"Ancient Prophecies Fulfilled" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole

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Yes, Father God, we thank you for your mercy. What is your location?

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That your will be done, O God, on earth. That it is for us this day, Lord.

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Help us to recognize this is

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a battle, this is a battle, and bring you all the way up in the formation.

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And my words, not your own, you mean, not your own, but your own,

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but your own, and your own, and your own.

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Music.

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Just look at the way things look, and as look to you, and as we see you in the

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room, so this is even in this time as we meditate on the crucifixion and the resurrection,

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that we will recognize that this is a plan that was going since the garden,

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and that we are in the middle of being the witnesses to what you've done.

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And thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross, for exchanging your life for ours,

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your blood for ours, your salvation.

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You became the sacrificed lamb, the final lamb, the one that was able to pay

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the penalty in full for the debt that we owed, Father God, the debt that sin

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demanded of us. And I thank you, Lord, for giving us power over all the power of the enemy.

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I thank you for each one who's listening. I pray that you'd gather their hearts

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together to understand your will for their lives, that you give them eyes to

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see, ears to hear, a heart to receive that revelation and be encouraged today.

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Lord God, we know how the enemy works about us to try to discourage and empty

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out and just drain out the joy of the Lord.

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So let us be filled up again with your faithfulness, your presence,

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your goodness. There's nothing like you, Lord God, to refresh and replenish your people.

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And I thank you. We bind the powers of darkness that would come against us,

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against this radio show, against our work today, against anything that we would

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be commissioned by you to do, that your will be done and us be counted as faithful servants.

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I bind the strong men, the familiar spirits, all those that would hold assignment.

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No weapon formed against us will prosper. We declare your victory in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Well, the cross of Jesus Christ is the greatest victory ever.

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It's really the centerpiece of human history. Yeah, well.

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Because, you know, you mentioned about since the garden, God is planned.

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But we read about Jesus that he was the lamb slain since the foundation of the world.

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From the foundation of the world.

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So actually before the foundation of the world, this is mind-blowing.

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Before Genesis, way before, we could say, way back in eternity,

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which is the only way we can describe it, because we don't understand eternity.

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It's past, present, it's future all at once. It never ends.

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But here Jesus came and.

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In the fullness of time, it says. In the fullness of time in Galatians.

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Yeah, it's just the right time.

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So God's timing is just so perfect. It's a plan in eternity that's unfolded in time. Yeah.

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And so from the Genesis, you know, confrontation of the serpent,

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and God said, I will put enmity between your seed and the seed of the woman.

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Obviously, Satan then has seed. He has offspring. He has, you know,

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protege. He has, you know, children.

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As Jesus said in John 8, you're of your father, the devil.

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But the Lord God said that he would put war between the woman and the seed of

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the woman and between the serpent, and that the serpent would crush,

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I mean, would hinder or bruise the heel of the woman's seed, that would be Jesus.

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But Jesus would crush his head. And now this, 4,000 years later,

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is the crushing, is the crushing of the serpent's head.

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And yet many, many people, I'm sure, did not catch that.

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They did not get what was really going on. And that's obvious as we see their

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reactions to the crucifixion and to the events that led up to it and after it.

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It's interesting, verse 45 of Genesis, or not Genesis, Matthew 27.

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Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour, there was darkness over all the land.

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And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying,

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ila ila lama sabachthani, that is, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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That's Genesis, not Genesis, why I got Genesis on the brain here today.

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Because I just said Genesis.

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Yeah, you said Genesis, and I picked it up. Well, yeah, it's the connection.

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There's a connection. There's the connection, right.

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Matthew 27, and from the sixth hour, which was about noon, to the ninth hour is about 3 p.m.

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So Jesus is on the cross for about six hours. And it's amazing that he even

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survived the beating and carrying his cross.

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Just amazing. God was sustaining him. He couldn't die from the whipping.

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He had to die on the cross.

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And it's a fulfillment of the prophecy. One of the things that we see,

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it's brilliant, we could say.

