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 --> 00:00:22.820 context. We're so glad you're here. Let's dive 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:28.530 into Season 3 of Love & Context. Welcome back 00:00:28.530 --> 00:00:31.489 to the Love and Context podcast, live from my 00:00:31.489 --> 00:00:34.289 deck. Yeah. This is the house that we moved. 00:00:34.409 --> 00:00:36.549 We moved the entire house. We threw it on our 00:00:36.549 --> 00:00:39.310 shoulders, and between the two of us, we walked 00:00:39.310 --> 00:00:41.750 it over here. That's exactly how that works, 00:00:41.770 --> 00:00:44.929 right? Yeah, yeah. It only took us a few hours. 00:00:45.530 --> 00:00:47.789 It's actually super nice, though, because being 00:00:47.789 --> 00:00:49.869 able to actually sit out here and not have rain 00:00:49.869 --> 00:00:52.950 on my head, it's super nice. One of the things 00:00:52.950 --> 00:00:56.630 about Alaska is we have pervasive weather. In 00:00:56.630 --> 00:00:58.649 fact, if I turned the camera around for you, 00:00:58.689 --> 00:01:00.689 you would actually see a little bit of snow on 00:01:00.689 --> 00:01:03.170 my yard. And you would go, isn't it spring break? 00:01:03.310 --> 00:01:06.170 Yes. Yes, it is. It is spring break, and spring 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:10.969 has truly broke? No, struck? What's the word 00:01:10.969 --> 00:01:13.370 I'm looking for? It's just here. Struck. Yeah. 00:01:13.409 --> 00:01:16.590 Yeah, it's not so great. But, yeah, so we're 00:01:16.590 --> 00:01:19.370 here, and we are podcasting, and we're back at 00:01:19.370 --> 00:01:22.739 Life of Jesus. Life of Jesus. Now, remember, 00:01:22.859 --> 00:01:25.700 if you remember last time we were together, for 00:01:25.700 --> 00:01:27.719 some of you, you're like, I literally just turned 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.379 over this episode from the last one. Last time 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:31.879 we were together, we were talking about the trial 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:34.359 of Jesus and ultimately how he was placing the 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:36.879 religious leaders and Herod and Pilate on trial 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.879 and putting out their things. And so we're actually 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:40.980 going to pick up and I'm going to read the text. 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:42.560 We're going to be in John, though we are going 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:43.939 to reference some things from some other books 00:01:43.939 --> 00:01:49.000 and just kind of go through what's going on in 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:52.390 this book. So starting in John 19 says, then 00:01:52.390 --> 00:01:54.650 Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. Not great. 00:01:55.069 --> 00:01:57.090 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns 00:01:57.090 --> 00:01:59.329 and put it on his head. They clothed him with 00:01:59.329 --> 00:02:01.900 a purple robe and went up. went up to him again 00:02:01.900 --> 00:02:03.980 and again saying, Hail, King of the Jews, and 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:06.260 they slapped him in the face. Once more Pilate 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:07.659 came out and said to the Jews gathered here, 00:02:07.739 --> 00:02:09.400 Look, I'm bringing him out to you to let you 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.039 know that I find no basis for a charge against 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:12.960 him. When Jesus came out wearing the crown of 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:14.599 thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, 00:02:14.659 --> 00:02:16.680 Here is the man. As soon as the chief priests 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.819 and their officials saw him, they shouted, Crucify, 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.379 crucify. But Pilate answered, You take him and 00:02:21.379 --> 00:02:23.419 crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a 00:02:23.419 --> 00:02:25.159 charge against him. Now, of course, we talked 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:27.060 about last time, they can't crucify him. Rome 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:29.860 has to do it. The Jewish leaders insisted. we 00:02:29.860 --> 00:02:31.500 have a law and according to that law, he must 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:32.780 die because he claimed to be the son of God. 00:02:32.860 --> 00:02:34.759 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid. 00:02:34.780 --> 00:02:36.740 He went back inside the palace. Where do you 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:38.439 come from? He asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.060 no answer. Do you refuse to speak to me? Pilate 00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:42.860 said, don't you realize I have the power, uh, 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.789 power either to free you or to crucify you. Jesus 00:02:45.789 --> 00:02:47.689 answered, You have no power over me if it were 00:02:47.689 --> 00:02:49.650 not given to you from above. Therefore, the one 00:02:49.650 --> 00:02:51.490 who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater 00:02:51.490 --> 00:02:54.050 sin. From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus 00:02:54.050 --> 00:02:55.569 free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, If 00:02:55.569 --> 00:02:57.289 you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. 