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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 as you can see on the
screen behind me today,
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we're gonna move to the
next part of the story,
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which is when they arrested Jesus
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and led him to Caiaphas, the high priest
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where they literally spit in Jesus' face
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and played games with him.
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Wow! Today's teaching is just going to be riveting,
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and you're gonna find
out there's so much more
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to the story than you've
ever heard before.
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This is going to be amazing.
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But before I get into the
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I know what a comfort that is.
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And if you just wish
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We've been talking about
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He's gonna release his power,
he's gonna do whatever needs
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what needs to be done.
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But before I get into
today's teaching, watch this
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and then I'll be right back.
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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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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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In programs so far this week,
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we have seen the tremendous
power of Jesus Christ
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that was working even at
the time of his arrest.
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Judas Iscariot led 300
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to 600 soldiers plus temple
police into the Grotto
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of Gethsemane to arrest Jesus.
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He stepped forward, he
gave Jesus a phony kiss,
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which was really a kiss of betrayal.
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And then Jesus stepped forward
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and addressed all the armed forces
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and said, who are you looking for?
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They said, Jesus of Nazareth.
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But Jesus answered and said, I am he.
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The Greek says echoeimi, which means I am.
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It's exactly the same words used in Exodus 3,
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when God said to Moses my name is echoeimi - I am that I am.
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And when Jesus said to those armed forces echoeimi - I Am,
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he was declaring who he really was.
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He was more than Jesus of Nazareth. He was God in the flesh.
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And it is amazing that when
Jesus spoke those words,
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there was such a release of divine power
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that we're told in John 18
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that all those armed forces fell
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backward to the ground.
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It's the picture of them stumbling, staggering, wobbling,
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trying to resist some invisible force which is coming
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against them, which is too powerful for them.
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And as a result, they fall to the ground.
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The word fall is a form of the Greek word pipto,
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which means they'll
fall hard to the ground.
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The word kami, which means they really hit the deck.
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The power of God knocked them flat.
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And then Peter did something very impetuous. When he saw all
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these men laying on the ground,
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among them was Malchus, the servant of the high priest
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and the public spokesman
for the high priest
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who had said many, many
atrocious things about Jesus
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and the rest of the disciples.
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And Peter just couldn't
resist the temptation.
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So he reached for a sword,
tried to cut off his head,
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but he was a fisherman,
so he didn't know how
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to use a sword very well.
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And instead he lopped off Malchus's right ear.
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Jesus said - ay..yi.right in the middle of this whole drama,
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Jesus said suffered me thus far,
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which means give me just a
minute while I fix this mess.
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And Jesus laid his hands on Malchus:
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either regrew the ear
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or picked up the ear which was lopped
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off and put it back on
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it reattached: a miracle took place.
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And then as they're walking Jesus away,
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another miracle takes place.
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Suddenly there's a naked boy with a linen cloth.
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We read about this in Mark 14:
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and sometimes people say, well,
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who is the naked boy in
the Garden of Gethsemane?
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And the answer is found
in the words linen cloth.
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Those words, linen cloth are the Greek words which describe
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a burial shroud.
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This was a dead boy.
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The Jews customarily
buried their dead naked
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and covered them with a linen cloth.
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That's how Jesus was buried.
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But now when Jesus said, I am that I am,
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and the power of God knocked
all those forces flat,
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the same power which knocked all those forces flat, caused a
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rumbling in a local grave.
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And there were lots of graves
there on the Mount of Olives.
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And a little boy is accidentally raised from the dead.
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This is what I call an accidental
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or a periphery resurrection.
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He comes crawling out of his grave,
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carrying his burial cloth.
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Now he's trailing Jesus
and trailing the others.
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And when they saw him, we're told in Mark 14,
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they said, get that kid.
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They try to grab hold of him
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because they don't want
another resurrection
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to be noised abroad, but he escapes.
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And now they stand there holding the linen cloth,
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the burial shroud
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of a young man just raised from the dead.
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They must have wondered, who
in the world are we arresting?
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This man has so much power
that with mere words,
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he has knocked us flat.
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He just regrew the ear
on the side of Malchus.
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He just raised a man from the dead.
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And that's why it makes
it all more amazing
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that Matthew 26:57 says,
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And they that laid hold on
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Jesus led him away to Caiaphas,
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the high priest where the scribes
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and the elders were assembled.
