1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,560 Hey there everybody and welcome out to another episode of Redeemed Through His Blood. 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:10,160 I'm Scott Durfey and joined as always by David. 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,160 Durfey what's up David? 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,160 Good to be here Scott. 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:19,520 Thank you for making this possible in your basement, your cozy little basement with snow 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,600 falling and this portable heater you have next to me. 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:24,600 That's good. 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,480 So my office is in our home. 9 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,680 We have converted an old storage room into my office. 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,280 I mean we don't have so much. 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,200 It doesn't look anything like a storage room. 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,440 It's kind of nice but yeah well it feels like a storage room because there's literally 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,440 no heat in here. 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,440 That's okay. 15 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,440 Nice room. 16 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:50,440 One computer, two computers. 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:51,880 I use this room. 18 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,240 This is actually a nice office. 19 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,400 Yeah this is my recording studio for this. 20 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:01,960 This is actually where I shoot my television hits for my financial hits that I do on TV 21 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,560 and this is where we do step work in AA. 22 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,800 This is where I hold presidency meetings for just about everything we do in this office. 23 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,920 Okay well I only have one suggestion. 24 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,040 You got nothing but horses on the wall. 25 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:17,040 You need a Jesus picture. 26 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:18,040 I do not have one. 27 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:19,040 I looked over there. 28 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,040 I didn't see him. 29 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:21,040 Oh okay. 30 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,000 Well you've got to put him where I can see him. 31 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,640 Who did that? 32 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,560 This picture is actually a painting that my mom painted for me. 33 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,120 Okay that's awesome. 34 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:31,520 My mom's a painter. 35 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:32,520 That's awesome. 36 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:38,080 She's painted a lot of lovely pictures for me and when we returned from Jerusalem. 37 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:39,600 We're going to talk about this today. 38 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:44,040 When we returned from Jerusalem last year I asked her if she'd paint me a picture of 39 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,000 Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. 40 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Oh sweet. 41 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And that's what that is. 42 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:55,200 Well you know we are going to kind of take a little break in the typical action. 43 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,120 We have a kind of a segue action that we're going to be doing today. 44 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:04,960 We have Easter coming up this weekend and because of that it's important that we take 45 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,760 time and talk about the events and some of the thoughts and feelings that we have and 46 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:16,520 you may have and maybe even explore some of the thoughts and feelings that those that 47 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,240 were there had. 48 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,360 We've done this every year. 49 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:26,600 We're going to do it again this year and I hope that as we do this this will enhance 50 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,520 our Easter experience this year. 51 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:37,040 Easter again this Sunday we will only be attending sacrament meeting which I think this is only 52 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,040 the second year. 53 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,720 Dave the church has had that in implementation. 54 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,920 I know it's so awesome. 55 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:43,920 It's so awesome. 56 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:49,160 I just told you years I used to think why don't why don't we do more. 57 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,040 Why don't we do more with Easter. 58 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,760 We're so good at celebrating Christmas but well when it comes to Easter. 59 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,280 Well I think President Hinckley started to change that you know when he said if it if 60 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,400 it weren't for Easter there'd be no Christmas. 61 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:09,320 Then President Nelson has just picked that up and just exploded with Easter celebrations 62 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:18,720 and the church has done so much better in the past five years or more with you know 63 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,000 thinking of Easter and helping members of the church to focus on. 64 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,000 I think that Scout Easter should not be celebrated as a day. 65 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,800 Christmas is really not celebrated as a day. 66 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,640 It's really like 24 days before Christmas. 67 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:36,640 Yeah. 68 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:37,640 It's like a month. 69 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:38,640 Yeah. 70 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,680 But at least for Easter we can do a week. 71 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,280 Good solid week. 72 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:49,320 You know unlike the Catholics or Lutherans or other Protestants you know who who start 73 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:58,280 Lent 40 days before Easter they celebrate Easter for 40 days and every day on Lent through 74 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:08,080 throughout Lent they have to sacrifice something a cup of coffee or some habit or some yeah 75 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,440 something every day for 40 days. 76 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,960 I think that's such a great tradition. 77 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:12,960 I do too. 78 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,720 I have a very close friend who's actually the president of his congregation in these 79 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,800 Lutheran that would be the equivalent of a lay minister like a bishop or an elders 80 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,800 corn president. 81 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,400 They have he has a minister or a pastor that is actually over the whole thing. 82 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:33,040 But anyway every year in the past and I've been working with this guy's been one of my 83 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,680 best friends for 20 years but for the last 20 years during Lent you know they'll go to 84 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,920 Ash Wednesday they'll get the ash on his forehand and the whole deal which I think is just such 85 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:47,400 a great great thing and then he gives up something every year you know and typically for him 86 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,840 it's beer you know that's a big deal for some people yeah 40 days and for some people that's 87 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:52,840 a big deal. 88 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:57,920 Yeah I found out something interesting this has nothing to do with Easter per se but it 89 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,160 has to do with Lent. 90 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,400 Do you know why we have St. Patrick's Day. 91 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,640 No St. Patrick's Day you know who St. Patrick was St. Patrick and he died on March 17. 92 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,040 Or whatever St. Patrick's Day is. 93 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:15,880 Well that just happens to be right between almost half way between the beginning of Lent 94 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,960 and Easter. 95 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:24,480 And so that is a day where they take a cheat day from Lent. 96 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:25,480 Oh really. 97 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:26,480 Celebrate. 98 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:27,480 They party. 99 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:28,480 Yeah. 100 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:29,480 They party on St. Patty's Day. 101 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:34,440 And that's why St. Patrick's Day is such a big beer and drinking holiday is because 102 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,640 of the parade and they celebrate it. 103 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:37,640 Yeah. 104 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:38,640 So. 105 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,640 Well halfway halfway the interesting thing about Easter which I think people are always 106 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:49,680 kind of in the dark about and wonder about kind of troubles them is that Easter they 107 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:50,920 can't keep track of it. 108 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,000 It's not like it's the December 25th Christmas Day. 109 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:02,040 It's based on the lunar calendar and it's always the first Sunday after the first full 110 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,400 moon after the spring equinox. 