00:02:57.550 --> 00:02:59.710 Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar. 00:03:00.009 --> 00:03:01.710 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out 00:03:01.710 --> 00:03:03.430 and sat him on the judge's seat at the place 00:03:03.430 --> 00:03:06.539 where the... known as the stone pavement, which 00:03:06.539 --> 00:03:09.180 in Aramaic is Gabbatha. It was the day of the 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:10.860 preparation of the Passover. It was about noon. 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:12.599 Here's your king. And they shouted, take him 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.159 away. Take him away. Crucify him. Shall I crucify 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.639 your king? Pilate asked. We have no king but 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.340 Caesar. That's not a great statement to roll 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:22.740 out your lips. The chief priest answered. Finally, 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.120 Pilate handed him over to be crucified. So the 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.240 soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.039 cross, he went to the place of the skull, which 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:31.860 in Aramaic is Golgotha, which, by the way, Pastor 00:03:31.860 --> 00:03:33.560 Nick and I have talked about is the most metal 00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.680 name for a place ever, the place of the skull. 00:03:36.569 --> 00:03:40.430 or we call it Calvary, right? There they crucified 00:03:40.430 --> 00:03:43.189 him and with him two others, one on each side 00:03:43.189 --> 00:03:44.870 and Jesus in the middle. Pilate had a notice 00:03:44.870 --> 00:03:46.490 prepared and fastened to the cross. It read, 00:03:46.550 --> 00:03:48.669 Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Many 00:03:48.669 --> 00:03:50.229 of the Jews read the sign for the place where 00:03:50.229 --> 00:03:52.229 Jesus was crucified was near the city. And the 00:03:52.229 --> 00:03:54.090 sign was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. 00:03:54.789 --> 00:03:57.469 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, 00:03:57.469 --> 00:03:59.330 do not write the king of the Jews, but that this 00:03:59.330 --> 00:04:01.330 man claimed to be the king of the Jews. Pilate 00:04:01.330 --> 00:04:02.729 answers, what I have written, I have written. 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:06.099 when the soldiers crucified Jesus they took his 00:04:06.099 --> 00:04:08.060 clothes dividing them into four shares one for 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:11.629 each of them And with the undergarment remaining, 00:04:11.930 --> 00:04:13.750 this garment was seamless, woven in one piece 00:04:13.750 --> 00:04:15.710 from top to bottom. Let's not tear it, they said 00:04:15.710 --> 00:04:17.709 to one another. Let's decide by lot who gets 00:04:17.709 --> 00:04:19.430 it. This happened that the scripture might be 00:04:19.430 --> 00:04:21.149 fulfilled. It said, they divided my clothes among 00:04:21.149 --> 00:04:23.410 them and cast lots for my garment. So this is 00:04:23.410 --> 00:04:25.449 what the soldier did. Near the cross of Jesus 00:04:25.449 --> 00:04:27.629 stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary, 00:04:27.730 --> 00:04:30.610 the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When 00:04:30.610 --> 00:04:32.610 Jesus saw his mother there and the disciple whom 00:04:32.610 --> 00:04:34.930 he loved nearby, he said to her, woman, here 00:04:34.930 --> 00:04:37.170 is your son and the disciple, here is your mother. 00:04:37.389 --> 00:04:39.800 From that time on, The disciple took her into 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.079 his home. Later, knowing that everything had 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.439 now been finished, and so the scripture would 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:46.540 be fulfilled, Jesus said, I am thirsty. A jar 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:48.939 of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:50.920 in it, put the sponge on a stalk of hyssop plant, 00:04:51.019 --> 00:04:53.019 and lifted it to Jesus' lips. When he had received 00:04:53.019 --> 00:04:54.819 the drink, Jesus said, It is finished. And with 00:04:54.819 --> 00:04:57.000 that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 00:04:57.339 --> 00:04:59.199 Now it was the day of preparation, and the next 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:01.459 day was the special Sabbath. Because the Jewish 00:05:01.459 --> 00:05:03.160 leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.040 during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.100 their legs broken, and the bodies taken down. 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:09.639 Therefore came to break and broke the legs of 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:11.040 the first man who had been crucified with Jesus. 