1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Hey there everybody and welcome back to another episode of Redeemed Through His Blood. 2 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,280 My name's Scott Durfey, joined as always by our great teacher and friend. 3 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,280 And I kind of got chastised last week when I called him my uncle, but he's still my uncle. 4 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,280 David Durfey, hey Dave what's up? 5 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,280 Yeah, I like being an uncle too. 6 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,280 Let's see, 34 nieces and nephews. 7 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,280 That's just on one side, right? 8 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,280 Yeah, that's just on the Durfey side. 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,280 Just on the Durfey side. 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,280 Yeah, uncle to 34 on the Durfey side. 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,280 I don't even know how many there are on my Terry side. 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,280 Anyway, Scott, it's good to be here. 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,280 You look good. You've been to Israel. 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,280 You don't have any suntan or? 15 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,280 No, the sun wasn't in very much abundance in Israel. 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,280 It was a little bit chilly. 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,280 We got rained on really hard actually. 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,280 One day when we were overlooking the road to Jericho. 19 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,280 Yeah, it was kind of crazy. 20 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,280 It was raining hard. 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,280 That's a scary road too. 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,280 Exactly, and we were in a big bus. 23 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,280 I kept wondering if they were going to have me get out and lock in the hubs on that big bus, put it in four wheel drive. 24 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:25,280 Were you going from Jerusalem down to Jericho? 25 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:31,280 We were actually had been near the Dead Sea and was going up. 26 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,280 You were going up. Yeah, that's what we did too. 27 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,280 Yeah, was going up. 28 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:41,280 I remember I was, for some reason, I was standing in the stair kind of thing of the bus. 29 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,280 When we were going up there, I don't know, I can't remember why. 30 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:51,280 I think because my sweetheart has motion sickness and she was sitting with another wife in the front. 31 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,280 So I was standing that whole thing. 32 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,280 Honestly Scott, I can vividly remember, and I kind of have a fear of heights. 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:05,280 I can remember looking out that door and seeing nothing. 34 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,280 The bus would go around some of those curves. 35 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,280 The wheels are barely on that road. 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:19,280 The bumper of the bus is actually over the cliff. 37 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,280 Quite an experience. We had a couple of those. 38 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,280 That's how I remember it at least. 39 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:25,280 Yeah, it was like that. 40 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,280 It was raining and there were these cute little shepherd kids. 41 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:33,280 As soon as they saw the bus, man, they came running with a handful of bracelets and necklaces. 42 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,280 They sell you. 43 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,280 But they had a scarf. 44 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,280 Bucksheesh. I remember them yelling out, 45 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,280 Bucksheesh, for a buck you can buy this. 46 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,280 For a buck you can buy that. 47 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:53,280 It was kind of fun so we bought a scarf and that didn't really help and it smelled quite badly until I got it back and cut her in stout. 48 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:57,280 But I had an old umbrella that we had given away. 49 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,280 It was kind of a swag at one of the events I did for work. 50 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,280 I hadn't opened it and we get there. 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,280 A brand new umbrella and I go to open it and it won't open. 52 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,280 It won't latch. 53 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:15,280 Deb ended up giving that to one of the cute little kids. 54 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,280 I don't know what they're going to do with it. 55 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,280 You didn't go to Egypt, did you? 56 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,280 We did not. We went to Jordan. 57 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,280 I remember the children in Egypt. 58 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,280 Wow, that was so tender in Cairo. 59 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:35,280 One of the biggest, oldest slums. 60 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:43,280 That word comes from Cairo and you get out there and honestly the children. 61 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:53,280 If you just take a stick of gum and give them a piece of gum or we took some packages of pencils and you just give them a pencil, 62 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,280 you would think it was better than Christmas morning. 63 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:05,280 I remember when Grandma and Grandpa went decades ago, they took bags of candy and gave them and stuff like that. 64 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,280 For that reason, that was interesting. 65 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,280 But anyway, you had a great experience. 66 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:17,280 You came back, your testimony probably not any stronger, but a little more personal. 67 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:19,280 How would you summarize your experience? 68 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:23,280 It might actually be a little deeper, a little stronger. 69 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:27,280 I don't know that personal experience. 70 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,280 I don't know that I could go walk where Jesus walked and not fill that. 71 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:33,280 I did fill that. 72 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:35,280 There were a couple places in particular. 73 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,280 Capernaum was one of those. 74 00:04:37,280 --> 00:04:39,280 I'm getting cold chills. 75 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:41,280 That's how the spirit manifests to me. 76 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,280 I'm getting those right now as I'm saying this. 77 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:51,280 We had a really wonderful experience with some people that we met and other experiences in Capernaum. 78 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:53,280 It was amazing. 79 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:57,280 I had a wonderful experience at Magdala that was kind of life changing. 80 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:59,280 I could have had it anywhere, but I had it there. 81 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:03,280 That's up there on the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee. 82 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:05,280 Northwest Shore of the Sea of Galilee. 83 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,280 Anyway, it was just beautiful. 84 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:09,280 It was good to go to the Garden Tomb. 85 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:13,280 I know we had a lot of listeners that were following us. 86 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:15,280 I didn't post a lot of pictures. 87 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:23,280 I posted pictures that had to do with podcasts and Jesus' life specifically on Instagram and Facebook while we were there. 88 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:25,280 I had a lot of comments. 89 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:27,280 A lot of people followed along there. 90 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,280 It was cool. 91 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:33,280 It was neat to go to the Garden of Gethsemane. 92 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:35,280 It was neat to go to Golgotha. 93 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:39,280 It was neat to go to the Garden Tomb. 94 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:43,280 That was pretty special. 95 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:49,280 Those are some of the things we're going to talk about today, Scott. 96 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:51,280 It's the week before Easter. 97 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,280 We're in Easter week, Holy Week. 98 00:05:53,280 --> 00:06:03,280 It just seems appropriate that we talk about some of the events of the last week of the Savior's life leading up to Easter. 99 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:09,280 We hope all of our listeners are enjoying the spirit of Easter week. 100 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:15,280 I think we do such a great job as Latter-day Saints celebrating Christmas. 101 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:23,280 We make such a big deal out of Christmas and we really celebrate Christmas with the rest of them. 102 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:35,280 I have felt for a long time, Scott, that as a church, as a people, that we could do better in celebrating the week of Easter. 103 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:39,280 I know the brethren have tried to help us with that. 104 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:49,280 I am so pleased, so happy that President Nelson has made some fundamental new changes in how we commemorate Easter. 105 00:06:49,280 --> 00:07:01,280 Allowing us to be with our families maybe an extra hour and to not give Christmas any more special treatment than we give Easter. 106 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:07,280 I am so pleased that we have come to our worship and being with our families and having family time. 107 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:11,280 I am really thankful for these positive changes. 108 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:19,280 Even Scott, this seems like a no-brainer, but we really haven't done this until the last year or two. 109 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:25,280 In Sunday School, in the manual, come follow me manual. 110 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:31,280 I am not a Sunday School lesson now, but that wasn't known when they wrote this manual. 