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All the way through here, we see prophecies being fulfilled.

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Prophecies that in detail being fulfilled.

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And he says, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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This is from Psalm 22, verse 1, and I encourage listeners here to check that

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out because so much of what Jesus endured on the cross, it was prophesied, you know,

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way, way back, hundreds and hundreds of years before.

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Many prophecies, actually, about what was going to happen.

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And interesting enough that the Pharisees and scribes, their job was to know the Scripture.

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Their job was to study the prophecies. And so they had read. I didn't see it.

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They had read Psalm 22 and Isaiah 51 or whatever. 53. 53.

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They had read those things, you know, about the betrayal and the price of his

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betrayal, 30 pieces of silver. They had read those things.

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They knew, but it did not seem to connect. Did not connect them.

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So they were completely stupefied or blinded by this whole thing.

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And so therefore they went headlong into the plan that God has set up.

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And it was kind of interesting too, because you find out, you wonder, well, how did Jesus die?

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Who was behind all this? Who instigated this?

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And then you say, you hear verses where Jesus says, well, I laid down my own life.

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And so there's this kind of a willingness to lay down. How did all this happen?

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He says, you don't take my life from me. I lay it down. And so the thing is

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that there was a fulfillment of many prophecies, many prophecies.

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Yeah, many prophecies all the way through from even Jesus when he's coming in

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on the triumphal entry, you know, what we call Palm Sunday.

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You know, this is a prophecy from Zechariah that he was going to come in riding

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on a donkey, not just a donkey, but the foal of a donkey.

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And someone coming in, riding on a donkey, it spoke of someone coming in at peace.

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Now, when Jesus, he was coming, well, yeah, coming, bringing peace.

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But then the victory comes. Jesus is coming, riding on a white horse when he

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returns. Right, the second time.

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So he came to bring, well, he came to bring peace within our hearts,

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but then he came to bring division. He said, too, I didn't come to bring peace.

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I came to bring a sword. So there's going to be division because of him. People are divided.

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They were divided then, they're divided now over who is Jesus and what is the

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significance of the cross. Well, that's the stumbling block. Did it really happen?

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Did it really happen? Some people are speculating, oh, I don't know if it really

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ever happened, you know, and it's so many different views.

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Well, that's all what Satan tries to do. He tries to always bring double-heartedness,

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division, undermine, confuse, rewrite the narrative according to his fables and foolishness.

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And so it's very difficult, you know, and nowadays, too, with people all enamored

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with the Easter bunny and all these other things.

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It's like, it's so degrading. It's so blasphemous. It is.

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To think about Jesus having those nine-inch nails pounded in his hands.

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I mean, we're jumping ahead of ourselves.

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And people are eating chocolate bunnies and celebrating Easter,

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which is a holiday named after Roman gods and pagan gods.

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Pagan gods. But going back to this, I want to make a mention that of the timing

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of this crucifixion is kind of confusing, you know, because their time,

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this all began in the morning,

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early in the morning, according to Roman time, early in the morning would have been 6 to 8 o'clock.

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So in the morning, after they got Jesus, they grabbed him that night in the

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Garden of Gethsemane, and they gathered him up and took him to Caiaphas,

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and they had that conversation,

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and Caiaphas tore his robe, and he was indignant, and Jesus blasphemed because

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he agreed that he was the Son of God.

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And so then they were looking for all these witnesses, and one of the interesting

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things about the charges pressed against Jesus, Finally, they found two witnesses.

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They had to have two, that said that he said, I will destroy the temple and

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rebuild it in three days. Yeah, I will destroy the temple.

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That's not what he said. But that's not what he said. He said- They twisted

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what he said. Yeah, he did, they did. He said to them.

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Destroy this temple and I will rise in three days.

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But they took it all out of context and they made it sound like he was going

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to hurt their precious temple and that he was a blasphemer because he said he was the son of God.

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So that's when they said, okay, that's it. We've got the evidence we need.

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And so this was happening in the

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middle of the night because they got Caiaphas up and he was ready to go.

