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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH 00:36 SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:39 FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD - 00:42 OUR EXTENDED BIBLE STUDY CLASS. ALSO, A WARM WELCOME TO THE 00:45 MEMBERS HERE AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 00:47 GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN THIS MORNING. 00:49 OUR STUDY TODAY IS LESSON #12 IN OUR LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING 00:53 WITH THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON A 00:56 LESSON ENTITLED JESUS' LAST DAYS - LESSON #12. 01:02 NOW, FOR THOSE WHO ARE JOINING US WHO DON'T HAVE A COPY OF THE 01:05 LESSON, YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST 01:07 AMAZINGFACTS . ORG . AND YOU COULD DOWNLOAD TODAY'S 01:10 STUDY - LESSON #12 - JESUS' LAST DAYS. WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER, 01:15 THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY THIS MORNING, CALLED THE HIGH 01:18 COST OF THE CROSS - A BOOK WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS. 01:22 FOR OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE WATCHING US ONLINE OR ON THE VARIOUS 01:24 TELEVISION NETWORKS, IF YOU'D LIKE TO RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS 01:28 BOOK, GIVE US A CALL ON THE RESOURCE NUMBER. 01:31 THE PHONE NUMBERñ IS 866-788-3966 - AGAIN, THAT'S 01:37 866-788-3966 - AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #156. 01:43 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THIS TO ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 01:46 NOW, IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA, YOU JUST NEED TO GO TO 01:49 THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN 01:53 DOWNLOAD THE BOOK CALLED THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS AND YOU 01:57 CAN READ THE .PDF VERSION OF THAT. WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR 02:00 STUDY THIS MORNING, WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN WITH A FEW SONGS OF 02:03 PRAISE, SO I'D LIKE TO INVITE THE CHORISTERS TO COME AND JOIN 02:06 ME HERE ON STAGE AND THEY WILL LEAD US IN A FEW HYMNS. 02:11 (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:15 AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE START OUT OUR STUDYING WITH SOME SINGING, 02:20 WHICH WE LOVE TO DO TOGETHER SO I INVITE YOU, THOSE THAT ARE AT 02:23 HOME, PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND SING ALONG WITH US. 02:25 HYMN #253 - THERE IS NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS - AND THAT IS 02:32 TRUE. IN THIS WORLD THAT WE ARE LIVING 02:34 IN, THERE TRULY IS NO OTHER NAME AND I AM SO GLAD EVERY DAY THAT 02:38 I CAN COUNT ON HIM AND CALL UPON HIS NAME FOR HELP. 02:42 WE WILL SING THE FIRST, THE THIRD, AND THE LAST VERSES. 02:44 HYMN #253 - THERE'S NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS . 02:48 (PIANO MUSIC) >>THERE'S NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS, 'TIS THE 02:59 DEAREST NAME WE KNOW, 'TIS THE ANGEL'S JOY IN HEAVEN, 'TIS THE 03:07 CHRISTIAN'S JOY BELOW, SWEET NAME, DEAR NAME, THERE'S NO 03:15 OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS; SWEET NAME, DEAR NAME, THERE'S NO 03:24 OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS. 'TIS THE HOPE THAT I SHALL SEE 03:33 HIM WHEN IN GLORY HE APPEARS, 'TIS THE HOPE TO BEAR HIS 03:40 WELCOME THAT MY FAINTING SPIRIT CHEERS. 03:46 SWEET NAME, DEAR NAME, THERE'S NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS; SWEET 03:55 NAME, DEAR NAME, THERE'S NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS. 04:05 IF HE WILLS THAT DEATH'S COLD FINGER TOUCH MY FEEBLE, MORTAL 04:11 CLAY, THEN 'TIS WELL IF ONLY JESUS IS MY DYING TRUST AND 04:20 STAY. SWEET NAME, DEAR NAME, THERE'S 04:26 NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS; SWEET NAME, DEAR NAME, THERE'S 04:34 NO OTHER NAME LIKE JESUS. >>YOU KNOW, AS WE WERE SINGING 04:42 THAT I WAS THINKING, WHAT A SWEET THING IT IS GOING TO BE 04:45 WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN AND WE HEAR JESUS SAY OUR NAMES 04:49 AND HE GREETS US, YAY? I CANNOT WAIT FOR THAT DAY. 04:53 AND, UNTIL THEN, WE WILL KEEP FIGHTING AND KEEP MARCHING 04:56 THROUGH. HYMN # 647 - MINE EYES HAVE SEEN 05:01 THE GLORY - OF THE COMING OF THE LORD. 05:03 AND WHETHER YOU'RE HERE IN OUR AUDIENCE SINGING WITH US, OR 05:06 YOU'RE AT HOME, LET'S JUST SING THIS ONE LIKE WE REALLY MEAN IT 05:09 - MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY - WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. 05:13 (PIANO MUSIC) 05:20 >>MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD; 05:24 HE IS TRAMPLING OUT THE VINTAGE WHERE THE GRAPES OF WRATH ARE 05:29 STORED; HE HAS LOOSED THE FATEFUL 05:31 LIGHTNING OF HIS TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD; HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON. 05:39 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! 05:49 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON. 05:58 >>HE HAS SOUNDED FORTH THE TRUMPET THAT SHALL NEVER CALL 06:02 RETREAT; HE IS SIFTING OUT THE HEARTS OF MEN BEFORE HIS 06:07 JUDGMENT SEAT; O BE SWIFT, MY SOUL, TO ANSWER HIM; BE JUBILANT 06:12 MY FEET! OUR GOD IS MARCHING ON. 06:19 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! 06:29 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON. 06:38 IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES CHRIST WAS BORN ACROSS THE SEA, 06:43 WITH A GLORY IN HIS BOSOM THAT TRANSFIGURES YOU AND ME; 06:48 AS HE DIED TO MAKE MEN HOLY, LET US LIVE TO MAKE MEN FREE! 06:54 WHILE GOD IS MARCHING ON. 06:59 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! 07:10 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON. 07:20 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! 07:30 GLORY! GLORY! HALLELUJAH! HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON. 07:43 >>AMEN. AT THIS TIME PASTOR ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER. 07:54 >>I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH A 07:56 WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE 07:58 GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE ABLE TO OPEN UP THE BIBLE AND STUDY THIS VERY 08:02 IMPORTANT SUBJECT, THE STORY OF JESUS. 08:05 AND, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE FINAL MOMENTS 08:07 OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY LIFE, SO WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME 08:10 AND GUIDE OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARTS, FOR WE ASK THIS IN 08:13 JESUS' NAME, AMEN. WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING 08:16 SOMETHING JUST A LITTLE DIFFERENT THIS MORNING. 08:18 I'D LIKE TO INVITE PASTOR DOUG TO COME JOIN ME, BUT WE DID GET 08:21 SOME QUESTIONS THAT CAME IN FROM OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL 08:26 CLASS AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND ADDRESS TWO OF THE QUESTIONS 08:29 THAT CAME IN, PASTOR DOUG, RIGHT HERE AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR 08:31 LESSON THIS MORNING. >>ALRIGHT. 08:33 >>ALRIGHT, WELL, IF YOU'RE READY, OUR FIRST QUESTION THAT'S 08:36 COME IN FROM STEVEN FROM COLORADO - HIS QUESTION IS: "THE 08:40 LESSON AUTHOR SAYS THAT JESUS HAD FREE WILL. 08:43 DOES THIS MEAN THAT HE COULD HAVE SINNED OR, POSSIBLY MORE 08:46 IMPORTANTLY, COULD HE HAVE RETURNED TO THE FATHER AND 08:49 AVOIDED THE CROSS? HOW WOULD EITHER OF THESE 08:52 CHOICES HAVE AFFECTED US? >>THAT'S A BIG QUESTION. 08:55 THERE'S A FEW HYPOTHETICALS IN THERE. 08:57 ONE, DID JESUS HAVE A FREE WILL? OF COURSE. 09:00 FIRST OF ALL, HE'S OUR CREATOR. 09:02 HE CHOSE TO CREATE US, SO JESUS HAS A FREE WILL. 09:05 I THINK THEY'RE ASKING, WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH DID HE HAVE ANY 09:07 CHOICE TO SAY, 'OH, FORGET ABOUT THESE HUMANS. 