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Christ Crucified
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The Cross! Wow! This was a torture method the Roman Empire used on its enemies, including Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago. Understanding it is pivotal to your continued existence! In Genesis Jesus made every good thing. Then He got down on His hands and knees and made people. Things quickly went down hill from there! He repeatedly tried to save our sorry species from our evil ways. He tried extravagant blessings and terrible judgements. He tried priests, judges, prophets and kings. Everything failed. His most widely recorded scheme was His Israel programme: if they believed in His identity, turned away from evil, got baptised, and spread the word globally, He'd come to Earth and reign as King from there. To help them out, He even came as a zygote and spent 33 years living among them! Matthew through Acts tell us that this plan flopped. Stink. Stank. Stunk. His family thought He was crazy. His friends sold and abandoned Him. Puppet government kings sneered at Him. Law experts rigged a show trial against Him. He was lashed, crowned with thorns, stripped naked, nailed to the Cross, speared, and had His beard torn out. And on the third day, Holy Spirit resurrected Him! Jesus is Resurrection! Jesus is Life! The grave couldn't hold Him down! And He ascended to Heaven, where He waits for the day of His next return. In the meantime, He's doing something new. He revealed to Saul, or Paul--a thug and murderer--these mysteries: Jesus became Evil Incarnate on the Cross. Therefore, human evil is hidden from the Father. Jesus received calamitous punishment for all evil! Therefore, God's not judging people! Jesus was rejected. We've been accepted! Jesus was perfectly holy! Now we are too! We were lost. Now we're found! We were slaves to evil. Now we're God's kids! Under the circumstances. Now empowered by His peace, love, joy and hope to thrive, despite them! God's enemies. Now we're friends! We were dead. Now alive! All thanks to that old rugged Cross! Like! Share! Subscribe! If you would like a copy of the Bible study, reach out to me and we'll make it happen! And get your REVIVAL tickets here on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ohm-revival-ireland-february-2026-tickets-1974914453293?aff=ebdssbdestsearch And in May, we're having a REVIVAL Men's Conference. Get your tickets on Eventbrite, too: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ohm-rize-mens-retreat-ireland-2026-tickets-1978682463513?aff=ebdssbdestsearch The content used in this video is intended for educational and informational purposes only. All rights to the images, music, clips, and other materials used belong to their respective owners. I do not claim ownership over any third-party content used. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 Order My Books Read faith-filled adventure, fantasy, and science-fiction books to support Christian entertainment. 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/GHOST-UNSAID-ONE-PANOPTICON-Triumvirate/dp/1948581647 👉https://www.amazon.co.uk/GHOST-UNSAID-BOOK-RECKONING-Triumvirate/dp/B0CH2H6LSX 🎥 Watch More Videos: Teaching, encouragement, testimony, and biblical truth. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@brendanthomasmarrett9868/videos 🧢 From Dublin to Cleveland – Official Merch: Wear the message. Support the work. 👉 https://www.bonfire.com/from-dublin-to-cleveland-shirt/?srsltid=AfmBOorvSsSmUI-oAQ9mC4uSVWhkPmZvaMkeouFcmZEM8G3eJAqNyGnT
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Amen.
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Amen, Jesus. Amen. Thank you, Jesus.
Easter Themes: Cross and Empty Grave
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Given the week that it is, friends, there is nothing
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more significant that could be taught on than the cross and the empty grave.
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And I had plans for how this evening was going to go, and I thought they were phenomenal plans that the whole world needed to hear. And a couple hours ago, ah just said no.
Jonah's Mission to Nineveh
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Strip everything back strip everything bare and just get back to the reason we're here in the first place.
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In the Old Testament, there was a prophet with a bad attitude named Jonah.
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Jonah was commissioned to go to the city of Nineveh It was the capital city of the Empire of Assyria.
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The biggest empire at that time. Its people were wicked. Its people were evil. And so Jonah was told to go to the great city and dispel their doom.
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Destruction was coming their way.
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But being a prophet, he knew that the heart of God was to save them. He knew the heart of God was to liberate them. He knew the heart of God was for people to turn from their wicked ways towards righteousness.
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But he never once said it. He gave the doom and gloom and nothing else.
