00:00 Welcome and Announcements

00:16 Upcoming Transformed Conference

01:28 Importance of In-Person Attendance

02:58 Daily Bible Reading: Luke 23

03:11 Discussion on Jesus Before Pilate

05:31 The Crucifixion and Its Significance

07:14 Theological Questions on the Cross

07:59 Understanding the Forsaking of Christ

11:12 Encouragement for Deep Biblical Thinking

13:02 The Profound Mercy of Jesus on the Cross

13:30 Theological Implications of Jesus' Forgiveness

15:56 The Thief on the Cross and Jesus' Promise

16:43 Debating the Apostle's Creed and Jesus' Descent

19:17 Jesus' Crucifixion and Burial in the Gospels

21:46 John's Unique Perspective on the Crucifixion

25:07 Preparing for the Book of Acts

25:29 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Hey there everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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It's a Wednesday, Wednesday.

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Uh, what does.

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What 30th, November 13th.

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Was it November 13th.

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We have the transformed

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We're still seeing some registrations

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Uh, if you're on the fence,

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And towards the side of attending

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going to be well worth your time.

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Uh, these are important subjects,

important topics, and it's going to

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be a, just a great time of fellowship

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I mean, that's something that we

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church family again for those three days.

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As we're getting close to

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I know.

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A lot of the sports league, try

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And Sunday for sure.

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Some days just church and yeah.

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It's going to be there.

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But be there be there.

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Is there an online option?

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You know, there's not an online

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We really feel like it's important

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And that that's part of

the, the experience of this.

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This is part of the value of this

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brothers and sisters in Christ.

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We're actually bringing in.

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A worship leader from New Mexico.

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Guy's name is drew Hodge.

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There's going to be a bookstore there.

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They're they're bringing over 300

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We, we did go through the list and

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Um, if you're wondering, Hey, did you

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We can't tell you with, with integrity

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this list, but this is a known store.

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This is a known, uh, They

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conferences and provide books.

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And so we're confident that

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offering there from the bookstore.

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Um, it should be just a great time

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church and part of our church family.

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So that's why there's no online

option as a part of this.

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Gotta be a great weekend.

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You, you don't want to miss it.

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If you're, if you're local,

this is something for you.

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Yup.

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Absolutely.

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If you're not local, jump on

a plane and get here, get in.

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Some people are doing that.

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Take a train, mostly because

they're preaching or, but

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some people are doing that.

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Some people are coming down from,

uh, are coming up rather from.

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Hill country.

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I'm not mistaken.

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Yep.

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So that'll be really great to

have some, some family it's an

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extended family in the house.

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That'll be great.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I agree.

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Let's chip into our daily Bible

reading for today, Luke 23.

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And.

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John, uh, 18 through 19.

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Yeah.

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A lot of material,

again, a lot of material.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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Uh, Luke 23, we have Jesus before pilot.

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Again, this is verses one through seven.

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Uh, verse two though, of chapter 23.

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No.

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The accusation here that the Jews.

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Meaning the, the religious leaders,

those opposed to Jesus, they were shrewd.

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They were not dumb.

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And so when they bring their accusations

before pilot, they bring accusations

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that are intended to cause pilot to be.

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Uh, nervous about political insurrection.

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And so that's what, they're why

they say, uh, he's forbidding us

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to give tribute to Caesar saying

that he himself is Christ a king.

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The pilot was not a Jew.

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Pilot was a Roman.

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And so pilot in being in his position,

he was tasked with keeping order there in

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the Galilean region, in the GDN region.

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And.

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Uh, if he didn't do that, well, man.

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It not only would it forfeit position,

but potentially even his life.

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And so the Jews know that.

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And so they're saying, Hey,

this guy is saying he's a king.

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Realizing that's going

to pan pilot on alert.

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Come on.

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Do your job, buddy.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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And so first five, it says they were

urgent saying, cause pilot and initially

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is saying, I find no guilt in this man.

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And there's multiple out of

stations of that throughout this

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whole time that he's innocent.

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He's innocent.

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He's innocent pilots, right?

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But they were urgent.

