00:00 Introduction and Purpose of the Podcast

00:29 Discussing the Use of Audio Bibles

02:04 Pastor Mark's Moving Experience

03:13 Bible Reading: Luke 23 and John 18-19

05:20 The Importance of Jesus' Sinlessness

07:34 Understanding the Day of Preparation

10:45 Jesus' Arrest and Control Over Events

16:53 The Crucifixion and Its Significance

21:47 Encouragement and Prayer Requests

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Welcome back.

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We hope you're reading your Bibles,

but I guess if you're listening

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to this, you probably are.

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Hopefully.

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Hopefully, yeah.

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This is not a substitute

for Bible reading.

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Not, not at all.

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The Bible's better than we are by a lot.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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So this is meant to

supplement your Bible reading.

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It's meant to be a help.

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It's your Bible reading.

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It's not meant to replace it by

any stretch of the imagination.

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So yeah.

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Don't don't listen to us at the

expense of listening to God.

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Can you do an audio Bible?

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Yes.

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Do you think that is sufficient?

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I think it's good.

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I don't know if I would say

sufficient for a long time.

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I, I think having a variety of

ways to intake God's word is good.

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I think.

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The tactile experience of reading,

even having a pencil in your hand or

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a highlighter or something like that.

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I think that's good.

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I can't point to you to chapter and verse

that says you have to do it this way.

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But.

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I think the audio Bible is helpful.

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I just think it's hard to

really track in detail there.

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You can't really effectively

stop and go back, read.

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That's exactly what I was gonna say.

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And pause and meditate over something.

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You can, but typically most people

aren't with the audio Bible.

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They're listening on a commute or in

the shower or something like that.

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It's fine, but I just make it

your only source of intake.

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Yeah.

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'cause sometimes there's.

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A need to dwell on a particular

phrase or a particular word, or to

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try to understand something in an

audio Bible can be really helpful

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in certain circumstances, but to

your point, doesn't allow for you

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to pause, to go back to do that.

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So I, I do think the advantage of an

audio bible is that sometimes it is

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helpful to hear a whole chapter or

two chapters kind of nonstop, right?

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But yeah, again, I can't point over verse

either, but I would say that reading.

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Your Bible is a particularly helpful

way of doing it and should be common.

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Right?

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And sometimes it's helpful to listen

to an audio bible because somebody

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who reads the Bible on the audio

Bible is gonna emphasize mm-hmm.

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Things and you're gonna go, oh, huh,

I hadn't thought about that way.

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And so that's helpful too

and can be a good study tool.

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But again, yeah.

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Probably not the only source

of your Bible reading intake.

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Pastor Mark, you're in a new house.

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Talk to us about how

that process has gone.

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Moving is so weird.

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Moving is a weird thing.

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It's, I think ultimately it points to our.

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Baked in desire to have an eternal

home that is permanent Yes.

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And is unchanging.

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And in this life we get the

blessing of a place to live.

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But as you make that change, that

transition, you really feel that I

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think core desire that God has placed

in our hearts for a permanent home

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and even thinking about Lincoln.

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Praise.

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He, yeah, we can talk about kids

praying as a separate thing, but he

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prays that the house doesn't burn down.

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There you go.

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And but even that's a fear that I had

as a kid that that you know, even as an

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adult you pay your insurance and you're

paying your insurance because Yep.

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That home is not permanent.

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Right.

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And there's a permanent.

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Recognition, at least in this

life of it, of the non permanence.

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So yeah, anyways, it, the process of

actually moving is, was pretty simple.

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Worked well, clean cut, we got lots of

help and we're very thankful for that.

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That's awesome.

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But, to make it a matter of

philosophy, I have to think

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about all these other things.

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Okay, fair enough, fair enough.

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Well, let's get into our Bible reading.

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We're in Luke 23, John 18 and 19.

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Today again, like I mentioned at the end

of the episode yesterday, we're still

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dealing with the crucifixion and so

Luke is gonna open up and we are gonna

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have Jesus before Pilate and Pastor

Mark, have you ever played the game?

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Two truths in a lie?

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I have, yes.

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I guess I'm more familiar with it.

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I can't remember the

last time I played it.

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Well, if you never played the game,

it's kind of an icebreaker game.

