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Get ready for a teaching
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and your mind where the
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner
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and you can see from the screen behind me
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that today we're starting
a brand new series
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and it's called Easter -
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The Rest of the Story. When I was growing up
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and going to church, my
parents faithfully talked
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to us every year about Easter
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and all the events concerning Easter.
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And every year my mother
dressed up my sisters
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and put me in a little white
shirt with a black bow tie.
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And boy, when it was
Easter, we really dressed up
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because we understood this
was a major holiday in the
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life of a Christian.
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But every year it seemed
we heard the same story.
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And as I got older, I began
to think, surely there's more
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to this story than I've been told.
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So I began to take a deep
dive into the story of Easter.
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And wow, I found out there
is so much to this story
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that no one ever told me.
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And I believe that in this program
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and in the next 14 programs,
you are going to learn
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so much about Easter that
you have never heard before,
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and it's going to deeply impact you
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and really make you greatly
appreciate the price
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that Jesus paid for our redemption.
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But before we get into the
teaching, I want to remind you
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that if you need prayer,
we're here for you
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and we want to pray for you.
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So if you'll just call
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or send us an email the
moment we hear from you,
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we're gonna release our faith.
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And Jesus who died for you
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and it was raised from the
dead for you is gonna move
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for you and he's going
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to do something really
wonderful in your life.
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But please reach out to us
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And as soon as we know how
to pray for you, we're going
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to pray scripturally and
Jesus is going to move
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and Jesus is going to
do exactly what needs
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to be done in your life.
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But before we get into today's
teaching, first, watch this.
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Do you know the story of
Easter: the resurrection
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of Jesus, the empty tomb
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and the appearances to the disciples?
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But did you know that's
only part of the story?
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In Rick Renner's book, Easter -
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The Rest of the Story,
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Rick delves into the lesser known details
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of the Easter story that
are often overlooked.
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Details like - who was Pontius Pilate,
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what really happened to the Garden of Gethsemane?
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What happened to the
temple when Jesus died?
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What exactly did the disciples witness on
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that miraculous morning?
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Why Easter is the absolute
defining moment of our faith.
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When you call or go online
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your family can establish a practice
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that will enrich your Easter celebrations
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for generations. Perfect as a gift
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Today, I'm gonna be speaking to you about agony
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of the soul and supernatural
divine assistance.
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It's going to be so rich and
it's going to encourage you.
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And today you're gonna
learn something about Easter
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that you've never heard before.
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But when visitors go to
the city of Jerusalem,
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there are several sites they want to see.
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One is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
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which is the traditional site of Golgotha,
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and the tomb where Jesus was buried
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and raised from the dead.
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Another site people want to
see is called the Garden Tomb.
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Those who don't like the traditional site
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because it's covered with all kinds
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of religious ornamentation, tend
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to gravitate toward the other spot,
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which really is not the authentic spot,
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but it may have looked like the Garden Tomb 2000 years ago.
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And people really like that site,
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which is called the Garden
Tomb or Gordon's Tomb.
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It's named after a man who
really began to promote it
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as a possible location
of Jesus resurrection.
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People also want to see the Wailing Wall
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because that is such an important place in biblical history
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and people want to see
the Garden of Gethsemane.
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And when you finally arrive
at the Garden of Gethsemane,
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which is located on the lower
slopes of the Mount of Olives,
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the first thing you see is covered
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and surrounded by a stone wall.
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And when you walk through
the gate into the Garden
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of Gethsemane, there in front
of you are eight ancient,
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massive, massive gnarled olive trees.
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They are just huge.
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And it's so interesting to
look at how they're gnarled
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and how they twist and how they turn.
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And those who guide you through the Garden
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of Gethsemane will tell
you that it is possible.
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Some of those trees were
standing there 2000 years ago.
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And if they were, it means those trees are silent witnesses
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to the events that occurred
in the life of Jesus
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in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Scientists decided
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that they would take a
sampling from the roots
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of those trees.
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And with carbon dating,
they begin to examine
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how old really are those trees?
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And they discovered that several
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of them really may be 2000 years old.
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So it's quite remarkable
to come into the Garden
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of Gethsemane and to realize
you may be looking at trees
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or at least trees that
grew from the root of trees
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that were there at the time
that Jesus was betrayed.
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But when you finally
meander around the Garden
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of Gethsemane, you ultimately walk
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through another gate which
leads you to the entrance
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of a church, which is called
the Church of All Nations.
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And the reason that church
is built on that location is
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because in 1920,
archeologists were excavating
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that site and they came across the ruins
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of an ancient Byzantine basilica.
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And as they continued
to do their excavations,
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they found beautiful mosaics
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and suddenly they came across
the outcropping of a rock
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that was massive
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and they realized this was the place
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where Jesus prayed and interceded.