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It's a word that means they insisted

strongly and they began to stir

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up the people or they said he

stirs up the people again, saying,

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he's, he's gonna film at rebellion

against the Romans, unless you act.

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And so pilot kicks them over to haircut.

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Inherits a new character because

we haven't encountered Herod and

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the other Synoptics yet first time.

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And so here it shows up here and

Herod interviews, Jesus, but makes no

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headway with Jesus because Jesus is

not going to be talking with Herod and

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not going to be engaging with Herod.

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And so Harriet hasn't beaten

and sends it back to pilots.

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Um, good guy that Herod.

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Yeah, I like him.

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He's just such a, he just

gives me the warm, fuzzy.

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I love, I loved his interaction

with heritage was so inspiring.

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Well I'm history has remembered him.

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Well also.

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Of course a swell individual.

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Yeah.

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So pilot round to Luke 2313 through 25.

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He's back at Jesus's before pilot.

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This is what we've read before.

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Uh, pilot wants to release him.

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And again, uh, we can't empathize

too much with pilot pilots.

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Uh, at the end of the day,

a pretty cowardly guy.

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He's a weasel.

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Um, he wants to release him.

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He says, look, I didn't find

anything wrong with him.

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Herod didn't find anything wrong with him.

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So let's just get, let's

just move past this.

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But the crowds unreasonable in their

blood loss, fomented by the Pharisees and

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they demand the pilot have him crucified.

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And so they're spineless pilot.

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He gives in to their demands.

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Crucifixion then verses 26 through 49.

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Um, Verses 28 through 31.

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Jesus speaks to you and addresses the

daughters of Jerusalem and, uh, says

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there to them, Hey, don't wait for me,

but weep for yourselves and your children.

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Uh, a couple of layers here.

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There's the missed Messiah.

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You miss the Messiah.

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So, so mourn over that grieve over that

grief over the fact that that realm was

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coming and they were going to make things

a lot worse, 78 D the destruction of

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the temple was going to count, but then.

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Jesus moves into the language,

describing the tribulation period

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saying, Hey, because you you've rejected.

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The Messiah.

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Things are going to be really bad for you.

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So don't worry for me.

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We've been for the wrong people.

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Person here you need a week for

yourself and for your offspring,

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your future generations.

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Because of what this is going to mean

for them, that they rejected the Messiah.

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Verse 23 again, very simply.

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And this is in all the gospels there.

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They crucified him just that the plane.

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A simple statement.

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And you would expect of all people,

maybe Luke being the physician.

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To give some more attention to

the, the, the physiology of the act

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of crucifixion, but he just again

says there, they crucified him.

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Uh, verse 34.

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Do you make anything of that?

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Ah,

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I guess a mountain out

of a molehill situation.

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No.

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I mean, maybe I go back to one of the

issues that I have with the passion,

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you know, for as, as many people

love that movie and everything else.

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I think it's hard for us to truly

depict what actually took place.

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And I think that's probably why the,

the writers leave it the way they leave.

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It is to try to put into words.

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What was actually happening there.

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So looking back on it, I think they were

probably nervous that the words were

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not going to be able to fully capture.

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The gravity of the son of

God being nailed to a cross.

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And that's a good thought.

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We'll lift it up into place that way.

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So the simplicity communicates

what happened, but preserves the

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mystery of it at the same time.

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So we had someone to ask a

little bit about that though.

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The nature of Jesus on the cross.

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They want to know.

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Um, how are we to understand the

forsaking of Christ on the cross?

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On the cross is Christ abandoned

or deserted by the father?

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Uh, we sing a song about that.

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Father turns his face away.

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Yeah.

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Um, and how deep the father's love.

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That's one of the Lee.

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The lyrics that we sing.

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Um, is he forsaking any human

sets, but not under divine sense?

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Is Christ still the beloved son in

whom the father is well pleased,

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even at that moment in time.

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It's the father angry at Christ.

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So that's kind of the idea here.

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It's really trying to understand

what took place on the cross.

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We know some basic facts

about what took place there.

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Jesus says my God, my God,

why have you forsaken me?

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How do we put some of these pieces

together without doing an injustice

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to what Jesus did or injustice

to the unity of the Godhead?

