00:00 Introduction and Announcements

01:20 Jesus' Ultimate Display of Love

02:36 Themes to Look for in Matthew 27

04:49 Jesus' Trial Before the High Priest

07:46 Jesus' Trial Before Pilate

12:30 The Crucifixion of Jesus

17:41 Jesus' Final Moments and Death

20:01 The Significance of Jesus' Sacrifice

23:07 The Weight of Sin and Jesus' Suffering

25:23 Using Jesus' Sacrifice to Combat Temptation

26:23 The Importance of Recognizing Sin

30:55 The Necessity of Depending on Jesus for Forgiveness

36:36 Jesus as the Conquering King

40:48 Concluding Prayer and Reflection

Matthew 27 is where we're gonna be, so why don't you turn

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there in your Bibles to Matthew 27.

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But today, actually today is, is

Matt and Brianna's anniversary.

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In case you didn't know they've been

married for one year and one of my

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favorite memories with Matt and Brianna.

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Two years, sorry, my bad.

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Two years.

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Tough.

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Two years.

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Two years.

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They're, they're married for two years.

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One of my favorite memories with

the Daniels is that they helped

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me find my wife's engagement ring.

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And I always have that special moment

with them texting them, figuring

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out what, what my wife wanted.

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And I proposed 540 something

days ago to my wife.

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One of the best moments of my life.

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And.

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The, the point of a

marriage proposal, right?

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When you, when you get down on a knee

and you open up that box, hopefully

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not upside down, right, Matt?

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And, and you show your wife

the ring that you got her.

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And the point of the proposal is to show

how much you love this person, right?

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You're saying, look, look

how much I care about you.

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I wanna spend the rest

of my life with you.

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I'm this committed to you and I botched

you this really expensive piece of

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jewelry to tell you how, how valuable

you are to me and how important

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you are to me, that's the point.

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Of, of a proposal, right?

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You wanna show how big your love is for

the person that you're proposing to.

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Now, tonight is another

display of really big love.

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That's what we're gonna see a, a really

big display of, of love, and that's

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what Jesus' death on the cross is.

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It's a, it's a huge display of

his amazing, enormous love for us.

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But the point of it is to show us that.

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Not just Jesus love is big, but also

that our sin is really big, that

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it shows us that God takes our, our

relationship with him really seriously.

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And that's what I want you to

see from Matthew 27 is that only

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Jesus can love you this much.

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No one else would love you this much.

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Right?

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A lot of people love their spouse

this much to to do something like

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this for them, but no one would

love you so much like Jesus did.

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And it shows that He's the one.

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The king.

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He's the Messiah, and

that's our main point.

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Tonight.

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Jesus suffering and death

prove that he's the Messiah.

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That he's the king.

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It shows everything you

need to know about Jesus.

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It shows you his love.

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It shows you his qualification

to to be the king.

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It shows you everything Jesus is and

stands for all of it at the cross.

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So turn with me, Matthew 27.

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If you're not there already,

what we're gonna do is we're

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gonna go through this passage.

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It's a, it's a long passage.

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We're gonna go through it real

fast and I'm gonna give each

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small group, I'm gonna give each

of you a theme to look for, okay?

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So depending on what small group

you're you're in, you're all gonna

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have a certain theme that you're on the

lookout for while I explain the passage.

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Okay?

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So this is how it's gonna work.

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So if you're a junior high girl,

I want you to think about and, and

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write down maybe, or mark down,

anytime Jesus gets called a title.

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So anytime someone calls Jesus the son

of God, or they call him Christ, you

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guys know that Christ is a title, right?

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Christ isn't Jesus last name.

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Christ is.

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It means Messiah, so Christ or anytime

he gets called King of the Jew.

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So if you're a junior high girl, anytime

you see Jesus getting called a title,

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I want you to write something down

or make a tally mark or something.

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If you're a junior high boy,

I want you to make a mark.

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Anytime you see Jesus is rejected

or anytime he's suffering.

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Anytime someone abandons Jesus or

turns their back on Jesus or doesn't

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want Jesus or anytime he's suffering.

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So anytime there's pain or

emotional suffering, right?

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Anytime he's abandoned

or something like that.

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So if you're a junior high boy,

that's what you're looking for.

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High school girl.

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I want you to look for proof

that Jesus is innocent.

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I, a big theme in Matthew's gospel

is that, that Jesus is righteous.

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Jesus is is perfect.

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And so if you're a high school

girl, I want you to look for

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evidence that Jesus is innocent.

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Despite all the accusations that

are thrown at him, and if you're

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a high school boy, you got the

most fun one in my opinion.

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I want you to look for an

illusion that Jesus is the king.

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Something that shows you

that Jesus is the king.

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Now, I'll give you a hint in this,

in this story, it's almost backward

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Jesus, just like his, his kingdom

so far, he's talked about humility.

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He's talked about serving others.

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The marks of Jesus kingship are more

about humility, and in some ways

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they're even coming from his opponent.