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This was the very place where
Jesus sweat blood that night
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as he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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It is quite a remarkable place.
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And in fact, in my book, one
of the illustrations shows
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that outcropping of rock.
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And today when you go to
the Church of All Nations,
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which was consecrated in
1924, it is surrounded
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with a bronze fence that
looks like a crown of thorns.
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And there in the middle
of it is the remains
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of this outcropping of rock,
which today is not so big
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because for 2000 years, Christian pilgrims came to Jerusalem
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and they took pieces of it home with them
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so they could take home as
a memento, a little piece
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of the rock where Jesus sweat
blood when he was in the
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Garden of Gethsemane.
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But if you look on the wall behind it,
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there is a beautiful mosaic
which shows Jesus on the rock
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as it first was 2000 years ago
when these events took place.
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However, there's something
else very, very important
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that most tourists don't even know about.
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Most are so focused on seeing
those massive ancient gnarled
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trees and seeing the
rock where Jesus prayed
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inside the church of all nations
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that they completely bypass grotto
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or a cave which is just across
the street from the Garden
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of Gethsemane and through another gate.
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And if you walk down a set
of steps to a lower level,
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you will see there to your right,
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a long narrow passageway made of stone.
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Today it's been walled
so that it is nicer.
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But if you follow that narrow
passageway, it takes you into
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what is called the Grotto of Gethsemane.
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And this is very important
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because that grotto was
used regularly by Jesus
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and his disciples when they came
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to the Garden of Gethsemane.
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And the reason they used
that grotto is because it
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provided shelter from the weather.
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It was a safe place.
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It provided shelter from inclement weather
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and they would go there regularly to meet.
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And that is the reason why when Judas Iscariot came into the
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Garden of Gethsemane that night
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and he came with a chief priest
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and elders, and when he came with a cohort of Roman soldiers
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and temple police, he
knew exactly where to go
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because he had retreated
there very often with Jesus
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and the other apostles; he knew that's
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where he would find them.
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And most people today just
go directly to the Garden
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of Gethsemane and they miss
the grotto of Gethsemane,
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which is where Jesus
was actually betrayed.
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It is a very, very important place,
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and I'll be showing a little bit of it
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to you in the next program.
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But Jesus and his disciples
were gathered there,
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and a moment came when
Jesus knew he needed
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to gather strength from the
Father for what he was facing.
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Jesus knew the cross was in front of him.
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Jesus knew that three days and
the grave was in front of him
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and then he needed to pray
and he needed to intercede.
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So he left the majority of
his disciples in the grotto
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of Gethsemane and he asked Peter, James
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and John to go with him to pray.
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Now, you know, most often
people needed Jesus,
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but in this particular case,
Jesus needed their help
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and he asked them to pray with him,
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but every time he went to check on them,
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they had fallen asleep.
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Maybe you have felt times in
your life when you were going
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through very difficult moments
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and you really needed
somebody to stand with you
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and you felt like your friends
were not there for you.
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Well just imagine that night
for the first time ever,
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Jesus needed their prayerful help.
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And every time he went to check on them, they were sleeping.
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But God provided supernatural assistance
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to help Jesus and my friends.
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In the very same way, if you feel like your friends have not
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been faithful for you,
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or if you feel like you're standing alone,
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God has not abandoned
you, and just like he
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provided divine assistance
for Jesus, God will give you
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what you need to make it
through any tough hour.
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But the events that occurred in the Garden of Gethsemane are
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so central to the story of Jesus' passion
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that you can read about it in Matthew 26, Mark 14,
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Luke 22, and John 18.
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But when we come to Luke 22:44,
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we find Jesus was in such
great agony in the Garden
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of Gethsemane that he began
to sweat great drops of blood.
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This is what we read in Luke 22:44, which says -
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and being in an agony - we're gonna look at that word agony,
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and being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.
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We're gonna look at that word earnestly.
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And his sweat was, as it were, great drops
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of blood falling down to the ground.
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We're gonna be looking at the word sweat.
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We're gonna be looking at
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All of this is so very, very important.
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into this verse, it opens up
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and you begin to understand
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what Jesus experienced
when he was laying on
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that rock in the Garden
of Gethsemane praying
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and interceding that night.
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44 is the Greek word agonizo.
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It's where we get the word agony
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and it depicts a struggle, a fight,
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great exertion or great effort.
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of anguish, pain, distress,
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and conflict.
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where we get the word agony in English,
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which means this really was
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This word comes from a Greek word
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that depicted the athletic conflicts
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and competitions in the ancient world that were so strenuous
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and so famous, which means
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Jesus was thrown into
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of Gethsemane, he began to struggle.
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He fought. It was a time
of an agony and anguish.
