, I WILL
FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.'" -
00:25:41.04\00:25:44.34
SHE SAYS THAT WAS JUDAS - "AND
JESUS SAID TO HIM, 'FOXES HAVE
00:25:44.37\00:25:48.04
HOLES AND BIRDS OF THE AIR HAVE
NESTS, BUT THE SON OF MAN HAS
00:25:48.08\00:25:51.88
NOWHERE TO LAY HIS HEAD.'" - SO
HE WAS SAYING, 'LOOK, IF YOU'RE
00:25:51.91\00:25:55.35
FOLLOWING ME FOR SOME KIND OF
EARTHLY ADVANTAGE OR TREASURE,
00:25:55.38\00:25:58.32
JUST KNOW, FOXES AND BIRDS
HAVE MORE THAN I HAVE ON EARTH.
00:25:58.35\00:26:03.69
IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME BECAUSE
YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
00:26:03.73\00:26:05.99
HOUSES AND LANDS AND WEALTH AND
FAME, YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME FOR
00:26:06.03\00:26:09.40
THE WRONG REASONS.' SO
JESUS TOLD HIM RIGHT UP FRONT.
00:26:09.43\00:26:11.60
BUT IT SAYS, 'A CERTAIN SCRIBE'
- SO JUDAS MAY HAVE BEEN A
00:26:11.63\00:26:15.10
SCRIBE. JOHN 6:64
- AND, NO, SOMEBODY
00:26:15.14\00:26:19.67
HERE HAS GOT JOHN 6,
VERSE 70 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:26:19.71\00:26:22.81
WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:26:22.84\00:26:24.35
IN JOHN 6, VERSE 64, CHRIST
SAID, "'BUT THERE ARE SOME OF
00:26:24.38\00:26:28.25
YOU WHO DO NOT BELIEVE.' FOR
JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING
00:26:28.28\00:26:30.95
WHO THEY WERE WHO DID NOT
BELIEVE, AND WHO WOULD BETRAY
00:26:30.99\00:26:35.16
HIM." I NEED TO
ASK YOU A QUESTION.
00:26:35.19\00:26:37.06
DID GOD LOOK DOWN FROM HEAVEN,
DURING NEW TESTAMENT TIMES, AND
00:26:37.09\00:26:43.37
SAY, 'LOOK, I NEED SOMEBODY TO
BE THE FALL GUY - THAT WOULD BE
00:26:43.40\00:26:47.44
THE BAD GUY - THE HEAVY - THAT
WILL BETRAY MY SON SO THAT THE
00:26:47.47\00:26:51.61
PROPHECIES COULD BE FULFILLED
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I HATE TO DO
00:26:51.64\00:26:55.38
THIS TO ANYBODY BUT, WELL,
I'M GOING TO PICK THIS GUY DOWN
00:26:55.41\00:26:57.95
THERE NAMED 'JUDAS' AND I'M
GOING TO MAKE HIM THE BAD GUY'?
00:26:57.98\00:26:59.88
SO SINCE IT WAS FORETOLD THAT
SOMEONE WOULD BETRAY HIM AND IT
00:26:59.91\00:27:04.72
WOULD BE A CLOSE
FRIEND, DID JUDAS HAVE A CHOICE?
00:27:04.75\00:27:07.12
>>YES. >>YES.
00:27:07.16\00:27:09.36
IT WASN'T THAT GOD MADE JUDAS
THE BAD GUY SO THAT HE COULDN'T
00:27:09.39\00:27:12.23
REPENT. GOD KNEW
WHAT HE WOULD DO - IT
00:27:12.26\00:27:16.03
WAS ENTIRELY AS MUCH JUDAS'
CHOICE TO BETRAY JESUS AS IT WAS
00:27:16.06\00:27:20.04
PETER'S CHOICE TO
DENY HIM BUT LATER REPENT.
00:27:20.07\00:27:24.54
ALL OF THE APOSTLES HAD A
FREE WILL. GOD IS SIMPLY SAYING,
00:27:24.57\00:27:27.78
'I KNOW IN ADVANCE'
WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:27:27.81\00:27:30.85
AND YOU CAN EVEN HEAR
JESUS PLEADING WITH JUDAS.
00:27:30.88\00:27:33.92
HE'S TELLING HIM, AT THE LAST
SUPPER, 'I KNOW ONE OF YOU IS
00:27:33.95\00:27:36.95
GOING TO BETRAY ME.' IT'S ALMOST
LIKE THE LORD IS HOPING THAT
00:27:36.99\00:27:39.29
JESUS WILL THWART - JUDAS WILL
THWART THE PROPHECY AND SAY,
00:27:39.32\00:27:42.76
'NO, I REPENT.' HE WANTED TO
WHEN JESUS WAS WASHING HIS FEET.
00:27:42.79\00:27:45.56
BUT HE HARDENED HIS
HEART. OR MAYBE HE KEPT WAITING.
00:27:45.59\00:27:50.50
OR MAYBE HE THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW,
JESUS IS SO MEEK, I'VE GOT TO
00:27:50.53\00:27:53.50
HELP HIM - I'VE GOT TO HELP HIM
ALONG - PRONOUNCE HIMSELF THE
00:27:53.54\00:27:57.67
SON OF DAVID AND IF I TURN HIM
INTO THE ROMANS, THEN HE'LL HAVE
00:27:57.71\00:28:00.54
TO USE HIS MIRACULOUS
POWER TO DELIVER HIMSELF.
00:28:00.58\00:28:03.01
THEN EVERYBODY WILL KNOW AND
IT WILL TRIGGER THINGS - THIS
00:28:03.04\00:28:05.91
REVOLUTION WE'VE BEEN WAITING
FOR.' HE PROBABLY THOUGHT, 'AND
00:28:05.95\00:28:09.05
THEN I WILL BE SEEN AS THE WISE
ONE WHO TOOK INITIATIVE.' HE WAS
00:28:09.08\00:28:13.82
PROBABLY TELLING THEM ALL THAT,
BUT THE BOTTOM LINE WAS HE COULD
00:28:13.86\00:28:15.99
HAVE BETRAYED HIM FOR
FREE. HE ASKED FOR MONEY.
00:28:16.02\00:28:20.43
AND THEN JOHN GOES ON TO TELL US
HE WAS A THIEF AND HE TOOK WHAT
00:28:20.46\00:28:24.67
WAS IN THEIR MEAGER OFFERING
BAG THAT THE DISCIPLES KEPT.
00:28:24.70\00:28:28.27
AND SO THERE WAS COVETOUSNESS
IN JUDAS' HEART. OH HOW SAD.
00:28:28.30\00:28:36.44
ALRIGHT, READ FOR
US JOHN 6, VERSE 70.
00:28:36.48\00:28:39.15
>>JESUS ANSWERED THEM, 'DID I
NOT CHOOSE YOU, THE TWELVE, AND
00:28:39.18\00:28:43.72
ONE OF YOU IS A DEVIL?"
>>READ THE NEXT VERSE TOO.
00:28:43.75\00:28:46.89
>>HE SPAKE OF JUDAS ISCARIOT,
THE SON OF SIMON, FOR IT WAS HE
00:28:46.92\00:28:49.72
WHO WOULD BETRAY HIM,
BEING ONE OF THE TWELVE."
00:28:49.76\00:28:52.23
>>NOW ONE THING ENCOURAGES
ME ABOUT THE STORY OF JUDAS.
00:28:52.26\00:28:56.43
PEOPLE OFTEN SAY, 'I DON'T WANT
TO GO TO THAT CHURCH BECAUSE
00:28:56.46\00:29:01.07
THERE'S HYPOCRITES THERE.'
OR 'THERE IS SOMEBODY IN THAT
00:29:01.10\00:29:04.34
CHURCH AND THEY
WERE SO UNKIND TO ME.
00:29:04.37\00:29:06.17
IF THAT'S WHAT CHRISTIANS ARE
LIKE' - AND I REMIND PEOPLE IF
00:29:06.21\00:29:08.24
JESUS WAS ALIVE IN THE WORLD
TODAY, WOULD YOU FOLLOW HIM?
00:29:08.28\00:29:11.95
IF HE WALKED THE EARTH TODAY,
WOULD YOU WANT TO FOLLOW HIM?
00:29:11.98\00:29:15.92
WOULD YOU BE PART OF HIS
GROUP IF HE WAS RIGHT THERE.
00:29:15.95\00:29:17.99
IF HE WAS THE PREACHER IN
THE CHURCH, WOULD YOU COME?
00:29:18.02\00:29:19.89
DID JESUS HAVE A
JUDAS WAY BACK THEN?
00:29:19.92\00:29:24.56
AND SO, SHOULD IT SURPRISE US IF
THERE ARE STILL JUDASES IN THE
00:29:24.59\00:29:28.23
CHURCH TODAY? DON'T
BE DISCOURAGED BY THAT.
00:29:28.26\00:29:31.50
GOD HAS NOT CHANGED AND THE
DEVIL HASN'T CHANGED AND THERE
00:29:31.53\00:29:34.84
ARE GOING TO BE COUNTERFEITS.
THE DEVIL'S GOING TO HAVE HIS
00:29:34.87\00:29:37.41
REPRESENTATIVES AND LET'S JUST
MAKE SURE IT'S NOT US, AMEN?