111 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:39,280 The lesson this week would have been, if we had Sunday School on Easter Sunday, it would have been about Easter. 112 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Honestly, it just seemed wrong that we could have Easter Sunday and be talking about Ammon cutting off the arms. 113 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:57,280 Honestly, you could go to Sunday School years ago and not even talk about the events of Easter. 114 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,280 I remember times when Easter actually fell like on a state conference. 115 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:05,280 We would hold a state conference on an Easter. 116 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,280 We have come a long ways. 117 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,280 We have come a long way. 118 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,280 We still have ways to go as a group of people and as individuals. 119 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,280 We still have a ways to go. 120 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,280 Jesus was born on Christmas to accomplish Easter. 121 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,280 That is probably Hinkley. 122 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,280 There would be no Christmas without Easter. 123 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,280 If there was no Easter. 124 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:33,280 I love that because that is where our focus is not just this time of year, but that is where our focus should be every time of year. 125 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,280 Every week, every time of year, we should be focusing on the events of Easter. 126 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,280 We do that when we commemorate and partake of the sacrament. 127 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,280 True. 128 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:51,280 That should be our focus every week, every year, but to have that in special spotlight this year, I think should be. 129 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:59,280 I know in our ward council there has been a lot of talk around we really need to make this Easter sacrament meeting special. 130 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,280 I am looking forward to what will happen there. 131 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:11,280 The most important thing that can happen there is for us to commemorate Easter by partaking of the sacrament, which we will do. 132 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,280 But what if that experience is just a little extra special this week? 133 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:23,280 Well, it doesn't really matter what the church has done or what the church is doing or what the church will do. 134 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:31,280 As Latter-day Saints, we should establish special family traditions around Easter. 135 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:37,280 And I am not talking about Easter baskets and bunnies or Easter egg hunts. 136 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:45,280 Simple, simple traditions that we celebrate as families when it comes to Easter. 137 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:57,280 Just as simple as, for example, which we are going to do today, as simple as talking about each of the last days of the Savior's life. 138 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:07,280 When you start on Sunday, that's when me and my family will begin to really celebrate Easter, was this past Sunday. 139 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:13,280 A triumphal Sunday. The Sunday that he enters into the city, right? 140 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:26,280 So just remembering each day of the week and what happened on that week and reviewing the events and reading a few verses of Scripture about those events. 141 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,280 That's, I think, the greatest tradition that can be established. 142 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:46,280 And then, like our good other Christian friends do, who celebrate Lent for 40 days, we could at least maybe for four days before Easter and before the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 143 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:51,280 We should be asking ourselves every day, what can I sacrifice today? 144 00:10:51,280 --> 00:11:13,280 What can I give up today? What can I make holy, consecrate, sanctify today and be really consciously begin to think about the suffering of the Savior and what I can do to be able to receive that gift in my life. 145 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:23,280 So on Easter Sunday, oh my goodness, my favorite tradition on Easter Sunday is just a personal one of getting up really early. 146 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:34,280 I try to get up really early on Easter Sunday because I know Jesus was resurrected really early and I get up and I read John 20. 147 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:46,280 Just, that's been a tradition of mine for years and years and every time I do it, I feel the spirit of the Lord bear testimony to me of the reality of the resurrection. 148 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:54,280 And I just think simple, easy things like that, which may require some sacrifice. 149 00:11:54,280 --> 00:12:04,280 Definitely maybe some planning can really make a difference in how we enjoy the events and the sacred nature of this holy week. 150 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:10,280 While we were in Jerusalem last week, this was on my mind the whole week. 151 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:15,280 And so I'm anxious today to kind of wander back there in our minds, right? 152 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:20,280 And go through the events of that holy week. 153 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:31,280 I listened to a podcast actually yesterday while I was at the gym on the events of the holy week, did a great job of talking about the things that happen there. 154 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,280 Hopefully we'll be able to accomplish that as well. 155 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:42,280 But as we do this and kind of go back and think about those events of the week, it would help us to put ourselves there. 156 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:49,280 We talk about the things that are so important for us, to come to know Him, to love Him, to learn to be like Him. 157 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,280 And this is our coming to know Him. 158 00:12:51,280 --> 00:13:00,280 And if we can go to where He was, you know, and we are invitation so often, every week really, our invitation is, is when He says, come in me, where's He asking us to come? 159 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:04,280 Well, He's asking us to come to the events of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. 160 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:08,280 Well, this triumphal entry and this entire holy week is one of those. 161 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,280 And I'm really looking forward to this. 162 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:23,280 Right. Come unto me, stand at the foot of the cross, find a little corner in the Garden of Gethsemane and with the eye of faith, see my suffering. 163 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:33,280 That's, you know, really, Scott, it is, as Elder Holland has taught us, it is the suffering Christ that we worship. 164 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:39,280 And it is the living Christ that is the greatest symbol of our faith. 165 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:47,280 So I think it's, you know, that's President Hinckley, that it's the living Christ that is the symbol of our faith. 166 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,280 That's why we don't use the cross as the symbol of our faith. 167 00:13:51,280 --> 00:14:06,280 And yet it's so important to remember that it is the suffering Christ in Gethsemane and everything between Gethsemane and the time that he allows his life to be laid down and it's finished and he dies on the cross. 168 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:18,280 I hope our listeners will be thinking about that this week, about the atonement and the suffering beginning in Gethsemane and not ending there. 169 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:33,280 But in fact, even becoming even more excruciating in many ways on the cross, because he doesn't have any angels to comfort him and even the Father withdraws his presence. 170 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:46,280 But I hope that our listeners can kind of see the suffering Christ, but also the living Christ as part of this Holy Week. 171 00:14:46,280 --> 00:15:02,280 Well, it's interesting that on, we were talking about Jericho on Friday, probably of the last week, this past Friday, since this is Easter week, Jesus goes to Jerusalem to celebrate the Holy Week. 172 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,280 To celebrate the Passover. 173 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:17,280 And it's interesting to me, Scott, that he makes that, oh, I don't know, what is it, a three, four thousand foot elevation change? 174 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,280 I mean, Jericho's, I think Jericho's the lowest city in the world. 175 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,280 600 feet below zero. 176 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,280 Yeah, I know that the... 177 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:26,280 I'm below zero. 178 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,280 600 feet below sea level. 179 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:35,280 But it's just, I think it's instructive. Jesus could have come to Passover in many different ways. 180 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:41,280 He could have gone through Samaria again on his way down to Jerusalem. 181 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,280 But he kind of goes along the Jordan River and he goes to this low point. 182 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:55,280 And I think it's somewhat symbolic of the whole week of going from this low point to this high point and then back again. 183 00:15:55,280 --> 00:16:05,280 So he comes from Galilee and he comes down along the Jordan River and Jericho and then goes up to the mountain. 184 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:11,280 I mean, Jerusalem really does sit in the top of a mountain. 185 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:17,280 We talk about that, but I think it's really hard to picture it unless you go there. 186 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:25,280 And you see the city on the hill, which is Jerusalem. 187 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:37,280 So as he comes up there, he decides, he's been invited, I'm sure, to stay with Mary and Martha, sisters, and Lazarus, their brother. 188 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:38,280 In Bethany. 189 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:39,280 In Bethany. 190 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:44,280 Just probably about six miles southeast. 191 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,280 He goes there to stay with them. 192 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:48,280 It's Saturday. 193 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:58,280 This is probably, and by the way, as we talk about these last events of the Saviors last week of his life, mortal life, 194 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:04,280 we should remember that there are lots of different timelines. 195 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,280 None of the chronology is perfect. 