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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 my friend, you can see
from the screen behind me
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that today I'm going to be
talking to you about the horror
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of a Roman surging
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and what Jesus went through
to purchase healing for me
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and for you.
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And today is going to be really powerful.
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You're gonna need to hold onto your seat
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because some of this is going
to be difficult to hear,
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but we need to understand
about the stripes
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that were laid across
Jesus back for our healing.
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He didn't just take our sin on the cross,
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but Jesus took those stripes so that you
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and I can be healed.
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And so we can walk in divine
health that really is a part
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of the work of the cross
and redemption, say amen.
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But before we get into today's
teaching, I wanna remind you
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you need to pray Scripturally,
we're told in one John five
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his will is his word.
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So if you pray according to the word
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or if you pray scripturally,
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he hears us God when
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And when we pray,
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Today, I wanna talk
to you about the horror
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of a Roman surging,
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but I wanna begin by telling
you about a very interesting
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column which is inside the church of the Holy Sepulcher
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in Jerusalem.
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Most people when they go to the church of the
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Holy Sepulcher,
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go to see the tomb.
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They go to see the ruins of Golgatha,
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but they fail to see something else
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very important. If you walk the circular pathway which goes
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through the church of the Holy Sepulcher,
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there's one niche where there is a column
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carved of granite,
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very low
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and it is covered with all
kinds of scars and marks.
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And it was a column which was used
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for surging in the 1st century when Pilate was the
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governor of Judea.
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And according to the Catholic church,
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that is the actual column
on which Jesus was scourged.
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And when you see that column
and you see the the marks
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and the mars, which were made
by the scourge on granite,
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of course it makes you wonder
if a scourge would do that
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to stone, what would
it do to a human body?
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And of course a scourged would just tear
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a human body to pieces.
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But when you continue to
follow that circular pathway,
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you come to another room
where there is a chapel,
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which is under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox church
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and it has another column.
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And they claim that that is the column
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that Jesus was scoured upon.
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And that column is blackish.
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And it also contains the marks
of a Roman scourge just torn
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to pieces by a Roman scourge.
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And the other part of that
column is in Istanbul,
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also in an Orthodox church.
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I have seen it. It is venerated there.
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Both of those pieces
are from the same column
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and both of them bear the
scars of a Roman surging.
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So people ask which one
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of these are really the
actual column on which
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Jesus was scourge?
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Well, it's either that one or it is that one,
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but it's definitely one of them.
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But regardless of which column Jesus was scourged on,
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when you see those columns
and you see the scars
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and you see the markings
which left by a Roman whip
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and a scourge, it really
makes you understand, wow, if
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that's what happened to
stone, what would a scourge do
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to human flesh?
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This is what we're going to see today.
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And when we come to Matthew 27:26,
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the Bible tells us
Pilate had scourge Jesus
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before delivering him to be crucified.
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The word scourge depicts one
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of the most horrific words
ever used in the ancient world
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because of the terrible
images that immediately come
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to mind when a person
heard the word scourge.
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But for you to know why
this was so horrific,
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I'm going today to explain
to you what was the process
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of a Roman surging.
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Now, this is not going
to be enjoyable to hear,
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but my friends, I want you
to understand the price
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that Jesus paid for you
and me to be healed.
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Those stripes were laid on
his back for our healing.
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But when a decision was made
discourage an individual,
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the victim was first
stripped completely naked
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so his entire flesh would be
open to the beating action
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of the torchers whip.
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Now, in most illustrations, it shows Jesus
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with a little garment wrapped
around his midsection.
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But in reality, Jesus was completely naked in the scourge,
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touched every single part of his back.
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Then the victim was normally bound
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to a two foot high scouring post made
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of stone exactly like
the one which you find in
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that back circular hallway in the church
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of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
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His hands were tied over his head to a metal ring
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and his wrists were securely
shackled to that ring
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to restrain his body from movement.
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Now you notice that today
I'm reading from my notes,
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and the reason I'm
reading from my notes is
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because I don't want to
miss one word of this
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because it is so very important for you to understand
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what Jesus experienced.
