298: Jonno Nutter – Exhortation: Trying to Appreciate the Sacrifice of Christ More

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Welcome to Good Chris selfie and
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On this podcast, we select one

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We post a new episode at the
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intro beforehand to kind of set
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about to listen to.
And now let’s talk more about

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this week’s talk.
This week’s talk was an

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exhortation presented at the
Whamaran Ecclesia in Australia

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on April 14th of this year by
brother John O Nutter.

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The title is trying to
appreciate the sacrifice of

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Christ more.
Very much enjoyed this talk.

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As far as I thought this was a
really great balance of kind of

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clearly something John O has
been dealing with, kind of

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struggling with thinking about
for a long time.

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Something he has a passion
about.

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Matched with a lot of really
interesting study points that I

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had never heard of, things I
hadn’t kind of thought of about

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specifically the death of
Christ.

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This is a really powerful
execution.

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I’m excited.
I think it’s been good that

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we’ve kind of called out
exhortations as separate from

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talks in our descriptions,
because this would be an awesome

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one to use if you were in a
situation occlusionally.

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We needed to have a recorded
exhortation.

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So yeah, very, very excited to
share this one.

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John and I are trying to
appreciate the sacrifice of

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Christ more.
There’s a purpose for us coming

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here this morning, and that
purpose is the same purpose that

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we come here every Sunday to
take the bread and the wine and

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to remember what Christ has done
for us.

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Now we do this every week, and
every week turns into every

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month, and then every month
turns into every year.

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And some of us have been doing
this for literally decades,

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decades and decades.
Some of us have been doing it

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for just a few short months.
I was baptized in January 2008.

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So I’ve gone through this
process of taking the bread and

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the wine 800 odd times, more
than 800 times.

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And in doing this so often and
so many times, I think it’s easy

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to lose the power behind it.
Do you ever feel like that?

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Do you ever feel like you don’t
have maybe the appreciation that

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you should have?
Maybe you don’t have the

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appreciation that you had when
you were baptized, that maybe

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this activity, this process of
taking the bread and the wine

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and remembering Jesus has become
a little bit ritualistic.

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Maybe it’s become a little bit
ordinary, mundane and all.

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I’ve felt like that.
And I’ve felt that I don’t have

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the appreciation for what Christ
has done for me in the past.

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And that’s something that I’ve
really thought about, something

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that I’ve, I’ve pursued, I’ve
tried to pursue that

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appreciation and something that
I’ve been thinking about a lot

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over the last sort of 12 months.
You know, I take especially

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something I think about when I
take the bread and the wine,

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I’ll take a sip from the wine.
I’ll close my eyes and I’ll say

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a prayer for a minute and I’ll
open my eyes and I sort of think

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that Christ died for me.
And I’ll go, oh, I feel like I

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need to appreciate this more.
So that’s what I want to focus

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on this morning.
Is this appreciation for what

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Christ has done.
Now, if you aren’t like me, if,

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if your heart is bursting with
gratitude every time you take

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the bread and the wine and, and
you are overwhelmed with

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appreciation, then my hat off to
you, good Sir, good man.

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You’re a step ahead of me.
And you can kick back and sort

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of zone out now because this
exhort isn’t for you.

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For the rest of us, however, I
want to consider the antidote to

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the state that I’ve just
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Come with me, please.
To Hebrews chapter 12.

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We’re going to look at the
verses that our opening song

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were based on Hebrews chapter 12
verse two and three.

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The verses where we all know
well.

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I’m going to read these from the
NRV.

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Let us fix our eyes on Jesus,
the author and perfecter of

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faith, who for the joy set
before him endured the cross,

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scorning it shame and sat down
at the right hand of the throne

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of God.
Consider him who endured such

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hostility from sinful men so
that you will not grow weary or

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lose heart.
Now that’s exactly what I want

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to do this morning is I want to
consider the hostility that was

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shown to Christ and as an
antidote to this feeling of of

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taking the bread and the wine
being ordinary or mundane.

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This, considering these, this
hostility that was shown to

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Christ makes us appreciate the
bread and the wine more.

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And and as a spinoff or as a bit
of a byproduct of doing this, I

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want to better understand the
words we just read in first

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Corinthians chapter one.
So just before I start to

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consider this hostility with
you, I wanted to say that my

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thoughts this morning were
really kick started by a

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Christopher podcast that I, I
listen to from time to time

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called wilderness conversations.
And, and this particular episode

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was two brothers who were
talking about the cross, you

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know, a crucified saviour and
the implications of that.

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So if you want to think about
this subject a little bit more,

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I’d encourage you to find that
podcast.

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If you don’t know where it is,
come see me after the meeting.

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And I’m happy to, to try and
help you with that.

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That podcast really struck a
chord with me and I wanted to

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share what I learned from that
and, and the other things that

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I’ve sort of learnt along the
way.

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And that’s the other thing I, I
wanted to, to say is I feel like

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considering the trials and the
crucifixion of Christ is, is

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really hallowed ground.
I know this is something that is

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deeply personal to all of us.
And so I’m trying to approach

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this subject respectfully and,
and sensitively.