196 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:12,280 These events, it's speculated by some happened on different days. 197 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:20,280 But the ones that we'll talk about, I think, are kind of the general accepted days and events and in the sequence that they took place. 198 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:27,280 Most people, I believe, except the fact that Mary anointed Jesus in Bethany on Saturday. 199 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:39,280 That spikenoard ointment and that was a sacred kind of precluding his death and resurrection to begin the Holy Week. 200 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:44,280 And then on Sunday, which is the fifth day before Passover. 201 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:51,280 Now, and by the way, we have such great tools on this, Scott, in our LDS Bible, in the 2013 edition. 202 00:17:51,280 --> 00:18:02,280 If you go in the back of the Bible, in the appendix, 766, page number 766, I think you can begin to look at these events. 203 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:09,280 And you can write down where it says 6th day before Passover, you can write down Saturday. 204 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:15,280 Then in your margin, you can write down the fifth day of Passover where it says triumphal entry. 205 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:22,280 And you can go down to where it says the fourth day before Passover and write Monday in your margin. 206 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,280 You can also do that on your phone, on your LDS app. 207 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:35,280 If you are using a Bible dictionary before 2013, it's in the Bible dictionary under chronology. 208 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:42,280 The chronology of the Gospels. In fact, it's under Gospels, sorry. It's under Gospels, a chronology. 209 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,280 So depending on which Bible you're using, you should use these tools. 210 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,280 And maybe this would be a great tradition. 211 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:57,280 I guess I do that every year. I always review the last week and events of the Savior's life. 212 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:03,280 That would be a new tradition for our listeners to review these events. 213 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:13,280 So on Sunday, he makes this triumphal entry. We call it triumphal Sunday and Palm Sunday. 214 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:21,280 People lay down their palm leaves as a sign of royalty like rolling out the red carpet. 215 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:27,280 He rides into Jerusalem on a white donkey, a symbol of being the second David. 216 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:33,280 This is how David was coronated king by riding a white donkey into Jerusalem. 217 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,280 And Jesus kind of reenacts that. 218 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:43,280 He comes in and people were hailing him as the king of the Jews and such a great celebration, Scott. 219 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:57,280 And it's again from such a high to such by the end of the week, such a low and then such a high again on Sunday when he's resurrected. 220 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:06,280 And it's kind of like going up and down the Jericho Road. Highs and lows of this week are pretty astonishing. 221 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:11,280 I like how you put that. I hadn't really thought of that before I heard of that, but I really like how you put that. 222 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:18,280 Just another maybe comment. You know, Jesus rides in on a donkey and you know, me being a horse guy, I'm thinking, 223 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:23,280 why wouldn't Jesus ride in on an Arabian horse? 224 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:29,280 Durfies have always loved Arabian Arabian horse would have been around then. 225 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,280 And it would have been a symbol of a lot of great things. 226 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:40,280 But and I've heard this, you know, that's the kings when they were in peace would ride in on donkeys. 227 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:45,280 This donkey was a symbol of peace where the horse was a symbol of war and conflict, etc. 228 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,280 So I just a little insight, you know, that I thought was kind of a melody. 229 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,280 Right. I thought it was kind of a porno. Right. 230 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Well, that's sweet. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 231 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,280 So he comes in on Sunday. 232 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:06,280 Some things think that maybe it's on Sunday, something that it's on Monday that and again at night. 233 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:12,280 Let's keep in mind Jesus is spending his evenings with the family of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. 234 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,280 Lazarus, who he brought back from the dead. 235 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:27,280 And there is a conspiracy among the Jews, by the way, that because that happened a short time before just months before this final week that Lazarus was brought forth out of the tomb. 236 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:44,280 And there's a conspiracy to kill Lazarus because he is the greatest evidence, physical evidence of the power of Jesus Christ and the witness that he is the son of God and has power over life. 237 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,280 And over death. Yeah. 238 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:52,280 So there's this conspiracy to kill Lazarus and that's where Jesus is staying in the evenings. 239 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,280 But I think it was on Monday, some say Sunday. 240 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,280 We don't know the exact timing of these events. 241 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:07,280 Jesus goes to the temple and there at the temple again. 242 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:12,280 We know he did this the first Passover when he began his ministry when he was 30. 243 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:16,280 Now again, the last Passover he spends in Jerusalem. 244 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:28,280 And I think maybe every Passover he was in Jerusalem, he does the same thing because I don't think we know he went to Jerusalem probably every Passover. 245 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:39,280 And I can't imagine that if he cast out the money changers and the animals, the first Passover and the last Passover that he was there. 246 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,280 I can't imagine why you wouldn't do that. The other Passover. 247 00:22:42,280 --> 00:23:00,280 So they see him coming again and he casts out the money changers and and and cries repentance to the people for not treating his father's house with the reverence and respect that that he knows that they should. 248 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:10,280 So he cleanses the temple and that's I think that's such a powerful lesson, object lesson for us. 249 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:18,280 I've not only his respect for his father and his father's house. 250 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:24,280 And for the ordinances and the symbol of the holy temple. 251 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:33,280 But it's kind of the way he does it with the discipline that he shows, especially as it's recorded in. 252 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:46,280 John regarding the first time he cast them out where he takes time to court a whip and he takes time to take the animals who are in cages and hands them to somebody. 253 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:55,280 He doesn't come in kicking and screaming. He does it in a very orderly, very disciplined sort of way. 254 00:23:55,280 --> 00:24:12,280 But the object lesson that I get out of this is that there's just sometimes where you say you have to say to our children and to those that we love that you need to respect this. 255 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:19,280 You have to respect this and I'm not going to tolerate it if you don't. 256 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:31,280 So I just think it's important that we see that part of the character of Jesus and his love for his father's love and respect for his father reverence. 257 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:45,280 So after he cleanses the temple and goes back to Bethany on Monday, he curses I think a fig tree. 258 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:51,280 And again the timing I'm not exactly sure if this is Monday or Tuesday. 259 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,280 But he curses a fig tree. 260 00:24:53,280 --> 00:25:01,280 And that fig tree becomes a great symbol of hypocrisy because he sees this fig tree. 261 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:08,280 It's showing great leaves, but apparently there's not a lot of blossoms. 262 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,280 It's in the spring of the year. It's not bearing fruit. 263 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,280 And he condemns it. 264 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:22,280 And he talks about it as not only being a symbol of maybe the second coming that you'll see the leaves on the trees and the signs of the times. 265 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:32,280 But that also that it's a, as Elder James, he tell me, teaches in Jesus the Christ that he curses it. 266 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:45,280 This is the only thing, Scott, that we know of that Jesus curses and it dies during his mortal mission and ministry. 267 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:52,280 Everything else he's healing, he's bringing things back from the grave or from life back to life. 268 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,280 But this fig tree, he curses. 269 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:06,280 And 12 hours or 24 hours later as the disciples come back and they see the tree, they're amazed that it has wilted and died. 270 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,280 Hypocrisy. 271 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,280 That Jesus does not want hypocrisy. 272 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,280 There is nothing that Jesus hates more. 273 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,280 This is just my conclusion, Scott. 274 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:25,280 There's nothing that Jesus hates more than hypocrisy, than self-righteousness. 275 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:35,280 And it's on Tuesday when he goes again to the temple and he lets the Pharisees and the Sadducees just have it. 276 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,280 He calls them out. 277 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,280 He calls them white and sepulchres. 278 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,280 He really condemns their hypocrisy. 279 00:26:44,280 --> 00:27:05,280 And I've always, that's always left an impression to me about the need for us to be aware that we are never self-righteous or hypocritical in our beliefs and that we try to live according to our beliefs and not be hypocrites. 280 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:15,280 So he condemns them, gives some of the greatest sermons really or parables of his whole ministry on Tuesday. 281 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,280 I think he gives like six parables. 282 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,280 Right. 