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And he resisted for quite a while even delivering that word. In fact, he even hopped in a ship and decided to go somewhere else entirely until he got thrown overboard.
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um Some people actually think he drowned and and died. um He describes going down to the seabed and his limbs being wrapped around in seaweed. I don't see how he have survived that.
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A lot of people think he died and Jesus, or God, resurrected him, which is very possible. But while he was underwater, he got swallowed up by a great fish who swam all the way to Nineveh. That poor fish I'm sure had had other plans for his evening, but swam all the way to Nineveh, spat him out, and he was covered in vomit.
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um You know, probably fish guts and gore as well. Maybe even bones. But he went to the city and he gave the word of God.
Nineveh's Transformation
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And the entire city repented and was saved um and just totally got transformed for the Lord. And although they had been given an imminent death warrant, an imminent destruction notice, their city lasted forever.
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for another 120 Because of their obedience. and put it in They were so incredibly blessed that they were given over a century.
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So even today, know a lot of people are like, oh my goodness, it's the end. and they're all freaking out and losing their minds. But you know what? If people get their act together and they accept the revival God's offering them,
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and they put aside their wicked ways.
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There's a biblical precedent that we could buy back 120 years in our time.
Jonah's Story as a Prophetic Narrative
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You know, Jesus spoke about the story of Jonah on one occasion and Matthew 12, 40.
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And he said, for as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth, underground, buried, for three days and three nights.
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So you see here that Jesus is establishing a similarity, a commonality, between his fate of dying and resurrecting,
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and Jonah's death in the fish and resurrection by being spat out again. You could say Jonah's life was a prophetic narrative of Jesus' life.
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A lot of similarities between the two where Jonah points to Jesus.
Jesus' Crucifixion Timeline
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You know, the week that Jesus was crucified.
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It happens on a on a Wednesday, which was the preparation day for the Passover. It was an unusual week in which it had two Sabbaths. It had a what's called an annual Sabbath, which for us would be like you a bank holiday, you know an extra day off, an extra festival.
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And then it had its normal Sabbath, which was Saturday.
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The Wednesday was the preparation day. This was a day which you had to do all the work that needed done before the Passover feast, because you couldn't do it then.
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it was the day when you had to sacrifice your firstborn male lamb that was spotless, that was without blemish.
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And while people were doing this in the natural to a baby sheep,
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the Lamb of God who was slain before the foundation of the world was himself being tormented and persecuted unto death.
Judas' Betrayal and Remorse
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Matthew 27, 1 to reads, early in the morning All the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
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They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
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When Judas, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned. He was seized with remorse. I bet he was.
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And returned 30 silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. I've sinned, he said, for I've betrayed innocent blood. What is that to us?
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They replied. That's your responsibility.
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They just wanted Jesus out of the picture. He had gone to the competition out of the way. The one who would call out their wickedness, their hypocrisy, their evil, their biblical illiteracy, their not knowing the Father's heart.
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So Judas threw the 30 pieces of silver into the temple and left.
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In Exodus 21, 32, we are told significance of 30 shekels silver. the significance of the thirty shekels of silver
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That was what a slave's life was worth.
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Judas Iscariot wasn't getting insanely rich out of this transaction, trading Jesus for a few coins. He was literally selling Jesus for the fee of a slave.
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So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
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At the same time that Jesus would be hanging on a tree to save all people from their sins, Judas was hanging himself on the tree because he could not live with himself in view of his sin.
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The chief priests picked up the coins and said, It's against the law to put this into the treasury since it's blood money.
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So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's fields as a burial place for foreigners.
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That is why it's been called the field of blood to this day.
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Then what was spoken and by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled. they took the 30 silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel, and they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.
Jesus Before Pilate
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In verse 11, it says, Meanwhile, Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, Are you the king of the Jews? Yes, it is as you say, Jesus replied.
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When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders who were also there enjoying the show, he gave no answer.
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Then Pilate asked him, don't you hear the testimony they're bringing against you? But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge.
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to the great amazement of the governor. here
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Now it was the governor's custom at the feast, this the Passover feast. It's when they would remember the Exodus, the great escape of their forefathers from bondage, oppression, persecution, and enslavement to the Egyptians.