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:13.220 And then those are the other, but when they came 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:14.660 to Jesus and found that he was already dead, 00:05:14.779 --> 00:05:16.540 they did not break his legs. Instead, one of 00:05:16.540 --> 00:05:18.300 the soldiers pierced Jesus side with a spear, 00:05:18.420 --> 00:05:21.120 bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.379 man who saw it has given testimony and his testimony 00:05:23.379 --> 00:05:25.459 is true. He knows what he, that he tells the 00:05:25.459 --> 00:05:27.839 truth and it testifies that you may also believe 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:29.860 these things happen so that the scripture would 00:05:29.860 --> 00:05:31.759 be fulfilled. Not one of his bones were broken. 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:33.620 And as another scripture says, they will look 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:37.089 on the one that they have pierced. Later, Joseph 00:05:37.089 --> 00:05:38.970 of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. 00:05:39.189 --> 00:05:41.329 Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly 00:05:41.329 --> 00:05:44.550 because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate's 00:05:44.550 --> 00:05:47.509 permission, he came and took away the body. He 00:05:47.509 --> 00:05:49.310 was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who had 00:05:49.310 --> 00:05:51.709 earlier visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought 00:05:51.709 --> 00:05:54.470 a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about 75 pounds. 00:05:54.730 --> 00:05:56.589 Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it 00:05:56.589 --> 00:05:58.970 with the spices in strips of linen. This was 00:05:58.970 --> 00:06:00.670 in accordance with Jewish burial customs. At 00:06:00.670 --> 00:06:02.529 the place where Jesus was crucified, there was 00:06:02.529 --> 00:06:04.350 a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which 00:06:04.350 --> 00:06:07.040 no one had ever been laid. Because it was the 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:08.639 Jewish day of Passover, and since the tomb was 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:12.180 nearby, they laid Jesus there. So that's the 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:14.680 story. Now, obviously, if you go into the different 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:15.980 Gospels, they're going to have a little bit of 00:06:15.980 --> 00:06:18.879 a different take on it. And before we continue 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:20.860 this, I have to point out that we're sitting 00:06:20.860 --> 00:06:23.860 here. It's snowing. And it's literally snowing 00:06:23.860 --> 00:06:26.079 on us. I mean, not on us, because obviously you 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.180 can see us. But it is snowing. Alaska is just 00:06:30.180 --> 00:06:33.740 a weird place. Yeah. Right. What's really funny 00:06:33.740 --> 00:06:36.259 is my wife is currently outside and she was doing 00:06:36.259 --> 00:06:39.120 a burn pile of like brush and scrap wood. Oh, 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:41.939 she's probably like shouting up into the sky. 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.680 How dare you? How dare you? Probably the, you 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.420 guys can't tell, but we're nice and toasty because 00:06:48.420 --> 00:06:50.819 this right here goes to a heater that's up here 00:06:50.819 --> 00:06:53.379 and it's putting heat down on us. Yes. If you're 00:06:53.379 --> 00:06:54.779 wondering, has been a spoiled boy, the answer 00:06:54.779 --> 00:06:59.449 is yes. Ben is a spoiled, spoiled boy. So today 00:06:59.449 --> 00:07:01.269 we're talking, we just want to kind of talk through 00:07:01.269 --> 00:07:02.610 the story and talk about some things that were 00:07:02.610 --> 00:07:04.709 going on in the different gospel accounts and 00:07:04.709 --> 00:07:06.389 in the life of Jesus, or specifically here we're 00:07:06.389 --> 00:07:09.290 talking about his death. Next week, and we're 00:07:09.290 --> 00:07:10.949 actually, if you pay really close attention, 00:07:11.009 --> 00:07:12.449 you're going to recognize we record these back 00:07:12.449 --> 00:07:14.810 to back. Next week, we're actually going to talk 00:07:14.810 --> 00:07:17.850 about what Jesus says from the cross and its 00:07:17.850 --> 00:07:19.970 implication on Psalm 22. So if you want to get 00:07:19.970 --> 00:07:21.970 ahead of us, go ahead and look up Psalm 22 before 00:07:21.970 --> 00:07:25.509 we get there. But for right now, let's remind 00:07:25.509 --> 00:07:28.399 people where we're at. It's Passover festival 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:32.019 and it's a special one, right? There's population 00:07:32.019 --> 00:07:33.980 swells from about 50 ,000 to possibly around 00:07:33.980 --> 00:07:37.139 200 ,000 during this time. Uh, conscious pilot 00:07:37.139 --> 00:07:39.240 is in town to prevent riots because when you 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.500 get a bunch of people who've been enslaved and 00:07:41.500 --> 00:07:45.399 then you talk about deliverance, oppressors tend 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:48.480 