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But when in this locked position the victim couldn't wiggle,
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the victim couldn't move,
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the victim could not dodge the
lashes which were being laid
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across his body
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and Romans were professionals at surging.
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And they took special delight in the fact
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that they were the best
at punishing a victim
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with this brutal act: just horrific.
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And once a victim was
harnessed to the post
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and stretched over it,
Roman soldiers put him
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through unimaginable torture.
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In fact, one writer notes
that the mere anticipation
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of the whipping caused the
victim's body to grow rigid,
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the muscles to knot in
his stomach the color
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to drain from his cheeks
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and his lips to draw tight
against his teeth as he waited
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for the first sadistic blow
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that would begin tearing his body apart.
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The scourge itself, the weapon
was a short wooden handle
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with several 18 to 24 inch long straps
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of leather protruding from it.
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And the ends of these pieces of leather,
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there was knotted pieces
of metal, wire, glass,
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and jagged fragments of bone.
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And this was considered to
be one of the most feared
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and deadly weapons of
the entire Roman world.
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And it was so ghastly
that the mere mention
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of a scourging could come a crowd
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or even bend the will
of the strongest rebel.
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No one wanted to be scourged:
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even the most hardened criminal recoiled from the prospect
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of being submitted to the vicious beating
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of a Roman scourge.
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And most often two torturers
were involved in the act
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of urging a victim,
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and they utilized this horrible method
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to lash the victim from two sides.
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As dual whips struck the
victim, the leather straps
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with their sharp jagged objects descended
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and extended over his entire back.
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And each piece of metal wire, bone
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or glass cut deeply through the victim's skin
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and into his flesh and shredded his muscles and sinus.
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And every time the whip
pounded across the victim,
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those straps of leather curled tortuously
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around his torso biting painfully
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and deeply into the skin of
his abdomen and upper chest.
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And as each stroke lacerated
the sufferer, even if he tried
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to thrash about he was unable to move
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because his wrists were held so firmly
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to the metal ring on the stone column. My friends,
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this was a Roman scourge
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and the victim helpless
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to escape the whip would scream from mercy
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that this anguish would come to an end.
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And every time the torchier
were struck a victim, the
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straps of leather attached
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to the wooden handle would
cause multiple lashes
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as the sharp objects at the end
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of each strap saying deeply into the flesh
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and then raked across the victim's body.
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And the torchier would then jerk back.
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And when he jerked back,
he would pull hard enough
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that the pieces of glass, metal
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and bone would rip entire
pieces of flesh out
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of the victim's body: the victim's back,
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the victim's buttock, the
back of the legs, the stomach,
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the upper chest and face
would soon be disfigured
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by the slashing blows of the whip. My friends,
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that is the process of a Roman scourge.
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But let me share with you
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what history recorded about Roman scourging.
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Historical records
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describe a victim's
back being so mutilated
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after a Roman scourging
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that his spine could actually be exposed.
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Others recorded how the bowels
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of a victim could actually spill out
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through the open wounds
created by the whip.
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And the early church historian, Eusebius, wrote these words.
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He said the veins were laid bare.
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The very muscles, sinews
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and bowels of the victim
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My friends, it is beyond
our ability to imagine.
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so aggressively strike his victim
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that he wouldn't even take time
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to untangle the bloody flesh filled straps
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as he lashed the whip across
the victim's mangled body over
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and over again.
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that if the scouring
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of the whipped would eventually filet
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the victim's flesh off his body.
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It's amazing. And with so
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by the whip, the victim would begin
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to experience a profuse loss
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The heart would pump harder and harder
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and harder, struggling to get
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that were bleeding profusely.
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There was nothing to stop
the blood from pouring
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through the victims open wounds
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and the loss of blood caused
the victim's blood pressure
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to drop drastically.
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he would experience excruciating thirst,
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often fading from the pain and
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heartbeat would become
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so irregular that he would
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that is a taste of a Roman surging.
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and Roman surgings.
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And I want to tell you
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what was the difference. In Deuteronomy 25:
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3, we read the Jews could give 40 lashes
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to a victim, 40 of these,
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but the 40th usually proved to be fatal,
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so they reduced the number to 39.