09:10 THEY JUST DON'T APPRECIATE WHAT I'M DOING.' AND THROW HIS HANDS 09:12 IN THE AIR AND WALK BACK TO HEAVEN - OR FLY BACK TO HEAVEN - 09:15 AND WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED TO US? 09:17 WELL, WITH THE HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS IT'S SOMETIMES HARD TO 09:21 ANSWER, BUT WE WOULD CERTAINLY BE DOOMED IF IT WASN'T FOR THE 09:23 SACRIFICE OF JESUS. COULD HE HAVE FAILED? 09:27 DID HE HAVE A FREE WILL THAT WAY? 09:30 YES AND NO. THE PROPHECY COULD NOT FAIL. 09:35 HIS WORD WILL NEVER RETURN VOID. THE WORD OF GOD SAID THAT JESUS' 09:39 SACRIFICE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL. JESUS SAID, 'AFTER THREE DAYS 09:44 I WILL RISE.' SO HE MADE A PREDICTION THAT HE WOULD DO IT. 09:47 HIS WORD WOULD COME TRUE. BUT WHEN HE WAS IN THE GARDEN OF 09:50 GETHSEMANE, AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT THIS MORNING, HE 09:54 COULDN'T SEE BEYOND THE PORTALS OF THE TOMB. 09:57 HE - HE SAW SEPARATION AS - OF THE FATHER AND CARRYING THE 10:01 WEIGHT OF THE WORLD, ALL THE SINS AS JUST SO BLEAK THAT IT 10:07 LOOKED HOPELESS - IT FELT HOPELESS TO HIM. 10:10 AND THERE WAS - THAT WAS THE BIGGEST AGONY - AND HE WAS BEING 10:13 TEMPTED TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GOING TO CAUSE ETERNAL 10:15 SEPARATION SO HE FELT WHAT THE LOST FEEL AND WHAT THEY STRUGGLE 10:20 AGAINST, BUT THE PROPHECY WASN'T GOING TO FAIL. 10:23 EVERYTHING IN THE WORD OF GOD SAID THAT HIS MISSION WOULD BE 10:25 SUCCESSFUL. >>AMEN. 10:28 ALRIGHT, WELL, WE DO HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION THAT'S COME 10:29 FROM DANIEL FROM ARKANSAS AND THE QUESTION IS: 'THE CUP THAT 10:33 JESUS ASKED TO BE PASSED FROM HIM, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 26, 10:36 VERSE 39, WHAT WAS IN THE CUP? >>NOW IT'S WHEN HE WAS IN THE 10:41 GARDEN HE SAID, 'FATHER, IF THERE'S ANY WAY, LET THIS CUP 10:43 PASS FROM ME.' YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING THAT JUST A LITTLE 10:47 WHILE EARLIER, THEY HAD THE CUP OF THE NEW COVENANT AND, BY 10:52 TAKING THAT CUP, THE DISCIPLES SAID, 'WE ARE RECEIVING THE 10:55 GOSPEL.' NOW, JESUS WAS ABOUT TO TAKE A CUP OF SUFFERING. 10:59 JAMES AND JOHN CAME AT THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THEIR MOTHER, 11:03 AT LEAST THEY BROUGHT THEIR MOTHER ALONG, AND SHE APPEALED 11:05 AND SAID, 'WHEN YOU ENTER INTO YOUR KINGDOM, LET THESE TWO SONS 11:08 OF MINE SIT ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT.' AND JESUS SAID, 'YOU 11:11 DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. ARE THEY TO BE BAPTIZED WITH MY 11:14 BAPTISM AND DRINK FROM MY CUP?' AND THEY SAID, 'OH, YES WE ARE.' 11:17 AND HE SAID, 'WELL, YOU WILL INDEED DRINK FROM MY CUP.' AND 11:22 SO THERE - THIS WAS A CUP OF SUFFERING THAT CHRIST WANTED TO 11:25 BE TAKEN AWAY AND IT INCLUDED JUST THE PHYSICAL PAIN THAT HE 11:28 WAS GOING TO BEAR, SEPARATION FROM THE FATHER, JUST THE WHOLE 11:31 AGONY HE HAD COME INTO THE WORLD TO DRINK THIS CUP. 11:35 NOW, BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, THEY - DOCTORS DIDN'T DISPENSE PILLS 11:41 THAT WERE CONCENTRATED LIKE THEY DO NOW. 11:43 OFTEN THEY'D GIVE YOU THESE CONCOCTIONS AND HERBS AND THINGS 11:46 - USUALLY BITTER - AND THEY'D SAY, THIS IS GOING TO MAKE YOU 11:49 FEEL BETTER BUT YOU'VE GOT TO DRINK THIS CUP. 11:52 AND SO, THOSE BITTER CUPS WERE A SYMBOL OF WHAT HE NEEDED TO GO 11:57 THROUGH IN ORDER TO HEAL AND TO SAVE US. 12:00 >>ALRIGHT, WELL PASTOR DOUG, I THINK THAT QUESTION IS A GOOD 12:02 SEGUE INTO OUR STUDY FOR TODAY, TALKING ABOUT JESUS' LAST 12:06 MOMENTS HERE ON THE EARTH BEFORE HIS SACRIFICE. 12:09 >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PASTOR ROSS. 12:11 I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE PART OF OUR EXTENDED GRANITE BAY 12:15 CHURCH FAMILY. SOME OF YOU WATCH WEEK AFTER 12:17 WEEK AND YOU HAVE NO LOCAL CHURCH YOU CAN ATTEND, BUT YOU 12:20 ARE A MEMBER AND YOU WANT TO BELONG. WELL, WE INVITE YOU TO 12:24 CONSIDER BEING A PART OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH FAMILY. 12:27 AND YOU CAN GO TO THE GRANITE BAY WEBSITE - SIMPLY 12:29 GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG - AND YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE THERE. 12:34 OUR LESSON TODAY - WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY ON 12:37 MATTHEW AND IT'S MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 - I'M SORRY, LESSON #12. 12:42 THE CHAPTER WE'RE REALLY COVERING TODAY IS CHAPTER 26. 12:47 MOST OF OUR STUDY TODAY IS IN THAT ONE CHAPTER. 12:50 NOW, YOU MIGHT BE ASKING, 'PASTOR DOUG, LAST WEEK WE 12:54 STUDIED CHAPTER 24 AND NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHAPTER 26. 12:59 DID WE MISS SOMETHING?' WELL, YES WE DID. 13:02 THE LESSON IS REALLY GOING THROUGH THE LIFE OF JESUS AND 13:06 IT'S LEFT OUT THE CHAPTER 25 - CHAPTER 25, LET ME SUMMARIZE FOR 13:11 YOU VERY QUICKLY, IS THE PARABLES OR THE TEACHINGS OF 13:16 JESUS, ALMOST ALL OF THEM RELATED TO THE SECOND COMING. 13:19 CHAPTER 24 - IF YOU'VE GOT A RED-LETTER EDITION BIBLE, YOU'LL 13:21 NOTICE THAT CHAPTER 24, THERE'S THIS WHOLE WALL OF RED PAINT - 13:27 RED LETTERING. WHEN YOU GET TO CHAPTER 25 IT CONTINUES. 13:31 CHAPTER 25 IS A CONTINUATION OF THE PROPHECIES JESUS GIVES IN 13:36 CHAPTER 24. CHAPTER 25 HAS THREE PARABLES. 13:40 YOU'VE GOT THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. 13:44 YOU'VE GOT THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS - (CLEARS THROAT) EXCUSE 13:48 ME - AND YOU'VE GOT THE PARABLE OF THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS. 13:51 AND SO, THEY'RE ALL PARABLES THAT ARE TALKING ABOUT THE 13:54 SECOND COMING THERE, AND THAT'S ALL CHAPTER 25. 13:57 AND THAT'LL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN WE GET TO CHAPTER 26, 14:02 IT SAYS, 'NOW IT CAME TO PASS WHEN HE HAD FINISHED THESE 14:06 SAYINGS.' NOW, BEFORE I GET INTO THAT, I THINK I FORGOT THE 14:09 MEMORY VERSE. WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND 14:13 IT'S CHAPTER 26, VERSE 31. DO YOU WANT TO SAY THAT WITH ME? 14:16 MATTHEW 26:31 - HERE IN YOUR LESSON IT'S FROM THE NIV. 14:20 I THINK THEY'RE ONLY GIVING US HALF THE VERSE, SO WE SHOULD BE 14:22 ABLE TO DO THAT. YOU READY? "THIS VERY NIGHT YOU WILL ALL 14:27 FALL AWAY ON ACCOUNT OF ME." JESUS MADE A PROPHECY THERE - 14:32 "THIS VERY NIGHT YOU WILL ALL FALL AWAY ON ACCOUNT OF ME." 14:35 AND SO AS WE DELVE INTO THE LESSON - AND I THINK I'VE GOT 14:39 SOME OF YOU LINED UP WHO ARE GOING TO HELP ME READ SOME 14:41 VERSES - JOHN - SOMEONE, IN A MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ JOHN 14:46 12, VERSE 3 - WHO HAS THAT? OKAY, RON? 14:49 YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 14:50 I WANT YOU TO READ MATTHEW CHAPTER 26 VERSES 1 TO 13 AND, 14:55 WELL, YOU KNOW, I'LL READ THIS TO YOU, "NOW IT CAME TO PASS, 15:01 WHEN JESUS HAD FINISHED ALL THESE SAYINGS, THAT HE SAID TO 15:03 HIS DISCIPLES, 'YOU KNOW THAT AFTER TWO DAYS IS THE PASSOVER, 15:07 AND THE SON OF MAN WILL BE DELIVERED UP TO BE CRUCIFIED.' 15:11 THEN THE CHIEF PRIESTS, THE SCRIBES, AND THE ELDERS OF THE 15:13 PEOPLE ASSEMBLED AT THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST, WHO WAS 15:18 CALLED CAIAPHAS, AND PLOTTED TO TAKE JESUS BY TRICKERY AND KILL 15:22 HIM. BUT THEY SAID, 'NOT DURING THE 15:24 FEAST, LEST THERE BE AN UPROAR AMONG THE PEOPLE.' AND WHEN 15:28 JESUS WAS IN BETHANY AT THE HOUSE OF SIMON THE LEPER," - NOW 15:32 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT THAT VERY IMPORTANT FEAST THAT HAPPENS - 15:36 "A WOMAN CAME TO HIM HAVING AN ALABASTER FLASK OF VERY COSTLY 15:41 FRAGRANT OIL," - IT'S ALSO CALLED 'OINTMENT' - "AND SHE 15:45 POURED IT ON HIS HEAD AS HE SAT AT THE TABLE." 15:48 - ALRIGHT, ONE THING SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO NOTICE RIGHT HERE, 15:52 BEFORE WE GO ANY FARTHER IS WHERE DID MARY - ALRIGHT, AND DO 15:57 - DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AT THE HOUSE OF PROBABLY 16:01 MARTHA AND LAZARUS - IT'S A FEAST - IT'S THE 16:04 HOUSE OF, I'M SORRY, SIMON. MARY, MARTHA AND LAZARUS 16:09 LIVED IN BETHANY. IT'S A FEAST IN BETHANY. 