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But then they had to wait in the morning and they had to get him to pilot.

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So the question is, who was behind this? Well, the scribes and the Pharisees,

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the religious leaders, they were really instigating this because of envy and

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jealousy and because they held him in great—they were threatened by him.

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They were afraid he was doing all the things they were supposed to be doing,

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and they weren't doing them, so they could only find fault with him to keep

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their crowd, to keep their people held hostage with the lies and the religious

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demands of their legalism.

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But anyway, so this Caiaphas event happened, yeah, I would say probably four

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or five o'clock in the morning.

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And then they took him to Pilate. So Pilate is talking to him,

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what's the truth? Jesus said, you wouldn't have any power except I give it to you.

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And Jesus is pretty quiet there. He didn't say much. And so the interesting

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thing is that if he would have testified on behalf of himself,

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would have defended himself, they couldn't have crucified him.

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So that's why he didn't say anything, because he knew he needed to be crucified.

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I'm not sure he wanted to be, but he desired to fulfill the will of the Father.

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So he said nothing. And Pilate made note of that. What? You're not saying anything?

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Even what he didn't say was spoken about in Isaiah 53, verse 7.

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He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth.

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He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, as a sheep before its shearers is silent.

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So he opened not his mouth.

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Right, so going back to the, yes, all of these prophecies were deliberate details

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that identified, confirmed the actual truth about what's happening at that moment.

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The Sadducees, they were the elite.

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They were the wealthy religious elite, and they only accepted Genesis,

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Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They did not accept the prophets, you know.

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And Jesus is really spoken of in every book of the Bible.

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But they did not accept.

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Take any stock in the words of the prophets. And also, they didn't believe in

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demons, even though they were possessed with them, most of them.

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And they didn't believe in the resurrection. And so, part of their blindness was their theology.

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Right. And that's today, the same problem today. We have a blindness in our

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theology. Blinded by theology.

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Because we don't believe Christians can have demons. That's a big problem that

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blinds us. But anyway, back to the story.

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So he's in front of Pilate, and the Bible says Mark and Matthew both refer to

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that as being the third hour of the day.

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Now, the third hour of the day in Jewish time, the third hour would be nine o'clock in the morning.

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And so by the time he's done with Pilate, 8 o'clock, he's in between 8 and 9.

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He's getting scourged. He's getting whipped. He's getting mocked. He's getting spit upon.

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I mean, this is the most vile, outrageous, blasphemous.

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He is the most innocent, beautiful, perfect human that ever lived.

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And all we could do was kill him. All we could do is hate him, crucify him.

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And so then he's scourged. They're mocking him. They're putting that robe on

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him. They're reading his hand to represent a scepter.

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They're spitting at him and they're saying, prophesy who struck you,

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putting that crown of that helmet of thorns on his head, more like a helmet.

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And then at that point, so then there's the declaration, crucify,

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crucify. So the mob had been incited.

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Pilate was freaked out. He didn't want to be any part of this. He knew it was a setup.

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And so he washed his hands. And at that point where he washed his hands,

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it says, they said, okay, that's fine.

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His blood be on us and on our children. That's what they were agreeing to.

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That's what Pilate says. The blood be upon you and your children.

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And they said, that's good.

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We'll take it. So even to this day, there's that spiritual curse upon that nation.

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And the people are of that descendant because the descendants of the Jewish

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nation because of this agreement.

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Now, you can take that off you by simply canceling it out in the blood of Jesus.

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But if you don't, it still stands.

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So, okay. So now back to the story. So he's at the ninth hour.

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He is crucified so that means he carries that cross up well the sixth hour it

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would be the sixth no no no the ninth hour the third hour is nine o'clock so

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at nine o'clock he is carrying his cross through the streets and he is crucified at the ninth hour so.

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The ninth hour is still three o'clock, or three, the third hour,

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according to the Jews, is nine o'clock our time.