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In fact, this was really a big act.
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They didn't have the power to take Jesus.
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Jesus had already demonstrated
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that; Jesus surrendered himself.
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He allowed them to lay hold of him. If he wanted
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to stop this whole thing,
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he already said that he even had the ability
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to call on 12 legions of angels,
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that 72,000 angels; no one had the power
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to take Jesus.
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And yet Matthew 26:57 says they laid hold on him.
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And the words, laid hold, mean to seize, to take hold,
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to firmly grip or to apprehend.
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And in this context, it carries the idea
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of making a forceful arrest.
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So now they're acting like they have the
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authority to take him.
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And the verse goes on
to say they led him away
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to Caiaphas the high priest.
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The words led him away
are translation of a form
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of the Greek word ago,
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which pictures - are you ready for this -
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a shepherd who ties a rope
around the neck of his sheep
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and then leads it down the
path to where it needs to go.
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So now we find these soldiers
are pretending like they have
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power to arrest Jesus.
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Jesus surrenders. He allows
them to forcefully take him.
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He allows them to wrap
a rope around his neck
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and now they're leading him like a sheep
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to where it needs to go.
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And this really is a fulfillment of something
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Isaiah prophesied many years earlier in Isaiah 53:
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7. It says, he is brought as a lamb
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to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb.
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So he opened not his mouth.
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And in this moment in
the Garden of Gethsemane,
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this verse was fulfilled as
Jesus surrendered himself
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and literally allowed them to
tire a rope around his neck
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and lead him like a lamb
to his own slaughter.
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And eventually they led him
to Caiaphas the high priest.
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So let's look at Caiaphas.
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Who was Caiaphas and what
do we know about Caiaphas?
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What we saw in the previous program,
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Caiaphas was a Sadducees a very liberal group at theologians
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who did not believe in the supernatural.
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They debunked all the Old Testament stories and miracles.
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They said it was nothing but
legend and fantasy and myth.
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And they really did not
like the ministry of Jesus
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because his ministry was
marked by the supernatural
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and they didn't believe in that.
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And they didn't like Jesus because they saw him as a threat.
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They saw him as someone out of their control.
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So they wanted to get rid of him.
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They were control freaks
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and whatever they could not control, they tried to destroy.
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And as high priest, Caiaphas, was responsible
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for arranging an illegal trial
to charge Jesus with a crime
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that would eventually
cause him to be crucified.
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He charged Jesus with the sin of blasphemy
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because Jesus had called
himself the son of God.
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But when the charge was not provable,
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Caiaphas eventually
delivered Jesus into the hand
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of Roman authorities who then
found him guilty of claiming
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to be called the king of the Jews.
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But in 2 Corinthians 5:21, we're told Jesus never sinned.
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In 1 Peter 2:22, we're told no guile had ever been found in
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Jesus' mouth.
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In Acts 10:38, we find his entire life was devoted
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to doing good and healing all
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that were oppressed of the devil.
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But in spite of the fact that
Jesus had done nothing wrong
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for a temporary period, he
was placed into the hand
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of spiritual vipers in
Jerusalem at that time.
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And we're told in 1 Peter 2:23,
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who when he was reviled,
reviled not again.
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And when he suffered,
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he threatened not. Isaiah said he opened not his mouth,
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but committed himself unto him
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that judgeth righteously.
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That's what you have to do
when you find yourself in a
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difficult position
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for which you feel like
you have no defense.
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The word committed is a form
of the Greek word paradidomi,
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which means to commend, to commit, to deliver, to transmit,
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to yield, to deliver
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or to hand something over to somebody else or Jesus
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in this moment when he was truly being treated
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so unjustly, rather than defend himself,
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he commended himself, committed himself, delivered himself,
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transmitted himself
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and handed himself over into the hands
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of the Father's care.
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And my friends, sometimes that's
the only thing you can do.
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But eventually a trial
took place that night
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and the religious leaders
charged Jesus with the crime
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of declaring himself to be the son of God.
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In Matthew 26:64, Jesus replied
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to the religious leaders
by saying, you're right.
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One day you're gonna
see me coming in clouds
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of glory sitting on the
Father's right hand.
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the high priest ripped his clothes
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and began screaming blasphemy.