16:13 THE MARY WHO GOES THERE IS MARY OF BETHANY, WHO MAY ALSO BE MARY 16:18 MAGDALENE - THE SAME MARY, WE BELIEVE. 16:21 MARTHA AND LAZARUS LIVED THERE BECAUSE MARY HAD BEEN LIVING UP 16:24 IN MAGDALA FOR A WHILE - THEY CALLED HER MARY OF MAGDALA OR 16:27 MARY MAGDALENE - IT WAS OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE PLACE. 16:30 AND IT SAYS THAT SHE ANOINTED HIS HEAD. 16:35 WELL, WAS IT THE HEAD OR WAS IT THE FEET? 16:38 IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE - NOW WE JUST READ IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 26 16:42 SHE POURED IT ON HIS HEAD. LOOK IN LUKE 36 - LUKE 7, VERSE 16:48 36 - "THEN ONE OF THE PHARISEES ASKED HIM TO EAT WITH HIM AND HE 16:52 WENT TO THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE, AND HE SAT DOWN TO EAT. 16:55 AND BEHOLD, A WOMAN IN THE CITY WHO WAS A SINNER, WHEN SHE KNEW 16:57 THAT JESUS SAT AT THE TABLE IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE, BROUGHT AN 17:01 ALABASTER FLASK OF FRAGRANT OIL, AND STOOD AT HIS FEET BEHIND HIM 17:05 WEEPING; AND SHE BEGAN TO WASH HIS FEET WITH HER TEARS, AND 17:09 WIPED THEM WITH THE HAIR OF HER HEAD; AND SHE KISSED HIS FEET 17:11 AND ANOINTED THEM WITH THE FRAGRANT OIL." 17:14 SO WHICH IS IT, THE HEAD OR THE FEET? 17:18 GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US CHAPTER 12, VERSE 3. 17:23 >>"THEN MARY TOOK A POUND OF VERY COSTLY OIL OF SPIKENARD, 17:27 ANOINTED THE FEET OF JESUS AND WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER HAIR AND 17:31 THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH THE FRAGRANCE OF THE OIL." 17:34 >>NOW WE BELIEVE THESE ARE ALL TALKING ABOUT THE SAME EVENT. 17:38 JOHN, FOR INSTANCE, IN HIS GOSPEL, DOESN'T SAY IT WAS MARY. 17:42 HE SAYS, 'A WOMAN IN THE CITY'. 17:44 HE ALWAYS, SORT OF, PROTECTS HER IDENTITY. 17:46 YOU CAN ALSO FIND THAT IT TELLS US IN LUKE - IT SAYS IT WAS A 17:52 FEAST AT SIMON'S HOUSE - LUKE DOESN'T SAY THAT, BUT LATER IN 17:56 THE STORY OF LUKE, LUKE SAYS, 'SIMON, I HAVE SOMETHING TO ASK 17:59 YOU' SO IT'S GOT TO BE THE SAME FEAST, RIGHT, THAT HE'S TALKING 18:03 ABOUT AS MARY'S KISSING HIS FEET? 18:06 THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES GIVES US A LITTLE INSIGHT ON THIS. 18:08 YOU KNOW, I WROTE A WHOLE BOOK CALLED AT JESUS FEET - ABOUT 18:12 MARY MAGDALENE - AND SO I WENT THROUGH ALL OF THESE STORIES AND 18:16 TOOK THEM APART AND SAID - HOW DOES THIS ALL FIT TOGETHER? 18:19 AND IT FITS ALONG ALSO VERY WELL WITH THE DESIRE OF AGES . 18:23 I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT MARY MAGDALENE IS THE SAME AS 18:26 MARY OF BETHANY AND THERE'S EVEN THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE WOMAN 18:30 CAUGHT IN ADULTERY IN JOHN CHAPTER 8 WAS THE FIRST 18:33 ENCOUNTER OF JESUS WITH MARY. 18:35 AGAIN, HE JUST CALLS HER 'A CERTAIN WOMAN.' BUT HERE'S 18:38 DESIRE OF AGES - 558, "AT GREAT PERSONAL SACRIFICE SHE HAD 18:43 PURCHASED AN ALABASTER BOX OF "OINTMENT OF SPIKENARD, VERY 18:46 COSTLY," WITH WHICH TO ANOINT HIS BODY. 18:49 BUT NOW" - NOW WHY IS SHE ANOINTING HIS BODY? 18:53 JESUS SAID, 'SHE'S DONE THIS FOR MY BURIAL,' BUT IT ENDS UP 18:57 BECOMING MORE THAN THAT, YOU'LL SEE IN JUST A MOMENT. 19:00 SOMETIMES WE GIVE PEOPLE FLOWERS AFTER THEY DIE - MARY WANTED TO 19:04 DO SOMETHING FOR JESUS WHILE HE WAS ALIVE. 19:07 IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY TIMES, IF YOU GO THROUGH THE GOSPELS, 19:10 JESUS TOLD THE DISCIPLES IN ADVANCE, 'I'M GOING TO 19:14 JERUSALEM. I WILL BE BETRAYED INTO 19:16 THE HANDS OF SINNERS. THE GENTILES WILL CRUCIFY ME. 19:19 I WILL RISE THE THIRD DAY.' HE SAID THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 19:23 MARY HEARD THAT. YOU READ IN LUKE CHAPTER 8, IT SAYS, 'THERE 19:26 WERE CERTAIN WOMEN THAT FOLLOWED HIM FROM GALILEE' - AND IT 19:29 MENTIONS MARY MAGDALENE. AND IT SAYS 'THEY MINISTERED UNTO HIM 19:33 OF THEIR SUBSTANCE.' SO SHE WAS FREQUENTLY THERE WHEN 19:35 HE WAS SPEAKING. SHE HEARD THIS, SHE BELIEVED IT. 19:38 THE DISCIPLES SAID, 'OH NO, THAT WON'T HAPPEN TO YOU, JESUS.' 19:41 THEY THOUGHT, 'HE'S SPEAKING IN MYSTICAL TERMS, AGAIN. 19:44 YOU KNOW, BREAD, LEAVEN, THESE THINGS? 19:46 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. 19:47 AND SO THEY WEREN'T TAKING HIM SERIOUSLY. 19:49 THEY WERE SHOCKED WHEN IT HAPPENED. 19:51 LET ME READ ON, "BUT NOW MANY WERE DECLARING THAT HE WAS ABOUT 19:55 TO BE CROWNED KING. HER GRIEF WAS TURNED TO JOY AND 19:59 SHE, EAGER TO BE THE FIRST TO HONOR HER LORD, BREAKING HER 20:03 BOX OF OINTMENT, SHE POURED ITS CONTENTS UPON HIS HEAD AND FEET 20:08 OF JESUS; THEN, AS SHE KNELT WIPING - WEEPING, MOISTENING 20:13 THEM WITH HER TEARS, SHE WIPED HIS FEET WITH HER 20:16 LONG, FLOWING HAIR." SO, IT'S SIMPLY SHE DID BOTH. 20:20 AND THERE'S REALLY NOT CONFLICT IN THE SCRIPTURES THERE. 20:23 NOW, WHAT DOES THE WORD - HOW DO YOU INTERPRET THE WORD 'CHRIST'? 20:30 WHAT DOES CHRIST MEAN? CHRIST COMES FROM A GREEK WORD, 20:34 'CHRISTOS', WHICH MEANS 'TO ANOINT'. 20:37 HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT WHEN THEY CHRISTEN A SHIP? 20:41 YOU PROBABLY DON'T THINK ABOUT IT, THEY'RE ANOINTING THE SHIP - 20:44 USUALLY WITH CHAMPAGNE - TO LAUNCH IT ON ITS - A BABY'S 20:48 CHRISTENING, THEY TALK - IT MEANS 'THE ANOINTING' - THEY'RE 20:51 HOPING THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL COME ON THE CHILD. 20:56 AND THE WORD 'MESSIAH' IS WHAT? IT'S HEBREW FOR 'ANOINTED'. 21:02 JESUS WAS CALLED 'THE ANOINTED'. AND SO, ISN'T IT INTERESTING AND 21:06 VERY SIGNIFICANT THAT - WHAT IS A CHURCH A SYMBOL OF? 21:09 I'M SORRY WHAT IS MARY - WHAT IS A WOMAN A SYMBOL OF? 21:13 I GOT UP EARLY. (LAUGHTER) A WOMAN'S A SYMBOL OF 21:16 A CHURCH AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS WOMAN KNEELING AT THE FEET 21:21 - A SYMBOL OF SUBMISSION TO JESUS - WEEPING. IT'S LIKE HIS 21:24 FEET ARE BATHED IN OUR TEARS. SHE'S ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL - 21:29 SHE'S ANOINTING HIM AS KING - DAVID WAS ANOINTED AS KING. 21:32 THE PRIEST WAS ANOINTED - SHE'S ANOINTING HIM AS PRIEST. 21:36 AND I THINK THERE'S ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE WHERE EVEN A SACRIFICE 21:38 WAS ANOINTED, SO SHE'S ANOINTING HIM AS SACRIFICE. 21:41 AND SO, HERE IS AN ANOINTING - JUST BEFORE HIS CRUCIFIXION IS 21:45 TO TAKE PLACE - BY MARY, WHO WAS CONSIDERED THE, YOU KNOW, THE 21:50 LEAST OF THE LEAST BECAUSE EVEN SIMON SAID, 'THIS MAN, IF HE WAS 21:54 A PROPHET, WOULD KNOW WHO AND WHAT MANNER OF WOMAN THIS IS 21:57 THAT'S TOUCHING HIM, FOR SHE IS A SINNER.' AND THIS IS WHO JESUS 22:01 CHOSE TO ANOINT HIM. SHE EVIDENTLY HAD MONEY BECAUSE 22:05 IT SAYS ONCE PLACE, SHE MINISTERED UNTO HIM 22:08 OF HER SUBSTANCE. IN ANOTHER PLACE IT SAYS, JUDAS 22:11 IS UPSET BECAUSE THIS IS A GIFT FIT FOR A KING. 22:14 WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY. AND SO MARY PROBABLY PUT IT ALL 22:18 INTO BUYING THIS TREMENDOUS GIFT. 22:22 MATTHEW 26, VERSE 8, "BUT WHEN HIS DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY WERE 22:27 INDIGNANT, SAYING, 'WHY THIS WASTE? 22:30 FOR THIS FRAGRANT OIL MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR MUCH AND GIVEN TO 22:34 THE POOR.' BUT WHEN JESUS WAS AWARE OF IT, HE SAID TO THEM, 22:38 'WHY DO YOU TROUBLE THE WOMAN? FOR SHE HAS DONE A 22:40 GOOD WORK FOR ME. FOR YOU HAVE THE POOR WITH 22:43 YOU ALWAYS,'" - NOW THAT'S AN INTERESTING PROPHECY. 22:45 WILL THERE ALWAYS BE SOME POOR PEOPLE AROUND THAT WE CAN 22:48 MINISTER TO? - "'BUT ME YOU DO NOT HAVE ALWAYS. 22:52 FOR IN POURING THIS FRAGRANT OIL ON MY BODY, SHE DID IT FOR MY 22:55 BURIAL. ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, 22:58 WHEREVER THIS GOSPEL IS PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD, WHAT THIS 23:02 WOMAN HAS DONE WILL ALSO BE TOLD AS A MEMORIAL TO HER.'" 23:06 WAS JESUS A PROPHET? HOW DO YOU KNOW 23:10 HE WAS A PROPHET? SON OF GOD? HE'S IN THE BIBLE? 