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Okay, let's put it that way. And so he's there, he's going up to the hill,

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he's fallen down, and they picked up Simon of Cyrene because if Jesus wouldn't

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have made it to the cross, he wouldn't have made it to the hill, to Golgotha,

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then his death would have been, he just died in the streets,

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you know, of blood loss or something.

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Yeah, and he didn't accept any drugs to relieve the pain. But they had to have

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Simon help him because he had to get up to the cross.

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And so several times, even in the garden when he was weakened with the blood

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and the sweat and all that coming out of his pores, an angel had to come to

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strengthen him because Satan was still trying to kill him.

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Satan was trying to kill him before he got to the cross because Satan knew that

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the cross was the pinnacle, the place of the sacrifice.

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And so that would be the atonement for our sins. So if he would just die a common

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death, you know, in the street, you know, under the weight of the cross,

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that wouldn't have counted.

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It had to be the death on the cross. So that's why Simon came along to pick up the cross.

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So now we're walking through the streets. We get up to the top of the hill,

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Golgotha, which is called the Place of the Skull.

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And it says, and they crucified him there. And then they crucified him.

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Four words, four or five words. they use only four or five words to describe

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the whole excruciating experience of Jesus being thrown to the ground,

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nailed to the cross, and stuck up.

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And then, you know, that cross is on the ground when they're laying him there.

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And then they throw it up into the air, into that hole and the sod.

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And all of this pain is said in five words, and they crucified him.

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But this was about the sixth hour. So they got this, he was nine o'clock in the morning.

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And then at the sixth hour, what?

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At the sixth hour until the ninth hour, so from noon until 3 p.m.,

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there was darkness over all the land.

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And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying,

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Now, the ninth hour is 3 o'clock.

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So 3 o'clock is 9 o'clock and 9 o'clock is 3 o'clock. It's kind of weird in

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our way of looking. I hope I'm not confusing you. They count.

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So at noon, but noon is noon. So at noon, 12 o'clock, he's on the cross and

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he's speaking the last words, and he died.

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And when he died, well, actually at noon, the whole earth mourned at the darkness, the sky, the sun,

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the earthquakes, all these things began to, the creation began to recognize

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what was going on here. It's interesting.

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It said, and Jesus cried out with a loud voice in verse 50 of Matthew 27,

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cried out again with a loud voice. Now, he's crying out with a loud voice.

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This is amazing that he had any voice left at all because he's basically like

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a torn up carcass on the cross.

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Don't accept the photos or the paintings of him. He's got a little blood here

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and a little blood there.

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Isaiah said he was marred.

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More than any man. His visage was so marred that he didn't even look human anymore.

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I mean, think of that. Think of that.

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You say, well, I don't want to think of that. Well, you need to think of that

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because that's the way it was.

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And so not these ridiculous depictions of him on the cross. He was just torn.

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He was bruised. He was crushed. He was basically, his body was shredded.

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None of his bones were broken because he's the fulfillment of the Passover lamb,

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and the Passover lamb was consumed, but they couldn't break any of the bones.

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So he's a pattern. Do you see the pattern of all this going through? No bones were broken.

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And so this is another prophecy that's fulfilled. And what happened?

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Here's when he cried out, when he yielded up his spirit.

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Can I read 33 first? Now when the sixth hour had come, as you were saying,

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there's darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

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So six hours is noon, and the ninth hour would be then three o'clock.

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So for those three hours, there was darkness, blackness, like the blackness of night.

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And at the ninth hour, which is three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice

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saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabbatani, which is translated, my God,

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my God, why have you forsaken me? So he is at that place of great—he's abandoned by God.

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I mean, he's not really abandoned by God, but that's his emotional position.

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He's not feeling the anointing, the presence, the power, the encouragements

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of his father right there. He's feeling alone.

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He's feeling— All the sins, all the sins of the human race, past,

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present, and future, are laid on him. the judgment for all sin for all time.

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Was laid upon him. And we can't comprehend that.

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We think, oh, the pain, if you study about the crucifixion, how agonizing it was physically,

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just the most brutal, inhumane possible way to torture somebody and to kill

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somebody. And it was long.