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Everybody's supposed to come up with

two statements of truth about yourself

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and one lie, and then you stand up and

introduce yourself, and you say your

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two truths and your lie altogether.

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And then everybody has to pick out.

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People have to figure out

which one's the lie, right.

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Well, Pilate or the Jews rather,

they come before Pilate and they

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don't play two truths and a lie.

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They play two lies and a truth

because they say right there in verse

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two, we found this man misleading

our nation and forbidding us to

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give tribute to Caesar and saying

that he himself is Christ a king.

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Okay, so Pastor Mark, which are the

two lies and which ones the truth?

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This is tough.

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This is tough.

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No, of course.

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I'm kidding.

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It shouldn't be.

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It should be pretty straightforward.

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The truth is that he is Christ.

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He's Christ a king, right?

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Yes.

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And even that you know, he's.

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Public declarations of his identity

weren't so much that he stood up in

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the middle of the temple and said,

I'm the Messiah and I'm the king,

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so everybody come and worship me.

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But he did make statements, plenty

of statements enough throughout his

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ministry to make those conclusions

and draw those conclusions.

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So, yeah, those are the charges.

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But what's fascinating is just how

many times again Jesus is gonna

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be referenced as somebody who's.

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Innocent and that, that jumped out

to me in Luke's account specifically.

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You've got it there in verse

four, PIL says that he is innocent

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and doesn't deserve death.

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You've got it again in verse 14 and 15.

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Mm-hmm.

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That he is innocent.

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You've got it down in verse

22, that he's innocent.

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So you have it over and

over and over again.

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You've got it again in verse 41, that he

is innocent, innocent again in verse 47.

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So you just have so many.

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Attestations again from secular

sources, not from the disciples,

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not from Jesus himself, but even

from the secular sources going, he's

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done nothing deserving his death.

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And that's exactly right.

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And that's what had to be true for him to

be able to go to the cross for us because

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Jesus had to be the sinless sacrifice.

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Pastor Mark, why is it important that we

fight for the sinlessness of Jesus when

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it comes to his death on the cross for

us, because he has to atone for our sins.

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And if he is just like us, if he

is a fallen human, then he doesn't

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have the capacity to represent.

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Us believers before the father.

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And to bear that judgment and to bear that

wrath other, he's just like us, right?

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And we are insufficient because of

our sin to save ourselves, right?

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And so we are very much dependent

on a savior who is sinless.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Because it's like your kids, right?

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If you've got two kids that come to you.

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And both of them ha, were playing catch

together and they both broke two windows.

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They both threw the ball through a

window, each of them, and you call

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them in and they did it on purpose.

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This isn't accidental.

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They're like, we're

gonna have a mean streak.

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We're just gonna break the windows.

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And you bring both of them in.

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You sit them down together and one of them

steps forward and is like, you know what?

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I love my brother so much.

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You know what I, I know he broke the

window, but I want you to punish me.

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Instead of punishing him, you're gonna

look at him and be like, you know,

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that's super sweet of you and kind.

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But the problem is you broke a window too.

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Yes.

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So I need to punish you and him.

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So you are, you're

guilty for your own sin.

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You can't take his punishment on you.

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That's why we have to fight

for the sinlessness of Christ.

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That's why hearing it from Pilate

and others is so important.

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Because if Jesus had his own sin, he could

not be qualified to die for ARS sins.

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And how do we know that he was

sinless as well beyond that?

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Well, that's where Paul goes in one

Corinthians 15 when he says, the

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resurrection of Jesus is God, the father's

stamp of approval saying payment made.

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Yep.

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Because death couldn't hold him

because he himself had no guilt.

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He himself had no sin.

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He died for our sin, not his own.

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So therefore, when he died, death

realized it couldn't hold him.

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And so that's why he's able to

be resurrected from the dead.

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The other reason it's important

is because Jesus is God.

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And if Jesus sins he's not God,

then he's not God, or God is somehow

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capable of sin, which is impossible.

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Impossible.

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And would.

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Destroy everything we believe.

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Yes, yes.

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It's so, there's a lot of reasons why

it is important that Jesus is sinless.

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Yeah.

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Hey on verse 54 of Luke chapter 23,

we have a statement that's made here.