111 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:06,400 Okay. 112 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,640 So for it could be on the 22nd. 113 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:09,640 Yeah. 114 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:14,160 That's the earliest it could be and it hasn't been for like a hundred years but it could 115 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:20,520 be on the 22nd of March if that happened to be full moon happened to be the same as 116 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:26,840 the spring equinox and Sunday was the day after or it could push way back into April 117 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,080 like 25th or something. 118 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,240 So you know you have a. 119 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:32,240 It's like a whole month. 120 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:33,240 More than a month. 121 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:34,240 Whole month of swing time. 122 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:35,240 Yeah. 123 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:42,440 It could be on one of four or five Sundays from end of March to the end of April and 124 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,360 this week it's there this year it's kind of early March 31st. 125 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:53,560 It's in the month of March and so that's what that's based on in the Catholic you know 126 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,560 who kind of established this in the Nicene Creed. 127 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:02,160 The Nicene Creed is kind of who established this tradition of having it be the first Sunday 128 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:07,720 after the first full moon after the spring equinox and the Orthodox Catholic Church after 129 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:14,480 their big schism in the great schism in a thousand fifty four a day they they decided 130 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:20,600 to go a different route and they base it on something else and so there's actually in 131 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,360 the Christian world there's actually two different Easter's. 132 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:24,360 Yeah. 133 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:32,200 And the Orthodox Greek Orthodox Easter is usually a different day than the than the 134 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,280 Easter that we celebrate which is based more on the Roman Catholic tradition of having 135 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,880 it after that first full moon this first Sunday after the first full moon Easter should be 136 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:48,320 celebrated as a period of time not just one Sunday. 137 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:54,040 I think it was Elder Holland who first gave me that idea with my family when years ago 138 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:59,960 I think even before he was an apostle and he talked about Easter week and I thought yeah 139 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:04,320 why don't why don't why don't we just celebrate Easter day it should be we should think of 140 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:12,960 it as Easter week beginning with with Palm Sunday and celebrate it throughout the whole 141 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:14,320 week. 142 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:22,200 So I hope our listeners have their own special family traditions or reestablish some new 143 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:30,080 family traditions at the very least that during the last week of the Savior's life 144 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:39,240 that you'll focus on the events day by day of what the Savior was doing and do some readings 145 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:45,400 on the life of the Savior learn more about his last week. 146 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:53,640 Scott we know about 31 days of the Savior's life that includes his birth his baptism his 147 00:08:53,640 --> 00:09:05,160 ministry we only know 31 days of his life events that occurred on 31 days of his life 148 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:15,200 but by far we know the most about the last week of his life more was written about the 149 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,640 last week of his life than any other period of time in his life. 150 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:28,000 I mean we know we don't know almost nothing right about his youth one day when he went 151 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:34,120 to the temple when he was 12 years old you know and mother loses him in the temple and 152 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:39,880 we have that day and then we know nothing really until he's 30 years old and he does 153 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:50,360 a 30 he does a three year ministry from 30 to 33 but really we know very relatively speaking 154 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:57,880 we don't have very many days so you know what we have in the Gospels is really wonderful 155 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:03,960 in Matthew Mark Luke and John what they did for us to preserve and to recall and to write 156 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:14,120 about the Savior's ministry what a miracle and blessing however it's they're not histories 157 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:22,320 they're not they're not good histories it's not a journal their testimonies in fact in 158 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:28,640 the Joseph Smith translation each book of the new each book of the four Gospels Matthew 159 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:37,000 Mark Luke and John if the Prophet Joseph Smith retitled them and he and he called them the 160 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,840 testimony of Matthew the testimony of Mark the testimony of Luke and the testimony of 161 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:54,000 John their testimonies their witnesses they're not histories having said that we should really 162 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:02,480 study the events of the last week of his life to better understand appreciate and and be 163 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:08,280 able to access the atonement of Jesus Christ in our life so I hope what we can help our 164 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:17,600 listener do that today last year about this time Deb and I had just returned from our 165 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:25,880 trip to Jerusalem and that trip to Jerusalem has changed me in my worship in my worship 166 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:31,440 around Easter time absolutely and so you went after Easter last time or before we were there 167 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:36,720 just before just before Easter right we got home about a year ago this week okay so this 168 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:42,480 will be your second Easter since that trip that's correct yeah yeah and you know of course 169 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:48,800 we came out of we come off of that experience so fresh in our minds and in our hearts and 170 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,440 you know testimonies and and swelling of the heart and all the stuff that had happened 171 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:58,760 there will will come home and we did the podcast last year around this and then we had Easter 172 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:03,600 and my Easter was different last year and I and every Easter has been important to me 173 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,920 I think I can say that every Easter even when I was out drinking and you know and doing the 174 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:12,600 things that I shouldn't have been Easter was important to me and that's cool but it was 175 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,760 never as important as that is now I think there's really you know we have a song I 176 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:21,400 walked today where Jesus walked right yeah and what a beautiful song and you know I heard 177 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:26,560 one of the apostles many years ago I don't even remember who it was start to talk with 178 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:31,440 that song and then an invitation that hey we can walk where Jesus walks every day we don't 179 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:37,040 have to go there to do that great point we can do that here in our own hearts in our 180 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:42,640 own minds in our own worship in our own homes with those that we love but coming home off 181 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:48,520 of that experience last year has changed and this year it's even more David's even more 182 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:53,480 I hate to use word intense because that seems to have a negative connotation to it but I'll 183 00:12:53,480 --> 00:13:00,800 know what else to say you know it is just more aware more acute just the feelings that 184 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,680 I'm having as we're approaching Easter this year I get a little bit emotional even thinking 185 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:12,360 about it because I've had so many sweet experiences in preparation for the sacrament on that day 186 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,160 I really look forward to that. 187 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:15,800 Oh that's cool Scott. 