283 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,280 Two include, for example, the parable of the two sons. 284 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,280 Yes. 285 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:24,280 The wicked husband man. 286 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,280 The ten virgins. 287 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,280 Yeah. 288 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,280 Yeah. 289 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:28,280 The wedding of King's son. 290 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,280 Yes. 291 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,280 Yes. 292 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,280 The parable of the sheep and the goats. 293 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:33,280 The parable of the talents. 294 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:51,280 He gives these six, these six parables, some of his best really, some of his best teaching occurs on Tuesday, just a few days before he begins to suffer for the sins of the world. 295 00:27:51,280 --> 00:28:00,280 At some point he goes up to the, to the top of the Mount of Olive, Olivet, and he's sitting there. 296 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,280 I like you were there. 297 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,280 Oh yeah. 298 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,280 That was a great place to, you know, from there. 299 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,280 And I thought about this. 300 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,280 I thought about his experiences there. 301 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:16,280 But from there you look and you will see in the distance, not that far distance, but the city of Jerusalem. 302 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:17,280 Right. 303 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,280 There's the southern wall, the sheep's gate. 304 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,280 They changed. 305 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:25,280 They thought it was interesting that the Romans changed the sheep's gate name to the lion's gate. 306 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:31,280 But, but, you know, right there and from there, interestingly enough, too, you're overlooking to, you know, as you're facing, 307 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,280 Jerusalem to the right, you'll see a part of the Kidron Valley coming in. 308 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:36,280 Right. 309 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:37,280 Right. 310 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,280 You'll see the, the road to judgment. 311 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,280 You'll see the Valley of Death right below there. 312 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,280 Right. 313 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,280 And see all those graves. 314 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:51,280 To the far left and just outside of the city of Jerusalem there, you would, that would be, have been the city of David. 315 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,280 And so this is the setting. 316 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:59,280 And just below, just below you at the foot, very foot of the Mount of Olives is the Garden of Gethsemane. 317 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:07,280 Today, over to the, to the right of you, right to the north of you, as you're sitting on the, you see on Mount Scopus, the BYU. 318 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,280 Yeah, the Jerusalem Center. 319 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,280 We actually went to the sacrament meeting there. 320 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,280 It was quite an experience. 321 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,280 Awesome. 322 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,280 Yeah. 323 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:15,280 You see the Dome of the Rock. 324 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,280 Yeah. 325 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:26,280 Where it's believed that Abraham took his son, Isaac, to sacrifice him, keeping the commandment of the father. 326 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,280 And you pitch, you can picture all of that from the Mount of Olives. 327 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,280 Yeah. 328 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,280 Jesus goes to the Mount of Olives, no doubt contemplating everything that's happened in that valley. 329 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:42,280 And as he looks over the Jerusalem, cries out, you know, Oh Jerusalem, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem. 330 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:43,280 Yeah. 331 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:44,280 How I would have gathered you. 332 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:45,280 Yep. 333 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,280 As a hen her chicks. 334 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,280 Yep. 335 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,280 But you would not. 336 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,280 That's, that's powerful. 337 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,280 Yeah. 338 00:29:54,280 --> 00:30:01,280 I'm sure and Jesus, complying what, what they could have had, should have had, would have had. 339 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:11,280 And then to contemplate what he was going to do, what he had to do, what he was willing to do out of love for those people. 340 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:19,280 That must have been one of the most tender moments in the life of the Savior. 341 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,280 I love that. 342 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,280 Love that painting. 343 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,280 Jesus on the Mount. 344 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,280 Yeah, I did too. 345 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,280 Plating those events. 346 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,280 Well, that's, that's on Tuesday. 347 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:36,280 On Wednesday, we don't know of really anything Jesus did on Wednesday. 348 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,280 Probably spent the day with his family, with his loved ones. 349 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,280 We don't know how many were there in the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus in Bethany. 350 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,280 But we know that many disciples were there. 351 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:52,280 His mother, maybe other family members were there. 352 00:30:52,280 --> 00:31:05,280 And then he would have maybe spent this last day in the most intimate setting with his closest friends and his family, which is really sweet to think about. 353 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:17,280 Then on, he's told his disciples to go in and to make arrangements and tells them exactly how it's going to happen and, and how they can find a place where they can. 354 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:33,280 Celebrate the Passover and which we now call where they could conduct the Last Supper and where Jesus initiates or institutes this, the sacrament. 355 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:45,280 So on Thursday, sometime late in the afternoon, they go into the city of Jerusalem and they go to the upper room. 356 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,280 Did you go to the upper room? 357 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:47,280 Yeah, we did. 358 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,280 Now the upper room, the original is not there. 359 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,280 Yeah. 360 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,280 Everything in Jerusalem was torn down by the Romans in 70 AD. 361 00:31:55,280 --> 00:32:00,280 So you really don't walk where Jesus walked and you don't really stand where Jesus stand. 362 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:02,280 But it's really close. 363 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,280 Yeah. 364 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,280 Right. 365 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:05,280 It's really close. 366 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,280 And it's, it's awesome that they have relocated a place. 367 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:15,280 The Christian community have located a place where they believe the upper room where it was located. 368 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,280 And you go there. 369 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,280 And what experience did you have there? 370 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,280 Yeah, that was an incredible experience too. 371 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:24,280 I know Deb and I both as we walked in there, it was kind of sombering. 372 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,280 It's a big room. 373 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,280 Pillars, arches. 374 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,280 Yeah. 375 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,280 And, and, you know, and I don't know that it would have looked like that. 376 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:34,280 It was a bigger room, but I don't, again, you know, traditional sites, right? 377 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,280 This is the traditional site. 378 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,280 And, you know, how do they come about the traditional site? 379 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,280 There's a lot of theory, a lot of ways that they've done that. 380 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,280 It doesn't matter. 381 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:47,280 You know, the point is, is that when you're in a room like that and we're talking about 382 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:52,280 the things that we would talk about in there, the, the, you know, beginning of the sacrament, 383 00:32:52,280 --> 00:33:00,280 you know, how Jesus talked about it and how he also said that he would be betrayed there. 384 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,280 And it was just a neat experience to be there. 385 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,280 And I took, I've taken the sacrament since I've been home. 386 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:11,280 And now when I partake of the sacrament, I kind of go back in my mind's eye. 387 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:12,280 Absolutely. 388 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,280 To that place where it was first brought forth. 389 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:20,280 And, and well, and it was a great experience for me this past Sunday as I did that because 390 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:25,280 while I was there in my mind's eye, there was just something a little more tangible than, 391 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,280 than I had had before. 392 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:28,280 Absolutely. 393 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,280 Taking the sacrament, Dave. 394 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:30,280 It was cool. 395 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,280 Absolutely. 396 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,280 And you mentioned one of your favorite places was Capernaum. 397 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:35,280 Yeah. 398 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,280 And, and that's where he gave the great sermon on the bread of life. 399 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,280 Right. 