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It says, it was the day of preparation

and the Sabbath was beginning.

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Now, day of preparation, there's.

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Two potentials here.

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Just if we're gonna take that phrase

in a vacuum, this could be the day of

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preparation for the Passover feast.

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This would've been the day when the

Passover lambs are sacrificed and when

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the meal was gonna be prepared before

they ate the Passover meal together.

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That's.

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One thing that it could mean again in

a vacuum, or it could mean that this is

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the day of preparation for the Sabbath,

which was something that took place

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before the Sabbath where they would

prepare the food, they would prepare

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everything they need to for the next day

being the Sabbath, so that they could

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truly rest on the Sabbath and not do

work that they weren't supposed to do.

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This.

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Has to be the day of preparation for

the Sabbath, not for the Passover.

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Because remember when Jesus was in

the upper room with his disciples, the

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gospels are clear that it was the Passover

meal that he was eating with them.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so the day of preparation would've

been Wednesday before the Passover, or

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Thursday rather before the Passover.

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Took place.

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They, the sun goes down they

have the Passover meal together,

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the Seder meal together and then

you've got things moving forward.

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Otherwise we're in a situation where

we're going, wait a minute, if this is the

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day of the preparation for the Passover,

then the Passover hasn't happened yet.

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So what, when are we in the passion week?

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I think this fits the

timeline for us still.

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And even it says right there,

the Sabbath was beginning, so

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it was the day of preparation.

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The Sabbath was about to happen,

about to arrive and that's why that

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time note is given there in Luke 23.

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Yeah.

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And again, notice.

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How the women are referenced here.

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We know we talked about it yesterday, but

it's the women who had come with him and

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saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

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What, I know we talked about it briefly

talk a little bit more about why the

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gospel writers record the women as.

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As testimony to these events?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Again, in this culture, at this

time, women were not by the

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secular world held in high regard.

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Their testimony was undermined in court.

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This is not a commentary from

my perspective, so please

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hear me say that as a caveat.

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This is just the way

things were at this time.

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So, if somebody were to invent the gospel.

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Which a lot of people want to say,

well, this is just a made up story.

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This never actually happened.

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Jesus isn't real.

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Although those, the people like that are

just intellectually dishonest because

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even the leading critics will say he was

a historical person, at least, right?

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There's enough evidence there.

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But if the gospel writers which

making these things up, they would

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not have put women as their, some

of their leading voices here.

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And they do that as some of the.

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Leading characters giving testimony

to the things that are happening.

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And that's significant because

that shows us the veracity of this.

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Because if I wanted to convince

somebody that this was true,

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I wouldn't have it that way.

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I would've, again, like I said

yesterday, have some of the leading men

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of his followers be the ones that are

going, oh yeah, we saw the empty tomb

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eventually, and it's empty, and we saw

the crucifixion and this is the tomb

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where he was laid and everything else.

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So.

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Another reason why we can trust the Bible.

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Yeah.

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And we should be glad for these

details because to this, one little

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detail here, I think it does should

and does build our confidence in the

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truth of scripture, but you know,

these details are really important

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and we should pay attention to them.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, let's flip over to John 18 and 19.

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In John 18 we get a little bit

more of the detail of the arrest of

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Jesus, and what I love is just that.

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That Jesus, you, you mentioned, how

is this not Jesus being a doormat?

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I think at John 18 we see

Jesus in full control.

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And he's in full control

in a number of ways.

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Judas knows where Jesus is gonna be.

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Jesus knew that Judas knew

where he was gonna be.

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Mm-hmm.

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And yet Jesus goes there when they

come out, when the Judas along with

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the soldiers come, Jesus doesn't.

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Wait behind all those disciples back

in the olive press cave there, which is

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would where they would've been, said.

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He goes out to meet them.

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He puts himself between this

band of Marding soldiers led

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by Judas and his disciples.

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He protecting them even coming off

the high priests of prayer in John 17.

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He's protecting them even in this moment.

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And he says, who are you looking for?

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They say, we want Jesus.

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He says, I.

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Am he and it says they, they drew

back and fell to the ground there.

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I love that detail.

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And they, he, they stand back up

and you can kind of see that they're

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probably disoriented in your mind's eye.