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Now it was the governor's custom at the feast to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.
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At that time, they had a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.
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It's indicated in some translations, other translations make it crystal clear, that this prisoner was also named Jesus.
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So when the crowd came together, Pilate asked them, which prisoner do you want me to set free? Do you want Jesus Barabbas? Or Jesus, who is called the Messiah?
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Look at Barabbas there. Bar means the son of. You know, Christ is the Messiah, the anointed one. Christ is Jesus' surname. No one calls him Jesus Christ and that it as a name.
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They would have called him Jesus bar Joseph. Jesus, the son of Joseph.
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So Jesus bar Abbas. Abba means father. So this notorious man, this insurrectionist, this murderer, this killer,
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His name is Jesus, son of the father. It's almost perverse in its irony. You have Jesus, son of the father, who is a murderer.
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And yet then you've got Jesus, son of father God, who is well, he's holy. He's perfect. He's the creator, the one who made all things.
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In Luke 23, 13 to 25, we
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we get the people's answer.
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While it called to together the chief priests, the rulers and the people and said to them, you brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion.
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I have examined him in your presence and found no basis for your charges against him. So they say that Jesus Christ wants to stir a rebellion. Jesus Barabbas had.
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They said Jesus Christ wanted to start killing people in the streets in the name of his cult. Jesus Barabbas had.
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I've examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him. Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us. As you can see he's done nothing to deserve death.
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Therefore, I'll punish him, which makes no sense to me personally, and then release him.
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But with one voice. Now look at who's speaking here. You have the chief priests. You have the rulers. and you've got the people. The same people who only days earlier were throwing palm branches in front of his donkey singing Hosanna in the highest.
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The same people who were like, oh my goodness, he raised Lazarus from the dead. He's Nathan. This guy's the fun of David. This guy is the hero. He's the one we've been waiting for through the Old Testament.
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And they look at him with disdain and disgust, and they shout, crucify him.
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Away with this man. Release Barabbas to us. Barabbas had been thrown in prison for an insurrection the city and for murder.
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Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again, but they kept shouting, crucify him.
The Choice Between Jesus and Barabbas
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crucify him.
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For the third time he spoke to them. Why? What crime has this man committed? i have found in him no grounds for death penalty. Therefore, i will have him punished and then release him.
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But with loud shouts, they insistently demand that he be crucified. And their shouts were gone.
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So Pilate decided to grant them their demands. He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.
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It's unimaginable story. It is incredibly hard to fathom. It's hard to believe what would inspire such vehement hatred.
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And it took me a very long time to figure it out.
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But when people are so religious and they want to believe themselves to be so good, so beyond reproach, so self-righteous that you can't criticize them, religious people would gladly see a holy man put to death.
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because a murderer is not going point out their sin.
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Someone who is as wicked as them will keep his mouth shut. Someone one who is holy and set apart, loves righteousness and abhors the decay of cruelty and malice, that person is a threat the wicked.
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Mark 15, 15 says, wanting to satisfy the crowd, he's just as complicit as every other villain in the story. Pilate released Batabas to them, and he had Jesus flogged.
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In the culture of the day, flogging by Romans,
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didn't usually come
Jesus' Suffering and Symbolism
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with a restriction. They would flog you to death. It was normal to die during this process. In Israel, it was capped at 40 lashes.
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That was there mercy.
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First, the Romans would strip Jesus. And they would tie his hands to a post above his head.
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The whip, the flagellum,
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consisted of several pieces called thongs of leather. Some had lead attached to the end. Some had bone.
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One man would be here on the right. Another man with a whip would be on the left. And they would do the flogging.
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This is a medical report here describing what it would have been like The heavy whip was brought down with full force across the shoulders, back, and legs.
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At first, the heavy thongs cut through the skin only.
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As the blows continued, they cut deeper in the subcutaneous tissues, producing first inducing a blood from the capillaries and veins of the skin.
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and finally spurting arterial bleeding from vessels in the underlying muscles.
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Finally, the skin of the back hung in long ribbons, and the entire area was an unrecognizable mass of torn, bleeding tissue.
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But they were not done yet.