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I’ve never spent so much time
preparing for an exhort as I’ve

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spent preparing for this exhort.
Never spent so much time reading

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and, and listening and, and
talking to people about these

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particular things that we’re
going to talk about this

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morning.
But I think it is something that

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we need to talk about.
And I think it’s, I think we

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find it a little bit distasteful
to consider the hostilities

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shown to Christ.
And I think it’s hard for us to

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think about this sometimes, but
the Gospels, between the four

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gospels, 8 chapters are
dedicated to this time from when

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Judas portrays Jesus to the time
that Jesus, Jesus dies on the

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cross.
It’s not common that all four

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gospels record one, you know, an
event, often two or three

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gospels will record an event,
but it’s not common that all

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four do.
And yet all four gospels record

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this, this event thoroughly.
They all have different angles

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on it, but they all record the
trials and the crucifixion of

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Christ in great detail.
In fact, I think this is the

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most witnessed, most detailed
crucifixion there has ever been.

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Right?
So the hostility that was shown

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to Christ didn’t actually begin
started the moment he was born.

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Really.
We know that when Jesus was

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born, Herod wanted to take his
life as a baby.

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So right from the very, very
beginning, Christ faced

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hostility.
We know that through his

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ministry he was shown hostility
by members of his family, from

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his townsfolk, they wanted to
kill him and a lot of hostility

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from the Jewish leaders, the
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Aziah 53 verse two says it was
the will of the Lord that his

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servant grow like a plant taking
root in dry ground.

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He had no dignity or beauty to
make us take notice of him.

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There was nothing attractive
about him, nothing that would

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draw us to Him.
The climax of the hostility

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towards Christ is encapsulated
in his death on the cross.

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But it really started well
before then.

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I want to start in the Garden of
Gethsemane today.

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So in the Garden of Gethsemane,
he was portrayed by one of his

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closest friends, a man who had
travelled and lived with him for

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the past 3 1/2 years and and
Judas.

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This man betrayed him to a
violent group of thugs, men who

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came to Jesus and beyond him
carrying staves and carrying

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clubs.
All of his other friends, all of

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his best friends, abandoned him.
They all fled into the night and

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these thugs dragged him off to
the local courts.

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The local court was corrupt.
His fate was decided before he

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stepped into it.
There’s false witnesses that

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testified against him and the
odds were stacked against him.

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It wasn’t a it wasn’t a fair
court at all.

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It was here that it was decided
he should die here.

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It says they beat him.
The record speaks of them

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spitting in his face, hitting
him with their hands and

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scorning him.
As I 53 Seven says, he was

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treated harshly but endured it
humbly.

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He never said a word.
Like a lamb about to be

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slaughtered, like a sheep about
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He never said a word.
He was then denied by Peter, one

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of his best friends denied that
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He was dragged by the local
leaders to Pilot, where he was

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accused of all sorts of terrible
things that were untrue.

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Pilot doesn’t want to know about
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Pilot palms him off to Herod.
Herod wanted to see Jesus.

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Herod wanted Jesus to perform
miracles for his entertainment.

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But Jesus is silent.
Jesus didn’t comply and so Herod

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let his soldiers make fun of
him.

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They mocked him, put a robe on
him, and they laughed at him.

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In the ESV, it says he was
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The King James says he was
treated as naughty.

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He was treated as if he was
nothing.

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He’s probably beaten again.
Jesus was sent back to Pilate,

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who found him guiltless and
wanted to release him.

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He could find no justification
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Mark 15 says these words.
And Pilate answered and said

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unto again unto them, What will
ye then, that I shall do unto

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him whom ye call King of the
Jews?

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And they cried out against him,
Crucify him.

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And Pilate said unto them, Why?
What evil hath he done?

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And they cried out all the more
exceedingly, Crucify him,

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crucify him.
The people cried out against

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Jesus, asking Pilate to release
a vile murderer, a person who

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was involved in an uprising.
And they crucified Jesus who had

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done nothing wrong.
It says their voices prevailed

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as I 53 verse three.
We despised him and rejected

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him.
You can imagine how Jesus is

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feeling.
Do you think he felt rejected

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when all of his closest friends
ran away into the night when

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Peter denied that he even knew
him?

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Do you think Jesus felt despised
when all the people had no

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justification, just yell, kept
yelling out crucify him

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crucified?
When the Roman leaders were

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ready to release him, His own
people wanted him crucified.

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Jesus was scourged by Pilate.
The whip that they used for

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scourging had multiple leather
thongs coming off it and each

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one had a piece of bone or or
metal tied to the end of it and

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his clothing would have been
removed and he was whipped

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across the back by a Roman
soldier.

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Now this whip didn’t just cause
damage to the surface of the

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back it it ripped into the flesh
exposing muscle tissue and bone.

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Josephus tells us that it had
exposed, there were cases were

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exposed internal organs and
there are people that died just

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from the scourging.
And it’s here that I really

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start to struggle to comprehend
what Christ is going through.

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I’ve had small injuries, you
know, I’ve, I’ve had, you know,

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minor injuries where I’ve
exposed tendon and bone.