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And they, he says, who

are you looking for?

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And they say, we're looking for Jesus.

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He goes, I told you.

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I'm he.

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Now let these ones go.

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And so I just love the flex.

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Jesus is the one in control.

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Yeah.

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He's the call the shot collar right now.

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It's not Judas and it's

not the Jews at this point.

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Yeah.

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In verse 11, what does he tell Peter?

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He says.

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Shall I not drink the cup

that the father has given me?

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Again, to your point of Jesus

being fully in control of this,

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he knows he's gonna suffer.

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He knows what's gonna happen, but

he is telling Peter, put his sword

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away because he's in control of

this and he's choosing to do these

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things for our sake, ultimately.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And again, the synoptic writers are

all like somebody there in the band of

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disciples pulled their sword and attacked

it, and John's like, Peter did it.

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Yep.

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It was Peter.

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It was Peter.

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It was Peter.

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And from here he's taken again,

he starts with the Jewish

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authorities, Anis and Caiaphas.

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With, I believe it was Anis was

the father-in-law of Caiaphas.

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Yeah.

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Anis for, he was the

father-in-law of Caiaphas.

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An Anis is the, what is it called

when he's the high priest emeritus?

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So he's still living and he held the

office of high Priest but Caiaphas

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is the current acting high priest.

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And so that's why they're

mentioned together here.

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And there's probably a nod to the

authority of both of them at this

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time, even though Caiaphas is the

actual high priest during this stretch.

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You've got Peter's denials here

and you've got the questioning

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of Jesus all at the same time.

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Again, things that we have

seen before this, you've got

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Jesus taken before Pilate.

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Again, here we've got another reference

to time so that they would not be defiled.

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They stayed in the, outside the

court there, verse 28 but that

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they could eat the Passover.

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Now again, you might be saying,

well, I thought they already ate the

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Passover at this point, and they did.

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What this is rather probably a

reference to the Passover as a a.

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A reference to the entirety of

the feast of unleavened bread,

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which would've been mm-hmm.

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The meal that was going on

throughout the entire time.

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So they didn't wanna be defiled so that

they wouldn't be able to continue to

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observe the feast of unleavened bread,

which is probably what's meant by the

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umbrella term Passover here that's

used in this portion of John's Gospel.

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Yeah.

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And again we see pilot.

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Struggling with this the Jewish

leaders are very determined, but

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Pilate is struggling with this.

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And, he is again, I mean you mentioned

it already, but I think we continue

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to see evidence of the sinlessness of

Jesus and even recognized again, like

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you've said by the secular authorities.

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Yeah.

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And still the power of Jesus

that he's still in control.

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Mm-hmm.

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'cause pilots looking at him

going, Hey don't you know

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that I can help you out here?

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And initially, pilate says,

I heard you're a king.

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And Jesus said, yeah but my kingdom is

different than what you're thinking.

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If my kingdom was of this world,

my followers wouldn't have

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let me be turned over to you.

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Yeah, again, that's a flex by Jesus.

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And then he goes over and in chapter 19,

Pilate's gonna be interviewing him and

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saying, don't you want me to release you?

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I have power to free you.

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And Jesus again, flexes.

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And he says to him in verse 11 you would

have no authority over me at all unless

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it had been given to you from above.

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Therefore, he has delivered me

over to you, has the greater sin.

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So.

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Jesus is telling pilot,

pilot, pilot, pilot.

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You don't understand.

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Yeah.

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You do not understand how

this is working right now.

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He's in control the whole time.

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And the father's in

control the whole time.

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Yeah.

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What is Jesus's kingdom?

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Jesus says in verse 36 of 18, he

says, my kingdom is not of this world.

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What is Jesus's kingdom?

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Yeah.

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There, there's kingdom of God,

kingdom of heaven terminology and

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some people wanna bifurcate those two.

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I don't, I see them as

synonymous with one another.

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And it's a reference to

what's gonna ultimately be.

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Inaugurated in part at

the millennial kingdom.

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And so that's the beginning of this,

but then that's his reign all the way

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through the eternal state as well.

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So, it's looking forward to this future

kingdom that is not a kingdom of the

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earth, but it's when all the kingdoms of

this world will become the kingdom of God.

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Mm-hmm.

