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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO THE SABBATH SCHOOL 00:36 STUDY HOUR AT THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:39 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO ALL OF OUR MEMBERS HERE TODAY, AS WELL 00:42 AS ALL OF YOU TUNING IN AROUND THE WORLD. 00:44 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US ON THIS BLESSED SABBATH DAY. 00:48 THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING LESSON #13 - 00:51 CRUCIFIED AND RISEN . AREN'T WE BLESSED TO HAVE 00:55 THE HOPE OF A RISEN SAVIOR? AMEN. 00:58 AT THE SAME TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION TO YOU OUR FREE 01:01 OFFER, WHICH IS OFFER #162. IT'S ENTITLED THE FINAL 01:05 VERDICT - AGAIN, THAT'S #162. YOU CAN CALL IN AT THE 01:10 NUMBER 866-788-3966. OR, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO 01:15 DOWNLOAD IT, YOU CAN GO DIRECTLY TO THE WEBSITE AT 01:18 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND YOU CAN FIND IT RIGHT THERE. 01:21 BEFORE WE BEGIN WITH THE LESSON STUDY, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE 01:24 OUR CHORISTERS OUT AS WE SING A COUPLE OF PRAISES TO THE LORD IN 01:27 SONG. WON'T YOU JOIN US? (PIANO MUSIC) 01:35 >>HAPPY SABBATH, CHURCH FAMILY, AND ALL OF YOU 01:37 WHO ARE TUNING IN AROUND THE WORLD. 01:39 WE'RE SO GLAD TO COME TOGETHER EVERY SABBATH WHEN WE CAN PRAISE 01:42 GOD AND WORSHIP HIM IN SONG AND STUDY HIS WORD KNOWING THAT ALL 01:48 HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE AND HE WILL NEVER FAIL. 01:53 SO LET'S TURN TO HYMN #518 - STANDING ON THE PROMISES . 01:58 WE WILL SING ALL THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 02:07 >>STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST MY KING, THRU 02:12 ETERNAL AGES LET HIS PRAISES RING; GLORY IN THE HIGHEST I 02:18 WILL SHOUT AND SING, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. 02:24 STANDING, STANDING, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD MY SAVIOR; 02:33 STANDING, STANDING, I'M STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. 02:44 STANDING ON THE PROMISES THAT CANNOT FAIL, WHEN THE HOWLING 02:50 STORMS OF DOUBT AND FEAR ASSAIL, BY THE LIVING WORD OF GOD I 02:55 SHALL PREVAIL, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. 03:02 STANDING, STANDING, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD MY SAVIOR; 03:10 STANDING, STANDING, I'M STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. 03:22 STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF CHRIST THE LORD, BOUND TO HIM 03:27 ETERNALLY BY LOVE'S STRONG CORD, OVERCOMING DAILY WITH THE 03:33 SPIRIT'S SWORD, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. STANDING, 03:42 STANDING, STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD MY SAVIOR; 03:48 STANDING, STANDING, I'M STANDING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD. 04:02 >>IN THIS WORLD WE HAVE PLENTY OF TRIALS AND TRIBULATION, BUT 04:06 SOON - VERY SOON - ALL SORROW AND ALL SICKNESS WILL BE GONE 04:11 BECAUSE JESUS IS COMING TO TAKE US HOME. 04:13 AND WHAT A WONDERFUL GLORIOUS DAY THAT WILL BE WHEN WE CAN 04:16 SING WITH ANGELS, HEAVENLY MUSIC. 04:20 LET'S TURN TO HYMN #452 - WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC - JOIN US IN 04:25 SINGING ALL THE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 04:35 >>WHAT HEAVENLY MUSIC STEALS OVER THE SEA! 04:44 ENTRANCING THE SENSES LIKE SWEET MELODY! 04:53 'TIS THE VOICE OF THE ANGELS BORNE SOFT ON THE AIR; FOR ME 05:03 THEY ARE SINGING; THEIR WELCOME I HEAR. 05:12 ON THE BANKS OF OLD JORDAN, HERE GAZING I STAND, AND EARNESTLY 05:23 LONGING, I STRETCH FORTH MY HAND; SEND A CONVOY OF ANGELS, 05:33 DEAR JESUS, I PRAY! LET ME JOIN THAT SWEET 05:41 MUSIC; COME, TAKE ME AWAY. THOUGH DARK ARE THE WATERS AND 05:54 ROUGH IS THE WAVE, IF JESUS PERMIT, THE WILD SURGES I'LL 06:06 BRAVE; FOR THAT HEAVENLY MUSIC HATH RAVISHED ME SO, I 06:18 MUST JOIN IN THAT CHORUS! I'LL GO! LET ME GO! 06:30 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING WITH US. 06:32 PLEASE BOW YOUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 06:34 OUR DEAR, KIND, AND HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 06:38 THIS BEAUTIFUL SABBATH DAY WHERE WE CAN CELEBRATE YOU AND YOUR 06:41 LOVE AND YOUR MERCY. LORD, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE 06:45 WONDERFUL BLESSINGS YOU BESTOWED TO ALL OF OUR MEMBERS, TO THE 06:48 GRANITE BAY CHURCH, AND TO ALL OF THOSE WATCHING 06:50 AROUND THE WORLD. LORD, PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR 06:53 DOUG AS HE PRESENTS TO US THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE. 06:56 MAY OUR EYES BE OPEN AND OUR HEARTS BE SOFTENED TO RECEIVE 07:00 THIS MESSAGE. AND MAY IT CHANGE OUR LIVES. 07:02 WE ASK ALL THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME, AMEN. 07:05 AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME UP PASTOR DOUG 07:08 BATCHELOR. >>WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR LAST 07:11 STUDY - IT'S IN LESSON #13. WE'RE DEALING WITH CHAPTERS 27 07:17 AND 28 OF MATTHEW, MUCH MORE THAN I'LL REALLY BE ABLE TO 07:21 COVER, BUT I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST. 07:23 YOU KNOW, I LIKE GET INTO THE DEPTH OF THE WORD AND SOMETIMES 07:26 YOU DO THAT AND TIME RUNS AWAY AND YOU REALIZE I HAVEN'T 07:29 FINISHED COVERING IT. SO YOU PRAY FOR ME. 07:31 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND BARABBAS, ABOUT THE 07:34 GREAT COMMISSION, ABOUT THE RESURRECTION, THE VEIL BEING 07:37 RENT, AND EACH OF THESE IS A WHOLE SERMON IN ITSELF. 07:42 I HAVE A MEMORY VERSE: MATTHEW 28, VERSE 18. 07:47 IF YOU'D FIND THAT, IT'S IN YOUR LESSON THERE IN THE NEW KING 07:49 JAMES VERSION. MATTHEW 28:18, IF YOU 07:51 WANT TO SAY THAT WITH ME. ARE YOU READY? 07:54 "ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH." 07:59 THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING, YOU'RE TALKING TO 08:01 SOMEONE THAT HAS AUTHORITY TO ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS. 08:04 CAN YOU SAY AMEN? >>AMEN. 08:06 >>THAT'S GOOD NEWS. ALRIGHT, SO THE FIRST SECTION 08:08 WE'RE GOING TO READ IS DEALING WITH THE THEME OF JESUS AND 08:12 BARABBAS - OR YOU SHOULD SAY JESUS OR BARABBAS, ACTUALLY. GO 08:15 TO MATTHEW CHAPTER 27 IN YOUR BIBLES AND WE'RE GOING TO JUST 08:19 DO SOME READING HERE TO GET THROUGH THIS PASSAGE. 08:22 STARTING WITH VERSE 15 - MATTHEW 27, VERSE 15, "NOW AT THE FEAST 08:30 THE GOVERNOR" - THAT'S PONTIUS PILATE - "WAS ACCUSTOMED TO 08:34 RELEASING TO THE MULTITUDE ONE PRISONER WHOM THEY WISHED." 08:37 - AS A GESTURE - AND USUALLY THESE ARE POLITICAL PRISONERS. 08:41 AND, SO AS A GESTURE OF KINDNESS AND GOOD WILL, THIS OCCUPYING 08:46 COUNTRY SAID, 'ALRIGHT, IT'S YOUR HOLIDAY. 08:48 IT'S YOUR FEAST, WE'LL RELEASE A PRISONER.' THEY HAD SO MANY 08:51 PRISONERS THAT IT WASN'T THAT BIG A GESTURE - "AND AT THAT 08:56 TIME THEY HAD A NOTORIOUS" - OR NOTABLE - "PRISONER CALLED 09:00 BARABBAS." NOW HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD IN HEBREW 09:04 'BAR' MEANS - B-A-R? IT MEANS 'SON OF'. 09:09 CAN YOU THINK OF SOME EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE WHERE YOU FIND THAT 09:12 TERM? BARNABAS - IT TELLS YOU IN THE BIBLE IT MEANS 'SON OF 09:18 CONSOLATION'. SIMON WAS CALLED SIMON BAR JONAH 09:22 - HIS FATHER'S NAME WAS JONAH - SIMON, THE SON OF JONAH. 09:25 YOU'VE HEARD OF BARTIMAEUS - IS THE BLIND MAN - HE WAS THE SON 09:30 OF TIMAEUS. AND SO, BAR MEANS SON OF. 09:33 WHAT DOES 'ABBA' MEAN? YEAH, REMEMBER PAUL SAYS, 'ABBA 09:37 FATHER' - HE TELLS YOU WHAT IT MEANS. 