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Welcome to today's program.
My name is Rick Renner.
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Today you can see from
the screen behind me
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that I'm gonna be talking
to you today about the
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crucifixion, and I'm going to be talking
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to you about Golgotha, which
the Bible says is the Place
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of the Skull.
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What does that mean?
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Well, I think you're going
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to hear a very interesting answer,
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but you know, years
ago when I was a child,
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every year I heard the same
message year after year
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after year about Easter,
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and I wondered, isn't
there more to the story?
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So I took a deep dive
into the passion of Christ
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and wow, I found things that
no one had ever told me,
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including what is Golgotha
the place of the skull.
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And today that's what we're going to see.
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Now, we're also gonna be talking today
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about the crucifixion.
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And I'm warning you
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that when you talk about the crucifixion,
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it is very graphic.
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But my friends, we need to understand
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what Jesus endured for us.
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When he hung on that
cross, he shed his blood
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as a lamb slain before the
foundation of the world.
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This is what he was born for,
and he died on that cross
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and shed his own blood to
purchase our redemption.
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And we need to appreciate
what Jesus did for us.
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So today we're gonna
really go into detail about
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crucifixion,
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but I want to remind you that
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And Jesus is gonna do something magnificent in your life.
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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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Today I'm going to be
talking to you about Golgotha,
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the place of the skull, which is
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where Jesus was crucified.
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And today in the city of Jerusalem, there are 2 sites
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that are called Golgatha.
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One of them is also called the
Garden Tomb or Gordon's tomb.
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And the reason it's
called Gordon's tomb is
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because a general came
from England in 1883.
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And when he found the site, he said, wow,
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this looks like the real sight
where Jesus was crucified.
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And the reason he thought that was
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because nearby on the cliff
is seemed to show the face
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of a skull carved into the rocks.
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It was a natural formation,
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but from a distance it
looked like a skull.
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And there was also an empty tomb nearby.
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So he assumed this must be the
real side of the crucifixion.
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And Jesus burial and resurrection.
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And today it is operated by
the Garden Tomb Association
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and they do not say it
is the authentic place
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of Jesus crucifixion and resurrection.
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But they say it probably
is similar to what
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that site first looked like,
where Jesus was crucified
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and where he was buried.
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But there is another site,
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and the other site is the
Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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When Constantine came to faith
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and declared the Roman
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his mother Helen, was very
committed to her faith,
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and she came to Israel
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and she began to search for holy sights.
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And she, by interviewing
people, found the location
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where Jesus was crucified, Golgotha, and she found the tomb
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and a church eventually
was built over the site.
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And my friends, that really
is the authentic site.
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Now, most Protestants
don't like the Church
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of the Holy Sepulcher
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because it's covered with
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so many religious decorations
and ornamentations.
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They prefer the other side
called the Garden Tomb
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because it is so simple
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and appears in nature the way
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that the Garden tomb probably
first appeared 2000 years ago.
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But over 2000 years, people
have been coming to the church
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of the Holy Sepulcher or the real sight,
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and they've been decorating
it and honoring it
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and venerating it.
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And now they've covered it with all kinds of ornamentation
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and religious decorations.
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And Protestants particularly
don't appreciate it.
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But many people often say,
well, where is Golgotha?
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Well, it's right there inside the church
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of the Holy Sepulcher.
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And in fact, you can ascend
a set of steps to the top
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of a small hill or what
remains of Golgotha.
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And when people see it, they're taken back
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and they say, well,
where is the rest of it?
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This is the hill of Golgotha.
Where is the rest of it?
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Well, history is very interesting.
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So let me answer the question.
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What happened to the hill of Golgotha?
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In 1172, Italian architects begin
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to construct the Tower of Piza in Piza, Italy.
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Nearby, they constructed the cathedral
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of Piza and wealthy people.
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At that time in Piza, Italy wanted
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to be buried in sacred ground,
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and there was no more ground
more sacred than Golgotha.
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So workers came to Israel
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and they began chipping away at Golgotha.
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And finally they loaded
five ships with the soil
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of Golgotha and transported
it back to Piza, Italy.
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And they put it in the central
courtyard of the cathedral
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of Piza so the wealthy people
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of Piza could be buried in sacred soil.
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So today, if you go to Israel
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and you go to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
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and you see Golgotha, you
might be surprised that it's
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so small, and you may be among
those who ask, well what?