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Yeah.

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What do we do with that?

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Yeah.

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Well, it goes back to a little bit

to what we talked about on Sunday,

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and that is the hypostatic union.

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Uh, Jesus being fully God or truly

God and fully man, truly, man.

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Um, you had him in his humanity suffering.

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Uh, in, in, still in his DD suffering

because of, of bearing the, and

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satisfying the full wrath of God.

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That's something that in his

humanity, he was not going to be

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able to do the infinite wrath of

God could only be satisfied by

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the infinite God on the cross.

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Um, and so it's, it's.

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If there is, I use the

word mystery a moment ago.

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I think there is a profound mystery here

to what it means that he was forsaken.

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And I think there's something to.

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Be preserved there.

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Uh, the father.

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The unity of the Trinity was,

was I don't believe interrupted.

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Uh, the father, son, holy spirit.

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Yeah, it could not be.

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Yeah.

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Ontologically you can't separate God.

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Right?

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You can't divide them into pieces, right?

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That would be something.

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Akin to heresy.

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In fact, he quotes them.

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One of the, one of our

famous beloved teachers.

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Um, and can, let me just

add this for some zest here.

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So I think this was provocative.

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Um, he quotes, uh, a famous theologian.

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Who went so far as to

say Christ heard quote.

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God.

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D word.

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I feel, I feel awkward saying it,

even though it's appropriate here.

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God D word you.

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Yeah.

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So okay.

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Everyone on the same page, I think so.

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He heard that from the father,

but some people say that's that's

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heretical because that's impossible.

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It's impossible for that to take place.

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So help put that in your soup.

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Stir that up and tell us how

to flavor that, that thing.

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Yeah.

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I, I don't believe that I wouldn't call

that material heresy in the sense that

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I don't think this is heresy in the

sense that this is a false teacher.

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We need to reject the person, especially

in light of who it was and know what the

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rest of the body of his work, but right.

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Um, Yeah.

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The father turned his face away to

suggest, as we just mentioned that

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the, the perfect union of the Trinity

was, was interrupted or broken at the

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cross is to do injustice and to do

harm to the doctrine of the Godhead.

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Um, And yet there was a moment in

time in, in my thought has always

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been this, that, that moment.

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When the, when the son says to the father,

my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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That's the moment where in, he feels

the fullness of the father's wrath

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poured out against the, the, the sin

that he was carrying there on the cross.

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Um, it's, it's the moment of climax, so

to speak of the father's rat, the father's

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justice being poured out upon the son.

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So in his humanity, he's

crying out under the.

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The burden of that.

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I mean, this is, this is the, in

some ways I think the continuation

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of Jesus in the garden of disseminate

where he's praying in an angst saying,

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father, if there's any other way to

let this cup pass from me, the cup.

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Being the cup of God's wrath.

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Um, not just the physical torment that

he was going to go through, but the,

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the suffering in that sense that, that

theologian who said, God said that.

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In that sense, Jesus, in six

hours on the cross satisfied

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all of hell for you and me.

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I mean, what, what would

take us in eternity?

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It never ending Jesus fulfilled.

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And in six hours on the cross

that the torment involved in that.

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I understand the cry from the

lips of Jesus saying my God, my

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God, why have you forsaken me?

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But again, it's similar to when he said

the father is greater than I, right.

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His relationship to the father there

as in my God, is in his humanity.

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I think is what is in view, as he's crying

out saying, why have you forsaken me?

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The questions like this are so

helpful on the one hand, because it

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causes you to, to, to use all of your

biblical knowledge and to apply it

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to a very specific and very important

situation, but it also reveals some.

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Some, I don't know, uh, areas

where it's like, okay, I

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need to tread carefully here.

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Because it's so easy

to say something into.

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To postulate, what could have

been, or what was happening and

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to be so wrong that you create.

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You create heresy.

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If you create something that is

so wrong and so theologically off

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base that it would be condemned.

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And it should be condemned.

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So that's a great question.

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I'm glad that someone's thinking like this

and all of us should aspire to think more

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deeply about the scriptures that we take.

