WEBVTT 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:06.019 Welcome to Season 3 of Love & Context. This season, 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.640 we're exploring the life of Jesus step -by -step 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:11.140 and uncovering what His story teaches us about 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:13.919 loving God and others. Here on Love & Context, 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.059 we're all about having real conversations about 00:00:16.059 --> 00:00:18.140 how to live out that love in practical, everyday 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.199 ways, and understanding the Bible in its full 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:22.839 context. We're so glad you're here. Let's dive 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:28.660 into Season 3 of Love & Context. We want to take 00:00:28.660 --> 00:00:32.060 this moment to formally and officially welcome 00:00:32.060 --> 00:00:35.340 you back to this podcast. Hi there. Hi. Hi there. 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.820 If you're listening, it's good to hear. Nope, 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.219 that's not it. We're not going to hear you. It's 00:00:40.219 --> 00:00:43.219 good for you to hear us. Congratulations. Today 00:00:43.219 --> 00:00:45.159 you'll hear our voices. I'm sure if you're in 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:46.659 the room with somebody, they're thinking it's 00:00:46.659 --> 00:00:50.520 good to hear you right now. But, you know. I 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.859 was having a conversation with a friend of mine, 00:00:52.899 --> 00:00:55.740 and I was looking at our metrics and people who 00:00:55.740 --> 00:00:57.679 actually listen, and I was like, I can't believe 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.920 that many people want to listen to us talk. That's 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:02.560 surprising. So thank you for being here. Sometimes 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:06.379 I'm talking in a room, and I'm like, I don't 00:01:06.379 --> 00:01:08.579 even want to hear what I have to say. See, no, 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:10.739 this is a good thing because our wives are like, 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.760 yes, they are talking about the Bible. And we 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:16.540 don't have to listen right now. Yeah. That's 00:01:16.540 --> 00:01:18.480 what's going on. Sometimes when we say that, 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:20.060 it makes it sound like our wives don't care about 00:01:20.060 --> 00:01:21.760 the Bible. That is not what we're talking about. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:23.319 They do care. They don't care about listening 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.500 to us talk about minutiae in the Bible. For hours 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:28.700 on end. For hours on end. Yeah. They're like, 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.219 aren't you guys pretty much saying the same thing? 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.959 I was like, no, it's very different than minutiae. 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:36.120 And I'm right. That's wrong. And they're like, 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:37.900 all right, well, we'll be back in an hour. Yeah. 00:01:37.980 --> 00:01:40.299 Yeah. And then they're like, are you on the same? 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.500 Yes. Yes, we are. We're in the exact same spot. 00:01:43.469 --> 00:01:45.750 want to point out to everybody on my my chest 00:01:45.750 --> 00:01:48.969 here it says hi hungry I'm dad huh this is a 00:01:48.969 --> 00:01:52.189 shirt that I got for my birthday because I I 00:01:52.189 --> 00:01:54.489 believe that one of the best things about having 00:01:54.489 --> 00:01:56.730 children is that you get to tell dad jokes and 00:01:56.730 --> 00:01:59.150 and now I actually have justification for the 00:01:59.150 --> 00:02:01.950 jokes I already told before I had kids every 00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:04.269 time I tell say that joke to my daughter she's 00:02:04.269 --> 00:02:10.719 like dad stop so the other no no So I'm wearing 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:12.219 this the other day. So this is like the second 00:02:12.219 --> 00:02:13.520 time I've worn this shirt, but I'm wearing it 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.080 the other day. And James goes home from school 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.620 and he goes, I'm hungry. And I was like, why? 00:02:19.939 --> 00:02:21.819 And I took off my over shirt and I was like, 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:26.139 hi, hungry. I'm daddy's like. I don't like that. 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:28.780 And I was like, doesn't matter. I love it. So 00:02:28.780 --> 00:02:33.659 it was great. All right. Life of Jesus. So we're 00:02:33.659 --> 00:02:37.020 going to keep going. We just posted this last 00:02:37.020 --> 00:02:38.620 week. We were talking about this conversation. 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.240 Jesus coming out of the Seder, having this conversation. 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:42.780 I'm going to go. I'm going to send the advocate. 00:02:43.060 --> 00:02:46.419 By the way, you need to abide with me. I'm the 00:02:46.419 --> 00:02:49.020 vine. You're the branches. The evidence that 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:50.939 you actually are my disciples is how you're going 00:02:50.939 --> 00:02:52.580 to love each other if you love each other the 00:02:52.580 --> 00:02:54.680 way that I have loved you. And we said, hey, 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:56.639 love isn't defined as just some squishy feeling 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:58.500 or by your own definitions. You actually have 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:01.099 to look, what did Jesus do? How did Jesus love 00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:03.500 people? And he didn't start by flipping tables, 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.219 right? No matter how much you want to flip those 00:03:06.219 --> 00:03:09.219 tables, that is not the first thing he did. And 00:03:09.219 --> 00:03:13.759 so then coming out of that. And Jesus has then 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:15.919 prayed for, prayed that God's going to glorify 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.199 him, prays for his disciples because they're 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:21.300 about to get, have a very bad time. And then 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:23.719 he prays for the people yet to come. And that's 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.560 where we're going to pick up. And he's then asked 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:27.280 his disciples to go and pray with him in the 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:28.719 garden. And then we're going to, so we're going 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:29.659 to talk about that. And we're going to talk about 00:03:29.659 --> 00:03:32.759 Judas coming and betraying him up to the point 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:34.979 then where next week we're going to start talking 00:03:34.979 --> 00:03:36.719 about the crucifixion, the trial and crucifixion. 