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So you might see someone maybe

give Jesus a crown, right?

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But it's not a kingly crown.

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It's a crown of thorns.

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So that would be something that

shows that Jesus, they're making

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fun of Jesus for being a king,

but really he is the king, right?

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He's exactly who they're saying he is.

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So that's what we're gonna do.

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We're gonna go through this passage

as quick as I can, but I want

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you to look for your theme, okay?

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That's what you're gonna be looking for.

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Everyone.

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Everyone on the same page.

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We're good.

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Let's get Pastor BJ, north South in here.

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Alright, let's go Matthew.

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We're gonna start at the

very end of 26, actually.

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Okay?

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The very end of chapter 26, verse 57.

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So remember, Jesus was in the garden

praying and his disciples were asleep, and

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he was like, you guys couldn't stay awake.

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And then Judas comes and arrests him.

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So then they bring Jesus to

Caiaphas, the high priest.

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All right?

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So they bring Jesus

to, to the high priest.

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All the Jewish leaders are there.

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Verse 58, Peter was following

him far away, right?

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So Peter is, he doesn't wanna

be associated with Jesus.

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He's, he's afraid to be there.

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So he's following him from far away and

he goes inside and verse 59, the chief

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priest, the whole council, they're,

they're trying to make up lies against

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Jesus, that they might put him to death.

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Matthew says that.

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He says, look, they were bringing

false charges, not real charges.

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False charges against Jesus.

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So then.

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They didn't find any.

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Verse 60.

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You see that right there.

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They, they didn't find anything.

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All these people are, many

false witnesses came forward.

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All these people come forward

and they can't find anything.

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But finally, at last two people

come forward and then said, this

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man said I'm able to destroy the

temple and rebuild it in three days.

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And so the high priest stood

up and said, what are you,

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what are you gonna say to that?

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Jesus, we've finally got you.

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We finally found.

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People, right?

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They need two people.

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They can't just have one person,

two people who agreed about what

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Jesus said that would be bad, right?

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They're saying, oh, he's a terrorist.

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He's here to destroy the temple.

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So then what did Jesus answer?

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Jesus remains silent.

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He doesn't say anything.

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High Priest said to him, I adjure you.

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So it is.

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It's really important.

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Like I beg you by the living God, tell

us if you are the Christ, the son of God.

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Now that's the question.

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Matthew's been trying to help us

answer this whole time, right?

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And the Jewish leaders

are like, Hey, tell us.

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And what did you just say?

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You said it right?

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You're telling me who I really am,

even though you're opposing me.

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You're telling me who I really am.

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But I tell you right here, and this

is the quote from Daniel, I tell you

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from now on, you will see the son

of man seated at the right hand of

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power coming on the clouds of heaven.

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So Jesus doesn't just say, yeah.

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You're right, I'm the Christ.

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He says, I'm actually

the, I'm the son of God.

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I'm gonna rule the nations.

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Then 65, the high priest tore his robes

and he said, he's uttered blasphemy.

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He's claiming to be God.

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What else do we need?

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We should kill him.

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That's basically what he's saying.

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What's your judgment?

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They answered, he deserves death.

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So they spit on his face.

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They struck him, some of them slapped him.

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So they're, they're mocking Jesus.

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They're beating him up and

they're making fun of him.

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They're saying, if you're the Messiah,

you should be able to, to prophesy.

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You should be able to

tell us who struck you.

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You should be able to tell us

all these, all these things.

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So they're calling him the Messiah,

but in a, in a derogatory way.

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So that's Judas on trial.

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And then remember then the

scene in 27 flips to Judas.

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Who goes and hangs himself.

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We're gonna skip that 'cause we

covered that last week and we're

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gonna pick it up in verse 11.

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Okay.

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Chapter 27, verse 11.

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So now we're resuming the trial.

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So the Jews, now they're

bringing him to the governor.

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That's Pilate.

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The Jews couldn't crucify anyone.

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Only the Romans could crucify someone.

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So the Jews, they want Jesus crucified.

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They don't just want Jesus.

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Beat up.

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They can't execute someone, so

they need the Romans to do it.

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That's what they're doing here.

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They're like, alright, we finally

have a charge against Jesus.

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He's, he's committed blasphemy.

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He's claiming to be God.

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Let's take him to the Romans to

see if they can kill him for us.

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So the governor asked him, Pilate,

are you the king of the Jews?

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Jesus said, you said it.

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I am the king of the Jews.

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But verse 12, when he was accused

by the Chief Reese, the Jewish

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leaders, he gave no answer.

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He didn't say anything.

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Pilate said to him, don't

you hear what they're saying?

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They're, they're saying all

these things about you, Jesus.

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Are you gonna say anything?

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No.

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Jesus gives no answer, not

even to a single charge.

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So the Governor was amazed.

