00:00 Introduction and Welcome

01:18 Discussion on Resurrected Bodies

02:57 Characteristics of Glorified Bodies

07:55 Judas' Regret and Its Implications

13:22 Jesus Before Pilate and the Crucifixion

17:23 Reflections on the Crucifixion

20:18 Conclusion and Prayer

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Welcome back to another edition,

the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Welcome back.

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It is Pastor Mark in here, and as I said,

I believe yesterday's episode, pastor

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Rod is in class right now, so you can

be thinking about him, praying for him.

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Remember, he is pursuing his doctorate

of ministry in biblical counseling, so

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he's doing some heavy lifting right now.

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And pastor Mark graciously volunteered to

step in, or actually I think I asked him,

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I said, Hey, can you be on the podcast?

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And he said, yes.

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He said, ah, if I have to, I guess

fine voluntold, job voluntold.

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I enjoy it.

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I enjoy it.

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Pastor Rod does an excellent job,

so I do not want to I do not want to

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replace him, but it is fun to do this.

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It can be, yeah.

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It is, I, it's not just, can

be for me, and maybe it's

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'cause I don't do it every day.

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It is always fun for me to be on here.

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Well, in full disclosure, I don't do it

every day either, but three times a week

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sometimes it's like, okay, here we go.

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Let's go again.

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We're after it again.

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It's worth it because we enjoy helping

you guys and equipping you and having

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a voice in your life on a daily basis.

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But yeah, sometimes

some passages it's like.

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Like Song of Solomon.

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That's why I leave town.

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I let Pastor Raj handle that by himself.

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Yeah.

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And I'll be gone conveniently

that week as well too.

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Oh, well.

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There we go.

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Yeah.

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So he'll do it again.

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Hey, we had a question written

in and the question has to do

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with our resurrected bodies.

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And so, the person who wrote this in,

she says in our, in one Corinthians 15,

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which is correct, this is where he talks

about us getting our new glorified bodies.

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Can you explain your thoughts?

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She says on the new glorified

bodies and how our bodies will look.

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Well, let's talk timing for a second.

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'cause that's one question that

I think a lot of people have

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is when do we get these bodies?

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And my best understanding of

it is that this is gonna happen

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for the church at the rapture.

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So we get that from first test four.

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I believe it's first, that's four.

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Yep.

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That the Trump is gonna sound.

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Mm-hmm.

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And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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And so that would imply that those

that have already gone before us in

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death, that their glorified bodies

will be given to them at that point.

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That's what it means that they

will rise when it says that the

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dead in Christ will rise first.

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Because right now we know that Paul

says to be absent from the body

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is to be present with the Lord.

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So some people will speak of soul

sleep, that for the Christian,

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that death right now is soul sleep.

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They're not conscious of anything.

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They're waiting for that time

when the dead in Christ will

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rise to be with the Lord.

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But Paul in one Corinthians, second

Corinthians four says To be absent from

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the body is to be present with the Lord.

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Four or five.

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So.

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We know that the soul does

depart, the immaterial does

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depart to go to be with the Lord.

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When Paul says the dead in Christ

will rise, that's the glorified

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bodies being reunited with those

that are in eternity already.

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And then the rest of us will

be caught up together with him.

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Mm-hmm.

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And we will all be changed

in the twinkling of an eyes.

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Mm-hmm.

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So that's that moment of.

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All of us receiving our glorified bodies.

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If you're alive on earth, you'll be

caught up and then your body will

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be transformed in that process.

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So that said, pastor Mark, new glorified

bodies, what are they gonna look like?

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They're gonna seem right now, they don't

seem like they're gonna be normal, but

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when you have that glorified body, it's

actually gonna seem perfectly normal.

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You're gonna be amazed

at how normal it feels.

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That's my contention anyways,

because it may be more normal than

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what your current body feels like.

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That's exactly my point.

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That's exactly my point because

we were not created to live

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in a fallen central world.

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We are, we're not created for that.

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We can easily think of heaven as this

ethereal clouds and cherubs place.

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And that's not what it is.

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It's where we're.

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Ultimately made to live.

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Yeah it's where we're designed to be,

and in that sense it's gonna feel normal.

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I'm not trying to diminish

how incredible it's gonna be.

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Don't hear me say that when I say normal.

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I just mean that it's

going to be like very.

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Comfortable in the way

that God has made us to be.

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That's where we're gonna fit.

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Right.

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There's lots of implications of

what that actually looks like.

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Yep.

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But the word normal I pick to try

to describe that as best as I can.

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So our glorified bodies are not that

we're gonna be fat babies with wings

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flying around with bows and arrows.