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In John 19, two to three,
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reveals the next stage of the ritual humiliation.
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The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and they put it on his head and they clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again saying,
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Hail the king of the Jews! And they struck him in the face.
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Again, a medical report. Analysis of this story says there was copious bleeding because the scalp is one of the most vascular areas the body.
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And the blows hitting his head from the staff drove the thorns more deeply into Jesus' scalp. and caused even more profuse bleeding.
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And as I was reading this few weeks ago, the Lord showed me something.
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It is no coincidence that it was thorns that they forced into his head.
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Because when the man sinned, the first man in the Garden of Eden, That was when thorns first sprang up from the ground. Thorns are specifically mentioned in Genesis 3.18 as a curse for the sin condition.
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Because the man had brought sin into the world, into the earth. The earth was fighting back. The earth was to be under his control. he had gone rogue.
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And now the planet would.
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And in 19, four to five, it says, once more, a pilot came out and said to the Jews, look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him. He's pleading with the people. He's a coward.
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When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, and listen to this, here the the man
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He doesn't say, here's Jesus. He doesn't say, here's the king of the Jews. he doesn't say, here's your Christ. Here's your Messiah, your chosen one.
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He specifically refers to him as the man. And like I just said, Adam was only called Adam after he sinned. His original name was the man.
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And Eve was not called Eve. She was called the woman.
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Adam, when he sinned, was naked. He was supposed to be the king of the earth. But because of his sin, thorns shot up from the ground. And because he sinned, all people have been screwed up ever since.
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And here you've got a picture of a king wearing a crown of thorns. And he's referred to as the man.
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This is the punishment that Adam deserved. This is the punishment. The man deserved all the way back in the Garden of Eden.
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But instead, the Lord sacrificed a lamb for him and his wife and gave them skins as clothes.
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Then we get to Mark.
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Chapter 15.
The Crucifixion at Golgotha
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which said that Jesus went up to Mount Calvary, Golgotha, the place of the skull. And indeed, it looks like a skull. It looks like a face. You can see the eye, the nose, the mouth.
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And I know in most pictures of Jesus, most iconographs. He looks like Schmeagle from Lord of the Rings. Also Gollum. He's wearing you a cloth covering all his bits and pieces. No.
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They didn't care about his dignity. They stripped him butt naked. Probably poked fun at him. All the while doing it. And they sold his clothes. They played. They're all dice.
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The winner taught everything. And again, the man in Eden had been naked when he had sinned. And now there's this crass inversion where now Jesus was naked being punished for that sin.
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The first man had sinned in an issue involving a tree. And the tree here had been cut into the shape of a cross that Jesus was now being hung on.
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But in Genesis 3, 15, Jesus steps into time, he comes walking in the breeze in the cool of the day in the prophetic utterance, and in the Ruach, in the spirit,
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in the creative of power that exudes from him.
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And he disciplines the man the woman for their crime in Eden. He says to the woman, the enemy is going to wound the seed of the pregnant woman We're going to damage the heel.
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He'll be out commission for little while. But the chosen one is going to crush the serpent's head. This was Jesus' heel being wounded. This is Jesus out commission for a few days.
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But he crushed the serpent's head. He crushed the power of sin, death, and the grave on the mount of the skull.
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But Psalm 22 tells us what it was like for him. Tell us how he felt.
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And he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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Why are you so far from saving me? So far from the words of my groaning?
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Oh my God, I cry out by day. But you don't answer. By night. And I'm not silent.
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Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One. You are the praise of Israel.
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In you our fathers put their trust. They trusted and you delivered them.
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They cried to you and were saved. In you they trusted and were not disappointed.
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But I am a worm and not the man, scorned by men and despised by the people. All who see me mock me.
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They hurl in insults, shaking their heads. He trust in the Lord. Let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him since he delights in him.
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Yet you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust in you, even at my mother's breast. From birth I was cast upon you. From my mother's womb you have been my god
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Don't be far from me, for a trouble is near and there's no one to help.
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Many bulls surround me. Strong bulls of Bashan encircle me. These are demons that look like livestock. Roaring lions. More demons.
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The enemy prowls like a roaring lion looking to see who he can devour, to steal, kill and destroy. Roaring lions tearing their prey open, their mouths wide against me.