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Now, verse 15 at the feast, the

Governor, so Pilate, he was he, he had

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this thing, his deal, usually at this

big celebration, the Passover for the

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Jews, he would release a prisoner.

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A prisoner that was in jail, a

Jewish prisoner that they would want.

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He did it just so they wouldn't get super

mad at him, and he could keep his job.

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Verse 16, they had a notorious prisoner

called Barabbas, which we learned

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means son of the Father, right?

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Bar in Hebrew means son, Abba Father.

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You see that son of the father, verse 17.

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So when they all gathered together,

all the, all the people, pilot's

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gonna release a prisoner, right?

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PIL said to them, who do you

want me to release for you?

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The rabbis or Jesus who

is called Christ Jesus?

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Who, who?

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Which is funny, right?

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Pilate is like, you guys called him the

Messiah and they're like, no, we don't.

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Verse 18.

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Before he knew that it was out of envy

that they delivered him up, right?

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Not because Jesus was actually guilty.

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He, Matthew says, look, Pilate

knew Jesus was innocent.

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He knows that it's the Jewish

leaders who just don't like Jesus.

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They want to get rid of him.

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Verse 19, besides while he was

sitting on the judgment seat,

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his wife sent word to him.

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Don't have anything to do

with this righteous man.

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You see that not, not a guilty man,

not a sinner, not a troublemaker,

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a righteous man for I have suffered

much because of him today in a dream.

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So pilot's wife had a dream

that told her Jesus is innocent.

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And she said, Hey, don't,

don't mess with this guy.

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Don't send him to death.

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So then verse 20, now the chief

priests and the elders persuade

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the crowd and they say, kill Jesus.

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We want baras.

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Verse 21, the governor again said to them.

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Which of these two do

you want me to release?

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So Pilate, he's almost like trying, right?

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Like, please pick Jesus guys so

I don't have to just release him.

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Pilate doesn't want to kill Jesus, but

he also is afraid of the crowd, right?

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He's got all these angry

people that want to kill Jesus.

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So which of these two do

you want me to release?

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And they say, Barra, verse 22.

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Pilate said to them, then what shall

I do with Jesus who is called Christ?

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You keep seeing this, right?

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They're like, oh, you know, we're

saying that Jesus is Messiah, right?

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And they all said, let him be crucified.

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We wanna kill him.

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And he's like, why?

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What evil has he done?

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So Matthew really wants you to know that

Pilate doesn't think Jesus is guilty.

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Pilate really is like trying not

to kill Jesus, but they shout all

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the more, let him be crucified.

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Now remember, these are the same

people, two chapters earlier who were

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saying Hosanna to the son of David.

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So the Jewish people have rejected Jesus.

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The same people who the crowds

who were celebrating him

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are now wanting to kill him.

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So verse 24, when Pilate saw that

he was gaining nothing, right?

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He's not getting anywhere with this, but

rather that a riot is beginning, right?

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So the, the Jews are getting

upset, they're getting angry.

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They wanna kill Jesus.

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They're like, Pilate, why

don't you kill Jesus for us?

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He's like, all right, fine.

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He took water, washed his

hands before the crowd.

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I'm innocent in this man's blood, right?

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It's, you're killing an innocent guy.

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It's not my fault.

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That's what pilot's saying.

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It's on you guys.

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Verse 25, all the people answered.

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His blood beyond us and our

children, they're like, yes, we

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want to be guilty for Jesus' blood.

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We want responsibility for killing Jesus.

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So he releases Barabbas and having

scoured, Jesus sent him to be crucified.

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Now, scoured, you might have heard

this before, what they would do in

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Roman times with prisoners is they

would have not just a regular whip,

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but a whip with like nine or so little

like, I guess fingers, and they would

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whip it and drag it across your back.

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It had all these little pieces of

like glass and bone and rock in it.

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So it would literally just

tear the skin off your back.

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And so they, they beat Jesus with

this whip and ripped his back up

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and they sent him to be crucified.

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Verse 27, the soldiers of the governor

took Jesus into the governor's

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headquarters and they gathered

the whole battalion before him.

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So they got all these

soldiers and now Jesus.

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So there's no Jews around

now, it's just the soldiers.

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And they took, they stripped him.

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They put a scarlet, scarlet robe on him

and twisting together a crown of thorns.

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They put it on his head.

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Now they're not just like gently

placing it on his head, right?

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They're like sticking it in his head.

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So there's blood coming on his face.

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They're making fun of him.

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So this is the color of royalty.

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So Matthew is saying they're

pretending Jesus is a king, and

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I think Matthew wants to see.

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Jesus.

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Really The king, right?

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So they give him a crown, they

give him a royal robe, they

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put a reed in his right hand.

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Now that usually if you're a

king, right, you've got a scepter,

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you've got some kind of staff.

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Think of like, you know, Lord of the

Rings, Gandalf with his staff, right?

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That's what Kings had back in the day.

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And so he's got a staff, so

they're dressing up like a

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king and they kneel before him.