23:20 BECAUSE HIS PROPHECIES CAME TRUE. 23:23 I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT, FOR A FELLOW TO MAKE A PREDICTION AT A 23:27 DINNER AND SAY, 'EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD PEOPLE ARE GOING TO 23:32 REMEMBER WHAT THIS WOMAN JUST DID, WHEREVER THE GOSPEL IS 23:35 PREACHED.' YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, ALL OVER THE WORLD, THERE ARE 23:37 BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND LOTS OF MILLIONS OF CHRISTIANS - ABOUT 2 23:40 BILLION CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS COMBINED, AND I'LL 23:44 BET YOU THERE'S SEVERAL PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE PEOPLE ARE 23:46 TALKING ABOUT WHAT MARY DID. IT'S IN ALL FOUR GOSPELS. 23:50 AND JESUS MADE THAT PREDICTION AND IT CAME TRUE. 23:55 WHAT A STRANGE THING TO FORETELL. 23:58 AND IN THAT LITTLE ROOM, WHEN THEY WERE ALL MAKING FUN OF HER, 24:01 HE SAID, 'YOU'RE PUTTING DOWN WHAT SHE'S DOING. 24:03 I'M TELLING YOU, WHAT SHE DID IS GOING TO BE REPEATED AND 24:06 PROCLAIMED AROUND THE WORLD AND IT WILL INSPIRE PEOPLE TO 24:09 SERVICE AND GENEROSITY AROUND THE WORLD. 24:13 AND SO WAS IT A WASTE? THINK ABOUT THE RIVER OF 24:22 OFFERINGS AND SERVICE THAT HAS COME INTO THE CHURCH OF 24:24 GOD FROM WHAT MARY DID. WAS IT A WASTE? 24:28 NO, IT HAS GOTTEN MILLIONS TIMES COMPOUNDED INTEREST. 24:34 SOMEONE'S GOING TO LOOK UP FOR ME MATTHEW 26:14-16 - YOU'LL 24:38 HAVE THAT? OKAY. I'M GOING TO READ JOHN 12:4, BUT ONE OF HIS 24:42 DISCIPLES - WHO IS IT THAT'S COMPLAINING SPECIFICALLY? 24:45 MATTHEW TELLS US 'THEY COMPLAINED'. 24:46 JOHN TELLS US WHO IT WAS. "BUT ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES, JUDAS 24:50 ISCARIOT, SIMON'S SON, WHO WOULD BETRAY HIM," - 24:53 THERE WAS ANOTHER JUDAS DISCIPLE - JUDAS WAS A VERY 24:56 COMMON NAME BECAUSE IT'S BASED ON THE TRIBE OF JUDAH - "...WHO 25:01 WOULD BETRAY HIM SAID, 'WHY WAS THIS FRAGRANT OIL NOT SOLD FOR 25:04 THREE HUNDRED DENARII AND GIVEN TO THE POOR?' 25:06 THIS HE SAID, NOT THAT HE CARED FOR THE POOR, BUT BECAUSE HE WAS 25:10 A THIEF, AND HAD THE MONEY BOX; AND HE USED TO TAKE WHAT WAS PUT 25:14 IN IT." ARE THERE ALSO SOME HYPOCRITICAL 25:18 PASTORS AND EVANGELISTS OUT THERE THAT EXPLOIT PEOPLE'S 25:21 MONEY UNDER THE PRETENSE OF IT GOING TO THE POOR? 25:27 JOB WAS - RATHER JUDAS WAS ONE OF THOSE, WASN'T HE? 25:31 ALRIGHT, READ FOR US PLEASE, MATTHEW 26:14. 25:34 >>"THEN ONE OF THE TWELVE, CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT, WENT TO 25:37 THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND SAID, 'WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE ME 25:41 IF I DELIVER HIM TO YOU?' AND THEY COUNTED OUT TO HIM 25:45 THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. SO FROM THAT TIME HE SOUGHT 25:48 OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY HIM." >>WHAT WAS IT THAT MOVED JUDAS 25:53 TO GO RIGHT FROM THAT DINNER TO MAKE AN AGREEMENT 25:57 WITH THE PRIESTS? BETHANY'S NOT THAT FAR FROM 25:59 JERUSALEM - IT'S JUST A COUPLE OF MILES AWAY. YOU KNOW, WHEN 26:05 JUDAS BEGAN TO MURMUR AMONG THE OTHER APOSTLES AND THE PEOPLE OF 26:09 THE DINNER AND SAY, 'OH, WASN'T THIS A TERRIBLE - THAT - WASTE 26:13 OF MONEY? AND LOOK WHO IT IS THAT'S TOUCHING HIM. SHE SHOULD 26:16 HAVE GIVEN THAT TO THE POOR. I WOULD HAVE KEPT THE MONEY AND 26:19 GIVEN IT TO THE POOR.' AND THEN JESUS REBUKES HIM AND SAYS, 'YOU 26:26 HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU ALWAYS, BUT ME YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE. 26:30 AND WHAT THIS WOMAN HAS DONE IS GOING TO BE HONORED.' AND JESUS 26:32 NOW - JUDAS IS FEELING A LITTLE BIT REBUKED BY ALL OF THIS. 26:36 AND YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE REALLY BOTHERED JUDAS? JUDAS WAS 26:38 CONTROLLED BY GREED. MARY WAS CONTROLLED BY GRATITUDE. 26:44 JUDAS WANTED THE HIGHEST PLACE. MARY'S TAKING THE LOWEST PLACE. 26:48 JUDAS FEELS REBUKED NOT ONLY BY JESUS, BUT BY MARY'S ACTION AND 26:54 HE GOES OUT ANGRY AND HE SAYS, 'WELL, I CAN TAKE CARE OF THIS.' 26:58 AND HE GOES RIGHT FROM THAT DINNER TO THE HIGH PRIESTS AND 27:01 COVENANTS TO BETRAY HIM. HE STARTS LOOKING FOR AN 27:04 OPPORTUNITY TO DO IT WHEN THERE'S NO CROWD AROUND. 27:07 ALRIGHT, THE NEW COVENANT IS OUR NEXT SECTION. 27:10 MATTHEW 26:17, "NOW ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED 27:14 BREAD THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS, SAYING TO HIM, 'WHERE DO 27:19 YOU WANT US TO PREPARE FOR YOU TO EAT THE PASSOVER?' 27:23 AND HE SAID, 'GO INTO THE CITY TO A CERTAIN MAN, AND SAY TO 27:27 HIM, 'THE TEACHER SAYS, 'MY TIME IS AT HAND I WILL KEEP THE 27:31 PASSOVER AT YOUR HOUSE WITH MY DISCIPLES.''" - GO TO VERSE 19 - 27:35 IT SAYS, "SO THE DISCIPLES DID AS JESUS HAD DIRECTED THEM; AND 27:37 THEY PREPARED THE PASSOVER." I WANT ALSO TO NOTE - I WANT YOU 27:40 TO NOTICE MARK, WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT THIS INCIDENT, HE ADDS 27:43 SOMETHING ELSE - MARK 14:13, "AND HE SENT OUT TWO OF HIS 27:47 DISCIPLES AND SAID TO THEM, 'GO INTO THE CITY, AND A MAN WILL 27:50 MEET YOU CARRYING A PITCHER OF WATER; FOLLOW HIM. 27:55 WHEREVER HE GOES IN, SAY TO THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE," - THERE'S 27:59 A SERVANT, HE'LL BE GETTING WATER FROM THE TOWN WELL, YOU 28:02 FOLLOW THAT MAN. HE'S GOT A PITCHER OF WATER. 28:04 OFTEN THE WOMEN USED TO CARRY THE WATER AND SO THEY SAID, 28:06 'HE WON'T BE HARD TO SPOT. 28:07 FOLLOW HIM.' THEY FOLLOW HIM UP AND DOWN THE STREETS - HE'S 28:11 PROBABLY LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER WONDERING WHAT'S GOING 28:13 ON AND HE SAYS, "'WHEREVER HE GOES IN, SAY TO THE MASTER OF 28:16 THE HOUSE, 'THE TEACHER SAYS, 'WHERE IS THE GUEST ROOM IN 28:19 WHICH I MAY EAT THE PASSOVER WITH MY DISCIPLES?'' 28:22 THEN HE WILL SHOW YOU A LARGE UPPER ROOM, FURNISHED AND 28:24 PREPARED;'" - ALL READY - "'THERE MAKE READY FOR US.'" 28:28 IT'S INTERESTING HOW GOD PROVIDES. 28:29 WHEN JESUS COMES INTO JERUSALEM HE SAYS, 'I NEED A CONVEYANCE. 28:35 I'M SUPPOSED TO RIDE A COLT AND I DON'T HAVE A COLT.' SO HE 28:41 SENDS THE DISCIPLES INTO TOWN AND SAYS, 'YOU'LL SEE A COLT 28:44 TIED, JUST TELL THEM THE LORD HAS NEED OF IT AND THEY'LL LET 28:47 IT GO.' IT'S INTERESTING HOW WHEN GOD NEEDS SOMETHING, HE HAS 28:51 PEOPLE THAT WILL PROVIDE IT. YOU GOT THAT? 28:54 AND WHEN HE NEEDS AN UPPER ROOM? THEY SAY, 'OH, WHERE ARE WE 28:56 GOING TO GET A ROOM BIG ENOUGH? WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY IN OUR 28:58 BUDGET FOR A HOTEL ROOM TO EAT THE PASSOVER. 29:00 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO' - HE SAYS, 'DON'T WORRY. 29:02 I'VE GOT IT COVERED. GOD'S GOT PLANS. 29:04 AND YOU NOTICE, HE ALSO MAKES THEM WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. 29:07 IT SAYS, 'HE'LL SHOW YOU WHERE TO GO IN AND YOU CAN GO RIGHT IN 29:10 AND START PREPARING.' AND THIS IS FOR THE NEXT DAY. 29:14 AND THEN HE FINDS OUT. JUST, SOMETIMES, GOD KEEPS YOU 29:16 WAITING UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. ALRIGHT, IT'S MOVING ALONG HERE 29:19 TALKING ABOUT THE COVENANT. I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW 29:21 26:26 THROUGH 29 NOW. NOW DURING DINNER, "AND AS THEY 29:27 WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD, BLESSED AND BROKE IT, AND GAVE 29:32 IT TO THE DISCIPLES AND SAID, 'TAKE, EAT; THIS IS MY BODY. 29:35 THEN HE TOOK THE CUP, AND GAVE THANKS, AND GAVE IT TO THEM, 29:39 SAYING, 'DRINK FROM IT, ALL OF YOU. 29:42 FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY 29:44 FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. BUT I SAY TO YOU, I WILL NOT 29:48 DRINK OF THIS FRUIT OF THE VINE FROM NOW ON UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN 29:51 I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM.'" FIRST THING 29:54 I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER IS THE LAST THING I READ. 29:57 WHEN PEOPLE CELEBRATE THE LAST SUPPER, WHAT KIND OF BREAD IS 30:01 IT? UNLEAVENED BREAD. WHAT KIND OF WINE? UNFERMENTED WINE. 30:10 LEAVENING AND FERMENTATION ARE THE SAME PROCESS. 