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October 4 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Today's reading will comes to us from Matthew Chapters 27:39-54, Mark Chapters 15:29-39, Luke Chapter 22:35-48 and John Chapter 19:25-30. We will also look at Isaiah 53, Psalm 22:8, Psalm 22:19, and Psalm 69:21. In the Book of Luke, Jesus quotes Hosea Chapter 10:8.
Today we will read about several prophesies being fulfilled throughout the circumstances surrounding Jesus' journey to and sentencing to death on the cross. Amazingly, we will also see Jesus caring more about the forgiveness of those who were hurting him as well as for the emotional wellbeing of the women who were mourning for him as they endured watching the horrific sentencing, than for himself!
In our discussion for daily application we will talk the relevance of the fulfillment of scripture to know that Jesus IS OUR MESSIAH and that as a result of his choice to die for our sins we can experience the forgiveness he requested for those hurting him. Our adversary wants to tell us lies, and tell us that we cannot experience forgiveness for some terrible sin we have committed, but Jesus tells us otherwise. ALL OF OUR SINS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN and we are washed white as snow by the power of His atoning sacrifice! Tell that father of lies to go away, you don't believe those lies! There is no condemnation for those who accept Jesus' gift of salvation! THIS IS SUCH GOOD NEWS! We need to share with others how we have committed sins and received forgiveness of those sins from God because of Jesus. This is how we are to witness to people! Tell people what Jesus' forgiveness has done for YOU! Let's encourage other people to also be forgiven for THEIR sins by knowing Jesus and accepting the gift of salvation! Burden for sins is real. Let's let people know that the Son of God has set us free from the burden we were carrying! Jesus tells us that if the Son has set us free, then WE ARE FREE, INDEED!! Hallelujah!
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Introduction to Daily Reading and Occasion
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Shalom everybody! Welcome to October 4th's daily reading through the dayby Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley. My name is Robin and I am within the Family Way Coaching and I am pleased to bring you this event.
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Thank you so much for joining me today whether you are following along on your podcast or watching the video somewhere. I'm just glad you're tuning in and listening to the Bible this year with me. If you are bookmarking your days, go ahead and take your calendar out so you know where you left off and put your sticker on for today or whatever you're using to mark it off because we are about to hear the Bible today.
Overview of the High Holy Season
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Well, we have ah we are smack dab in the middle of the what they call the High Holy season. There are many special days in the fall. We started off with the Feast of Trumpets, which was the blowing of the Shafar.
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Then we had the Day of Atonement, which was just a couple of days ago this week. So two weeks ago, we had the blasting of the trumpet. This week, we had Day of Atonement.
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And in just a couple of days, on October 7th this year in 2025, it will begin the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Tents or Sukkot or Sukkah. Apparently, it's pronounced two ways or multiple ways.
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So this is going to be the Feast of Tents coming up here on Tuesday this week. Today is Saturday, and those of us here in 2025. So if you're not in 2025, check out your calendar and we will have and you will be able to participate this year in the Feast of Tents.
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Why participate in the Feast of Tense?
Significance of the Feast of Tabernacles
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Well, this is one of three times that God mandates. It says Moedim means appointed times where he is making times for us to meet with him.
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And he says that you are supposed to do so. And it's supposed to be a statute that goes on forever. And as far as I checked, we're still in time. Forever has not ended yet.
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So we may think of this as being a holiday that is not ah meant for us to keep because it may be considered a Jewish holiday, but it is actually a holiday for anybody believing in God and following and but and whether we are Gentile believers or not.
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ah It is meant to be a holiday that we are observing. And so it is to be a Shabbat rest, a Sunday, a Saturday. However you are observing the Sabbath, it is a Sabbath rest.
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That is what Shabbat means. So if you ah have the ability and it is in your heart to do so, take Tuesday stay off from work. It is to be a day where we do no laborious work.
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Now, I don't know about you, but I don't feel like i get enough holidays. I feel like there are a lot of federal holidays that come along on our calendar, and those are nice to get the day off.
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But I tell you what, I have been looking forward to my Shabbat holidays because those are the days that I can look forward to with rest. I am entitled and have been given by God a gift, a day of rest.