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And when that happened to me, I
felt nauseous and I felt

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shocked.
But to try and to comprehend

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this scourging and to comprehend
the violence that continues to

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happen to Jesus from here is
really hard.

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As I 53 verse three says, He
endured pain and suffering.

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The Roman soldiers took Jesus
again and they took him into

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their battalion.
They stripped him down and put

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up a kingly robe on him.
They made-up this cruel crown of

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of thorns that they twisted
together and they pushed it onto

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His head and then they put a
stick in his right hand and they

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bowed down to him and mocked
him.

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And then the record says that
they spat on him and they took

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the stick and they hit him over
the head and around the face

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with it.
When they had finished

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tormenting him, they put his
clothes back on, as I 53 verse

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five says.
But because of our sins he was

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wounded, beaten because of the
evil we did.

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We are healed by the punishment
He suffered, made whole by the

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blows He received.
They put the cross member of the

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cross on him and they made him
carry it.

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Now Jesus with the punishment
that it already received, was

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not able to do this, so they
found someone else to carry it

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for him.
When they arrived at the

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crucifixion site, His robe was
taken off of again and he was

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crucified.
As I 53 verse eight says, he was

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arrested and sentenced and LED
off to die and no one cared

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about his fate.
He was put to death for the sins

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of our people.
Now the Bible says simply that

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he was crucified.
It doesn’t describe the anguish

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of it.
It doesn’t describe exactly how

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he died.
When we look at a cross today,

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it means something very
different to what it meant in

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the time of Jesus.
Yeah, the cross is is a bit of a

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throwaway item these days, isn’t
it?

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People from all walks of life
where non Christian gangsters

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walk around with a, a cross
around their neck.

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It doesn’t really mean anything.
It certainly doesn’t mean the

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same thing to our generation as
it what it meant in the days of

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Jesus, because and, and, and we
don’t see crucifixions like

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people at the time of Jesus saw
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So it’s, it’s good for us to
understand how this was viewed

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and, and, and what people
thought of it, what connotations

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it had.
We have an English word that

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literally comes out of the word
crucifixion.

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Excruciating.
And the Romans didn’t actually

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invent crucifixion, but they
perfected it.

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It’s it was invented or at least
made popular by the by the

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Persian Empire now, because
sorry, crucifixion was a

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distasteful subject, a shameful
subject.

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It was almost a Boo in in Rome.
So we don’t have loads of

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documentation about it.
And I guess you don’t make

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history books about something
that you’re ashamed of.

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An example of this is when
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After the siege of Jerusalem,
the Roman military crucified a a

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large number of men.
And no Roman records indicate

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that this happened.
The the records of the general,

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no Roman historians record it,
yet Josephus records it.

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And that’s how we know that it
it did happen.

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So again, you don’t write
history books about something

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that you’re ashamed of.
The Alexis Minos graffito, also

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known as the blasphemous
graffiti, is the earliest

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depiction of Christ crucified
that we know of.

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It and and other depictions of
crucifixions in the same era

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show a cross that probably isn’t
typically represented by the

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mainstream Christians.
The the the the cross that’s

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shown in the Alexis Minos
graffito is Tower Cross, also

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known as a low cross, and it has
a figure of a capital T It’s

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likely that the post of the
cross stayed upright in the

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ground.
It was a permanent fixture and

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that the the part that Jesus
carried was the cross member for

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this cross.
And and when a victim was

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crucified, the Roman soldiers
would lift the cross member up

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and onto a joint on the top of
the post.

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Seneca, a Roman philosopher,
rights of people starving to

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death when crucified.
It was by design A slow and

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painful way of death, so slow
that that people have survived

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crucifixion.
A crucifixion was considered

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barbaric and repulsive and
considered as an evil by many,

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of many, many Romans.
It was, it was the worst way to

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die in the Roman Empire.
Now, crucifixions didn’t happen

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in Rome.
They weren’t a part of the

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arena.
In fact, if somebody was

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crucified in Rome, they were
taken outside the city to a, to

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a designated place.
That’s how distasteful it was to

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the Roman citizens.
And these are people who watched

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the gladiators for sport.
Roman citizens were protected by

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law against crucifixion.
It was.

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It was reserved for foreigners
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For people of a of a low class.
They could use other forms of

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capital punishment for Roman
citizens, but not crucifixion.

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It’s interesting that church
history has Peter crucified and

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Paul beheaded because Paul was a
Roman citizen.

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Ciceroy, a philosopher and a
politician of Rome, calls

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crucifixion the most cruel and
disgusting punishment.

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Crucifixion was all about
publicly humiliating,

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embarrassing, debasing,
disgracing and discrediting the

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victim, stripping them down and
hanging them up to slowly die a

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horrible and painful death in
front of a crowd.

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This whole affair was very
public by design.

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It was very public.
Now, the Alexis Minos graffito,

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which is the depiction of cross
crucified that I mentioned

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earlier, was found in 1857 and
it gives us some insight into

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the way that Romans viewed
victims of crucifixion.

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So the Alexis Minos graffito is
a a graffiti.