00:29:37.44\00:29:40.34
THAT ALL OF US ARE FAITHFUL.
YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT THE
00:29:40.38\00:29:45.28
ADVANTAGES AND
OPPORTUNITIES THAT JUDAS HAD.
00:29:45.31\00:29:48.08
YOU CAN READ IN
DESIRE OF AGES P. 716,
00:29:48.12\00:29:50.95
"HE (CHRIST) ENDOWED JUDAS
WITH POWER TO HEAL THE SICK, TO
00:29:50.99\00:29:53.99
CAST OUT DEVILS, BUT JUDAS
DID NOT COME TO THE POINT OF
00:29:54.02\00:29:57.26
SURRENDERING
HIMSELF FULLY TO CHRIST.
00:29:57.29\00:29:59.93
HE DID NOT GIVE UP HIS WORLDLY
AMBITION AND LOVE OF MONEY.
00:29:59.96\00:30:03.30
JUST THINK ABOUT
THAT FOR A MINUTE.
00:30:03.33\00:30:05.23
YOU KNOW THE BIBLE
SAYS HE SENT OUT THE TWELVE.
00:30:05.27\00:30:07.40
HE GAVE THEM
POWER OVER DISEASES.
00:30:07.44\00:30:09.47
THEY CAST OUT DEVILS.
THEY WORKED MIRACLES -
00:30:09.50\00:30:12.01
PERFORMED WONDERS. WAS
JUDAS COMPLETELY CONVERTED
00:30:12.04\00:30:15.88
AT THAT POINT? NO.
00:30:15.91\00:30:18.05
CAN GOD GIVE HIS POWER TO PEOPLE
THAT ARE FOLLOWING HIM BUT MAY
00:30:18.08\00:30:21.88
NOT BE
COMPLETELY CONVERTED? YES.
00:30:21.92\00:30:25.45
DID HE GIVE THAT
SAME POWER TO PETER?
00:30:25.49\00:30:28.32
AND AFTER PETER WAS OUT
PREACHING AND TEACHING AND
00:30:28.36\00:30:30.83
CASTING OUT DEVILS AND HE
CAME BACK, JESUS SAID TO PETER,
00:30:30.86\00:30:33.56
'PETER, SATAN HAS DESIRED TO
HAVE YOU THAT HE MIGHT SIFT YOU
00:30:33.60\00:30:36.73
AS WHEAT, BUT I'VE PRAYED
FOR YOU THAT YOUR FAITH DOES NOT
00:30:36.77\00:30:39.57
FAIL AND WHEN YOU ARE CONVERTED,
STRENGTHEN THE BRETHREN."
00:30:39.60\00:30:42.87
EVEN PETER WAS NOT
THOROUGHLY CONVERTED.
00:30:42.90\00:30:45.67
THAT'S WHY HE DENIED JESUS.
00:30:45.71\00:30:47.04
SO, DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU THINK,
'I'M NOT GOING TO WORK FOR THE
00:30:47.08\00:30:50.41
LORD UNTIL I'M
THOROUGHLY CONVERTED.
00:30:50.45\00:30:52.25
DID YOU EVER CONSIDER THAT GOD
COULD EVEN USE YOU WHEN YOU'RE
00:30:52.28\00:30:54.42
NOT TOTALLY
CONVERTED TO WORK MIRACLES?
00:30:54.45\00:30:57.59
- AND DO NOT THINK, BECAUSE
GOD IS WORKING MIRACLES THROUGH
00:30:57.62\00:31:01.49
SOMEBODY, THAT MEANS THAT
THEY'RE INFALLIBLE, RIGHT?
00:31:01.52\00:31:06.96
I SOMETIMES MEET PEOPLE THAT
THEY WENT TO A - SOME DUBIOUS
00:31:07.00\00:31:11.00
HEALING CRUSADE OR SOMETHING AND
THEY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, GOD REALLY
00:31:11.03\00:31:14.44
WORKED A MIRACLE FOR ME AND
I EXPERIENCED HEALING.' OR 'I
00:31:14.47\00:31:16.91
EXPERIENCED CONVERSION AND GAVE
MY HEART TO THE LORD.' AND THEN
00:31:16.94\00:31:18.87
LATER YOU FIND OUT THAT PASTOR
THAT LED OUT IN THAT SERIES, HE
00:31:18.91\00:31:21.41
ENDS UP IN THE HEADLINES
OF THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
00:31:21.44\00:31:23.98
NOW IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.
PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN HEALED BY
00:31:24.01\00:31:28.38
JUDAS READ ABOUT HIS
NAME IN THE PAPERS LATER.
00:31:28.42\00:31:31.99
GOD HEALS PEOPLE AND HE OFTEN
SAYS, 'YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU
00:31:32.02\00:31:36.02
WHOLE.' HE DOESN'T SAY, 'THE
TELEVANGELIST'S FAITH MADE YOU
00:31:36.06\00:31:38.76
WHOLE.' ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
IT'S YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST.
00:31:38.79\00:31:42.33
SO WE LEARN A LOT
FROM THE STORY OF JUDAS.
00:31:42.36\00:31:44.63
IT SAYS - AND YOU CAN ALSO
READ IN PAGE 716 - SAME PAGE IN
00:31:44.67\00:31:49.67
DESIRE OF AGES - "HE
HAD FOSTERED THE EVIL SPIRIT OF
00:31:49.70\00:31:51.74
AVARICE UNTIL IT HAD BECOME
THE RULING MOTIVE OF HIS LIFE.
00:31:51.77\00:31:55.64
THE LOVE OF MAMMON OVER-BALANCED
HIS LOVE FOR CHRIST."
00:31:55.68\00:31:59.45
- YOU CAN'T SERVE TWO MASTERS.
AND HOW MUCH DID HE SELL JESUS
00:31:59.48\00:32:03.65
FOR? THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.
00:32:03.69\00:32:07.12
IT'S INTERESTING - EXODUS
21, VERSE 32, "IF THE OX" - IF
00:32:07.16\00:32:11.39
YOU'VE GOT AN OX AND IT GORED
SOMEONE ELSE'S MALE OR FEMALE
00:32:11.43\00:32:13.70
SERVANT, YOU WERE TO GIVE THEIR
MASTER 30 SHEKELS OF SILVER - IT
00:32:13.73\00:32:17.80
WAS THE PRICE OF A
SLAVE CHRIST WAS SOLD FOR.
00:32:17.83\00:32:21.14
THE BIBLE SAYS, IN LUKE 22
- WE'RE STUDYING LUKE - "SATAN
00:32:21.17\00:32:25.41
ENTERED JUDAS,
SURNAMED ISCARIOT."
00:32:25.44\00:32:29.64
AND, BY THE WAY, THE NAME
'ISCARIOT' - THERE WAS A PLACE
00:32:29.68\00:32:33.35
CALLED 'KERIOTH' AND IT MEANT 'A
MAN OF KERIOTH' AND IT WAS JUST
00:32:33.38\00:32:37.65
TELLING ABOUT THE
PLACE WHERE HE WAS FROM.
00:32:37.69\00:32:39.72
ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON
HERE AND WHY DON'T WE GET DOWN -
00:32:39.75\00:32:44.13
EITHER FOR HIM OR
AGAINST HIM - THIS IS UNDER
THE SECTION THAT THERE'S
00:32:44.16\00:32:47.86
ONLY TWO CATEGORIES - FOR HIM OR
AGAINST HIM - SOMEBODY'S GOING
00:32:47.93\00:32:50.03
TO READ FOR ME, LUKE 11:23 -
OVER HERE - IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:32:50.07\00:32:53.54
MARK 9:38 THROUGH 40, "NOW JOHN
ANSWERED HIM, SAYING, 'TEACHER,
00:32:53.57\00:33:00.11
WE SAW SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT
FOLLOW US CASTING OUT DEMONS IN
00:33:00.14\00:33:03.88
YOUR NAME, AND WE FORBADE HIM
BECAUSE HE DOES NOT FOLLOW US.'
00:33:03.91\00:33:07.65
BUT JESUS SAID, 'DO NOT FORBID
HIM, FOR NO ONE WHO WORKS A
00:33:07.68\00:33:11.02
MIRACLE IN MY NAME CAN
SOON AFTERWARD SPEAK EVIL OF ME.
00:33:11.05\00:33:14.26
FOR HE WHO IS NOT AGAINST US IS
ON OUR SIDE.'" YOU KNOW, WHEN I
00:33:14.29\00:33:19.76
WAS FIRST STUDYING AND TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT - AFTER I ACCEPTED
00:33:19.79\00:33:22.73
THE LORD AND BECAME A CHRISTIAN
- I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT 'WHERE
00:33:22.76\00:33:26.94
DO I GO TO CHURCH?' YOU
KNOW, I WAS VERY OPEN MINDED
00:33:26.97\00:33:30.21
AND SOMEWHAT NAÏVE AT THE
TIME AND I THOUGHT AS LONG AS A
00:33:30.24\00:33:33.27
PERSON SAYS THEY'RE A CHRISTIAN,
IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER.
00:33:33.31\00:33:35.44
AND SO, I WORSHIPED WITH MANY
DIFFERENT CHRISTIANS IN MANY
00:33:35.48\00:33:37.11
DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND I
BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS PEOPLE
00:33:37.15\00:33:40.45
THAT LOVE HIM IN
MANY PERSUASIONS.