00:03:37.060 --> 00:03:39.340 Yeah. So that's where we are. We're going to 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:41.379 jump around a little bit today. We're going to 00:03:41.379 --> 00:03:46.560 be in Matthew chapter 26, starting in verse 36. 00:03:47.740 --> 00:03:50.039 It says, Then Jesus went with his disciples to 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.419 a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.020 Sit here while I go over there and pray. He took 00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:57.000 Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.379 them, that's James and John, and he began to 00:03:59.379 --> 00:04:01.500 be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, 00:04:01.539 --> 00:04:03.500 My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:06.419 of death. Stay here and keep watch with me. Going 00:04:06.419 --> 00:04:08.139 a little further, he fell with his face to the 00:04:08.139 --> 00:04:10.020 ground and prayed, My father, if it is possible, 00:04:10.139 --> 00:04:12.860 may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, 00:04:12.979 --> 00:04:15.400 but as you will. Then he returned to his disciples 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.420 and found them sleeping. Couldn't you men keep 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:19.680 watch with me for one hour? He asked Peter, Watch 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:21.540 and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation. 00:04:21.939 --> 00:04:23.759 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:25.939 He went away a second time and prayed, My father, 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.939 if it is possible for this cup to be taken away, 00:04:29.419 --> 00:04:31.620 If it is not possible for this cup to be taken 00:04:31.620 --> 00:04:34.060 away unless I drink it, may your will be done. 00:04:34.420 --> 00:04:37.079 When he came back, he again found them sleeping 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:39.540 because their eyes were heavy. So he left them 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:41.100 and went once more and prayed the third time, 00:04:41.139 --> 00:04:43.079 saying the same thing. Then he returned to the 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:45.079 disciples and said to them, Are you still sleeping 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:46.980 and resting? Look, the hour has come. The Son 00:04:46.980 --> 00:04:48.579 of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.759 Rise up, let us go. Here comes my betrayer. Okay, 00:04:52.819 --> 00:04:57.180 we'll get to the next part in a minute. I think 00:04:57.180 --> 00:05:01.639 one of the things first to note here, I also 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:03.480 have been tired and wanted to take a nap during 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:07.500 a long prayer session. And so I'm listening to 00:05:07.500 --> 00:05:10.839 the disciples here. And I want to be fair to 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:12.839 them because I think they recognize something 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.120 significant is going on, but they don't really 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.740 realize what's about to happen. They don't plan. 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.639 I mean, can you really think that on Passover 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.420 night, you're going out to the garden, you're 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:25.220 praying. You know, you're having these conversations 00:05:25.220 --> 00:05:28.620 with your rabbi that suddenly soldiers are going 00:05:28.620 --> 00:05:32.120 to show up and get you and take away your rabbi 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.300 to go and be executed. Yeah. Like that's not 00:05:35.300 --> 00:05:37.139 exactly what you think is going to happen that 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:38.920 night. So you're like, okay, Jesus is serious, 00:05:38.980 --> 00:05:43.199 but also I haven't slept in like 20 hours. Right? 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.920 Maybe that's exaggeration, but I haven't slept 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:49.339 in a really long time and I am. Tired. Well, 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.680 yeah. And I've been at prayer meetings where 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:53.480 like literally people are like, OK, I'm going 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:56.100 to go bow down in the front of the church and 00:05:56.100 --> 00:05:58.279 pray. And I remember one time as a friend of 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:00.160 mine, he's bowing down in the front of church 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:01.439 and praying. I was like, man, he's been up there 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:03.879 a long time. And I went to like, you know, go 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:06.420 check on him. And and I get up there and his 00:06:06.420 --> 00:06:10.319 hands are down, his face is on the on the stage. 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:15.300 His hands are down. He's like. And I was like, 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:18.500 Oh, all right. All right. I see. I see what happened. 00:06:18.620 --> 00:06:21.519 I see what happened. Like it, like I, I can totally 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.540 relate to the disciples in this. So, uh, this 00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:26.439 is a word of encouragement for the people who 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.240 fall asleep when you pray. The disciples who 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.259 spent three and a half years with Jesus also 00:06:31.259 --> 00:06:33.459 fell asleep when he prayed. Yeah. And when they 00:06:33.459 --> 00:06:36.759 prayed, um, it does happen sometimes. And I was 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:38.459 like, and notice he doesn't really chastise him. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.079 He's like, Hey guys, couldn't you stay away with 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:42.160 me? You have, don't you get what's about to happen? 00:06:43.150 --> 00:06:47.329 But they fell asleep still. Yeah. The other thing 00:06:47.329 --> 00:06:50.069 is I did hear this statement from a pastor, which 00:06:50.069 --> 00:06:53.149 I really enjoy, and he said people will come 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:55.069 up to him and they'll say, I always feel bad 00:06:55.069 --> 00:06:56.949 because when I pray, I fall asleep. He's like, 00:06:57.050 --> 00:07:00.310 you know what? That's not ideal, right? That's 00:07:00.310 --> 00:07:01.490 one of the reasons, like, if he's going to pray 00:07:01.490 --> 00:07:03.149 for a long time, he stands up and walks as he 00:07:03.149 --> 00:07:05.089 prays, right, so that he doesn't fall asleep. 00:07:05.899 --> 00:07:07.779 He said, but also, I'm just going to be really 00:07:07.779 --> 00:07:09.579 honest with you. If you believe God is your father, 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.319 I can't remember the last time my kids were laying 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:14.600 in my lap talking and fell asleep and I was mad. 