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No.

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Okay.

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No I can, I'm confident of that.

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Yeah.

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Well, I think the best.

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Example that we have in scripture of

what our glorified bodies are gonna

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be like, is actually the glorified

body of our Lord and Savior himself.

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In fact John is gonna say that when

we see him, we will be like him.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so, that is our future,

that we will be like Christ.

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And I take that to mean also our

glorified bodies will be like him.

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There will always be a distinction.

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He is truly God.

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We are not ever gonna be truly God.

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Right?

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We'll be in our glorified

bodies as human beings.

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Our bodies will be like his.

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And so when we look at the

resurrected Christ, which is

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something that we're gonna see

shortly in the study of the gospels.

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Right now we're coming fast upon the

crucifixion of Jesus, but we're gonna look

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in a few days here at his resurrection

body and we're gonna see him doing

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things with his resurrection body.

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He's appearing through locked doors.

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There's the question there, is that

his deity or is that something that our

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glorified bodies are gonna be able to do?

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I don't know.

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Our glorified bodies are gonna eat.

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Because he's on the shore with John and

and Peter in, at the end of John's gospel.

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And they're eating as they gather there.

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And it's fascinating too because

there are, and this is again, perhaps

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this is unique of him, curious to

get your thoughts on this Pastor

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Mark, but there are the marks of.

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His experience on earth

before his glorified body that

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Jesus still bears fascinat.

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Now those are the marks

of the crucifixion.

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Yeah.

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So I could see that being only

unique to him, but he's recognizable.

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We could put it that way, at least.

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Yeah.

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I'm gonna say those are

gonna be unique to him.

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I don't think we're gonna bear the

effects of sin in our glorified bodies.

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So my scar from hitting a wall

on my bike when I was growing up

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riding it, that's gonna be gone.

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I have no verse to point to.

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To definitively say that, but I

think the holes in his wrists are

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gonna be something unique to him.

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Yeah.

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I do think it's fascinating

though, that Jesus eats.

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I think we can easily also think

of our glorified bodies as somehow

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God-like, I mean, there will be.

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Elements of it that are incredible,

but we're still gonna be dependent.

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Yeah.

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On God for eternity.

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Yeah.

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For even calories.

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And Jesus in his humanity

is dependent on calories.

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Yeah.

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In with those fish on the beach.

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Yeah.

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There, there's so many questions

that we have that right now we

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don't have all the answers to.

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Our bodies are not going

to break down or decay.

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Right.

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So there's not gonna be,

what's that gonna look like?

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Right.

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There's not muscle atrophy.

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You're not gonna have the soda pouch on

the front of your belly there, you're not

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gonna have I mean, there's so much about

it that we experience now as a result

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of the fall that we won't experience

then even, weariness and exhaustion.

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Yep.

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You know, we will work with our

glorified bodies because work

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is not a result of the fall.

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Work was present before the fall,

but it was only as part of the

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curse of the fall that God said,

by the sweat of your brow mm-hmm.

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Now will you labor for your food?

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So that would imply to

me that there's not.

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The exhaustion and the weariness

that we'll feel in eternity

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with our glorified bodies.

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I think we will be able to labor and

run and play and do all these things

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without feeling the broken down weariness.

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Now there's sometimes it's

satisfying to feel outta breath

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after you've, done something Yeah.

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And run and played or

done something like that.

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I'm not talking that you'll never be,

you're not, we're not gonna be the

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$6 million man, in other words, but.

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We're not gonna experience the

effect of the fall in the sense of

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being exhausted or sore or whatever.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And we're still gonna be

created beings for eternity.

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And yeah we're gonna have limitations.

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We're not gonna be

omnipresent, that's for sure.

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We're not gonna be, yeah, we're

not gonna be omniscient, but we're

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gonna still be human beings created

in the image of God, but also.

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Resurrected and restored and made new.

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Yeah, it's a fascinating

thing to consider.

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It's a fascinating thing to consider.

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Yeah, it's gonna be awesome.

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It's gonna be great.

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So hopefully that helps a great question.

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If you've got more questions on

that, feel free to write us at

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podcast at compass ntx do org.

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Hey, we've got two

chapters in the DBR today.

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We've got Matthew chapter 27,

and we've got March chapter 15.

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Matthew 27 opens with Jesus going to

Pilate after he's been with Caiaphas.

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So now that the.

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Formal charges have been cemented

from the Jewish perspective.

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Now they can turn Jesus

over to the Romans.

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And the thought and the hope of

the Jewish people, the leaders

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at least, is that the Romans are

going to carry out the rest of it.