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It is not a day for me to catch up on my laundry. It is not a day for me to work in the yard. It is not a day for me to do vacuuming. It is not a day for me to do anything else.
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I do this recording and I might attend a service. But we are given this these days as a gift. They are meant to be a Shabbat, a rest.
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So God is so gracious to us in giving us these days. The other days that he has given us are the days of Passover.
Understanding Shavuot and Pentecost
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And we're going to be reading about Jesus in the Passover time today.
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as well as the day of Shavuot, which what we would call ah the day of Pentecost. It's not really meant to be, quote, the day of Pentecost, but it means the 50 days.
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So it is the counting up. And then the 50th day is Shavuot. And that is to mark the ah receiving of the Holy Spirit. If you have not been with us this year for very long, then you may not know.
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Shavuot is also known as Pentecost, which means 50 days in, I believe it's Greek. And it just means 50 days, Pentecost, 50 days. But really, it is the 50 days of Shavuot, where we are counting up in anticipation of receiving something.
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And God gave us the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, 50 days after Jesus' resurrection. So isn't that wonderful? So we are coming to the end of our fall feast, which is the Feast of Tabernacles.
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And that is to fu fulfill in Revelation where God says that he will tabernacle with us again.
Preparing for the Feast of Tabernacles
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So God knows that we have a short memory. And so he gives us these days so that we can remember these things.
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It's not simply a because he said so. When I was growing up, my brother used to call that the CISS rule, because I said so, C-I-S-S. God is not a CISS God.
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He doesn't just because I said so. God gives us reasons for doing things. Everything he does has a purpose. I love that about God. I love efficiency. I love purpose.
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And so these days are meant to remind us of things, important things. They foreshadow things that he has yet to fulfill or that he is now fulfilled with, for instance, the Shavuot and the Passover, with Jesus being the Passover lamb.
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And then the Feast of Tabernacles is when Jesus comes back and God tabernacles with us again. So I hope that you feel like you know a little bit more about what is going on with this Feast of Tabernacles coming up.
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I myself have cleared a patch of in my weeds in the backyard and I will be setting up my tent. And we are meant to look at the stars in our sukkah.
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So I will be leaving the top cover off of my tent so that I just have the mosquito net that is there. And I checked with my rabbi. He said, that sounds wonderful. I was concerned about rabbinical laws, which tell us that that's not acceptable.
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But God knows what's in our heart. And it is okay for us to use a tent. And ah we are supposed to use as well some kind of natural branches.
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It does not have to be palm branches. I said to the Lord, I said, Lord, where am I gonna get palm branches? And the Lord dropped a giant branch off of my tree in the front yard a couple of weeks ago.
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and said you could use branches from your own tree in the front yard.
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I will be trimming some branches with leaves and using that as a cover because the point of the sukkah is that it is a temporary dwelling. It's not meant to be permanent.
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And I hope to God I'm not permanently living in my tent. So it is just a temporary structure. And we use the greenery, the the plants, because they had whatever they had available to make their temporary structures.
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When the Israelites were traveling in the desert for 40 years with God and relying on him to supernaturally take care of them.
Feast of Tabernacles Worship Week
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They didn't have to go foraging for food because God provided food for them.
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He created manna and gave it to them. Every day manna came from heaven. When they were wanting meat, he brought quail more than they wanted. but says they had it coming out of their noses because they were not very nice about it when they asked.
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and they didn't have their clothes wear out. If you've been with us this year, you may remember that their clothes did not wear out during this time that they were traveling for 40 years.
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I know we might keep our clothes around for a while, some of us, and we kind of wait sometimes and we say, oh, it's gonna be back in style. I'm gonna hold on to that. But their clothes did not wear out.
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Their feet did not get sore. God provided for them in that 40 years. And we are not to forget that God is capable and does still provide for us today.
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So it's very important that we take this time to tabernacle with God during this appointed time where he has set aside for this for us to meet with him, this Moedim.
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These are important for God and they should be important for us too. There is a ah place here in San Diego called the Morris Sorello Legacy Center, and they will also be doing a Feast of Tabernacles worship week this week.
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So if you are interested, you can check out the Morris Sorello Legacy Center this week, and they will have services that will be worshiping during this time.