30:14 THE BREAD WAS UNLEAVENED - HOW DO WE KNOW THAT? 30:17 JESUS SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO DRINK IT UNTIL I DRINK IT WITH 30:19 YOU NEW.' WHAT KIND OF WINE WAS IT? 30:22 NEW WINE. IS NEW WINE FERMENTED? 30:25 NO, JESUS TALKS ABOUT YOU DON'T PUT NEW WINE - HE COMPARED HIS 30:29 GOSPEL TO THE NEW WINE - IN OLD VESSELS. 30:32 PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, JESUS TURNED THE WATER INTO WINE.' WELL, 30:36 THAT'S THE SAME WORD THAT'S USED - THEY HAD NO WORD FOR GRAPE 30:38 JUICE, WINE WAS THE JUICE OF THE GRAPE. 30:40 THEY HAD BOTH THE OLD WINE THAT WAS FERMENTED, AND THEY HAD THE 30:42 NEW WINE THAT WAS UNFERMENTED. JESUS DID NOT MAKE A BUNCH 30:45 OF BOOZE FOR THE PARTY. THINK OF ALL THE FALL-OUT AND 30:50 BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM THAT AND IT'S HIGHLY DOUBTFUL THAT 30:53 JESUS WOULD ENDORSE THAT, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS, 30:55 'WINE IS A MOCKER, STRONG DRINK IS RAGING, WHOEVER IS 30:58 DECEIVED THEREBY IS NOT WISE. AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ALL OF 31:02 THE DIFFICULTIES - I REMEMBER GROWING UP, WE WERE REQUIRED 31:07 AT MILITARY SCHOOL TO GO TO RELIGIOUS SERVICES. 31:09 I THINK I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE. 31:11 AND SINCE MY FATHER HAD A BAPTIST BACKGROUND, MY MOTHER 31:14 WAS JEWISH, AND THEY'D SENT ME TO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, I WOULD 31:17 ROTATE THROUGH ALL THREE SERVICES. THEY HAD A PROTESTANT 31:19 SERVICE - EACH SUNDAY - THEY WERE ALL SUNDAY - PROTESTANT 31:22 SERVICE, HEBREW SERVICE, AND CATHOLIC SERVICE. 31:27 AND I REMEMBER ONE DAY I WENT TO THE CATHOLIC SERVICE AND, 31:29 BECAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF STUDENTS - I THINK THEY HAD MORE THAN ONE 31:33 SERVICE, AND THE PRIEST ALSO HAD OTHER CHURCHES HE TOOK CARE OF, 31:37 AS A SERVICE HE WOULD GO OVER AND DO THE MILITARY ACADEMY AND 31:40 THEN HE'D GO OTHER PLACES TO HIS PARISH. 31:42 AND I GUESS WE GOT HIM ONE AFTERNOON WHEN HE'D ALREADY DONE 31:45 SEVERAL MASSES AND HE WAS TIPSY FROM DRINKING THE WINE BECAUSE 31:49 HE'D SAY HIS, YOU KNOW, IN THE LATIN MASS, AND THEN HE'D DRINK. 31:54 AND HE WAS OBVIOUSLY INEBRIATED AND I THOUGHT, 'THIS CAN'T BE 31:58 WHAT JESUS IS TELLING US TO DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIM. 32:01 AND SINCE THE BREAD IS A SYMBOL OF WHAT? 32:06 HIS BODY, A HOLY LIFE, UNLEAVENED BREAD. 32:09 AND THE GRAPE JUICE IS A SYMBOL OF WHAT? HIS BLOOD, WHICH IS 32:14 PURE, SINLESS LIFE, THEN I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THIS WAS 32:19 UNFERMENTED AND HE SAID, 'I'LL DRINK IT WITH YOU NEW IN 32:22 MY FATHER'S KINGDOM.' RIGHT? SO HE INSTITUTES 32:25 THE LORD'S SUPPER. NOW, WHAT WAS THE 32:27 OCCASION FOR THIS DINNER? IT'S PASSOVER. 32:32 HE SAYS, 'WITH LONGING I'VE LONGED TO EAT THE PASSOVER.' 32:34 PASSOVER WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT JEWISH FEASTS. 32:37 IF YOU LOOK IN EXODUS CHAPTER 12, MOSES SAID, 'THIS IS THE 32:42 BEGINNING OF MONTHS FOR YOU.' WHEN THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT THAT 32:46 MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE NATION. JESUS CHOSE THAT 32:50 OCCASION TO INSTITUTE THE NEW COVENANT. DO WE STILL SACRIFICE 32:55 LAMBS, OR DID THE PASSOVER GO THROUGH A CONVERSION WITH 32:59 CHRIST? THE PASSOVER WAS A SHADOW. WHEN CHRIST FINALLY 33:03 COMES, EVERYTHING THAT IT POINTED TO WAS FULFILLED IN HIM. 33:07 WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWISH TEMPLE? 33:11 THE VEIL WAS RENT - THE HOLY PLACE EXPOSED. 33:14 DURING HIS TRIAL, WHAT DID THE PRIEST DO TO HIS GARMENTS? 33:19 HIGH PRIEST - TORE HIS OWN GARMENTS, REMEMBER? 33:22 YOU'RE NEVER SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. 33:23 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE - NEW TEMPLE - YOU 33:27 ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, THE VEIL WAS TORN - HIGH PRIEST TEARS HIS 33:30 GARMENTS - NEW PRIESTHOOD - YOU ARE A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. 33:34 AND SO NOW DO WE SACRIFICE LAMBS DURING THE PASSOVER? 33:38 JESUS IS THE LAMB. CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER, PAUL 33:41 SAYS, THAT SACRIFICED FOR US. SO WHENEVER WE CELEBRATE THE 33:44 LORD'S SUPPER, IT'S SORT OF A REMINDER OF HOW THE CHILDREN 33:48 OF ISRAEL WERE SAVED FROM THE ANGEL OF DEATH, THAT GREAT 33:53 JUDGMENT, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. 33:55 NOW WE KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS TODAY. 33:57 PROBABLY MANY OF THEM WEREN'T QUITE SURE. 33:59 THEY THOUGHT THAT THE VIRTUE WAS IN A LAMB. 34:01 THAT LAMB WAS A SYMBOL OF JESUS, SO WHEN JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, 34:05 'BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD, 34:08 THEY ALL THOUGHT ABOUT THE PASSOVER LAMB. 34:11 JESUS IS THAT LAMB. AND SO HE INSTITUTED THE NEW COVENANT. 34:15 NOW WHEN WE READ OUR BIBLES, AND YOU THINK THE FIRST PART OF THE 34:20 BIBLE YOU'VE GOT THE OLD COVENANT, LAST PART YOU'VE GOT 34:22 THE NEW COVENANT. WHERE DOES THE NEW COVENANT FIRST APPEAR? 34:27 YOU KNOW, IT - YOU FIND IT -YEAH, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 34:30 JEREMIAH - I THINK IT'S 31:31? IT MAY BE. IT SAYS, 'BEHOLD, I 34:36 MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' AND SO YOU 34:40 FIRST FIND THAT AND IT'S REPEATED IN EZEKIEL AND THEN YOU 34:43 FIND IT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, EVEN REPEATED WORD FOR WORD IN 34:46 HEBREWS. SO WE'RE LIVING, NOW, UNDER THE TIME OF THE NEW 34:48 COVENANT. OKAY, NOW WE'RE GETTING TO THE SECTION ON 34:51 GETHSEMANE AND I NEED SOMEBODY TO READ TO ME MATTHEW 26:30. 34:56 >>"AND WHEN THEY HAD SUNG A HYMN, THEY WENT OUT TO THE MOUNT 34:59 OF OLIVES." >>THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY TIMES 35:01 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT SAYS JESUS SANG. 35:05 NOW THAT'S NOT BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY TIME HE SANG, IT'S JUST 35:08 ONE OF THE ONLY RECORDED PLACES WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT JESUS 35:10 SINGING. AND SO, EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HE'S ABOUT TO GO TO 35:15 THE CROSS, HE SINGS WITH THEM. AND THEY HAD - IF YOU GO TO THE 35:19 PSALMS THEY HAD SEVERAL PSALMS THAT WERE CALLED, YOU KNOW, THE 35:22 PASCAL, OR PASSOVER PSALMS. SO THEY SING TOGETHER 35:26 AND WHERE DO THEY GO? TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 35:28 WHERE, IN PARTICULAR, DO THEY GO? 35:32 A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE. NOW GETHSEMANE IS A SMALL OLIVE 35:36 ORCHARD WITH A GARDEN ACROSS THE BROOK KIDRON AT THE FOOT OF 35:41 MOUNT - THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. I'VE BEEN THERE ON A TOUR TO 35:45 JERUSALEM AND THEY HAVE AN OLIVE PRESS THERE. 35:49 IT'S A PLACE WHERE OLIVES WERE CRUSHED THAT THE OIL MIGHT COME 35:52 FORTH AND THE OIL IS WHAT PROVIDED THE BURNING OF THE 35:58 FLAME IN THE TEMPLE - IT GAVE THE OLIVE OIL. 36:01 JESUS BEING CRUSHED MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO PURCHASE THE 36:05 OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT FOR YOU AND ME. 36:09 IT'S INTERESTING, YOU LOOK AT JOHN 18 - JOHN - GOSPEL - 18, 36:14 VERSE 1, "WHEN JESUS SPOKE THESE WORDS" - AFTER HE TEACHES THEM 36:17 IN THE UPPER ROOM - "HE WENT OUT WITH HIS DISCIPLES OVER THE 36:21 BROOK KIDRON, WHERE THERE WAS A GARDEN, WHICH HE AND HIS 36:25 DISCIPLES ENTERED." THE BROOK KIDRON, IF YOU KNOW 36:29 YOUR - GEOGRAPHY, ACTUALLY IS HELPFUL. YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE - 36:34 HERE'S THE TEMPLE. HERE'S THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 36:37 GET TEMPLE - GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. 36:39 BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS THERE'S A VALLEY. 36:42 THAT VALLEY IS WHERE THE BLOOD FLOWED FROM THE TEMPLE. 