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I'm poured out like water. And all my bones are out of joint. And if he says all, he means all.
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His arms, his legs.
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My heart has turned to wax. It's melted away within me.
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My strength has dried up like a pot shard and my tongue sticks the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
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Dogs have surrounded me. A band of evil men has encircled me. They have pierced my hands and my feet with nails. I can count all my bones.
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People stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
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But you, O Lord, be not far off. Oh, my strength, come quickly to help me. Deliver my life from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs.
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Rescue me from the mouth of the lions. Save me from the horns of the wild oxen. lot I could say here, but I want you to turn your attention to verse six.
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but I am a worm and not a man. Scorned by men and despised by the people, but I am a worm. In the Hebrew, this is specifically referring to the coccis illicus.
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It's a crimson worm. It's a red worm. It's a Mediterranean crimson worm. And he chose that word very specifically.
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You see females attach themselves to tree bark.
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And when the worms are crushed, just as he was right now being crushed, they exude a bright red fluid.
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Red fluid comes out of them. And it easily fixes to wool. And because the dye was colourfast, rare,
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and labour intensive to get in the first place. Scarlet fabric became a commodity of honour and expense.
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He's not only saying these people are treating me like dirt beneath their shoe, though they were. He's also saying I am a crimson worm.
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And because I'm getting crushed, my blood is being poured out.
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And that is going to make the masses, the multitudes, people of honor, people of great expense, people of incredible value, incredible substance.
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They will be set apart. They will be like gold. They will be like diadems in my hand.
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Him being crushed. His blood being poured out. It makes us clean. It makes us the body of Christ, citizens of heaven.
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Where we will rule and reign with him forever.
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Where we're not under the circumstances, we're over the circumstances. We don't live a life fighting for victory, we fight from victory.
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Where our adoption papers are signed in heaven.
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And he's building us property there.
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We get another very clear picture of the cross.
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In my favorite portion scripture.
Prophecies of Jesus' Sacrifice
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I love it all. I do. Every time say it's my it was something else, but I do. I think it's my favorite. It's Isaiah 52, 13 to 53, 12.
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it
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and says, see, my servant will act wisely.
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He'll be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. And he was raised and lifted up on that cross. Let me tell you.
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Just as there were many who were appalled at him. His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness, he did not look like a person.
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So he will sprinkle many nations and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
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For what they were not told, they will see. And what they have not heard, they will understand.
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Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord had been revealed?
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He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground. You know, a root, it's something underground, under the earth.
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A shoot springs up from the ground. He's the root. He's going to get buried. He's the shoot. He's not going to stay there. He's going to come up. This is a prophecy of the resurrection.
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He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance that we should desire him, especially on that cross.
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He was despised. What a strong word for Jesus. and rejected by men. A man of sorrows and familiar with suffering.
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Like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised. And we esteemed him not.
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Who is the we? It's the nation of Israel. The nation he came to, first and foremost.
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Surely he took up our infirmities. every sickness, every disease, every cancer, every tumor, every negative report, every physical pain, and carried our sorrows, your emotional pain, your agony, your burdens. He knows it full well.
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He can sympathize. He has compassion. He carried it. He buried it in hell.
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Yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted.
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We thought he got exactly what he deserved.
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But he was pierced with a spear through the side, penetrating his heart, hence the blood and the water gushing out.
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He was pierced in his hands and in his feet. For every wicked thought or intention we've ever entertained in our heart, every carnal desire, for every wicked thing we ever put our hand to,
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for every wicked trespass anywhere we've gone where we knew we should not have gone.
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But he was pierced for our transgressions. Just like the worm, he was crushed for our iniquities. Your transgressions, the wicked things you've done, your iniquities, the wickedness within.
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And the punishment that brought us peace was upon him. And by his stripes, his whip-lashed back, we are healed.
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think someone today needs to claim that for themselves.
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We all, like sheep, have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all, including those who will reject him forever.
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He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth when the Pharisees, the priests and the rulers were mocking at him hurling accusations.
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He was led like a lamb to slaughter. And he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
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By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants?
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For he was cut off from the land of the living. For the transgression of my people he was stricken.