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the high priest in his entire
entourage began to began
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to do the unthinkable.
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to 68, which says, then did they spit in his face
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and buffeted him
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and others smote him with the
palms of their hands saying,
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prophesy unto us, thou Christ.
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Who is he that smote?
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Well notice it says, then
did they spit in his face?
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The word they is plural.
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It refers to all the scribes
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and elders who were assembled
for the meeting that night,
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more than 100 of them.
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these so-called spiritual
leaders clothed in all their
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religious garb, walked up to Jesus
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and spit in his face.
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Here is an illustration of it from my book, Easter,
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The Rest of the Story, an amazing illustration.
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Spitting in someone's face at that time was considered
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to be the strongest thing you could do
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to show utter disgust, repugnant, dislike, or a hatred.
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face, that spit was meant to humiliate, to demean, to debase
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and to shame that person.
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And to make matters worse,
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the one spitting would get
close into the other person's
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face and spit as hard as he could
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to make it even more humiliating.
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And by the time these 100 religious leaders were finished
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spitting in Jesus' face,
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the spit was dripping from
his forehead into his eyes,
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dribbling down his nose,
his cheekbones, his chin,
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and even oozing down onto his clothes.
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And what makes this
scene even more amazing
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to me is it is likely that Malchus
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whom Jesus had just miraculously healed in the Garden
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of Gethsemane was among them
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because he was Caiaphas assistant.
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There he was among them spitting on Jesus
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after Jesus had just lovingly healed him.
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And then they did the next thing.
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They doubled up their
fists, all 100 of them.
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And one by one they begin to
hit him violently in the face.
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Matthew 26:67 says, then did they spit in his face
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and buffeted him?
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The word buffeted in Greek
means to strike with the fist.
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It pictures a person
who is violently beaten,
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which means this was not just
brutal, this was sadistic,
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humiliating Jesus with their
spit didn't satisfy them.
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So now they've doubled up their fists
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and their fists had become their weapons
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and now they're beating
Jesus spitting on Jesus.
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And every time they
spit on him, my friend,
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they were spitting on the
anointing of God on his life.
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Every time they struck him,
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they were leveling a punch against the
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anointing on his life.
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They hated Jesus.
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They hated the anointing
that operated through him
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to such an extent that they even voted to have him executed.
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And then we read in Luke 22:63 -
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and the man
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that held Jesus mocked him and smote him.
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Now it moves. Now we find the men that held him.
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This refers to the temple police, which were working there
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with Caiaphas and his mob.
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Now the temple police smote him.
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The word smote means to hit, hit, hit, very hard.
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The word mocked is a word which means to play games as
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to play games with children
for amusing the crowd
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or impersonating someone in
a silly and exaggerating way.
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For example, this word could
be used to depict a game
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of charades when someone intends
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to comically portray someone or even to make fun of someone.
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And this tells us, these
guards begin to mimic
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and impersonate Jesus in front of them.
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They took a few minutes
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to turn this nightmarish
moment into a stage
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of comedy at Jesus expense.
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They put on our real show
really hamming it up.
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They pretended to be Jesus as
he was ministering to people.
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Maybe they pretended to
lay hands on each other
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as though they were healing each other
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or they laid on the floor
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and quivered as though
demons were ex exiting them
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or they act as if they had been blind.
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But now they could see they
were really hamming it up
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and playing a game of charades with Jesus.
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And then we're told in Luke 22:63, the guards smote him.
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And that word smote depicts the grueling
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and barbaric practice of beating a slave: a word so dreadful
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that it is often translated
to filet, such as
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to flee the flesh from an
animal or a human being.
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And then Caiaphas and his
religious mob stepped back in
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and we read in Luke 22:64 -
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And when they, the religious leaders, blindfolded him,
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they struck him on the face
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and asked him saying prophesy, who is it that smote?
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The word blindfolded in Greek depicts a wrap or veil
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or a garment wrapped around
someone thus hiding his eyes
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so he can't see.
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So now Caiaphas, this religious leader with all the scribes
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and the Pharisees decided they would play blind man's bluff
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and they struck him on the face.
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The word struck in Greek describes a sting that strikes,
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they literally slapped
him and slapped him.