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What happened to it?
Where's the rest of it?
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Well, to see the rest of
it, you gotta go to Italy
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because that's where 5-ships
took the soil of Golgotha.
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So the wealthy people of
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that region could be
buried in sacred soil.
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That is just amazing to me.
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But after Jesus was scoured,
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he carried the upper portion of his cross,
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the cross beam all the way to a hill,
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which was called Golgotha.
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And again, the ruins of Golgotha can be seen today
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inside the church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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Now, when most people today
think of a cross, they think
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of the typical cross, which
you see in most paintings,
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which kind of looks like a plus sign.
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But the Romans did not
use that kind of a cross.
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That image, which you see in
paintings today, were created
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by painters during the middle ages.
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But the crosses which the
Romans used were T-shaped.
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It was an upright post
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and it had a cross beam
which set across the top,
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and it looked more like a T than a plus.
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And in reality, the cross was an upright post.
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It had a notch groove along
the top into which the cross
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beam was placed after a
victim was nailed to the beam,
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and the cross beam was normally about 100 pounds,
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and the victim carried it
on his back all the way
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to the place of execution.
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So the cross beam was
placed on Jesus' back
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and Jesus began to carry this heavy,
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heavy cross beam all the way
to the place of execution.
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You can imagine how difficult this was
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because Jesus had already
been so physically abused
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and he had been scoured, his
body was flowing with blood,
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his back had been ripped open,
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and now a hundred pound
cross beam was placed across
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his shoulders.
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And there's something else.
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There was a sign hung around the neck
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of the person carrying the cross beam.
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And the purpose of the sign was
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to announce the person's crime
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and the reason for which
he was being crucified.
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And normally the sign was
written in Hebrew, Greek,
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and Latin and again, it declared the person's crime.
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And as the person would walk through the streets
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of the city carrying the cross beam,
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the bystanders could look
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and could read the
crime of the individual.
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And this is why we read in Luke 23:38,
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And a subscription also was written over him in the letters
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of Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
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This is the king of the Jews.
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This sign announced Jesus'
crime that he had claimed
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to be the king of the Jews.
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And as Jesus walked to his crucifixion,
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this sign dangled from his neck.
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And then ultimately he
was hung on the cross.
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So the people who walked by
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and saw him there would know
why he had been crucified.
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But as Jesus was walking to the place of Golgotha, the place
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of execution we're told in Matthew 27:32,
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that the Roman soldiers
compelled Simon of Cyrene
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to bear Jesus cross.
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This word compelled in Greek
means to compel, to coerce,
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to constrain or to force
someone into some kind
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of compulsory service.
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And here we find that
Jesus had been so beaten
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and was so weak that he needed
help to carry his cross.
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So they compelled Simon of
Cyrene to come alongside
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But eventually Jesus ended up
at a place called Golgotha,
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which means the place of a skull.
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Listen to Matthew 27:33.
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It tells us that the
Roman soldiers led Jesus
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to a place called Golgotha.
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That is to say the place of a skull.
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Well, we know that Gordon believed the garden tomb was the
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place of the skull because the
seemed to resemble a skull.
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they tell a different story about
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what the word Golgotha the place of the skull really means.
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Origen, who was one
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of the most important early church fathers
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and was noted for his
historical accuracy, wrote
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that Jesus was crucified on the spot
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where Adam was buried.
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Now that is what Origen said, and whether
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or not this is true,
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the fact is there really was
an early widespread Christian
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belief that Jesus was
crucified just above the place
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where Adam was buried.
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We know in Matthew 27:51
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that there was an earthquake
that occurred at the time
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of Jesus' crucifixion.
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that Christ's blood ran
down the cross into a crack
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in the rock below
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and drained through the crevice until it fell on the skull
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of Adam.
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so entrenched in early Christian tradition that Jerome,
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who was the 1st to translate the Bible from Greek
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and Hebrew into Latin: Jerome, one
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of the most prominent scholars
of the early church, referred
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to this fact in a letter that
he wrote in the year 386.
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And he affirmed that Jesus really was crucified on the place
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where Adam was buried
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and that the blood of
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through the crevice and fell upon the skull of Adam.