188 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:22,160 Yeah there's a that's quite a quite an experience to go over there and to be able to it makes 189 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:30,160 it makes studying his life just become more real and and you can see the places in your 190 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:37,000 mind you can see them in relationship to the distance they are apart from each other and 191 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:45,080 where Jerusalem sits and where the Man of Olive is and and where Gethsemane is and Golgotha 192 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:51,560 and when you can see all of those things in your mind's eye which never which never leaves 193 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:58,720 you you know since Jesus Jerusalem has gone through such an interesting history and it's 194 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:05,400 been destroyed multiple times it was destroyed by the Romans I mean they leveled it it's 195 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:10,760 almost impossible to say that you're walking where Jesus walked when you walk the streets 196 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:18,360 of Jerusalem today but it's the same place geographically yeah and those areas have been 197 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:26,320 miraculously such as Gethsemane, Man of Olives, Golgotha those those places are physically 198 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:32,480 still there there's not not really a building I mean some of the some of the Zerubovil's 199 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:39,720 temple has been has been re the western wall and some of that is still there that you can 200 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:49,320 see but it's it's gone through a lot of a lot of history and a lot of destruction and 201 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:58,240 Jerusalem Jerusalem oh Jerusalem yeah that that Tuesday the Tuesday when Jesus is bewailing 202 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:04,160 you know oh how I from the man I would have gathered you how I would have gathered you 203 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:11,160 as a hen gathers her chicks but you would not but you would not that picture just kind 204 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:16,680 of haunts me you know I I don't know who painted that picture but Jesus sitting on the man 205 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:24,320 of Olives like he's not a great old son I believe yeah probably but I I love that and 206 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:30,480 think about old Jerusalem Jerusalem and I always when I say Jerusalem I always think 207 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:38,800 about the new Jerusalem that we look forward to a great anticipation towards you know the 208 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:46,720 being Zion middle of North America and in Missouri and to have that city built where 209 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:56,280 Jesus will rule and reign and for a thousand years and anyway a lot of great history and 210 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:01,200 I'm always grateful that we can review these events and encourage our our listeners to 211 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:08,800 do this with their individually or with their families immediate and extended families get 212 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:15,240 your families to celebrate Easter week and there there are some really great tools Scott 213 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:23,520 before I forget to mention these there's I think it's called Easter dot come unto Christ 214 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:31,840 dot org you might want to check that out but it's something like that Easter dot come unto 215 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,440 Christ dot org there's all kinds of tools on that website that was kind of designed 216 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:45,640 for the church designed that kind of as a for non-members does that come up Easter dot 217 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:54,200 come unto Christ dot org and then on our on our church app if you just go to the church 218 00:16:54,200 --> 00:17:00,760 app and you is that right Scott yeah that came up that is whatever you said Easter 219 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:06,960 dot come unto Christ dot org dot org that has some great tools on it yeah that you could 220 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,600 that you could share with your friends your neighbors those you work with whatever to 221 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:17,400 get the most out of Easter week if they're Christian or if they're not they want to know 222 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:24,400 what's what Easter is all about and why it's such a big deal to us if you go to your app 223 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:30,920 on your phone or you you go to the library on the church's website and you go under Jesus 224 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:38,720 Christ the topic of Jesus Christ they have an Easter study plan which is awesome and 225 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:45,720 they have some Easter videos so it would be so cool to watch a video every day of that 226 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:54,880 week and to read about the events that occurred on beginning with Palm Sunday and the triumphal 227 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:03,440 entry to Monday and cleansing the temple which is March 25th this year Tuesday March 228 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:10,120 26th by the way we know more about what he said and did on Tuesday than any day of his 229 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:17,840 life there's more recorded writing and and print on what Jesus did on Tuesday than any 230 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:25,920 other day of his life and we all often call that teaching Tuesday yeah and you get kind 231 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:31,960 of I think one of the least favorite chapters in the entire New Testament is probably Matthew 232 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:38,080 23 it's pretty harsh pretty harsh towards the Pharisees and the Sadducees but you get 233 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:47,040 another glimpse of how the character and attributes perfections of Jesus Christ and his intolerance 234 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:53,040 for sin in his disdain for self-righteousness I think that might be you know that's also 235 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:59,800 the chapter where he laments over Jerusalem yeah and that may be in part part of the lamentation 236 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:09,920 or yeah yeah for sure on then it goes on through Wednesday which we know very little 237 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:16,360 about is what had really happened on Wednesday Thursday Gethsemane Friday the crucifixion 238 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:27,680 is death and burial and then Saturday's in the spirit world and Sunday the glorious resurrection 239 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:32,520 so I don't know there's there's a lot to talk about let's should we just jump in and 240 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:38,280 yeah let's just you want to just start at day one there yeah okay so let's just let's 241 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:46,240 just start briefly by jumping in here Scott and I think something else maybe just before 242 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:54,320 we go day by day is to appreciate Easter you need to understand some about Passover which 243 00:19:54,320 --> 00:20:03,680 is a festival weekly festival and they they start preparation for this way before and 244 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:09,720 they celebrate it I mean you can read about Passover and the events that the first Passover 245 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:17,600 is really recorded in Exodus chapter 12 when Moses is trying to free the children of Israel 246 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:24,760 from Pharaoh and from Egypt and lead them back to the promised land of land of Canaan or Israel 247 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:34,640 and the last plague is that the firstborn child firstborn son is going to to die unless 248 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:46,080 you slay a lamb without blemish and you put the blood on the post on your door post and 249 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:54,000 the destroying angel came in and all the firstborn sons whether whether they were Israelites or 250 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:04,440 Egyptians were were sacrificed in essence now the god of the Old Testament you hope 251 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:11,080 that sounds pretty harsh doesn't it yeah yeah that does sound like take the firstborn son 252 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:21,200 of an Egyptian or a Israeli and if they didn't if they didn't put blood if they didn't understand 253 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:29,000 the atonement of Jesus Christ but I am comforted to know that the atonement of Jesus Christ 254 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,800 covers those individuals and those families and if they didn't know the truth they'll 255 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:38,680 have every opportunity to receive the truth I know there was weeping and wailing and I 256 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:46,200 know there was great sorrow and but if that's what it took for God to keep his his people 257 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:53,240 protected and pure and receive their promised land as a fulfillment of the Abrahamic covenant 258 00:21:53,240 --> 00:22:00,200 and that's what he had to do and apparently he tried every other way possible in all of 259 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:07,480 those other plagues you'd think the Pharaoh would give in by then but that's that's what 260 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:14,360 Passover is really about is the slaying of the lamb and the blood on the doorpost that 261 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:22,880 saves saves the children of Israel and all of that is symbolic of the lamb of God and 262 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:31,320 Jesus Christ and his blood cleansing us saving and redeeming us and it's interesting that 263 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:39,480 the Jew the Jews have always celebrated begin Passover really like on the 10th of knee Nissan 264 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:47,920 which is their their first month of the year and on the 10th of Nissan they they bring 265 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:55,360 in a lamb they choose the lamb that's when they choose it they begin to watch the lamb 266 00:22:55,360 --> 00:23:03,320 before they slay it five days later and this is kind of in connection with how the the 267 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:12,000 days work out here for Easter week the lamb lamb of God Jesus Christ comes into Jerusalem 268 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:20,000 they inspect him and he inspects them and they find him blemished they find him unworthy 269 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:27,840 whatever at least those who are self-righteous and wicked Pharisees and Sadducees but he 270 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:36,800 he's he comes in and he's inspected and eventually he is he is slain on the fifth day or Friday 271 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:43,080 so Palm Sunday the timing of all of this is kind of in connection with the celebration 272 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:49,200 of Passover from beginning on Sunday on through the rest of the week really it's not perfect 273 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:57,560 and by the way Scott the calendars and chronologies of these events are debated and there's so 274 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:04,640 much different theories and disagreements on some of the calendars and and the days and 275 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:09,080 I don't want to get hung up on that I I know that there's some even in our church have 276 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:16,960 a really hard time thinking about Good Friday being the day that he was crucified because 277 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:22,440 