00:33:40.48\00:33:43.28
I WAS KIND OF DISCOURAGED,
THOUGH, BECAUSE I'D GO TO ONE
00:33:43.32\00:33:46.32
CHURCH AND THEY'D SAY -
ONE DENOMINATION WOULD TELL ME,
00:33:46.35\00:33:49.76
'UNLESS YOU'RE A MEMBER OF
OUR CHURCH, ALL THE OTHERS ARE
00:33:49.79\00:33:52.19
LOST.' AND I'D GO TO ANOTHER
CHURCH AND THEY'D SAY, 'UNLESS
00:33:52.23\00:33:56.06
YOU SPEAK IN TONGUES, YOU DON'T
HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.' I'D GO TO
00:33:56.10\00:33:59.40
ANOTHER CHURCH - I'D STUDY WITH
THEM AND THEY'D SAY, 'UNLESS
00:33:59.43\00:34:01.84
YOU'RE ONE OF US, YOU'RE NOT
ONE OF THE 144,000 AND YOU'RE
00:34:01.87\00:34:04.07
DOOMED. AND ONE
OF THE THINGS THAT
00:34:04.11\00:34:06.21
ACTUALLY ATTRACTED ME TO THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS WAS THE
00:34:06.24\00:34:08.44
TEACHING THAT WE BELIEVE THE
GREATEST PART OF CHRIST'S TRUE
00:34:08.48\00:34:11.31
FOLLOWERS ARE
ACTUALLY NOT IN OUR CHURCH.
00:34:11.35\00:34:13.68
THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND
THE BIBLE AS PERFECTLY AS THEY
00:34:13.72\00:34:17.52
COULD, BUT DOES GOD ALSO
WORK THROUGH CHRISTIANS OF OTHER
00:34:17.55\00:34:20.69
FAITHS? OF COURSE HE DOES.
00:34:20.72\00:34:23.66
AND SO JESUS SAID, 'WELL, IF
HE'S TEACHING AND PREACHING AND
00:34:23.69\00:34:27.30
CASTING OUT DEVILS IN MY
NAME,' - JAMES AND JOHN SAID,
00:34:27.30\00:34:29.36
'WE TOLD HIM TO STOP IT. WE
HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM LICENSE TO
00:34:29.40\00:34:33.23
DO THAT.' - AND JESUS
SAID, 'DON'T FORBID THEM.'
00:34:33.27\00:34:36.44
YOU KNOW, I - WELL, I DON'T HAVE
TIME TO TELL YOU THAT STORY,
00:34:36.47\00:34:41.31
BUT I HAVE MET PEOPLE BEFORE
THAT BELIEVE EXACTLY WHAT WE
00:34:41.34\00:34:44.98
BELIEVE AND THEY'VE NEVER EVEN
HEARD OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS.
00:34:45.01\00:34:48.65
I PICKED UP A HITCHHIKER ONE
TIME AND STARTED STUDYING WITH
00:34:48.68\00:34:51.69
HIM AS I WAS
GOING DOWN THE ROAD.
00:34:51.72\00:34:53.49
HE WAS A CHRISTIAN - HAD A
BAG FULL OF BIBLES AND BOOKS.
00:34:53.52\00:34:55.16
HE STARTED TELLING ME, 'YOU KNOW
THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE SABBATH?'
00:34:55.19\00:34:57.66
I SAID, 'OH, REALLY?' I
HAD JUST STUDIED THAT AND
00:34:57.69\00:35:01.10
LEARNED IT FOR MYSELF, BUT I WAS
STILL GOING TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
00:35:01.13\00:35:04.67
AND THEN HE SAID - HE WAS
TALKING TO ME ABOUT THAT - 'ARE
00:35:04.70\00:35:08.37
YOU AWARE THERE IS A LAKE OF
FIRE BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER
00:35:08.40\00:35:12.27
AND EVER AND EVER?' I
SAID, 'YOU'RE A SEVENTH-DAY
00:35:12.31\00:35:14.88
ADVENTIST.' HE SAID, 'A WHAT?'
NEVER HEARD OF THEM BEFORE.
00:35:14.91\00:35:19.11
I SAID, 'WHERE'D
YOU GET ALL THIS?'
00:35:19.15\00:35:20.98
HE SAID, 'IT'S IN THE BIBLE.'
AND GOD HAS PEOPLE OUT THERE
00:35:21.02\00:35:24.05
THAT HE'S LEADING AND WE'VE GOT
TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO SAY THAT
00:35:24.09\00:35:27.86
'IF YOU'RE NOT WITH ME, YOU'RE
AGAINST ME.' BUT THERE ARE THOSE
00:35:27.89\00:35:31.86
WHO TRY TO PLAY THE MIDDLE.
NOW JESUS - GO AHEAD, LET'S READ
00:35:31.89\00:35:35.46
THAT VERSE IN LUKE
11:23. ARE WE READY?
00:35:35.50\00:35:38.07
>>"HE WHO IS NOT WITH ME IS
AGAINST ME, AND HE WHO DOES NOT
00:35:38.10\00:35:41.94
GATHER WITH ME SCATTERS."
>>THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR, ISN'T IT?
00:35:41.97\00:35:46.17
IF WE'RE NOT WITH
CHRIST WE'RE AGAINST HIM.
00:35:46.21\00:35:48.71
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT UNLESS
YOU'RE ALL PART OF THE SAME
00:35:48.74\00:35:51.51
DENOMINATION, YOU'RE
AUTOMATICALLY THE ENEMIES OF
00:35:51.55\00:35:54.68
JESUS, BUT THERE
REALLY ARE, HOW MANY ROADS?
00:35:54.72\00:35:57.85
TWO - TRUE AND FALSE - RIGHT?
YOU'VE GOT BROAD IS THE WAY THAT
00:35:57.89\00:36:05.99
LEADS WHERE? >>TO DESTRUCTION.
00:36:06.03\00:36:08.53
>>THAT'S A ROAD
- TO DESTRUCTION.
00:36:08.56\00:36:09.70
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN PUT IT THIS
WAY: THERE'S ONE ROAD AND TWO
00:36:09.73\00:36:11.73
DIRECTIONS. YOU'VE
GOT UP TO THE CITY OF GOD
00:36:11.77\00:36:15.04
AND YOU'VE GOT DOWN
TO THE OTHER DIRECTION.
00:36:15.07\00:36:17.27
BUT THERE'S REALLY TWO ROADS
THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF, THE ROAD OF
00:36:17.31\00:36:20.31
LIFE AND THE ROAD OF DEATH.
AND THERE'S NO SWITZERLAND IN
00:36:20.34\00:36:25.25
THE BATTLE
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
00:36:25.28\00:36:27.38
YOU KNOW, SWITZERLAND
MANAGED TO SKIRT WORLD WAR I AND
00:36:27.42\00:36:30.32
SKIRT WORLD WAR
II BY BEING NEUTRAL.
00:36:30.35\00:36:32.35
THERE IS NO NEUTRAL COUNTRY IN
THIS WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
00:36:32.39\00:36:36.46
IF WE'RE NOT WITH
JESUS, WE'RE AGAINST.
00:36:36.49\00:36:38.09
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT DURING THE
TRIAL OF CHRIST - AND YOU MIGHT
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.40
TURN IN YOUR BIBLE TO - YOU
CAN GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 23, FOR
00:36:40.43\00:36:45.23
INSTANCE - PILATE AND HEROD
- THEY KEPT KIND OF TRYING TO
00:36:45.27\00:36:50.97
OFFLOAD THE RESPONSIBILITY
OF ACTUALLY CONDEMNING JESUS.
00:36:51.01\00:36:55.94
HEROD WAS - HE WAS VERY GUILTY
ABOUT WHAT HE HAD DONE TO JOHN -
00:36:55.98\00:36:59.05
BUT NOW I'M
GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF.
00:36:59.08\00:37:00.92
LET'S LOOK IN LUKE CHAPTER
23, "THEN THE WHOLE MULTITUDE OF
00:37:00.95\00:37:04.12
THEM AROSE AND
LED HIM TO PILATE.
00:37:04.15\00:37:06.69
AND THEY BEGAN TO ACCUSE HIM,
SAYING, 'WE FOUND THIS FELLOW
00:37:06.72\00:37:09.82
PERVERTING THE NATION,
AND FORBIDDING TO PAY TAXES TO
00:37:09.86\00:37:12.39
CAESAR, SAYING'"
- DID HE SAY THAT?
00:37:12.43\00:37:14.03
THAT'S A LIE.
JESUS DIDN'T SAY THAT.
00:37:14.10\00:37:15.86
HE SAID, 'GIVE TO CAESAR WHAT IS
CAESAR'S.' - "'FORBIDDING TO PAY
00:37:15.90\00:37:19.47
TAXES TO CAESAR SAYING THAT HE
HIMSELF IS CHRIST, A KING.' THEN
00:37:19.50\00:37:23.91
PILATE ASKED HIM, SAYING,
'ARE YOU THE KING OF THE JEWS?'
00:37:23.94\00:37:26.91
HE ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, 'IT IS
AS YOU SAY.' SO PILATE SAID TO
00:37:26.94\00:37:31.88
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE CROWD,
'I FIND NO FAULT IN THIS MAN.'"