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He was assigned a grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
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Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer.
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And though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
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The death of Jesus was always plan A. It was not plan B. It was not something Father God, Holy Spring Jesus cooked up after thousands of years of humans going rogue.
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He always knew it was the only way. And his offspring, well that now includes us, we've been grafted in.
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After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied. That's why going to have big, lovely dinners on Sunday. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many.
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It will be just as if they'd never sinned. And he will bear their iniquities. He'll carry it all on the cross. And he did.
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Therefore, i will give him a portion among the great and he will divide the spoiled the strong.
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Because he poured out his life on to death and was numbered with the transgressors. People said he was a sinful, wicked, cunning liar, magician and the occult, leading people away from God, who he was.
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But he endured all this unto death, so the Father has blessed him abundantly.
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For he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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That final verse there, Proverbs 20, 30. thirty
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Blows and wounds. Some translations blue bruises. Sustained by the blows.
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Blue bruises sustained by blows and wounds cleanse away evil. And beatings purge the inmost being.
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Because of the blue bruises that Jesus sustained,
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evil has been washed straight out of your spirit, man, straight out of your spirit, woman.
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And because of the beatings that he sustained, a crown of thorns for every wicked thought we've ever had,
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To be given vinegar for every wicked word we've ever spoken.
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grain of thorns blood would have rushed into his eyes for every wicked thing we've ever looked at. On purpose.
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The beatings he sustained have purged your inmost being, have made your spirit man clean, alive, well. and prospering.
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He died on that cross and they took his body down. and They would not leave it up during the Passover and they definitely were not gonna convene themselves take it down on the Passover.
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So on the Thursday, through the Passover event, The feast. It was called a special Sabbath. A high Sabbath.
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An annual Sabbath. Not a weekly Sabbath, that's a Saturday. All the feasts, all the festivals, all the extra celebrations were also called Sabbaths. They were extra days off. Like I said earlier, think of a bank holiday.
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Only better. And more Jesus-centered.
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So John 19, 31 says, now it was the day of preparation and the next day was to be a special Sabbath or a high Sabbath.
Securing Jesus' Tomb
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And because the Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. And Matthew 27, 62.
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sixty two The 66th show.
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The next day, the one after the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate and they began to spread their poison.
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They said, while this deceiver lived, he told people, that he would tear down the temple in three days and build it up again.
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They understood he was talking about his own body. Not everyone present did. They knew. So they said, well, he's clearly been plotting a counterfeit resurrection.
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Remember that while alive, he said after three days, I'll rise again. to give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day.
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Otherwise the disciples might come along in the middle of the night and steal his corpse. This man has done great harm and damage to us.
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In the last three and a half years, we don't need the mythology, the deception to gain traction, to grow legs now that he's dead and gone.
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Take a guard, Pilate answered. Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how. so they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
Post-Crucifixion Events
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Luke 23, 56 tells us that on Friday, the women bought the spices to anoint his body for burial and they prepared them. They couldn't do it the day before.
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it was a high Sabbath, a special Sabbath. They could not do it a day later. sir That was the weekly Sabbath. That was a Saturday. That was totally and utterly off limits. So they had busy Friday.
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So we can see that Jesus died on Wednesday night. He was still dead Thursday day.
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He was dead Thursday night, Friday day, Friday night, Saturday day. So here we have the three days and three nights in the earth.
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And on Saturday night, something phenomenal happens. You're gonna read about it in Matthew 28, two to four, and Matthew 28, 11 to
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An angel came down from heaven. I do not know how many jobs this angel has had, but I'm sure this was the absolute highlight of his career to this day, unchallenged, unmatched, unbeaten.
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And he came on down to the earth, and as he landed, there was a massive and terrible earthquake. The women were already on their way to the tomb. I'm sure they were scared out on their wits' ends.
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But he didn't do it to scare them. He did it to intimidate the guards. At least I'm embarrassed, that was his recent. And with that, he rolled that stone away.
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The guards could see this. We have no reason to believe their eyes were closed off to the supernatural realm. I think this angel was very visible. Everyone else seems to be able to see him.