400 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:46,280 John six and he talks about hit the flesh being the bread of life. 401 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:55,280 So definitely you, you, you, when you go there to Jerusalem, the Holy land and you have those 402 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:00,280 experiences and visit those places when you partake of the sacrament and you're trying 403 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:05,280 to remember and think about the Savior's atoning sacrifice. 404 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,280 It does. 405 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,280 It's a little more vivid. 406 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,280 For sure. 407 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:16,280 Well in this upper room, some amazing events take place there. 408 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:23,280 John records, you know, John who is really writing to members of the church at about 409 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:30,040 a third of his writings, at least a fourth of his writings is about the experience in 410 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,040 the upper room. 411 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:39,560 There's several of his chapters are focused upon the teachings and the events of the upper 412 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:40,560 room. 413 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:46,640 It's, it's so, it's so interesting that he records that. 414 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:52,880 He talks about himself, you know, being the one who tried to get really close to Jesus 415 00:34:52,880 --> 00:35:01,840 in that experience and anyway, the teachings of those chapters are something that should 416 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:09,080 be contemplated and read, I believe on Thursday, at least some of them, the teachings of peace 417 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:14,640 I leave with you, my peace I give unto you, not as the world give it. 418 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:22,960 I, I love those chapters and love to contemplate the events that took place in, in the upper 419 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:29,640 room and one of those events was the washing of the feet, which is so interesting because 420 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:38,800 to me because Judas was there and Jesus wanted to wash Judas' feet. 421 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,880 None of us can really judge Judas. 422 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:46,880 Judas is a little bit of an enigma, I think, in the Gospels. 423 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:52,160 Some people call him betrayer, but he's never called that in the scriptures. 424 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:58,240 I don't really, we really don't know what to quite think, at least I don't of Judas, 425 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:04,760 but it was obvious that Jesus loved him and wanted to wash his feet and, and washes all 426 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,000 of the disciples feet. 427 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,560 A really sacred ordinance, Scott. 428 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:15,880 It's not something that I think should be taken lightly or try to be duplicated by anyone 429 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,800 in a Sunday school class or otherwise. 430 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:25,640 I think it's a really sacred ordinance that has deeper meaning than we can talk about. 431 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:33,040 But after that happens, he actually gives Judas the opportunity to leave and to go do 432 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:44,280 his, his deed and to get the silver and to make arrangements to identify Jesus in the 433 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:52,840 Garden of Gethsemane and kind of sell him off to the, I think, I think Judas Scott thought 434 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,640 that Jesus could deliver himself or something. 435 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,440 I, I don't know. 436 00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,440 I just don't know. 437 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:07,080 But I know, I know that he knew after it had happened and he saw that his, his choices 438 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:14,040 had caused Jesus so much suffering and that it was not going to be reversed and Jesus 439 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,280 was not going to choose to deliver himself. 440 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:27,360 Jesus went out just south of the city of Jerusalem and commits suicide, kills himself. 441 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:34,280 So anyway, but back to the upper room and Jesus initiates that, that sacrament and tells 442 00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:42,920 them that, you know, this is my flesh and this is my blood and to remember me and they, 443 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:49,720 he teaches them again about the comforters, this first comforter, the second comforter. 444 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:54,000 He offers an intercessory prayer, which is amazing, right? 445 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,400 John 17. 446 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,160 We should probably try to read that this week. 447 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:05,240 Amazing that prayer that we may all be one as we are one father, he prays. 448 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:12,760 Anyway, and then this is, you know, I know this one of your favorite scripture, Scott, 449 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:17,080 because, and this is life eternal, that they might know the, the only true God in Jesus 450 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,520 Christ, who now has sinned John 17.3. 451 00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:24,240 That's where he makes that statement is in the upper room. 452 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:28,600 And then they sing him, they sing him. 453 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:34,240 This is about 9pm, 830, probably eight, 830. 454 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:41,920 And after they sing him, they walk over Thursday night to a spot where that he has identified 455 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,360 and called the Garden of Gethsemane. 456 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:52,800 Gethsemane meaning the oil press, the place of the oil press. 457 00:38:52,800 --> 00:39:00,320 This was where all of the sins would be pressed down upon him, all of the sins of the world, 458 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:08,520 where olives were crushed, where olive oil was made as the, the olives in, in, including 459 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:14,240 this, the hard pit, the olive pit were crushed. 460 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:21,440 And olive oil would ooze out of these vats crushed by these huge rocks that would roll 461 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,320 around these vats pulled by donkeys. 462 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,320 Did you see that? 463 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:30,760 Yeah, you know, I want to add some insight here too, because we did. 464 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:37,120 It's called a millstone, and the stone that crushes the olives and it's big, a ton, maybe, 465 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:38,120 you know, and it would crush. 466 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:43,440 And it would, it would, it would require an animal, right, or several very strong men, 467 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,440 but an animal is what they would use. 468 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,040 And they would just slowly turn that. 469 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,720 Well, they would crush all of the olive, everything. 470 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:51,720 And there's some imagery here. 471 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:56,120 I want you, if you're, if you're beginning listeners, if you're beginning to imagine 472 00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:01,040 some imagery, we'll continue with it, because this is very important. 473 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:05,240 And as that happens, the oil from the olive oozes out. 474 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:12,720 And as it oozes out, they put that into a basket, it's a collapsible type of basket. 475 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,760 Well then it goes into a press and the, and it that ratcheted press, but applies, I don't 476 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,640 know, thousands of pounds of pressure, perhaps. 477 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,640 And there's three different types of olive oil, right? 478 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,160 You have the virgin oil that you use for cooking and so forth that comes first, then you have 479 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,400 the other that's for oil lamps or, you know, and other things. 480 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:35,640 And then finally, the final one, well, it's interesting how that in order to get everything 481 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,360 out of the olive, it has to go through three presses. 482 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:47,160 And while Jesus was in the Mount of Olives in Gethsemane, again, meaning the olive press, 483 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:52,440 when he was there, he prayed three times and was pressed three times to go through what 484 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:58,640 he went through to also get from him everything that needed to be gotten in order for the 485 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:04,080 redemption of all mankind to be set forth three times and for three hours. 486 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,080 Right. 487 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:10,520 He was there from nine until midnight on Thursday night. 488 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:15,280 So I don't know our dear friends, brothers and sisters. 489 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:20,160 I don't know where you're going to be Thursday night. 490 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:25,440 But we should definitely be thinking we're doing something to remember. 491 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:35,360 Gethsemane on Thursday night as we celebrate these events of Easter where blood would ooze 492 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:44,040 from every poor so great would be his anguish for the sins of his people. 493 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:49,440 And as Latter Day Saints, we've talked about this, the special beliefs and understanding 494 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:56,400 that we have received because of the restoration of the gospel, knowing that Jesus bled from 495 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,680 every poor. 496 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,800 That's not in the Bible. 497 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,240 Nobody else believes that. 498 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:10,840 Luke comes the closest to describing it when in Luke 22 verse 44, he says, his sweat was 499 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:15,920 as it were like great drops of blood falling to the ground. 