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And after slapping him, they then would say, according
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to Luke 22:64 prophesy, who is it that smote
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thee? It was the equivalent of saying, come on prophet,
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we've blindfolded you
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and without looking, if
you're so good at prophesying
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and knowing things supernaturally, tell us which one
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of us just slapped you.
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And then according to Luke 22:65, they begin
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to blaspheme Jesus
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and with many other things,
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blasphemously spake, they against him.
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The word blasphemously
in Greek means to accuse,
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to speak against, to slander,
to speak derogatory words
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for the purpose of injuring
or harming one's reputation.
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And it signifies profane, foul, unclean speech,
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which means, once these religious leaders took the lid off,
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every foul thing that was hiding in them came
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to the surface.
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It was like a monster had been released
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that they couldn't get back into its cage.
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In the end, all of this hideous filth
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and terrible dark
behavior came out of them
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as they were slapping Jesus,
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striking Jesus spitting
in his face, treating him
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so horribly.
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And if the people of Israel had been allowed
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to peek into the room that night
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and seeing their revered religious leaders acting in such a
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way they would have been so shocked
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to see them slapping Jesus,
spitting in his face,
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slapping him again and again,
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and then hearing words,
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a profanity coming out of their mouth.
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Here they were all dressed
in their religious garb,
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but inwardly they were rotten to the core.
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Now, if you ever find
yourself in a position
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where you are being unjustly
treated as Jesus was
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that night, then you have
to do what Jesus did.
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If you can't defend yourself, then you have
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to commit yourself to him
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that judges righteously.
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God is fair, God is
just, God sees everything
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and my friends, just
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as Jesus committed himself into the
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loving care of the Father,
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in those moments when you do not understand what's happening
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to you and it seems that
you have no defense,
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the only thing you can do is say - Father, I trust you
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to take care of me.
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That's what Jesus did, and
that is what you need to do.
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And because Jesus did the right thing,
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eventually he experienced a resurrection.
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And my friend, when
you do the right thing,
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God's power will come
through for you - say Amen.
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We've already paid off 84%
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of our Ministry Expansion Project,
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but we'd like to finish it.
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And if you're not a part of
the Giving team yet today,
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I want to ask you to join our giving team
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so we can pay off this facility
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and release all those funds
into taking the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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Well, my friend today, we've been looking at Easter,
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The Rest of the Story. Have you learned something new?
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Today we've seen that Jesus was taken to Caiaphas,
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the high priest
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and Caiaphas, along with
his religious leaders,
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got right in the face of
Jesus as is illustrated here,
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and they spit in his face and slapped him.
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It is unthinkable what they did,
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but they were spitting
against the anointing.
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They were slapping the anointing.
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But in that moment, Jesus
did not utter a word,
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but simply committed
himself into the hands
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of the Father whom he knew
would take care of him.
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And Jesus eventually was
raised from the dead.
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And if you find yourself in a position
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where you feel like you're
being treated very unjustly
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and there's nothing you
can do to defend yourself,
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that's a moment when you need to say like Jesus - Father,
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I'm committing myself into your care.
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I pray that you will defend me
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and that your resurrection power will flow
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through me and my friends,
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it will, it will.
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But when we come back, we're
gonna go to the next part
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of this amazing story Easter,
The Rest of the Story.
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But if you need prayer,
please reach out to us.
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Call the number on the screen
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or send us an email and the moment your email
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shows up in our
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inbox, whether you call
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or whether you write,
we're gonna pray for you
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and Jesus is really gonna
do something great for you
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and he's gonna do something
great for you right now
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because I'm going to pray for you.
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Put your hand on your heart.
Father, I pray that your power
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and your divine assistance
would come to any friend
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that finds himself in a
difficult position. Help them
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to commit themselves into your care.
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And I pray, Lord, for your power to flow through them, to be
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what they need to be wherever
they are in whatever they're
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facing in Jesus' name - a Amen.
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I'll see you in the next program,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4,
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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 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 - Sunday, April the 22nd to 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 repented 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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Renner Ministries is
proclaiming the gospel
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of Jesus Christ through
every available media avenue
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to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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Discover the many ways you can
help us make a difference in
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lives around the world
with the word of God.
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We invite you to partner with
us in teaching, strengthening
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and rescuing lives for the glory of God.
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Together we can make a difference
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that will last throughout eternity.
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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.