09:39 AND IT DOESN'T MEAN FATHER IN THE SENSE WHEN YOU PRAY THE 09:42 LORD'S PRAYER, 'OUR FATHER' - THAT IS A LITTLE MORE FORMAL 09:45 WORD - IT MEANS FATHER - MORE LIKE THE WORD 'PAPA'. 09:48 IT'S MORE OF A PERSONAL FAMILY NAME FOR FATHER. 09:51 AND SO, BARABBAS' NAME IS 'SON OF THE FATHER' AND HE'S ABOUT TO 09:56 BE EXCHANGED FOR JESUS, WHO IS THE SON OF THE FATHER. 10:00 AND SO HE IS SOMETHING OF A COUNTERFEIT JESUS. 10:04 HE WAS A COUNTERFEIT MESSIAH. 10:06 WE'LL FIND OUT MORE AS WE READ ON HERE IN A MINUTE. 10:08 SO LET'S JUST READ - GO BACK TO CHAPTER 27. 10:12 THEY HAD A NOTABLE PRISONER, "THEREFORE, WHEN THEY HAD 10:17 GATHERED TOGETHER, PILATE SAID TO THEM" - I'M IN VERSE 17 - 10:19 MATTHEW 27:17 - "WHOM DO YOU WANT ME TO RELEASE TO YOU? 10:23 BARABBAS, OR JESUS WHO IS CALLED CHRIST?" 10:27 NOW PILATE WANTED TO RELEASE JESUS. 10:29 WHY DID HE WANT TO RELEASE JESUS? 10:33 I'LL REPEAT YOUR ANSWERS - I'LL REPEAT THE CORRECT ONES. 10:37 >>HE WAS INNOCENT. >>HE THOUGHT HE WAS INNOCENT. 10:40 HE SAID, 'I FIND NO FAULT IN HIM.' THERE'S ANOTHER REASON. 10:43 HIS WIFE HAD A VERY TROUBLING DREAM AND SAID, 'HAVE NOTHING TO 10:46 DO WITH THAT JUST MAN.' IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T DO ANYTHING TO HARM 10:49 HIM. SO PILATE IS RATTLED BY ALL OF 10:52 THIS AND THEN HE TALKS - THIRD REASON - HE TALKS TO JESUS. 10:55 AND HE'S CONVINCED, BY TALKING TO JESUS, THAT THERE IS 10:59 SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL ABOUT THIS MAN. 11:01 HE NEVER SEES A PERSON FACING DEATH WITH SUCH CALM AND 11:05 COMPOSURE. SO HE WANTS TO LET HIM GO EVEN 11:08 THOUGH PILATE IS NOT A GOOD MAN. AND SO HE THINKS, 'I GOT 11:12 IT, THEY WANT ME TO RELEASE SOMEBODY. 11:14 I WILL PUT OUT BARABBAS, WHO IS A ROUGH CHARACTER, AND I'LL PUT 11:20 HIM SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH JESUS AND THEY'LL SEE JESUS HAS BEEN 11:23 BEATEN AND HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S INNOCENT, LIKE A LAMB BROUGHT TO 11:26 THE SLAUGHTER. THEY'LL SEE THE CONTRAST AND 11:29 THEY'LL QUICKLY VOTE FOR JESUS. HE HAD NO IDEA HOW THE MOB HAD 11:32 BEEN INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL. LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU 11:35 FROM THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES P. 733. IT'S A GREAT BOOK. 11:41 IF YOU'VE NOT READ IT, I RECOMMEND, FRIENDS, THAT YOU 11:42 READ DESIRE OF AGES . "THIS MAN, BARABBAS, HAD 11:46 CLAIMED TO BE THE MESSIAH. HE CLAIMED AUTHORITY TO 11:50 ESTABLISH A DIFFERENT ORDER OF THINGS AND TO SET 11:52 THE WORLD ARIGHT. UNDER SATANIC DELUSION HE 11:55 CLAIMED THAT WHATEVER HE COULD OBTAIN BY THEFT OR 11:58 ROBBERY WAS HIS OWN." - HE'D KIND OF BEEN READING 12:01 ROBIN HOOD OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, JUST STEAL FROM THE RICH 12:03 AND GIVE TO ME - "HE HAD DONE WONDERFUL THINGS THROUGH SATANIC 12:07 AGENCIES AND HE HAD GAINED A FOLLOWING AMONG THE PEOPLE AND 12:10 IT EXCITED SEDITION AGAINST THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT. 12:13 UNDER COVER OF RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIASM, HE WAS A HARDENED 12:17 AND A DESPERATE VILLAIN BENT ON REBELLION AND CRUELTY. 12:21 BY GIVING THE PEOPLE A CHOICE BETWEEN THIS MAN AND AN INNOCENT 12:24 SAVIOR, PILATE THOUGHT TO AROUSE THEM TO A SENSE OF JUSTICE." 12:28 HE HOPED TO GAIN THEIR SYMPATHY FOR JESUS IN OPPOSITION TO THE 12:31 PRIESTS AND RULERS. HE KNEW THAT HE HAD JUST BEEN 12:34 TURNED OVER FOR ENVY AND JEALOUSY. 12:38 BUT, YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS YOU GO DOWN THE ROAD OF COMPROMISE - 12:41 PILATE THOUGHT, 'WELL, I'LL COMPROMISE.' 12:42 WHAT SHOULD PILATE HAVE DONE? 12:44 HE SHOULD HAVE SAID, 'HE'S INNOCENT.' AND LET HIM GO. 12:49 AND IF HE SAW THAT THERE'S A TUMULT, IF NOTHING ELSE HE 12:52 SHOULD HAVE SAID, 'LOOK, YOUR FEAST IS BEGINNING IN A FEW 12:55 HOURS, I'LL DEAL WITH IT AFTER THE FEAST.' AND DISMISSED THEM. 12:59 PROCRASTINATE. LET HIM GO IN THE MEANTIME. 13:01 THERE ARE OTHER WAYS HE COULD HAVE DONE IT BUT, YOU KNOW, THE 13:04 DEVIL JUST ORCHESTRATED THE CIRCUMSTANCES. 13:07 HE KNEW THAT THEY HAD HANDED HIM OVER BECAUSE OF ENVY. 13:11 WHY WERE THEY ENVIOUS? 13:14 BECAUSE ALL THE PEOPLE WERE FOLLOWING JESUS. 13:19 AND "WHILE HE WAS SITTING ON THE JUDGMENT SEAT, HIS WIFE SENT TO 13:21 HIM, SAYING, 'HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT JUST MAN, FOR I HAVE 13:24 SUFFERED MANY THINGS TODAY IN A DREAM BECAUSE OF HIM.'" - 13:27 SUFFERED MEANS THAT SHE HAD BEEN TROUBLED GREATLY - "BUT THE 13:31 CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS PERSUADED THE MULTITUDES THAT 13:33 THEY SHOULD ASK FOR BARABBAS" - THE PRIESTS AND SANHEDRIN ARE 13:37 CIRCULATING IN THE MOB AND SAYING 'BARABBAS! 13:39 BARABBAS! ASK FOR BARABBAS!' - "AND DESTROY JESUS. 13:43 THE GOVERNOR ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 'WHICH OF THE TWO DO 13:46 YOU WANT ME TO RELEASE TO YOU?' THEY SAID, 'BARABBAS!' 13:50 PILATE SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT THEN SHALL I DO WITH JESUS WHO IS 13:54 CALLED CHRIST? THEY ALL SAID TO HIM, 'LET HIM BE CRUCIFIED!'" 13:58 NOW, SOME WHO WERE IN THE CROWD THAT DAY, ASKING FOR HIS 14:00 CRUCIFIXION, JUST A FEW DAYS EARLIER - REMEMBER, WE READ IN 14:04 MATTHEW ABOUT THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY AND THEY SAID, 'HOSANNA TO 14:07 THE SON OF DAVID' AND THEY WERE THROWING THEIR CLOTHES AND THE 14:09 PALMS IN THE ROAD? THERE WERE SOME 14:11 PEOPLE IN BOTH CROWDS. MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME PEOPLE THAT 14:13 WERE IN THE CROWD HE FED WITH THE BREAD. 14:15 AND THEN, NOW THEY'RE SAYING, 'CRUCIFY!' 14:18 THE MULTITUDE CAN BE VERY FICKLE. 14:21 MOSES SAID, 'DO NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL.' PEOPLE 14:26 CAN GET SWEPT UP IN THE CROWD. MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THE 14:31 STRONG - THERE'S A FEW THINGS ADVERTISERS USE TO SELL 14:35 PRODUCTS: ONE, OF COURSE, IS THEY SELL WITH SEX. 14:39 THE OTHER ONE THEY SELL WITH IS THE BANDWAGON. 14:42 BANDWAGON MEANS EVERYBODY'S DOING IT. 14:45 'OH, THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY WANTS.' AND THEY'LL GET 14:47 TESTIMONIES AND THEY'LL MAKE IT SEEM LIKE IF YOU DON'T, THEN 14:49 YOU'RE REALLY OUT OF TOUCH. AND SO PEOPLE GET CAUGHT 14:53 UP IN THE CROWD MENTALITY. NOW, SOME INTERESTING THINGS 14:58 WE FIND HERE ABOUT BARABBAS - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR 15:02 ME IN JUST A MOMENT, LUKE 23. OKAY, HAFDIS, YOU'LL HAVE THAT? 15:06 I'M GOING TO READ MARK 15 - MARK 15, VERSE 7, "AND THERE WAS ONE 15:11 NAMED BARABBAS" - I'M READING ABOUT BARABBAS IN THE BOOK OF 15:13 MARK, SOMETHING THAT MATTHEW DOESN'T MENTION - "AND THERE WAS 15:17 ONE NAMED BARABBAS, WHICH LAY BOUND WITH THEM" - HE'S TIED UP 15:21 LAYING DOWN - IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAD THESE THREE CHARACTERS 15:24 READY TO EXECUTE. THE REASON THE CROSSES WERE ALL 15:26 READY IS THEY HAD AN EXECUTION SCHEDULED THAT DAY 15:30 FOR THREE GUYS. ONE OF THEM WHO LAY THERE BOUND 15:34 "MADE INSURRECTION WITH HIM, WHO HAD COMMITTED MURDER 15:38 IN THE INSURRECTION." AND SO THEY HAD RISEN 15:41 UP AGAINST THE ROMANS. SO HE'S A MURDERER. 15:43 ALRIGHT, SO WHAT'S THE OTHER THING WE LEARN ABOUT HIM? 15:44 GO AHEAD, LUKE 23:18, "AND THEY ALL CRIED OUT AT ONCE, SAYING, 15:50 'AWAY WITH THIS MAN, AND RELEASE TO US BARABBAS' - WHO HAD BEEN 15:54 THROWN INTO PRISON FOR A CERTAIN REBELLION MADE IN THE CITY, AND 15:58 FOR MURDER." >>NOW, WHAT ELSE WE LEARN IS HIS 16:02 TWO FRIENDS ARE ACCUSED OF BEING THIEVES - HIS COMRADES. 