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.899 Yeah. There are definitely worse things in life 00:07:18.899 --> 00:07:20.959 than to fall asleep while talking to your father. 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:24.959 Yeah. Right? And I said that, and anybody who's 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:26.839 listening that's a parent is like, oh, yeah. 00:07:26.939 --> 00:07:29.019 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not a big deal. You 00:07:29.019 --> 00:07:32.899 know? Um, same guy who said, by the way, he's, 00:07:32.899 --> 00:07:34.600 they're talking about a Bible reading. If they're 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:36.079 like, I just can't remember what I read. He's 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.680 like, I don't remember what I ate for food last 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:41.000 week. Yeah. Still nourished me. It's part of 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.180 just like consuming and staying awake, you know, 00:07:43.259 --> 00:07:47.560 uh, alive. Yeah. Um, but Jesus goes and like, 00:07:47.620 --> 00:07:49.339 I think the, the thing that brought this text 00:07:49.339 --> 00:07:51.779 is highlighted is, uh, there's, there's a, there's 00:07:51.779 --> 00:07:56.110 a humanity and a, um, divine nature both being 00:07:56.110 --> 00:07:59.329 revealed in jesus right now like the divine and 00:07:59.329 --> 00:08:02.170 the and the human the one thing is he knows he 00:08:02.170 --> 00:08:07.649 knows what's coming and he's like this is gonna 00:08:07.649 --> 00:08:11.949 suck yeah huge this is gonna be terrible like 00:08:11.949 --> 00:08:14.730 i mean i've had projects the way i know that 00:08:14.730 --> 00:08:17.490 we have to do x y or z and i know when we get 00:08:17.490 --> 00:08:20.089 to a certain part it's gonna be rough nothing 00:08:20.089 --> 00:08:24.480 like this Right? Nothing like this. You know? 00:08:26.339 --> 00:08:27.680 Where you know where you're going to have to 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:29.540 push through because you're like, oh, it's going 00:08:29.540 --> 00:08:31.420 to be uncomfortable. Well, actually, a good example 00:08:31.420 --> 00:08:33.080 is I'm actually getting ready to move from house 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:35.879 to house. Right? Getting in the new house is 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:38.259 going to be great. You know what isn't great? 00:08:38.940 --> 00:08:42.399 Moving everything from the first house to the 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:46.149 second house. That's not a fun thing. So people 00:08:46.149 --> 00:08:47.950 are listening. Yes, I did just compare moving 00:08:47.950 --> 00:08:50.870 houses to Jesus about to be beaten and crucified. 00:08:51.149 --> 00:08:54.929 Such a first world problem. But the thing is, 00:08:55.009 --> 00:08:59.629 I can feel nervous about what's coming up. Jesus 00:08:59.629 --> 00:09:02.750 knows what's going to happen. And sometimes we're 00:09:02.750 --> 00:09:05.850 like, okay, the physical. He's about to be ridiculed 00:09:05.850 --> 00:09:09.990 by the leadership of the entire nation. He's 00:09:09.990 --> 00:09:11.730 going to be pranced out in front of people and 00:09:11.730 --> 00:09:14.960 made to look like a fool. Yeah. For doing nothing 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:19.139 wrong. He's going to be part of a legal trial, 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.100 which we'll talk about next week, that is rigged 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:24.519 from the start and is not about the justice of 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.220 the Jewish system. Yeah. Like, he has a lot of 00:09:28.220 --> 00:09:30.299 anguish and he looks at the situation and he's 00:09:30.299 --> 00:09:33.419 like, if we can let this go past, I would love 00:09:33.419 --> 00:09:36.500 for that to be the case. Yeah. I do want to, 00:09:36.500 --> 00:09:38.340 I want to hone in on something Jesus says a second 00:09:38.340 --> 00:09:40.440 time, which I think is very significant though, 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:42.519 because this is, this is part of the attitude 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.039 of the person. Like, I think when we, when we 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.080 step into suffering on behalf of other people 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:50.519 or on behalf of Christ, like this, this is the 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:51.860 kind of thing that we're, where we can gather 00:09:51.860 --> 00:09:53.860 strength. He's when he prays the second time, 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.919 he says this, uh, my father, if it is not possible 00:09:57.919 --> 00:09:59.860 for this cut to be taken away, unless I drink 00:09:59.860 --> 00:10:03.159 it, may your will be done. So the first one is 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:06.419 if it's like, can we take away this cup, right? 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:10.120 This cup that I have to drink, this cup of God's 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.320 holy suffering, which by the way is mentioned 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:17.519 in the old Testament. Yeah. And it is a, it is 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:20.220 going to be drunk by God where he's talking and 00:10:20.220 --> 00:10:22.200 said that he's going to drink this, this cup 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.759 on behalf of the suffering of the people. But 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:30.899 Jesus says, if it's possible that I don't have 00:10:30.899 --> 00:10:33.809 to do this. Yeah. For your will to be accomplished. 00:10:34.470 --> 00:10:37.750 Let's take it away. But if the only way for what 00:10:37.750 --> 00:10:39.629 you need to have done is for this to be done, 00:10:39.750 --> 00:10:45.450 I gladly step in. Well, I step in. Yeah. I mean, 00:10:45.450 --> 00:10:48.210 gladly, joyfully, but not gladly. Maybe. Yeah. 00:10:48.289 --> 00:10:50.970 You know? So referenced in actually in the book 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:53.289 of Isaiah, this cup that they're talking about. 00:10:53.370 --> 00:10:54.909 I mean, there's other places the cup is referenced, 00:10:55.009 --> 00:10:56.470 but I want to pull this from Isaiah because there's 00:10:56.470 --> 00:10:59.889 a lot of Isaiah 50 through 55 happening in this 00:10:59.889 --> 00:11:02.429 section of the Bible. Right? Uh, starting verse 00:11:02.429 --> 00:11:05.049 17 of chapter 51, it says awake, awake, rise 00:11:05.049 --> 00:11:07.990 up Jerusalem. You who have drunk from the hand 00:11:07.990 --> 00:11:11.769 of the Lord, the cup of his wrath. Okay. Jerusalem, 00:11:11.889 --> 00:11:13.509 you've woken up and you're actually drinking 00:11:13.509 --> 00:11:43.929 from the cup of God's wrath, right? This is what 00:11:43.929 --> 00:12:08.529 your sovereign. Okay, so Isaiah saying, because 00:12:08.529 --> 00:12:10.570 up to this point, like you have been drinking 00:12:10.570 --> 00:12:12.750 from his wrath. You have been bringing the wrath 00:12:12.750 --> 00:12:16.480 of God on yourself. And a lot of this is tying 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:17.980 back to this idea of you're not actually living 00:12:17.980 --> 00:12:19.440 into what Torah calls you to be, to love God 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:20.919 and love your neighbor as yourself, to actually 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:23.080 put this on display. It's being about all nations, 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:26.919 and it's about justice and mercy, and yes, sure, 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:29.659 tithing, right? But don't neglect the later without 00:12:29.659 --> 00:12:34.120 doing the former, right? And Jesus continues 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:37.039 his cup imagery, and he says that cup, that cup 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:39.600 that you have been drinking, you don't get it 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.740 anymore. It's mine. And I'm going to drink every 00:12:43.740 --> 00:12:47.559 last drop and it's not going to be yours anymore. 