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But when Jesus was scourged,
he was not scourged by Jews,
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he was scourged by Romans.
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of lashes Romans could give to a victim.
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And the scouring Jesus
experienced was at the hand
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of these Romans.
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Now, while the New Testament
doesn't give us any depiction
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of what Jesus looked like
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after his scourge, we do
have a prophetic description
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of it in Isaiah 52:14, which says,
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as many were astonied at thee,
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his visage was more marred than any man
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and his form more than the sons of men.
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Did you hear that? It says his
visage was marred more than
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any man in his form, more
than the sons of men.
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That is how scourged he was.
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But my friends, it was by those stripes, by those stripes
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that you and I are healed.
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That's what we read in Isaiah 53:5 -
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But he was wounded for our transgressions.
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Aren't you grateful for that?
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He was bruised for our
iniquities - Say Amen -
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The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
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Say amen and embrace it - And then he adds,
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and with his stripes - my friends,
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I'm talking about this scourge - with his stripes,
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we are healed.
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And according to this
verse, we are healed today
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because of the stripes that
were laid across Jesus back
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and Peter in 1 Peter 2:24 states this -
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by whose stripes ye were healed.
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The word stripes that is used
here, the Greek word melopsi,
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describes a full body
bruise, a terrible lashing
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that draws blood and that
produces discoloration
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and swelling of the entire human body.
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My friend's, Jesus entire body
was swollen and discolored
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and disfigured by this discouraging.
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And Peter says, it was by
these stripes we were healed.
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And the word healed
that is used here refers
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to physical healing,
not spiritual healing.
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No one is spiritually healed, my friends,
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when you are saved, you're
raised from the dead.
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This is a verse about physical healing.
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And in fact, the word healed
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that is used in this verse
is a word borrowed from the
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medical world to describe
the physical healing
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and curing of the human body.
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And here we find in scripture
a promise of bodily healing
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that belongs to all who have been redeemed
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and who are the children of God.
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our sin on the cross,
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Jesus bore our sicknesses
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and Jesus bore our pains
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when those lashes were laid
across his entire body.
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His broken body was the payment
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that guaranteed our physical healing.
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And if you really consider the
price that Jesus paid for you
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to be healed, the price
that he paid for you
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to walk in divine health, isn't that enough to convince you
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how much Jesus wants you
to be physically well.
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But hey, that's not the end of the story.
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When we come to Matthew 27:27-29, we find
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that then Pilate delivered
Jesus to the Roman soldiers,
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the verses then the soldiers
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of the Governor took
Jesus into the common hall
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and gathered unto him the
whole band of soldiers,
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and they stripped him and
put on him a scarlet robe.
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And when they had platted
a crown of thorns,
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they put it upon his head
and a read in his right hand,
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and they bowed the knee before him
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and mocked him saying,
hail king of the Jews.
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Well, first of all,
the verse says it was a
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band of soldiers.
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Again, this is the Greek word spiera,
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which describes a cohort
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or 300 to 600 Roman
soldiers that were gathered
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and were now mocking Jesus.
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And the verse says they stripped him.
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The Greek word means to totally unclothed, to fully undress,
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which means they didn't strip him just down
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to his underclothes, they stripped him completely.
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And now Jesus is naked in
front of 300 to 600 soldiers.
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And in that moment, Jesus
took our shame upon himself
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and the Bible says they
wrapped him in a scarlet robe,
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a robe that had been
died in a deep crimson
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and may have possibly been an old robe
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that had been worn by a Pilate.
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And the Bible says in verse 29 - They platted a crown
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of thorns and they put it upon his head.
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Those thorns that grew in this
particular region were very,
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very long and sharp like nails.
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And the soldiers took those
vines which were loaded
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with sharp and dangerous thorns,
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and then they carefully
wove those razor sharp,
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prickly jagged vines together
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and formed a tightly
woven dangerous circle
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that resembled a crown of thorns.