16:07 SO HE IS A THIEF, HE IS A REBEL, HE IS A MURDERER AND, BEFORE THE 16:14 NATION - THIS NATION HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH FOR TWO 16:20 MILLENNIA - SINCE THE TIME OF ABRAHAM - NOW, HERE, THEY HAVE A 16:24 CHOICE: DO YOU WANT GOD'S CHOSEN MESSIAH - THE LAMB - OR DO YOU 16:29 WANT THE ANTI-HERO - THE VILLAIN? 16:35 AND WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WANT? THEY ENDED UP WANTING THE 16:38 VILLAIN AND THEY WANTED THE COUNTERFEIT MESSIAH. 16:42 YOU SEE, THEY DIDN'T WANT THE MESSIAH WHO SAID, 16:44 'I'VE COME TO DIE. I HAVE A SPIRITUAL KINGDOM. 16:46 I'VE COME AS A LAMB. I'M GOING TO DIE FOR YOUR SINS. 16:50 NO, I'M NOT GOING TO DESTROY CAESAR, I'M NOT GOING TO KILL 16:53 ALL THE ROMAN SOLDIERS. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A 16:56 SPIRITUAL KINGDOM, ONE OF MEEKNESS.' THEY SAID, 16:58 'WE DON'T WANT THAT. WE WANT A STRONG VIOLENT 17:03 AGGRESSIVE LEADER.' AND SO, THIS IS THE LEADER THAT WAS CHOSEN. 17:07 THIS IS OFTEN THE LEADER THAT THE WORLD CHOOSES, A COUNTERFEIT 17:11 'BAR-ABBAS' - SON OF THE FATHER. THEY DIDN'T WANT 17:13 THE JESUS BARABBAS. SO WHOSE CROSS DID JESUS DIE ON? 17:22 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE PICTURE? I MEAN, FOR A MINUTE, JUST 17:24 PICTURE YOU'RE BARABBAS AND YOU'VE - YOU'RE 17:31 GUILTY OF MURDER. YOU KNOW THAT THE BIBLE SAYS IF 17:34 YOU HATE YOUR BROTHER WITHOUT A CAUSE, YOU'RE GUILTY OF 17:36 MURDER, SO JESUS SAID. YOU'RE A THIEF, THE BIBLE SAYS, 17:42 IF YOU DON'T PAY TITHES AND OFFERINGS, YOU ROB GOD. 17:44 AND IF WE DON'T FAITHFULLY RETURN THE TIME THAT HE'S GIVEN 17:48 US TO HIS SERVICE, WE ROB HIM. AND WE'RE REBELS. 17:53 AND SO, WE'RE KIND OF LIKE BARABBAS. 17:55 AND YOU'RE CONDEMNED - YOU'RE GOING TO DIE. 17:57 YOU KNOW YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE THE MOST TERRIBLE DEATH AND THERE'S 17:59 THIS RUCKUS AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE ROMAN SOLDIER COMES OVER AND 18:03 HE CUTS YOUR ROPES AND YOU SAY, 'WHAT'S UP?' 18:04 YOU'RE AFRAID TO ASK BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST GLAD YOU'RE BEING 18:07 SET FREE. AND HE SAID 'THAT FELLA THERE, 18:09 HE'S GOING TO DIE ON YOUR CROSS. HE'S TAKING YOUR PLACE.' 18:12 THIS IS CALLED THE SUBSTITUTIONARY DEATH. 18:16 JESUS TRADED PLACES WITH BARABBAS. 18:19 JESUS DIED ON BARABBAS' CROSS AND THIS IS WHAT HE DOES FOR US. 18:25 NOW, HOW GRATEFUL WOULD YOU BE? YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE 18:29 TRIED TO CREATE STORIES AND MYTHS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO 18:33 BARABBAS. THE FACT IS, HE'S NEVER MENTIONED IN HISTORY. 18:38 WE HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER HE REPENTED AND HE CHANGED. 18:40 THERE'S NO RECORD OF HIM GOING BACK TO HIS LIFE OF CRIME - 18:43 THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING. 18:44 BUT WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO BARABBAS. 18:46 WE DON'T KNOW IF HE BECAME A BELIEVER. 18:48 BUT, SO HISTORY IS SILENT ON THAT SUBJECT. 18:53 BUT JESUS REALLY WAS HIS SUBSTITUTE. 18:56 YOU REMEMBER WHEN DAVID PRAYED AFTER ABSALOM DIED AND HE SAYS, 19:01 'WOULD GOD I HAD DIED FOR THEE.' ONE TIME, DAVID WAS IN BATTLE 19:06 AND THE GIANT, ONE OF THE SONS OF THE GIANT, WAS BEGINNING TO 19:11 WIN IN A HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE AND ABISHAI, THE BROTHER OF JOAB, 19:16 CAME IN AND TOOK DAVID'S PLACE AND HE KILLED THE GIANT. 19:20 AND HE SAID, 'YOU'RE GETTING TOO OLD TO FIGHT LIKE THIS. 19:22 YOU STAND BACK NOW AND JUST DIRECT.' HE SAID, 'WE CAN'T LOSE 19:26 YOU.' YOU REMEMBER WHEN RAHAB HELPED THE TWO SPIES? 19:31 THEY SAID, 'OUR LIFE FOR YOURS. YOU HAVE PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE 19:37 LINE TO SAVE US, WE WILL NOW SAVE YOU.' THIS IS THE 19:40 PRINCIPLE OF THE SUBSTITUTION, AND YOU FIND 19:43 IT IN THE BIBLE A NUMBER OF PLACES. 19:45 AND GOD SAYS, 'I WILL' - MOSES SAID, 'LORD, STRIKE MY NAME FROM 19:49 YOUR BOOK THAT YOUR PEOPLE MIGHT BE SAVED.' PAUL SAID, 'I'D BE 19:53 WILLING TO BE LOST THAT ISRAEL MIGHT BE SAVED. 19:55 IT'S THIS PRINCIPLE OF SUBSTITUTION. 19:57 THIS IS WHAT SALVATION IS ALL ABOUT. 19:59 ANYWAY, SO YOU SEE THIS EVEN IN THE STORY OF BARABBAS. 20:04 NOW BARABBAS IS MENTIONED LATER IN THE BIBLE. 20:07 DID YOU KNOW THAT? ACTS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13, "THE 20:12 GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, 20:16 GLORIFIED HIS SERVANT JESUS, WHOM YOU DELIVERED UP AND DENIED 20:21 IN THE PRESENCE OF PILATE," - THIS IS PETER PREACHING - "WHEN 20:24 HE WAS DETERMINED TO LET HIM GO." 20:26 - PILATE WAS DETERMINED TO LET JESUS GO - "BUT YOU DENIED THE 20:29 HOLY ONE AND THE JUST, AND ASKED FOR A MURDERER TO BE GRANTED TO 20:33 YOU, AND KILLED THE PRINCE OF LIFE, WHOM GOD RAISED FROM THE 20:36 DEAD, OF WHICH WE ARE WITNESSES." 20:39 THAT MAKES IT PRETTY PLAIN. PETER - THEY ALL 20:40 KNEW WHAT HAPPENED. THEY DESIRED A MURDERER 20:43 INSTEAD OF JESUS. ROMANS 5:6, "FOR WHEN WE WERE 20:49 STILL WITHOUT STRENGTH, IN DUE TIME CHRIST DIED 20:52 FOR THE UNGODLY. FOR SCARCELY FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN 20:56 WILL ONE DIE; YET PERHAPS FOR A GOOD MAN SOMEONE WOULD 21:00 EVEN DARE TO DIE." - THERE ARE CASES WHERE PEOPLE 21:03 LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR SOMEBODY ELSE. 21:05 MANY TIMES MOTHERS OR FATHERS HAVE LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES TO 21:08 SAVE THEIR CHILDREN - THAT'S SORT OF - WE'RE PRE-PROGRAMMED 21:10 FOR THAT, BUT TO LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE TO SAVE A STRANGER - SOME 21:17 WOULD LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES - SOLDIERS, MANY TIMES HAVE LAID 21:20 DOWN THEIR LIVES TO SAVE AN OFFICER. 21:22 SOME MIGHT LAY DOWN THEIR LIFE TO SAVE A JUST MAN, BUT WHAT 21:26 MAKES THIS REALLY STRANGE IS IT SAYS, 'WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS 21:29 CHRIST LAID DOWN HIS LIFE TO SAVE US' UNRIGHTEOUS, 21:34 UNTHANKFUL, UNAPPRECIATIVE - HE, BASICALLY, TOOK THE CROSS OF A 21:38 MURDERER. AND THEN HE SAYS TO A THIEF ON 21:41 THE CROSS NEXT TO HIM, 'YOU'LL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.' SO JUST 21:47 THE LOVE OF GOD IS HARD FOR US TO COMPREHEND. 21:49 OKAY, WE'VE GOT TO KEEP GOING HERE. 21:53 THE CRUCIFIED SUBSTITUTE . NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 21:56 27, VERSE 45 - WE'RE STILL IN MATTHEW 27 - SO THEY WHIP JESUS, 22:02 THEY LEAD HIM OFF, WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO TALK ABOUT HIS TIME WITH 22:04 HEROD - PILATE SENDS HIM TO HEROD. 22:07 AND YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN - OH, LET'S GO TO MATTHEW 27, 22:13 VERSE 45, "NOW FROM THE SIXTH HOUR UNTIL THE NINTH HOUR THERE 22:18 WAS DARKNESS OVER ALL THE LAND." - SO THERE'S THIS SUPERNATURAL 22:21 DARKNESS - "AND ABOUT THE NINTH HOUR JESUS CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD 22:25 VOICE, SAYING, 'ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?' 22:30 THAT IS TRANSLATED, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?'" 22:34 NOW THIS IS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE CRY OF DERELICTION - 22:39 OF ABANDONMENT - THAT HE'S ALONE. WHY DID JESUS SAY THAT? 22:45 DID JESUS GET DISCOURAGED AND FINALLY JUST EXPLODE, 'WHY DID 22:49 YOU FORSAKE ME, LORD?' DID JESUS LOSE 22:53 FAITH ON THE CROSS? NO, WHY DID HE MAKE THAT CRY? 22:59 I'VE HEARD A LOT OF VERY INTERESTING THEORIES. 