to get worried, you know? And, uh, and so they 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:53.069 are, um, pilot is in town and, um, Messianic 00:07:53.069 --> 00:07:54.629 expectations are high. They're celebrating the 00:07:54.629 --> 00:07:57.430 Exodus. The irony is that during this festival, 00:07:57.589 --> 00:07:59.810 a man called the King of the Jews is actually 00:07:59.810 --> 00:08:04.149 condemned, right? Now, we talked about this a 00:08:04.149 --> 00:08:06.750 little bit with Pilate. He does, because his 00:08:06.750 --> 00:08:08.209 wife came and she's like, hey, you shouldn't 00:08:08.209 --> 00:08:09.889 have anything to do with this man. I had a dream 00:08:09.889 --> 00:08:12.230 about it. It doesn't end well. Well, technically 00:08:12.230 --> 00:08:13.870 it ends really well, but it's not going to end 00:08:13.870 --> 00:08:17.610 well for Pilate. Um, but in this case, they're 00:08:17.610 --> 00:08:20.149 having this conversation and like pilot is, he's 00:08:20.149 --> 00:08:22.069 like, okay, I don't find any fault. Can I release 00:08:22.069 --> 00:08:24.050 him? They're like, no, we want you. We want you 00:08:24.050 --> 00:08:26.569 to bring judgment on him. Okay. Well, what if 00:08:26.569 --> 00:08:29.750 I beat him first? No, we don't want that. What 00:08:29.750 --> 00:08:31.660 if I put a crown of thorns on his head? What 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:34.279 if I mock him and spit on him? What if we release 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.259 Barabbas or Jesus, right? There's all these different 00:08:37.259 --> 00:08:38.559 things. And he's like, eventually he's like, 00:08:38.620 --> 00:08:41.360 and then they're like, well, but he claimed to 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.879 be God. And he goes, well, hold up. I got to 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:44.620 go have a conversation with Jesus about this. 00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:48.279 Right. And he's like, who are you? don't you 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.639 recognize that I have power of life and death 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.340 over you? And Jesus is like, nah, bro, you don't 00:08:54.340 --> 00:08:58.539 got that. You don't got that. I just, Jesus is 00:08:58.539 --> 00:09:00.679 like so in control of this situation, which is 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:04.240 crazy because he's getting beat. Right. And it's 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.600 just like tons of control. Well, he's willingly 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:08.940 going through it all. Yeah. Right. Like it's 00:09:08.940 --> 00:09:12.100 not a, he's not doing it because he's forced 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:14.960 to. Right. He's, he openly said like, Hey, all 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:18.200 I got to do is. Tell God the Father, I don't 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.480 want to do this. Yeah. And I won't have to do 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.940 it. Yeah. Right? He's willingly walking through 00:09:22.940 --> 00:09:24.980 it in complete control the whole time. Yeah. 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:29.539 Yeah. It's a very different thing than like he's 00:09:29.539 --> 00:09:32.039 just being taken and, you know, beat. It's like, 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:33.720 no, he's choosing to be there every step of the 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:36.480 way. Every time he gets hit, every nail that 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:41.620 is driven, he's choosing to be there. So scourging 00:09:41.620 --> 00:09:44.789 is what they talk about the Romans. let me kind 00:09:44.789 --> 00:09:46.389 of read you some of the descriptions of what 00:09:46.389 --> 00:09:49.029 ends up happening so they they have this thing 00:09:49.029 --> 00:09:51.129 it's called a flagrum it's a leather whip and 00:09:51.129 --> 00:09:53.840 usually has pieces of bone or metal embedded 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.799 in it, and they fling it across the back of the 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.179 backs, and it's designed to tear flesh as it 00:09:59.179 --> 00:10:01.700 pulls back. This is how they would do it. It's 00:10:01.700 --> 00:10:03.860 often fatal on its own if you do a number of 00:10:03.860 --> 00:10:06.360 lashes, but it's meant to weaken people before 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.220 crucifixion because the Romans are really good 00:10:08.220 --> 00:10:10.559 at crucifying people and killing people. They 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:11.879 also know how to make sure it happens quickly, 00:10:12.019 --> 00:10:17.779 right? So not great. Not great. If you ever watch 00:10:17.779 --> 00:10:20.740 The Passion of the Christ, if anything, he might 00:10:20.740 --> 00:10:24.419 undersell it in the movie. which is saying something. 00:10:25.179 --> 00:10:29.820 And it's public humiliation, psychological terror. 