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It’s literally a graffiti found
on a Roman wall buried under

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under Rome.
And it’s a scroll by someone

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about Alexis Minos, who appeared
to be a young Christian in an

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act of supplication towards a
man on a cross presumably

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crossed.
But the twist is that the person

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that the artist swapped cross’s
head from the head of a man to

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the head of a donkey.
Now this is insightful because

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it shows us what the Romans
thought of a crucified Saviour.

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Next to the next to the scroll
was written some words Alexis

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Minos worships is God, so so
they thought, they looked across

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and they made fun of him.
Even in the in the early 1st

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century, the Romans thought
crucifixion was a shameful way

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to die.
No one with any honour or any

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respect died by crucifixion.
With crucifixion, death wasn’t

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just the penalty, it wasn’t just
an execution, but it was the

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shame that was associated with
it.

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It was the shame on your name
and it was the shame on your

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family name.
It was a double penalty.

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It was a humiliation by making
the victim as vulnerable as

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possible.
And as Jesus hung there on the

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cross in complete agony, the
record continues to give us

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details on what he said and did
and what was said and done to

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Him.
Jesus said roughly 50 words on

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the cross and we don’t have time
to go into detail in all of

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them.
The cross said these words.

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

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He said this about the Roman
soldiers.

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That and that displays my marks
are the most cruel people that

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you could think of.
He said truly I say to you today

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you’ll be with me in paradise.
Woman.

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Behold your son, behold your
mother.

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I thirst.
Eli.

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Eli Lima Sabaktoni.
It is finished, Father.

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Into your hands I commit my
spirit.

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And as we think about those
words, as we reflect on those

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words, most of the things that
Jesus said when he was on the

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cross were for the benefit of
others.

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Even then, when he was in that
terrible pain, he was still

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thinking about others and not
himself.

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And as he was stretched out
there on the cross in pain,

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every class of people despised
Christ, from the lowliest thief,

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the lowliest thief hanging next
to him, that absolute scum of

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society, right up to the local
and religious rulers.

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The chief priests and the
scribes mocked him, saying he

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saved others, he cannot save
himself.

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Let Christ, King of Israel, come
down from the cross so that we

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may see, so we may see and
believe.

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What absolute fools.
What idiots.

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You know, they looked at Christ
up there in absolute agony and

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there’s no remorse.
They didn’t, they didn’t feel

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any pity for him at all.
They were just trying to

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continue disgracing him.
They were trying to disgrace him

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culturally and religiously,
trying to disgrace him

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politically.
And in their mind, Christ was

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finished.
They could say these things

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because Christ was never coming
back, not coming back from a

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crucifixion.
He was too disgraced.

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Do you know how many angels it
took to all but destroy that

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great civilization of Egypt?
And Moses time one Angel, and in

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the time of Hezekiah it took one
Angel to destroy Snack Rib’s

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army 185,000 men.
Christ says that he had 12

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legions, 60,000 angels in his
command.

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Christ was the one who was in
control, and I don’t know how

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many of us would be able to do
what He did.

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He turned the other cheek.
And that would have been the

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hardest thing to do in this case
because these evil, twisted,

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power hungry men who are leading
Israel astray were torturing and

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killing the most pure, honest
and gentle person to ever live.

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And if Christ was to come down
from that cross, He could have

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poured judgment down on society.
He could have got rid of those

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corrupt systems, could have
removed those evil men.

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He could have proven once and
for all who he really was and

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shown him this ultimate power
that he had.

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And here they were just sneering
at him while there’s most

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vulnerable.
Christ was in control the whole

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time, wasn’t he?
Right?

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Through the trial, through the
injustices, through the torment,

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through the flogging, through
the insults, through all the

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despisement, through the
rejections, even through the

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nails going through his flesh at
a click of his fingers.

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Anytime he could have turned the
tables, he could have been the

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one who was in power, and he
could have made those oppressing

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him the vulnerable ones.
But he chose not to.

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He suffered through it like a
little lamb going to be

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slaughtered.
And even while the thief on the

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cross was sneering at him, it
wasn’t about Jesus.

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He wasn’t thinking of himself.
You know, all these events that

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happened in the trial and the
crucifixion of Jesus were

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prophetic.
So many of these things were

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prophesied and they all happened
bang, bang, bang, all in a row

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except for the thief on the
cross.

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It wasn’t prophesied.
The salvation of the second

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thief was, I think,
encouragement from God to Jesus.

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Jesus could just save one more.
You’re still thinking about

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others.
And finally, blissfully, Jesus

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said, Father, into your hands I
commit my spirit.

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And he died hanging there for
the whole world to see.

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And all of history from the
creation of this world had LED

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up to this point, and all of
time since has pointed back to

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it.
The most important minute of

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world history was there when
Jesus died on that cross.

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We don’t.
Know the cause of death.

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The Journal of American Medical
Association wrote an article

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about this in the mid 80s.
And it’s it’s wildly.

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Available online if you ever do
want to read it, but it states

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that the prominent causes of
death were probably hypovolemic

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shock, exhaustion, asphyxia, or
a or a catastrophic terminal and

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like cardiac rupture.
We know Jesus.

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Suffered on the cross between
3:00 and 6:00 hours.

