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Let us turn together in God's word, to John Chapter Nineteen. John Nineteen,
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I'll be reading the first sixteen verses
John Nineteen, verses one through sixteen.
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Then pilot took Jesus and flogged him, and the soldiers twisted together a
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crown of thorns and put it on
his head and arrayed him in a purple
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robe. They came up to him, saying Hail, King of the Jews,
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and struck him with their hands.
Pilot went out again and said to
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them, see, I am bringing
him out to you that you may know
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that I find no guilt in him. So Jesus came out, wearing the
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crown of thorns and purpled the purple
robe. Pilot said to them, behold
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the man. When the chief priests
and the officers saw him, they cried
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out, crucify him, crucify him. Pilot said to them, take him
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yourselves and crucify him, for I
find no guilt in him. The Jews
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answered him, we have a law
and according to that law he ought to
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die because he has made himself the
son of God. When pilot heard this
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statement, he was even more afraid. He entered his headquarters again and said
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to Jesus, where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.
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So pilot said to him, you
will not speak to me. Do you
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not know that I have authority to
release you and authority to crucify you?
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Jesus answered him. You would have
no authority over me at all unless it
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had been given to given you from
above. Therefore, he who delivered me
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over to you has the greater sin. From then on, pilot sought to
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release him, but the Jews cried
out, if you release this man,
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you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone
who makes himself a King Opposes Caesar.
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So when pilot heard these words,
he brought Jesus out and sat down on
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the judgment seat at a place called
the stone pavement and an Aramaic Gabbatha.
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Now it was the day of preparation
of the Passover. It was about the
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sixth hour. He said to the
Jews, behold your king. They cried
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out, away with him, away
with him, crucify him. Pilot said
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to them, shall I crucify your
King? The chief priests answered, we
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have no king but Caesar. So
he delivered him over to them to be
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crucified. It was we read the
account of these events, you can't help
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but feel the tension and the stress, if I could put it that that
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way, of this situation. You
have a crowd screaming, yelling for the
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death of the Savior of the world, and this is particularly Ironic, sad
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and many other things in light of
the context in which all of this is
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happening. Remember, this is happening
in the context of the Passover. John
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Explains that he he reminds us in
several places, and here in this passage
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as well. In verse fourteen,
we read that it was the day of
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preparation of the Passover. It was
about the sixth hour, which is around
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noon. It's a little bit of
background on the Passover so we can understand
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the context in which all of this
is happening. The Passover was one of
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the great three annual feasts, I'm
one of the great celebrations in the year,
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Israel's year. The population of Jerusalem
would swell, since all the males
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of the people were called to come. There have been Darius estimates on how
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big the city would get, but
it's possibly around a hundred eighty thousand people
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in the city. It was packed. These are not huge not a huge
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place this will typically happen in the
spring, late March, early April,
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and what this celebration celebrated was one
of the most important events that had happened
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and really the history of the world
and also in the history of Israel,
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and that was their redemption by God
from Egypt. Remember this as one of
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the great momentous events in really world
history and certainly the history of this particular
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people. there. Israel had grown
as according to the promise of Abraham,
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the family. His family had growned
thousands and thousands and thousands, and here
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they are now in Egypt. But
there came a point where they become became
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slaves of Egypt. They were constantly
oppressed, they were stripped of their wealth,
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they were stripped of their dignity,
they were forced to work, they
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were treated unfairly and without justice.
It was cruel, it was oppressive,
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it was wrong, what happened to
them. On top of all of that,
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they were in a country which worshiped
false gods. Is God executed these
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plagues as a way of rescuing his
people. Each one of them was directed
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at undermining these various gods of Egypt, showing how the gods of pharaoh the
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gods of the government, the Gods
of these people, were not truly God.
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We're not truly powerful, but Yahweh
was the great rescuer. Yahweh would
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command nature itself and bring them out, and that was what they hope to
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do, to come out of Egypt
so that they might worship God. Wanted
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to establish with them a new covenant, a Covenant which would advance that covenant
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that had first been given to Abraham, a covenant which would anticipate the final
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things that God would do in the
day that Jesus would return. And as
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he began to establish that covenant,
what he was going to do, as
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he was going to bring people out
of slavery, he was going to rescue
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these slaves and he was going to
bring them to freedom and establish them in
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their own country, with their own
temple and true worship. It would be
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a land, a heavenly land,
flowing with milk and honey. It would
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be free from oppression and evil.
It would be free so that they could
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worship and live and abide with the
one true God. No more of Egypt.