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The Romans are gonna do the dirty work

of condemning him to death and then

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seeing that he's going to be crucified.

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So Jesus goes from.

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From Caiaphas to Pilate.

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Now there's a brief interlude

here, beginning in verse three

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that deals with the fate of Judas.

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Now, you'll note here that it says in

verse five, he went back because he

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felt bad and he took, takes the money

and he throws it back into the temple.

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And we might think, oh,

well, Judas feels bad.

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Mm-hmm.

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You know, isn't that a good thing?

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No, I'll never forget, and I think I

brought it up on the podcast before

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Bobby Blakey once preached a message.

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He's a pastor of another Compass

Compass in Huntington Beach, California.

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He preached a message called

Everybody Feels Bad about Jesus.

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And he contrasted the response of Judas

and the response of Peter, and he said,

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both of them felt bad about basically

their denial or betrayal of Jesus.

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Judas betrayed Jesus.

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Peter denied Jesus.

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Judas felt bad and goes

out and kills himself.

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Peter felt bad and.

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Repented and was restored by Christ and

then went on to continue to serve him.

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So I think when we consider second

Corinthians seven even and what

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Godly grief looks like versus worldly

grief, I think what we're seeing

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from Judas is simply worldly grief.

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He regrets what he did.

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He wishes he could undo it.

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He can't, and that's why he ends in

taking on his own life in despair here.

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So, I don't think we look at Judas

and think this is true repentance

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and maybe we'll see Judas in heaven.

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I think this is an evidence of man.

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This is the tragedy of the result

of his sin, and he doesn't repent.

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Truly.

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He takes his own life.

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Instead.

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It's funny you bring up that

sermon that sermon is one of

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Julia's all time favorite.

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Julia is my wife.

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For those of you who don't

know Julia, it's one of her

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favorite sermons of all time.

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Yeah.

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And it's was a great sermon.

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Yep.

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It really was because

it helped reveal that.

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Lots of people feel bad about lots of

things, but what's the result of that?

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And even here, you know, and I

know we have some kids listening,

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but also see what else Judas does,

right at the end of this verse.

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He goes in and he hangs himself, right?

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What is the response to

sin really defines the.

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Christian life or in this

case, the believer's life.

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What do you do when sin has occurred?

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What do you, how do you

respond to those things?

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Really, really makes a big

difference and really reveals

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your heart in a way that normal.

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Boring non temptation filled life.

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Doesn't in the same way.

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Right, right.

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Absolutely.

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I was looking to see if I could find

that sermon on YouTube, but I'll

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have to look it up later and maybe we

will, can we put it in the show notes?

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We might be able to, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Great sermon.

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Excellent sermon.

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Real quick, just a note here on

what Judas does, it's not the.

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Of him taking his own

life that seals his fate.

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I know that is an issue that has come

up before the Catholic Church teaches

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that is an un unpardonable sin.

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Yeah.

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It's a mortal sin is what they call it.

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And so that there is no grace that can

cover somebody who takes their own life.

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It taking your own life is

atrociously horrible and horrific.

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And it grieves me that our culture has.

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Has made it into a heroic act

now and I understand that.

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I don't know the grief that a widow

goes through or somebody widower

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when their spouse does that.

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And a lot of times it's them that are

pioneering the charge to talk about what

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a great person they were and how they were

heroic and they're made to be a hero when

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really what they did is murder itself.

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Murder is what it is.

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And just like we wouldn't.

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Make a hero out of somebody who

goes out and kills somebody else.

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Neither should we make a hero out

of somebody who kills themselves.

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But that said, that act is not outside the

grace of God, and it is not beyond reason

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to think that a Christian could do that.

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Now is that.

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Something that you would

expect a Christian to do by no.

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Stretching the imaginations.

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Would you expect a Christian

to get to that point?

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But it's not to the point that we would

say no Christian would ever do that.

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Therefore, if you do that

you're never gonna go to heaven.

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Yeah.

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'cause if you say that.

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If you say there is a sin that is

somehow unpardonable or somehow

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undoes your faith, we've got a totally

different set of theological things

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that we need to work through, right?

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We're in a totally different

place beyond the sin of blasphemy

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of the spirit, which is the one

that Jesus says is unpardonable.

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Right, which is it Parable Today or not?

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Nope not Parable Today.

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Hey, real quick here.

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You'll note that he mentions Jeremiah.

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He says Jeremiah saying, and

then he quotes from Zechariah.

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So, why does Matthew mention Jeremiah

and then quote from Zechariah here?

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That is in verse let's see where it is.