23:01 I'VE HEARD SOME PASTORS SAY JESUS HAD ALL HE COULD TAKE AND 23:05 HE CRIED AND SOMEHOW - I'VE HEARD THEM SAY THAT WAS A SIN. 23:10 OF COURSE, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT FOR A MINUTE BECAUSE THE BIBLE 23:12 SAYS HE DID NO SIN. HOW COULD HE DIE FOR OUR SIN? 23:15 WAS HE CONFUSED? WHY DID HE SAY THAT? 23:20 >>SEPARATION. 23:21 >>SAY THAT AGAIN. >>QUOTING PSALMS. 23:22 >>HE WAS QUOTING PSALM 22. WHY WAS HE QUOTING PSALM 22? 23:27 DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES? GO TO PSALM 22 REAL QUICK. 23:30 I'VE GOT MY PINK TAB HERE SO I CAN FIND IT REAL QUICK, 'CAUSE I 23:33 KNEW WHERE I WAS GOING. PSALM 22 - WHO WROTE THAT? 23:37 >>DAVID. >>DAVID DID. 23:40 IT SAYS, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 23:44 SO JESUS IS QUOTING FROM THE FIRST VERSE OF THE 22ND PSALM, 23:49 WHICH IS CALLED A MESSIANIC PSALM. 23:52 THIS WAS A PSALM THAT THEY BELIEVED WAS TALKING ABOUT THE 23:55 COMING MESSIAH. SO HE'S ON THE CROSS AND HE QUOTES THIS. 23:59 WHY DOES HE QUOTE FROM THIS PSALM? 24:02 READ DOWN IN THIS PSALM AND LOOK AT WHAT IT SAYS IN SOME OF THE 24:06 VERSES HERE. READ VERSE 16, "FOR DOGS HAVE 24:11 SURROUNDED ME; THE CONGREGATION OF THE WICKED HAS ENCLOSED ME. 24:14 THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET;" SO THOSE WHO KNEW THAT 24:19 PSALM - AND, KEEP IN MIND, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TV BACK THEN. 24:21 THEY MEMORIZED A LOT OF SCRIPTURE. 24:23 JESUS HAD THE WHOLE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY MEMORIZED. 24:26 AND WHEN HE STARTED QUOTING FROM THE FIRST PART OF THAT, 'WHY 24:29 HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' AND THEY - GO DOWN AND IT SAYS, 24:31 "THEY'VE PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET. 24:34 I CAN COUNT ALL MY BONES. THEY LOOK AND STARE AT ME. 24:39 THEY DIVIDE MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY 24:43 CAST LOTS." AND THERE THEY SAW THEM, A FEW 24:46 MOMENTS EARLIER, GAMBLING FOR HIS CLOTHING - CASTING LOTS LIKE 24:51 THEY DID FOR JONAH - AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. 24:53 IN OTHER WORDS, HE QUOTES FROM THIS PSALM THAT IS A PICTURE OF 24:57 WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE CROSS. "MANY BULLS HAVE SURROUNDED ME; 25:02 STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN" - I'M IN VERSE 12 - "HAVE ENCIRCLED ME. 25:05 THEY GAPE AT ME WITH THEIR MOUTHS, LIKE A RAGING AND 25:07 ROARING LION." AND "THEY SHOOT OUT THE LIP, 25:10 THEY SHAKE THE HEAD, SAYING, 'HE TRUSTED IN THE LORD, LET HIM 25:14 RESCUE HIM...SINCE HE DELIGHTS IN HIM!'" 25:17 THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE SAYING TO HIM ON THE CROSS. 25:18 'IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD, COME DOWN.' IT'S KIND OF WHAT THEY 25:22 SAID TO NEHEMIAH, 'COME DOWN THAT WE MIGHT TALK TO YOU.' AND 25:26 HE SAYS, 'I'M DOING A GREAT WORK, I CANNOT COME DOWN.' AND 25:29 SO, MATTER OF FACT, I CAN'T PROVE IT - ONE OF THE THIEVES - 25:34 YOU CAN READ HERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 27 - AT THE BEGINNING OF 25:37 THE CRUCIFIXION BOTH THIEVES JOINED IN MOCKING HIM. 25:42 OF COURSE, HE'S ON THE CROSS FOR SEVEN HOURS - SIX HOURS ALIVE 25:46 AND ONE HOUR DEAD - TOWARDS THE END, MAYBE WHEN THAT THIEF HEARD 25:51 HIM SAY, 'MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' 25:55 HE STARTED THINKING OF PSALM 22. 25:57 THE THIEF HEARD HIM PRAY, 'FATHER FORGIVE THEM, THEY DON'T 26:00 KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.' AND A NUMBER OF THINGS WERE HAPPENING 26:02 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS STIRRING HIS HEART. 26:05 HE THOUGHT ABOUT PSALM 22 THAT SAYS, 'THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND 26:09 MY FEET.' AND HE SEES THE SIGN ABOVE JESUS' HEAD - HE'S RIGHT 26:12 THERE NEXT TO HIM - 'THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS' - AND ALL 26:15 THESE THINGS TOGETHER BEGIN TO START TO WORK ON HIM AND HE 26:19 REALIZES, 'THIS IS THE MESSIAH', BECAUSE SOMETHING HAPPENED IN 26:22 THAT THIEF'S MIND WHERE HE TURNS TO JESUS AND SAYS, 'LORD,' 26:26 - WELL, FIRST OF ALL, HIS FRIEND IS MOCKING CHRIST ALONG WITH THE 26:28 OTHERS, AND HE TURNS TO HIS FRIEND AND HE SAYS, 'DO YOU NOT 26:31 FEAR GOD SEEING WE ARE IN THE SAME CONDEMNATION? 26:35 AND WE, INDEED, JUSTLY FOR WE'RE RECEIVING THE DUE REWARD FOR OUR 26:37 DEEDS.' - WE'RE GETTING WHAT WE DESERVE - 'BUT THIS MAN HAS DONE 26:41 NOTHING AMISS.' AND HE TURNS TO JESUS AND HE SAYS, 'LORD, 26:45 REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' NOW THAT WAS ONE 26:47 OF THE GREATEST DECLARATIONS OF FAITH BECAUSE NOBODY THAT DAY - 26:52 THE APOSTLES, MARY, HIS MOTHER, MARY MAGDALENE - NO ONE CALLED 26:55 HIM LORD THAT DAY. THEY ALL KEPT THEIR DISTANCE. 27:00 HE WAS BEING MOCKED AND SO THE ONE WHO RECOGNIZED HIM NOT ONLY 27:03 AS A LORD, BUT AS A KING - HE SAID, 'REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU COME 27:06 INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' WHO HAS A KINGDOM? 27:08 A KING. SO THE THIEF IS GIVING TESTIMONY 27:13 THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH AND HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER ME. 27:15 YOU CAN SAVE ME. YOU'VE GOT POWER TO SAVE ME. 27:17 NOBODY IN THE CROWD CAN, BUT HE TURNS TO THE MAN ON THE CROSS 27:20 AND SAYS, 'YOU CAN SAVE ME.' I THINK THE STATEMENT OF JESUS IN 27:24 PSALM 22 MAY HAVE BEEN THE FINAL VERSE THAT INSPIRED HIM. 27:29 NOW THIS IS NOT FOUND IN MATTHEW 27. 27:31 THAT'S FOUND IN LUKE, BUT YOU STRING ALL OF THEM TOGETHER AND 27:35 YOU CAN GET THE TIMELINE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE. 27:38 AND THEN, OF COURSE, JESUS TURNED TO HIM AND SAID, 'VERILY 27:42 I SAY TO YOU TODAY, YOU WILL BE WITH ME IN PARADISE.' - 'I'M 27:46 TELLING YOU TODAY', NOT 'YOU'LL BE IN PARADISE WITH ME TODAY' 27:49 BECAUSE JESUS DIDN'T GO TO PARADISE THAT DAY. 27:52 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONFUSED BY THAT MISTRANSLATED 27:54 COMMA THAT'S THERE. ANYWAY, SO HE ISSUES THIS CRY 28:00 OF DERELICTION FROM THE CROSS. AND WHEN HE SAYS, 'ELOI, ELOI' - 28:05 THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE IT GIVES IT TO YOU IN THE HEBREW 28:09 SO YOU'LL KNOW WHY THEY WERE CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT HE WAS 28:12 SAYING, BECAUSE IN HEBREW IT'S 'ELOI, ELOI' - IT'S SIMILAR TO 28:15 ELIJAH - AND THEY THOUGHT THAT HE WAS CRYING FOR ELIJAH. 28:20 HE WAS PROBABLY HOARSE AND - "SOME OF THOSE WHO STOOD THERE," 28:26 - THIS IS MATTHEW 27:47 - "WHEN THEY HEARD THAT, SAID, 28:29 'THIS MAN IS CALLING FOR ELIJAH!' 28:31 IMMEDIATELY, ONE OF THEM RAN AND TOOK A SPONGE," - THEY HAD ALSO 28:34 HEARD HIM SAY, 'I THIRST' - FILLED IT WITH SOUR WINE AND PUT 28:38 IT ON A REED," - HE'S UP SO HIGH THEY CAN'T REACH HIM, SO THEY 28:41 PUT IT ON A REED - "AND OFFERED IT TO HIM TO DRINK. THE REST 28:46 SAID, 'LET HIM ALONE; LET US SEE IF ELIJAH WILL COME TO SAVE 28:49 HIM.'" - NOW, I WANT TO PAUSE RIGHT THERE. WHAT DO THEY GIVE 28:54 HIM ON THE CROSS? >>WINE. 28:56 >>ONE GOSPEL SAYS THAT HE REFUSED IT. 28:59 JOHN SAYS, 'WHEN HE RECEIVED IT' AND 'HE TASTED IT.' NOW ONCE HE 29:04 REALIZED IT WAS SOUR WINE, HE WOULDN'T DRINK IT BECAUSE IT HAD 29:08 - IT WAS SOUR WINE MIXED WITH GALL, WHICH WAS A NARCOTIC THAT 29:12 THEY WOULD GIVE TO HELP DULL THE PAIN. 29:14 HYPOTHETICALLY, THE ROMANS SAY THAT THEY DID THAT TO PROLONG 29:20 THEIR SUFFERING, BUT BE IT WHAT IT MAY, JESUS DIDN'T WANT IT 29:26 BECAUSE HE WANTED HIS MIND CLEAR. AND HE EVEN REFUSED DRUGS 29:30 ON THE CROSS. I'M NOT SAYING THERE'S NEVER 29:32 A TIME TO DO THAT, I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT THIS SAYS HERE 29:36 AND WHAT - YOU ALSO READ THAT IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY . 29:40 WHAT WAS THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS? 29:44 TURNED WATER TO WINE. WAS IT OLD WINE OR NEW WINE? 29:48 NEW WINE - IT'S A WEDDING. HE SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST. 29:52 YOU CAN GET OLD WINE ALL YEAR LONG. 29:54 YOU CAN ONLY GET NEW WINE CLOSE TO THE HARVEST. 29:57 HE GAVE THEM FRESH GRAPE JUICE. THE WORD 'WINE' AND GRAPE JUICE 30:00 ARE INTERCHANGEABLE IN THE BIBLE AND IT EVEN TALKS ABOUT WHEN THE 30:06 HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT, THEY ACCUSED THE DISCIPLES OF BEING 30:08 FULL OF NEW WINE AND WERE SORT OF MOCKING THEM BECAUSE THEY 30:11 SAID, 'OH, YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE DRINKING NEW WINE, BUT YOU'RE 30:14 ACTING LIKE YOU'RE DRINKING OLD WINE.' 30:18 SO THE FIRST MIRACLE OF JESUS, HE GIVES MAN NEW WINE AT A 30:22 WEDDING. THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENS 30:25 IMMEDIATELY BEFORE HE DIES, MAN GIVES HIM SOUR WINE. 30:30 WE ARE SAVED, IN EFFECT, BY A BLOOD TRANSFUSION. 30:34 CHRIST TAKES OUR BAD WINE - OUR BLOOD, OUR SIN - BLOOD IS, YOU 30:41 KNOW, IT'S A SYMBOL OF LIFE - THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD. 30:44 HE TAKES OUR SIN, HE GIVES US HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 30:48 HE GAVE TO MAN HIS MIRACULOUS WINE - NEW WINE - BY THE WAY, AT 30:53 THE LAST SUPPER IT TELLS US - AND WE READ THIS LAST TIME - HE 30:57 SAID, 'I WILL NOT DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE AGAIN UNTIL I 30:59 DRINK IT WITH YOU NEW IN THE FATHER'S KINGDOM - NEW WINE. 31:04 IT WAS UNLEAVENED BREAD. IT WAS UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. 31:06 I LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK JESUS TURNED WATER 31:08 TO WINE, HE MADE A BUNCH OF BOOZE - THEY USE THAT AS AN 31:11 EXCUSE TO DRINK ALCOHOL, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING ELSE THE 31:13 BIBLE SAYS, AND IT'S THE MOST DEADLY DRUG IN OUR CULTURE 31:18 TODAY. SO I THINK THAT'S A TERRIBLE MISTAKE TO MAKE. 31:21 AND THEN HE TASTES THE SOUR WINE THAT MEN OFFER HIM. 31:26 HE COMES TO BLESS WHILE HE'S BEING CURSED - HE TAKES THE SOUR 31:30 WINE. AND WHAT HAPPENS? IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT IT SAYS 31:34 HE GIVES UP THE GHOST AND HE DIES. 31:39 AND IT SAYS, LET ME SEE HERE, THEY PUT THE SPONGE, LET HIM 31:44 ALONE - ALRIGHT, VERSE 50, "AND JESUS CRIED OUT AGAIN" - I'M IN 31:47 MATTHEW 27 - WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT." 31:52 RIGHT AFTER HE TASTES THE SOUR WINE HE CRIES OUT - AND WHAT 31:55 DOES HE CRY? IF YOU LOOK HERE - SOMEONE'S 31:58 GOING TO READ FOR ME JOHN 19:30 - WHOSE GOT THAT? 32:03 ALRIGHT, I DIDN'T GIVE THEM MUCH WARNING TO GET YOU ON CAMERA. 32:07 ARE YOU READY? GO AHEAD, WHY DON'T YOU 32:08 READ THAT FOR US, SAMMY? >>"SO WHEN JESUS HAD RECEIVED 32:10 THE SOUR WINE, HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED!' 32:14 AND BOWING HIS HEAD, HE GAVE UP HIS SPIRIT." 32:18 >>ALRIGHT, AND I'M GOING TO ADD THE VERSE LUKE 23:46, "AND WHEN 32:22 JESUS HAD CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE," - NOW WE JUST READ IN 32:24 MATTHEW HE SAID SOMETHING WITH A LOUD VOICE JUST BEFORE HE DIED. 32:27 MATTHEW DOESN'T SAY WHAT HE SAID, JUST THAT HE CRIED OUT. 32:30 JOHN AND LUKE TELL US WHAT HE SAID - "HE SAID, 'FATHER, INTO 32:34 YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.' HAVING SAID THIS, HE BREATHED 32:38 HIS LAST." SO, EVIDENTLY HE SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED. 32:42 FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.' YOU PIECE THIS 32:46 TOGETHER. YOU SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING? 32:47 WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE THREE GOSPELS AND WE'RE SHOWING WHAT 32:49 HE SAID. AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, 32:52 THAT'S THE SAME - THAT MEANS THE BIBLE'S INCONSISTENT.' 32:55 NOT AT ALL. I THINK THAT PROVES IT. 32:56 THEY'RE ALL - THE GOSPEL WRITERS ARE GIVING THE RECORD OF WHAT 32:59 THEY REMEMBER AND WHAT THEY SAW AND THEY DON'T CONTRADICT EACH 33:02 OTHER, THEY'RE JUST NOT SAYING EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED. 33:05 I MEAN, IF YOU PUT EVERYTHING ON - IN THE BIBLE OF WHAT HAPPENED 33:08 IN THOSE SIX HOURS HE WAS ON THE CROSS - EVERYTHING THAT 33:10 EVERYBODY SAID - EVEN JOHN, IN HIS GOSPEL, HE SAID, 'IF WE 33:13 SHOULD WRITE EVERYTHING, THE WORLD COULD NOT CONTAIN THE 33:15 BOOKS.' SO HE SAID, 'WE'VE COALESCED THE STORY.' AND SO 33:19 THAT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE US. I THINK THAT'S 33:21 ACTUALLY EVIDENCE. ALRIGHT, THEN IT SAYS TORN 33:23 VEIL AND RENT ROCKS . IF YOU LOOK IN MATTHEW 27:51 AND WE'RE 33:28 GOING TO READ THROUGH 54. RIGHT AFTER HE SAYS 33:30 THIS 'IT IS FINISHED. FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT 33:34 MY SPIRIT.' HE CRIES IT OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE THAT'S ALMOST LIKE 33:37 THIS - THIS FINAL SURGE OF ENERGY COMES INTO HIM. 33:43 I'VE BEEN PART OF A FEW VIGILS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE DYING - 33:51 STRUGGLING WITH CANCER - AND IT'S UNCANNY HOW MANY TIMES IT 33:54 SEEMS THAT A PERSON WILL - THEY'RE CONFUSED AND THEY CAN'T 33:59 THINK AND THEY'RE STRUGGLING AND THEY'RE MAYBE UNDER THE 34:01 INFLUENCE OF SOME OF THE PAIN KILLERS AND THEN, ALL OF A 34:05 SUDDEN IT'S LIKE THE LIGHT BREAKS THROUGH AND THEY BECOME 34:09 VERY LUCID AND THEY BECOME CLEAR AND THEY TALK TO THE FAMILY AND 34:13 WITHIN A FEW HOURS, THEY DIE. IT'S LIKE THERE'S THIS - ANY 34:16 OF YOU OBSERVE THAT BEFORE? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 34:19 IT'S LIKE THESE MOMENTS OF CLARITY COME TO THEM, THEY GET 34:22 UP, THEY SAY GOOD-BYE TO EVERYBODY - IT'S LIKE JACOB JUST 34:24 BEFORE HE DIED, HE BLESSED THE CHILDREN, THEN HE LAYS DOWN AND 34:26 HE DIES. AND JESUS, IT'S LIKE HE GOT THIS 34:29 SURGE OF ENERGY AFTER BEING ON THE CROSS, AND HE CRIES OUT 34:34 TRIUMPHANTLY, WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'IT IS FINISHED!' 34:38 WHAT WAS FINISHED? HIS LIFE? 34:42 'FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.' HAD HE LOST 34:45 FAITH? WE'VE BEEN STUDYING JOB HERE AT 34:48 GRANITE BAY, GOING THROUGH A SERIES ON JOB AND, IN SPITE OF 34:53 ALL OF HIS SUFFERINGS, JOB DOES NOT LOSE FAITH. 34:56 AND SO JESUS CRIES OUT - HE DIDN'T SAY, 'WHY HAVE YOU 35:00 FORSAKEN ME?' BECAUSE HE THOUGHT 35:01 HE WAS FORSAKEN. HE KNEW WHY HE WAS FORSAKEN. 35:04 THAT'S WHAT HE WAS PRAYING ABOUT IN THE GARDEN. 35:06 HE READ PSALM 22. 35:08 BY THE WAY, IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR THE HIGH PRIEST TO READ FROM ONE 35:13 OF THE MESSIANIC PSALMS DURING THE PASSOVER. 35:16 JESUS IS THE HIGH PRIEST - HE'S ALSO THE LAMB. 35:19 IT'S THE PASSOVER - HE'S READING FROM ONE OF THE MESSIANIC PSALMS 35:23 AND HE HAPPENS TO READ THE MESSIANIC PSALM THAT PERFECTLY 35:26 DESCRIBES WHAT'S HAPPENING THAT DAY TO HIM. 35:30 I ALSO WONDER IF NICODEMUS AND JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, TWO 35:34 SCHOLARS IN ISRAEL, WHEN THEY HEARD JESUS SAY THAT, THEY KNEW. 35:39 BECAUSE, YOU NOTICE, THEY BOTH SUDDENLY BECOME VERY BRAVE. 35:42 BEFORE THE CROSS THEY WERE HIDING THEIR FAITH. 35:44 AFTER THE CROSS JOSEPH GOES BOLDLY TO PILATE TO GET THE 35:48 BODY. NICODEMUS COMES OUT OF THE 35:50 CLOSET AND HE PAYS FOR THE BURIAL MATERIALS. 