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But even.
To the Jews, it was all about

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humiliation of Christ.
There’s an old law in.

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Deuteronomy 2123 where it says
he that is hanged on a tree is

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cursed by God.
The Jews wanted Jesus crucified.

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They don’t want they didn’t want
him to die another way.

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They specifically wanted him
crucified because they wanted

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the Old Testament to condemn
Jesus.

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How despicable.
Were these men?

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How twisted were these men?
They didn’t just want him dead,

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they wanted him to die the most
barbaric way that they knew.

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And they wanted to have the Law
of Moses condemn him, while

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while they did it, they
cynically used the power of the

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cruel Romans, totally
humiliating and disgracing

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Christ in the eyes of everyone.
While simultaneously.

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Leveraging death on the cross to
have him cursed under the law of

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Moses and I think in First
Corinthians one where it says

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that he was a stumbling block to
the Jews.

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I think this is probably why.
But a foolishness to the.

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Greeks.
As I said earlier, no.

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One who was anyone ended up
crucified.

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You know the the Romans and the
Greeks, They didn’t have a

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00:29:47,840 –> 00:29:49,720
problem with a mortal becoming
immortal.

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00:29:50,080 –> 00:29:53,360
If you look at their mythology,
they have heroes and demigods.

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00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:57,000
It’s full of mortals who have
done these great feats and have

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00:29:57,000 –> 00:30:00,880
become immortal.
But they’re all about honour and

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00:30:00,880 –> 00:30:05,040
and and power and pride.
And this story.

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00:30:05,880 –> 00:30:09,520
Of a poor tradesman from the
backwater state of Israel who

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00:30:09,520 –> 00:30:14,320
died the most shameful and
abhorrent way just didn’t gel

448
00:30:14,320 –> 00:30:15,600
with them.
They couldn’t get on board with

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00:30:15,600 –> 00:30:18,080
that story.
If if we were writing the story,

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00:30:18,080 –> 00:30:22,120
we wouldn’t use the cross.
We wouldn’t use the story of the

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00:30:22,120 –> 00:30:24,560
crucifixion because it’s, it’s
counter intuitive.

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00:30:24,560 –> 00:30:28,640
It’s actually counter cultural.
People struggle to buy into

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00:30:28,640 –> 00:30:30,840
that.
Can you imagine?

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I want to tell you about the
saviour of the world.

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Oh, who is it?
Is it someone who knows?

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Is it a Caesar or a hero?
No, no, no, no.

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It’s it’s a Jew who was a poor
tradesman who was crucified.

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They’re not.
Not off to a good start.

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00:30:49,920 –> 00:30:53,680
Philippians 2 verse.
Eight says He humbled himself by

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becoming obedient to the point
of death, even death on a cross.

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Therefore, God has highly
exalted him and bestowed on him

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00:31:02,280 –> 00:31:04,440
the name that is above every
name.

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Now this is not a humanistic way
of thinking.

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In fact, it was foolishness to
the Greeks.

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But you would elevate someone
because they humbled themselves

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00:31:14,720 –> 00:31:18,040
didn’t make sense to the Greeks.
They elevated someone because

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00:31:18,040 –> 00:31:21,600
they were powerful.
But Jesus was.

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00:31:21,600 –> 00:31:25,160
Elevated by God.
For his humility.

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00:31:25,160 –> 00:31:30,640
Despite his power.
Now no crucifixion.

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00:31:30,640 –> 00:31:32,600
Was ever witnessed like this
crucifixion?

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00:31:33,320 –> 00:31:37,600
This tiny group of people
made-up of of tax collectors and

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00:31:37,880 –> 00:31:42,000
unschooled fishermen who were
tasked with giving the message

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00:31:42,000 –> 00:31:44,280
of salvation of a crucified
cross to the world.

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And they faced.
Opposition.

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00:31:47,320 –> 00:31:50,080
Everywhere they looked, they
faced religious opposition.

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00:31:50,400 –> 00:31:53,760
They faced opposition from the
Roman Empire, from the

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00:31:53,760 –> 00:31:57,560
authorities.
They they, they didn’t need any

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00:31:57,560 –> 00:32:01,360
more opposition.
And yet they never.

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00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:04,320
Shield away from the fact that
Christ was crucified.

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00:32:05,320 –> 00:32:07,320
In fact, it was a prominent part
of their message.

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00:32:10,240 –> 00:32:13,600
People had to decide, they had
to make a choice that either

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00:32:13,600 –> 00:32:18,720
Jesus was just a no one who was
crucified and died and didn’t

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00:32:18,720 –> 00:32:21,360
get raised and that is just what
it is, or.

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00:32:22,520 –> 00:32:26,080
That he was, in fact.
The Son of God, and that he’d

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00:32:26,080 –> 00:32:30,200
been subjected to the most
barbaric execution in the known

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00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:32,600
world.
And if you can establish that

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00:32:32,720 –> 00:32:37,000
Jesus was indeed the Son of God
and not a common criminal, and

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00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:40,480
that he was in fact righteously
resurrected, it suddenly it

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00:32:40,480 –> 00:32:43,880
flips the disgrace and the
humiliation of the cross away

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00:32:43,880 –> 00:32:49,920
from Jesus and back on mankind,
represented by the Romans at the

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00:32:49,920 –> 00:32:54,320
peak of ancient civilization and
the prominent Jewish religious

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00:32:54,440 –> 00:32:57,160
elders.
Those are now the.