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People would be on there for hours and hours.

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But then you think of all the sin, all sin of the human race for all time concentrated on him.

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He became, literally became a sin for us. Yeah, that's right.

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Paul tells the Corinthians.

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Yeah. So he was on that cross from basically nine o'clock in the morning when

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they crucified him until three o'clock.

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For six hours, he was on the cross. And usually it would take people a couple

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of days to die, but because he was so bruised and bloody and beaten up and because

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he released his spirit to the Lord. He released his spirit. He had done it, he finished it.

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He had in that weakness, in that horrible condition, he yielded up his spirit.

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So he was not murdered.

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You know, Acts talks about you were the murderers. Well, it was basically human

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beings under the inspiration of Satan and actually murdered him,

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yet he offered himself. Willingly.

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Willingly as a final sacrifice. And what happened? So he yielded up his spirit.

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They didn't really take it from him. Right. That's what he said. No man takes it from me.

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And it's interesting here in Matthew 27, 51, then, Behold, the veil of the temple

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was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

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And the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened and

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many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

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And coming out of the graves after his resurrection, they went into the holy

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city and appeared to many.

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So the veil of the temple, we're told it was about, it was separating the holy place.

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From the holy of holies. Two different rooms.

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And we're told that that was about, the veil was about, it was woven about four

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inches thick You imagine something.

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A curtain that's four inches thick. Like a curtain four inches thick.

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And it just didn't fall down.

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It didn't split from the bottom up. It split from the top down.

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What God was doing is saying, okay, the way now, if in Hebrews we read about that,

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The way into the very presence of God has been made through the death of Jesus Christ.

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And it's interesting, too, you had an earthquake. So you got darkness.

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Villa, temple splitting. You got darkness.

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You've got an earthquake. Rock splitting. You got rocks splitting.

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And you get graves open.

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And this would be, I think, after the resurrection is what it says here. They appeared to many.

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They came out of their grave. Like that, you'd think that would be pretty freaky.

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I mean, all of a sudden somebody comes to your door and it's like, who's this?

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What more could God have shown them, Don, testify to the fact that he is watching.

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He is aware of what's going on. And the temple veil being rent,

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now the Pharisees and the scribes and the Sadducees and all those people had

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no more right to hold the people back.

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Because back in the law, you know, you had to go through the priest to get,

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you know, the offering so you could get to God.

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Now God is saying, nope, done with that. You can come to me directly.

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And so this is why the gospel of grace and good news is such a good thing because

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you and I don't have to wait for a priest or a mediator or a moderator or something

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to get permission to go to Jesus.

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You can do that right now. You can do that any time of the day.

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He's always there, available.

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The court is always open to hear our cry and receive our petitions.

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So, These things, they didn't get this stuff. I don't think they got this, though.

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They were pretty much taken up with the moment. And we are often the same.

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We're taken up with what things look like, what's happening in real time.

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And we're not realizing what's really going on, the scriptural,

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spiritual significance of what we're even going through in our fiery trials.

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That's interesting. We have to realize there's another dimension than just what meets the eye.

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Yeah, and in Matthew 27, 54, so when the centurion, the Roman soldier,

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and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and the things

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that happened, they feared greatly.

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They, sometimes we think of just the ones, the one centurion,

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and it says they feared greatly, saying, truly, this was the Son of God.

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So they came to believe that he was the son. Well, he is the son of God. Not just was, he is.

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He is the son of God. Because he is alive. That's why he is.

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And so the pagan Roman soldiers...

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And this group of men believed that he was the son of God.

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They could have been the ones who were watching. And the Jewish religious leaders

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totally rejected him. Spit and scoffed. Spit and scoffed at him. Talk about a contrast.

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Talk about a conversion. These people who nailed him to the cross doing their

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job because they had to do that. That was their job.

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They're the ones who pulled back and said, wait a minute, we've made a mistake here.

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And then it says, continuing on, that there were among those who were at the

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foot of the cross, and women who followed Jesus from Galilee,

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ministering to him, were there looking on from afar.