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They make fun of him, and they

say, hail king of the Jews.

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Now, isn't this the most ironic thing

you could ever do, making fun of

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the King of Kings for being a king?

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So they're doing all this

and they spit on him and then

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they take all this stuff away.

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They beat him up more.

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And then when they mocked him, so

they make fun of him, they take off

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all his clothes and they put his

regular clothes back on him, which

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are probably totally destroyed, right?

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'cause they've whipped him and

they let him away to crucify him.

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This is horrible, right?

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This is terrible.

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All, just think about what Jesus would

look like after all this happened.

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Think about having the thorns in his,

in his head and being beaten up and

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having people spit all over his face.

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So then they went out and they

found a man from Siren, his name's

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Simon, and they said, all right,

you need to carry Jesus cross.

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Now think about it across is

a really thick wooden beam.

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If you, if all this just happened to

you, would you want to carry that?

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Would you be able to carry that?

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So Jesus needs help and they want to carry

it, but also they don't want Jesus to die.

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'cause they wanna torture him more.

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So they get Simon and carry Jesus cross.

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Verse 33, they came to a place called Go

Gotha, which means place of the skull.

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And they offered him wine

to drink mixed with gall.

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When he tasted it, he wouldn't drink it.

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Now what some people say is that

this is probably a painkiller and

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Jesus is saying No painkiller for me.

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Also, it's an illusion to a Psalm,

which is connecting Jesus to David.

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That's another reason

Matthew includes this detail.

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Verse 35.

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They crucified him.

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Which by the way, the fact that that's

just like a throwaway statement when

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they crucified him just happened.

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Like think about that, right?

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That they crucified him, and

then they divided his garments

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among them by casting lots.

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That's actually a quote from Psalm

22, which talks about Jesus' death

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too, before Jesus was even born, verse

36, they sat down, they kept watch

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over him and over his head they put

the charge against him, which read.

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This is Jesus the king of the Jews.

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Jesus who said he was king of the Jews.

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Jesus, the king of the Jews.

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And I think that's another

note of irony, right?

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Is Jesus really the king of the Jews?

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Yeah.

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So Jesus died.

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And by the way, about crucifixion,

when you, when someone was crucified,

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they usually suffocated to death

because to breathe you have to pull

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yourself up because you're, you're

hanging so your lungs are collapsed.

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So you have to pull yourself up.

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Now what's holding you up a nail.

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So you're pulling yourself up on a

nail that's in your hand or your arm.

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And also do you think they like

varnished the cross and made it

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nice and smooth and all that?

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Right?

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It's probably just like

splintery and all that and that.

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And remember Jesus' back is already all

whipped and destroyed, so he's pulling

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himself up against this beam to breathe

and then probably suffocates to death.

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Meanwhile on the cross, the two robbers

that were crucified with him, one

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on the right, one on the left, and

they passed by, or sorry, and those

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who passed by him, they made fun of

him, and they're wagging their heads.

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That just means they're,

they're making fun of him.

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They're saying bad things about him.

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You, you know, you said you

destroyed the temple and rebuild it.

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Can't you save yourself?

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Jesus, you said you were so powerful.

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Why don't you do something if you're the

son of God, come down from the cross.

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Could Jesus have done that?

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Yeah, if you are the son of

God, so they're saying, if you

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are really, what do we know?

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Jesus is right.

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Verse 41, the chief priest with

scribes and elder, they mock him.

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They make fun of him.

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He saved others.

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He can't save himself.

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He's the king of Israel.

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Let him come down from the

cross and we'll believe in him.

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He trusts in God.

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Let God save him for he

said, I am the son of God.

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So the Jewish leaders know

that Jesus said this, right?

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If, if someone ever tells you,

Hey, Jesus never claimed to be God.

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Let's go to this passage, right?

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The Jewish leaders are

saying, Jesus said this right?

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The people who dislike Jesus the

most, and the two robbers, even the

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robbers who are crucified with him,

they're in between, I guess, breaths.

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They're making fun of Jesus, and they're

saying, why couldn't you save yourself?

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So then verse 45, from the

sixth hour, that's about noon.

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There was darkness over all

the land until the ninth hour.

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Not a storm, right?

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Darkness.

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Uh, verse 46, and then about the ninth

hour, Jesus cried out with a loud

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voice saying, and this is Aramaic.

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So that's the language at the time.

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Eli, Eli Ani, which

that is my God, my God.

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Why have you forsaken me?

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All the stuff that Jesus

endured up to this point.

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This is the worst thing.

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Here's why Jesus isn't just

dying a physical death.

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He's suffering God's wrath

against every sin that for

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anyone who would trust in him.

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So Jesus is essentially suffering

all that people normally would

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suffer in hell from God on the cross.

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He's suffering God's

wrath on the cross too.

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Not just people beating him up,

not just nails in his hands.

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Not just whipped on his back,

not just splinters, crown of

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thorns, all that he's suffering.