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.840 Yeah. You may have wrath come on you, but it 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.500 will not be the wrath of God. You may have pain 00:12:53.500 --> 00:12:55.179 come on you, but it will not be pain from God. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.159 You may have brokenness come upon you, but it's 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:01.419 no longer to be brokenness of God. If you trust 00:13:01.419 --> 00:13:05.620 me, it's a good story. Yeah. It's incredible. 00:13:06.220 --> 00:13:08.740 And it's one of the reasons why we have to be 00:13:08.740 --> 00:13:11.840 really careful. There's a statement that people 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:14.019 will make about the wrath of God being poured 00:13:14.019 --> 00:13:18.039 out on Jesus. Jesus drinks the cup of God's holy 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.940 wrath. That's what the Bible says. It's a difference 00:13:22.940 --> 00:13:25.480 between a vengeful God and a God full of love 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.679 who takes what was for somebody else and drinks 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.759 it for himself. And in the middle of this, Jesus 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:34.240 knows exactly. What kind of wrath people have 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.000 stirred up in the world. And he's like, I'm going 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.039 to have to take that on myself. Yeah. And it's 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:42.580 going to be terrible. It's going to be rough. 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:47.919 I am not feeling great about this. So, Father, 00:13:48.059 --> 00:13:53.559 if we can let this pass, I would love that. But 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:55.440 if there's no way for this to be accomplished 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.399 without me taking on the cup of your wrath, I 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.539 gladly drink it. Yeah. And there's people who 00:14:01.539 --> 00:14:03.179 have made the argument of like, well, if God's 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:06.820 all powerful, like then why can't he just find 00:14:06.820 --> 00:14:10.000 another way? Right. Right. And the reality is, 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.940 is God created things to work in a certain way. 00:14:12.980 --> 00:14:15.600 Yeah. Right. There were systems that were created 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:19.940 for atonement. Right. For restoration. And those 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:23.159 systems usually required some form of sacrifice. 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:25.620 Right. Right. Some form of you saying, OK, I'm 00:14:25.620 --> 00:14:29.139 going to give give up something so that I can 00:14:29.139 --> 00:14:32.179 be made right with God. Right. Or drawn near. 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:34.179 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Or drawn near. 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:36.240 Right. Yeah. Right. It's actually it's actually 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.440 a concept that we can still take into play today. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:40.240 We're like, maybe there's something that's holding 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.120 you away from God and you're like, hey, I need 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:44.299 to give that up so I can draw near to him. Right. 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:48.379 Right. It's still a concept we play out in families, 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.860 for example. Maybe maybe there's a parent in 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:53.370 the family who's addicted to alcohol. right or 00:14:53.370 --> 00:14:56.330 some other type of substance and it's ruining 00:14:56.330 --> 00:14:59.009 their family yeah and all and if they could only 00:14:59.009 --> 00:15:02.110 give that up they could draw closer to their 00:15:02.110 --> 00:15:05.309 family yeah right right it's not a we treat it 00:15:05.309 --> 00:15:08.309 as this very foreign concept and here and here 00:15:08.309 --> 00:15:12.370 you have and in this moment you have jesus saying 00:15:12.370 --> 00:15:16.129 okay i i don't you basically have jesus saying 00:15:16.129 --> 00:15:18.950 this is going to be really difficult yeah really 00:15:18.950 --> 00:15:22.870 really difficult and he's saying but i I'm going 00:15:22.870 --> 00:15:28.929 to take on the worst of the worst for everyone 00:15:28.929 --> 00:15:31.830 around me. And this is, by the way, not a new 00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:34.080 thing with God. No. I mean, you think back to 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.220 the story of the blood covenant with Abraham 00:15:36.220 --> 00:15:38.320 and God, like the blood path covenant, right? 00:15:38.539 --> 00:15:40.740 You think about even going back to the flood 00:15:40.740 --> 00:15:42.759 where God puts his bow in the sky so he has to 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:44.840 remember, right? The more powerful is remembering, 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:48.000 right? Yeah. God is frequently taking on both 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.679 sides of the covenant. Even in the sacrificial 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:52.460 system where they, like, because we're like, 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:54.580 ah, the sacrificial system is brutal. If you've 00:15:54.580 --> 00:15:57.480 read in Leviticus when we talked about it, the 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.799 sacrificial system is all about how to draw near 00:15:59.799 --> 00:16:03.019 to God. Yeah. And restoration of. relationship. 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.659 And then Jesus comes and he's breathing and walking 00:16:06.659 --> 00:16:09.179 in this system and he's Torah on display and 00:16:09.179 --> 00:16:11.960 his blood is what is going to draw us back to 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:17.720 the fathers. You know, and so like you were talking 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.259 about the person who says, well, if God is all 00:16:19.259 --> 00:16:20.500 powerful, why couldn't he do a different way? 