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Now it was going to be this
heavenly land of Canaan and all of
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this anticipates, of course, in
an earthly and temporal way, the things
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that are coming when the Lord returns, when the Lord will rescue his people
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out of this world completely and entirely
and usher us into heaven if, in
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as, he reigns down judgments and
all those who would defy him. This
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Day, this Passover Day, celebrated
the day in which God passed over his
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people, passed over and did not
judge them but instead judge their enemies,
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and he rescued them, he brought
them in and out of slavery and into
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freedom. It's called Passover because what
would have what happened on that last night
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that they were there in Egypt,
is God commanded them to sacrifice ice and
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to spread the blood of a lamb
or goat on the sides and the top
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of the door posts. And if
and then, as the angel of the
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Lord came to execute judgment on Egypt, the that judgment would pass over the
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people whose blood, who were covered
by the blood. This, of course,
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anticipates Jesus and the covering by his
blood that he gives to us when
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Jesus goes to the cross, as
he's doing here in our passage and John
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Chapter Nineteen. He's being that lamb. He is being the one who John
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spoke about the very beginning and said, behold the lamb of God, who
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takes away the sins of the world. By his sacrifice. He pays for
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our sins. And because our sins
are paid for, when the Lord comes
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with his mighty angels to judge the
Earth, he will pass over us because
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we are considered sinless. Now,
how could we be considered sinless when we
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have sinned? The answer is because
Jesus has taken our guilt on himself and
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has given to us his righteousness.
That's grace. He's given to us something
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we didn't deserve. He has rescued
us, he has redeemed us. If
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that says as if you say that's
not fair, I deserve to pay for
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my sins, well, yeah,
that's exactly right. That's why we call
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it grace. God gives to us
something we didn't deserve. He loves people
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who didn't deserve to be loved and
covered by that blood of Christ, judgment
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will pass over us and we will
be ushered into glory and freedom and eternal
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worship of the triune God. This
is what we are looking forward to and
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this is all anticipated and modeled for
us in the Passover. So this is
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what's going on now. Just I
want to spend because I haven't done this
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before. I want to tie in
a few different verses that we it's been
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a while since we've seen if you
flip in your bibles back to John Thirteen,
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I don't even know when we were
in this passage. It was a
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while ago. We read at the
beginning of John Thirteen. Now before the
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Feast of Passover. I'm sorry,
let me, I'll let you turn there.
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Now, before the peace to pass
over, when Jesus knew that as
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our had come to depart out of
this world, to the father, having
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loved his own who were in the
world, he loved them to the end.
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Now this verse, this verse that
comes right before the Passover, right
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before the piece of Passover, Mark's
a big transition in the Gospel. More
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or not. Mark a John is
transitioning. He's saying he's concluding in a
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way on what has come and he's
transitioning to what is about to come.
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He says that, knowing that his
hour to depart, okay, the hour
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is about about here. He has
loved his own and he loved them to
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the end. Then in verse two, John Transitions to that Passover which he
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is just spoken of during the supper. All right, so this is now
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the next day, during the supper, and we know that this supper is
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not just a regular supper because he's
just talked to us about the Passover right
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where the bat pass over which was
about to happen. Now it's and then
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it says verse two, during the
Supper, when the devil had already put
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it into the heart of Judas a
scariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
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Jesus, knowing that the father had
given all things into his hands and
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that he had come from God and
that he was going back to God,
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rose from the supper. He laid
his outer garments and, taking a towel,
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tied it around his waist. And
you know what happens from here.
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He then goes to wash his disciples
feet. He teaches them what it means
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to serve and to love, and
he goes on to tell them all kinds
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of very important things. He talks
to them about suffering in this world.
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He talks about though he's going to
be going away, he's going to leave
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them here, but he's going to
equip them, he's going to give them
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the Holy Spirit, he's going to
fill them with his word and with the
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peace of God. He's going to
be with them and they're going to abide
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with him. We are going to
abide with him in his love, that
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same love that he has from the
father. And these, all of these
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words, we spent so much time
on, and for good reason. They're
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so important. And that takes us
all the way through chapter seventeen. He
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institutes the Lord Supper, he teaches
these things. These are all happening on
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the day of Passover. Now,
to kind of get the events in your
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head, the day of Passover starts
on Thursday night, essentially, because the
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days run sort of from evening to
evening. So this is what happens a
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Thursday night. Jesus is having this
meal with his disciples. Then what happens?
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He's for chapter eighteen. He speaks
these words, he goes out with
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his disciples and then of course they're
it's betoeen there. He is betrayed by
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the one that was mentioned back in
chapter thirteen. This is all the same
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night and other where it's all those
chapters the same night. And now it's
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still the same night. This is, you know, Thursday night when when
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Jesus is betrayed. Jesus is betrayed
with this kiss and he is captured by
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these people and he's taken to the
high priest. Then we read in Verse
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Twenty Eight of Chapter Eighteen, the
early in the morning. Right. So
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what would this be? What morning
are we talking about? Friday morning,
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but it's still the day of the
Passover, right, because we're counting from
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Thursday evening to Friday evening. So
they're taken to the they are taken to
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the governor's yes, taken to the
governor's house. It was early morning.