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God's wrath, God's punishment for for sin.

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For my sin, maybe for your sin.

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And so he's separated from God.

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Verse 47.

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Some of the bystanders, they heard it and

they say, oh, he's calling for Elijah.

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Verse 48.

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One of them at once took a sponge,

filled it with sour wine, put it on a a

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stick, gave it to him, and they're like,

wait, let's see if Elijah's gonna come.

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And then Jesus cried out.

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With a loud voice yielded up his spirit.

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Now, what some people think, who's

the one giving up the spirit here?

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His spirit, Jesus is right.

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So some people think

Matthew is actually showing.

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Look, Jesus chose when to die

because Jesus is in control, right?

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This whole time, Jesus

is the one in control.

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Jesus wouldn't die unless

he let himself die.

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So then when Jesus died,

this is what happens.

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Verse 51, the curtain of

the temple was torn in two.

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From top to bottom.

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Now the curtain in the temple

separates the holy place.

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If you, if you think back at the

tabernacle, separates the place

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where God is from everyone else.

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So this is symbolizing.

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Now that barrier between you

and God is gone because Jesus

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took God's wrath, right?

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So now you can come to God because God

can put all your sin on Jesus Now, right?

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Also, top to bottom.

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Why does that matter?

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Well, how tall is this thing?

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It's huge.

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So could you reach the top and,

and tear it all the way down?

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No.

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Right?

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So someone had to fly up

there and do it right?

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God did it.

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So the earth shook, the rocks were

split and the tombs were open.

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So all these dead people are,

are coming outta their graves.

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And after the resurrection,

they're walking around

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Jerusalem, which is wild, right?

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Like.

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Who like saints.

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I mean, maybe what, like

Abraham, David, I don't know.

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They're walking around Jerusalem

after Jesus comes back from the dead.

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Verse 54, when the centurion, so

the Roman general and those who

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are with him, they're keeping

watch over Jesus while he is dying.

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They see the earthquake and they

see everything, all this stuff,

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this crazy stuff that's happening.

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They're filled with awe, right?

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They're, they're, they're

essentially amazed.

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They're worshiping and they said,

truly, this was the son of God.

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So look who's recognizing

that Jesus, the son of God?

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Is it the Jews who know

their Bibles really well?

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It's the Roman general who's probably

never heard of the Old Testament in his

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life, and he's the one who says, you know

what I think, I think this guy was legit.

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I think this was Guy was

everything he said he would be.

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So you see how Matthew was showing

us this picture of, of Jesus'

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death that is actually telling us

everything Jesus said he was was true.

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This is the last couple verses, verse 55.

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There are also, there's many women

there looking on from a distance who'd

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followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering

him, among whom were Mary Magdalene,

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married the mother of James Joseph,

and the mother of the sons of Zedi.

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Now, I think those details are

there because Matthew's telling

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like, Hey, if you know these

people, you could go ask them.

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They were there.

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They saw it happen.

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So what Matthew's doing

in this whole section.

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Of of Jesus' death is he's

showing us that Jesus really is

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everything he said he would be.

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He really is innocent, righteous, perfect.

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He really is the Son of God, divine,

the king, the king of the Jews,

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but also the promised King from

the Old Testament who would do

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everything God said he was gonna do.

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And also that he's really showing

us that Jesus is conquering.

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Jesus is winning.

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Jesus isn't a victim.

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Jesus is winning.

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He's he's doing something big here.

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He's conquering sin.

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He's conquering death.

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He's making a, a way to God.

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And Jesus is the one.

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He's doing this on purpose.

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He is, he's the king

here, even in his death.

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But also, Matthew puts a lot

of details in there, right?

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Like, if, if this was a movie, it would

be rated R it would be a, a horror movie.

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'cause there's 'cause of the amount

of bad stuff that's happening.

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Like, you guys would not be allowed

to watch this if this was a movie.

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Matthew wants us to see that Jesus

is, is suffering God's wrath.

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Jesus is being treated terribly

because that's what sinners deserve.

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Sinners deserve God's wrath.

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Matthew wants us to see how

big a deal that our sin is.

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So for our first point tonight, I want

you to remember that Jesus suffered

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because of you, because of me.

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Everything that Jesus went

through was because we sinned.

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Right?

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If, if we didn't sin, Jesus

wouldn't have had to do this.

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Right?

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Essentially, it's kind of our

fault all that is because I

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did, I broke God's law, right?

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I lied.

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I lusted, I cheated.

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I stole.

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I was selfish.

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I was prideful.

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I was arrogant.

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That's why this happened, right?

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Not just, oh, Jesus died for sin.

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Yes, but like my sin.

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Your sin.

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That's why.

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Why all of this happened.

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God wants you to see how big of a deal

your sin is, and actually God's been

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doing this throughout all of history.

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Think back to the Old Testament.

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Think back to.

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Your favorite book of the Bible.

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Think back to Leviticus, right?