35:53 AND YOU WONDER IF THEY RECOGNIZED, IN THAT STATEMENT, 35:56 SOMETHING THAT THEY HAD MISSED BEFORE. 35:58 ALRIGHT, SO MATTHEW 27:51, "AND JESUS CRIED OUT." 36:04 HE YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT "THEN, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE 36:07 WAS TORN IN TWO FROM TOP TO BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH QUAKED, 36:12 AND THE ROCKS WERE SPLIT, AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED; AND MANY 36:16 BODIES" - NOT ALL THE BODIES - "MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHO 36:20 HAD FALLEN ASLEEP" - THIS IS NOT A UNIVERSAL RESURRECTION - IT 36:23 SAYS, "COMING OUT OF THE GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION," - 36:27 GRAVES WERE OPENED DURING THE EARTHQUAKE. 36:28 THEY DON'T COME OUT OF THE GRAVES UNTIL WHEN? 36:31 AFTER HIS RESURRECTION. WHY? BECAUSE HE HAD TO RISE FIRST 36:34 AND BUY THEM PERMISSION. IT SAYS, "THEY WENT INTO THE 36:39 HOLY CITY" - THIS IS NOT A UNIVERSAL RESURRECTION. 36:41 IT HAPPENS IN THE HOLY CITY WITH SOME - "AND APPEARED TO MANY." 36:45 THIS IS SUCH A SMALL GROUP THAT THIS SPECIAL RESURRECTION OF A 36:49 FEW OF THE SAINTS WHO HAD DIED AND BEEN BURIED - THEIR GRAVES 36:53 ARE AROUND JERUSALEM, IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, MOSES ON MOUNT NEBO - 36:57 OF COURSE, MOSES WAS ALREADY IN HEAVEN - OR AARON, OR ANY OF 37:00 THESE OTHERS, IT'S - SOME OF THE LOCAL SAINTS, BURIED AROUND 37:03 JERUSALEM. IT'S NOT MENTIONED BY MARK, IT'S 37:06 NOT MENTIONED BY LUKE, IT'S NOT MENTIONED BY JOHN - SMALL GROUP, 37:11 VERY BRIEFLY - AND IT WAS ALSO PROBABLY HARD - THESE ARE, YOU 37:14 KNOW, ANECDOTAL STORIES OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY, THEY SAID, 37:17 'I SAW SOMEBODY WHO CLAIMED TO BE THE PROPHET ISAIAH.' 'I SAW 37:21 SOMEBODY - IT WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST.' I MEAN, I DON'T 37:23 KNOW WHO WAS IN THAT GROUP. I HOPE JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS IN 37:26 THE GROUP, BUT WE DON'T KNOW. AND THE VEIL WAS RENT. 37:34 NOW THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE WHEN JESUS DIED. 37:37 WILL THERE BE AN EARTHQUAKE WHEN HE COMES AGAIN? 37:40 YEAH. WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS, 'THE VEIL WAS RENT IN THE 37:45 TEMPLE? WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THAT VEIL? IT SEPARATED - YEAH, 37:56 IT SEPARATED THE HOLY PLACE FROM THE MOST HOLY. 37:59 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK IN 2 CHRONICLES 3:14, HE, SOLOMON, 38:03 MADE THE VEIL - THIS IS IN THE PERMANENT TEMPLE - OF BLUE, 38:07 PURPLE, CRIMSON, FINE LINEN, AND WOVE CHERUBIM INTO IT. 38:12 IT WAS A VERY LARGE, THICK CURTAIN. 38:14 ONE PERSON SAID IT WAS AS THICK AS A MAN'S HAND IS WIDE. 38:19 AND SO, FOR IT TO TEAR, IT WASN'T LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS THIN 38:24 MUSLIN CLOTH THAT SUDDENLY JUST RIPPED BECAUSE IT WAS MOLDY AND 38:27 A WIND WENT THROUGH, THIS WAS A SUPERNATURAL SHREDDING THAT TOOK 38:32 PLACE THAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY GOD - SYMBOLIZING WHAT? 38:37 ALL THE TEMPLE WAS BUILT AROUND THE SACRIFICING OF LAMBS. 38:42 NOW THE LAMB OF GOD WAS DYING OUTSIDE THE CITY. 38:45 HE WAS THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL THAT IT POINTED TO. 38:49 DO WE HAVE ANOTHER TEMPLE STILL? YOU REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 38:53 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE OF HANDS; I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT 38:56 HANDS.' AND HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY. 39:00 SO, WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS AND SAID, 'IT IS FINISHED', HE 39:04 COMPLETED THE PURPOSE OF THE TYPES IN THE TEMPLE. 39:07 WE DON'T NEED TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. 39:10 WE DON'T NEED TO SACRIFICE LAMBS ANYMORE. 39:12 THE TEMPLE VEIL WAS TORN AND, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WAS TORN? 39:16 DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE HIGH PRIEST BECAME OUTRAGED DURING 39:19 THE TRIAL OF CHRIST? IT SAYS HE TORE HIS ROBES. 39:22 SO THE ROBES OF THE PRIEST WERE TORN BECAUSE WE HAVE A NEW 39:25 PRIESTHOOD NOW. CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND 39:27 WE ARE A NATION OF KINGS AND PRIESTS. 39:30 AND - NEW TEMPLE - YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, THE BIBLE SAYS. 39:34 YOU ARE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE. 39:35 CHRIST IS A CORNERSTONE. AND SO THAT OLD SYSTEM - AND, 39:39 YOU KNOW, I LOVE AND RESPECT MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT THERE 39:42 THAT HAVE A STRONG BURDEN FOR THE FEAST DAYS. 39:47 IF SOME PEOPLE SAY, YOU KNOW, 'I WOULD LIKE TO ENTER INTO SOME OF 39:50 THE SYMBOLISM OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE JEWISH FEASTS, I HAVE 39:54 NO BURDEN TO CHANGE THEIR MIND. PAUL SAYS, IN ROMANS 14, 'IF A 39:57 MAN REGARDS A DAY UNTO THE LORD, LET HIM REGARD IT TO THE LORD. 40:00 IF HE DOESN'T - TO THE LORD, HE DOES NOT REGARD IT.' THAT'S WHAT 40:03 HE'S TALKING ABOUT IN ROMANS. HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS 40:06 - MAYBE HE IS TALKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS LATER. 40:08 IGNORE THAT LAST STATEMENT, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M THINKING. 40:12 BUT HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SABBATH WHEN HE SAYS, IN ROMANS 40:16 14, 'ONE MAN REGARDS A DAY UNTO THE LORD AND ANOTHER MAN DOESN'T 40:19 REGARD IT.' IT'S INTERESTING. 40:20 I'VE NEVER HEARD A SUNDAY-KEEPING PASTOR TELL HIS 40:23 CONGREGATION THAT REGARDING SUNDAY. 40:27 IF YOU WANT TO REGARD IT TO THE LORD, GO AHEAD. 40:28 IF YOU DON'T, IT DOESN'T MATTER.' 40:29 THEY DON'T EVER SAY THAT. THEY ONLY MENTION IT WHEN 40:31 THEY HEAR THE SABBATH. PAUL WAS TALKING ABOUT 40:33 THE RELIGIOUS FEASTS. AND IF A PERSON HAS A BURDEN TO 40:36 DO THAT, I JUST DON'T FIND ANY COMMAND IN THE BIBLE THAT YOU 40:40 CAN USE TO IMPOSE THAT ON OTHER PEOPLE. 40:43 THE BIBLE SAYS CHRIST IS OUR PASSOVER. 40:45 ALL OF THE ANNUAL FEASTS ALL CAME AFTER SIN; SABBATH CAME 40:50 BEFORE. THE ANNUAL SABBATHS 40:54 CAME AFTER SIN. THE SABBATH OF THE 40:55 WEEK CAME BEFORE SIN. IT'S PART OF GOD'S PERFECT PLAN. 40:58 WE'LL CONTINUE TO KEEP IT IN HEAVEN, RIGHT? 41:01 FROM WEEK TO WEEK, FROM SABBATH TO SABBATH. 41:04 SO, TO GO AROUND AND TELL EVERYBODY THEY'VE GOT TO KEEP 41:06 THE FEASTS - THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE HAS BEEN TORN. 41:09 THERE ARE SPIRITUAL THINGS WE CAN LEARN FROM THE JEWISH 41:11 FEASTS, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO JERUSALEM ANYMORE, THREE TIMES A 41:14 YEAR. WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE SACRIFICING LAMBS. 41:16 THE BIBLE'S CLEAR ABOUT CIRCUMCISION. 41:18 IF YOU TRY TO PUT THAT WHOLE LAW ON PEOPLE, THIS IS WHAT PAUL IS 41:21 TALKING ABOUT IN GALATIANS. IT SAYS YOU'RE NEGLECTING THE 41:25 GOSPEL NOW AND YOU'RE GOING BACK TO THOSE OLD CEREMONIES. 41:28 SO I - ALRIGHT, YOU ALL KNOW HOW I FEEL NOW. 41:31 ALRIGHT, LET'S - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ EPHESIANS 4:7 - GO 41:34 AHEAD, KATRINA. TELL YOU WHAT, I DIDN'T 41:36 GIVE THEM A CHANCE. LET ME READ SOMETHING ELSE. 41:38 I'M GOING TO READ MATTHEW CHAPTER 27:54, WHILE THEY GET 41:42 READY FOR YOU. "SO WHEN THE CENTURION AND THOSE 41:46 WITH HIM, WHO WERE GUARDING JESUS, SAW THE EARTHQUAKE AND 41:49 THE THINGS THAT HAD HAPPENED, THEY FEARED GREATLY SAYING, 41:53 'TRULY, THIS WAS THE SON OF GOD.'" NOW, THE SOLDIER 41:58 - ISN'T IT INTERESTING? WHO WERE THEY THAT ARE GIVING 42:00 TESTIMONY TO JESUS AT HIS CRUCIFIXION? 