00:37:31.91\00:37:34.32
HOW COULD PILATE HEAR JESUS SAY,
'IT IS AS YOU SAY, I'M THE KING
00:37:34.35\00:37:39.25
OF THE JEWS' AND TURN RIGHT
AROUND FROM THAT AND SAY, 'I
00:37:39.29\00:37:41.26
DON'T FIND ANY FAULT IN HIM.'
HE COULD TELL BY THE CONTEXT OF
00:37:41.29\00:37:44.43
WHAT JESUS SAID AND BY THE
LOOK OF JESUS, HE WAS SPEAKING
00:37:44.46\00:37:47.40
ENTIRELY IN SPIRITUAL
TERMS AND HE WAS NO THREAT.
00:37:47.40\00:37:50.63
EVERYTHING ABOUT JESUS
SAID HE WAS A MAN OF PEACE.
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.77
PILATE HAD SEEN MANY
JEWISH REBELS BEFORE.
00:37:52.80\00:37:55.00
HE HAD SEEN THE VIOLENT ZEALOTS.
HE LOOKED AT JESUS AND HE SAID,
00:37:55.04\00:37:58.71
'THIS IS A RABBI WHO'S
SPEAKING IN ETHEREAL TERMS.
00:37:58.74\00:38:02.48
I DON'T - HE'S NOT A RISK.
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?'
00:38:02.51\00:38:05.41
EVERYTHING ABOUT
CHRIST TALKED ABOUT MEEKNESS.
00:38:05.45\00:38:08.25
HIS WHOLE
COUNTENANCE EXUDED THAT.
00:38:08.28\00:38:10.09
HE SAID, 'I FIND NO FAULT IN THE
MAN.' - "BUT THEY WERE THE MORE
00:38:10.12\00:38:13.52
FIERCE, SAYING, 'HE STIRS UP THE
PEOPLE, TEACHING THROUGHOUT ALL
00:38:13.56\00:38:16.99
JUDEA, BEGINNING FROM GALILEE TO
THIS PLACE.'" AND PILATE SAID,
00:38:17.03\00:38:20.80
'GALILEE?' -
"WHEN PILATE HEARD ABOUT
00:38:20.83\00:38:22.70
GALILEE, HE ASKED IF THE MAN
WERE A GALILEAN" - AS SOON AS HE
00:38:22.73\00:38:25.60
KNEW THAT HE HAD ORIGINALLY
COME FROM NAZARETH, WHICH WAS IN
00:38:25.63\00:38:28.40
GALILEE, - "...HE BELONGED TO
HEROD'S JURISDICTION" - HE TRIED
00:38:28.44\00:38:31.94
TO OFFLOAD THE RESPONSIBILITY
AND HE SENT HIM TO HEROD, WHO
00:38:31.97\00:38:35.24
HAPPENED TO BE IN JERUSALEM
FOR THE FEAST THAT WEEKEND.
00:38:35.28\00:38:38.45
I'M PARAPHRASING.
00:38:38.48\00:38:40.22
"NOW WHEN HEROD SAW JESUS, HE
WAS EXCEEDINGLY GLAD; FOR HE HAD
00:38:40.25\00:38:43.82
DESIRED FOR A LONG TIME TO SEE
HIM, BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD MANY
00:38:43.85\00:38:46.92
THINGS ABOUT HIM, AND HE HOPED
HE WOULD SEE SOME MIRACLE DONE
00:38:46.96\00:38:49.26
BY HIM." - SO NOW
HEROD'S SO EXCITED -
00:38:49.29\00:38:52.09
'OH, I'VE HEARD
SO MUCH ABOUT HIM.
00:38:52.13\00:38:53.80
I WANTED TO SEE HIM FOR MYSELF.
I'VE HEARD HE'S RAISED THE DEAD.
00:38:53.83\00:38:56.73
I'VE HEARD HE'S
OPENED THE EYES OF THE BLIND.
00:38:56.77\00:38:58.70
HE'S HEALED LEPERS AND
HERE I GET A PRIVATE AUDIENCE.
00:38:58.73\00:39:01.27
I'LL BRING IN SOME SICK PEOPLE
AND SAY, 'DO A MIRACLE.' AND SO
00:39:01.30\00:39:04.11
THEY WENT OUT IN THE STREETS AND
THEY GATHERED TOGETHER SOME LAME
00:39:04.14\00:39:07.18
AND SICK AND BLIND AND THEY
BROUGHT HIM IN AND SAID, 'HERE
00:39:07.21\00:39:09.44
JESUS, DO A MIRACLE.' NOW JESUS
HAS BEEN TERRIBLY BEATEN THROUGH
00:39:09.48\00:39:11.21
THE NIGHT AND THE WHOLE THING IS
JUST A - IT'S AN INSULTING SHAM
00:39:11.25\00:39:15.12
- AND JESUS, HE SPOKE TO PILATE
BUT HE DID NOT OPEN HIS MOUTH
00:39:15.15\00:39:20.42
AND UTTER A SINGLE
PHRASE TO HEROD. WHY?
00:39:20.46\00:39:24.63
WHO WAS THE GREATEST PROPHET
THAT EVER LIVED? ACCORDING TO
00:39:24.66\00:39:29.10
JESUS, JOHN THE BAPTIST.
WHO GOT TO HEAR JOHN THE BAPTIST
00:39:29.13\00:39:33.07
PREACH WHENEVER HE
WANTED? HEROD ACTUALLY HAD HIM
00:39:33.10\00:39:36.77
IMPRISONED AND HE SAID HE
WOULD OFTEN LISTEN TO HIM.
00:39:36.81\00:39:39.11
HE WOULD HAVE HIM
BROUGHT IN AND PREACH TO HIM -
00:39:39.14\00:39:41.28
PUT HIM BACK IN JAIL.
00:39:41.31\00:39:42.44
HE NOT ONLY REJECTED
THE PREACHING OF GOD'S BEST
00:39:42.48\00:39:45.35
MESSENGER, CHRIST SAID, 'IF
YOU DON'T BELIEVE MOSES AND THE
00:39:45.38\00:39:48.15
PROPHETS, THEN YOU WON'T BELIEVE
THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD.'
00:39:48.18\00:39:50.52
AND HEROD HAD JOHN THE BAPTIST
EXECUTED AT THE WHIM OF HIS
00:39:50.55\00:39:55.52
STEP-DAUGHTER AFTER DANCING -
HAD THE GREATEST PROPHET KILLED
00:39:55.56\00:40:00.33
- AND HE KNEW IT WAS
THE WRONG THING TO DO.
00:40:00.36\00:40:02.76
AND SO NOW - AS FAR AS GOD WAS
CONCERNED, HE HAD COMMITTED THE
00:40:02.80\00:40:06.94
UNPARDONABLE SIN AND
HE COMPLETELY IGNORED HIM.
00:40:06.97\00:40:10.84
ISN'T THAT A
FRIGHTENING THOUGHT?
00:40:10.87\00:40:12.41
THAT WE COULD SO
REJECT THE MESSENGERS OF GOD?
00:40:12.44\00:40:14.88
SEE, HERE, HE COULD HAVE TALKED
TO JESUS PERSONALLY, BUT HE HAD
00:40:14.91\00:40:18.88
REJECTED THE
MESSENGER OF CHRIST.
00:40:18.91\00:40:20.88
CHRIST SAID, 'IF YOU REJECT
THEM, YOU REJECT ME.' THAT'S A
00:40:20.92\00:40:24.39
REALLY SOBERING THOUGHT.
AND BECAUSE HEROD HAD SO
00:40:24.42\00:40:27.06
COMPLETELY
REJECTED THE MESSENGER
00:40:27.09\00:40:29.32
THAT GOD HAD APPOINTED, HE SAID,
'I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO YOU.'
00:40:29.36\00:40:32.66
AND SO HE SAID, 'WELL, IF YOU'RE
NOT GOING TO TALK TO ME' - HE
00:40:32.69\00:40:35.90
CUT HIM LOSE FOR THE SOLDIERS
WHO THEN PROCEEDED TO MOCK
00:40:35.93\00:40:38.40
JESUS. AND IT SAYS HERE THAT "HE
QUESTIONED HIM WITH MANY WORDS,
00:40:38.43\00:40:45.51
BUT HE ANSWERED HIM NOTHING.
AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE
00:40:45.54\00:40:48.74
SCRIBES STOOD AND
VEHEMENTLY ACCUSED HIM.
00:40:48.78\00:40:51.48
THEN HEROD, WITH HIS MEN OF WAR,
TREATED HIM WITH CONTEMPT AND
00:40:51.51\00:40:53.95
MOCKED HIM, ARRAYED HIM IN A
GORGEOUS ROBE," - HE HAD ONE OF
00:40:53.98\00:40:57.35
THE GLORIOUS PURPLE ROBES
BROUGHT OUT, THEY STRIPPED HIM
00:40:57.39\00:41:03.43
OF HIS ROBE, THEY PUT A REED
IN HIS HAND, THEY PUT A CROWN OF
00:41:03.46\00:41:07.66
THORNS ON HIS HEAD, THEY BEAT
HIM WITH THE REED ON THE HEAD,
00:41:07.66\00:41:11.17
THEY BOWED AND MOCKED
HIM, THEY SPIT AT HIM AND,
00:41:11.20\00:41:14.44
IT SAYS, HE "SENT
HIM BACK TO PILATE.