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.500 It's meant to deter rebellion and terrorism inside 00:10:33.500 --> 00:10:36.740 of their state. But then beyond that, just beyond 00:10:36.740 --> 00:10:40.279 the physical beating, there's this royal parody 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.159 that's taking place with a purple robe and a 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:44.320 crown of thorns and hail king of the Jews, which 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.980 they're saying in mocking tones. And it's Rome 00:10:46.980 --> 00:10:50.139 mocking, right? So then they walk to Golgotha. 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.179 Then they walk to Golgotha. Yeah. And so the 00:10:56.179 --> 00:10:57.879 condemned, when they're crucified, they have 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.940 to carry their own cross, the cross beam. Actually, 00:11:00.980 --> 00:11:03.980 I did look this up, and the word is pantabulum. 00:11:04.179 --> 00:11:07.759 So if that's wrong, just sometimes Google does 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.919 me dirty. And note on the cross is we're often 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:14.059 like, okay, he carried his cross. No, he's carrying 00:11:14.059 --> 00:11:17.429 hundreds of pounds. Yeah. These beams that they're 00:11:17.429 --> 00:11:20.429 nailing them to are stout. They are heavy. They 00:11:20.429 --> 00:11:23.789 are not easy to move. And what they're doing 00:11:23.789 --> 00:11:25.070 is saying, hey, we're going to beat you with 00:11:25.070 --> 00:11:27.190 an inch of your life and then make you move this. 00:11:27.850 --> 00:11:29.610 I sneezed wrong the other day. I had to pick 00:11:29.610 --> 00:11:31.889 up a box and it hurt. Yeah. And he's getting 00:11:31.889 --> 00:11:33.929 literally the flesh ripped off of his back and 00:11:33.929 --> 00:11:35.690 getting punched and kicked and all those different 00:11:35.690 --> 00:11:37.509 things that are going on. And he's still walking 00:11:37.509 --> 00:11:42.480 with a cross. Come on, dude. Yeah. Right? He's 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:44.399 walking through the public the streets and he's 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:47.039 walking is being made a public spectacle like 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.440 it's it's meant to be humiliating It's meant 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:51.539 to be public. It's meant for everybody to see 00:11:51.539 --> 00:11:53.600 what's going on here One of the accounts is gonna 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.240 talk about Simon the siren is gonna be taken 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.059 halfway through because he just physically can't 00:11:58.059 --> 00:12:01.019 carry it anymore Yeah, and that is also a very 00:12:01.019 --> 00:12:03.039 common practice is that they take make them take 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:08.340 it until they literally can't do it anymore And 00:12:08.340 --> 00:12:10.039 he's going to be forced to carry Jesus's cross. 00:12:10.139 --> 00:12:13.340 It is interesting for whatever reason. Mark's 00:12:13.340 --> 00:12:16.840 gospel notes, the names of his sons, probably 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:18.740 because they're known in the region that Mark 00:12:18.740 --> 00:12:21.580 is distributing his gospel. Yeah. Right. Because 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:23.320 you'll also notice like in the, in when John 00:12:23.320 --> 00:12:25.059 was talking about it, he says, Hey, the man who 00:12:25.059 --> 00:12:27.379 saw Jesus's side gets stabbed. Then the blood 00:12:27.379 --> 00:12:30.600 and water come out. He can testify. Like, you 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:32.659 know who he is. You can go and ask him, which 00:12:32.659 --> 00:12:34.080 by the way, is one of these things about the 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:36.820 gospels is like, like, bro, this is written for 00:12:36.820 --> 00:12:39.539 you to understand. Like, go ask him. He was there. 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.080 So he's forced to walk, and his sons are named, 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:45.320 and they're completely fine. Like, hey, go verify. 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:48.240 You know these guys. Go verify. They were there. 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.179 And they go to this place called Golgotha, which 00:12:51.179 --> 00:12:54.740 we call Calvary today, Place of the Skull. So 00:12:54.740 --> 00:12:56.500 they go here. It's outside the city walls. It's 00:12:56.500 --> 00:12:59.159 near a public road because, once again, executions 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:02.679 are meant to be public. And it's typically crucifixion 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:04.740 is reserved for slaves, rebellions, non -citizens. 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:07.840 Rebels is a nice way of saying terrorists, people 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.559 who are literally opposing the regime. Yeah. 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.639 It's considered the most shameful death and it's 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:14.379 supposed to be designed for prolonged suffering. 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:21.250 Right. Typically, Roman did not crucify citizens 00:13:21.250 --> 00:13:25.210 except in extreme treason cases. Yeah. Because 00:13:25.210 --> 00:13:27.070 they wouldn't even crucify one of their own citizens. 