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:23.120 He's already telling them a story. And so he's 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:24.559 going to do it in a way that's going to make 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.700 sense in the story that they're doing. Right. 00:16:27.899 --> 00:16:31.899 And so God is bringing his children back. He's 00:16:31.899 --> 00:16:34.519 providing a bridge that they can walk across 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.860 when you trust in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ 00:16:36.860 --> 00:16:39.460 and then go and find yourself restored unto God. 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:42.230 Yeah. Right. And, and when that happens, you're 00:16:42.230 --> 00:16:44.870 going to instantly be different, but also you're 00:16:44.870 --> 00:16:46.230 going to have the deposit of the Holy Spirit, 00:16:46.330 --> 00:16:49.809 which is going to change who you are. Yeah. But 00:16:49.809 --> 00:16:52.269 you got to go and drink the cup first. Yep. Well, 00:16:52.330 --> 00:16:54.250 rather Jesus has to go and drink the cup first. 00:16:54.289 --> 00:16:56.710 Yeah. And I would, I would argue, I might make 00:16:56.710 --> 00:17:00.649 a suggestion that sometimes what we do as Christians 00:17:00.649 --> 00:17:02.710 is we go and drink a cup on somebody else's behalf 00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:05.690 so that they can be restored to God. Yep. Now 00:17:05.690 --> 00:17:07.630 don't get caught up in literal cups. Don't get 00:17:07.630 --> 00:17:09.150 caught up in the cup of God's holy wrath because 00:17:09.150 --> 00:17:11.549 I'm using an analogy to talk about how we suffer 00:17:11.549 --> 00:17:14.250 so that other people can find Christ. Yeah. That 00:17:14.250 --> 00:17:17.609 we willingly step into the fray. We willingly 00:17:17.609 --> 00:17:21.170 take the hit to protect somebody else or to give 00:17:21.170 --> 00:17:24.009 them the opportunity to see Jesus. Yeah. Now, 00:17:24.049 --> 00:17:28.269 the disciples are taking naps because they're 00:17:28.269 --> 00:17:31.930 tired. Oh, poor baby. No, I'm just kidding. And 00:17:31.930 --> 00:17:34.109 I do love, by the way, that, oh, by the way, 00:17:34.130 --> 00:17:35.609 I'm still in Isaiah. Hold on. I got to get back 00:17:35.609 --> 00:17:37.130 to Matthew. I do like that the first time he 00:17:37.130 --> 00:17:38.890 comes back to his disciples and he's talked to 00:17:38.890 --> 00:17:41.170 James and John and Peter. By the way, Peter's 00:17:41.170 --> 00:17:42.630 the only one named here that says the two sons 00:17:42.630 --> 00:17:45.970 of Zebedee, but we know who they are. He comes 00:17:45.970 --> 00:17:51.329 back and the third, was it the second time? He 00:17:51.329 --> 00:17:53.069 goes to Peter and he says, couldn't you keep 00:17:53.069 --> 00:17:57.529 watch with me for one hour? One hour, dude. Right. 00:17:57.609 --> 00:18:00.410 By the way, Peter has just said, I will never 00:18:00.410 --> 00:18:05.200 deny you. And I don't want to throw Peter under 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.059 the bus because I 100 % believe that would be 00:18:07.059 --> 00:18:10.299 me. I'd be tired. I was like, I love Jesus, but 00:18:10.299 --> 00:18:14.779 I also love the inside of my eyelids. So then 00:18:14.779 --> 00:18:16.839 he says, all right, guys, I'm here. You're still 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:18.440 sleeping and resting, but the hour has come. 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:20.059 The Son of Man is delivered into the hands of 00:18:20.059 --> 00:18:22.759 sinners. Rise, let us go. Here comes my betrayer. 00:18:22.980 --> 00:18:25.559 And while he was still speaking, Judas, one of 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:29.759 the 12, arrived. With him, a large crowd armed 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.220 with swords and clubs sent from the chief priest 00:18:32.939 --> 00:18:37.579 Okay, pause. These are not Roman soldiers because 00:18:37.579 --> 00:18:40.140 they're sent from the chief priests and the elders 00:18:40.140 --> 00:18:43.240 of the people. So these are temple soldiers. 00:18:45.059 --> 00:18:47.259 Yes. Yeah. Well, they're probably temple soldiers 00:18:47.259 --> 00:18:52.180 and just a mix of civilian. Right. Yeah. So now 00:18:52.180 --> 00:18:54.539 the betrayer had arranged for them a signal with 00:18:54.539 --> 00:18:56.859 them. The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him. 00:18:56.900 --> 00:18:58.660 By the way, it's crazy to me that they don't 00:18:58.660 --> 00:19:02.430 know who Jesus is at this point. Going at once 00:19:02.430 --> 00:19:04.390 to Jesus, Jesus said, Greetings, Rabbi, and kissed 00:19:04.390 --> 00:19:06.670 him. Jesus replied, Do what you came for, friend. 00:19:07.089 --> 00:19:08.950 Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus, and 00:19:08.950 --> 00:19:10.789 arrested him. With that, one of Jesus' companions 00:19:10.789 --> 00:19:14.269 reached for the sword, you know who it was, drew 00:19:14.269 --> 00:19:16.369 it out, and struck the servant of the high priest, 00:19:16.509 --> 00:19:19.470 cutting off his ear. Put your sword back in its 00:19:19.470 --> 00:19:21.829 place, Jesus said to him, for all who draw the 00:19:21.829 --> 00:19:25.309 sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot 00:19:25.309 --> 00:19:29.059 call on my Father? And he will at once put all, 00:19:29.220 --> 00:19:32.480 well, I can read, at once put at my disposal 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.579 more than 12 legions of angels. But how then 00:19:35.579 --> 00:19:37.799 would the scriptures be fulfilled that say it 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:39.779 must happen in this way? In that hour, Jesus 00:19:39.779 --> 00:19:41.920 said to the crowd, am I leading a rebellion that 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:43.740 you've come to me with swords and clubs to capture 00:19:43.740 --> 00:19:46.779 me? Every day I sat in the temple courts teaching 00:19:46.779 --> 00:19:49.339 and you did not arrest me. But this has taken 00:19:49.339 --> 00:19:50.980 place and all the writings of the prophets might 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:52.920 be fulfilled. And then the disciples deserted 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:55.700 and fled. All right, I want to jump one other 00:19:55.700 --> 00:19:58.400 place here because talking about the fact that 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.480 these are temple guards, John adds a little bit 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.420 more to the story. Now remember that James and 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:05.480 John and Peter are specifically with Jesus the 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:06.960 entire time. All the disciples are probably there, 00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:09.140 but they're closest. So they're going to have 00:20:09.140 --> 00:20:11.140 probably the clearest recollection of what's 00:20:11.140 --> 00:20:15.299 happened. So if you start in chapter 18, verse 00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:19.460 2 of John, it says, Now Judas who betrayed him 00:20:19.460 --> 00:20:21.440 knew the place because Jesus had often met there 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:23.450 with his disciples. Okay, that's a nice tidbit 00:20:23.450 --> 00:20:26.109 to know. So Judas came to the garden, guiding 00:20:26.109 --> 00:20:27.569 an attachment of soldiers and some officials 00:20:27.569 --> 00:20:29.529 from the chief priests and Pharisees. They were 