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When, when you lived in the wilderness

in the tabernacle, there were, think

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about how many animals were dying

every single day because of sin.

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Think about how many animals were

killed every single day because

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you broke God's law, right?

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Because you didn't honor your father

and mother because you worshiped

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another God instead of God.

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Because you were selfish,

because you gossiped, right?

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The, that's why all

these animals are dying.

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So imagine you lived in this camp

and every day you're going to the

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temple, you're coming up to the priest.

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You put your hand on the, on

the animal, you kill the animal.

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The blood gets everywhere, every

day, you're doing that to show

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you your sin has consequences.

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Your sin deserves death.

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That's the whole point of, of the Old

Testament sacrifices, and that's the

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whole point of what Jesus is doing.

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God wants you to see how

big of a deal your sin is.

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So remember that Jesus suffered

because of you, because of my sin.

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Now, even if you're a Christian,

it's still good for you to think

565

about that because you can use

that to help you fight temptation.

566

You ever thought about that?

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Maybe when you're tempted to be selfish or

you're tempted to lie, or you're tempted

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to watch something, you shouldn't, you're

tempted to say something you shouldn't.

569

Or you're tempted to be

disrespectful to someone.

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Think about, you know,

Jesus died because of that.

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Think about someone driving

nails into Jesus' hands.

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Think about someone whipping

Jesus on the back, right?

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If you're struggling with sin,

you're actually fighting it.

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You're a Christian.

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You, you've been saved and, and

you don't wanna sit anymore.

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Think about that.

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It'll help you.

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You'll be like, man, Jesus died for that.

579

I don't wanna do that.

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Because sometimes when you're, when in

your everyday life, you know, on Tuesday

581

afternoon, you need something to, to shake

you awake, to be like, this matters God.

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God matters.

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Sin matters.

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Jesus matters.

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How I live matters.

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So think about it.

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Use it to help you.

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That's why there's all these

details in the Bible about the

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consequences of sin, right?

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Maybe.

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Maybe you're a Christian, but

you take forgiveness for granted.

592

You've been, you've been saved, but

you're just like, oh, well now, now

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I'm not that bad, so I don't, you

don't feel your need for forgiveness.

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That's why passages like this are in

the Bible, so you can think about,

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you know what, I still need that,

that still should be me on the cross.

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That's to help you think about,

you know what, I maybe not as as

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righteous as I thought I should be.

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I still need God's forgiveness every day.

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That still should be me

based on how I live today.

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I deserve that even as a Christian.

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But maybe you're, you're not

a Christian and your sin is

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just not a big deal to you.

603

You're just like, whatever.

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It doesn't matter.

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Maybe you are a Christian and

you've got some little sins that

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you don't think are a big deal.

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Maybe you don't want to forgive

someone, or maybe you don't really

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talk to your parents very respectfully.

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Those are still big deal.

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A big deal.

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God.

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God says bitterness is a sin.

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God says gossip is a sin.

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God says, not honoring your

father and mother is a sin.

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If, if you don't think those sins

are a big deal, look at Jesus.

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Remember what he did on the cross.

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So this is something for, for you to

do as a Christian on a regular basis.

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Think about it when you, when you need

to feel the right way about something.

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That's why there's all these

details about it in God's word.

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Also, God wants you to

see how much he loves you.

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That's also why he, he gave you all of all

of these descriptions about Jesus' death.

622

Because not only does it, is it supposed

to help us see our sin and how serious

623

our sin is, but it's also supposed to help

us see how serious God's love for us is.

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Right?

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Would you do what Jesus did for anyone?

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Would you go through all

that for anyone else?

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You'd have to love

someone a lot to do that.

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It made me think about

Abraham and Isaac, right?

629

God.

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God said, Hey Abraham, I want you to, to

take Isaac up the mountain to show me that

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you love me more than you love your son.

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Well, ultimately,

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can you think of a father who

gave away his son because of

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his love for other people?

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That's what the, the cross is about.

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The cross, which by the way,

happened on this same mountain.

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Is to show you God's love.

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The Father giving away his son for you,

his only son, the son he loved for you.

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That's how much God loves you.

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So use the cross to think

about how much God loves you.

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Maybe you're, you're a Christian,

you doubt God loves you.

642

You're not sure if God forgives you.

643

You're not sure if your

sins really paid for.

644

Think about Jesus on the cross.

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Is that enough to pay for your sin?

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I hope.

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I hope so, right?

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Because if that's not enough, what is

So When you don't feel forgiven by God,

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when you don't feel good enough for

God, think about what Jesus did and

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remember, that's the payment for my sin.

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I'm, I can't add anything to that.

652

I can't take anything away from it.

653

So if, if you're a Christian, you're not

sure if you're forgiven, you're, you're

654

having doubts about your salvation,

think about God's love at the cross.

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Maybe you aren't a Christian.

656

You feel like, you feel like

maybe you can't come to God.

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Uh, you know, God doesn't love me.