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00:32:57,160 –> 00:32:59,400
Criminals.
They are now the disgraced ones.

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00:33:00,720 –> 00:33:02,400
And all of the Gospels.
When they record the

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00:33:02,400 –> 00:33:04,520
crucifixion, they all take their
own angle on it.

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00:33:05,320 –> 00:33:08,000
Mark talks about the horrors of
the crucifixion and and Matthew

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00:33:08,000 –> 00:33:10,520
talks about the supernatural
elements of the crucifixion.

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00:33:11,360 –> 00:33:14,560
John is almost poetic in his
approach, but Luke shows Christ

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00:33:14,560 –> 00:33:18,560
in command of the crucifixion.
Jesus in control.

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00:33:18,560 –> 00:33:22,840
Of himself and the situation.
He asks for forgiveness of his

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00:33:22,840 –> 00:33:26,120
crucifiers.
He is converting other men while

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00:33:26,120 –> 00:33:29,760
being crucified.
He asks for for he says I’m

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00:33:29,760 –> 00:33:31,200
thirsty.
He asks for a drink.

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00:33:31,480 –> 00:33:32,960
And he commits his spirit to
God.

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00:33:33,160 –> 00:33:35,960
Jesus is in control.
There’s all this, this, this

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00:33:35,960 –> 00:33:39,280
chaos and this violence and this
darkness that’s happening around

507
00:33:39,280 –> 00:33:41,360
this event.
And here’s Jesus right in the

508
00:33:41,360 –> 00:33:44,360
very centre of it.
And there’s this calmness.

509
00:33:44,360 –> 00:33:49,880
And the stillness about him.
He even tells the high.

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00:33:49,880 –> 00:33:52,520
Priest.
That he the high.

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00:33:52,520 –> 00:33:55,080
Priest would see Jesus sitting
on the right hand of God in the

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00:33:55,080 –> 00:33:58,840
position of a judge.
This is Jesus judging humankind.

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00:34:01,000 –> 00:34:03,600
And here is Jesus who?
Has been condemned with all the

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00:34:03,600 –> 00:34:08,480
power of the non world to be the
most humiliating and degrading

515
00:34:08,480 –> 00:34:11,800
and annihilating execution as
possible.

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00:34:12,760 –> 00:34:14,679
And all of that is just turned
on its head.

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00:34:15,560 –> 00:34:19,040
Christ’s righteousness is
maintained and he rose more

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00:34:19,040 –> 00:34:21,920
glorious to ascend to the right
hand of God.

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00:34:23,840 –> 00:34:29,000
Humankind flesh had given Jesus
their best shot, their ugliest,

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00:34:29,000 –> 00:34:33,040
their most barbaric best shot,
and cross had risen above.

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00:34:33,679 –> 00:34:35,520
And that is the message of the
apostles.

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00:34:35,719 –> 00:34:38,080
That’s the message they took out
into the world after Jesus was

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00:34:38,080 –> 00:34:40,600
raised.
It says that the apostles turned

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00:34:40,600 –> 00:34:43,960
the ancient world upside down,
and that is exactly what this

525
00:34:43,960 –> 00:34:46,199
teaching of a crucified Christ
is doing.

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00:34:48,040 –> 00:34:51,159
That this crucified.
Jesus of Nazareth, just a humble

527
00:34:51,159 –> 00:34:56,280
Carpenter, had for all intents
and purposes been overpowered by

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00:34:56,280 –> 00:35:00,360
the by the established powers of
the world, and he had just

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00:35:00,360 –> 00:35:04,360
reversed all of that, and he had
called others to follow him.

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00:35:05,560 –> 00:35:06,600
And I think this is.
Why?

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00:35:06,600 –> 00:35:10,320
Paul proudly says in First
Corinthians chapter one we

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00:35:10,320 –> 00:35:14,080
preach Christ crucified, a
stumbling block to the Jews and

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00:35:14,080 –> 00:35:17,200
folly to the Gentiles.
And again he says, Let the one

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00:35:17,200 –> 00:35:23,760
who boast, boast in the Lord.
So we know that the story.

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00:35:23,760 –> 00:35:25,720
Didn’t end with Jesus on the
cross.

536
00:35:26,840 –> 00:35:31,160
We know that God’s laws about
sin and death are absolute, and

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00:35:31,160 –> 00:35:36,320
so the grave couldn’t hold him.
Jesus was miraculously raised

538
00:35:36,320 –> 00:35:39,760
back to life as an immortal
being, the first fruits of more

539
00:35:39,760 –> 00:35:42,560
to come, the first of us who
will live and reign in that

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00:35:42,560 –> 00:35:45,400
Kingdom with him.
And as we bring our.

541
00:35:45,400 –> 00:35:48,560
Mind forward to the present 2000
odd years later.

542
00:35:50,560 –> 00:35:51,600
Since.
Since Jesus.