that doesn't give him three full days before he's resurrected yeah that becomes a problem 278 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:31,720 for some but I I love the fact that we generally mostly the brother and at least recognize 279 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:40,320 Good Friday which is kind of the the predominant Christian holiday Good Friday that we celebrate 280 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:48,200 that in in unity with the Christian world and that he was this is my personal belief 281 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,080 that he wasn't dead for three full days he was only in the tomb for about 40 hours but 282 00:24:53,080 --> 00:25:03,320 it was on three three over three parts of the three different days he was he was gone 283 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:12,000 gave up the ghost as he as he cried out and into the hands I command my spirit on Friday 284 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:19,040 but then at sundown the next day begins according to the Jewish again lunar calendar at sunset 285 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:25,160 the new day begins so then he was he was in spirit world all day Saturday and sometime 286 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:32,800 pretty early around sunrise Jesus was resurrected so I think it's a probably only about 40 hours 287 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:40,520 that he was in the tomb anyway I I just kind of give that disclaimer that I don't know 288 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:50,920 the listeners can it doesn't matter so much really what day these events took place on 289 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,640 what's important is that we recognize them and that we know that these that these things 290 00:25:55,640 --> 00:26:02,520 really did really did occur really did happen and the order and the chronology and the exact 291 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:08,040 date isn't maybe so so important no but what is important is that these events did take 292 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:15,800 place on a day and we can be in fact it's our it's our charge Dave we every Sunday we remember 293 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:22,320 these events in commemoration through you know the sacrament so yeah I understand that you 294 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:29,480 know there's some debate around days etc but again the fact is that there was a day when 295 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:34,760 this took place and there was a week in which it led up to that day and during that week 296 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:40,880 there were events that were there were milestones monumental important teachings important touch 297 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,640 stones for each of us as we put on the atonement of Jesus Christ through our knowledge of what 298 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:53,920 happened you right yeah great point so on Palm Sunday Jesus has his disciples have arranged 299 00:26:53,920 --> 00:27:05,840 for a white donkey for him to ride into Jerusalem and of course Jesus knew that this was all 300 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:15,240 leading up that this was all in fulfillment of his entire life's mission and that he was 301 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:23,720 in fact the Lamb of God and so he rides into Jerusalem people are laying down fig leaves 302 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:29,880 in front of him they're laying down their their their robes their garments clothing it's something 303 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:38,320 like that of a of a king which he is right he is a king the king of the Jews and he is 304 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:46,680 the second David and this is this is kind of re-enacting the when David was made a king 305 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:55,280 and the coronation of David as king of Israel who when he was made king wrote a donkey a 306 00:27:55,280 --> 00:28:04,080 white donkey into Jerusalem well Jesus is the second David and he rides in they roll 307 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:11,640 out the red carpet so to speak for him they're hailing him to be the king of the Jews and 308 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:23,160 the Messiah but before the week is over I think some of those same people Scott are 309 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:29,600 chanting and crucify him yeah crucify him I love that he rides in on a donkey there's 310 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:35,120 some great symbolism to that this is that also a David fulfillment of the prophecy 311 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:40,080 from Zachariah right Zachariah yes nine where he says and I'm just gonna read it rejoice 312 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:46,520 greatly oh daughter Zion shout oh daughter of Jerusalem behold thy king cometh unto thee 313 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:54,240 he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass upon a cult the full of 314 00:28:54,240 --> 00:29:01,960 an ass in other words they this and you know in a cult this this horse or whatever it was 315 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:07,040 is also on blemish right it's not been broke it's not been ridden before it's it also has 316 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,440 you know a lot of symbolism there as well the other thing that really hits me on this 317 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,000 though is you know we talk about he'll come in as a king when kings would come in they 318 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,600 wouldn't come in on a war charging horse yeah they would come in on a donkey because that 319 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:28,120 was a symbol of humility and peace lowly me yeah yeah yeah that's awesome thank you well 320 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:34,520 that's Palm Sunday and that's when it all all Easter really begins is him coming into 321 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:41,240 Jerusalem this is this is the Passover week I mean he knows it's Passover week and I actually 322 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,920 believe even though we don't have a real great record of this I actually believe that every 323 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:53,160 Passover all the Jews who could come to Jerusalem would come to Jerusalem that this would be 324 00:29:53,160 --> 00:30:00,040 so crowded so busy there would be maybe a million or more people who had come into Jerusalem 325 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,480 I believe this is why again going back to his birth that Mary and Joseph couldn't find 326 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:11,280 any room in the end was because it was it was around Passover week so Jesus I believe 327 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:18,600 comes to Passover almost his entire life at this time of the year he comes to Jerusalem 328 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:24,440 I think he did it every year of the three years of his ministry even though again we 329 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:29,040 don't have a complete record of that but John John does tell us that he comes in on 330 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:35,960 Passover's on I think two of the three of them so he comes in and he's going to stay 331 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:44,520 with the Mary and Martha and Lazarus the family that he has become so close to for I don't 332 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:51,920 know what really the kinship or if there's any blood relations here of Mary Martha and 333 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:57,240 Lazarus but he's going to stay in Bethany where they live which is just a few miles 334 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:04,760 south of Jerusalem and so that's where he's going to stay when he's when he's there at 335 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:12,440 night that's where he sleeps and then every day he walks into Jerusalem well on Monday 336 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:19,840 he walks into Jerusalem and there's two interesting things that I think happen this day for me 337 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:28,040 one is and again these events are not necessarily perfect in chronology but as he I believe when 338 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:36,160 he's walking in he sees the fig tree and this this fig tree is probably it's in the spring 339 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,200 of the year so it probably doesn't have many blossoms and which mean which is a sign of 340 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:48,720 the fruit right that there's not going to be much fruit there's no figs and so he he uses 341 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:55,520 this fig tree as an amazing object lesson and it's the only thing that we know of that 342 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:02,480 he killed you know we everything Jesus touches or every time he speaks it seems like he's 343 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:10,760 healing healing someone cleansing someone making someone whole but in this case he uses this 344 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:19,880 fig tree as an object lesson of the curse of hypocrisy right and being fruitless and 345 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:26,040 uses the tree to say it looks looks good doesn't it but it's of no value if it doesn't bear 346 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:32,760 fruit right so he curses the fig tree and when they come back towards Bethany and they 347 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:38,720 pass the fig tree Monday evening the apostles are quite surprised to see that the fig tree 348 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:49,760 is dead that all happened probably less than 12 14 hours the tree is dead anyway as they 349 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:57,160 go into Jerusalem he again goes to the temple and when he goes to the temple again they 350 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:03,280 are selling their wares the money changers are ripping people off there's people from 351 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:10,120 many several different countries and and these money changers are making money by selling 352 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:17,520 temple coins and and it's become a it's become basically a flea market or some sort of a 353 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:24,800 bizarre you know where there's just selling things and you have to use certain coins and 354 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:33,280 the they're making commission off selling exchanging money well there's I just think 355 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:40,960 there's not there's no better example of Jesus's love for his father than for how he and I 356 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:46,840 again believe he did this every year during his ministry we have one other record of it 357 