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Sometimes for granted, we can look

at them superficially and not try to

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put the pieces together in this way.

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Uh, not everyone thinks in the same

way, but it's a good thing to say.

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What does the scripture say?

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How do I best understand it?

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How to put the pieces together.

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And not to say that you'll understand it

all, but you should strive to understand.

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I think that's a good and noble posture.

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And so far as you're

able to do it carefully.

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And I think that requires a really

solid handle on the basics, knowing

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what your Bible says, knowing what

errors that we've encountered in the

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past through church history, but also

being aware that we can make many

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of those errors in new forms today.

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I agree.

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Also this person threw in some big

words at the end of their question,

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just to compete with Bryce Clancy.

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Did you notice that.

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I did not.

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Yeah.

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Uh, here we go here.

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Words.

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I'm not even going to give them

the dignity of saying those.

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Uh, quite a tradition if people just

started throwing big words at the

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bottom of their questions to us.

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Okay.

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It doesn't even have to have anything

to do with what we're talking about.

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You can throw antidisestablishmentarianism

in the bottom of your question.

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But I want to see, so pretend

those were in the question.

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I see that.

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What's some of the big.

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Big words are well.

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I don't even know how

he knows who Bryce is.

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W he was anonymous.

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I didn't say that we didn't tell him.

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I didn't tell him his name.

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Yeah, man, this person.

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As he intuiting these things.

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I don't know.

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Matt, Daniel, how are you doing that?

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All right.

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Speaking of something else.

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Jesus says from the cross that that

struck me and I've read it so many times,

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but Luke 2234 father, forgive them.

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Even that right there.

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In that address to who?

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The Romans yes.

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That you use?

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Yes.

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The crowds.

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Yes.

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He's praying this and it really, this

is a microcosm of the gospel, um,

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that, that this is that God's mercy

and grace, as he prays for those who

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were in the act of crucifying him,

mocking him, spitting upon them, asking

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that the father would forgive them.

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That's.

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Insane.

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And in lest we think, well,

At least we weren't there yet,

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but he was carrying your sin.

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On the cross so that

you might be forgiven.

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I mean, it's, it's, it's an

amazing interchange there

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between the sun and those within

earshot now was this efficacious.

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That's that's another question.

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Uh, and at that point, I don't

know that we can go that far.

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I think.

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Um, I don't, I'm not ready to say

everyone within earshot of that,

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that Jesus was saying, father,

forgive them in an efficacious sense.

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Uh, but I think the, what he was

doing on the cross pave the way

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for all of them to be forgiven.

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Uh, for, for their sins and for the

crimes that they were committing

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against Jesus at that point.

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Absolutely.

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And ultimately he's praying for all of us.

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And that is efficacious.

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If you're in Christ.

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Now you're included in that.

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And now I don't pretend to know exactly

how that works because I stumbled over

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that very thing that you just mentioned.

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I've read it before.

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And I just thought,

well, hold on a second.

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Here is this.

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How, how does this pair work?

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He is the son of God.

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He is.

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And he, she never cease to be.

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He will always be the son of God and yet.

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Um, because I know the father delights in

him, the father's going to do what pleases

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himself and pleases the son and the

son wants to do it, pleases the father.

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And at the same time, I know that

there is a, a human will in Jesus.

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That well, not, not in

contradiction to the divine will.

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Is distinct from it.

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I don't know how better to say that.

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I gotta be careful with my words

here, because Jesus says, you

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know, remove this cup from me.

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There's his humanity showing forth

and yet not as I will, as you will.

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And so he's submitting his humble

human will to the will of the father.

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And I wonder if that's a little

bit of what's happening here.

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I'm not entirely sure.

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Yeah.

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The other thing too, could be that this

was not forgiveness in a forensic sense,

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but in a moment, moment in time sense.

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That Jesus was in essence praying father.

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They don't understand the gravity

of what they're doing right now.

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Don't hold these specific sins against

them in the grand scheme of things

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that they were still going to be

accountable for their sins, for their

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high handed sins against the Lord.

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But perhaps this was in, in that

sense, maybe it was efficacious.

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That Jesus was saying, this

is part of the divine plan.