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It is a wonderful gathering. I went for Passover this year and they are mostly what we would consider Christian. But my rabbi will also be speaking there for on one of the days on Thursday as well.
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And then they will also have a day of worship. It's like a four day event this week. I think it's like Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, something like that. And then our following week, the eighth day, is also to be another day of Shabbat rest at the conclusion of the day of Feasting of Tabernacles.
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So that is our update, our family business, and our little mini lesson there in what is coming up and why. And now we are going to head into our Bible reading for the day.
Events Leading to Jesus's Crucifixion
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we are at the point i think i got a little ahead in my reading yesterday i was a little excited there uh but at the last thing that we read it says that um pilot had asked the people what should i do with jesus because they had they were wanting um him to return Barabbas to them and to free Barabbas.
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And he says, well, what should I do with Jesus? And the people said, kill him. And he said, what has he done? That's so bad. And Pilate wanted to let Jesus go.
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ah but they were absolutely insistent on the fact that Pilate should have him sentenced to death, which actually fulfills prophecy. So we're going to pick up today.
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where it says the people who were yelling won. Pilate had some men beat Jesus. They actually whipped him. And then lots of Roman guards got together and they took Jesus's clothes off of him.
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They put a purple robe on Jesus. And then they made a crown out of sharp thorns. And they put it on Jesus's head. See, what they were doing was they were making him look like a king since he was claiming to be the king of the Jews.
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So they were making fun of him. That's what mocking means. they They gave him a purple robe. They stripped him naked um with only a purple robe. And then they made him a very painful crown of thorns, which then pierced his skin as they jammed it onto his head.
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Not very nice. Very bad.
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The guards then put a walking stick in Jesus's right hand and then they bowed in front of him saying, here is the king of the Jews, they called and they spit on him.
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They took the stick that he held and then they hit him on the head with it and they hit him again and again and again.
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Then Pilate went back out to talk to the Jewish leaders and said, Look, said Pilate, I'm bringing this man out to you and I do not see any reason to kill him.
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Pilate brought Jesus out and he was wearing the crown of sharp thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said, Here is your man. and as soon as the leader saw Jesus, they shouted, Kill him!
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him! um You kill him yourselves, said Pilate. I cannot find a reason to kill him. Now the Jews would not change their minds.
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We have our rules, they said, and our rules say he has to die because he said he was God's son. and this is where I got a little bit ahead, I think, yesterday.
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Now Pilate got really scared now because, and he went back into his palace. Where are you from? he asked Jesus. Jesus did not answer him.
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You won't talk to me? asked Pilate. Don't you know that I have the power? can set you free or I can kill you. but Jesus looked at Pilate and he said to him, You have power only because God gave it to you.
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And from then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the people kept shouting at him. You are not the king's friend if you let Jesus go. Now, it says in our big Bible that Jesus told him that the ones who turned you over to me, their sin is greater.
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We talked about that yesterday.
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You're not the king's friend if you let Jesus go because Jesus says he is a king and so he is against our king. Caesar is our only king. Now it was about six o'clock in the morning when all of this was going on.
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It was the day for getting ready for Passover week. This is called the day of preparation. This is the day that the Jews were commanded to slaughter the Passover lamb.
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And Jesus was experiencing this crucifixion as our Passover lamb on the day of preparation.
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Then pilot Pilate brought Jesus out. And then Pilate said on the judge's seat, and it was at a place called the stone pavement. Here is your king, he said.
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Take him away, the people called. Take him away and kill him. You want me to kill your king? Pilate asked. We have just one king and that is Caesar, they said.
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And Pilate could see that he was not getting anywhere with these people. And instead, the people were just getting louder and louder. They were in beginning to riot.
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So Pilate took some water and he washed his hands in front of the people. Nobody can blame me for killing him, he said.
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I will have nothing to do with it. You are the ones choosing this, Pilate said. That's fine, said all the people. We'll take the blame, us and our children.
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So Pilate gave them what they wanted. He let Barabbas go free, and he gave Jesus to them so they could have him killed.
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The guards made fun of Jesus and then they took the purple robe from him. They put his own clothes back on him and then they took him out to kill him on the cross. But they made him start to carry his own cross.