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:53,120 in John chapter 2 when he begins his ministry he cleanses the temple well here he is coming 358 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:59,240 back again and he does it again the last week of his life and I believe he did it in the 359 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:06,680 years in between but we don't have a record of those so anyway this last week on a Monday 360 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:14,440 he comes in and he cleanses the temple again and and tells them to not make a mockery of 361 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:23,360 his father's house so we get an example of his love for his father I think primarily and 362 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:32,240 for his power and authority and what he what he thinks of the holy temple so that's an 363 00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:37,040 important event on Monday Scott anything else about Monday that you like you know the fig 364 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:43,520 tree is the only record that we have Jesus killing something right or destroying something 365 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:48,480 probably because the fig tree was without fruit it was just there standing there well 366 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:55,440 Jesus treated the hypocrisy of the Sadducees and Pharisees much the same way and I think 367 00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:02,480 that you know those two things seen together really speak to the way he viewed that type 368 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:08,760 of activity or lack of activity in our lives etc so that's all I have on it's all I have 369 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:13,800 on Monday but going into Tuesday there's a lot of stuff there too yeah well on Tuesday 370 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,760 again this this is a day where there's more recorded about what he said and did than any 371 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:27,680 other day of his life and he comes he comes in and he he begins again he goes to the temple 372 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:36,760 and he begins to teach and he preach and he gives you know the great commandments in Matthew 373 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:47,000 22 and in I think the least least popular chat one the hardest chapters for me that I've 374 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,640 ever read the New Testament's Matthew 23 when he's letting the Pharisees and Sadducees have 375 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:59,040 it and he calls them white at sepulchres you white at sepulchres and I mean he just really 376 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:05,680 letting them have it Scott and I think there's there's something important about that that 377 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:15,160 we see that side of Jesus and again how much he he is well I'll just say word hate how 378 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:23,560 much he hates self-righteousness I think there's nothing he hates more yeah than self-righteousness 379 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:33,440 and hypocrisy right so anyway chapter 23 is hard but then on the Mount all of it discourse 380 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:40,840 on you know he goes to Mount olives and on the on the Mount of olives he gives us amazing 381 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:49,200 discourse in Matthew 24 to his disciples and talks about Jerusalem a little bit the history 382 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:57,240 of Jerusalem and prophesies that Jerusalem will in fact be destroyed which is a prelude 383 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:03,800 to what the Romans would do to Jerusalem in 70 AD this would be about not quite 40 years 384 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:09,640 after he's after he's been resurrected that Jerusalem would destroy Jerusalem I mean level 385 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:18,040 it not just just completely level it and then and then he gives these amazing signs and 386 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:27,360 prophecies of his second coming and I'm so grateful that we have a Matthew Joseph Smith Matthew 387 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:34,120 in the Pearl of Great Price which is the Joseph Smith translation of Matthew 24 in the Mount 388 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:43,440 Olivet discourse which would be so sweet for our listeners to read that discourse that's 389 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:50,280 what I would focus on on Tuesday would be his discourse on the Mount of olives and 390 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,200 that's Matthew 24 and then and then Scott we have Matthew 25 which was all given to 391 00:37:55,200 --> 00:38:03,360 us on Tuesday which is the parables I think he saved I think he's the this isn't just 392 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:11,760 in prompt to I in my mind he has worked on these he has spent a lot of time and effort 393 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:18,880 developing these three parables I think these are the kind of the three crowns of all the 394 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:27,160 parables that he gave in in Matthew chapter 25 you know when he when he talks about the 395 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:33,040 ten virgins and the parable of the talents and the parable of the sheep and the goats 396 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:43,080 and all of that Scott points to preparing oneself and the church for the second coming 397 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:52,400 of Jesus Christ and I think it would be really worth one study to to consider as they as 398 00:38:52,400 --> 00:39:01,440 we celebrate his resurrection that we look forward to his second coming and when we will 399 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:06,760 see him for the first time as a resurrected being and those those three parables help 400 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:12,720 us to know what we need to do to prepare we need to develop our talents our testimonies 401 00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:18,880 that's I think really our testimonies we have lots of talents and we and we should not be 402 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:27,720 complacent we need to be come all that we can become but I really see talents as testimony 403 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:33,760 witnesses revelations that we have been given from the Holy Ghost and we need to really 404 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:41,920 develop those and we need to share those and not hide them not hide those talents because 405 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:48,000 that curses us and if you do that you're going to lose it if you don't use it you lose it 406 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,840 basically that's the message of the parable of the talent in the parable of the ten virgins 407 00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:59,480 well five were wise and five were foolish right and five were prepared and they had 408 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:07,400 oil in their lamps and we've had amazing prophetic discourses and talks given on this but but 409 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:13,080 ultimately in doctrine coming in section 45 Scott we learned that those that that those 410 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:20,240 who have oil and those are who are prepared we learn our members of the church who have 411 00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:30,240 taken the Holy Ghost as their guide that's that's the critical message of the parable 412 00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:37,440 of the the virgins the ten virgins is that five were wise and five were foolish I believe 413 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:43,320 all ten virgins represent members of the church and that means fifty percent of them are not 414 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,120 going to be prepared and fifty percent of if you take it literally and I know I don't 415 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,680 think that we should take it necessarily that literally but just think about this fifty 416 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:56,920 percent may be being unprepared and fifty percent being prepared and why are they prepared 417 00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:09,520 because they have oil in their lamps and every drop of oil is a deed of a worship a act a 418 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:16,320 thought a it's repentance it's faith in Christ it's it's the doctrine of Christ the oil in 419 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:22,520 our lamps represent the doctrine of Christ which includes the gift and power of the Holy 420 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:28,320 Ghost and and accessing the atonement of Jesus Christ in our life that's that's ultimately 421 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:34,360 the oil is the is the Holy Ghost administering the atonement of Jesus Christ in our life 422 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:41,240 which prepares us for anything Scott and so all of the events and all the terrible things 423 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:46,680 that are going to take place great terrible day of the Lord some of the really hard things 424 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:52,520 that will take place if we have oil our lamps will be fine we also we also learn by the 425 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:59,720 way in Matthew twenty four going back a chapter the Joseph Smith translation that even the 426 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:06,600 very elect would be deceived before the coming of Jesus and we're sure seeing that being 427 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:15,160 fulfilled to in our day but anyway Matthew twenty five in those parables that's awesome 428 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,680 to think about those in connection with the second coming of Jesus Christ just think about 429 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:25,880 some of the things that Jesus taught on Tuesday here's a kind of a short list right so this 430 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:30,360 is where he talks about the questions around tribute this is where he talks about marriage 431 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:37,520 and resurrection this is where he deals with the Sadducees and Pharisees so much great commandment 432 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:42,400 is given right on this day right right to love the Lord by God with all thy heart mind 433 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:48,320 and strength which is really not new that was part of the Jewish law right yeah that 434 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:54,480 was part of the Jewish law he had given his disciples or he will give his disciples during 435 00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:01,480 the last supper the higher commandment right which is to love your which is to love