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This is the part of God's foreknowledge

and delivering the sun over.

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In this moment, don't

hold this against them.

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They are going to suffer for the

other sins, but perhaps this is his

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forgiveness of their acts against

him in the moment of the crucifixion.

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That's a possibility.

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Difficult though.

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Uh, hard to, hard to parse out for sure.

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Luke 23, 43, 43.

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You have the thief on the cross there.

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Um, this man has done nothing wrong.

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Jesus says, he turns to,

Jesus says, remember me, when

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you come into your kingdom.

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And he said to him, truly, I say to you

today, you will be with me in paradise.

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There's.

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Answer answer to the question.

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Where did Jesus go after he died?

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Uh, some have suggested he descended

into Hades declared victory over

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the spirits and in hell there.

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Uh, this I think is the

answer to our question.

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He went to be in paradise.

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He went to, to be with the

father for those that time away.

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Cause he tells the, the thief

on the cross today you will

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be with me there in paradise.

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Yes.

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If he did descend to hell

and proclaimed victory.

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Over over those in hell.

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Uh, is it still possible that, that,

that, that verse could still be true?

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Could you have done that within a 24 hour?

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Yeah.

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I mean he could have.

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Yeah, because the Apostle's creed.

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Talks about his descent into hell.

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I mean, I don't, I don't know

if we've ever talked about the

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Apostle's creed together, but.

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Um, I guess what stock do you put in that?

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Is that something that Christian

should, should we recite that?

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I've heard some churches.

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In fact, I went to a

church not too long ago.

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Now in California, where they

recited the Apostle's creed at

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the end of the service, that was

the first time I'd ever done that.

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So they put it on the screen and the

congregation stood up and they all

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read it together, which is kind of

a new experience in the first place.

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That was, that was neat and enjoyed that.

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So I read it along with them and then

I thought, oh, I wonder what, I wonder

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how we, uh, How we feel about this.

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It was neat at the very least,

but what do you, what kind of

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stock do you put in creeds?

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Confessions.

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We're not a confessional church.

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Yeah.

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Um, w where does, and I know this

is kind of off the beaten path.

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We're talking about the

DLP at the, at paradise.

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But it spurred on my thinking about this.

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So give us a quick answer.

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You don't need to belabor it, but where

do you stand on some of those issues?

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Yeah.

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You know, I, I liked the Apostle's

creed for a lot of reasons.

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I, I think it's helpful.

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I don't agree with that statement.

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Um, I creeds confessions, catechisms.

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Those are all beneficial in so far as

they're in agreement with the word of God.

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Um, and so that's, that's

our ultimate standard.

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Our standard is not

creeds and confessions.

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Our standard is God's word, and

that's going to be our ultimate

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arbiter and for the churches that

recite creeds and confessions, a lot

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of them, they would agree with that.

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They're not going to be in

disagreement with that as I'm not

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trying to take shots there, but.

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Um, this one is a lot of times

drawn from Ephesians four.

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Okay.

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So that statement he descended into hell.

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So Ephesians four, eight,

therefore it says when he

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ascended on high, he led host.

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He led a host of captives

and gave gifts to men.

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Insane.

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Verse nine, he ascended,

what does it mean?

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But that he also descended

into the lower regions comma.

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The earth.

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And so some have taken that

and suggested that this means

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that he descended into hell.

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And then they also go to him declaring

victory over the spirits in prison,

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from what Peter writes and say,

well, Jesus descended into hell and

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they built a doctrine over that and

they write that into their creed.

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Um, The Ephesians four passage,

I believe is clearly referring to

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his incarnation, just his coming

to earth and living on earth.

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And I think that's what

the text reading suggests.

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They're not descending into hell, but his.

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Incarnation he ascended.

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What does that imply?

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Uh, other than he descended from

way from heaven to where to earth.

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And so it's talking about

being here, the, the.

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Petra and passages is, is debatable at

best, as far as does this mean that he

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went to hell and declared victory there.

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And what does that even mean?

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Um, was this some take that as he

was preaching the gospel again,

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to, to give it a second chance,

it's like a Rob bell thing.