42:02 IT'S NOT PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN, IT'S A THIEF AND A ROMAN 42:06 SOLDIER. IT'S TWO GENTILES. 42:10 AND WITHIN A GENERATION THERE WOULD BE MORE GENTILES IN THE 42:13 CHURCH THAN THERE WOULD BE JEWS. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, 42:16 EPHESIANS 4:7. >>"BUT TO EACH ONE OF US GRACE 42:20 WAS GIVEN ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF CHRIST'S GIFT. 42:23 THEREFORE HE SAYS: 'WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED 42:27 CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE, AND GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.'" 42:31 >>WHO IS THE CAPTIVITY HE LED CAPTIVE WHEN HE ASCENDED? 42:35 IT SAYS 'AFTER THE RESURRECTION, THOSE GRAVES THAT HAD BEEN 42:37 OPENED, THE SAINTS CAME OUT, THEY BRIEFLY APPEARED TO PEOPLE 42:41 IN THE CITY, AND WHEN CHRIST ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, THEY 42:44 ASCENDED WITH HIM. NOW, WHICH ASCENSION 42:47 ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? JESUS ASCENDED THE SAME DAY - 42:51 REMEMBER WHEN MARY GRABBED HIS FEET AND HE SAID 'DO NOT DETAIN 42:54 ME, I'VE NOT YET ASCENDED TO MY FATHER.'? 42:56 AND THEN JESUS ASCENDED PERMANENTLY 40 DAYS LATER, JUST 42:59 BEFORE PENTECOST. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST 43:01 ASCENSION - IS WHEN HE ASCENDED. AND SO, THAT'S WHEN THESE 43:07 SAINTS ASCENDED WITH HIM. HE BORE CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE. 43:10 THIS WAS LIKE A FIRST FRUITS HE BROUGHT TO HEAVEN. 43:12 ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO READ ABOUT THE RISEN CHRIST. 43:15 MATTHEW 28, VERSE 1 - NOW, IT MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY TOUGH 43:20 SABBATH FOR THE BELIEVERS BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST TOTALLY 43:23 DEJECTED. "NOW AFTER THE SABBATH, AS THE 43:27 FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK BEGAN TO DAWN," - VERY CLEAR - WHEN IS 43:31 THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK? AFTER THE SABBATH. 43:33 JESUS ROSE ON SUNDAY. JESUS KEPT THE SABBATH EVEN IN HIS DEATH. 43:38 ISN'T THAT AMAZING? HE RESTED IN THE TOMB THROUGH SABBATH. 43:41 AFTER THE SABBATH HE RISES. "AFTER THE SABBATH, AS THE FIRST 43:45 DAY OF THE WEEK BEGAN TO DAWN, MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER 43:47 MARY" - MARY, THE WIFE OF CLEOPHAS - "CAME TO SEE THE 43:51 TOMB. AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; FOR AN ANGEL 43:55 OF THE LORD DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN," - NOW, THIS IS A 43:57 DIFFERENT EARTHQUAKE. THE OTHER EARTHQUAKE 43:59 WAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NOW YOU'VE GOT ONE SUNDAY. 44:01 IS IT A LITTLE EARTHQUAKE? IT'S A GREAT EARTHQUAKE. 44:05 WHAT ARE PEOPLE IN THE CITY CALLING IT? 44:07 AFTERSHOCK FROM THE FIRST EARTHQUAKE. 44:10 ISN'T THAT WHAT GEOLOGISTS WOULD CALL IT TODAY - IF YOU HAVE 44:13 ANOTHER BIG EARTHQUAKE YOU'D SAY, 'THAT WAS A BIG 44:15 AFTERSHOCK.' "THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; FOR AN ANGEL OF THE 44:21 LORD DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN AND CAME AND ROLLED BACK THE STONE 44:25 FROM THE DOOR, AND SAT ON IT." - AS IF TO SAY, 'NO ONE'S 44:28 PUTTING IT BACK.' HE WAS DARING ANYONE - "HIS COUNTENANCE WAS 44:32 LIKE LIGHTNING, AND HIS CLOTHING AS WHITE AS SNOW. 44:35 AND THE GUARDS SHOOK FOR FEAR OF HIM, AND BECAME LIKE DEAD MEN. 44:40 BUT THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID TO THE WOMEN, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID, 44:44 FOR I KNOW THAT YOU SEEK JESUS WHO WAS CRUCIFIED. 44:47 HE IS NOT HERE; FOR HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID. 44:50 COME, SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY. 44:52 AND GO QUICKLY AND TELL HIS DISCIPLES THAT HE IS RISEN FROM 44:55 THE DEAD, AND INDEED HE IS GOING BEFORE YOU INTO GALILEE; THERE 44:59 YOU WILL SEE HIM. BEHOLD, I HAVE TOLD YOU.'" SO 45:01 THEY GO - EVIDENTLY, THE WOMEN DIVIDE AND THEY GO INTO TWO 45:03 DIFFERENT GROUPS - TWO DIFFERENT PLACES. 45:06 MARY GOES AND SHE FINDS PETER AND JOHN. 45:08 THE OTHER WOMEN, THAT INCLUDED HIS MOTHER, THEY GO AND THEY 45:11 FIND SOME OF THE OTHER TEN APOSTLES AND - WELL, I GUESS 45:15 THAT'D BE ANOTHER EIGHT OR NINE OF THEM - BECAUSE JUDAS 45:18 HAS KILLED HIMSELF AT THIS POINT. 45:21 AND, WHILE THE WOMEN ARE GOING, THERE'S ANOTHER APPEARANCE, IF 45:24 YOU READ IN THE OTHER GOSPELS WHERE THEY TALK TO HIM AS WELL. 45:27 AND MARY COMES BACK WITH PETER AND JOHN. 45:31 THEY GO IN THE TOMB, THEY SEE EVERYTHING'S EMPTY. 45:33 THE CLOTH IS FOLDED. THEY RUN OFF. 45:36 MARY STAYS THERE AND JESUS APPEARS THEN LATER TO MARY, 45:38 ALONE. AND SO, BECAUSE SHE'S THE ONE 45:41 WHO KEEPS COMING AND SHE KEEPS STAYING THERE AT THE TOMB, 45:44 AND THAT HE IS RISEN. HOW IMPORTANT IS THE 45:47 RESURRECTION TO OUR FAITH? ANYONE HERE TERMINAL? 45:54 I SEE A COUPLE OF DOCTORS NODDING THEIR HEADS. 45:56 THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING. YOU KNOW, LIFE IS TERMINAL. 46:02 UNLESS YOU LIVE AND REMAIN UNTIL CHRIST'S COMING - IT'S LIKE THEY 46:06 SAY, 'IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, YOU'LL DIE.' AND THE - YOU'LL 46:10 GET SICK OR YOU'LL HAVE AN ACCIDENT, AND WHEN WE SAY 46:16 SOMEONE IS TERMINAL, IT MEANS THAT THEIR TIME IS BEING CUT 46:19 MUCH SHORTER. YOU REMEMBER, ONCE ISAIAH CAME 46:22 TO HEZEKIAH AND SAID, 'I'VE GOT BAD NEWS. YOU'RE TERMINAL. 46:27 GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER.' AND HE CRIED AND HE WEPT, AND GOD FELT 46:30 SORRY FOR HIM. HE CAME BACK AND HE SAID, 'WELL, 46:33 I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS AND I'VE GOT BAD NEWS. 46:36 HEZEKIAH SAID - THIS IS DOUG'S VERSION - HEZEKIAH SAID, 'WHAT'S 46:39 THE GOOD NEWS?' HE SAID, 'GOD'S GOING TO GIVE 46:42 YOU ANOTHER 15 YEARS.' HE SAID, 'OH, PRAISE THE LORD. 46:46 WHAT'S THE BAD NEWS?' HE SAID, 'YOU'RE STILL 46:47 TERMINAL.' NOW, SOMETIMES THE DOCTORS SAY YOU'VE GOT SIX 46:52 MONTHS, SOMETIMES THEY SAY YOU'VE GOT A YEAR. 46:55 WELL, ISAIAH CAME AND SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT 15 YEARS.' HE'D 47:00 PROBABLY FEEL A LOT BETTER - THE DOCTOR SAID, 'LOOK, I'VE GOT BAD 47:02 NEWS, YOU'RE TERMINAL. YOU'VE ONLY GOT 900 YEARS, LIKE ADAM. 47:06 BUT IF YOU WERE ADAM, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LIVE FOREVER. 47:08 900, THAT WAS A REALLY BAD REPORT FROM THE DOCTOR. 47:14 HOW DID I GET ON THAT? OH YEAH, IF IT WASN'T FOR 47:17 JESUS, THEN THE GRAVE WOULD BE HOPELESS. 47:21 BUT, BECAUSE OF THE RESURRECTION, WE HAVE HOPE. 47:23 1 CORINTHIANS 15, VERSE 14, "AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN, THEN OUR 47:28 PREACHING IS EMPTY AND YOUR FAITH IS ALSO EMPTY." 47:30 WE MAY AS WELL ALL JUST PACK IT UP AND GO HOME. 47:32 "IF, IN THIS LIFE ONLY WE HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST, WE ARE OF ALL 47:35 MEN THE MOST PITIABLE." SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 47:38 1 CORINTHIANS 6:14. IS THAT RIGHT? 47:41 YEAH, GO AHEAD. >>"AND GOD BOTH RAISED UP THE 47:45 LORD AND WILL ALSO RAISE US UP BY HIS POWER." 47:48 >>THAT'S A SHORT VERSE, BUT THAT'S REALLY GOOD. 47:50 IT'S BASICALLY SAYING THE SAME GOD THAT RAISED UP JESUS IS 47:53 GOING TO RAISE US UP BY THE SAME POWER. 