others 436 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:07,600 as I have loved you he says that's the higher law which will fills this law which is to 437 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:15,960 love God and to more than anything and to love your neighbor as yourself that was all 438 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,120 that's part of the law of Moses and is written in Leviticus yeah he's just reviewing that 439 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:25,600 with them and and teaching them the fact that well that wow you are really good at obeying 440 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:30,280 the law and yet you haven't kept the most important part of it which fulfills the law 441 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,320 which is love you're really good at going through the motions without doing it for the 442 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:41,280 right reasons that's what he's basically telling him teaching Tuesday teaching so much that 443 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:46,400 day he also denunciates hypocrisy you mentioned that the widows might he talks about that 444 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:51,880 on that day this is the day he laments over Jerusalem old Jerusalem Jerusalem that we 445 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:58,440 talked about earlier and so much more so yeah big day lot of teaching he would have been 446 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:04,160 tired after that day yeah big day and because of maybe that's got we don't know very much 447 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,600 about what he did on Wednesday and it's believed that Wednesday he just kind of hung out in 448 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:14,240 Bethany right we don't really have any record of him coming into Jerusalem on Wednesday 449 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:22,200 so he probably stays in Bethany with his closest friends and family maybe is preparing them 450 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:28,200 for the events which will occur on Thursday and especially Friday and giving them hope 451 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:35,440 of the resurrection and witnessing to them and preparing them so Wednesday is kind of 452 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:41,880 a silent in the record we don't really have have much recorded there there's you know we 453 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:47,680 can imagine I can imagine I should say you know on this day he's probably exhausted from 454 00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:52,040 the Tuesday before he's probably exhausted in anticipation of all that's about to come 455 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,240 because he knows and preserving his strength for what's going to happen that's right and 456 00:44:56,240 --> 00:45:01,680 you know and so he's spending some precious time with some in my mind really important 457 00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:07,080 relationships to him yeah Mary Martha you know we have the account from Luke 10 that's 458 00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:12,640 so important to us you know the one needful thing the raising of dead there Lazarus his 459 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:18,560 friend Lazarus and there may have been some extra Mary his mother was there yeah there 460 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,840 may have been some of his apostles and all of the people close to him there may have 461 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,480 been some extra attention to that they were all feeling because during that time there 462 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:34,840 was a conspiracy to kill Lazarus yeah Lazarus was being hunted so to speak at this time 463 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:41,680 he was the greatest example or the greatest evidence of one of Jesus's biggest miracles 464 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:46,080 and there were those that were conspiring to kill him to discredit Jesus also right 465 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:51,920 and that was also taking place during that time right yeah that was part of the tension 466 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:57,560 that led up to yeah I mean I asked in crucifixion of Jesus there's enough tension but then you 467 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,560 start putting in some of these little side things that are happening around them too 468 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:08,040 and it just really compounds it my mind yeah right well okay let's go to let's let's think 469 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:15,400 about Thursday hmm so Thursday he tells his disciples to make arrangements and he gives 470 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:20,840 them a sign and how they'll know where where they're to do it and to do the Passover yeah 471 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:28,920 where they're where they're going to participate in the in a I prefer to say a Passover meal 472 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:35,600 I don't know if this is really the the Seder meal it may be it may be Scott I think most 473 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:43,040 people believe it is and not and I don't disagree but it's a Passover meal I I don't know I 474 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:49,240 know it's just not clear in the history whether this is the Passover meal when they partake 475 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:55,600 of the the lamb and they they do all of that or the herbs and well the bitter herbs and 476 00:46:55,600 --> 00:47:01,520 the the Seder is a kind of a different thing I mean there's lots of meals right Passover 477 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:10,960 is a week long it's it's a it's a celebration that lasts several days so to talk about this 478 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:17,440 as being the Passover meal I think it's just more accurate to say Jesus wants to partake 479 00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:24,560 of a last supper and it is a part of the Passover and it is a Passover meal and what 480 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:29,960 they partake of if this is the Seder where they they they do the bitter herbs and they 481 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:38,680 do all of that I'm not sure but anyway he he wants to do this upper room's been chosen 482 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:43,200 and they make those arrangements and they meet there in the upper room in Jerusalem 483 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:52,880 and John so thankful for the gospel and book of John St. John and him being one of the 484 00:47:52,880 --> 00:48:03,640 younger apostles and and how he preserved the the writings and the teachings of Jesus 485 00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:09,480 in that upper room's got a huge proportion of the writings of John are dedicated to what 486 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:14,400 happened in the other room some have estimated even in the book of John that about 25 percent 487 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:19,200 of it's dedicated to what happened in the yeah at least or more yeah I mean it's really 488 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:27,600 starts like in chapter 13 and and and goes through night 18 19 so it's really a it's 489 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:36,480 really amazing I think how much of that night is teachings really chapter 13 14 15 and then 490 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:44,400 he he records what happens on through Gethsemane and and the rest and through the resurrection 491 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:51,400 in chapter John chapter 20 but but I'm so thankful for the teachings that have been preserved 492 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:57,640 that were with his disciples that he taught his disciples on that Thursday afternoon or 493 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:10,200 evening so after they have a really meal washes their feet which is an ordinance and does 494 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:17,760 all of that then sings a hymn in the upper room I mean this is really where again he 495 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:25,960 teaches love others as I have loved you and he talks about the fulfillment of the law 496 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:32,800 and he identifies his betrayer after he has washed all of their feet which is again amazing 497 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:40,360 to me that he washes Judas's feet before he identifies a betrayer and after and before 498 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:48,040 Judas leaves and then they sing a hymn the 11 apostles because Judas is gone and 11 499 00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:54,440 apostles with Jesus singing hymn and they depart for Gethsemane and I'm sure that Jesus probably 500 00:49:54,440 --> 00:50:03,640 years before has selected this place called Gethsemane which means the press the oil press 501 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:11,680 where they would press olives and olive pits with a huge stone pulled by a donkey around 502 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:20,440 in a circle in a trough and crush these olives and pits and an olive oil symbol of peace 503 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:29,440 would ooze out into vats anyway I'm sure that was he saw that as a perfect symbol of where 504 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:39,040 he would begin and we emphasize the word begin his suffering for all of the sins and all 505 00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:48,000 of the suffering of all of the world so when he gets to Gethsemane and leaves his three 506 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:55,080 apostles after they've gone a little further in and I love the way Mark described Matthew 507 00:50:55,080 --> 00:51:05,600 describes it that he falls on his face in Matthew 26 that he falls on his face Luke says 508 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:13,080 that he kneels and he begins to pray more earnestly but at some point there in Gethsemane 509 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:19,280 he is laid out and his suffering begins his suffering begins spiritual death really begins 510 00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:26,840 to to come upon him and he he has an angel that comes to strengthen him all of that happens 511 00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:33,320 in in Gethsemane but it's just it's wrong to think that Gethsemane is where all of his 512 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:41,280 suffering occurred or took place you know we know that it was on Friday were really 513 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:49,680 all hell broke loose and where he suffered and continued to pay and ransom us from all 514 00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:56,840 of our sins and sorrows and sufferings but that's Thursday and Thursday night and by 515 00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:03,720 the way in the Jewish calendar Scott Thursday at