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And that is to go back to Daniel

chapter two in the statue.

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This is the rock that's

cut out of the mountain.

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As without hands.

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This is the fifth kingdom from Daniel

two, the kingdom that will have no end.

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This is.

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Jesus's kingdom here.

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Is there any, I agree with you.

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Is there any aspect in which, at

this point in the story, there is a

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kingdom that is not of this world?

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'cause he's saying it in present tense.

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Right.

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And that's where, so our millennial

brothers and sisters will say that the

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millennial kingdom is metaphorical,

that Jesus is reigning in our hearts.

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Jesus was here.

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The kingdom is near that.

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What's mentioned in the gospels because

of Christ's presence on earth at this

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time as the king, the kingdom, the

offer of the kingdom, some extreme

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dispensationalist we're deep in the weeds.

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Now, we'll even argue that Jesus was

legitimately offering the kingdom to

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the Jews if they would've received

him at his first coming, right?

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That he was willing to set up the

kingdom there on Earth at that point.

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I can't get there because Jesus.

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Being omniscient, being God knew

what God's timeline and plan was.

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And there's plenty of other things

that he says in John 10, for example,

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I have sheep that are not of this fold.

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He's referencing gentiles there.

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Mm-hmm.

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There's multiple times

there, so I can't get there.

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But the king is there.

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So thereby the kingdom is near anywhere.

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The king is, the kingdom is gonna be near.

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I think as progressive dispensationalist,

we can see a spiritual kingdom

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that is at work right now.

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Though the ultimate.

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Fulfillment of that will be the literal

kingdom, and that is gonna be the

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millennial reign of Christ on Earth

during the thousand years, and then

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after that in the eternal state as well.

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Yeah, I think that's helpful.

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I think that's helpful.

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That's why I ask.

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Appreciate it.

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Great answer.

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Appreciate it.

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Hey, crucifixion in John's account

here, he records different things, Inc.

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In fact, including the account of the

soldiers dividing up the garments, which.

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The other gospel writers record as well.

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But John references that this is,

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is a prophetic psalm where they

divided my garments among them.

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And for my clothing they cast lots.

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So even the them doing that.

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And then there's this special

moment between Jesus and

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John and Mary where John.

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Is entrusted with the care

of Mary Jesus' mother.

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And so that's just that

personal element of Christ.

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Even on the cross he's loving his

mom at that point and making sure

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that she's gonna be taken care of.

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And then you've got the death of Jesus,

which is recorded differently here.

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But we, there's a phrase that we

didn't talk about yesterday that

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would probably be helpful for us

to talk about here, and that is the

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phrase, my God, why have you forsaken?

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Me pastor Rod, talk about, or Pastor?

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Pastor Mark.

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Still here.

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Pastor Bergman.

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I dunno.

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I dunno.

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Pastor Mark.

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Pastor Mark.

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Talk to us about why that phrase

has caused some problems over

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the years with Christians.

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Well, I grew up in a great church

as a kid, but one of the things

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that I remember learning was

the father turned his face away.

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We sing that sometimes.

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Yeah, we do.

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We do.

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And I think that is a.

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Confusing, confusing way

of constructing that idea.

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Mm-hmm.

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I could see why, I can see why

that was put together that way and

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why that was included in the song.

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But I think it's confusing because one,

the father doesn't have a face, and even

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as a kid you start thinking about how

does somebody who has a face turn their

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face away from the person that they are?

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Right.

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Right.

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Confusing.

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I don't think that's helpful.

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And also theologically,

is that actually possible?

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Right.

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Is it possible for the Trinity

to somehow break apart mm-hmm.

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Split apart?

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Mm-hmm.

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Of course it's not, but to be gracious

to the people who came up with that, I

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understand where they're coming from.

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Right.

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But I think it's more

confusing than it is helpful.

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Right.

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They're trying to use poetic

license to help us to understand

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the significance of the wrath of

God being poured out on Jesus.

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And that we can agree on, we can

give credit for, the problem is

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yeah, it does imply a severing of

the Trinitarian relationship mm-hmm.

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Between the father and the son.

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And that's not what's taking place here.

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And that's not what Jesus means here.

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It's a turning over.

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It's, again the father,

the forsakenness is Jesus.