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But then a man named Simon was walking along the road and he was on his way to Jerusalem from the country. And the guards stopped Simon. They made him carry the cross for Jesus instead.
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They took Jesus to a hill. It was called Skull Hill. Lots of people followed Jesus there, and some women were there, crying for him.
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But Jesus turned to the women and said to them, "'Don't cry for me, the daughters of Jerusalem. Cry for yourselves and for your children.
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Someday you will tell the mountains to fall on us. You will tell the hills to cover us.' People do bad things when time is times are good, so what will happen when times are bad?
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Two other men were going to be killed that day, and they had done many wrong things. The guards took them to be killed with Jesus. They all came to Skull Hill, and there they nailed Jesus and the two other men to crosses.
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One man was on Jesus's right side and the other man was on Jesus's left side. It was now nine o'clock in the morning.
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Father, forgive the people who are doing this, prayed Jesus. They don't know what they are doing. Then people tried to give Jesus wine with myrrh, which is something bitter mixed with it, but he wouldn't drink it.
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And we will talk about that in a few minutes. Pilate then told someone to make a sign. He said to put this sign on Jesus's cross. The sign said, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.
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The sign was written in three different languages. It was written in Hebrew, which was the Jews' language, and it was also written in Latin and in Greek. Many people read the sign because Jesus was killed close to the city.
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The Jewish leader said, don't write the king of the Jews on that sign. Write that he said he was the king of the Jews. The sign is already written, said Pilate, and that's the way it will stay.
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Now the four guards who killed Jesus took his clothes and each guard got one thing. But his long shirt was left and it was all but ah was made of all one piece of cloth woven top to bottom and there was no sewing line on the cloth because nothing had been sewn together.
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It was woven as one single piece cloth. So the guard said, don't tear the shirt. Let's roll dice for it and let's see who wins the shirt. And this made one of the Psalms come true.
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Each one took part of my clothes, and they rolled dice for them. Psalm 22, verse 19. And that is just what the guards did.
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And that is the end of our reading for today.
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There is so much, it might seem like we are just dragging this out, but every day is so rich with scripture being fulfilled. with daily application, there is so much detail that I'm really glad that we have so much time to go over each thing that is happening as we get to Jesus's crucifixion.
00:19:41
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Because if we tried to cover it all in one day, it would simply be too much. There's there's a lot every day as it is, isn't there? We are going to go back and look Just in today's reading, several pieces of scripture were fulfilled.
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There are two sections of Psalm, actually three. When the people, well like we will get to that. Let me go back to the beginning part and do it from the beginning. So it's done in order.
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So let's see. Um,
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When Pilate got some water, he washed his hands and he said he would have nothing to do
Prophecies Fulfilled During Crucifixion
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with it. You are the ones choosing this. So we will take the blame, the people said.
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And then the guards, they made fun of Jesus and they took the purple robe from him and they put his own clothes back on. And during this time, we spoke about ah the fact that This was fulfilling Isaiah 53 verse 3.
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So we're going to actually look at all of Isaiah chapter 53 because multiple things are fulfilled in Isaiah 53.
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Let's look here.
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Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.
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He had no beauty or majesty to attract us, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and familiar with pain.
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Like one from whom people hid their faces, which is what we saw here today. and that we will see again tomorrow. 53 verse 3, where the people walked by and mocked him.
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He was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted.
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But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed,
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We all like sheep have gone astray. Each one of us has turned to our own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all, the sins of all.
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He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. He was like a lamb led to the slaughter and is a sheep before its shearers is silent. Remember, he did not talk back.
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By oppression and judgment, he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living for the transgression of my people.
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He was punished and he was assigned a grave with the wicked. So as he was placed between two people who actually did commit sins and ah did things to earn the the punishment of death,
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heat Jesus did not. He was that perfect, sinless sacrifice. But yet he was counted among the wicked.
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He was assigned a grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death. We will see that tomorrow when Joseph of Arimathea gave Jesus his own tomb.
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And Jesus, ah the man, Joseph of Arimathea was a rich man. So he was given a tomb with ah for a rich man.