00:20:29.529 --> 00:20:31.349 carrying torches, lanterns, and weapons. Jesus, 00:20:31.390 --> 00:20:33.670 knowing all what happened, went out and asked 00:20:33.670 --> 00:20:36.109 them, Who is it you want? Jesus of Nazareth, 00:20:36.130 --> 00:20:38.430 they replied, I am he, Jesus said. And Judas 00:20:38.430 --> 00:20:39.670 the traitor was standing there with them. When 00:20:39.670 --> 00:20:41.490 Jesus said, I am he, they drew back and fell 00:20:41.490 --> 00:20:44.329 to the ground. Okay. Why did they fall to the 00:20:44.329 --> 00:20:45.869 ground? This is very important for people who 00:20:45.869 --> 00:20:48.869 talk about Jesus never claiming to be God. Why 00:20:48.869 --> 00:20:50.210 are they falling to the ground when he says, 00:20:50.309 --> 00:20:53.039 I am he? These are temple guards. And what name 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:57.619 did he just say? I am. I am. Right? This is a 00:20:57.619 --> 00:21:00.359 really big deal. Like, they know exactly what 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:02.059 name. And apparently he says it with enough authority 00:21:02.059 --> 00:21:05.519 that they're like, whoa. Right? So he asks them 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:09.039 again. He says. I am he, they drew back. Again, 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:11.039 he asked them, who is it that you want? Jesus 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:14.000 of Nazareth, they said. Jesus answered, I told 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:16.759 you that I am he. If you are looking for me, 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:18.500 then let these men go. This happens so that the 00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:20.380 words he had spoken would be fulfilled. I have 00:21:20.380 --> 00:21:22.619 not lost one that you gave me. Then Simon Peter, 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:26.359 sorry to throw you under the bus, dude, who had 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:29.259 the sword, drew it, and struck the high priest's 00:21:29.259 --> 00:21:31.619 servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's 00:21:31.619 --> 00:21:34.920 name was Malchus. Side note, have you ever just 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.700 wondered what beef was between John and Peter? 00:21:38.490 --> 00:21:41.609 Um, just be, I mean, just because like, uh, the, 00:21:41.690 --> 00:21:43.349 all the other gospels are like, oh, and then 00:21:43.349 --> 00:21:46.069 a disciple did this. And then, and John will 00:21:46.069 --> 00:21:47.690 even do that. I'd be like, oh, and then the disciple 00:21:47.690 --> 00:21:49.670 did this and I'll be like, and then I'm faster 00:21:49.670 --> 00:21:52.529 than Peter. And oh yeah, Peter cut off that guy's 00:21:52.529 --> 00:21:55.869 ear. Yeah. Uh, that's a very side note. No, it's 00:21:55.869 --> 00:21:58.109 first of all, it's really funny. Like I, there's 00:21:58.109 --> 00:22:00.289 been some hilarious memes about it, but there 00:22:00.289 --> 00:22:02.750 is actually a conversation that, so Matthew being 00:22:02.750 --> 00:22:06.430 the most Jewish of the gospels, um, Matthew goes 00:22:06.430 --> 00:22:09.349 out of his way to repeatedly remind them that 00:22:09.349 --> 00:22:11.650 Peter is still with them. Now, why is that important? 00:22:11.829 --> 00:22:15.690 Because Peter is about to deny his rabbi. And 00:22:15.690 --> 00:22:18.990 this is going to be really hard for some people 00:22:18.990 --> 00:22:20.049 to hear because they're not going to understand 00:22:20.049 --> 00:22:23.670 this. In the Jewish mind, Peter is more at fault 00:22:23.670 --> 00:22:29.769 than Judas. Because Judas, yes, betrays Jesus, 00:22:29.869 --> 00:22:34.920 but Peter denies him. Judas actually doesn't 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.519 deny Jesus. He betrays him. And I know you're 00:22:38.519 --> 00:22:39.440 going to hear that and you'll be like, whoa, 00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:42.119 whoa, wait, wait, wait. I was like denying like 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:43.880 you ever knew the person, that you ever followed 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:46.180 them, that you were ever a part of them. It is 00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:48.799 significantly worse in this culture, in this 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:51.740 kind of upbringing. And so in the book of Matthew 00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:53.839 where it tends to say like, you know, a disciple, 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.680 I feel like he's kind of softening it a little 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:01.049 bit. Because you'll actually notice in the book, 00:23:01.130 --> 00:23:03.549 I think it's in Matthew, but as they're going 00:23:03.549 --> 00:23:06.269 after the denial, they'll say the disciples and 00:23:06.269 --> 00:23:09.630 Peter. The disciples and Peter. And he's reminding 00:23:09.630 --> 00:23:11.609 the Jewish readers because they would not have 00:23:11.609 --> 00:23:14.230 seen Peter as a disciple when he wants he denied. 00:23:14.650 --> 00:23:17.569 Yeah. I also think that's really important why 00:23:17.569 --> 00:23:19.410 even though John seems to throw him under the 00:23:19.410 --> 00:23:21.970 bus, there is actually this passage where Jesus 00:23:21.970 --> 00:23:23.890 comes back and restores Peter because there was 00:23:23.890 --> 00:23:27.579 questions in the Jewish church. about the validity 00:23:27.579 --> 00:23:29.960 of peter's leadership yeah and then he's like 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:33.640 no no i was there like don't get me wrong like 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:37.680 peter's not a strong runner he chops people's 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.420 ears off right but jesus absolutely restored 00:23:41.420 --> 00:23:44.119 him yeah like he he's he's our bro right like 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:47.640 so um i love i love so they come here and they're 00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:49.619 like they're like who he's like who you looking 00:23:49.619 --> 00:23:51.359 for and they're like we're looking for jesus 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:55.119 yeah that's me right i am he And they fall to 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.319 the ground. He's like, okay, seriously, who are 00:23:57.319 --> 00:23:59.519 you looking for? Stand up. Yep, stand up. Let's 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:02.279 try it again. And one of my favorite things, 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:05.500 he's like, why are you coming at night with clubs 00:24:05.500 --> 00:24:07.000 and swords? Like, he knows why they're coming. 