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But notice what it says. They
themselves. This is verse Twenty Eight.
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The chief priests. They did not
enter the governor's house so that they would
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not be defiled but could eat the
Passover. All right, how are we
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to understand this? Is this a
second Passover meal? No, the main
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Passover meal happened already, but it's
still the Passover Day. Essentially, this
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is a lunchtime meal that it was
still on that day. It's still a
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holy day. They still are being
careful, outwardly careful, and they and
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so they don't want to enter and
be defiled in this way by entering into
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the eveners house. The way I
kind of think about it is you,
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you know, when we have our
Thanksgiving right, there's a meal right to
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happen. It's the Thanksgiving meal.
But when you're, you know, microwaving
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the leftovers, you know, five, six hours later, it's still thanksgiving
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right. You're still you're still enjoying
the day, you're being to get all
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the things that we do on Thanksgiving. It's it's something similar. The day
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is still happening, though that primary
meal is already happened. The Passover is
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still going on, and so they're
still concerned. So as we continue on
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this timeline, then we come to
verse fourteen. All right, so now
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we're getting it's now noon, essentially
on Friday, still the Passover, and
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we read that at this moment,
at this moment, they the whole thing
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with pilot happens and now he's coming
hit this sort of back and forth with
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them. Now it's about noon,
right, so we've had about six or
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so hours have passed. It's the
sixth hour and it says now it was
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the day of preparation of the Passover. What does that mean. Well,
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the day of preparation here is not
the day before the like another Passover to
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coming up. What it's talking about? It's time about the sabbath, because
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remember what would hey were on right, it's Friday afternoon. What's coming next?
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The Sabbath on Friday evening, which
will run from Friday evening to Saturday
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evening. So there it's. You
know, it's sort of like if you
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happen to have, you know,
if your birthday backs up to Christmas,
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let's say. Right, you have
the one day, but as you're finishing
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that day you're kind of like,
Oh, here comes the next one.
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Right, you got to get ready. It's the day of preparation of that
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of the Passover, but not for
the Passover. Right. It's for the
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Sabbath, but of the Passover because
it's on that day. I'll follow me
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so far. Okay, this,
by the way, this is all helpful
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because a lot of people will look
at these verses and say, look,
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the Gospels are all contradictory. They
don't even know when the Passover happens.
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There's three passovers to pass over.
If you read it in those ways,
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then you will come up with these
these things, but there's a there is
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a way to read this and understand
this that we're at all makes sense.
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So anyway, it's Friday noon and
the concern is that the Sabbath is coming
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and as and just keep that in
your mind because as we come into the
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next passages, various people will do
certain things because the Sabbath is about to
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come, and we'll get to that
when we get to that. So all
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that to say, here we are
on the Passover Day. Right. They've
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had the meal, they went to
sleep, they woke up, it's still
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pass over. They're very it's very
much in their minds. Their concern in
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to keep it, to stay holy. But the very one that this whole
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day is about, the one remember
John, who says behold the lamb of
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God, who takes away the sin
of the world. That one. What's
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happening here on the Passover Day?
Instead of saying behold the lamb of God,
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who takes away the sin of the
world, pilot says behold your king,
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and they say away, but not
away with sin. They say away
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with him, away with him,
crucify him. On This Day, this
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Great Day of celebration, This Day
were all these people had come to celebrate
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the great redemption of God. Here
is the redeemer, the new and Better
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Moses, to inaugurate a new and
better kingdom. The food, the the
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people, the lambs, all of
the temple, everything, they are pointing
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to this and they're saying crucify him. And worse than that, they're not
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I don't know, worse than that, but along with that they're pledging their
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allegiance to CAIZAR. This would be
like the angel of the Lord Word,
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you know, passing over their houses
and the people calling out Faara, oh
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fair, oh right, they are. They pilot, caesars man, is
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trying to kind of get out of
this. He's trying to get out and
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they press him, they press his
hand. Listen to this threat in verse
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twelve. If you release this man, you are no friend of CAESARS.
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That is a threat. And of
course pilot, he cares very much about
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that. And it turns out so
do the Jews, everyone, these,
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especially the chief priests, these teeth
that, it says, those who brought
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Jesus to him. Verse six,
the Chief Priests and the officers. They
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are there. They want to establish
themselves as CAESARS men. They press pilot
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on that. Point in particular.