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So we know earlier in the crucifixion that John, they got the apostle John and

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Mary, the mother of Jesus, were nearby.

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And so Jesus called them over, and he gave John the job of taking care of his

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mother from then on, because, of course, her husband Joseph was already gone.

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And so he gave, now John, it would appear, was Jesus' cousin.

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And so according to Josephus, according to Edersheim, who's done a lot of work

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on the cross and the history of what's going on in those days,

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there were several, as we see in Matthew chapter, again, 27, 56.

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Among whom, he says, there were many women who followed Jesus, ministering to him.

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There were, looking from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene.

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Of course, we'd expect her to be there.

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Mary, the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of Zebedee's sons.

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So who are these Marys? And another place it says, the other Mary.

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There's lots of Marys. Yeah, there's lots of Marys. Let's go there.

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And in John, he says, now they're stood by the cross. This is John, let's see, what?

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18 or 19. 19, 25.

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Now, there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister,

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Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. So there's three Marys there.

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Mary, the mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Cleophas. Cleophas was Joseph's

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brother, so that would be Mary's brother-in-law, or Mary, this Mary would be

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Mary's sister-in-law, and then also Mary's,

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sister, and her name was Salome, and she was the mother of James and John.

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She was the wife of Zebedee.

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So we have relatives here at the cross. We have Mary. We have her sister-in-law.

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We have also her sister, who was named Salome.

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And so again, we have, I'll read that, I'll say that again.

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Salome was Mary's, the mother of Jesus, was that Mary's sister,

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and she was married to Zebedee. And Zebedee, of course, was the father of James and John.

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James and John, of course, were part of the apostles.

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And then we have the other Mary, Mary Cleophas. Cleophas' wife,

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Cleophas, was the brother of Joseph.

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And also Cleophas' name also is Alphaeus, so we have a little confusion here.

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So these hurt children were also disciples. They were James,

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Joseph, and Simon the Zealot.

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And so we have at least one, two, three, four, five relatives of Jesus,

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maybe cousins, first cousins, second cousins, that were chosen as his apostles,

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which kind of makes sense if you ask me.

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And so we have this group of women at the cross.

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And I believe Mary wasn't at the cross immediately at the cross when all this

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final stuff was going on because John took her away, and maybe she took to the

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back because this was too much for her.

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So we see that they're surrounded by some faithful people, but we don't hear

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of any of the other disciples being there except John. Peter, of course, had fled.

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Judas had hung himself or went out and killed himself. And the rest of them,

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who knows where they were.

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The only one was there was John, and he was taking care of Mary. So Mary was there.

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She, of course, and Mary Magdalene, of course, she was there.

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So we don't have a whole lot of people that hung with Jesus Christ to the bitter end, but we see some.

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Yeah, we see the faithfulness of these women and the, you know,

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John being probably one of the youngest apostles.

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He was there, and he was really so close to Jesus.

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He was the one who Jesus loved. He refers to himself, not by name,

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but he says the one who Jesus loved.

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And so it's interesting, on the cross, Jesus made provision for his mother.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's great. He's so sweet and sensitive.

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He's taking care of so many, there's so many things, just things that he said

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on the cross. He said, you know, it is finished.

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Father, I forgive them for they know not what they do. That's a big one.

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Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

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Then he said to the thief, you'll be with me today in paradise.

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Paradise, yeah. So all these things.

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He's still, you know, saving people, helping people. He's saving people when

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he's dying on the cross. And, you know, even the blood money,

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even the blood money that was paid for him, the 30 pieces of silver,

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with that he purchased a place for strangers to be buried.

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Then we have, he became the substitute for Barabbas, so he released that murderous

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man through Jesus' death.

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And even now he's making provision for his mother.

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He's still working. But anyway, going back to the evening, when the evening had come, of course,

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they had to quickly get these bodies down off the cross because,

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he says, Joseph of Arimathea came because this was the preparation day.

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The next day was the Sabbath.