00:41:14.47\00:41:19.31
THAT VERY DAY PILATE AND HEROD
BECAME FRIENDS WITH EACH OTHER,
00:41:19.34\00:41:23.24
FOR PREVIOUSLY THEY HAD
BEEN AT ENMITY WITH EACH OTHER."
00:41:23.28\00:41:26.21
ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT
THE SADDUCEES AND THE PHARISEES
00:41:26.25\00:41:30.12
WERE ADVERSARIES BUT THEY
MANAGED TO COME TOGETHER WHEN IT
00:41:30.15\00:41:33.66
CAME TIME TO CRUCIFY
JESUS? THEY WERE THE CHURCH.
00:41:33.69\00:41:37.63
PILATE AND HEROD WERE THE STATE.
THEY WERE ENEMIES BUT, OVER
00:41:37.66\00:41:43.40
PERSECUTING JESUS,
THEY CAME TOGETHER.
00:41:43.43\00:41:46.13
IN THE LAST DAYS, IS THERE GOING
TO BE A CONFEDERACY OF CHURCH
00:41:46.17\00:41:50.91
AND STATE THAT WILL COME
TOGETHER - 'YOU MEAN THERE COULD
00:41:50.94\00:41:54.51
ACTUALLY BE SOMETHING THE
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WOULD
00:41:54.54\00:41:57.25
AGREE ON?' - THAT
CHURCH AND STATE COULD
00:41:57.28\00:42:00.35
COME TOGETHER? THAT
PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS
00:42:00.38\00:42:02.52
COULD COME TOGETHER
FOR ONE COMMON CAUSE?
00:42:02.55\00:42:06.15
TO PERSECUTE THOSE
THAT HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD.
00:42:06.19\00:42:09.79
WHAT HAPPENED TO JESUS?
00:42:09.82\00:42:11.89
HE SAID, 'IF THEY'VE DONE THIS
ME, THEY'LL DO THIS TO YOU.'
00:42:11.93\00:42:14.73
HISTORY IS GOING TO REPEAT
ITSELF, FRIENDS, I DON'T THINK
00:42:14.73\00:42:17.33
IT'S VERY FAR DISTANT BEFORE WE
WILL SEE THOSE WORDS FULFILLED.
00:42:17.37\00:42:19.47
PILATE AND HE - "THEN PILATE,
WHEN HE" - VERSE 13 - I'M IN
00:42:19.50\00:42:25.47
LUKE 23:13 - "THEN PILATE, WHEN
HE HAD CALLED TOGETHER THE CHIEF
00:42:25.51\00:42:29.68
PRIESTS, THE RULERS, AND THE
PEOPLE, SAID TO THEM, 'YOU HAVE
00:42:29.71\00:42:32.25
BROUGHT THIS MAN TO ME, AS
ONE WHO MISLEADS THE PEOPLE.
00:42:32.28\00:42:35.15
AND INDEED, HAVING EXAMINED HIM
IN YOUR PRESENCE, I HAVE FOUND
00:42:35.18\00:42:38.02
NO FAULT IN THIS MAN CONCERNING
THOSE THINGS OF WHICH YOU ACCUSE
00:42:38.05\00:42:41.29
HIM; NO NEITHER DID HEROD,'" -
NOW NOTICE: THEY'RE SAYING, 'WE
00:42:41.32\00:42:44.86
FIND NO FAULT - I OR HEROD -
"'FOR I SENT YOU BACK TO HIM;
00:42:44.89\00:42:48.43
AND INDEED NOTHING DESERVING
OF DEATH HAS BEEN DONE BY HIM.
00:42:48.46\00:42:52.60
I WILL THEREFORE CHASTISE HIM.'"
- IF HE'S DONE NOTHING WRONG,
00:42:52.63\00:42:54.94
WHY ARE YOU WHIPPING HIM?
"'I'LL THEREFORE'" - HE'S TRYING
00:42:54.97\00:42:57.31
TO COMPROMISE. YOU
SEE HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS?
00:42:57.34\00:42:59.67
"'I'LL CHASTISE HIM AND RELEASE
HIM' (FOR IT WAS NECESSARY FOR
00:42:59.71\00:43:02.84
HIM TO RELEASE ONE TO THEM
AT THE FEAST.)" HE'D PICK A
00:43:02.88\00:43:05.58
PRISONER AND THEY HAD A LOTTERY
OR WHATEVER, AND HE'D RELEASE A
00:43:05.61\00:43:08.82
PRISONER AND THEY ALL CRIED OUT
AT ONCE SAYING, 'AWAY WITH THIS
00:43:08.85\00:43:12.29
MAN!' DON'T EVEN
GIVE US HIM FOR FREE.
00:43:12.32\00:43:14.96
"AWAY WITH THIS MAN AND GIVE
US BARABBAS, WHO HAS BEEN THROWN
00:43:14.99\00:43:18.69
INTO PRISON FOR A CERTAIN
REBELLION MADE IN THE CITY, AND
00:43:18.73\00:43:21.33
FOR MURDER." NOW YOU KNOW
WHAT THE WORD 'BARABBAS' MEANS?
00:43:21.36\00:43:24.40
BAR MEANS 'SON OF'; ABBA MEANS
'FATHER OR PAPA.' THEY SAID
00:43:24.43\00:43:31.14
BARABBAS WAS THE
SON OF THE FATHER.
00:43:31.17\00:43:33.94
JESUS WAS THE SON OF THE FATHER.
HE'S BASICALLY SAYING, 'GIVE US
00:43:33.98\00:43:37.25
THE COUNTERFEIT SON OF THE
FATHER IN PLACE OF THE REAL SON
00:43:37.28\00:43:41.35
OF THE FATHER. WE
WANT OUR MAN-MADE MESSIAH.
00:43:41.38\00:43:44.19
YOU SEE, BARABBAS, ONE REASON HE
MURDERED IS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT
00:43:44.22\00:43:46.92
HE WAS GOING TO USE HIS OWN
STRENGTH TO OVERTHROW THE ROMANS
00:43:46.96\00:43:49.59
AND SO HE WAS SCHEDULED TO
BE CRUCIFIED WITH TWO OF HIS
00:43:49.62\00:43:52.86
ASSOCIATES THAT DAY.
00:43:52.89\00:43:54.46
AND SO, HERE BARABBAS IS THE
RINGLEADER OF THESE ZEALOTS THAT
00:43:54.50\00:43:57.43
WERE FIGHTING THE ROMANS - LAST
PERSON IN THE WORLD THE ROMANS
00:43:57.47\00:44:00.80
WANTED TO RELEASE - AND BARABBAS
WAS RELEASED AND JESUS DIED ON
00:44:00.84\00:44:06.61
HIS CROSS. BY THE WAY,
JESUS DIED ON OUR CROSS.
00:44:06.64\00:44:10.95
WE ARE LIKE
BARABBAS IN THAT SENSE.
00:44:10.98\00:44:12.61
SO I NEED TO HASTEN ALONG.
I'VE GOT A LOT STILL LEFT TO
00:44:12.65\00:44:15.78
COVER AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN
GOTTEN TO THE RESURRECTION YET.
00:44:15.82\00:44:18.85
SO MOVING ALONG, THEY'RE - HE
SAID, 'YOU'RE EITHER WITH ME OR
00:44:18.89\00:44:23.26
AGAINST ME.' THEY TRIED TO FIND
THE MIDDLE ROAD, BUT IN TRYING
00:44:23.29\00:44:25.96
TO FIND A COMPROMISE, THEY ENDED
UP BEING AGAINST JESUS, DIDN'T
00:44:25.99\00:44:29.06
THEY? PILATE SAID,
'NO, THERE'S GOT TO
00:44:29.10\00:44:31.37
BE A MIDDLE ROAD.' AND HE
ENDED UP HANDING HIM OVER AT THE
00:44:31.40\00:44:34.57
END. NOW SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS.
00:44:34.60\00:44:37.81
HE HAS JESUS SCOURGED,
HE'S DELIVERED TO BE CRUCIFIED,
00:44:37.84\00:44:40.88
WASHES HIS HANDS - PILATE - AS
THOUGH IT'S NOT GOING TO TAINT
00:44:40.91\00:44:44.08
HIM, BUT CHRIST FALLS
ON THE WAY TO THE CROSS.
00:44:44.11\00:44:49.58
THEY PLACE HIS CROSS ON SIMON'S
SHOULDERS, THEY BRING HIM TO THE
00:44:49.62\00:44:53.39
PLACE OF CRUCIFIXION, HE PRAYS
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF THOSE WHO
00:44:53.42\00:44:56.89
ARE EXECUTING HIM, THE OTHER TWO
THIEVES ARE PLACED ON THE RIGHT
00:44:56.93\00:45:01.86
AND THE LEFT, AND THEN YOU READ
IN LUKE'S STORY, THAT YOU DO NOT
00:45:01.90\00:45:04.90
FIND IN MATTHEW, MARK, OR JOHN,
"THEN ONE OF THE CRIMINALS" -
00:45:04.93\00:45:10.34
THIS IS LUKE 23:39 - "THEN ONE
OF THE CRIMINALS WHO WERE HANGED
00:45:10.37\00:45:15.14
BLASPHEMED HIM, SAYING, 'IF YOU
ARE THE CHRIST, SAVE YOURSELF
00:45:15.18\00:45:21.18
AND US.' BUT THE OTHER,
ANSWERING, REBUKED HIM, SAYING,
00:45:21.22\00:45:25.22
'DO YOU NOT EVEN FEAR GOD,
SEEING YOU ARE UNDER THE SAME
00:45:25.25\00:45:27.72
CONDEMNATION? AND WE
INDEED JUSTLY, FOR WE
00:45:27.76\00:45:30.09
RECEIVE THE DUE REWARD OF
OUR DEEDS; BUT THIS MAN HAS DONE
00:45:30.13\00:45:33.66
NOTHING WRONG.'" -
ALRIGHT, I WANT TO PAUSE.