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Now, this is unknown to
most western Christians,
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but it is so accepted as a
part of orthodox Christianity
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and orthodox doctrine that
if you look at the crosses
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of the Orthodox church
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or the icons of the Orthodox
church at the base of each one
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of those crosses in the icons
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or in the paintings, you will see a skull.
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that it symbolizes Jesus'
victory over death,
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but in fact, it symbolizes Adam's skull
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and they believe the blood
of Jesus fell on that skull.
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And if it's true, I'm not
saying that it is true,
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but if it is true, it is amazing that the 2nd Adam,
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Jesus Christ died for the sins
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of the world exactly on the
spot where the first Adam,
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the original sinner was buried.
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And if Jesus' blood
really ran down a crack
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and fell upon Adam's skull,
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this early tradition says this is symbolic
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of Jesus' blood covering
the sins of the human race.
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I think that is amazing.
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It is not provable,
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but that really was believed
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by early Christian Church leaders.
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But what do we definitely know
about the place of execution?
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Well, we know that Jesus was crucified like a criminal just
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outside of the walls of Jerusalem.
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And we knew from 1 Corinthians 15:3-
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4, Christ died for our sins according
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to the scriptures and that he was buried
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and he rose again on the third day
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according to the scriptures. What is most important is not
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where the event took place,
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but what is important is that
the event did take place.
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Jesus really was crucified.
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And when you come to Matthew 37:34,
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he gives us this insight.
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They gave him vinegar to
drink mingled with gall.
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The word gall is really
a word which referred to
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as special painkiller.
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And there was a very special group of kind women in the city
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of Jerusalem who believed it
was their job to help those
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that were suffering horrific
deaths to have some kind
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of a painkiller, and they
made a homemade brew.
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but twice he rejected it
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because Jesus believed he was
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to drink the full cup of suffering.
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and they crucified him.
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to an upright pointed stake that was used
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for the punishment of criminals.
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It was used to describe those
who were hung up, impaled
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or beheaded in then publicly displayed.
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It was used in connection
with public execution.
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And the point of hanging
a criminal publicly was
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to bring further
humiliation for the accused.
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But crucifixion was one of the cruelest
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and most barbaric forms of punishment in the ancient world.
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In fact, it was so horrible that Flavius Josephus wrote
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that it was the most wretched of deaths.
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And it was viewed with such horror
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that Seneca wrote a
letter in which he stated
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that suicide was
preferable to crucifixion,
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but different parts of
the world had different
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kinds of crucifixion.
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the victim was beheaded
then was publicly displayed.
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victim usually was stoned
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and then hung on a tree.
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And that is why we read in Deuteronomy 21:
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22 - 23:
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And if a man have committed
a sin worthy of death
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and to be put to death
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and thou hang him on a tree,
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his body shall not remain
all night upon the tree.
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But thou shalt in any wise
bury him that day for heed
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that is hanged as a cursed of God.
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But at the time of Jesus' crucifixion,
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his crucifixion was entirely
carried out by the Romans.
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And once an accused person such as Jesus reached the place
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of crucifixion, he was laid
on the cross beam, he carried
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with his arms outstretched,
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then a soldier would drive a
five inch nail through each
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of his wrists, not the palm of his hands,
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but through his wrists
into the cross beam.
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And after knee being
nailed into the cross beam,
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the victim was hoisted up by
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and the cross beam was dropped
into a notch at the top
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of the upright post.
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And when the cross beam
dropped into the groove,
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the victim experienced
excruciating pain as his hands
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and wrist were wrenched by
the sudden jerking motion
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and the weight of the
victim's body cause his arms
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to be pulled out of their sockets.
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Josephus writes that the
Roman soldiers out of rage
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and hatred amuse themselves
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by nailing their prisoners
in different postures.
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But once the wrist were secured in place on the cross beam,
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the feet came next
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and usually the feet were nailed
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through the ankles into the
sides of the upright post.
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Now, I have an illustration
here which shows
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that Jesus ankles nailed
into the side of the post.
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This was typically the way
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that Romans crucified their victims.
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But for the victim to
breathe, he had to push up
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by his feet, which were
nailed into the vertical beam.
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And because the pressure on
his ankles became unbearable,
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it wasn't possible for him to remain in
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that position very long.
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So eventually he would
collapse back into the hanging
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position, and as the victim pushed up
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and collapse back down again
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and again over a period of time - listen -
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his shoulders eventually dislocated and popped out of joint.