sundown is really the beginning of Friday 516 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:14,080 so really we're we're kind of into Good Friday based on the Jewish calendar so this is really 517 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:22,760 I believe was Passover when Thursday night and he's in Gethsemane and then on on Friday 518 00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:31,200 or if he's arrested goes through by you know a kiss of a betrayer Judas and they arrest 519 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:41,560 him and and Peter cuts off the ear of mouth yes and Jesus heals the ear and amazing and 520 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:50,400 they still continue to carry out his arrest and persecution and trial and it goes through 521 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:56,480 a mockery of a trial and the house of Caiaphas where they spit on him or they slap him or 522 00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:06,160 they accuse him of terrible things and finally decide that they have a case against him they've 523 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:13,160 they found him guilty from a Jewish law of blasphemy that he claims that he's God and 524 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:20,400 yet they also have false witnesses that have found him to be guilty of treason because 525 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:27,640 he apparently claimed that he was greater than Caesar so with false witnesses and early 526 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:34,040 in the morning after an all night mockery of a trial they take him to the the Antonio 527 00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:42,960 fortress where pilot resides and and they don't Jews don't have any power to crucify 528 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:49,920 him but there's kind of a little silent agreement or handshake I think between pilot and the 529 00:53:49,920 --> 00:54:00,320 and the Jewish leaders and and pilot doesn't want to be unpopular cause any major protests 530 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:09,480 or problems with the Jews so so when the Jews want certain people to be punished the pilot 531 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:16,440 I think caves in and with all the warnings that pilot had with the dream that his wife 532 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:24,400 had and all of that and him questioning him and and he finds him not to be guilty of nothing 533 00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:32,880 still he just finally just washes his hands and turns Jesus over to the Jews while they're 534 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:40,120 chanting crucify him crucify him he even tried to offer you know Passover and he says 535 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:48,000 in your Passover celebration you can let one one criminal go free and I offer you a Barabbas 536 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:55,320 which means what's got Barabbas is so bar is son of yeah and all but is God yeah so 537 00:54:55,320 --> 00:55:02,200 I offer you Barabbas and Barabbas was I think must have been one of the the worst criminals 538 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:08,400 in all of Jerusalem one gospel writer calls him a thief one calls him a murderer yeah 539 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:15,340 I'm sure it was both anyway they they release him they would rather have him the Jewish 540 00:55:15,340 --> 00:55:22,720 Sanhedrin and leaders and kind of the mob that has formed at Antonio Fortress they release 541 00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:31,800 Barabbas and chant crucify him crucify him directing that to Jesus so they lay it now 542 00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:36,960 keep in mind he's bled from every poor we know that nobody else believes that except 543 00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:40,680 members of the church Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints because the Book Mormon doctrine come 544 00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:50,360 in after bleeding from every poor going through a mockery of a trial going to to Antonio Fortress 545 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:56,800 where Herod the earth sorry going to Herod's after Antonio Fortress and then back to the 546 00:55:56,800 --> 00:56:07,200 Antonio Fortress where Pilate has him scourged lays the cross on his back and he collapses 547 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:18,040 on his way to Golgotha to the hill of Golgotha or Calvary and then then at not by 9 a.m. there 548 00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:30,040 at the foot of the of Golgotha and they put him on the cross and they crucify him Scott 549 00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:38,880 we believe with five nails one in his hands his wrists and his feet and therefore another 550 00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:46,760 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon he makes several statements while suffering the pains of crucifixion which 551 00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:53,040 would kill many but mostly it wouldn't be quick it would they would they would crucify people 552 00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,680 and hang on the cross for two or three days sometimes even a week before they would die 553 00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:05,480 from either dehydration or starvation or where their lungs just couldn't breathe anymore being 554 00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:11,800 in that being in that condition and he talks to the two thieves that are that he's crucified 555 00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:19,120 between and makes statement to his mother and to John and but it's really at 12 noon 556 00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:24,240 Scott on the cross that I think is so sacred so I don't know where our listeners are going 557 00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:32,240 to be on Thursday night but I hope they'll think of Gethsemane and do something with 558 00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:37,080 their family in thinking about Gethsemane and I don't know where they're going to be 559 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:45,600 on Good Friday during the day at noon or between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. but really at noon is where 560 00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:53,360 the suffering of Gethsemane reoccurs intensified that's Jesus the Christ the elder Talmadge 561 00:57:53,360 --> 00:58:00,000 other Mcconkey even president Elton has taught that recently that that the cross and Golgotha 562 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:09,880 Calvary is Gethsemane reoccured intensified anyway he cries out my God my God why has 563 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:16,640 thou forsaken me and for three more hours he suffers for the sins of the world all the 564 00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:23,920 sorrows and pains and sicknesses of his people and he dies 3 p.m. and people are surprised 565 00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:31,880 and shocked that he has passed so soon oh it's incomprehensible Scott the suffering 566 00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:39,600 that he went through in those three hours and the night before in Gethsemane where his 567 00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:46,880 suffering was so bad that he bled from every poor well they have to hurry and get him buried 568 00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:54,480 before the Sabbath which begins at sundown on Friday so they hurry and get his body and 569 00:58:54,480 --> 00:59:02,560 this in my mind almost hero Joseph of Arma Thea who seems to be a member of the Sanhedrin 570 00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:14,120 and has this some but is apparently is a believer and has this has this burial plot 571 00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:22,280 not plot to tomb brand new yeah and if you go there if you go there did you go there 572 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:27,240 oh yeah and see where they kind of chiseled it out a little more yeah that maybe Jesus 573 00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:33,320 was a little taller than maybe Joseph of Arma Thea and they it had to be kind of enlarged 574 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:38,800 just a little bit for his body anyway I find all that interesting and and that's where they 575 00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:46,040 buried him and I I think that's where we believe that he was buried there's there's the Catholic 576 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:50,120 place that they build a church over it where they think he was buried and then there's 577 00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:55,920 the Episcopalian site which is the garden tomb which is where we believe that he was 578 00:59:55,920 --> 01:00:02,600 buried I know I had a really sacred experience there and so did my sweetheart I mean she had 579 01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:08,920 a very sacred experience there in that garden tomb her her dad had passed away just a short 580 01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:16,920 time before and she was aware of his presence and so that's that site is one of the most 581 01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:22,840 sacred to to our family that's where Mary early in the morning would have been they 582 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:29,280 that's where they rolled the stone in front and he was dead for those some 40 hours and 583 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:35,840 early Sunday morning early Sunday morning I I like the truth I still have this tradition 584 01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:43,400 of early Sunday morning waking up and on Easter morning and reading John chapter 20 which 585 01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:49,080 I encourage our listeners to do maybe on maybe on Saturday while he's in the spirit world 586 01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:55,600 our listeners should read Dr. and Cumbna in section 138 which is Joseph Fieldings or sorry 587 01:00:55,600 --> 01:01:03,080 Joseph F. Smith's vision of the redemption of the dead and his vision of the spirit world 588 01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:10,720 that would be awesome to read on Saturday and then on Sunday morning or sometime Sunday 589 01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:18,240 or whenever you can read John chapter 20 I love that chapter on the resurrection it's 590 01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:26,480 my favorite and then sometime on Sunday or maybe even the next day or Sunday night we 591 01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:31,840 have to read Elder Stevenson gave such a great talk last year a conference was on Easter 592 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:39,160 Sunday I think and he he gave such a great Easter talk and he said your Easter just isn't 593 01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:49,440 complete I'm paraphrasing it's just not complete unless you read 3rd Nephi chapter 11 so sometime 594 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:58,240 on Sunday we need to read 