00:13:27.590 --> 00:13:29.730 That's why, by the way, Paul is beheaded is because 00:13:29.730 --> 00:13:35.110 Paul is a Roman citizen, right? Cicero, the historian, 00:13:35.350 --> 00:13:38.330 said it was the most cruel and disgusting penalty, 00:13:38.570 --> 00:13:43.539 right? So physically what's going on in crucifixion 00:13:43.539 --> 00:13:45.779 is that the nails are likely going through the 00:13:45.779 --> 00:13:48.519 wrists. The Greek word can can mean hands, but 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.220 it can also mean wrists specifically like the 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:52.039 wrist joint here. So there's conversation about 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:53.179 does it actually mean the hands doesn't mean 00:13:53.179 --> 00:13:56.500 the wrist. I'm not a person that does those things. 00:13:56.700 --> 00:13:59.960 Most most historical accounts will say it's the 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:02.120 wrist. Yeah. Majority of them. Some will say 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.179 it's the hands. And it could be that it was done 00:14:04.179 --> 00:14:08.299 both ways. It's entirely possible. The feet are 00:14:08.299 --> 00:14:11.080 either nailed or tied. The body is then positioned. 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.899 And what actually kills you is not the blood 00:14:13.899 --> 00:14:16.299 loss. It's not the hanging on the cross. It's 00:14:16.299 --> 00:14:19.039 actually you can't breathe. And so you essentially 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:22.360 eventually asphyxiate. I can't say that word 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:24.700 correctly. And you end up passing because you 00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:27.639 suffocate. Yeah. And so typically, like, what 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:29.500 they would do is they would drive one nail through 00:14:29.500 --> 00:14:31.399 both feet. Yeah. And the feet would be nailed 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.860 together. And then when you wanted to breathe, 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.110 you actually had to push up on your feet. and 00:14:37.110 --> 00:14:39.230 with excruciating pain because you have a nail 00:14:39.230 --> 00:14:41.750 driven through them right yeah and so in order 00:14:41.750 --> 00:14:43.909 to breathe you had to endure excruciating pain 00:14:43.909 --> 00:14:46.330 and so there came a point where the people just 00:14:46.330 --> 00:14:48.809 gave up right yeah it's not that they couldn't 00:14:48.809 --> 00:14:50.850 push up but they were like they're like i'm not 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:52.570 doing it because it hurts too much i just give 00:14:52.570 --> 00:14:56.870 up i'm just accepting my fate yeah yeah so there's 00:14:56.870 --> 00:14:59.029 three groups of people that are really at present 00:14:59.029 --> 00:15:02.450 uh in what's going on there's the soldiers the 00:15:02.450 --> 00:15:05.070 Roman soldiers and they are either, uh, inflicting 00:15:05.070 --> 00:15:06.809 the punishment. They're gambling for garments, 00:15:06.970 --> 00:15:09.470 uh, or doing their job jobs or they're just indifferent 00:15:09.470 --> 00:15:11.590 to what's going on. Yeah. This is same old, same 00:15:11.590 --> 00:15:14.490 old. The religious leaders, they say things like 00:15:14.490 --> 00:15:16.990 he saved others. He can't save himself. Right. 00:15:17.570 --> 00:15:20.409 Um, It was pointed out, it's been pointed out 00:15:20.409 --> 00:15:22.370 a lot of times that maybe they saw this as a 00:15:22.370 --> 00:15:25.570 valid criticism of his ministry. Because in Deuteronomy 00:15:25.570 --> 00:15:27.830 21, 23, it says, curse is anyone hung on a tree. 00:15:28.629 --> 00:15:30.690 Little do they know that his curse is actually 00:15:30.690 --> 00:15:32.730 going to be our blessing. Right. But then there's 00:15:32.730 --> 00:15:35.669 the other ones that are his followers. Now, a 00:15:35.669 --> 00:15:38.570 lot of the disciples fled. And before we give 00:15:38.570 --> 00:15:40.730 them a hard time, Rome is scary. Yeah. Right. 00:15:41.690 --> 00:15:43.590 But the women remain because it talks about Mary, 00:15:43.710 --> 00:15:45.370 Mary Magdalene and other people that are there 00:15:45.370 --> 00:15:48.629 with Jesus. And John's gospel says that Jesus 00:15:48.629 --> 00:15:50.669 then entrusts his mother to the beloved disciple. 00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:53.710 Right. The women are actually the last at the 00:15:53.710 --> 00:15:57.429 cross and they're the first at the tomb. By the 00:15:57.429 --> 00:15:59.909 way, if these accounts were not true and they 00:15:59.909 --> 00:16:02.610 were trying to drag validity into this, those 00:16:02.610 --> 00:16:04.289 are not the witnesses you would have chosen. 00:16:04.409 --> 00:16:08.350 Yeah. Right. Because it's kind of like women 00:16:08.350 --> 00:16:10.850 were not considered reliable witnesses. Now. 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:13.000 this has not been saying this. I just want to 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.000 be very careful. This has not been saying this. 