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:10.319 But why are you coming at night? I went to your 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:15.059 house where you had authority. And I was there 00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:19.779 teaching every day. And you did nothing. Because 00:24:19.779 --> 00:24:24.650 while Jesus is on trial. So were they. Yeah. 00:24:25.369 --> 00:24:27.829 Yeah. He was like, you know where to find me. 00:24:27.930 --> 00:24:30.069 Yeah. Right? One of the things that's apparent 00:24:30.069 --> 00:24:31.930 to me, the more you actually read this, is the 00:24:31.930 --> 00:24:34.450 whole time Jesus is on trial, he's not the only 00:24:34.450 --> 00:24:38.150 one. Pontius Pilate is on trial. Caiaphas is 00:24:38.150 --> 00:24:39.930 on trial. And the Pharisees are on trial. And 00:24:39.930 --> 00:24:42.329 the Sanhedrin is on trial. And really, all of 00:24:42.329 --> 00:24:45.750 humanity is on trial. And Jesus still willingly 00:24:45.750 --> 00:24:48.130 steps to the cross and drinks the cup to its 00:24:48.130 --> 00:24:53.220 streaks. Right? All this while, while they're 00:24:53.220 --> 00:24:55.799 trying to accuse him, he's still the one who's 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:59.119 actually going to go and step in for all these 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:03.299 people. And the hypocrisy, the injustice, the 00:25:03.299 --> 00:25:06.319 brokenness of the system, the brokenness of what 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:08.839 we have called the Jewish mafia at times. Yeah. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:11.140 Right? The brokenness of all of that is going 00:25:11.140 --> 00:25:13.180 to be put on display. And even in the middle 00:25:13.180 --> 00:25:16.559 of that, Jesus is still going to stand pat and 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:19.160 he's going to love people around him. Yeah. Even 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:20.960 to the point where, and we're going to talk about 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:22.920 this in a couple of weeks, but even to the point 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:24.859 where when he's on the cross and he sees his 00:25:24.859 --> 00:25:27.740 mother, he says, hey, John, I need you to take 00:25:27.740 --> 00:25:31.740 care of her. That's Ben's paraphrase, but I need 00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:32.900 you to take care of her because she's got no 00:25:32.900 --> 00:25:39.640 one else to take care of her. The next few episodes 00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:41.980 are going to be difficult because we're going 00:25:41.980 --> 00:25:46.180 to talk about the fact that Jesus came to save 00:25:46.180 --> 00:25:49.049 us. And humanity decided that the best thing 00:25:49.049 --> 00:25:53.609 to do was to tear them apart. Yeah. And we got 00:25:53.609 --> 00:25:56.349 to sit with that because as much as we want to 00:25:56.349 --> 00:26:01.269 be like, oh, they did this. We would, too. We 00:26:01.269 --> 00:26:03.250 would be in the exact same spot. Yeah. And as 00:26:03.250 --> 00:26:05.069 you read through the story, Jesus sat with it, 00:26:05.109 --> 00:26:08.430 too. Yeah. Like they came with false accusations, 00:26:08.670 --> 00:26:13.349 all sorts of stuff. And could Jesus have talked 00:26:13.349 --> 00:26:16.900 his way out of this? Probably. Yeah. Right. But 00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:20.380 he didn't. He also didn't need the sword. I love 00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:23.160 it in the book of Luke. He's like, we're going 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:25.960 to go. And they're like, well, we need a sword. 00:26:26.099 --> 00:26:28.160 Here, I've got it. And they're like, well, we've 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:30.279 got two. And he's like, yeah, that's enough. 00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:34.339 I'm actually going to read the passage because 00:26:34.339 --> 00:26:39.230 it cracks me up every time I read it. He tells 00:26:39.230 --> 00:26:41.089 Simon, he says, Simon, Simon, Satan has asked 00:26:41.089 --> 00:26:43.910 to sift you as wheat in chapter 22. But I have 00:26:43.910 --> 00:26:45.630 prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not 00:26:45.630 --> 00:26:48.569 fail. And when you have turned back, it's going 00:26:48.569 --> 00:26:51.490 to happen. Strengthen your brothers. And Jesus 00:26:51.490 --> 00:26:52.970 answered, I tell you, Peter, before the rooster 00:26:52.970 --> 00:26:54.630 crows today, you will deny me three times that 00:26:54.630 --> 00:26:56.470 you know me. And Jesus said, when I sent you 00:26:56.470 --> 00:26:58.309 without purse, bag, or sandal, did you lack anything? 00:26:58.670 --> 00:27:01.190 Nothing, they answered. He said, but now I have, 00:27:01.289 --> 00:27:03.650 if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag. 00:27:03.769 --> 00:27:05.569 If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and 00:27:05.569 --> 00:27:07.609 buy one. It is written, and he was numbered with 00:27:07.609 --> 00:27:09.390 the transgressors, and I tell you that this must 00:27:09.390 --> 00:27:11.910 be fulfilled in me. Yet what is written about 00:27:11.910 --> 00:27:13.569 me is reaching its fulfillment. The disciples 00:27:13.569 --> 00:27:17.410 said, see, Lord, here are two swords. Okay, you 00:27:17.410 --> 00:27:19.329 guys aren't hearing what I'm talking about, right? 00:27:19.589 --> 00:27:22.130 He goes, that's enough, he replied. By the way, 00:27:22.150 --> 00:27:23.710 it actually says that's enough with an exclamation 00:27:23.710 --> 00:27:28.220 point. That's enough. Right. Then he went out 00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:32.140 to, as usual, to the Mount of Olives. So there's 00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:35.059 this thing like he's trying to have this conversation 00:27:35.059 --> 00:27:39.440 with the disciples. And they're like, oh, we 00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:42.000 got swords. I heard you say sword. You said sell 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.519 your bag, get a sword. I got two swords. We're 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:46.240 good to go. And then this whole thing comes in 00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:49.160 like this servant steps forward and Peter cuts 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:53.519 his ear off. And Jesus was like, no. No, no, 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:57.220 no, no, no. Do you not think that I couldn't 00:27:57.220 --> 00:27:59.339 command legions of angels to come to my aid? 00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:02.299 Uh -huh. That's not what we're doing, Peter. 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:07.420 And I just think it's coming back to last week 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:08.759 when we were talking about how did Jesus love 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:12.420 people in the middle of it? Yeah. Can you imagine 00:28:12.420 --> 00:28:14.200 if you're stepping out into the most fundamental 00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:17.819 part of your mission and it's about nonviolence, 00:28:17.819 --> 00:28:20.640 right? And about standing pat in the face of 00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:25.269 injustice. And then somebody throws a canister 00:28:25.269 --> 00:28:27.109 of tear gas at the people that you're standing 00:28:27.109 --> 00:28:31.829 across from. And you're like, no. Come on, guys. 00:28:32.009 --> 00:28:37.650 Or whatever. And yet Jesus is going to make that 00:28:37.650 --> 00:28:42.109 person the rock of his church. You know the one 00:28:42.109 --> 00:28:43.829 who didn't quite understand the mission and stepped 00:28:43.829 --> 00:28:45.730 out and struck off the guy's ear so that he had 00:28:45.730 --> 00:28:47.210 to heal it right in the middle of being arrested? 