And when he says behold your king,
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they cry out away with him,
away with him, crucify him. Shall
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I crucify our King? The Chief
Priest's answers. We have no king but
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Caesar. Let's take a moment and
sit with that and think about our own
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sin and think about all the ways
in which we do the same, very
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same things in which God, who
is actively pledging himself in grace and love
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to us to forgive us our sins, to wash us, to cleanse us,
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to make US citizens of a kingdom
that is forever indestructible, full of
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freedom and worship and holiness, when
that God, our God, gives that
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to us, and then we choose
the things of this world over him.
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They're not the only ones to do
this right, and we do this in
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all kinds of ways. We do
this when we tie ourselves, for example,
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if I could put a little bit
of pressure on your hearts, when
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we tie ourselves too much to one
candidate or another as an election approaches and
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we feel like everything is riding on
this, all my hopes, all my
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fears, all my dreams. Everything
will go wrong if this doesn't go as
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I think it should. Go.
It's not to say the our elections aren't
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important, that we shouldn't be active
participants in this world. God, we've
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talked about that. God has called
us to that. But this world will
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pass caesars. What's a Caesar,
some of you might be asking right now.
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Empires come and go, they rise
and fall, but our Lord and
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his word stands forever. Of course, it's not just politics, it's all
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kinds of things, when we scramble
after money, when we do everything we
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can to fulfill our lusts, when
we seek out certain relationships and put all
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of our hopes and our dreams and
these any time that we are seeking the
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things of this world, even the
good things that God has given us,
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and we seek those over loyalty to
Jesus. We say food is my king,
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or love is my king, or
or politics is my king, or
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my job is my king or whatever. We fail in these very same ways,
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and look how awful it is.
They crucified the Lord and Savior of
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the world, and you know,
we weren't there calling out for his name
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at that time. Right. This
is not us that were there, but
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you remember, of course, that
he went to the cross to die for
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our sins. That's not, and
I wasn't, a sort of hypothetical thing
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like my sins. Jesus died for
yours and Jesus died for when we think
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about the suffering of the cross,
when we think about what he endured for
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us, when we think about that, it's our sins that put him there.
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That should cause us some heartbreak.
I think heartbreak for our sin,
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even abhorrence for our sin, when
when we profess our faith here at covenant,
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when we take our membership vowels,
one of the things is we say,
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don't do you abhort yourself and the
sinfulness of your nature and these things
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that were born into one of the
things I'm trying to say is that when
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we look to the Cross and we
see it's horror, it's a reminder to
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us that that's how we should feel
about our sin. That's what it means
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when we say I have no king
but Caesar. We ought to take our
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sin that seriously. When we look
to the cross, we we don't only
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see our sin and the horror that
it is and the abhorrence that it should
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be to us, we also see
their God's outstanding grace, steadfast love,
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because notice how, throughout all of
this, Jesus is going through this willingly,
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lovingly, confidently, right chapters thirteen
and through seventeen, that whole time
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that he was at his disciples,
that's what he was saying, right over
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and over again. I love you, I'm going for a reason. This
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is why this is happening, my
grace, my love, it's sufficient for
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you. And throughout all of this, Jesus so healthy, helps us to
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see how the world should be put
in its place. Just one example,
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the example of pilot, don't you
know? He says that I have the
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authority to release you and crucify you, and Jesus is like man right.
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He says, you would have no
authority over me at all unless it was
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given to you above. Pilot says
I am been power, I'm in in
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control, and Jesus says not really. Jesus understands that it's God who is
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at work, that God is the
one who institutes these things, and it
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is god to whom, God the
father, that he owes his obedience as
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the son who is acting obediently for
the human race. He is our substitute,
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he is our mediator, he is
the one who goes before us and
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does what Adam and what we fail
to do. Jesus is being obedient to
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that law, he is being obedient
to that mission and he and so he
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goes in this way and he goes
willingly and he delivers even himself over to
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be crucified. And so when you
look at the cross, don't only see
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the horror of your sins as you
think about what an awful thing it is
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to celebrate death and destruction and this
passing world and judgment and all of these
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things at the very moment when God
is promising redemption. That is a horror,
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but see the redemption to and know
that at this moment, as Jesus
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is going to be judged for his
sins, at this moment, when Jesus
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is going to be judged for his
sins, that is the moment in which
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God is going to pass over your
sins. Indeed he did, so that
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when the Lord comes again, we
are not afraid but hopeful, looking forward
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to the resurrection of the dead,
the judgment to come, because we have
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been saved, because we have been
redeemed, because of what Jesus has done
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on the Cross. Praise be to
God. Let's pray and ask that God
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would help us to see the cross
as it is given to us, and
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that we might live in light of
it. Let's pray