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Though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. Anybody over here here ever told a lie?
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No deceit was found in Jesus' mouth. He never lied. He only spoke the truth. Verse 10, 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 an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
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After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied. Satisfied by his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
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Therefore, I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life to death and was numbered with the transgressors, for he bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Jesus made intercession for us. He paid the price and this was foretold in Isaiah chapter 53 everything we just read long before it ever occurred Nobody forced all of these prophecies to be fulfilled Each person acted of their own free will and yet in doing so by casting dice or with lots for his clothing and not tearing his clothing and being placed between two sinners and
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and the fact that he was sinless and the way that they mocked him and made fun of him. All of that foretold hundreds of years before it occurred so that we would know when it occurred and believe because God has been in charge the whole time.
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This was not a plan simply devised by men. They think so. And in our reading today, we see that as Jesus is on his way to his death, even then, he is comforting the women who are sad for him, and he is praying for the forgiveness of those people who are hurting him, who were fulfilling prophecy.
Reflections on Jesus's Forgiveness
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praying for them that because they he wanted them to be forgiven. He who came to bear our sins and so we could have forgiveness was already asking for forgiveness for those who were hurting him.
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And he was comforting the women who were following and were horrified by what they were seeing. And he told them, don't cry for me, cry for yourselves. And in that saying...
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He was quoting Hosea when he told the women not to cry for him, that someday the mountains would, that someday you will tell the mountains fall on us and you will tell the hills to cover us.
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People do bad things when times are good. So what will happen when times are bad? People do bad things.
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And he was quoting from Hosea chapter 10, verse eight, when he told them that.
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So all of that was fulfillment. of prophecy and then the Psalms where Jesus ah was given this says they tried to give Jesus wine with something bitter myrrh in it ah one account recalls it ah and calls it gall and which means a bitter and the other one lists it specifically as being myrrh and this was done because it was a mercy drink
00:27:43
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And this was actually quoted in Psalm 69 verse 21, that he would not drink it. And that's because it was a pain reliever.
00:27:56
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And Jesus would have nothing to do with it because he was to bear the full punishment for our sins, fully aware. He was not going to dull his senses and spare any of the pain that he was to receive.
00:28:11
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As consequence for our sins. We're going to look at. Psalm 69. Verse 21.
00:28:25
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ah verse says. They put gall in my food. And for my thirst. They gave me vinegar to drink. So as we will see tomorrow. When Jesus says i thirst.
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They will give him vinegar to drink.
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Then, as we go on,
00:28:47
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we spoke about that ah his clothes were cast by lots to see who would receive what for his clothing. And that was fulfilled in Psalm 22, verse 19. And is...
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and that is
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Right here it says, they divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.
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So we see that even in the little tiny details of what people did during the course of this execution, they were all taking part to fulfill Prophecy, the Psalms.
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Jesus said that all that was written about him in the Psalms, in the law, and by the prophets would have to be fulfilled. And it was. So it is absolutely impossible for anybody to fulfill all of the prophecies so that there is no excuse for not believing anything.
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based upon the prophecies alone that were written about him, that testify. These were the things that God gave us so that we would know without a shadow of a doubt who our Messiah is.
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And we can know for sure that our sins are paid for because he fulfilled every one of these prophecies. And then even, I'm just, I just i'm always taken with, as Jesus was dying for our forgiveness of sins, he was already preemptively requesting forgiveness for the people who were causing him the suffering, saying they simply don't know what they are doing.
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If Jesus can ask for forgiveness for those who were executing him, how much more do we also need to forgive others in our life? We are meant to forgive in the same way that Jesus forgives us.
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Our sins are forgiven. God says he will remember them no more. As far as the East is from the West, we are to forgive people of the sins that they have committed against us.
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It's not easy to do, is it? But yet Jesus was able to, and that was far worse things that people did to him than anything anybody has done to us.
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So I want to encourage us to forgive the way Jesus forgave, even on his way to the cross. And i want us to remember all of the many prophecies.
00:31:34
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It's hard to remember every one of them, but just to know that Jesus fulfilled these prophecies. And so we can have absolute assurance, even with all the ones we've spoken about previously.