36:45 THERE WAS, LITERALLY - I'VE SEEN IT. 36:48 THEY HAD A TUNNEL UNDER THE ALTAR WHERE THE BLOOD WENT AND 36:53 IT RAN OUT INTO THE KIDRON. THE KIDRON HAD A LITTLE CREEK - 36:56 THAT THEY WERE NOT TO EAT FROM THE - DRINK FROM THE KIDRON 36:58 BROOK BECAUSE THAT BROOK WOULD RUN DOWN INTO THE JORDAN 37:02 AND OFF INTO THE DEAD SEA. SO WHEN IT SAYS HE WENT ACROSS 37:05 THE KIDRON, THE KIDRON WAS RED WITH BLOOD DURING THE PASSOVER. 37:11 JOSEPHUS, THE HISTORIAN, SAYS THAT THEY SACRIFICED AS MANY AS 37:16 250,000 LAMBS IN JERUSALEM IN THE TIME OF CHRIST, DURING THE 37:21 PASSOVER - 250,000. IT WAS A VERY EFFICIENT 37:27 OPERATION AND THERE WAS, QUITE LITERALLY, A RIVER OF BLOOD. 37:32 AND SO THE FACT THAT CHRIST CROSSED OVER THE BLOOD - YOU 37:35 KNOW, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CROSSED THE RED SEA AND JESUS 37:39 CROSSED OVER THE BLOOD FOR US. AND NOW, WHEN HE - AFTER THEY 37:46 HAVE THE DINNER, BECAUSE IT'S PASSOVER, 37:49 IT'S A FULL MOON. YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT. 37:52 THE MOON'S ALMOST FULL NOW, ISN'T IT? 37:55 I THINK I SAW IT UP THE OTHER NIGHT. AND YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE 37:58 BIT AND HE'S GOING UP THE SIDE OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 38:01 DO YOU KNOW THAT JESUS, HE WEPT IN A GARDEN ON THE MOUNT OF 38:05 OLIVES. JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID. 38:07 DO YOU REMEMBER READING WHEN DAVID IS FLEEING FROM ABSALOM, 38:11 DAVID WEEPS ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 38:14 AND JESUS IS THE SON OF DAVID. SO THAT'S JUST - IT'S A - WHEN 38:19 DAVID - DAVID, KIND OF, HAD LOST THE KINGDOM - OR THE KINGDOM WAS 38:24 AT RISK WHEN HE WAS WEEPING ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 38:27 RIGHT NOW THE KINGDOM IS IN THE BALANCE AS JESUS IS WEEPING ON 38:32 THE MOUNT OF OLIVES IN GETHSEMANE. 38:34 ALRIGHT, JUDAS SELLS HIS SOUL . LUKE 22 - AND SOMEONE, IN A 38:40 MOMENT, IS GOING TO READ JOHN 13:30, OKAY? 38:44 IN LUKE 22, VERSE 3, "THEN SATAN ENTERED JUDAS, SURNAMED 38:49 ISCARIOT, WHO WAS NUMBERED AMONG THE TWELVE. 38:52 SO HE WENT HIS WAY AND CONFERRED WITH THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND 38:55 CAPTAINS, HOW HE MIGHT BETRAY HIM TO THEM. 38:58 AND THEY WERE GLAD, AND AGREED TO GIVE HIM MONEY." 39:00 - 30 PIECES OF SILVER - NOW WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH IT 39:03 WAS BECAUSE IT JUST SAYS, 'PIECE OF SILVER' AND THEY HAD 39:05 DIFFERENT SIZED PIECES OF SILVER, BUT IT WAS SOMEWHERE 39:09 BETWEEN ONE AND FOUR MONTHS' SALARY. 39:13 IT WAS THE PRICE OF A SLAVE IS WHAT THEY - HE SOLD JESUS FOR. 39:19 HE PROMISED THEN HE SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY. 39:21 HE WAS JUST WAITING. HE KNEW SOMETIMES JESUS WAS 39:23 GOING TO GO WHERE ONLY HE COULD TELL THEM, IN THE ABSENCE OF THE 39:26 MULTITUDE. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JOHN 13:20, PLEASE. 39:30 >>"JUDAS, HAVING RECEIVED A PIECE OF BREAD, THEN WENT OUT 39:34 IMMEDIATELY AND IT WAS NIGHT." >>YOU REMEMBER WHAT 39:37 HAPPENED AT THE DINNER? JESUS SAID, 'THIS NIGHT, ONE OF 39:41 YOU IS GOING TO BETRAY ME.' AND THE DISCIPLES ARE ALL LOOKING 39:46 AROUND - THEY'D LEARNED NOT TO QUESTION JESUS' PROPHECIES, 39:49 BECAUSE EVERYTHING HE SAID SEEMED TO HAPPEN. 39:50 YOU KNOW, HE SAYS 'YOU'RE GOING TO GO FIND A DONKEY AND THEY 39:53 FIND IT. 'YOU'RE GOING TO FIND AN UPPER 39:54 ROOM.' AND THEY FIND IT. NOW HE SAYS, 'TONIGHT, ONE OF 39:56 YOU IS GOING TO BETRAY ME.' AND INSTEAD OF CONTRADICTING 39:58 HIM, THEY START LOOKING AROUND THE ROOM. 40:02 AND THEN THEY FINALLY ARE WONDERING, 'COULD IT BE ME?' 40:07 AND ONE BY ONE THEY BEGIN TO SAY, 'LORD, IS IT ME?' 40:13 AND ANOTHER ONE SAYS, 'IS IT ME?' 40:15 'IS IT ME?' AND HE DOESN'T REALLY ANSWER 40:17 THEM UNTIL JUDAS SAYS, 'IS IT ME?' 40:21 AND JESUS SAID, 'THOU HAS SAID.' AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT THE 40:26 WAY THAT THEY'RE SEATED AROUND THE TABLE IS IT STARTS 40:28 WITH PETER AT HIS RIGHT HAND, JOHN JUST NEXT TO PETER AND IT 40:32 WRAPS ALL THE WAY AROUND AND JUDAS IS AT HIS LEFT HAND. 40:35 SO JUDAS IS AT THE END OF THE CIRCLE, SO TO SPEAK. 40:39 AND THEY KIND OF JUST GO AROUND THE TABLE. 40:41 FINALLY IT COMES TO JUDAS, HE SAYS, 'IS IT ME?' HE SAYS, 40:43 'THOU HAS SAID.' THEY STILL WEREN'T SURE WHAT THAT MEANT. 40:46 AND THEN, WHEN JUDAS GOT UP AND WENT OUT, THEY THOUGHT THAT 40:49 JUDAS WAS GOING OUT - THERE'S SOMETHING THAT STILL HASN'T BEEN 40:52 BOUGHT FOR THE FEAST OR SOMETHING HE'S GOT TO DO. 40:55 HE'S GO THE MONEYBAG. WHO KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING? 40:57 THEY DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT IT. HE WAS ALWAYS COMING 40:59 AND GOING ON HIS OWN. HE WAS THE TREASURER. 41:02 AND JESUS ACTUALLY DIPS A PIECE OF BREAD IN SAUCE, WHICH IS 41:08 SOMETHING THEY DID DURING THE DINNER. 41:10 HE HANDS IT TO JUDAS AND SAYS, 'GO AND DO WHAT YOU DO QUICKLY. 41:16 AND I THINK IT'S VERY INTERESTING, IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE 41:18 RECEIVED THE BREAD, HE WENT OUT IMMEDIATELY. 41:20 IT WAS NIGHT.' IT SAYS, 'SATAN ENTERED JUDAS.' HE WENT OUT AND 41:26 IT WAS NIGHT. WHAT A SAD THING. 41:27 AT THAT POINT, CHRIST HAD GRIEVED AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 41:31 I'M SORRY, JUDAS HAD GRIEVED AWAY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 41:33 DID JESUS WASH HIS FEET? YEAH. 41:38 AND HE STILL WOULDN'T LET IT SOFTEN HIS HEART. 41:42 I THINK, MATTER OF FACT, YOU READ IN THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES , 41:45 WHEN CHRIST WAS WASHING JUDAS' FEET, HIS FIRST IMPULSE IS HE 41:50 WAS ABOUT TO BREAK DOWN AND CRY AND CONFESS WHAT HE HAD DONE AND 41:55 JESUS WOULD HAVE FORGIVEN HIM. THERE WAS STILL 41:57 HOPE AT THAT POINT. BUT HE HARDENED HIS HEART. 42:00 THE DEVIL SAID, 'OH, IF HE WAS REALLY THE MESSIAH, WHAT WOULD 42:02 HE BE DOING ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES? THE KING OF ISRAEL WOULD 42:05 NEVER BE DOING THAT. HE'S AN IMPOSTER. 42:07 AND HE CONVINCED HIMSELF TO GO THROUGH WITH HIS TERRIBLE DEED. 42:12 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE COMING FORTH IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE 42:15 LOST AS JUDAS - AND KNOWING THAT YOU HAD BETRAYED THE SON OF GOD 42:20 - NOT ONLY LOST YOUR OWN SALVATION, BUT BEEN THE ONE WHO 42:23 CHOSE TO DENY AND BETRAY JESUS. THAT'S JUST A THOUGHT THAT MAKES 42:28 US SHUDDER TO THINK ABOUT. NOW THEY'RE IN THE 42:31 GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. YOU READ IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 42:33 26, "AND WHILE HE WAS STILL SPEAKING, BEHOLD, JUDAS, ONE 42:38 OF THE TWELVE, WITH A GREAT MULTITUDE WITH SWORDS AND CLUBS, 42:41 CAME FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE. 42:45 NOW HIS BETRAYER HAD GIVEN THEM A SIGN, SAYING, 'WHOMEVER I 42:48 KISS, HE IS THE ONE; SEIZE HIM.' IMMEDIATELY HE WENT UP TO JESUS 42:53 AND SAID, 'GREETINGS, RABBI!' AND KISSED HIM. NOW WHY DID HE 43:00 SAY 'WHICHEVER ONE I KISS?' DIDN'T THE - AND I SHOULD BACK 43:04 UP AND SAY THERE'S - I RESPECT - RESPECTFULLY NEED TO DISAGREE 43:09 WITH SOMETHING I READ THERE IN THE LESSON. 43:10 IT SAID THERE WAS AS MANY AS 600 SOLDIERS, IMPLYING THEY WERE A 43:13 DETACHMENT OF ROMAN SOLDIERS. I DON'T THINK SO. 43:17 THE ROMANS WERE NOT INVOLVED YET. 43:19 IT WAS THE SOLDIERS AND A MOB FROM THE PRIESTS. 43:23 YOU'LL NOTICE THERE WAS A SERVANT FROM THE HIGH PRIEST 43:24 THAT WAS THERE. THESE WERE SENT FROM THE TEMPLE. 43:27 THEY HADN'T GOTTEN ANY WORD OR AUTHORITY FROM PILATE YET TO 43:29 ARREST HIM. I DON'T THINK IT WAS 600. 43:33 I MEAN, YOU'VE GOT TWELVE APOSTLES, YOU DON'T NEED 600. 43:35 THAT'S SORT OF USING A CHAINSAW TO GET RID OF A FLY. 43:39 AND SO I THINK THERE, YOU KNOW, MAY HAVE BEEN FIFTY OR A 43:42 HUNDRED AND HE WOULD HAVE CALLED THAT A GREAT MULTITUDE. 43:45 AND THEY CAME TO ARREST HIM. IT'S DARK. 43:49 THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. 