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that Jesus prayed, Father,
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if there's any way for
this cup to pass for me,
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please let it pass from me.
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that Jesus cried this several times.
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when Jesus had entered into a
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struggle in his mind
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and in his emotions, in his
heart, he knew what he was
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to do, but just the thought
of going to the cross
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and the mere thought of
spending three days in hell,
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of course finally being resurrected,
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but being scourged, being brutally treated, being nailed
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to a cross pending three days
in hell, who would want that?
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and said, father, if it is possible,
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let this cup pass from me.
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he was in an agony.
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This was the fight of his life
as Jesus was interceding on
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that rock and where were the friends he
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needed to pray with him.
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as Jesus was in that time of prayer that we read in Luke 22:
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44, that he prayed more earnestly.
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which means
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to be extended or to be stretched out.
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who is in such agony.
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around on the ground,
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which means Jesus was
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of his life at this moment.
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and his sweat was as it were great drops
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of blood falling down to the ground.
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of blood is actually a medical
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to blood that is
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and the phrase great drops of blood,
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it becomes the Greek word hematidrosis,
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which is a real medical condition.
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that occurs only in individuals
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who are in a highly emotional state,
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and it occurs very, very rarely.
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You say, well, what exactly occurs in this
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medical condition?
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In this particular condition,
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the person feels such pressure
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that his body begins to physically respond
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as if it is under real physical pressure.
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pressure becomes so great
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that one layer of skin separates from the second layer
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of skin forming a vacuum,
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and the vacuum then begins to fill with blood.
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pressure when the blood
then begins to seep
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through the pores of the
skin, it mixes together
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with a sweat and it
becomes a sweaty blood.
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experienced in the Garden
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of Gethsemane; and my friends,
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it is no mistake
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that the Holy Spirit used this
word in Luke 22:44.
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He wanted us to understand what kind
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of pressure Jesus was under, the fight he was in
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as he faced his own surging, his own trial,
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his own crucifixion.
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And three days in hell, Jesus
was in the fight of his life
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and the fight of the ages; he was there for me,
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and Jesus was there for you,
and where were his disciples?
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They were sleeping on the
job; but when they fell asleep
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and could not be relied upon, God
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provided the help that Jesus needed.
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Luke 22:43, which says,
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and there appeared an
angel unto him from heaven
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strengthening him.
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in Greek is a compound
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of two words: the word en which means in like
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to put something into something
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and the Greek word ischus, which is the word for might.
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the two words together,
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this word strengthening means to put might
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or strength into something.
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angel appeared from heaven
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that filled Jesus with might. This word strengthening, means
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to impart strength, to empower
someone, to fill a person
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with hardiness, or to give someone a renewed vitality.
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Though one may feel exhausted
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and depleted, he suddenly gets
a blast of energy, so robust
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that he is instantly recharged
to get up, get with it,
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and get going.
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could not rely on his three
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closest disciples, God said, Jesus,
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I'll provide what you need.
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And an angel appeared
that strengthened him.
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It filled him with vitality.
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He was instantly recharged
so that he could get up, get
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with it, and get going.
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Jesus came to his disciples, he woke them
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and he said, rise up,
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let's go - lo - he that betrayed me is at hand.
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He was so filled with might
that he was ready to face
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what was in front of him.
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Now, I think this is totally amazing
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and it makes me think
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of moments when you feel
like you've been alone.
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Maybe you've never sweat blood,
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but you've been through difficult times in your marriage,
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or maybe you've been
through difficult times
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with your children or you've
had difficult times in your
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health or with a friend
or a family member.
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Maybe you're facing some
difficult situation right now
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and you feel very alone.
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Well, my friends, Jesus sweat blood
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because he was under such pressure and we can go to him.
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He's a great high priest
that can be touched
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with the feeling of our infirmities.
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He has experienced what
we have experienced.
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He has known pressure
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and stress on a measure
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beyond anything you have ever
experienced in your life.
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And you can talk to Jesus
about what you are feeling
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and what you are experiencing.
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And if you feel that your
family or your friends
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or your acquaintances have gone to sleep on the job, first
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of all, don't be upset with them.
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It is your struggle. It is not theirs.
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They just may not understand
what you are facing.
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I'm sure Peter, James
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and John just did not understand everything
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that Jesus was looking at in front of him.
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If they had really understood
they would've wanted
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to be faithful; but they didn't understand,
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and maybe your friends don't
really comprehend everything
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that you're feeling and
you're experiencing,
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but Jesus understands,
and just like the Father
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provided an angel to strengthen him
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and give him vitality to renew his strength
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so he could get up and get with it
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and get moving, God wants to provide you
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with a new infilling of the Holy Spirit
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that will give you energy so
robust that you'll be able
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to stand up and say, I'm ready.
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Let's get moving.