500 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,400 And Joseph Smith actually changed that in the JST. 501 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:24,000 He sweat great drops of blood. 502 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:32,920 But no one else understands him bleeding from every poor so great was his anguish. 503 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:37,640 And it was so great that an angel came to strengthen him. 504 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:45,680 I love the imagery, you know, given to us by Elder MacConkey that that angel was Adam. 505 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,880 And here is Adam who brought sin into the world. 506 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,760 And he's trying to comfort Jesus. 507 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,000 Was was that Adam say anything? 508 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,120 What what could Adam possibly say? 509 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,600 To Jesus to try to comfort him. 510 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:04,600 Yeah. 511 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,200 Did he say I'm sorry? 512 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:13,720 Did I mean what could he possibly say the one who brought the sin into the world trying 513 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:19,720 to comfort he who is paying for all the sins of the world? 514 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:21,160 Adam was there. 515 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,200 The angel was there on special assignment from Heavenly Father. 516 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,480 Not sure words words would have ever even need to be spoken because of that special 517 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,480 assignment. 518 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:36,680 That mean that Jesus would have been able to transcend any of that mortal communication 519 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,160 to fill that support. 520 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,720 And without that support, I don't even know. 521 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:46,280 I don't even know what it would have been like with that support, but without that support 522 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,160 would it have been undoable unbearable. 523 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,120 Total spiritual death. 524 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:58,840 But Michael Adam, the archangel trying to comfort Jesus, these two created the worlds 525 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,960 together. 526 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:06,000 And you know, no doubt so close in their relationship. 527 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:13,560 It just seems really special and sweet to me that about that experience and I love all 528 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:19,920 of the artist's different renditions that paint the angel in Gethsemane. 529 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,280 I have one that I'm thinking of right now is my favorite. 530 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:27,160 I don't know who the painter is, the artist, but Jesus laid out. 531 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:28,400 He's just laid out. 532 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,360 And this is an important part, I think of Gethsemane that we need to appreciate is he's 533 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,200 not serenely kneeling at a rock. 534 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:47,960 Now maybe he started out that way, but Matthew describes it pretty starkly that he was laid 535 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:48,960 out. 536 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:49,960 Fell on his face. 537 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:52,480 He fell on his face. 538 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,560 That when he prayed, he fell on his face. 539 00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,880 He was laid out. 540 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:04,000 And I love again how the Bible videos that the church has made has shown him going after 541 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,040 three hours of suffering, bleeding from every poor. 542 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:13,640 And before the Roman guards come to arrest him, that he goes to the Kidron Brook and 543 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,120 cleans himself up after all of that. 544 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:22,520 And then keep in mind, everyone, we've talked about this recently. 545 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:30,360 Meaning after Gethsemane is going to be exponentially more painful because of what he suffered in 546 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:31,600 Gethsemane. 547 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:40,800 He is now because of bleeding from every poor, a human bruised, bruised for our iniquities 548 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:47,480 bruised and broken as Isaiah clearly describes it bruised for our iniquities. 549 00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:52,920 Any touch, even a kiss on the cheek is going to be painful. 550 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:58,640 Just to touch him, to slap him, to do any of that is going to be more painful because 551 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:04,240 his entire body has been bruised and he is now dehydrated. 552 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:13,120 And all of that is going to be with him until he dies on the cross the next day, Friday 553 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:14,280 at 3 p.m. 554 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:22,040 So after three hours of suffering in Gethsemane, he's arrested and he's first taken to the 555 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,520 high priest, Annas, who's kind of retired. 556 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,400 And then he goes over to his, I think, son-in-law, Caiaphas. 557 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,800 This is where he goes through the Makriva trial, is the house of Caiaphas. 558 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,720 That's where they slap him. 559 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:36,880 They spit on him. 560 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:38,880 I don't know why that kills me so much. 561 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:52,760 But they totally abuse him and mock him and come up with false witnesses and finally decide 562 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,480 they're going to take him to Pilate and accuse him of sedition. 563 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,760 And early in the morning, they do. 564 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,800 They take him to Pilate. 565 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:05,440 Peter in the meantime, again, I don't know. 566 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,840 We need to be kind to Peter. 567 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:13,440 I don't know if we really know all of the reasons why, the motives or what's really going on 568 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:18,480 with the denials, three denials of Peter. 569 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:25,760 But anyway, they take Jesus after the Makriva trial all night long, which breaks their own 570 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:26,760 law. 571 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:32,360 The Jews, the Jews, the Sanhedrin takes him to Pilate. 572 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:38,120 And Pilate doesn't understand why the Jews want him dead so bad. 573 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:42,440 And Pilate's wife had a dream and she warns Pilate. 574 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,860 Pilate finally says to the Jews, Hey, it's Passover. 575 00:47:45,860 --> 00:47:48,320 We can let a prisoner go free. 576 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:56,280 I offer you Jesus, who I find to be innocent, or Barabbas. 577 00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,560 And Barabbas, it's recorded in the scriptures, not only a thief but a murderer. 578 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:00,560 Yeah. 579 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:01,560 One of the worst. 580 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,240 He's a capital criminal. 581 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:09,480 So who do you, I mean, this is this is Pilate's attempt. 582 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:17,440 And they, the sand led by the Sanhedrin and the self-righteous hypocrites begin to chant, 583 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:22,200 you know, speaking of Jesus, crucify him, crucify him. 584 00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,360 And Barabbas is freed. 585 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,760 I wonder whatever happened to Barabbas. 586 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,760 I don't know. 587 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:33,320 I really wonder if Barabbas ever converted or whatever happened to him. 588 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,000 I'm going to say he did. 589 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,400 I just don't know how. 590 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,400 And it's interesting. 591 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:39,400 I hope he did. 592 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:40,600 It's, yeah, it is all speculation. 593 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,960 Obviously, I don't know any more than anybody else. 594 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:48,160 But, but I think it's interesting, you know, Barabbas, that name, Bar, son. 595 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,480 Yes, yeah, right. 596 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,560 Abba, father, the son of the father. 597 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:59,440 So the son of God was released and set free because of what the real son of God was about 598 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:00,440 to go through. 599 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,760 And so Christ even gave his life for that son of God. 600 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:09,680 I think it's interesting and probably a perspective that would serve us to contemplate for a minute 601 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:15,560 around that because, you know, oftentimes it's easy for us, like you said, to cast stones 602 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:16,560 at Peter. 603 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:17,560 Why did Peter do that? 604 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:18,560 What's wrong with him? 605 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:23,520 It's really easy for us to see these other characters in the Bible with, you know, tainted 606 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:24,520 lenses. 607 00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:25,520 And, you know, we see that with Barabbas. 608 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:26,520 There's no question. 609 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,480 There was a capital criminal here. 610 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:33,640 But it's interesting how Christ even gave his life for him. 611 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,520 Yes, right. 