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00:35:51,600 –> 00:35:54,080
Was raised immortal with his
promise to the return.

544
00:35:55,720 –> 00:35:59,480
The faithful have waited.
And they’ve waited, and they’ve.

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00:35:59,480 –> 00:36:01,960
Waited for the fulfillment of
his promise that he would return

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00:36:03,160 –> 00:36:04,040
and that.
He would come back.

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00:36:04,040 –> 00:36:05,920
He.
Would abolish the evil of

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00:36:05,920 –> 00:36:09,200
mankind.
And now we look at.

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00:36:09,200 –> 00:36:12,480
Israel and we see that the world
is at their throat again.

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00:36:14,840 –> 00:36:17,120
You know Benjamin Netanyahu.
Has received phone calls over

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00:36:17,120 –> 00:36:21,560
the past week or two from all of
his strongest allies, from the

552
00:36:22,160 –> 00:36:25,360
the president of the US, from
from the Prime Minister of from

553
00:36:25,360 –> 00:36:27,640
the UK.
The Prime Minister of Australia

554
00:36:27,640 –> 00:36:31,160
has called him and they’ve all
reached out to him to express

555
00:36:31,160 –> 00:36:34,080
their dissatisfaction with what
he’s doing in Gaza.

556
00:36:35,800 –> 00:36:39,280
The US has all.
But threatened to pull support

557
00:36:41,560 –> 00:36:43,400
if he if he goes into the Rafah
crossing.

558
00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:47,160
Now the world’s media.
Is is really quite stacked

559
00:36:47,360 –> 00:36:51,520
against Israel and the public
hate of Israel is has

560
00:36:51,520 –> 00:36:54,480
dramatically increased.
It’s probably at at a

561
00:36:54,480 –> 00:36:59,280
unprecedented high in Australia.
I mean no conflicts in.

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00:36:59,280 –> 00:37:02,400
Israel must come before Jesus
returns.

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00:37:02,960 –> 00:37:05,280
And so we’ve been waiting and
waiting our whole lives.

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00:37:05,840 –> 00:37:09,120
But this could be it.
Jesus could come back.

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00:37:09,120 –> 00:37:13,400
At any time it could be 1159 and
the clock’s just about to tick

566
00:37:13,400 –> 00:37:18,440
over to the return of Christ.
As we watch Israel.

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00:37:18,440 –> 00:37:20,880
We become excited to witness and
to participate.

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00:37:21,640 –> 00:37:24,840
And the biggest changed the
world since its creation.

569
00:37:25,440 –> 00:37:27,680
That time when Jesus will come
back and he’ll be able to judge

570
00:37:27,680 –> 00:37:29,280
mankind for the evil that’s in
them.

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00:37:31,000 –> 00:37:34,320
And that stone will.
Strike the image and a new world

572
00:37:34,320 –> 00:37:39,040
order will arise.
And so the day draws.

573
00:37:39,040 –> 00:37:41,760
Closer and closer when he will
return.

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00:37:41,880 –> 00:37:45,480
And we don’t know the day and we
don’t know the hour, but.

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00:37:45,560 –> 00:37:47,400
Jesus did tell us.
To watch and pray and.

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00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:52,400
While we wait.
We are told by Jesus to take up

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00:37:52,400 –> 00:37:54,560
our cross daily and to follow
Him.

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00:37:59,680 –> 00:38:02,480
To put on Christ.
And to lead a life like him.

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00:38:04,960 –> 00:38:06,920
To hold.
Him and our Heavenly Father in

580
00:38:06,920 –> 00:38:10,680
the highest esteem, no matter
where we are or who we are with

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00:38:11,880 –> 00:38:14,400
and at the end of the day, from
the external viewpoint.

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00:38:15,800 –> 00:38:18,880
The difference between being.
Faithful and being crazy is non

583
00:38:18,880 –> 00:38:23,040
existent.
Jesus told his.

584
00:38:23,040 –> 00:38:26,280
Apostles that he was going up to
Jerusalem to die over and over

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00:38:26,280 –> 00:38:27,920
and over and they still didn’t
get it.

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00:38:27,920 –> 00:38:30,360
Let’s.
Just have another look at.

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00:38:30,360 –> 00:38:32,720
Hebrews 12 verse two.
I’m going to finish here.

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00:38:41,120 –> 00:38:43,840
Let us fix our eyes.
On Jesus, the author and

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00:38:43,840 –> 00:38:47,160
perfecter of faith, who for the
joy set before him, endured the

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00:38:47,160 –> 00:38:51,560
cross, scorning at shame, and
sat down on the right hand of

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00:38:51,560 –> 00:38:59,760
the throne of God.
It tells.

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00:38:59,760 –> 00:39:03,400
Us to look at Jesus.
That’s our target, that’s our

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00:39:03,400 –> 00:39:08,680
aim, to follow him and we’ve got
faith to pick up our own cross

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00:39:08,680 –> 00:39:12,160
and follow him.
To put up with being.

595
00:39:12,160 –> 00:39:17,240
Despised or rejected by our
workmates by.

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00:39:17,240 –> 00:39:20,160
Our school friends.
By our associates.