3rd Nephi chapter 11 and it's true Scott the 2500 eyewitnesses 595 01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:06,880 in bountiful in the Americas where 2500 people were invited by Jesus to come and feel and 596 01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:13,080 know and to put your thruster hand into my side and feel the prints of the nails in my 597 01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:21,880 hands and my feet and one by one they did so and we have these eye and ear witnesses 598 01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:28,560 and more than that even Scott the spirit bearing witness and Jesus teaching them as a resurrected 599 01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:38,120 being on three different days as a resurrected being and and by the way most people I think 600 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:44,680 either don't remember or maybe haven't known that after Jesus was resurrected that he was 601 01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:52,160 with his disciples and followers in Jerusalem for 40 days for 40 days there was a 40 day 602 01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:58,680 ministry and I think in those 40 days Jesus would have taught them more about the the 603 01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:07,120 gospel the the law of the gospel within its its ordinances and covenants including temple 604 01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:13,880 ordinances and covenants I think all of that would have been taught in the 40 day ministry 605 01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:20,720 anyway we have so much Scott as members of the church Jesus Christ Watterday Saints to 606 01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:28,160 be grateful for when it comes to Easter with all of the additional prophetic witnesses 607 01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:40,080 and scriptural accounts of the literal reality of the Savior's resurrection as a as a member 608 01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:48,520 of the church as a you know I gave a beautiful blessing a patriarchal blessing Scott on Sunday 609 01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:54,360 to a young man and talked about the reality of the resurrection and how he would participate 610 01:03:54,360 --> 01:04:01,720 in the resurrection in the morning of the first resurrection then as a sealer when when 611 01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:08,920 couples are sealed for time and all eternity they are sealed with blessings and powers 612 01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:16,160 of the of the of the holy resurrection it's so humbling and it's so powerful and I know 613 01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:22,320 by the Holy Ghost by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost that it's true that because 614 01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:28,840 of Jesus's resurrection and I know he lives that all of us will be resurrected and that 615 01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:36,480 we will all live and that we can all because of him be together forever as families and 616 01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:44,280 I I leave with our listeners my sure witness and testimony of those things in the name 617 01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:52,080 of Jesus Christ amen and thanks so much David you know if it weren't for Easter we wouldn't 618 01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:59,640 celebrate Christmas if it weren't for Easter we wouldn't have the hope and the promises 619 01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:05,800 that come to us that all inequalities inequities and injustices in this world will be made 620 01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:11,000 right if it weren't for Easter there would be no answer to the effects of the fall of 621 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:17,480 Adam and Eve the effect there if it weren't for Easter there would be no answer to the 622 01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:23,240 effects of our own fall there would be no way for us to find any kind of happiness not 623 01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:29,600 just in this life but but forever as it is promised to us we've we've spent a short period 624 01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:36,440 of time covering some very important monumental and even that word does not do justice to 625 01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:41,040 the events that happened during Easter if you'll go back just a few weeks I don't know 626 01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:46,360 the exact off the top of my head without looking the exact episode numbers but just literally 627 01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:51,960 four or five weeks ago we went through the events of the atonement of Jesus Christ that 628 01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:57,480 is the encapsulation of the of the Easter story if you want to do a deeper dive into 629 01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:01,920 each one of the events that we talked about here today in fact we didn't talk about sinless 630 01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:08,880 life as part of the Easter story that is included in the events of the atonement of Jesus Christ 631 01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:15,480 but we do cover we do cover there the events that happened to Gethsemane on Calvary and 632 01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:21,600 the Garden Tomb which obviously is the Easter story nothing more important to us as Christians 633 01:06:21,600 --> 01:06:25,880 nothing more important to us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 634 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:31,280 than the life death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and all that 635 01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:36,360 it entails it's not just those events but it's the power that comes to us because of 636 01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:41,680 those events and I'm grateful for that in fact Scott the Prophet Joseph Smith said 637 01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:48,640 anything else are only appendages to the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ anything else 638 01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:57,720 that we do and I think Scott that is so important that we all every Sunday not just Easter Sunday 639 01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:04,600 but every Sunday we think about Easter and these events and that we continually strive 640 01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:13,760 to strengthen our testimonies of the reality of these events and the resurrection and that 641 01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:24,440 we we believe we know that death is temporary that Jesus Christ overcame death for all mankind 642 01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:33,680 everyone sons of perdition murders adulterers the worst of the worst all mankind will be 643 01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:40,920 resurrected and return to the presence of God to be judged that is the message of the 644 01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:49,040 holy resurrection and that we will be resurrected with perfected bodies of flesh and bone I 645 01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:57,160 just we have so much to be grateful for in regards to these events and we should be 646 01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:04,400 intentional about striving to strengthen our witness of these events throughout all of 647 01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:10,280 our life the way that we become intentional of that is to make a study of this to always 648 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:17,160 be repenting and also to include the sacrament and the the the ability for us to retain a 649 01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:22,760 remission of our sins or in other words to retain the covering that the atonement of Jesus 650 01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:28,960 Christ provides for each of us in our lives I think of Easter every Sunday there's nothing 651 01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:33,680 in my life more important to then the events that happened during that week because of 652 01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:38,720 those events David the in the inequalities that I've created in other people's lives 653 01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:43,800 the sins that I've committed and some of them are big and all of that other stuff can be 654 01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:49,360 taken care of and has actually been taken care of I retain a remission as I remember 655 01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:54,080 those events when I particular sacrament that's our invitation to each of us for this week 656 01:08:54,080 --> 01:09:05,400 prophet Joseph Smith just a short time before his his martyrdom in Nauvoo he said this quote 657 01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:14,600 all your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection provided you continue faithful 658 01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:20,480 by the vision of the Almighty I have seen it so it's not just we get our bodies back 659 01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:28,160 Scott all of our losses will be made up to you made up to you even the losses that were 660 01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:35,400 responsible for yeah compensated yeah this is the this is the power of the compensatory 661 01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:41,600 powers that flow into our life through the atonement of Jesus Christ this I think about 662 01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:45,960 the experience with elder Anderson in the prison when he told that that prisoner who 663 01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:51,680 asked really elder Anderson some of us have lost everything and elder Anderson about came 664 01:09:51,680 --> 01:10:00,000 out of his shoes and said everything can be restored everything can be restored to you 665 01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:06,000 because of the atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ yeah I mean that's that is 666 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:12,000 the good news and that's what we should celebrate remember at Easter that's our challenge to 667 01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:16,560 each of us and our invitation that's actually our invitation to each of us as we go through 668 01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:22,720 this week on Easter as we partake of the sacrament I pray that that will be a sacred sacred 669 01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:30,040 experience to each one of us that as we consider the things the lifeblood shed the the the sacrifice 670 01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:35,440 of not just him but of our heavenly fathers as well the sacrifice of his precious son 671 01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:40,960 for each of us may that be our charge as we go through this week is our prayer thanks 672 01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:46,720 for being with us we'll see you next week.