612 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:43,240 And we don't know the events of of Barabbas's murder or, you know, we don't know that. 613 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:44,240 It doesn't matter. 614 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:45,240 It doesn't matter. 615 00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:47,040 It could have been horrendous. 616 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:48,200 Jesus died for him. 617 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,160 Jesus freed him. 618 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:54,880 I mean, physically and maybe spiritually. 619 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:55,880 Who knows? 620 00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:02,920 I mean, I know that we, we all know that there's our sins that are unforgivable and murder. 621 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,240 First degree murder is one of them. 622 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:10,200 But there's many different degrees of murder than and it doesn't matter. 623 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,960 Jesus suffered for even the worst murders and even the sons of perdition. 624 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:15,960 Right. 625 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:21,680 Jesus suffered for all the sins of all the world and everyone's going to know after their 626 00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,360 death and resurrection and the final judgment, they're going to know. 627 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:26,360 Yeah. 628 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:27,360 Jesus suffered for you. 629 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:28,360 Yeah. 630 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:29,360 And they still won't receive it. 631 00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:30,960 The sons of perdition. 632 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,880 They still won't receive it. 633 00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:39,960 But every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is the Christ and that 634 00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,080 he suffered for them. 635 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,080 Yeah. 636 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,680 And that they caused him suffering. 637 00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,160 They'll know that. 638 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:51,760 Well, anyway, he, he's scourged. 639 00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:55,880 Pilot turns him over to the Jews and the Roman guards scourge him. 640 00:50:55,880 --> 00:51:01,200 They put on the, the 150, 200 pound cross on his back. 641 00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,840 He's walking up to the hill of Golgotha. 642 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:04,840 He collapses. 643 00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:06,760 Simeon's appointed. 644 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:11,960 I like to think maybe volunteered to come and carry the cross the rest of the way. 645 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:19,800 And that by 9 a.m., that's all from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and then at 9 a.m. he is crucified. 646 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:20,800 Right. 647 00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:21,800 Crucified. 648 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:32,280 It's really important that we not under appreciate what the cross represents, even though it 649 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,720 is not the symbol of our faith. 650 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:41,520 It's important that we understand that Jesus himself chooses to focus on the cross six 651 00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,960 times in the doctrine of covenants and only once in the doctrine of covenants as he focus 652 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:48,880 on Gethsemane. 653 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:54,920 He focuses on the cross when he teaches his disciples in the Americas in 3 Nephi 27. 654 00:51:54,920 --> 00:52:01,960 He says, I was lifted upon the cross that I might draw all men unto me. 655 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,720 His focus is on the cross. 656 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:11,640 We need to do more to appreciate what happened on Good Friday and appreciate Good Friday 657 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,340 for us bad for him. 658 00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:21,200 What happened on the cross on Friday from 9 until noon? 659 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,360 He makes some statements. 660 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:28,920 He talks to these two thieves that he's hung in the middle of. 661 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,320 He acknowledges his mother and John. 662 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:32,880 Behold, thy mother. 663 00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,600 He says to John and mother, behold, thy son. 664 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:37,840 He's thinking of others. 665 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,320 He's always thinking of others. 666 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,080 Scott, even up until his worst moment. 667 00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,640 I want to back up for just a second. 668 00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:52,240 You know, Jesus carried the cross with the assistance, but whether by assignment or volunteer, 669 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:55,360 we don't know for sure by Simon. 670 00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,840 And you know, we were there again going. 671 00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,040 He walked it. 672 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:04,000 We walked not the entire thing, but it's called the Via Dolorosa. 673 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:09,560 That road, the Via Dolorosa would have been part of the 13 points. 674 00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:16,840 The path that Christ took as he was being forced to go carry his cross to Golgotha. 675 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:22,160 And listeners, you probably saw, for those of you who were following in Instagram and 676 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:27,080 Facebook, Deb and I took a picture under the sign that said, Via Dolorosa. 677 00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:31,080 And as we walked up that, Deb and I had kind of a really tender conversation. 678 00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:37,240 You know, we imagined what would it have been like to be here on that night, that day of 679 00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:38,400 Good Friday, right? 680 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,320 That morning as that was taking place. 681 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,520 What would that have been like? 682 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,720 What would have our posture been? 683 00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:48,440 What would our, have our attitude been towards all that, right? 684 00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:53,440 Now you, and then you talk about, you just talked about being hung between two thieves. 685 00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,480 And that's an interesting story as well. 686 00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:01,240 One of the thieves turns to Jesus and he says, Hey, I thought you were God. 687 00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:02,240 Get us down from here. 688 00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:03,240 Yeah, save us. 689 00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:04,240 What's wrong? 690 00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:07,360 You know, if you're who you say you are, get us down from here. 691 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,240 The other one speaks across Jesus and he says, Dude, shut up. 692 00:54:11,240 --> 00:54:12,240 Leave him alone. 693 00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:13,320 Leave him alone. 694 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,280 This is the savior. 695 00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,480 This is, and you know, and he kind of bore his, we belong here. 696 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:23,960 We did our duty to, or we did what was wrong and we're here. 697 00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:29,040 He did nothing to be here and then Jesus turns to him and tells him today, I'll be with you 698 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:30,040 in paradise. 699 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:36,600 You know, just, just so beautiful, the different types of, you know, one of the things last 700 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:42,320 week we talked in our Institute class, we talked about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 701 00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:46,320 which was awesome because we just had that experience in Jerusalem. 702 00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:53,080 But you know, I think that one of the things that we sometimes can do to enhance our experience 703 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,200 around all of this is to put ourselves in those situations. 704 00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:59,040 What would have been my role there? 705 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,320 What would my attitude have been there? 706 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:06,000 Would I have been one that was sympathetic to the Jews or the Romans? 707 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,320 Would I have been one that was more like Simon? 708 00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,160 I hope I would have been. 709 00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:14,600 And you know, but to contemplate that, and then here's the cool thing, David, we can 710 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:18,200 make that assessment and then we can adjust. 711 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:23,560 You know, if we, if we make a real assessment about what would have my role been there, 712 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,720 and it would be, and if that assessment's just a little bit out of keeping with what 713 00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:31,720 you would want it to be, because of what he did there, you can change that and you can 714 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:32,720 make it different. 715 00:55:32,720 --> 00:55:34,800 Yeah, that's powerful. 716 00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:38,000 That would affect us right here right now. 717 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:43,920 Well, I believe we should try to do that this week as we read and study these events, Scott, 718 00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:49,360 we should try to see ourselves there with an eye of faith. 719 00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,440 And how would have I responded? 720 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,080 What role could I have played? 721 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:59,360 And to witness it, to be eyewitnesses, eye of faith, witnesses. 722 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:00,360 Right. 723 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:01,360 Yeah. 724 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:06,760 Well, at 12 noon on the cross after hanging there for three hours, all hell breaks loose. 