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I can face this
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and I can overcome what is in front of me.
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But all of this occurred on
that outcropping of rock,
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which today can be seen inside
the Church of All Nations,
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a church which was dedicated
in 1924 on the lower slopes
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of the Mount of Olives.
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But this is just the
beginning of the story
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because when Jesus was finished praying,
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he woke up his disciples,
Peter, James and John.
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He said, let's go back
to the other disciples.
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He reunited with the other
disciples in the Grotto
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of Gethsemane, and that
is where Judas came
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with the servants of
the high priest, elders
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and scribes: with a Roman cohort of
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and with temple police.
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That is where Judas led them
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because Judas knew Jesus
regularly assembled
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with his disciples in the Garden
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of Gethsemane in the grotto.
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And isn't it amazing?
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Most people who go to Jerusalem don't even know the grotto
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is there, but my friends,
if you ever go to Jerusalem,
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you need to visit the grotto of Jerusalem
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because that is where many
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of the significant events
in the gospels played out.
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While we're just getting
started, there is so much
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to this story, but I'll be back in just a moment
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but first, watch this.
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Call or go online now.
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This is Rick Renner and I'm
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Standing in the foyer of our
Moscow TV studio. In Matthew
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28:19,
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Jesus said - Go you therefore, and teach all nations.
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We take that command very seriously,
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and in fact, we believe it
is a command that Jesus gave
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to every single believer.
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He gave it to me, he gave it to you.
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We each have a responsibility
to take the gospel
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and the trusted teaching of the Bible
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to the ends of the earth.
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And I'm so thankful for our partners
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because they help us do this.
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We can teach, we can preach,
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but it takes a lot of money to do the job
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and our partners put the fuel in the
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tank so that we can do it.
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A partner is someone who
regularly gives financially
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to the ministry: they give
as they're led by the Lord,
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but they do it irregularly.
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And if you're not a partner
yet, I want to invite you
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to become a part of the
giving team with our ministry
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to help us fulfill the great commission.
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Jesus wants to use me, but
Jesus wants to use you.
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People need to be reached.
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They need the gospel
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and they need the trusted
teaching of the Bible.
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So please pray about becoming
a partner with our ministry
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and you can do so by calling
us or by going online,
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and we're waiting to
hear from you right now.
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Well, today we have just gotten started on the new series,
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which is called Easter - The Rest of the Story.
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And we have seen the events that occurred inside the Garden
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of Gethsemane, particularly on that large outcropping
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of rock where Jesus bowed down, he collapsed
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and he began to pray so intensely that he sweat as it were
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great drops of blood.
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But when we come back to
the next program, I'm going
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to answer the question - How
many soldiers does it take
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to arrest one man?
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And you are going to be shocked to hear
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how many soldiers came to arrest Jesus
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that night in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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It is going to amaze you,
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but please remember that if
you need prayer, we're here
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for you and we want to pray for you.
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So call the number that is on the screen
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or you can send us an email
and the moment the phone rings
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or the moment your email shows
up in the inbox, we are going
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to begin to pray for you
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and we're going to pray that God will give you what you need
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Just as God provided strength for Jesus in his hour of need,
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we believe that God has exactly what you need,
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and my friends, we're just
waiting to pray for you.
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So call the number on the
screen or send us an email
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and I'd like you to put
your hand on your heart,
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and I'm going to pray for you right now.
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Father, I thank you in the name of Jesus
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that we are not abandoned
and we're not alone.
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And even if he heals no one else, is faithful
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to stand with us.
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You are faithful and you
provide what we need.
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And Lord, we ask you to
give us the strength we need
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to rise up and face what is in front of us
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and to victoriously
overcome it in Jesus' name
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a amen.
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Well, this has been good, but
we're just getting started.
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So please join me for the
next episode where we're going
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to see how many soldiers does
it take to arrest one man.
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But until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, it says,
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"Where the word of a king is, there is power."
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Hey friends, this is Rick Renner and Denise
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and I are coming to the United
States for a brief trip,
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and we want to invite you to come to some
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of our meetings. On Sunday, April the 19th,
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we'll be ministering at Vertical Church in West Haven,
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Connecticut with Pastors Ken and Kathy Vance.
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Then on Wednesday through Sunday, April 22nd-26th,
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I'll be speaking at Perry Stone's
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wonderful 2026 Prophetic Summit in
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Cleveland, Tennessee.
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Then on Sunday, May 3rd,
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I'll be speaking at Resurrection Life in Grandville,
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Michigan with Pastors Duane and Jeanie Vander Klok.
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Friend, if you can come to
any of these meetings, Denise
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and I would just be so
thrilled to see you,
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but please go online
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or give us a call to make
sure none of the dates
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or times have changed.
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now - Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you with.
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Thank you for joining Rick Renner today.
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