00:28:48.150 --> 00:28:53.549 That guy. is going to be the rock. That guy is 00:28:53.549 --> 00:28:55.490 going to be the rock. Yep. James and John, those 00:28:55.490 --> 00:28:57.450 two guys that wanted to call down fire to burn 00:28:57.450 --> 00:29:02.470 down the village of Samaria. They're going to 00:29:02.470 --> 00:29:06.410 be pivotal, right? Like Jesus just does ministry 00:29:06.410 --> 00:29:09.369 so differently than we do. And I, I just, I just 00:29:09.369 --> 00:29:11.990 there. And also these, these guys, these, they, 00:29:12.109 --> 00:29:14.690 they, they have like these big traumatic gestures, 00:29:14.730 --> 00:29:18.779 but when they see the revealed Christ. When they're 00:29:18.779 --> 00:29:20.640 filled with the Holy Spirit, something changes 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:22.299 in them and they're drastically different people. 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:24.859 Yeah. That's not to say they never screw up again. 00:29:25.059 --> 00:29:29.059 No, they do. Right? They do. But something changes. 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:34.299 Yeah. Yeah. It's so interesting. I love just 00:29:34.299 --> 00:29:37.279 talking about Jesus and his group of disciples 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:44.019 because it is the most odd combination of people 00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:47.609 that you could bring together. Yeah. Right? You 00:29:47.609 --> 00:29:51.450 have tax collectors. Nobody liked tax collectors. 00:29:52.109 --> 00:29:54.230 Jews didn't even consider them Jewish. I mean, 00:29:54.250 --> 00:29:55.930 to be fair, people still don't like tax collectors. 00:29:56.250 --> 00:29:59.190 Yeah, I don't either. Then you had zealots who 00:29:59.190 --> 00:30:01.150 were like, we're going to kill all the tax collectors. 00:30:01.609 --> 00:30:04.589 And the Romans. And the Romans, right. And then 00:30:04.589 --> 00:30:06.210 you had fishermen, and they're like, okay, well, 00:30:06.269 --> 00:30:08.049 these are the guys who couldn't cut it in school, 00:30:08.170 --> 00:30:10.690 so they're back at their family business. The 00:30:10.690 --> 00:30:16.359 list goes on, right? And so you have this group 00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:20.240 of people where it's like, okay, they're collectively 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:22.599 together. They're not going to accomplish anything. 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:28.859 Then Jesus is like, watch me. And to be fair, 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:31.400 in this scene, they didn't accomplish anything. 00:30:31.539 --> 00:30:33.420 They were supposed to go and just watch with 00:30:33.420 --> 00:30:36.160 him and they couldn't stay awake. And then all 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:38.660 they were supposed to do is just stand behind 00:30:38.660 --> 00:30:41.579 him and then they cut off someone's ear. Yep. 00:30:41.869 --> 00:30:44.309 Now, he's going to get arrested. They're going 00:30:44.309 --> 00:30:46.910 to go running off. I think there's like one of 00:30:46.910 --> 00:30:48.710 the accounts says that somebody gets their cloak 00:30:48.710 --> 00:30:53.730 stolen, so they run off naked. So clearly, they're 00:30:53.730 --> 00:30:58.529 booking it. But it is an odd amalgamation of 00:30:58.529 --> 00:31:01.750 people. It's almost like Jesus works with all 00:31:01.750 --> 00:31:03.630 sorts of different people, and he brings out 00:31:03.630 --> 00:31:05.809 the best in them, and about working together 00:31:05.809 --> 00:31:07.950 despite our differences is so important, which 00:31:07.950 --> 00:31:14.230 touches on our last episode. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:31:14.809 --> 00:31:16.990 And one of the things we've talked, we talked 00:31:16.990 --> 00:31:18.609 about in a previous episode, but I want to point 00:31:18.609 --> 00:31:21.569 out here one more time. Two people are going 00:31:21.569 --> 00:31:23.849 to have extreme regret over what happens here. 00:31:24.569 --> 00:31:28.269 Peter for denying Jesus and probably for chopping 00:31:28.269 --> 00:31:30.970 the guy's ear off. Yeah. Right. He's going to 00:31:30.970 --> 00:31:32.970 have regret. And then Judas for betraying Jesus. 00:31:33.769 --> 00:31:38.670 The difference between them. Is when they have 00:31:38.670 --> 00:31:41.769 realization about their sin. One of them goes 00:31:41.769 --> 00:31:45.210 to Jesus. Yep. And one goes takes care of himself. 00:31:47.869 --> 00:31:49.890 Both of them could have had redemption. Yeah. 00:31:51.029 --> 00:31:54.970 Right. I don't know if you think that the sin 00:31:54.970 --> 00:31:57.430 of betraying the son of God to the chief priest 00:31:57.430 --> 00:31:59.990 is too big of a sin for God to forgive. He's 00:31:59.990 --> 00:32:02.569 got it. He's got it. Like he already knew he 00:32:02.569 --> 00:32:05.519 was going to do it. The difference between Judas 00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:07.339 and Peter is one comes back and one doesn't. 00:32:07.579 --> 00:32:10.220 It's why that word repent, shuva, return to who 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:13.880 you're supposed to be, matters. You're going 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.779 to fail. Sometimes you will be with Jesus in 00:32:16.779 --> 00:32:18.640 a garden and you'll chop someone's ear off. He 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:22.480 can put it back on. Sometimes people are going 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:24.480 to ask you if you belong to Jesus and you're 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:28.319 going to deny him. He'll meet you by a fire later 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:33.640 and restore you. And sometimes you're going to 00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:35.819 be called to be like Jesus and go take a cup 00:32:35.819 --> 00:32:38.420 that nobody wants to drink so that somebody else 00:32:38.420 --> 00:32:41.839 can have life. Yes. And I think all of those 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:43.299 things, like obviously you could carry any of 00:32:43.299 --> 00:32:45.400 those analogies too far. Like here the intent, 00:32:45.539 --> 00:32:49.299 not necessarily the ending. Here the intent is 00:32:49.299 --> 00:32:51.619 that following after Jesus and being like Jesus 00:32:51.619 --> 00:32:53.859 means sometimes stepping into situations that 00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:56.019 are not going to be good, that are going to hurt 00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:57.900 for the sake of what we know is on the other 00:32:57.900 --> 00:33:01.230 side. Yeah. That's part of being human. That's 00:33:01.230 --> 00:33:03.470 part of being, uh, recognizing the image of God 00:33:03.470 --> 00:33:06.089 in us is our willingness to deal with the gross. 00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:10.109 Yeah. Right. I think that's probably a good place 00:33:10.109 --> 00:33:12.329 for us to stop. Yeah. Uh, next week we'll talk 00:33:12.329 --> 00:33:15.549 about, uh, the actual trial. We're probably going 00:33:15.549 --> 00:33:17.589 to lead all the way up to the actual crucifixion, 00:33:17.589 --> 00:33:19.990 uh, maybe get into the crucifixion. And then 00:33:19.990 --> 00:33:21.750 the following week I wanted to take some time 00:33:21.750 --> 00:33:23.970 talking about the words of Jesus on the cross. 00:33:24.049 --> 00:33:26.950 Yeah. Um, and then his death and death and burial. 00:33:27.009 --> 00:33:29.210 Yeah. And, uh, and then we'll be talking about 00:33:29.210 --> 00:33:34.500 the resurrection. Yeah. So until next time. 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