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:18.159 This is antiquity saying this. And so women are 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.820 not considered a reliable witness, but they are 00:16:20.820 --> 00:16:24.399 both to there at the death and there at the resurrection. 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.639 Right. And you have to take into it. You just 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:29.600 take into account what the culture was like that 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:33.039 day. Women were viewed closer to property than 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.580 they were to human beings. Yeah. Especially in 00:16:35.580 --> 00:16:38.039 Roman culture. There was a Roman culture actually 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.970 put a little more value on women, but not, Not 00:16:40.970 --> 00:16:42.990 much. It was it was the value that was mainly 00:16:42.990 --> 00:16:46.889 put on women was for sexual pleasure and things 00:16:46.889 --> 00:16:50.000 like that. Right. And and so. So you'll read 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:51.679 in these accounts, you'll even read in accounts 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:54.100 like of Jesus feeding the 5 ,000 and 4 ,000, 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:56.860 right? Where it was, where we'll say 4 ,000 men. 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:59.960 And then there's then in Mark's account and he 00:16:59.960 --> 00:17:01.580 actually clarifies, he's like, and there are 00:17:01.580 --> 00:17:03.500 women, there were women and children present 00:17:03.500 --> 00:17:07.099 as well. Yeah. Right. So culturally that's just, 00:17:07.099 --> 00:17:09.339 that was just the norm of, of how you talked 00:17:09.339 --> 00:17:12.829 about it. Yeah. So there's, uh, while Jesus is 00:17:12.829 --> 00:17:14.690 being crucified, he's not the only one. There's 00:17:14.690 --> 00:17:16.930 two others that are being crucified. Um, and 00:17:16.930 --> 00:17:18.930 in one account it says that they're both mocking 00:17:18.930 --> 00:17:20.869 him. Yeah. And then one account, it says one's 00:17:20.869 --> 00:17:22.329 mocking him. The other one turns over and says, 00:17:22.450 --> 00:17:24.230 Hey, don't you realize he didn't do nothing? 00:17:24.349 --> 00:17:26.390 Yeah. Like he's up here. He should not be up 00:17:26.390 --> 00:17:30.430 here. Right. Um, I almost wonder like if those 00:17:30.430 --> 00:17:32.029 accounts, like, you know, when you read them, 00:17:32.069 --> 00:17:34.029 it's like he started out mocking and then he's 00:17:34.029 --> 00:17:36.500 just watching Jesus there. Like just. be there 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:38.980 and he hears the words that are being preached 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:41.900 from the cross and he's like oh this dude shouldn't 00:17:41.900 --> 00:17:44.839 be here i don't know you know that's a that's 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:46.660 a that's a ben thinking in his head thing yeah 00:17:46.660 --> 00:17:49.680 yeah i think the two people on either side of 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.390 him has more to do with the I mean, the part 00:17:52.390 --> 00:17:54.789 of the part that's recorded is the, Hey, you 00:17:54.789 --> 00:17:57.170 are going to be in paradise today. Right. Remember 00:17:57.170 --> 00:18:00.769 me is, is the, is the fact that it doesn't matter 00:18:00.769 --> 00:18:03.269 where you're at in life. You can always say yes 00:18:03.269 --> 00:18:05.509 to Jesus. Correct. Right. Yeah. Like that is 00:18:05.509 --> 00:18:08.869 the beauty of that story. Yeah. Yeah. There's 00:18:08.869 --> 00:18:10.730 a, I forget the, I forget the guy who does this, 00:18:10.769 --> 00:18:13.210 but he does a good bit on it where, where he's, 00:18:13.210 --> 00:18:15.670 where he's talking about the thief on the cross 00:18:15.670 --> 00:18:19.660 who comes to see the apostles in heaven. And 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:21.200 they're like, oh, what good works did you do? 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.319 I didn't do nothing. I didn't do nothing. How'd 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:27.359 you get here? The guy on the cross next to me 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:30.019 said I could be here. Said I could be here. And 00:18:30.019 --> 00:18:33.539 that's the beauty of it. He said I could come. 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.509 That's the beauty of it. Yeah. So from noon to 00:18:38.509 --> 00:18:40.369 3 p .m., it says the darkness comes over the 00:18:40.369 --> 00:18:43.289 land. By the way, you're going to catch huge 00:18:43.289 --> 00:18:46.190 echoes into the Exodus plague. Yeah. Right. Apocalyptic 00:18:46.190 --> 00:18:50.210 imagery of Daniel. Right. But then the temple 00:18:50.210 --> 00:18:55.109 curtain is torn from top to bottom. Yep. But 00:18:55.109 --> 00:19:01.230 if you remember from Torah, what is this curtain 00:19:01.230 --> 00:19:04.660 in the temple? curtain that separates the holy 00:19:04.660 --> 00:19:06.380 of holies where the most hype the high priest 00:19:06.380 --> 00:19:08.339 goes in yeah from the rest of where everybody 00:19:08.339 --> 00:19:10.799 else is yeah and we're not talking about you 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.039 know a