47:56 THE LORD SPOKE, HE CAME OUT OF THE BODY - OUT OF THE GRAVE WITH 47:59 A GLORIFIED BODY, AND HE WILL DO THE SAME FOR US. 48:02 ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO MATTHEW 28, VERSE 16, AND WE'LL READ THROUGH 48:08 THE END. AND IT TALKS HERE ABOUT - YEAH, 48:14 LET ME SEE HERE - "THEN THE ELEVEN DISCIPLES WENT AWAY INTO 48:20 GALILEE, TO THE MOUNTAIN WHICH JESUS HAD APPOINTED FOR THEM. 48:24 WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY WORSHIPED HIM; BUT SOME 48:27 DOUBTED." YOU KNOW, AT ONE TIME IT SAYS HE 48:29 MET WITH 500 AT ONE TIME, AFTER HIS RESURRECTION. 48:32 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT MEETING THAT WAS. 48:37 "AND WHEN THEY SAW HIM, THEY WORSHIPED HIM; BUT SOME 48:39 DOUBTED." AND THEY SAID, 'COULD THIS BE HIM?' 48:42 - YOU'RE ALSO WONDERING IF THIS IS REFERRING TO WHEN THOMAS 48:44 DOUBTED - "AND JESUS CAME AND SPOKE TO THEM, SAYING, 'ALL 48:49 AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH. 48:53 GO THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM 48:57 IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY 49:00 SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE COMMANDED 49:04 YOU; AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE 49:07 AGE.' WELL, THIS IS REALLY GOOD NEWS. 49:10 JESUS IS ALIVE - NOW HAS HE RETRACTED HIS PROMISE THAT HE'S 49:14 WITH US ALWAYS? THAT HASN'T CHANGED. 49:18 DID HE SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD? 49:21 HE SAID HE'S GOT ALL AUTHORITY. 49:24 YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK IN YOUR LESSON, IT GIVES US DANIEL 7:13, 49:28 "I WAS WATCHING IN THE NIGHT VISIONS, AND BEHOLD, ONE LIKE 49:31 THE SON OF MAN, COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN! 49:34 HE CAME TO THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, AND THEY BROUGHT HIM NEAR BEFORE 49:38 HIM. THEN TO HIM" - THE SON OF 49:40 MAN - WHO IS THE SON OF MAN? IT'S JESUS - "THEN TO HIM WAS 49:45 GIVEN DOMINION AND GLORY AND A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLES, 49:50 NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES SHOULD SERVE HIM. 49:53 HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS 49:56 AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM IS THE ONE WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED." 50:00 SO CHRIST HAS ALL THE AUTHORITY OF GOD. 50:04 FOR HE IS GOD THE SON. AND SO, IF YOU'RE OBEYING THE 50:09 ORDERS OF THE KING, YOU HAVE THE KING'S AUTHORITY 50:12 BEHIND YOU, DON'T YOU? AND THAT'S A REASON WHY YOU 50:15 DON'T EVER HAVE TO BE ASHAMED. AND THEN HE SAID, 'LOOK, I'M 50:18 WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD. 50:21 OR IT SAYS HERE, 'THE END OF THE AGE.' I THINK IT WAS DAVID 50:25 LIVINGSTONE THAT SAID, WHEN ASKED, 'ARE YOU NEVER AFRAID?' 50:31 AS MANY TIMES AS HE WAS GOING ACROSS AFRICA WHEN IT WAS PRETTY 50:35 WILD AND PRIMITIVE, DAVID LIVINGSTONE WAS ATTACKED BY A 50:38 LION AND SURVIVED. NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE BESIDE HE 50:41 AND DANIEL CAN SAY THAT - AND DANIEL WASN'T EVEN ATTACKED. 50:47 AND SEVERAL TIMES, LIVINGSTONE, WHEN HE WAS OUT THERE, HE WAS 50:50 MOSTLY DOING MISSION WORK AND EXPLORING. 50:56 HE WAS THREATENED FREQUENTLY FOR ENTERING NEW TERRITORY AND YOU 51:00 COULD HEAR THE DRUMS AND THE NATIVES CARRYING ON ALL NIGHT 51:04 LONG AND THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO ATTACK HIM AT ANY 51:05 MOMENT AND PEOPLE SAID, 'AREN'T YOU AFRAID?' 51:08 HE SAID, 'NO.' HE SAID, 'I'VE BEEN TOLD TO GO INTO ALL THE 51:13 WORLD AND THE LORD SAID, 'I AM WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO' AND 51:17 THAT'S THE PROMISE OF A GENTLEMAN AND HE IS WITH ME. 51:21 I HAVE NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF. AND IF I DIE DOING WHAT HE'S 51:23 TOLD ME TO DO' - AND HE DIDN'T DIE FROM ANY VIOLENT ACT, 51:27 HE DIED AS HE GOT OLD, FROM MALARIA. BUT HE HAD FAITH. 51:33 WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY IF GOD IS WITH US. AMEN? 51:35 WHAT HAS THE LORD TOLD US TO DO WHEN WE GO? 51:37 HE SAID GO WHERE? EVERYWHERE. GO INTO ALL THE WORLD. 51:41 AND DO WHAT? PREACH AND TEACH AND BAPTIZE. 51:47 NOW, DO YOU JUST BAPTIZE THEM AND LEAVE THEM, OR IS THERE 51:49 TEACHING THAT COMES AFTERWARD? NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS HERE: 'GO, 51:54 THEREFORE, AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS.' IS MAKING 51:57 DISCIPLES THE SAME AS JUST PREACHING? 51:59 >>NO. >>THAT MEANS BE TEACHING THEM - 52:01 GO DO WITH OTHERS WHAT JESUS DID WITH THE TWELVE. 52:04 HOW DID JESUS MAKE DISCIPLES? DID HE JUST PREACH TO THE 52:08 APOSTLES AND WALK AWAY, OR DID HE SPEND TIME WITH THEM, TAUGHT 52:11 THEM, HELP THEM AS THEY MADE MISTAKES, GUIDED THEM, WHEN THEY 52:16 HAD QUESTIONS HE ANSWERED THEM, AND - THAT'S CALLED DISCIPLING. 52:19 YOU'RE HELPING A PERSON. YOU'RE TEACHING THEM HOW TO 52:22 REALLY LEARN A NEW WAY OF LIFE. 'GO THEREFORE, AND MAKE 52:25 DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS AND, AFTER THEY'RE MADE DISCIPLES, 52:28 BAPTIZING THEM' - SOMETIMES WE BAPTIZE PEOPLE BEFORE THEY'RE 52:32 COMMITTED AS DISCIPLES. BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF 52:35 THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. 52:38 NOW THERE'S BEEN QUITE A BIT MADE OUT OF THIS. 52:42 WHEN WE BAPTIZE, WHAT BAPTIZE DO WE NAME - DO WE - WHAT NAME DO 52:46 WE BAPTIZE IN? FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT. 52:49 WHERE ELSE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE 52:52 FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT? THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE. 52:57 AND SO, A LOT OF OUR CHARISMATIC FRIENDS - THERE'S SOME PEOPLE 53:01 FROM THE APOSTOLIC PENTECOSTAL CHURCH - JESUS ONLY - THE 53:05 ONENESS PENTECOSTAL - A NUMBER OF CHURCHES THEY SAY, 'YOU'RE 53:08 NOT REALLY BAPTIZED IF YOU'RE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE 53:10 FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN 53:13 THE TRINITY AND THEY SAY IF YOU DO THAT, IT'S A CORRUPT BAPTISM, 53:17 BECAUSE IF YOU GO TO ACTS IT SAYS, 'BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF 53:20 THE LORD, JESUS.' 'BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.' BUT I 53:24 THINK YOU'VE GOT YOUR BASES COVERED. 53:26 YOU KNOW, WHAT WE FREQUENTLY DO HERE IS WE SAY, 'WE BAPTIZE YOU 53:28 IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, IN THE NAME OF HIS SON JESUS 53:30 CHRIST, IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.' COVER IT ALL. 53:34 BUT THE STATEMENT HERE IN MATTHEW IS VALID AND THAT'S WHAT 53:39 WE FOLLOW. IT'S CERTAINLY NOT WRONG TO 53:41 BAPTIZE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, BUT WE MAY AS WELL COVER 53:44 ALL - THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT. 53:47 AND AFTER BAPTISM, TEACHING'S DONE, RIGHT? 53:51 NO MORE TEACHING AFTER BAPTISM? YOU NOTICE IT SAYS 53:54 TEACHING ALSO, AFTERWARDS. TEACHING THEM WHAT? 53:56 TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE SOME THINGS? 53:58 >>ALL. >>ALL THINGS. 54:00 >>TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE - HOW MUCH OF THE GOSPEL ARE WE 54:02 SUPPOSED TO TEACH? >>ALL. 54:04 >>PAUL SAYS, 'I'VE NOT NEGLECTED TO DECLARE UNTO YOU ALL OF THE 54:08 ORACLES OF GOD. TEACHING ALL THINGS THAT I'VE 54:12 COMMANDED YOU.' HOW MANY COMMANDMENTS ARE WE 54:14 SUPPOSED TO TEACH? ALL THE COMMANDMENTS. 54:17 'AND LO, I AM WITH YOU' - HOW OFTEN? 54:19 >>ALWAYS. >>ALWAYS. 54:20 HE'S GOT ALL AUTHORITY. WE'RE TO GO INTO ALL THE WORLD. 54:24 WE'RE TO TEACH ALL THINGS. AND HE SAYS, 'I'M WITH YOU 54:27 ALWAYS.' ISN'T THAT GREAT? 'EVEN TO THE END OF THE WORLD 54:32 I'M WITH YOU RIGHT TO THE END.' 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