00:45:33.70\00:45:36.06
WHY DOES IT SAY, IN OTHER
GOSPELS, THAT HE WAS CRUCIFIED
00:45:36.10\00:45:41.34
BETWEEN TWO THIEVES AND THE MOB
MOCKED HIM AS DID BOTH OF THE
00:45:41.37\00:45:46.14
THIEVES? HE WAS
NOT ONLY REVILED BY THE
00:45:46.17\00:45:49.74
MOB BUT IT SAYS, BOTH OF THE
THIEVES, INITIALLY, WERE MOCKING
00:45:49.78\00:45:54.02
HIM? HOW LONG WAS JESUS ON
THE CROSS ALIVE? SIX HOURS.
00:45:54.05\00:45:59.19
JESUS WAS ON THE
CROSS FOR ABOUT SEVEN HOURS.
00:45:59.22\00:46:01.62
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
SIX HOURS ALIVE AND ONE HOUR
00:46:01.66\00:46:03.83
RESTING - ISN'T
THAT INTERESTING?
00:46:03.86\00:46:07.20
FROM THE TIME HE DIED UNTIL
JOSEPH TOOK THE BODY DOWN THEY
00:46:07.23\00:46:10.63
ESTIMATE IT WAS ABOUT AN HOUR
BASED UPON IT WAS BEFORE THE
00:46:10.67\00:46:13.97
SABBATH, THE BIBLE SAYS.
00:46:14.00\00:46:15.84
AND - BUT SOMEWHERE DURING THE
DAY, AS THE EVENTS UNFOLDED, AS
00:46:15.87\00:46:21.41
THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT HAND OF
JESUS, HEARS CHRIST PRAY, 'ELOI,
00:46:21.44\00:46:27.38
ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI' -
'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU
00:46:27.42\00:46:32.19
FORSAKEN ME?' WHICH IS
A QUOTE FROM PSALM 22 -
00:46:32.22\00:46:35.12
AND YOU READ LATER IN THAT PSALM
AND IT SAYS, 'THEY PIERCED MY
00:46:35.16\00:46:38.79
HANDS AND MY FEET. THE
DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME.
00:46:38.83\00:46:41.36
THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY CLOTHING.'
THIS THIEF SEES - HE HEARS JESUS
00:46:41.40\00:46:46.74
SAY, 'MY GOD, MY GOD,
WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?'
00:46:46.77\00:46:48.60
HE LOOKS ABOVE THE HEAD OF
CHRIST WITH HIS SWEAT, BLOOD,
00:46:48.64\00:46:52.07
AND HIS EYES AND HE SEES
A SIGN THAT SAYS, 'THIS IS
00:46:52.11\00:46:53.98
THE KING OF THE
JEWS' IN THREE LANGUAGES.
00:46:54.01\00:46:55.91
HE STARTS TO REMEMBER THAT PSALM
FROM CHILDHOOD - THEY PIERCED MY
00:46:55.94\00:47:00.88
HANDS AND MY FEET. THEY MOCK ME.
00:47:00.92\00:47:02.45
THEY SURROUND ME.' HE SEES THE
ROMAN SOLDIERS GAMBLING AT THE
00:47:02.48\00:47:04.82
FOOT OF THE CROSS
FOR CHRIST'S CLOTHING.
00:47:04.85\00:47:06.69
'THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY VESTURE.'
THIS IS ALL IN PSALM 22.
00:47:06.72\00:47:09.99
THAT'S WHY JESUS QUOTED
THAT PSALM, NOT BECAUSE CHRIST
00:47:10.03\00:47:13.23
BELIEVED HE HAD BEEN FORSAKEN BY
THE FATHER, JESUS KNEW EXACTLY
00:47:13.26\00:47:16.30
WHAT WAS COMING. THE
LAST WORDS OF CHRIST WERE
00:47:16.33\00:47:19.03
'INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMEND MY
SPIRIT.' HE WAS QUOTING FROM THE
00:47:19.07\00:47:22.54
PSALM RHETORICALLY, SAYING 'WHY
HAD THE FATHER FORSAKEN HIM?'
00:47:22.57\00:47:27.61
THE ANSWER IS FOR US. AND
THE HOLY SPIRIT ILLUMINATED
00:47:27.64\00:47:30.75
THAT THIEF'S MIND AND
HIS - HIS ATTITUDE CHANGED.
00:47:30.78\00:47:35.18
BEFORE CHRIST DIED HE TURNED TO
JESUS AND HE SAID - AND THIS IS
00:47:35.22\00:47:38.92
ALSO IN THAT SAME PASSAGE
THERE, LUKE 23, VERSE 42, "LORD,
00:47:38.95\00:47:45.73
REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU
COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM."
00:47:45.76\00:47:48.66
DO YOU REALIZE HOW
SIGNIFICANT THAT IS?
00:47:48.70\00:47:50.33
THAT'S A VERY SHORT
STATEMENT. IT'S A SHORT PRAYER.
00:47:50.37\00:47:52.70
FIRST OF ALL, HE'S
CALLING JESUS LORD.
00:47:52.73\00:47:55.24
WAS ANYONE ELSE AROUND THE CROSS
CALLING JESUS LORD THAT DAY?
00:47:55.27\00:47:58.74
DID HE LOOK LIKE A LORD?
HE'S ALSO CALLING HIM A KING.
00:47:58.77\00:48:03.85
I MEAN, DOESN'T A
KING HAVE A KINGDOM? RIGHT?
00:48:03.88\00:48:07.28
HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU
COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' YOUR
00:48:07.32\00:48:10.35
KINGDOM - BOY, THAT TOOK A
LOT OF FAITH. THE STATEMENT OF
00:48:10.39\00:48:15.56
THE THIEF PROBABLY
QUIETED THE WHOLE CROWD.
00:48:15.59\00:48:18.49
HE SAID, 'YOU ARE THE LORD AND
YOU ARE THE KING.' AND JESUS, AS
00:48:18.53\00:48:24.70
MUCH AS HE WAS SUFFERING -
CHRIST HAD HIS HANDS NAILED TO
00:48:24.73\00:48:27.74
THE CROSS, BUT THE DEVIL COULD
NOT KEEP THE SAVIOR FROM SAVING.
00:48:27.77\00:48:31.11
THE REASON JESUS CAME INTO THE
WORLD WAS TO SEEK AND SAVE THE
00:48:31.14\00:48:34.04
LOST AND THE ONLY GLEAM OF
JOY THAT CAME TO CHRIST IN THOSE
00:48:34.08\00:48:37.15
CLOSING MOMENTS ON THE CROSS WAS
THE JOY OF BEING ABLE TO SAVE
00:48:37.18\00:48:41.55
ONE LAST PERSON, EVEN
THOUGH HE WAS DYING HIMSELF.
00:48:41.58\00:48:46.52
AND HE MADE A PROMISE TO HIM.
00:48:46.55\00:48:48.26
HE SAID, 'VERILY I SAY TO YOU
TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN
00:48:48.29\00:48:53.63
PARADISE.' AND I KNOW THAT A
LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ARGUED ABOUT
00:48:53.66\00:48:56.63
WHERE DO YOU PUT THE COMMA -
THERE WAS NO PUNCTUATION IN THE
00:48:56.67\00:48:58.87
ORIGINAL. SOME
PEOPLE SAY JESUS WAS
00:48:58.90\00:49:00.97
SAYING, 'VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU,
TODAY YOU'RE GOING TO BE WITH ME
00:49:01.00\00:49:06.47
IN PARADISE.' BUT
THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
00:49:06.51\00:49:08.54
YOU GET TO JOHN 21 - JESUS SAYS
TO MARY, 'DO NOT CLING TO ME' -
00:49:08.58\00:49:11.91
THAT'S SUNDAY MORNING - 'I HAVE
NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER.'
00:49:11.95\00:49:14.65
SO JESUS HAD NOT YET GONE TO THE
FATHER SUNDAY MORNING; HOW COULD
00:49:14.68\00:49:17.75
HE BE WITH THE THIEF
IN PARADISE THAT DAY?
00:49:17.79\00:49:19.75
THE OTHER THING IS A DAY BEGINS
AND ENDS AT SUNDOWN AND THE
00:49:19.79\00:49:23.79
THIEF - THEY BROKE HIS LEGS
TO ACCELERATE HIS DEATH BECAUSE
00:49:23.83\00:49:27.73
THEY WANTED HIM TO
DIE BEFORE SUNDOWN.