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And according to Matthew 27:9,
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they put it upon his head,
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but the words put upon in Greek means they violently pushed
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or forcefully shoved the crown
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of thorns onto Jesus head and by friends.
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As those thorns scraped across his brow,
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it ripped his skin free from his skull
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and the blood began to pour,
pour, pour down his face
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and my friends, it was a crown of thorns.
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The word crown that is used here, the Greek word stephanos,
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which normally is used to depict a coveted victors crown.
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And those soldiers did not
understand they were crowning
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Jesus for the greatest victory of all the ages.
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And according to verse 30,
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then they put a reed in his right hand.
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There was a beautiful pool
which grew right in the middle
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of this courtyard and
in that pool where reeds
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that grew. Back in those days,
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there was a statue which
was called Ava Caesar,
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which depicted Caesar holding a scepter be
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mighty and powerful.
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Now, they placed the
scepter in Jesus' hand,
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except in this case it was a reed,
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which they took through the pond.
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And then according to verse
29, they bowed the knee
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before him and mocked him
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and bowed the knee in Greek
means they fell upon the knee,
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they collapsed before him,
verse 30, they spit on him
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and took the reed from his hand and smote him on the head.
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Now they're beating him on
the head, which is so wounded,
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and according to verse 30,
they took the robe off of him.
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I cannot even imagine how painful that was
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because by this time the material of
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that garment had become
meshed with his wounds,
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which were saturated
with blood that was dry.
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Now they ripped it off of him
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and when they did, so it
must have been a very painful
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experience and then they
put his own raiment on him
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and let him away to crucify him.
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I have a really, really
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not very enjoyable
illustration of this event.
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Somebody says, oh Rick, this
illustration is so bloody,
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but my friends, I want you
to understand the event
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that took place to Jesus on
this day when he was mocked
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and was treated so terribly
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by the soldiers in this inner court.
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But one thing we need to remember is
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that today is coming in the future,
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according to Philippans 2:10
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and 11, when at the name of
Jesus, every knee will bow
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of things in heaven and things in the
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earth and things under the earth.
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And every tongue will confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord
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to the glory of God the Father,
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and even the Roman soldiers that mocked him
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and fell on their knees in front of him one day will confess
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that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory
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of God the Father- but my friends,
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this is just a taste of what Jesus experienced
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before they led him to Golgotha
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where he was then crucified.
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And that's where we're going to pick up in the next program.
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I've got more to say to
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of the Tulsa Ministry headquarters,
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and I just love to come here
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and see all these teaching resources.
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My friends, we send them out
by 10 thousands every month
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and every year.
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It is just amazing
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and it's a great honor that anyone would want our teaching.
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It's very humbling and I'm very grateful
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that God is using our ministry
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and our teaching to strengthen
lives around the world.
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And our partners are the
ones helping us to do it.
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And right now we're trying
to pay off this facility
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so we can release more
funds to taking the teaching
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of the Bible to the ends of the earth.
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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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My friend today, I've been
talking about the horror
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of a Roman scouring,
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but my friends, Jesus really was scourged;
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stripes were laid across his back
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and across his entire body,
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and according to Isaiah 53:5 - by his stripes
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we are healed. My friends, if Jesus paid that price
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for your healing, it should tell you Jesus really wants you
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to be well and to walk in divine health.
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And if you need healing for your body
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or healing for your mind,
we want to pray with you.
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If you'll just reach out
to us by calling the number
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that is on the screen, we
believe there's a healing
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with your name on it
waiting for you right now.
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If you wish, you can just send us an email
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and when your email shows
up in our inbox, we'll
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likewise begin to pray for you.
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So either call or send us an email,
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but I wanna pray for you right now.
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So put your hand on your heart.
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Father, I just say thank you,
that by the stripes of Jesus,
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we are healed and I speak healing to every person that is
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with me right now that is suffering in any way in their body
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or their mind. My friends, I release the healing power
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of Jesus to you right now in
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Jesus' name -
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, tomorrow we're gonna come back
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and we're gonna go to Golgotha
where Jesus was crucified,
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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 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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This program was made possible by the giving
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of the God called partners of Renner Ministries.