43:50 THEY'VE TORCHES. AND, KEEP IN MIND, WHEN JESUS 43:54 PASSED THROUGH THE CROWD - YOU AND I - WHEN YOU SEE PAINTINGS 43:57 OF JESUS, WHAT COLOR ROBE IS HE WEARING? 44:00 HOW MANY SAY WHITE ROBES? I MEAN, WHEN HE'S ON EARTH YOU 44:04 ALWAYS SEE HE'S GOT THE WHITE ROBE. 44:05 WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT? IT TELLS US THAT HE HAD A ROBE, 44:09 IT DOESN'T EVER TELL US WHAT COLOR IT IS. 44:11 WHAT DO YOU THINK HIS CLOTHES LOOKED LIKE? 44:14 PROBABLY LIKE THE CLOTHES OF THE OTHER APOSTLES. 44:18 DID HE LOOK LIKE A MOVIE STAR? THERE WAS NO FORM OR COMELINESS 44:23 THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM. HE LOOKED LIKE A NORMAL MAN. 44:30 AND SO, HE USED TO SLIP THROUGH THE CROWD. 44:33 HE'D GO TO THE FEAST BY HIMSELF AND WHEN HE WAS MIXED IN WITH 44:35 THE CROWD, NOBODY SPOTTED HIM UNTIL HE STARTED TEACHING AND 44:37 HEALING PEOPLE. HE LOOKED LIKE JUST EVERYBODY ELSE. 44:42 AND SO THEY TOLD JUDAS, THEY SAID, 'WHICH ONE IS HE?' 44:45 HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'LL GO UP TO HIM AND KISS HIM AND I'LL MAKE 44:49 LIKE I'M GREETING HIM AND YOU COME UP BEHIND ME.' THINK ABOUT 44:53 THIS, JUDAS WAS UPSET BECAUSE MARY KISSED HIS FEET AND THAT 45:00 SHE ANOINTED HIM. JUDAS KISSES HIS FACE. 45:04 MARY KISSES HIS FEET AND SERVES HIM. 45:07 JUDAS KISSES HIS FACE AND BETRAYS HIM. 45:10 THERE'S ONLY TWO RECORDS IN THE BIBLE OF ANYONE KISSING JESUS. 45:13 ONE KISSES HIS FEET AND SERVES, AND THE OTHER KISSES HIS FACE 45:17 AND BETRAYS. THERE'S A PROPHECY THAT SAYS, 45:21 'KISS THE KING' - BUT, ALRIGHT, SO NOW YOU'VE GOT 45:24 THE DENIAL OF PETER. AND YOU READ IN MATTHEW 26, 45:28 VERSE 69, "NOW PETER SAT OUTSIDE" - OH, AND THEN, I THINK 45:33 YOU ALL KNOW, PETER DIDN'T MEAN TO DENY JESUS. HE DIDN'T PLAN ON 45:37 THAT - IT WAS NOT PREMEDITATED. WHEN THEY'RE GOING AROUND THE 45:40 CIRCLE AND THEY'RE SAYING, 'THIS NIGHT ONE OF YOU WILL BETRAY 45:43 ME.' ONE OF THEM WHO SPEAKS IS WHO? PETER. AND PETER SAID, 45:49 'THOUGH ALL MEN FORSAKE YOU, I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU. 45:52 EVEN THOUGH ALL OF THESE BETRAY YOU, I'LL GO TO DEATH WITH YOU.' 45:55 AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY TO PETER? 45:57 'THIS NIGHT, BEFORE THE NIGHT IS - THE ROOSTER CROWS TWICE YOU'LL 46:02 DENY ME THREE TIMES.' AND HIS STATEMENT VARIES FROM ONE GOSPEL 46:08 TO THE OTHER. BUT THE IDEA IS, BEFORE THE 46:09 ROOSTER CROWS, YOU'RE GOING TO DENY ME. 46:13 AND PETER SAID, 'I'LL DIE FOR YOU BEFORE I DENY YOU.' DID HE 46:16 MEAN IT WHEN HE SAID IT?' >>YES. 46:18 >>HE DID. HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? WHEN THE MOB COMES TO ARREST 46:22 JESUS, WHAT DOES HE DO? HE PULLS OUT A SWORD AND HE'S 46:27 READY TO FIGHT AND, IF NEED BE, DIE FOR JESUS. 46:31 AND PETER IS A LITTLE BIT MYSTIFIED, BECAUSE 46:34 EARLIER JESUS SAID, 'HE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A SWORD, GET ONE.' 46:37 AND PETER SAYS, 'LORD, WE'VE GOT TWO.' HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER 46:39 THAT? 'WE'VE GOT TWO SWORDS.' IS 46:41 THAT ENOUGH FOR A REVOLUTION? AND, YOU KNOW, JESUS SAYS, 'IT 46:45 IS ENOUGH.' SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT JESUS WAS SAYING, 'TWO 46:48 SWORDS IS ENOUGH.' JESUS, WHEN HE SAID IT IN GREEK, IT'S 46:54 BASICALLY SAYING, 'ENOUGH OF THIS. IT DOESN'T MEAN THE TWO 46:57 SWORDS ARE ENOUGH, HE MEANS, YOU GUYS DON'T GET IT. 47:00 IT'S LIKE THE THING, 'OH, WE FORGOT THE BREAD.' WHEN JESUS 47:02 SAID, 'BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. 47:04 THEY SAID, 'OH, WE FORGOT OUR LUNCH.' HE SAID, 'I'M NOT 47:06 TALKING ABOUT THAT.' AND WHEN HE SAID, 'HE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A 47:09 SWORD GET ONE.' THEY SAID, 'LORD, WE'VE TWO SWORDS.' HE 47:12 SAYS, 'ENOUGH OF THIS. I DON'T MEAN THAT.' 47:14 WHAT WAS THE SWORD A SYMBOL OF? THE WORD OF GOD. 47:17 AND SO, THEY DID HAVE TWO SWORDS. 47:22 IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHEN - WHEN JONATHAN AND SAUL WENT 47:29 AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, IT SAYS THERE WERE ONLY TWO SWORDS IN 47:31 THE KINGDOM, JONATHAN HAD ONE AND SAUL HAD ONE. 47:35 AND THE WORD OF GOD'S COMPARED TO A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. 47:39 IT'S KIND OF A DUAL NATURE FOR THE WORD OF GOD. 47:41 SO HE PULLS OUT A SWORD TO FIGHT. 47:43 HE CUTS OFF THE SERVANT'S EAR. JOHN TELLS US HIS 47:46 NAME WAS MALCHUS. JESUS REACHES OVER, 47:48 HEALS HIS EAR. HE MUST HAVE STUCK IT BACK ON 47:50 AND MIRACULOUSLY WELDED IT BACK IN PLACE. 47:54 NOW, IF I WAS THAT SERVANT, I WOULD HAVE LET JESUS GO RIGHT 47:56 THEN. I'D SAY, 'OH, WE'RE NOT 47:58 ARRESTING THIS GUY, HE JUST PUT MY EAR BACK.' I MEAN, WOULDN'T 48:02 THAT MIRACLE HAVE BEEN ENOUGH? BUT THEY WERE UNDER ORDERS. 48:06 AND SO, THEY ARRESTED JESUS AND HE SAID, 'PUT YOUR SWORD BACK. 48:11 IF YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD, YOU'LL DIE BY THE SWORD. 48:13 THEN THEY - ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM AND FLED - ALL 48:17 TWELVE. GRADUALLY JOHN COMES BACK TO FOLLOW HIM. 48:21 PETER FOLLOWS FROM A DISTANCE AND IT SAYS THAT IN, I THINK, 48:25 MARK CHAPTER 14. A LOT OF CHRISTIANS GET IN 48:28 TROUBLE BECAUSE THEY FOLLOW JESUS FROM A DISTANCE. 48:31 HE FOLLOWED HIM, BUT FROM A DISTANCE. 48:33 AND SO WHEN THEY - JOHN GOES INTO THE JUDGMENT HALL. 48:36 PETER WAITS OUT THERE AND HE SITS THERE WITH THE SERVANTS. 48:38 AND IT'S A COLD SPRING MORNING, YOU KNOW, AT - THE NIGHT IS 48:42 CLEAR AND MOON IS OUT AND THEY'RE SHIVERING AND THEY'VE 48:45 GOT A LITTLE COAL FIRE AND SO HE'S STANDING THERE. 48:47 IN THE GLOW OF THE COALS, ONE OF THE GIRLS LOOKS AT HIM, SHE 48:51 SAID, 'I SAW YOU WITH JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. 48:53 YOU'RE ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS.' AND THEY'RE KIND OF LAUGHING 48:55 BECAUSE HE'S RIGHT INSIDE BEING TRIED. 48:58 AND PETER JUST - HE'S OVERWHELMED. 49:00 THE DEVIL SPOOKED HIM OR SOMETHING AND HE DENIES CHRIST. 49:03 YOU KNOW HOW IT IS, YOU SAY, 'OH NO.' YOU KNOW HOW IT IS, YOU 49:05 SAY, 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.' EVERYONE'S 49:07 LOOKING AT HIM. AND MAYBE SHE HAD A LITTLE 49:09 CYNICISM OR A MOCK IN HER VOICE. THEN THEY ASKED THE QUESTION 49:13 AGAIN, 'YOU'RE ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS.' 'NO, I DON'T KNOW 49:16 WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I DON'T KNOW THE MAN.' AND THE 49:19 THIRD TIME SOMEONE SAYS, 'SURELY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM 49:21 BECAUSE YOUR SPEECH. YOU'VE GOT AN ACCENT. 49:25 YOU GUYS FROM GALILEE, YOU'VE GOT THAT NORTHERN ACCENT. 49:28 IT'S EASY TO SPOT.' YOU KNOW IN - YOU CAN GO TO SOME STATES AND 49:32 THERE'S WORDS THEY CAN'T SAY. WELL, THEY THINK THEY CAN SAY 49:36 THEM, BUT THEY CAN'T SAY THEM NORMAL. 49:39 AND THE GALILEANS - FISHERMEN - THEY HAD A STRONG ACCENT. 49:44 THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE GALILEANS.' 49:46 AND WHAT DOES PETER DO THEN? SWEARING AND CURSING. 49:50 EVERY TIME YOU START GOING DOWN THE ROAD OF DENYING CHRIST, IT 49:53 GETS EASIER AND EASIER AND YOU GET FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY. 49:55 AND, AFTER THAT, HE HEARS A ROOSTER CROW IN THE DISTANCE. 49:59 I KNOW WHAT THAT SOUNDS LIKE BECAUSE WE HAVE A ROOSTER RIGHT 50:01 ACROSS THE FENCE FROM OUR HOUSE HERE IN TOWN. KAREN AND I HEAR A 50:04 ROOSTER EVERY MORNING AND HE STARTS TO CROW ABOUT 5:00. 50:14 AND HE HEARS THE ROOSTER AND THIS TIME IT'S VERY DISTINCT. 50:17 AND THEN HE TURNS TO LOOK AT JESUS WHEN HE HEARS THE ROOSTER. 50:20 HE SEES IN THE JUDGMENT HALL A ROMAN SOLDIER MAKES A FIST AND 50:24 IT COMES DOWN AND IT HITS JESUS AND JESUS SHAKES HIMSELF, GETS 50:28 UP, TURNS, AND HE LOOKS AT PETER. 50:31 AND PETER SEES A LOOK OF LOVE AND IT JUST BREAKS HIS HEART. 