658

I'm too dirty.

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I'm too sinful.

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I can't do it.

661

God wouldn't want me.

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God gave Jesus right?

663

For, for.

664

That's John three 16.

665

For God so loved the world.

666

Are you, are you part of the world?

667

Crosses for you.

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God gave his son for you.

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You're, you're not.

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Left out of God's love.

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So think about Jesus'.

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Death.

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Remember it.

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Call it to mind when you, when you're

tempted, when you're, when you're

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struggling with sin, when you're

fighting against it, when you're

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apathetic, you're not feeling the way

you should about Jesus or your sin.

677

You're not convicted by

something the way you should be.

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Or maybe you're doubting God's love.

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Think about how much God

loves you to do that.

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But if all you do is

feel bad for your sin.

681

You never, there's, that's all you do.

682

You just feel bad for

your sin all the time.

683

All the time.

684

You might end up like Judas, right?

685

Judas felt really bad for his sin.

686

We talked about that in our baseball game.

687

Judas felt bad for his sin, but

that's a good starting point.

688

But we need to take our

sin to Jesus, right?

689

Judas ran away from

from Jesus with his sin.

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We need to take our sin and

our conviction to Jesus.

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So our second point tonight is only

depend on Jesus to take away your sin.

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There's only one way that you

can get your guilt taken away.

693

Feeling bad.

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Doesn't get rid of your guilt.

695

Feeling bad.

696

Doesn't get rid of your sin.

697

Hiding from God doesn't

get rid of your sin.

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Sitting on it and, and just feeling

terrible and saying how horrible you are.

699

That doesn't take away your sin.

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Only Jesus can take away.

701

You're a sin and you can't

make up for it either.

702

Right.

703

It reminded me, I was thinking about,

about Jesus and his sacrifice, and

704

I was thinking about, about the

Chronicles of Narnia, if you've ever

705

seen this movie or read the book, right?

706

Who's this guy, Edmond?

707

What does Edmond, what does Edmond

do in the line in which, in the

708

wardrobe, what does Edmund do?

709

So Edmond in the story, he

betrays all the good guys.

710

So Edmond, this, this kid, he betrays

all the good guys and he, right,

711

he's, he's a bad person, right?

712

He's, he's Judas, right?

713

He betrays all the good guys.

714

And then what happens is Aslan the lion

talks to Edmund and he says, Hey, look.

715

By the way, like, I'm

not gonna explain that.

716

There's a talking lion

and, and all that stuff.

717

All right.

718

You can watch the movie, but Aslan

the Lion talks to Edmond and, and he

719

says, Hey, they had this conversation

and you don't see the, you don't

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see the conversation in the movie.

721

You don't know what happened.

722

And they come out and the

lion looks really sad.

723

And then what happens later that night,

the lion goes to this scary looking

724

rock and gives himself up to die.

725

All the, all the bad guys kill the lion.

726

They tie him up.

727

They, they cut all his, his

mane off and they kill him.

728

And this is what he, they kill him

and they leave him on this rock.

729

And later what you find out is that

what happened was when you, when

730

you go back and put all the pieces

together, what you realize is that, that

731

Edmond here, Edmond should have died.

732

When, when the bad guy came to get rid of

Edmund Aslan said, here, take me instead.

733

That's because there's these laws

that in, in the land, there's

734

these deep magic whatever, that

you can't just let Edmund go free.

735

Someone has to die for what Edmund did.

736

And so the lion says, take me instead.

737

And so the lion dies and Edmund lives.

738

So Lan dies.

739

Edmund lives.

740

That's what it took for Edmond to be

free to be forgiven, someone had to die.

741

That's how God gets rid of

your guilt for your sin.

742

Someone had to die.

743

Jesus had to die.

744

He had to suffer the, the

punishment that you deserve.

745

God, if we want God to be a good

judge, you don't want God just being

746

like, oh, your sin is not a big deal.

747

'cause what if God did

that to other people?

748

Right.

749

Someone.

750

Beats you up and takes all your

money, and the judge is like, cool.

751

No worries.

752

I'm nice.

753

I forgive you.

754

You don't want that God.

755

So you want a God who's

gonna do something about sin.

756

But the problem is, is we've all sinned.

757

We all deserve God to

do something about us.

758

And so Jesus says, take me

instead I'll die so he can live.

759

But you have to trust Jesus

to take away your sin.

760

You can't look for other

ways to get rid of your sin.

761

I think sometimes we look for other things

that can take our, take away our sin.

762

We think, oh, maybe if I start

doing good things, maybe if I start

763

repenting, or maybe if I read my Bible

more, or once I stop doing this sin,

764

maybe then I'll be okay with God.

765

Maybe then God will love me.

766

You can never do enough good

things for God to love you.

767

Jesus can take away your sin.

768

You can't earn your way to heaven.