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And they were so terrified they became like dead men. When they finally... remembered hey to run, they fled all the way back to the city. And they went to the chief priests and they told them everything that had happened. They said, listen, we were there for, you know, the time you told us to be.
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but while it was still pitch black, was was still dark, an angel, a supernatural being, came out of the sky. There an earthquake, and I'm sure they felt it in the city as well. I'm sure they were still reeling from the effects.
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and said he's rolled the stone away. And the chief priests, knowing that the divine was moving on behalf of Jesus, knowing that God was moving on behalf of Jesus, decided to perpetuate a lie.
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They said, it's okay. Just tell people you took a little nap, you fell asleep, and the disciples came and somehow magically had the strength to roll the stone away without waking you up, stole the corpse, and now suddenly they're going to pretend he's alive again.
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They're grave robbers. That's a lie that some still subscribe to today.
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About this time, the darkness broke and the light began to appear. And then we see in Matthew 28, 1, says, and after the Sabbath, some English translations say Sabbath singular, some say Sabbath plural. I've checked in the Greek. It is plural.
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because it's the Thursday Sabbath, and it's also the Saturday Sabbath. And after the Sabbath, it being dawned toward the first day of the week, Sunday, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
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And in Mark 16, 1, word is used that can be Sabbath singular or Sabbath plural, but obviously in Matthew 28 it's a plural word, so we got the plural.
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When the Sabbath...
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When the Sabbath was over, when the Sabbaths were over, Mary Magdalene, mean, it was too true. I actually have to correct that.
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Mary, the mother James, and Salome brought spices so they could go and anoint the body of Jesus. And when Mary Magdalene saw him, at first she thought he was a gardener, probably because, you know, he was sniffing flowers or something. You know, we think of the Garden of Eden, the first thing he grew on earth. Jesus loves flowers. he he loves nature.
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So she thought he was a gardener who perhaps stolen or moved the body. And she threw herself and she clung to him. He's like, don't cling to me, woman.
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She was holding on for dear life, afraid if she let him out of her sight, she'd never see him again.
Jesus' Love and Sacrifice
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But actually, that's how he's holding on to us.
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for a dear life, for our dear life.
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Because everything that he endured, everything that he went through,
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I didn't even go through the fullness of the torture, I just focused on some of the highlights.
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And even saying it out loud, it doesn't actually begin to come close.
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to what it was like, not only for him in the natural, but even worse, the supernatural pain, the spiritual pain.
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And as for God punishing him for every single sin ever committed, I can't even begin to fathom.
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But he is clinging to us. He looks at you and he says, you're my child.
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I love you with an undying love.
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As far as the east is from the west, so far have I removed your sins from you? You know, you can quantify, you can measure north to south, you can. You cannot measure east to west, it just keeps going and going and going and going.
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Your sins are gone out of your spirit, man, you they cannot catch up with you. So don't try to chase them.
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He says, you're a temple of Holy Spirit.
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He says, you are my dwelling place.
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He says, you're my house on the earth.
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His hands and feet were tortured so we could become his hands and his feet.
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He says you are justified. He looks at you just as if you'd never sinned.
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He says you are righteous. You are right with God most high.
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He is the mediator who has reconciled you to himself and to his father into right relationship, into good standing.
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Angels They know we're saved and redeemed. They don't have experiential knowledge about themselves, and they long to to look into these things. It baffles them.
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Sometimes I understand how they're baffled when I look at some stupid things that I still say and do.
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He says you're mine.
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Says your days are written in a book. Your name is in the book of life.
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And the book of deeds, not one good deed you've ever done has gone unnoticed. Maybe people didn't thank you for it. He has a written down.
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Not one tear that you shed has gone unnoticed. He has it stored in bottles in the world of heaven.
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When he thinks about you, he only thinks good, perfect, pleasing thoughts. They're the plans he has for you. We're told to put on the mind of Christ. why Because the mind of Christ, the mind of God is whatever is good, whatever is pleasing, whatever is perfect, whatever is beautiful, whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is true, whatever is commendable, whatever is praiseworthy.
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That's the mind of God. The mind of Holy Spirit, the mind of Christ. when he thinks about you, that is what he imagines.
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And he's telling you, start thinking the same. Get up off whatever seat you're sitting on and step into God reality.