00:49:27.76\00:49:29.73
AND SO, WHAT CHRIST WAS REALLY
SAYING WAS, 'VERILY I SAY TO YOU
00:49:29.76\00:49:33.44
TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN
PARADISE.' 'TODAY, EVEN THOUGH I
00:49:33.47\00:49:38.34
DON'T LOOK LIKE A KING, I DON'T
LOOK LIKE A LORD, I DON'T LOOK
00:49:38.37\00:49:41.41
LIKE I CAN SAVE ANYBODY -
I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU A PROMISE
00:49:41.44\00:49:44.15
TODAY, WHEN EVERYONE ELSE,
INCLUDING MY OWN APOSTLES, ARE
00:49:44.18\00:49:46.61
STANDING AFAR OFF, TODAY I'M
GOING TO MAKE YOU A PROMISE: YOU
00:49:46.65\00:49:49.82
WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.'
YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING?
00:49:49.85\00:49:52.19
AND HE'S GOING TO
KEEP THAT PROMISE.
00:49:52.22\00:49:55.49
ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL, THAT THE
LORD - WAS THAT THIEF - DID HE
00:49:55.52\00:49:59.53
GET DOWN FROM THE
CROSS AND GO GET BAPTIZED?
00:49:59.56\00:50:01.30
DID HE GET DOWN FROM THE CROSS
AND OPEN AN ORPHANAGE AND A
00:50:01.33\00:50:05.40
HOSPITAL AND DO A
LOT OF GOOD WORKS?
00:50:05.43\00:50:07.17
WAS HE SAVED BY
FAITH OR BY WORKS?
00:50:07.20\00:50:10.84
>>BY FAITH. >>A
HUNDRED PERCENT BY FAITH.
00:50:10.87\00:50:13.27
NOW, IF YOU HAD BEEN ABLE TO GET
HIM OFF THE CROSS ALIVE, WOULD
00:50:13.31\00:50:16.54
HIS LIFE HAVE
BEEN DIFFERENT? YES.
00:50:16.58\00:50:19.25
BUT THAT REMINDS US THAT WE
ARE SAVED BY THE PROMISE OF GOD.
00:50:19.28\00:50:23.25
HE REPENTED OF HIS SINS -
PUBLICLY - HE SAID, 'WE ARE
00:50:23.28\00:50:25.92
GETTING WHAT WE DESERVE.'
HE CONFESSED JESUS PUBLICLY -
00:50:25.95\00:50:28.46
CONFESSED HIS SINS - HE ASKED
PUBLICLY AND HE WAS FORGIVEN.
00:50:28.49\00:50:33.66
THOSE ARE THE
CRITERIA FOR SALVATION.
00:50:33.70\00:50:35.46
HE FOLLOWED ALL OF THAT. NOW -
HE IS RISEN - THIS IS THE
00:50:35.50\00:50:39.03
TITLE FOR THE LESSON
- I FINALLY GOT THERE.
00:50:39.07\00:50:40.70
LUKE 23 - THEY TOOK HIS BODY
DOWN, THEY WRAPPED IT IN LINEN
00:50:40.74\00:50:44.64
AND PLACED IT IN THE TOMB - AND
THIS IS LUKE 23:53, "THAT DAY
00:50:44.67\00:50:49.41
WAS THE PREPARATION," -
WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS THAT?
00:50:49.44\00:50:52.15
WHAT WE CALL FRIDAY -
"AND THE SABBATH DREW NEAR."
00:50:52.18\00:50:55.32
WHAT IS THE DAY THAT
FOLLOWS FRIDAY? SATURDAY, RIGHT?
00:50:55.35\00:50:59.89
WHAT WE CALL SATURDAY,
WHICH WOULD BE THE SABBATH.
00:50:59.92\00:51:02.62
THE SABBATH IS
FOLLOWING THE PREPARATION DAY.
00:51:02.66\00:51:04.09
"AND THE WOMEN WHO HAD COME WITH
HIM FROM GALILEE FOLLOWED AFTER,
00:51:04.13\00:51:07.03
AND THEY OBSERVED THE
TOMB AND HOW HIS BODY WAS LAID.
00:51:07.10\00:51:10.13
THEN THEY RETURNED AND PREPARED
SPICES AND FRAGRANT OILS.
00:51:10.17\00:51:13.23
AND THEY RESTED ON THE JEWISH
SABBATH ACCORDING TO THE
00:51:13.27\00:51:16.07
JEWISH COMMANDMENT."
HE DIDN'T SAY THAT.
00:51:16.10\00:51:18.64
HE STATES IT AS A SELF-EVIDENT
TRUTH THAT WAS IN EXISTENCE IN
00:51:18.67\00:51:22.14
HIS DAY THAT
WAS STILL PRACTICED.
00:51:22.18\00:51:24.68
THEY RESTED THE SABBATH
ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT.
00:51:24.71\00:51:27.05
HE DOESN'T HAVE TO
SAY 'WHAT COMMANDMENT?'
00:51:27.08\00:51:28.78
THEY KNOW WHAT COMMANDMENT.
HE DOESN'T HAVE TO SAY WHAT DAY
00:51:28.82\00:51:31.32
OF THE WEEK IT WAS,
THEY UNDERSTAND THIS.
00:51:31.35\00:51:33.49
NOW, THAT MEANS THAT AFTER
THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF JESUS
00:51:33.52\00:51:37.46
TEACHING, THE DISCIPLES STILL
BELIEVED THE SABBATH WAS SO
00:51:37.49\00:51:40.46
IMPORTANT TO CHRIST, THEY
WEREN'T GOING TO BREAK IT EVEN
00:51:40.50\00:51:43.00
WITH THE LABOR OF
LOVE OF EMBALMING HIS BODY.
00:51:43.03\00:51:46.47
THEY KNEW THAT
WOULD DISPLEASE THE LORD.
00:51:46.50\00:51:47.97
THEY'RE WAITING UNTIL SUNDAY
MORNING TO COME BACK AND FINISH
00:51:48.00\00:51:49.84
BECAUSE THEY SAID,
'THE SUN'S GOING DOWN.
00:51:49.87\00:51:51.91
THIS IS STARTING
TO LOOK LIKE WORK.
00:51:51.94\00:51:53.38
LET'S FINISH AFTER SABBATH.'
WOW, IF THE EARLY CHURCH TOOK
00:51:53.41\00:51:58.08
THE SABBATH THAT
SERIOUSLY, THEN SHOULD WE TODAY?
00:51:58.11\00:52:02.68
>>AMEN. >>ALRIGHT, MOVING ON.
00:52:02.72\00:52:04.35
GO TO LUKE 24:1, "NOW ON
THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, VERY
00:52:04.39\00:52:09.26
EARLY IN THE MORNING, THEY, AND
CERTAIN OTHER WOMEN WITH THEM,
00:52:09.29\00:52:12.49
CAME TO THE TOMB BRINGING THE
SPICES WHICH THEY HAD PREPARED.
00:52:12.53\00:52:16.10
BUT THEY FOUND THE STONE
ROLLED AWAY FROM THE TOMB.
00:52:16.13\00:52:17.93
THEN THEY WENT IN AND DID NOT
FIND THE BODY...AND IT HAPPENED,
00:52:17.97\00:52:21.74
AS THEY WERE GREATLY PERPLEXED
ABOUT THIS, THAT BEHOLD, TWO MEN
00:52:21.77\00:52:24.31
STOOD BY THEM IN SHINING
GARMENTS" - ANGELS - "THEN, AS
00:52:24.34\00:52:27.28
THEY WERE AFRAID AND BOWED THEIR
FACES TO THE EARTH, THEY SAID TO
00:52:27.31\00:52:29.81
THEM, 'WHY DO YOU SEEK
THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD?
00:52:29.84\00:52:31.91
HE IS NOT HERE, BUT IS RISEN!
REMEMBER HOW HE SPOKE TO YOU" -
00:52:31.95\00:52:36.58
THEY'RE SAYING,
'HE TOLD YOU THIS.
00:52:36.62\00:52:38.15
YOU WEREN'T LISTENING.' -
"...HOW HE SPOKE TO YOU IN
00:52:38.19\00:52:40.56
GALILEE, SAYING, 'THE SON OF MAN
MUST BE DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS
00:52:40.59\00:52:43.39
OF SINFUL MEN, AND BE CRUCIFIED,
AND THE THIRD DAY RISE AGAIN.''
00:52:43.43\00:52:46.90
AND THEY REMEMBERED HIS WORDS.
00:52:46.93\00:52:48.70
THEN THEY RETURNED FROM THE TOMB
AND TOLD ALL THESE THINGS TO THE
00:52:48.73\00:52:52.30
ELEVEN AND TO ALL THE REST."
NOW THAT'S LUKE'S ACCOUNT.
00:52:52.33\00:52:55.04
GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN
20, VERSE 1, PLEASE, NOEMI.
00:52:55.07\00:52:58.64
>>"NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE
WEEK MARY MAGDALENE WENT TO THE
00:52:58.67\00:53:02.81
TOMB EARLY, WHILE IT WAS STILL
DARK, AND SAW THAT THE STONE HAD
00:53:02.84\00:53:08.02
BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM THE TOMB."
>>WE JUST READ LUKE AND IT SAYS
00:53:08.05\00:53:12.42
ALL OF THESE WOMEN
CAME AND IT NAMES THEM.
00:53:12.45\00:53:13.99
JOHN SAYS MARY CAME.
HOW DO WE RECONCILE THAT?