769

Or maybe you think if I just wait long

enough, or maybe if I hide my sin and

770

no one else knows about it, or maybe

if I hide from God, I don't really

771

talk to God, I just try to do the the

church thing that'll get rid of my sin.

772

That's not gonna work.

773

You have to go to Jesus

to get your sin to away.

774

Another thing I think we might

do to get rid of our sin is

775

we try to make excuses for it.

776

You know?

777

Well, I was, I, I, I get really upset, but

you know, my siblings are really annoying.

778

Or, uh, well, you know, I, my friends

at school, just, they, they use

779

those words and, and say those jokes

and, and so I just, I can't help it.

780

Or, well, this is how I'm wired.

781

This is the way, this is the way I

am, this is my personality, or this

782

is, this is the way, God, this is

the way my body works, or whatever.

783

We use our excuses to say,

well, it's not really that bad.

784

It's not my fault.

785

Still sin.

786

The only thing that can take away

your sin is when you go to Jesus

787

with it and ask him to pay for it.

788

God punishes sin.

789

He's either gonna punish Jesus for

it or he's gonna punish you for it.

790

So trust Jesus.

791

Say, God, I need you to take away my sin.

792

I can't get rid of it any other way.

793

Please forgive me because

of what Jesus did.

794

That's what gets you into heaven.

795

That's how God forgives sin.

796

But Matthew doesn't also just,

he doesn't want you to see that

797

Jesus is just a sacrificial lamb.

798

He also wants you to see

that Jesus is the king.

799

Right?

800

That was a big theme in,

in that chapter, right?

801

The high school boys are right now,

all the, all the times that, that

802

Jesus was painted out to be a king.

803

And so Matthew also wants you to

see that Jesus conquers through.

804

Suffering and death.

805

So our last point tonight is to

give King Jesus your allegiance.

806

Give him your loyalty.

807

Give him your life.

808

He deserves everything

and anything you can do.

809

So we've talked a lot about

Jesus upside down kingdom, right?

810

We've talked about how greatness

is, is through humility and serving

811

others and laying your life down.

812

Jesus becomes king the same way Jesus

becomes king through suffering and death.

813

That's how, that's how God

chooses to make Jesus the king,

814

to show that Jesus is the king.

815

Jesus at the cross.

816

He, he actually accomplished a lot, right?

817

He accomplished the

salvation of his people.

818

In the New Testament talks

about how Jesus disarmed Satan.

819

Satan can't do anything to you 'cause

the only thing Satan can do to get you to

820

hell is to not let your sins be forgiven.

821

But guess what?

822

You all could get your sins

forgiven if you trust Jesus.

823

No one can stop you from

doing that except you.

824

So Jesus won the salvation of his people.

825

He defeated Satan.

826

He defeated death.

827

He rose from the grave three days later.

828

We see that Jesus is

glorified by his father.

829

You ever remember that from John 17

when, when we were in John in main

830

service, that in that prayer that Jesus

does right before when in the upper

831

room, he says, father, glorify me,

Jesus is, he's lifted up on the cross.

832

It's says, if the cross is

his throne, he's the king.

833

He's a, he's conquering.

834

He's winning at the cross.

835

So he's living out all of his.

836

His teaching.

837

So this is, this is

God's picture of a king.

838

This is what God wants you to see.

839

This is King Jesus.

840

King Jesus beaten, bloody dying,

but conquering victorious.

841

That's God's king.

842

And so Jesus has, he has

authority over everything.

843

He's, he's, if he's really the king,

he has authority over everything.

844

He has authority over your relationships.

845

He has authority over your free time.

846

He has authority over your future.

847

He has authority over your homework,

your body, what you like, all your

848

stuff, your feelings, your words.

849

Jesus needs your obedience.

850

He's your king.

851

He's your Lord.

852

And I think sometimes even as

Christians, maybe we hold onto something.

853

Say, well, God, you can have

everything else but not this.

854

I really, you know, God, I really

wanted to do these things in

855

college, and if I don't get to

do these things, then I'm out.

856

Or, oh, God, as long as you

keep me relatively safe and

857

healthy, then I'll follow you.

858

We come up with all these conditions.

859

There's no conditions with the king.

860

He's either the king or he is not.

861

So tonight, I, I wanna ask

you, is Jesus your king?

862

Are you giving your

allegiance to King Jesus?

863

Are you trying to give him

part of your allegiance or

864

are you giving him everything?

865

Because if he's really your

king, he deserves everything.

866

You can't say, well, I'll give you this

part of my life and, and not this part.

867

Or I'll give you maybe these things.

868

But, but not that.

869

If he's the king, he deserves everything.

870

And, and if you're here and you've

never trusted Jesus, or maybe you're

871

here and you've only wanted to give

Jesus a little part of your life.

872

You, you could change that tonight

and, and follow the king who

873

loves you so much that he would be

crucified for you and die for you.

874

He gave everything for you.

875

It's not too big of an ask for

you to give everything for him.

876

Let's pray and we'll go to small groups.