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All of, all of a sudden

they're in hell, but right.

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I don't agree with that either.

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So we'll get there when we

get to the Petra and passage.

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Okay.

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Oh man, John 18 and John 19.

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Uh, yeah.

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What happens in the rest of Luke 23?

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Jesus dies and then he raises again.

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And, um, well, no, he

doesn't raise again yet.

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He dies.

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Luke 23, 46.

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He dies.

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Luke 2348.

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The response is one of mourning

and sorrow and, and even remorse.

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And.

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That's a fascinating one.

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Uh, when you look at this, the

crowds that had assembled there,

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they walk away beating their breasts.

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Luke is the only one that records

this, and that is a move of repentance.

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That's a move of, of feeling sorrowful

and remorseful over what you've done.

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Um, and so it's interesting there.

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How much do we read into that?

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It's, it's hard to, it's hard to press

it because it's, it's one verse that

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Luke gives us, but it seems that that

was something that, that did take place.

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And then you've got the burial.

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And Luke 2350 through 56, which is

similar to what we've read before, except

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you get a little bit more information

about Josephus here than you had in

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other accounts in verses 50 through

51, he was a member of the council, the

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Sanhedrin there, a good and righteous man.

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And he did not agree with the

decision to put Jesus to die to death.

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He was looking for the kingdom of God.

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So there's a little bit

more about Josephus.

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Joseph.

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Joseph.

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Josephus.

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Oh man.

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Different guy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, don't scratch that.

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Rewind it.

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Yeah, Joseph, not Josephus.

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John 18.

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Uh, John 18.

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All right.

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We're backing up.

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We're backing all the way back up

to the betrayal and the arrest.

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Um, they go to get 70, it says

in verse two, Jesus had often

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met there with his disciples.

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Uh, they, they show up, they're

expecting a fight there.

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Um, and they've got their.

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Uh, Judases that is Judas in the official.

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They're expecting this

to not go peacefully.

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And that's why he shows up with this group

of officials and they've got lanterns

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and torches and weapons with them.

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They're expecting this not to go

smoothly and in some regards it doesn't.

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But, uh, but John's interesting because

John records, Jesus really moving in

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between his disciples and the crowd.

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He goes out to meet them.

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And, and this is a way that.

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Jesus is living out what he's

already prayed and saying, father,

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I haven't lost any of them and I

won't last any lose any of them.

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And even back when he had said.

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The father is giving them into my hand and

nobody will snatch them out of my hand.

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This is Jesus stepping in between this

row, this crowd of Jews and the soldiers

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and saying, Hey, I'm the one it's me.

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I'm the, gagger looking for it.

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There's this interchange where they

all fall down, which again, John

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alone is the one that records that.

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That's fascinating.

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Yep.

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And then you've got

Peter's swing and miss.

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Because he was not going

to cut off the year.

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He was going to cut the neck.

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He wanted this to end this

guy's life by God's grace.

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It didn't.

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And Jesus heals him.

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Uh, you've got Jesus before pilot

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Um, the Jews here, we find out

what of gladly judged Jesus

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according to their own law.

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But again, they needed the Romans

to declare him guilty of death

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and to sentence him to death.

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And so they're kind of, they need

pilot to come through for them.

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Uh, There's a prolonged interchange that

John records between pilot and Jesus.

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We'll get into that when we get

to John 18 on Sunday mornings.

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Uh, we're Jesus in pilot have a little

bit more of an in-depth conversation

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than we get in the other gospels there.

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Um, 19 seven, again, John gives more

details there than, than the others did.

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The statement about Jesus is the son of

God causes pilot to fear a little bit.

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So we find out again more.

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This is John giving us a different

glimpse into what's going on.

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What's happening here.

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And then in verses 12 through six.

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Three 16 pilot motivated by

that fear wants to do everything

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you can to release Jesus.

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He's not able to, uh, he caves and agrees

to, to send you this to be crucified.

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John 1918 there they crucified him.

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There.

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It is again, very simply, very plainly

put there by very demure, John.

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I don't know what that is,

but I know it's a meme.

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But I don't understand.

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Yeah.

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Uh, very mindful.