00:31:45
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Every day we have more prophecies that he is fulfilling. And he is our savior. There's not much more to say about it. So I know that we are on a ah deep subject and it doesn't seem like there's much for our light to be lit for.
00:32:02
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But the good news is, is that our sins are forgiven. And we don't have to be burdened by them. Our enemy, our adversary wants us to believe that there are sins that we have committed that are too great.
00:32:17
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And we beat ourselves up over it saying, I'm a terrible person. i I did this and I did that. And the wonderful thing is, is that God doesn't do that. He says we are forgiven.
00:32:30
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We need to confess those sins and God is faithful to forgive them. Jesus paid the price for them. It doesn't matter what we have done. It doesn't matter if you have, uh, were a woman and you had an abortion, you are forgiven.
00:32:46
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It doesn't matter if you were in an auto accident and you involuntarily killed somebody. We have people who go into prison ministry where even people there who have killed people on purpose, they too can come to forgiveness and salvation.
Emphasizing Forgiveness and Living Freely
00:33:04
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We have a tendency to place weight on each sin, but God tells us that sin is sin. We have all fallen short and we all have sinned. And Jesus paid the price for all of the sins.
00:33:17
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There's not categories of sins. They are sins. The same woman who committed adultery that we read about, Jesus said, let the person who has absolutely no sin throw the first stone at her.
00:33:30
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and nobody was free from sin. And Jesus said, Woman, is there no one left here to condemn you? And she said, No one, sir. And he said, Neither do I condemn you.
00:33:42
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And he is the one who was without sin. And yet Jesus did not condemn her. He said, Go and don't sin anymore. Jesus paid the price and now we are set free.
00:33:55
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And Jesus told us that if he, the son of God, has set us free, then we are free indeed. We don't need to be burdened by the sins.
00:34:08
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Just don't do them. We are no longer slaves to our sins. We have been set free And the adversary wants to tell us otherwise. Tell him to shut up and go away.
00:34:21
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We don't need to hear that nonsense. We know that we are forgiven. And we don't need to hear his baloney. Don't let him tell you those lies. He is the father of lies.
00:34:33
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And as Jesus has told us this year, when he is lying, he's only speaking his natural language. He's only ever lied. So if you're hearing that lie, turn it off.
00:34:45
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Tell him, you are lying to me. You have been lying to me. And I know that that is a lie now. I am not burdened by this sin. I ask God for forgiveness. I have received it.
00:34:57
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I am free. i have been set free. And that's that. Now live free. Live free. Now do you feel like God has lit your light today?
00:35:11
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There is such good news in what Jesus did for us. Let's tell other people about what God has done for us. We are to bear one another's burdens.
00:35:22
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We are to share and confess our sins to one another. It's okay to share what you did and then the experience of God's forgiveness. That is what our testimony is.
00:35:34
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That is how we share with people. the good news. Share with people how you are no longer burdened with the sin that you committed. Not because you are simply just free from it for no reason, but because Jesus paid that price and he removed that burden from you.
00:35:54
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He said, take my yoke upon you.
00:35:58
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Take Jesus's yoke. Tell people about it. And we can, so together, as we do that, we are making disciples of people to follow Jesus so that they, too, can have their sins forgiven.
00:36:14
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Isn't that wonderful? So let's click our light buttons as we complete watching or listening to this event today. And let's spread the word about reading God's word so that people can see all the many prophecies that Jesus fulfilled so that they too may be convinced and believe.
00:36:33
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that Jesus is their salvation too, that they have been set free because the son has set them free. So they are free indeed. And so that they too may be part of our spiritual family, have everlasting life and never have to be experiencing the second death, no spiritual death.
00:36:55
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They will live forever. Well, I hope you have a fantastic rest of the day. Whatever day you get around to hearing or watching today's daily reading. It's so much longer today. Sorry about that a little bit, but not too sorry because we had so much to go over today.
00:37:11
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What with the Feast of Tabernacles coming on Tuesday this this week. Today is Saturday. And with our good news, with all of our prophecies and good news of forgiveness.
00:37:22
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So I hope that you will join me again for tomorrow's daily reading through the Day by Day Kids Bible written by Karen Henley. See that?