50:35 AND IT SAYS HE GOES OUT AND HE WEPT BITTERLY AT THAT. 50:39 SO THEN, OF COURSE, THE CONCLUSION OF THE TRIAL AND 50:44 JESUS IS TAKEN TO THE CROSS AND WE'LL BE STUDYING THIS IN OUR 50:48 LAST STUDY ON THE SUBJECT. I THINK WE PRETTY MUCH GOT 50:51 THROUGH TODAY'S LESSON. I WANT TO REMIND YOU, BEFORE WE 50:53 DO GO OFF THE AIR, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER CALLED 50:56 THE HIGH COST OF THE CROSS. WE'LL SEND THIS TO 50:58 YOU - JUST ASK FOR IT. IT'S FREE. 51:00 YOU CAN ALSO READ IT ONLINE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG IF YOU DO CALL 51:04 IN, IT'S 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #156. 51:11 PLEASE READ IT WHEN YOU DO. GOD BLESS YOU, FRIENDS. 51:14 WE'LL CONTINUE STUDYING HIS WORD IN OUR NEXT LESSON NEXT WEEK. 51:29 >>FRIENDS, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE BOWHEAD WHALE? 51:31 THIS ENORMOUS LEVIATHAN IS THE SECOND-LARGEST CREATURE IN THE 51:35 WORLD. DARK AND STOCKY, IT ROAMS THE 51:37 FERTILE ARCTIC NORTHERN WATERS. THESE MASSIVE CREATURES CAN BE 51:42 MORE THAN 65-FEET LONG AND WEIGH MORE THAN 75 TONS. 51:46 THAT'S HEAVIER THAN THE SPACE SHUTTLE. 51:49 YET, IN SPITE OF THEIR TITANIC SIZE, THEY'RE ABLE TO LEAP 51:52 ENTIRELY OUT OF THE WATER. CAN YOU SAY 'BELLY FLOP'? 51:57 THE BOWHEAD WHALE GETS ITS NAME FROM ITS BOW-SHAPED SKULL - AND 52:01 THEY'VE GOT ONE GINORMOUS NOGGIN. 52:04 MATTER OF FACT, THEIR HEADS ARE ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF THEIR BODY 52:06 SIZE, WHICH COMES IN HANDY WHEN YOU FIND OUT HOW THEY USE THEIR 52:09 HEADS. THEY'VE GOT VERY THICK SKULLS. 52:12 SOMETIMES THEY GET TRAPPED UNDER THE SURFACE AND THEY USE THEIR 52:15 HEADS TO RAM THE ICE. THEY CAN BREAK A BREATHING HOLE 52:19 IN THE ICE THAT IS A FOOT AND A HALF THICK. 52:23 FRIENDS, YOU HAVE TO JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO 52:25 BE WALKING AROUND ON THE ARCTIC ICE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HAVE THE 52:28 GROUND BENEATH YOU CRACK AND SPLIT AND RISE AS ONE OF THESE 52:32 SEA MONSTERS PUSHES ITS HEAD UP TO BREATH FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 52:36 90 MINUTES. BECAUSE BOWHEADS MAKE THEIR 52:39 HOME IN THE COLDEST PART OF OUR WORLD, THEY HAVE THE THICKEST 52:42 BLUBBER OF ANY WHALE. BUT THIS, PLUS THEIR FRIENDLY 52:45 AND CURIOUS NATURE, MADE THEM PRIME TARGETS WHEN THE EUROPEAN 52:49 WHALERS DISCOVERED THE BOWHEADS. THEY HUNTED THEM 52:52 NEARLY TO EXTINCTION. FORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF 52:56 CONSERVATION EFFORTS, WE'VE SLOWLY SEEN THEIR NUMBERS BEGIN 52:59 TO INCREASE SINCE THE 60S. ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING FACTS 53:03 ABOUT THE BOWHEAD WHALE IS ITS LONGEVITY. 53:06 SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED, BY EVALUATING HARPOON TIPS FOUND IN 53:10 THEIR SKULL, AND EXAMINING THEIR EYE TISSUE, THERE ARE BOWHEAD 53:13 WHALES OUT THERE THAT ARE PROBABLY OVER 200 YEARS OLD. 53:18 YOU REALIZE THAT MEANS THERE ARE BOWHEAD WHALES SWIMMING THE 53:21 OCEANS RIGHT NOW THAT WERE ALIVE BEFORE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS 53:25 ELECTED PRESIDENT. CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 53:29 AMONG THE OTHER AMAZING MEGA-FACTS ABOUT THE BOWHEAD 53:31 WHALE, IS ITS MEGA-MOUTH. 53:34 THEY HAVE THE LARGEST MOUTH OF ANY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 53:37 AND WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR PIE HOLE FULL EXTENDED, IT'S LARGE 53:40 ENOUGH TO PARK A MEDIUM-SIZED SUV INSIDE. 53:44 YET, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'VE GOT SUCH BIG MOUTHS, 53:46 THEY SURVIVE BY EATING THE VERY SMALLEST CREATURES IN THE OCEAN 53:50 - PLANKTON, KRILL, AND OTHER MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS. 53:55 FRIENDS, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED BY THE CREATURES GOD HAS MADE. 53:58 THIS BOWHEAD WHALE IS ABLE TO DIVE TO THE DEEPEST OCEANS. 54:01 THEY CAN BREAK THROUGH THE ICE AND MOVE MOUNTAINS WITH THEIR 54:03 HEAD AND COMPLETELY LEAVE THE WATER AND FLY THROUGH THE AIR. 54:07 AND YET, THEY DO ALL THAT BY GAINING STRENGTH FROM ALMOST 54:10 MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS. IT HELPS US REMEMBER THAT WE 54:14 SURVIVE THROUGH THE LITTLE PROMISES IN GOD'S WORD. 54:17 JESUS, WHEN TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL, HE QUOTED JUST A FEW 54:20 LITTLE VERSES AND HE SENT THE ENEMY RUNNING. 54:23 YOU CAN ALSO HAVE THAT SAME DURABILITY AND LONG LIFE AS THE 54:26 BOWHEAD WHALE, BY TRUSTING IN GOD'S WORD AND HIS PROMISES. 54:31 (MUSIC) 54:39 >>I GREW UP IN A CHURCH-GOING FAMILY. 54:42 I MEAN, WE WERE AT EVERY MEETING. 54:44 I SANG IN FOUR OF THE CHOIRS THERE. 54:46 I DIRECTED THREE - VERY INVOLVED - VERY ACTIVE. 54:50 IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW? 54:54 I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL. I KNEW ABOUT GOD. I KNEW ABOUT JESUS, 54:59 BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST. 55:05 MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD 55:11 BEEN MURDERED. NOW, I PLAYED IT OFF WELL. 55:15 NO ONE REALLY SAW THAT I WAS STRUGGLING WITH IT. 55:22 IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THERE WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE 55:25 FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL IT WITH DRUGS, WITH ALCOHOL, WITH 55:30 PARTYING. AFTER COLLEGE, I JUST STOPPED 55:33 GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER. ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I 55:39 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, 'YOU 55:43 KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT OF WORD.' SHE HAD THE SATELLITE 55:47 SYSTEM HOOKED UP AND I'M FLIPPING THROUGH CHANNELS AND 55:50 THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS - AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 55:55 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT IF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE 55:58 WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING 56:00 SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP 56:03 AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. 56:06 LET ME LOOK THROUGH AND FIND THIS. 56:08 I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STORACLES . 56:09 I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STUDY GUIDES AND I JUST COULDN'T GET 56:11 ENOUGH. AND THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND 56:15 HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL AND I'M JUST GOING, 56:18 'LORD, I HEAR YOU. I HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH.' SO I 56:21 SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE 56:25 JUDGED - ANYTHING JUDGMENTAL - ANYTHING. 56:28 AND I WALKED IN THE DOOR AND I JUST FELT AT HOME. 56:31 BUT THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM. I'M STILL PARTYING. 56:36 I WAS STILL GOING OUT TO THE BARS. 56:38 AT THIS TIME I WAS SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT. 56:43 SIXTEEN DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. 56:48 I HAD JUST COME BACK FROM A LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A 56:51 BOTTLE OF VODKA. AND THERE I AM, HIGH OFF 56:55 COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE IN HAND, TRYING TO DO A BIBLE STUDY. 57:01 AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE VOICE, 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF!' 57:08 AND I DID AND I WAS LIKE, 'WHAT AM I DOING?' 57:14 AND I GOT ON MY KNEES. I SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT 57:17 TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW, I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.' I WAS 57:22 GOING TO CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE AND I WAS GOING TO END UP 57:25 OVERDOSING, HAVING A HEART ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS. 57:30 'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY - ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE 57:39 LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY FROM ME. IT WAS ALL GONE. 57:43 WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE. 57:56 (MUSIC) |
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