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It's a yeah.

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Anyway, sorry.

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Versus 25 through 27.

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Uh, we get John having been at the

cross recording this interchange

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where Jesus moose ensure that

his mom is going to be cared for.

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This is a touching moment.

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This is a moment where you see Jesus.

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Karen for his mom and making

sure that she's going to be okay.

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And probably one of the biggest things

that stands out here is that Jesus

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has the wherewithal in the midst

of his greatest earthly suffering.

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Yeah.

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He has the wherewithal to say,

I'm caring about my enemies.

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Um, caring about my mom.

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And I care about the people that are.

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I care about people.

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Jesus, that the very worst,

I mean, I get sick, bro.

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And you probably don't want to cross me.

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Like I got a sniffle and I'm like,

just don't even talk to me, man.

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I'm so mad.

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Right?

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Irritable, and I just

don't want to go anywhere.

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Talk to anybody.

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And Jesus is suffering the

worst agony that he will ever

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space physically on earth.

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And he has.

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The mental fortitude to say, I need

someone to take care of my mom,

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John, please do this Lord, please.

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Don't hold it against my enemies here.

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Ah, it's amazing.

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Amazing.

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It's amazing for sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we get John 1930 to tell us that

it is finished and then Jesus dies.

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John records that again, John gives us

some unique perspective because John

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was there, the others weren't there.

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John was there at the foot of the cross.

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Uh, 1931, it says it was the day

of preparation for the Sabbath.

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This is for the Sabbath, not the Passover

that has led to some confusion as far

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as the timeline, because the day of.

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The Passover had its

own day of preparation.

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And so some have said, wait a

minute, how do we justify this?

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This is the day of

preparation for the Sabbath.

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Which is why they need to take

the bodies down and bury them.

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Before the Sabbath, because

they wouldn't have been able to

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do that on the Sabbath itself.

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So 1931 day preparation for the Sabbath.

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That's important for our timeline.

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There.

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Verse 32.

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That's also why they broke the leg.

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They wanted to speed up the death.

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And so that, that nobody would still

be on the cross during the Sabbath.

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Uh, verse 36 Jesus.

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When they come to him, he's already dead.

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And his legs are not going to

be broken because just like the

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Passover lamb of Exodus, 1246.

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Uh, which John references here,

his legs are not going to be

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broken because none of the bones

of the lamb would be broken either.

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And so some fulfillment of

topology, prophecy there.

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And then in verses 38 to 42, you have the

burial and John records that Nicodemus

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is there along with Joseph, not Josephus,

but Joseph that's right for the burial.

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Oh, that was a lot, man.

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It was, it was rapid fire.

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Well, we're getting close to ax.

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Uh, I think, uh, mine are two more days.

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We start, we start an accent.

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Yep.

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That's that's exciting.

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That is.

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Two more, two more days.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, tomorrow Matthew 28, mark 16.

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That's right.

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Uh, you're gonna want to

listen to that because mark 16.

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Just like John eight, it's

another one that's controversial.

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Is it in our Bible and pastor PGA.

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Let's get intrepreneurs.

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So please tune in.

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For that let's pray.

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Yeah, give us the wisdom to be

able to navigate a lot that we just

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confess readily is, is beyond our

comprehension, beyond our ability to

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fully understand things like what it

means for Jesus to have said my God,

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my God, why have you forsaken me?

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Uh, help us stretch our minds, but not

stretch them so far that we fall into

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the dangerous territory of drawing

erroneous or wrongful conclusions.

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So keep us by your spirit.

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Part of the ministry of the spirit

is to help us to understand and

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to enlighten us and to help us.

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Navigate these difficult things.

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So, so help us to, to lean into that

ministry of the spirit and not to go too

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far and to know where the line is there.

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And God help us if.

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Certainly at the end of the day, we know

for sure that one thing that we should

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do, should we reflect on the cross is to

be grateful and to be thankful that you

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have forgiven us because of the death

of your son on the cross, on our behalf.

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And so we pray that we'd be a grateful,

thankful people in response to Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And that.

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All right.

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I'll keep her in your Bibles tune in

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the daily Bible podcasts, looking

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