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So they at, you know, Friday, Saturday. They won't need dead bodies on the cross on the Sabbath day.

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And, you know, I've always had a problem understanding how this was three days

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and three nights because if you go, you know, English time or Roman time,

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it doesn't look like, it looks like we're missing one day or one night.

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Yeah. But we're going to show you how this was, three days and three nights,

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like Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of oil.

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It doesn't say three full days.

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It doesn't say three full nights. Remember? It says three days and three nights.

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So, okay. We have to keep in mind that the Jewish people counted days differently than what we do.

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Okay? So the day would begin at sunset, not sunrise.

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So, basically, if you look at it this way, Friday starts at sundown on Thursday,

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in the way of Jewish people counting the days, the weeks.

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And then Friday ends at sundown.

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And then Saturday starts at sundown on Friday, ends at sundown on Saturday.

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Sunday starts at sundown on Saturday, and Sunday it ends at sundown.

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So basically... So you start on Thursday. You have to start your count on Thursday.

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Jesus died on Good Friday, which would, during the day, right.

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That day, day one includes the day and the previous night, even though Jesus died in the day.

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So although only part of Friday was left, that was the first day and night to be counted.

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Saturday was day two. Jesus rose in the morning of the Sunday. That was day three.

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So by the Jewish method of counting, we have three days and nights.

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Yet Jesus rose on the third day.

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So again, going back, you have to start your count on the right time.

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You have to start at Thursday night.

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So Jesus at sundown.

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Yeah, Thursday at sundown, which...

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That begins the count instead of, you know. So you understand the way they counted

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the days and nights. There's no problem there.

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Three days and three nights, it's

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not a scriptural. I mean, there's not a contradiction in the scripture.

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You just have to know where to start the count. You just have to know where

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they started the count for the days and nights.

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He says, after three days I will rise. He had given that information,

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and that had been the scribes and Pharisees had picked that up.

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So after they took Jesus down from the cross, Pilate gave permission.

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They had to hurry. This was Friday coming on into the night.

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They had to get him off the cross before Saturday started. It was called the preparation day.

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Saturday started at about, maybe, I don't know, sundown on Friday night.

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So after he died on the cross at 3 o'clock, they had from 3 to 4 to 5,

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maybe to 6, three hours to get him off that cross. Before sundown.

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First of all, get the permission, then get him off that cross and get him somewhere. By sundown.

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Yeah, in three hours. They had to do that. So Joseph and Nicodemus worked on

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that, went to Pilate. Pilate says, is he dead already? And they said, yep.

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And so they didn't break his bones. They just jabbed him with the spear.

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That proved that he was dead. Proved that he was already dead.

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And so— Otherwise, they would break the bones.

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They broke the bones of the thieves, the legs, leg bones of the thieves.

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So they couldn't sustain their—they couldn't inhale and exhale anymore.

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And so he's taken down, he's put in this tomb.

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Joseph brings 100 pounds of myrrh and alice and all this to embalm or put this

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around the body until they could get back to it on Sunday, our Sunday.

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And so they couldn't do anything on Saturday, so the women were waiting as soon

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as the sun came up on our Sunday morning, which would be Easter Sunday,

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Resurrection Sunday, whatever.

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And so they were back to go back to work to finish the embalming.

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And that's when they found out he was gone. But in the meantime,

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it says that the preparation, the people went to Pilate and said,

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you know, he said he's going to rise again.

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Therefore, they were concerned. And Pilate gave them the command to make the

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tomb as secure as they could.

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He said to them, you have a guard.

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Go your way. make it as secure as you know how.

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And so they did that. They went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guards.

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So they made it secure. They got some guards and they sealed it with the Roman

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seal so that if- It was officially locked.

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Nobody messes with this. With the seal of Rome. And so, you know,

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what they do is they put a wax seal on something in it.

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And so therefore, if it's broken into the seal, it's gotta be broken.

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So it's a sign of the authority. So Rome could not hold him.

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Of the most powerful nation on earth at the time.