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He says you are more than a conqueror.
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And you can't work for it.
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You can't earn it.
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You know, we spoke a couple of weeks ago about the big controversy. Can you lose your salvation? And I said, no, because you can't win it. but But it's a gift.
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And you can receive a gift. You can reject a gift. Or you can accept a gift and then return it to sender retroactively. There's only one of those options I recommend.
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But once you've received that gift and you go on believing that he is the Lord and all your sin was dealt with at the cross and when he said it's finished, he meant it, it is finished, it is done with, it is dead and gone.
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you let it stay dead and gone, crucified or Christ, and he lives in you.
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There is a hell to beat and there is a heaven to gain.
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and we don't deserve it.
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But he gives it all freely anyway.
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Well, it's free for us. It costs Jesus everything.
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got a message in the WhatsApp chat before we began tell everyone to have their communion elements ready.
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And then I play what might just be of all the songs that I heard for the first time last year, and there weren't any. I plead the blood. it's It's up there with pouring my oil. It's one of my favourites at the moment.
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The long song. But ten minutes, and that's okay. Because with communion, I'm not lockstepping it. Okay? I'm not going to say, now eat your a cracker or your bread. Now drink your wine or your food. I'm not going to do that.
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over the course the next 10 minutes.
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Fix your eyes on everything I've just spoken about.
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Just fix your eyes on Christ crucified, and Christ resurrected, and then what that means for us.
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Fix your eyes on the fact that we are part of one body. all of us together. One big, happy, international, intercontinental, crazy, insane, frustrating, and fabulous family. I'm probably missing a few adjectives. That's okay.
Reflecting on Communion
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And if there's anything, and I mean anything,
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that just has to go. He said your sin is removed as far as the east is from the west, and you have been running to the east and the west to get it back.
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Don't eat your bread. Don't drink your fruit juice. You deal with that first.
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And you got a good 10 minutes, so you got no excuse.
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He says, bye. stripes are healed. If you have a pain or an ache and you don't actually want it healed, and that might sound crazy, but I've been there.
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Sometimes getting lost in the drama of the trauma is really enticing. If that's you, you deal with that first.
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You say no. Jesus did not die for no reason. Jesus did not die so I could be a drama queen or a drama king.
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And you lay that down at the foot of the cross first. In fact, imagine yourself nailing it on the cross.
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And when you're ready, in your time, eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
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If I play this song and time runs out and that song ends, and you still are not ready to lay that sin down,
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Don't eat the bread or drink the cup until you do it. Do it before tonight is over. Start tomorrow fresh. And if you need some extra time, you take that extra time. But deal with it definitively.
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We're not going to dishonor the cross tonight. We're not going to dishonor or the empty grave.
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The cross was ugly because like Judas swinging from his own tree, there was a tree for all of us. But Jesus said, nah, you know what? I'll go up instead. You know, there was a thief on Jesus' right saying, this is a good man. amazing.
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There was a thief on Jesus' left saying, if you are who you say you are, save yourself and save us as well. Not even realizing that's what he was doing by not saving himself.
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But he saved us from our sins. He saved us from our evil. It's already been purged right out of your spirit man. I said that with Proverbs 2030 very intentionally.
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You're a spirit man.
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Now's your time to choose to let it go from your soul. And this is not me having a lecturer i'll lecture at you. This isn't me poking fun, pretending I know things about you that I don't.
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Like I said, this is me speaking to myself. There are things I cannot take into my tomorrow. There are things I cannot take into 10 p.m.
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And I'm laying them down too.
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So meditate on the cross, Christ crucified. Meditate on the empty grave, Christ resurrected.
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Focus on the fact that you're not alone. He's adopted you into a family that is so much bigger than you could possibly imagine. In fact, it's an intergalactic family.
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Interdimensional. You've got family and relatives in heaven who are cheering you on. Probably listening in right now as I speak.
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And the time to get right with God again.
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To let his sanctification power, his cleansing, soul cleansing, soul healing, excellence of soul power in.
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where we with an act of our will have made compromises.
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And I'm gonna stop the recording, otherwise this video will get taken down for copyright from YouTube. Gonna play the song. You take your communion elements when you're ready.