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And soon the out of joint
shoulders were followed
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by the elbows and the wrists,
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and these various
dislocations caused the arms
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to be extended up to nine
inches longer than usual,
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resulting in terrible cramps
in the victim's arm muscles
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and making it impossible for
him to push up any longer.
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Added to all this torture
was the agony caused
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by the constant grading of
Jesus recently scoured back
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against the upright post.
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And every time he pushed up to breathe
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and then collapsed, he
could feel the grading of
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that beam on his open back.
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And then due to the extreme loss of blood
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and hyperventilation, the victim would begin
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to experience severe dehydration.
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And this explains why in John 19:28, we are told
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that Jesus said, I thirst; and then
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after several hours, the victim's heart would begin to fail.
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Next his lungs would collapse
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and the excess fluids would
begin filling the lining
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of his heart and lungs
adding to the slow process
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of asphyxiation.
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My friends, this is painful to hear,
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but this is what Jesus went
through for you and for me.
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And it is amazing that in Matthew 27:36, it says,
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the soldiers sitting down, they watched him there, they sat
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and watched as all of this took place.
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But what I want you to understand is the cross was shocking
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and the cross was appalling.
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It was a disgusting, repulsive,
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nauseating stomach turning sight,
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blood drenched down Jesus' torso, blood poured from his head
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and from his brow,
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blood ran like rivers from
the deeply thorn flesh in his
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hands, in his feet.
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Jesus' eyes were matted
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with blood from the wounds in his brow,
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his head bled from the crown of thorns,
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the soldiers had pushed on his head
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and the whole scene was
ugly, unsightly, repulsive,
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sickening, vile, foul, and revolting.
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And that is why Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1:
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18-19, For as much as you know, you were not redeemed
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with corruptible things as silver
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and gold from your vain
conversation received
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by tradition from your fathers,
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but with the precious blood
of Christ as of a lamb,
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without blemish and without spot.
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My friends, we need to understand
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and appreciate the price that was paid
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for our redemption,
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and that's what we've
been discussing today.
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Now I want you to watch this
and then I'll be right back.
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Someone asked the question,
what does the place
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of a skull really mean?
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Well, we first read about that in Matthew 27:33,
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where the Bible tells us they crucified Jesus at Golgatha,
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that is to say - the place of a skull.
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This was a very notable place in Jerusalem
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because reputably, it is where Adam's skull was buried.
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And according to early Christian writers,
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Jesus was crucified above that place.
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And in fact, early Christian writers right
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then when the earthquake
took place at the time
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of the crucifixion, Jesus
blood ran down the cross,
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down the crack into the grave below
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and fell on the skull of Adam
symbolizing that the blood
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of Jesus would cover the
sins of the human race.
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Now, I don't know whether
that is true or not,
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but if you wanna know what
the place of a skull is,
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that technically is what
it refers to the place
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where Adam's skull was
buried in Jerusalem.
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And according to early Christian history,
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Jesus was crucified just above that place.
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and a holy God.
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now.
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Today we've been looking
at the process of crucifixion
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and what Jesus endured on the cross for me
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and for you. My friends
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this was the price he paid for our redemption.
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He was the Lamb of God slain for us.
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And with his blood, he
purchased our redemption.
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And finally Jesus cried
out it is finished.
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What did that mean? Well,
that's what we're going
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to see in tomorrow's episode.
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Please don't miss it.
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You need to understand what
those words it is finished
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really means for you and for me.
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But I want to remind you
that if you need prayer,
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we want to pray for you.
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So if you'll call the number on the screen
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or send us an email when
you reach out to us,
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we will really begin to lift our voice and release our faith
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and pray for God to do whatever needs
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to be done in your life.
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And my friends, I promise
you, Jesus will do what needs
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to be done.
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But I wanna pray for you right now.
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Put your hand on your heart.
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Father, help us to understand
the price that was paid
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for our redemption.
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So many times we badger ourselves.
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And Lord, we need to understand that we are so precious
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to you that you paid for
us with the blood of Jesus,
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and we are purchased with a price.
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Lord, we thank you that you paid the price
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for our redemption.
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We thank you for it. In Jesus' name - Amen.
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Amen.
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Well, I'll see you tomorrow,
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but until then, remember Ecclesiastes 8:4 that 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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