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Verse nine, I believe it is.

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Mm-hmm.

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In the context, Matthew has been alluding

to a lot from Jeremiah, and so it seems

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that he's referencing Jeremiah and

Zacharia here, but he's appealing to the

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more well-known prophet in this instance.

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And so he's not saying Jeremiah's

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This is a quote from Zechariah 1113.

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Matthew knew that Matthew's.

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Sitting here all of a

sudden forgetting his Bible.

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But because he's been talking about

Jeremiah in the context, and Jeremiah

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even does talk about a field and

purchasing a field, and Jeremiah has

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language about the potter as well.

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It's possible that he's pulling in,

again, the more well-known prophet to

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make the point that he's making here.

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But it's not something where we're

saying, Hey, look a mistake in the Bible.

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No it's explainable.

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If we understand kind of some of the

Jewish mindset of how he would've

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been arguing and reasoning at this

point, once we go on in chapter

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27, we're in familiar territory.

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He appears before Pils.

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And Jesus is going to be silent here.

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Even as we just looked at last

Sunday together as the church.

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Jesus was silent.

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He didn't revile when he was reviled.

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He didn't threaten when he was.

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Was abused by them when

he was slandered by them.

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And so here we see that inaction in

our Bible, reading in the, in one of

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the more tragic moments, the crowd

has given a choice to spare Jesus.

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And I think Pilate fully anticipates

that they will spare Jesus.

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And he says, who do you

want me to release for you?

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Do you want me to release this

insurrectionist murderer named Baris here?

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Or do you want me to release to you?

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Jesus the king.

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Your king.

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And he says it tongue in cheek there.

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And I think he fully anticipates

the crowd is gonna go, no, we don't

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wanna murder her back on the street.

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Give us Jesus, the one

that's healing people.

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The one that's, you

know, doing good things.

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Yeah.

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But so blood thirsty and so blind.

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Are is the crowd at this point

whipped into a frenzy by the

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religious leaders that they call

for a murderer to be released?

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And they say that Jesus

instead should be condemned.

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And this is really a picture of the

gospel at work, even in his condemnation.

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'cause we are as that there's a song

recently that's been released by,

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I think I mean I can't remember the

guy's name off the top of my head.

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One of my kids' favorites,

but it's called I Am Barabbas.

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And that's true that

this is what's happening.

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Jesus is dying where

Barabbas should have died.

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And, it's, yeah, I don't know if it's

pushing it too far, but Barr means

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son, and Abbas means son of the father.

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So you've got Barabbas who's dying,

and then you've got the true son of the

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father who's gonna die for Barabbas there.

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So, yeah, and Pilate I think is

trying to manipulate this situation.

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I think he's trying to

figure a way out of this.

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He wants to, he does, even verse 23 after

they've said everything, he's like, why?

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What?

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What evil has he done?

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But he clearly loses control of this.

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So despite his best efforts to manipulate

this, it doesn't seem to go pilot's way.

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I'm not sure.

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Pilot is.

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Caring about Jesus as he ought to be.

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But I do think Pilate has some sense

of the the problem that's before him

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and he's trying to wiggle out of it.

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Right.

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Well, well, he's, I think he's

a philosopher at heart too.

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'cause not in this account, but in

another one, I think Luke's account, he's

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gonna ask the question of what is truth.

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He's trying to figure out what's going

on here and get to the bottom of it.

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But you're right, there's so many

attestations to Jesus's innocence

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by the secular authorities in

the account of his crucifixion.

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Well, he.

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Pilate does Acquiesces

condemn Jesus to be crucified.

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Jesus is taken out.

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He's mocked, he's beaten, he's

taken to the place of crucifixion.

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The Synoptics record that Simon of

Cyrene carried his cross beam for him.

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The patibulum, I believe is the cross

beam there carried that out to the place

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of crucifixion where he would've been.

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And this, the simplicity of

the act of crucifying always

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strikes me as I read the gospels.

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Mm-hmm.

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That it says they're the crucified.

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Mm-hmm.

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Between two thieves.

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Between two robbers.

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And it's not a matter of there, they

laid him down and they stretched 'em out.

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It doesn't walk through the

whole process step by step.

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It's just the simplicity of

there, they crucified him.

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And running behind that is,

this is God's plan, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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We're gonna get to that in the

acts in just a couple of days.

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According to the definite plan of, for

foreknowledge of God, you crucify Jesus.

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He's mocked while he is on the cross.

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They're saying save yourself.

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And he could have, and yet,

in saving himself, he would've

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condemned all of us to hell.

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Mm-hmm.