00:53:14.02\00:53:17.29
EVIDENTLY, MARY WAS
THE FIRST ONE THERE.
00:53:17.33\00:53:22.40
MARY WAS ALSO THE
LAST ONE TO LEAVE.
00:53:22.43\00:53:24.37
MARY CAME, FOUND THE STONE
ROLLED AWAY, SHE DIDN'T GO IN
00:53:24.40\00:53:28.14
YET, SHE WENT BACK AND SHE
SAW THE OTHER WOMEN WHO WERE EN
00:53:28.17\00:53:32.44
ROUTE - THEY'RE COMING
FROM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS - THEY
00:53:32.47\00:53:34.61
RENDEZVOUS BECAUSE THEY KNOW
THEY'RE GOING TO FINISH THE JOB.
00:53:34.64\00:53:36.85
MARY THEN GOES WITH THEM, SHE
SEES THE ANGELS, THE WOMEN GO TO
00:53:36.88\00:53:39.51
THE UPPER ROOM,
MARY SEES PETER AND JOHN.
00:53:39.55\00:53:43.08
SHE GOES BACK WITH
PETER AND JOHN TO THE TOMB.
00:53:43.12\00:53:45.49
PETER AND JOHN LOOK
INSIDE. THEY DON'T SEE AN ANGEL.
00:53:45.52\00:53:47.22
THEY LEAVE. THE WOMEN HAVE LEFT.
THEN JESUS APPEARS TO MARY WHILE
00:53:47.26\00:53:51.23
SHE'S THE LAST ONE THERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, I WROTE A BOOK ON
00:53:51.26\00:53:54.40
THIS WHERE I DID A DEEP STUDY
ON THE SEQUENCE AND IT ALL FITS
00:53:54.46\00:53:57.07
TOGETHER PERFECTLY AND IT
MATCHES UP WITH THE GOSPEL.
00:53:57.10\00:53:59.73
ALRIGHT, LAST THING I'M GOING TO
SHARE IS ABOUT EMMAUS, AND THIS
00:53:59.77\00:54:04.64
IS THE WONDERFUL STORY IN LUKE
24, VERSES 13 TO 16, "...TWO OF
00:54:04.67\00:54:08.94
THEM WERE TRAVELING THAT SAME
DAY" - THIS WAS BEFORE HE MET
00:54:08.98\00:54:12.68
THEM IN THE UPPER ROOM, THEY ARE
GOING FROM JERUSALEM TO EMMAUS -
00:54:12.71\00:54:14.82
JESUS APPEARS TO
THEM AND WHAT DOES HE DO?
00:54:14.85\00:54:18.09
HE OPENS THE SCRIPTURES.
HE SAYS, "O FOOLISH ONES, AND
00:54:18.12\00:54:22.46
SLOW OF HEART TO BELIEVE IN ALL
THAT THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN!
00:54:22.49\00:54:24.83
OUGHT NOT THE CHRIST TO HAVE
SUFFERED THESE THINGS AND TO
00:54:24.86\00:54:27.10
ENTER INTO HIS GLORY? AND
BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL
00:54:27.13\00:54:29.50
THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED TO
THEM IN ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE
00:54:29.53\00:54:32.47
THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF."
HOW MUCH OF THE SCRIPTURE IS
00:54:32.50\00:54:36.24
ABOUT JESUS? ALL THE SCRIPTURE.
00:54:36.27\00:54:38.81
MOSES - WAS THERE A NEW
TESTAMENT YET, WHEN HE SAID
00:54:38.84\00:54:41.04
THIS? >>NO.
00:54:41.08\00:54:43.04
>>CAN YOU READ ABOUT
JESUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:54:43.08\00:54:44.58
YEAH, THE TEACHINGS ABOUT
CHRIST, CHRIST SAID, 'THESE ARE
00:54:44.61\00:54:47.48
THEY THAT TESTIFY OF ME.' AND SO
THEY GET TO THE FORK IN THE ROAD
00:54:47.52\00:54:52.52
- LITTLE TOWN OF EMMAUS - AND
THE MAIN ROAD CONTINUES ON AND
00:54:52.55\00:54:56.26
HE MAKES LIKE HE'S
GOING TO KEEP GOING.
00:54:56.29\00:54:58.16
THEY DON'T KNOW IT'S JESUS YET.
THEY SAID, 'COME AND ABIDE WITH
00:54:58.19\00:55:00.76
US.' THAT'S WHERE WE GET
THAT SONG ABIDE WITH ME .
00:55:00.80\00:55:03.30
HE GOES IN, THEY ALL ASK
IF HE'LL BREAK THE BREAD.
00:55:03.33\00:55:07.47
IN THE PROCESS OF
BREAKING THE BREAD,
00:55:07.50\00:55:09.47
SUDDENLY THEIR EYES ARE OPENED.
00:55:09.50\00:55:11.77
THEY RECOGNIZE THAT IT WAS JESUS
THAT HAD BEEN WALKING WITH THEM
00:55:11.81\00:55:13.98
FOR THAT TWO AND A HALF
HOURS FROM JERUSALEM TO EMMAUS,
00:55:14.01\00:55:16.34
OPENING THE SCRIPTURES.
AND THEN HE DISAPPEARS.
00:55:16.38\00:55:19.41
AND THEY SAID, 'DID NOT OUR
HEARTS BURN WITHIN US WHEN HE
00:55:19.45\00:55:22.75
OPENED THE
SCRIPTURES TO US ALONG THE WAY.
00:55:22.78\00:55:25.72
THEY GO BACK TO THE UPPER
ROOM NOW - THEY'RE SO HAPPY -
00:55:25.75\00:55:28.19
IT'S DARK. THEY GO
UPHILL, BUT THEY'VE GOT
00:55:28.22\00:55:31.43
GOOD NEWS, THEY CAN'T KEEP IT TO
THEMSELVES AND THEY SAY TO THE
00:55:31.46\00:55:34.30
DISCIPLES, 'JESUS
APPEARED. HE'S ALIVE.
00:55:34.36\00:55:37.27
HE WAS KNOWN TO US IN THE
BREAKING OF BREAD.' AND WHILE
00:55:37.30\00:55:40.70
THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT JESUS - BY
THE WAY, IS JESUS STILL KNOWN TO
00:55:40.74\00:55:43.51
US IN THE
BREAKING OF BREAD? >>AMEN.
00:55:43.54\00:55:45.91
>>IT'S THROUGH THE
BIBLE THAT HE'S KNOWN TO US.
00:55:45.94\00:55:48.68
WHILE THEY'RE TALKING
ABOUT JESUS, HE APPEARS AGAIN.
00:55:48.71\00:55:51.65
HE HAD GONE WITH THEM FROM
EMMAUS BACK TO JERUSALEM, EXCEPT
00:55:51.68\00:55:54.25
THEY DIDN'T SEE HIM. HE
ENTERS THE ROOM, HE SAYS,
00:55:54.28\00:55:56.72
'PEACE TO YOU.' AND THEN YOU
FIND THAT HE CONTINUES TO OPEN
00:55:56.75\00:56:00.22
TO THEM THE SCRIPTURES AND IN
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE IT SAYS THAT
00:56:00.26\00:56:04.19
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED
WAS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.
00:56:04.23\00:56:07.40
YOU KNOW, LUKE, OVER AND
OVER AGAIN, JUST EVEN LIKE THE
00:56:07.46\00:56:11.23
PARABLE OF THE RICH MAN AND
LAZARUS, 'IF THEY BELIEVE NOT
00:56:11.27\00:56:13.77
MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, THEN
THEY WON'T BE PERSUADED THOUGH
00:56:13.80\00:56:16.57
ONE SHOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD.'
THE EMPHASIS THROUGHOUT THE
00:56:16.60\00:56:19.14
GOSPEL OF LUKE IS WE NEED
TO BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD AND
00:56:19.17\00:56:21.94
WE'LL KNOW THAT
JESUS IS THE ONE, AMEN?
00:56:21.98\00:56:25.01
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MISSIONARIES - SO THOSE OF
YOU WHO ARE PART OF OUR
LIVE-STREAMING CLASS OR
00:56:53.17\00:56:55.68
THE CLASS HERE, YOU'LL WANT
TO GET YOUR LESSONS AND BE READY
00:56:55.71\00:56:58.05
FOR NEXT WEEK. IT
LOOKS REALLY GOOD - THE
00:56:58.08\00:57:00.52
MISSIONARY NATURE OF GOD -
ABRAHAM, THE FIRST MISSIONARY -
00:57:00.55\00:57:03.79
THE UNLIKELY MISSIONARY -
JONAH, THE SAGA - EXILES AND
00:57:03.82\00:57:08.09
MISSIONARIES - GOT
SOME GREAT SUBJECTS.
00:57:08.12\00:57:10.43
GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE
STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:57:10.46\00:57:14.83
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:14.86\00:57:17.77
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY
00:57:17.80\00:57:22.07
OF THE WEEK. NOW,
EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:22.10\00:57:24.74
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:24.77\00:57:28.84
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:28.88\00:57:31.08
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:31.11\00:57:33.92
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
00:57:33.95\00:57:37.72
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PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:44.09\00:57:47.86
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:47.86\00:57:51.40
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:51.43\00:57:55.07
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00:57:55.10\00:57:58.24
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