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00:39:21,320 –> 00:39:23,920
Because of we, of our.
Faith because of our conviction

598
00:39:24,320 –> 00:39:30,520
and a crucified Saviour.
And when we look at.

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00:39:30,520 –> 00:39:33,880
Christ, it’s not really too much
to ask, is it?

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00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:37,880
You know we look at.
What Christ has done, and we’ve

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00:39:37,880 –> 00:39:40,800
kind of summarized that this
morning and he’s done all the

602
00:39:40,800 –> 00:39:43,960
hard work.
He’s not asking us to.

603
00:39:43,960 –> 00:39:46,920
Do any more than him.
He’s not even asking us to do

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00:39:46,920 –> 00:39:49,760
what he did.
And so as we look to the bread

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00:39:49,760 –> 00:39:52,520
and the wine here this morning,
we see the body and the blood of

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00:39:52,520 –> 00:39:56,480
Jesus.
And as we eat.

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00:39:56,480 –> 00:40:00,280
This body today, it should
become a part of who we are,

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00:40:00,280 –> 00:40:02,320
this bread.
Becomes part of our physical

609
00:40:02,320 –> 00:40:05,120
being, part of our physical
makeup, and it should become

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00:40:05,120 –> 00:40:08,080
part of who we are.
Should be like Christ.

611
00:40:08,080 –> 00:40:14,280
And as we drink this wine.
Representing Jesus.

612
00:40:14,280 –> 00:40:17,880
Life is blood.
It is processed and absorbed

613
00:40:17,880 –> 00:40:21,320
into our our own bloodstream.
And so our.

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00:40:21,320 –> 00:40:25,400
Life should represent the life
of Christ.

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00:40:29,760 –> 00:40:31,960
Jesus says in the Gospel.
Accounts that he will drink this

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00:40:31,960 –> 00:40:34,920
wine anew with us in that
Kingdom.

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00:40:35,200 –> 00:40:38,040
And if you need a joy set before
you, like Jesus had a joy set

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00:40:38,040 –> 00:40:40,720
before him.
Make it that.

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Can you imagine imagine being
able to meet Jesus in the

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00:40:46,600 –> 00:40:49,520
Kingdom, being able to look him
in the eye and say thank you for

621
00:40:49,520 –> 00:40:51,480
what you’ve done for me?
You’ve been able to reach out

622
00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:54,760
and give him a hug for going
through all that suffering and

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00:40:54,760 –> 00:41:01,960
anguish, for our sakes.
What is it that?

624
00:41:01,960 –> 00:41:06,600
Could inspire Jesus to do this.
What was this joy that he went

625
00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:09,680
to such great lengths for that
that he that he went through

626
00:41:09,680 –> 00:41:13,360
such bitter sufferings for?
What was the joy?

627
00:41:13,520 –> 00:41:18,160
Set before him that stopped
Jesus from clicking his fingers

628
00:41:18,520 –> 00:41:22,040
and coming down from all the
humility and pain of the cross.

629
00:41:24,080 –> 00:41:25,480
Jesus himself.
Tells us.

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00:41:27,160 –> 00:41:30,320
The word joy.
In Hebrews 12 verse two is also

631
00:41:30,320 –> 00:41:33,560
used by Jesus.
In Matthew 25, verse 21 and

632
00:41:33,560 –> 00:41:44,520
verse 23 it says this well done,
good and faithful servant, you

633
00:41:44,520 –> 00:41:45,960
have been faithful over a
little.

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00:41:48,440 –> 00:41:49,720
I will set you over.
March.

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00:41:50,920 –> 00:41:52,960
Enter into the joy.
Of your master.

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00:41:56,320 –> 00:41:59,920
The joy that said.
That was set before Jesus was

637
00:41:59,920 –> 00:42:03,400
him giving us the Kingdom.
The joy that.

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00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:08,760
Motivated him to endure the
trials and the suffering, the

639
00:42:08,760 –> 00:42:12,760
taunts and the humiliation, the
beatings and the scourgings and

640
00:42:12,760 –> 00:42:16,640
the crucifixion and death.
Was the.

641
00:42:16,640 –> 00:42:18,280
Joy of him being able to give
the Kingdom.

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00:42:19,960 –> 00:42:25,560
To you and I so now it.
Is time for us to take this

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00:42:25,560 –> 00:42:29,560
bread and the wine again?
The purpose of US meeting.

644
00:42:29,560 –> 00:42:34,720
Here, together today, let’s
appreciate what Christ has done

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00:42:34,720 –> 00:42:37,600
for us.
Let’s try to understand the.

646
00:42:37,600 –> 00:42:42,360
Hostility that was shown towards
him and let us realize the

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00:42:42,360 –> 00:42:46,880
extraordinary world changing
event that happened when he

648
00:42:46,880 –> 00:42:51,880
willingly endured the cross,
despising the shape for you and

649
00:42:51,880 –> 00:42:55,720
me.
Even say, come Lord.

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Jesus.
Thank you for listening to.

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00:43:11,360 –> 00:43:14,880
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00:43:14,880 –> 00:43:16,600
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