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And so it's his mercy, his grace to,

to not get down from the cross there.

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And then his his cry, betrayal.

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So you preached about this

is Jesus being a doormat here?

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No, no, in the sense of there's strength

in submission, yes, there's strength

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in his submission to his father's will.

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That's because he knows he's

accomplishing what the father desires

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him to accomplish and he's ultimately

winning the ultimate victory here.

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Yes, this is not defeat, but victory

because this is the fate being sealed for

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not only those that are gonna trust in him

for salvation, but also for his enemies.

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Those that are gonna reject him.

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Ultimately Satan himself, this is

the death blow of of Satan himself.

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This goes back to Genesis three 16.

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Mm-hmm.

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He will strike your heel.

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Mm-hmm.

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This is Satan striking the heel,

and yet he will crush your head.

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This is also Jesus

crushing the head of Satan.

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It's done.

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The death blow is dealt, even

though it's not gonna be fully

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realized until the future there.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And don't miss the gravity of this,

there's a really important thing that

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can happen in our mental psychology where

we can know this and just skip over it.

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Maybe we read the words,

but the crucifixion is so

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central to what we believe.

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Mm-hmm.

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It is so.

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It's integral to everything.

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If these things aren't true if we don't

believe that these things happened, if

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Jesus was not crucified, then everything

we do as Christians is meaningless.

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That's what Paul says.

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That's, yep, that's what Paul says.

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So when you come across this.

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Every year in your daily Bible reading,

or if you read it some other time in

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the year, make sure you're going slow.

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Make sure you're paying attention.

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Make sure you're praying because

this stuff can we even though

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it's so significant, we can

just so easily skip it over.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Mark chapter 15, which is our second

chapter today, is a parallel passage.

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And so we have the

interaction with Pilate.

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We have the situation

with Barabbas being freed.

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We have Jesus being mocked and beaten.

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We've got the crucifixion again.

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Mark does record for us that.

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Was the third hour when he was crucified.

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So Jesus is actually on

the cross for six hours.

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There are three hours of darkness, but

he is on the cross there for six hours.

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And then there's mocking from the

criminals and the death of Jesus,

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which again, I we didn't mention that.

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But again, the simplicity of his death.

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Mm-hmm.

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God in the flesh dies, which

is, I mean, to try to wrap the

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mind around that, how does.

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God die.

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Yeah.

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In his humanity, his true humanity dies.

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Obviously his deity doesn't

die 'cause it can't.

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But his true humanity dies for us.

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And then his burial, we've got

Joseph Ver Mathia here who comes

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to ask for the body Pilates.

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Surprised.

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He should have already died at this point.

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And that goes to, to just show

the unique death that he died.

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It wasn't just the n natural suffocation

on the cross, which is what would've

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happened to criminals that were crucified,

but it was also just the wrath of

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the father being poured out upon him.

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Joseph Arimathea, it's noted in

Texas, a member of the council, so he

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would've been part of the Sanhedrin.

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So this is a big deal.

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This is showing that not

everybody was against Jesus

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and the reli religious leaders.

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You've got Joseph, who is

sympathetic to Jesus and even

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provides his own tomb for that.

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And that last verse, verse 47.

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The two Mary's are the witnesses of this.

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And you see that other places in the

gospels, but it's amazing that the gospel

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writers record that women were the ones

who witnessed some of these things.

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I think it's amazing.

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Of course, there were others.

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Is that because you hate women?

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I do not hate women.

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I do not hate women.

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I'm amazed by this.

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Because at the time and we're gonna

see this with the resurrection account.

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Yes.

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The women are the first of the tombs,

and the testimony of women at this

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time was not held in high honor.

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Yeah.

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And so it was barely worth anything.

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Right.

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If you were making these things

up, you wouldn't have had women

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be the ones that were there.

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You would've put the men, they

would've been there going, yeah.

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The men are the ones that

saw this stuff happen.

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All right, we've got more, but we've got

another episode tomorrow that we're gonna

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deal with more about the crucifixion.

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So make sure that you tune in

tomorrow, but let me pray and

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we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks so much for your word and

thank you for the death of Jesus for

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us, for his substitutionary death, that

he took our place, that he paid the

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penalty that we could not pay, and that

he bore your full wrath on our behalf

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so that our sins might be forgiven.

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Lord, it's amazing that we would

be given such an amazing and great

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gift as the gift of salvation

through faith in Jesus Christ.

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And so I pray that that's a gift that

we would've come to have received,

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those that are listening to this, and

that more and more will come to receive

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that gift as well as a result of our

testimony of our faith in Christ.

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We pray this on Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said