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I think at this, in that moment.

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Knowing the fullness of the

wrath of God against our sin.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so he is looking at the father,

and he's asking this, not in an

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accusatory fashion, but I think this

is an extension of his true humanity.

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When we go back to his wrestling with

even the father's will in the Garden

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of Gethsemane, when he finally submits

his human will to the father's will to

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say, not my will, but your will be done.

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This is why he was praying.

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Father, if there's.

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Any way for this cup to

pass from me, let it be.

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So, I think this is the true humanity

of Jesus crying out under the full

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weight of the cross and the full weight

of the father's displeasure, not with

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the son, but with our sin upon the son.

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And the way that that's explained is

it's as though you have forsaken me,

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but that relationship never broke.

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That's right.

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That the father and the son

and the spirit cannot have any

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part of their relationship.

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Severed and remain God.

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Yeah.

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And some will even teach that.

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That was true for three days.

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Right.

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That he descended into

hell even for Right.

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Three days.

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Right.

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And was separated somehow.

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But you can't hold those things together.

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No.

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You can't, you can't theologically

hold those things together.

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It doesn't work.

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Right.

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And even his words of the thief on the

cross would undermine that when he looks

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at the thief on the cross and says,

today you will be with me in Paradise.

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Yeah.

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So that's that forsakenness if you've

read that or heard that or sung that.

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And so if you're wondering, well,

should we not sing that line anymore?

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I don't think we wanna press it that far.

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Again, sometimes poetic license

does the best job that we can

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to try to explain something.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I think we can believe the best

about the authors of that song.

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Mm-hmm.

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Jesus dies, he, his side is pierced here.

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That's a unique account in John.

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His side is gonna be pierced

by the soldier and the blood

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and water are gonna come out.

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And doctors have even talked about

the pericardial sac and how that.

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Happens when it's likely that was

the pierce there, that took place.

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That's another evidence

of the death of Christ.

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In fact, when he raises it from

the dead, that's one of the things

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that he points to with Thomas.

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He says, feel my side

where the spear went in.

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And so John records that for us.

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And then in his burial, we not only find.

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Joseph Athea here, but

we also find Nicodemus.

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And so Nicodemus is such an

encouragement to me because it's

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a picture of the process of God's

grace at work in somebody's life.

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'cause Nicodemus initially comes at the

beginning of John, John chapter three, and

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then we see him there at the end of John.

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Towards the end of John, John chapter 19.

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He's helping Jo Joseph Athea

buried the body of Jesus.

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I don't think if Nicodemus had not

come around to be one of his followers.

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I don't think he's there bearing Jesus.

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And so it'll be fascinating to

find out when we get to eternity.

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But I would venture a guess is

to say we're gonna be spending

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eternity with Nick Nicodemus.

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I think he's gonna be there.

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I agree.

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I agree.

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I think that is a kind and helpful

nod from John to us to encourage us

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in the way that you're encouraged.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Well, hey everybody just wanted to

also let you know that, and we should

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have mentioned this a couple days ago.

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We didn't, and we're remiss for that.

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But Kelly Smith, who is our church admin

here, she does such a great job for us.

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She's out of the office right now.

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She's recovering from surgery,

so if you can be praying for

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her, that would be fantastic.

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I know she's eager and she's recovering

and she's eager to get back to the

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hospital, but or back to the hospital.

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Yeah.

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Say she's not eager to

get back to the hospital.

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Sorry.

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It's not eager.

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No one ever has been either,

either for the incident.

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She's eager to get back.

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To the work, to the

office is what I meant.

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But we want her to rest

up and recover fully.

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So be praying for Kelly and if you've

got her her number, maybe text her and

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let her know you love her, care for her.

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We're praying for her and we

can't wait to have her back.

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But let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word and

thanks for your kindness To us.

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We pray that we would continue to take

it and apply it to our lives whether

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that, as we were talking about earlier,

be through an audio Bible or reading

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it with our eyes or however it may be.

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I pray that we would just take your

word in and that we would learn it.

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Love it and apply it.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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We pray that we don't pray.

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We hope that you guys have

a great rest of the day.

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Keep in your Bibles and tune in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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I'll be praying.

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You have a great day.

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Thanks, man.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said