725 00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:15,720 And sometime between noon and three, the veil of the temple is rent, there's an earthquake, 726 00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:21,160 really literally all hell breaks loose and the whole earth is under darkness. 727 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:26,040 And for those three hours, the father has withdrawn his presence. 728 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:33,800 Light has withdrawn literally, physically, and that Jesus cries out, my God, my God, 729 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,000 why has thou forsaken me? 730 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:41,400 And for three more hours, Gethsemane intensified. 731 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:46,680 I know we've talked about that several times now, but I'm quoting President Russell M. 732 00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:51,400 Nelson, Prusa, Mckonkey and James E. Talmadge. 733 00:56:51,400 --> 00:57:01,560 There on the cross, Gethsemane was intensified and he again finishes suffering for all the 734 00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:13,800 sins of all the world until at 3 p.m. after three hours, he says it is finished and he 735 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,360 chooses once it's finished. 736 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:18,360 Payment has been made. 737 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,960 The punishment has been suffered. 738 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:26,440 The law of justice and the demands of justice have been fulfilled. 739 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,240 Jesus dies. 740 00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:34,920 They have to hurry, it's Friday afternoon and the Jewish Sabbath begins Friday at six 741 00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:42,600 evening or at sundown and they have to hurry and get Jesus down off that cross and get 742 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:49,400 him in a tomb which was graciously provided by Joseph of Arimathea. 743 00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:54,120 Right, and you went there and you saw how it had been hewn out and John talks about 744 00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:59,760 that, that it was a new tomb and it had been hewn out and did you go there? 745 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,640 We walked right inside of it. 746 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:03,640 Right inside of it. 747 00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:09,280 I just really believe that's where it happened and it's still there. 748 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:15,880 That was one of my most sacred experiences when I was there to see where Jesus I believe 749 00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:17,720 was laid in the tomb. 750 00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:23,640 And then so he's in the spirit world and he begins the preaching of the gospel to the 751 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:30,560 spirits in the spirit world and wow what a great day for those spirits including those 752 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,920 two thieves after they die which is probably after he dies. 753 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:41,480 But anyway he's in the spirit world for the rest of Friday for a few hours on Friday all 754 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,240 day Saturday. 755 00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:47,920 It's on three days that he's dead but it's not three complete days. 756 00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,040 It's only like 40 hours. 757 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:56,880 By the way Scott we only know about Jesus' life 30 to 40 of his days out of his whole 758 00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:58,720 life 33 years. 759 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:05,720 We really only know about 30 to 40 of his days and yet we more recorded about the last 760 00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:09,820 seven days of his life than all the rest of the time. 761 00:59:09,820 --> 00:59:16,760 So it's just really special to kind of see how the gospel writers and the apostles really 762 00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:21,160 focused on the last week as much as we love all those other events that we have which 763 00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:25,920 are very few compared to his history and his ministry. 764 00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:31,000 We have there's a lot recorded on on the events of this last week. 765 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:39,160 Anyway early in the morning early it says he comes forth angels there to announce that 766 00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:49,040 he is risen when the women come and Mary stays behind and the tender experience of him saying 767 00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:55,080 to her hold me not I know in the King James version it says touch me not and the JST that 768 00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,880 was changed to the hold me not. 769 00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:05,080 Apparently she embraces him and he says Mary you let me go I need I haven't ascended to 770 01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:10,920 my father yet and she runs and tells the disciples and Peter and John come running back and all 771 01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:17,760 that's recorded in John 20 and then later that evening he appears to the to the 10 apostles 772 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:24,920 because Thomas is absent and Judas has committed suicide and and then we have all of those 773 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,760 and we just talked about the resurrection long ago. 774 01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:36,400 Jesus God and all of the all of the testimonies all of the witnesses I witnesses that we have 775 01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:42,960 of the of the resurrection and I'm just so grateful so grateful I tried to pray this 776 01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:52,240 morning and express my gratitude Scott for the this season this Easter season and I 777 01:00:52,240 --> 01:01:00,440 again just really felt the spirit of the Lord bear witness to me that these events are true 778 01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:09,520 they are they are not only historical facts but they are spiritual truths that not only 779 01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:18,160 determine who we are and our true worth that God would give us and sacrifice his son and 780 01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:25,080 that Jesus would lay down his life for us they not only testify of our true worth but 781 01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:34,720 they change our whole perspective of life the value of life the purpose of life and 782 01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:42,360 who we may become I just I really hope that our listeners if they will celebrate Easter 783 01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:50,360 Sunday Easter week all week if we if we can do this right as individuals and families 784 01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:59,080 it can it can be the the most powerful week of the year and the most life-changing week 785 01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:05,360 of the year and I really hope and pray that that that may be true and I want to wish all 786 01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:12,480 of our listeners a happy happy Easter and may the Spirit of the Lord be with you individually 787 01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:20,280 and with your families as we remember the events of Easter we've talked about often 788 01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:26,080 the reason that we the atonement is necessary the atonement of Jesus Christ is necessary 789 01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:33,440 is because of the fall we and we've talked about how the fall has brought about two problems 790 01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:38,640 in our lives the first one is is that we have a spiritual separation from our Heavenly Father 791 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:43,600 death spiritual death the second one is is that we suffer physical death and you know 792 01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:48,280 and a lot of times when we just say physical death we can move on and I don't think that 793 01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:54,200 encapsulates the true meaning so when we talk about physical death what I mean by that is 794 01:02:54,200 --> 01:03:03,200 depression anxiety addiction hopelessness and all of the physical maladies that come as 795 01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:09,880 well whether they be you know whatever they may be emotional physical spiritual mental 796 01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:17,320 all the negatives all of that comes because of the fall all of that is also taken care 797 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:23,840 of covered because of the atonement of Jesus Christ as we go through this week and as we 798 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:30,200 accept your invitation David to go through each of those events and consider the importance 799 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:35,720 and the personal application that they may have in our lives I invite us to bring those 800 01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:42,720 things that the fall puts in front of us on a daily and sometimes on a minute by minute 801 01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:47,680 basis I'm working with a young man in recovery right now who is dealing with depression and 802 01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:53,800 anxiety the likes of which I have never seen I've just have never seen it and I know that 803 01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:59,840 it's only through the atonement of Jesus Christ that those things may not be cured necessarily 804 01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:06,080 but can that that can be dealt with in a way that Heavenly Father will allow us with more 805 01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:13,120 grace and ease to deal with because of the events of the atonement of Jesus Christ peace my peace 806 01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:21,160 I give to you my peace I leave with you so my invitation is is as we go through that exercise 807 01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:26,440 I hope we do I'm going to I do it every Easter I have for the last several Easter's but as 808 01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:31,840 I do that I'm not just going to go through a spiritual academic exercise I'm going to 809 01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:37,640 go through a healing process in areas of my life that are still not in complete alignment 810 01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:43,480 with my Heavenly Father's and that's my invitation to each of us happy Easter everybody may you 811 01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:48,440 understand and know the importance of the things that are going on this week as we approach 812 01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:55,720 Sunday and celebrate Friday first and then Thursday night really through Sunday and celebrate 813 01:04:55,720 --> 01:05:00,600 all of the events of the atonement of Jesus Christ we look forward to being with you again 814 01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:04,760 thanks for being with us today please know that he loves you and you have been redeemed 815 01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:20,680 through his blood thanks for being with us