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And he destroyed it and he defeated it and he broke the seal through his death

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and resurrection. One man, not an army, not a legion of angels.

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One man, and God raised his son back to life.

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And by the way, when Jesus was gone for three days, where do you suppose he was?

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Well, he had actually made a trip down into the belly of hell,

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or Sheol, and led captivity captive. and all the people who had died before

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the cross got a chance to accept the cross.

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And we see that in Peter chapter... Let's see. Chapter...

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Hold on. 1 Peter, I think it is. Or is it 2 Peter?

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Oh, hold on. It says 1 Peter, yeah. He led captivity captive and gave gifts

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to men. He preached to those that were in prison.

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And it says, for Christ has also suffered once for sin, the just for the unjust,

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that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh and being alive

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in the Spirit, by whom he also went and preached to the spirits in prison.

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Who formerly were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in

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the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few,

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that is eight souls, were saved through waters.

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Then he goes on in verse chapter 4 of 1 Peter, chapter 4, verse 6,

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he goes on and continues, for this reason the gospel was preached to those also,

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to those also who were dead, that they might be judged according to men in the

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flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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So they were given the gospel, given an opportunity to accept the gospel,

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and that's That's why Jesus was able to take them out of this holding dock and

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take them, led captive to captive, gave gifts to men, and brought them into

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the place of eternal salvation.

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Because they did not know the cross, but once he preached the cross to them

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down there in the belly of wherever, they said yes, and so they flew up with him to heaven.

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And so he went there to preach, not only to preach to these captives,

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give them the gospel, but he took the keys of hell and death.

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He got them back, yeah. He got the keys of hell and death back from the serpent.

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Snatched them from Adam and Eve.

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He says, I have the keys of hell and death. So praise God. He has authority

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over hell and death and the grave.

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And this is amazing. He is risen. He is alive.

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And this is a real thing. Death could not hold him. Yep, it really happened.

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We have times. We have dates. We have prophecies. We have four accounts of this

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whole thing going on, and we have historical accounts as well.

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And so, Father God, we just praise you and thank you for this finished work. It is finished.

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The gospel, the law has been satisfied. The gospel has been released into the

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world that whosoever will believe, receive that atonement for their sins as

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purchased through the blood of Jesus Christ can be and will be saved.

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So it's simply, we accept your salvation, your free gift.

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We pray that that revelation, that good news will just fly throughout the earth,

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Father God, and everywhere and every place and everyone will have a chance to

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hear the good news and not be deluded and deceived and snatched away by the devil's narratives.

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And that this Resurrection Sunday, this time, this week, which is Passover week,

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by the way, we declare that your will be done, O God, and that the clutter and

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the foolishness and the fables will be snatched away,

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pushed up, brushed off the table, and that we will see in truth what has happened

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here, and we will give you praise and glory, Father, in Jesus' name.

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Yeah, and the proof that you have risen from the dead is in the transformation

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of lives who put their faith in you, Lord.

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Amen. People who put their faith in you that become new creations that are born

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again to a new life in the Spirit of God.

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Lord, that's one of the proofs that you're risen from the dead is because when

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people believe in you, we are risen.

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We are raised from the death of sin and shame and brought into life and life more abundantly.

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Thank you so much, Lord, for your love and your faithfulness to us,

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Lord. Yes, Father God, amen.

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And we encourage you again to go to liferecovery.com. This week would be a perfect

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week to check out God on Trial.

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It's an audio drama about the story of the crucifixion, the war between God

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and Satan for the souls of men, ending with Jesus descending into the belly

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of hell and raising from the dead.

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So again, chapters, episodes 26, 7, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

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Anyway, they're all just really amazing. You're going to get some drama,

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some dialogue, some court action.

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I would encourage you to just pick up those MP3s off the Life Recovery website

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and enjoy a real powerful experience in your life.

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And sometimes people think of listening to something audio like that,

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oh, this is kind of boring.

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This is not boring. No, this is not boring. This is fun. It's great.

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It'll keep you on the edge.

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God bless you and have a wonderful resurrection in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Music.