curtain that blocks out your windows right 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:17.839 this thing was said to be inches thick yeah right 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.220 and it was um and it was made from stout fabrics 00:19:21.220 --> 00:19:25.380 right it was this thing was meant to last and 00:19:25.380 --> 00:19:28.079 not meant to be destroyed ripped torn at all 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:31.000 yeah i mean you don't want to accidentally walk 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.710 into the holy of holies Because that has bad 00:19:33.710 --> 00:19:37.210 repercussions. Yeah. Right? So it's a pretty 00:19:37.210 --> 00:19:40.529 intense curtain. And this thing just tears from 00:19:40.529 --> 00:19:44.289 the top to the bottom, you know. And Roman centurion, 00:19:44.329 --> 00:19:47.109 one of them, says, like, when the sky goes dark 00:19:47.109 --> 00:19:48.569 and there's, like, all these things happening, 00:19:48.690 --> 00:19:50.150 he's like, surely this man was the son of God. 00:19:50.509 --> 00:19:53.069 Right? Of anything. By the way, a Roman person 00:19:53.069 --> 00:19:54.990 saying the son of God and not talking about Caesar, 00:19:55.410 --> 00:19:58.410 that guy's going to get in trouble. Right? A 00:19:58.410 --> 00:20:00.849 Roman executioner is actually one making a theological 00:20:00.849 --> 00:20:05.869 confession. And most of the conversation agrees 00:20:05.869 --> 00:20:08.849 that Jesus dies around 3 p .m., right around 00:20:08.849 --> 00:20:10.390 the hour when Passover lambs are going to be 00:20:10.390 --> 00:20:12.390 slaughtered in the temple for the Passover dinner. 00:20:13.130 --> 00:20:17.089 Now, why is this story really important for us, 00:20:17.150 --> 00:20:20.329 and why is it such a powerful symbol? Well, one, 00:20:20.369 --> 00:20:22.869 because death is being defeated here. A kingdom 00:20:22.869 --> 00:20:25.710 is being enshrined, right? Jesus is being coronated 00:20:25.710 --> 00:20:28.150 during this time. What it looks like is supposed 00:20:28.150 --> 00:20:31.230 to be shame and curse and total defeat. Jesus 00:20:31.230 --> 00:20:33.730 says is victory, is enthronement, it's salvation. 00:20:34.210 --> 00:20:37.630 In a world where, in a Roman world, for example, 00:20:37.630 --> 00:20:40.029 they say Caesar is Lord, but the cross actually 00:20:40.029 --> 00:20:43.430 declares Jesus is Lord in a way that is so countercultural 00:20:43.430 --> 00:20:46.009 that we have no real good way to understand it. 00:20:46.309 --> 00:20:50.569 Yeah. I think sometimes we think the bad things 00:20:50.569 --> 00:20:52.210 that happen to us are evidence that God isn't 00:20:52.210 --> 00:20:53.710 with us. And I was like, I actually think that 00:20:53.710 --> 00:20:55.329 when we're in the bad things and we have peace 00:20:55.329 --> 00:20:58.210 and patience and kindness, like this world is 00:20:58.210 --> 00:21:03.140 temporary. And how does Phil Wickham say it? 00:21:03.259 --> 00:21:05.700 Friday's good because Sunday's coming, right? 00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:10.640 Like in this world, if you have trouble and tribulation 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:12.500 and heartache and all these different things, 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:15.420 this is proving ground for heaven, right? For 00:21:15.420 --> 00:21:17.619 heaven to come to earth, for eternity. We are 00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:20.400 being formed into the people that God is going 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:24.819 to spend eternity with, right? And it's often 00:21:24.819 --> 00:21:27.960 in the trouble. It's in the chaos. It's in the 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:30.380 mess that we actually see God doing incredible 00:21:30.380 --> 00:21:34.700 things in our lives. Yeah. And you, when you're 00:21:34.700 --> 00:21:37.980 looking at the story too, you see, you actually 00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:40.559 see accounts of Jesus passing the torch, right? 00:21:40.660 --> 00:21:44.859 Yeah. So John is there with his mom and he's 00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:46.619 like, Hey, you're going to take care of her. 00:21:47.220 --> 00:21:50.819 Like you're, you are now her son. You are, you 00:21:50.819 --> 00:21:54.000 are responsible for her. You see Jesus doing 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:57.519 these things. And even even back up to, you know, 00:21:57.539 --> 00:22:00.319 the Last Supper and Jesus getting arrested. Yeah. 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.079 He's telling the disciples like, hey. These are 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:04.460 things that are going to happen in the future. 00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:06.559 Right. And this is going to be on you. Right. 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:09.579 Right. And, and so you see him passing the torch 00:22:09.579 --> 00:22:12.059 saying like, you're ready to go. You're ready 00:22:12.059 --> 00:22:14.900 to do this without me. Yeah. I mean, not quote 00:22:14.900 --> 00:22:17.099 unquote without him, but like. Nope. It's too 00:22:17.099 --> 00:22:19.140 late. We're branding that. We're sending it out. 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:20.579 You're doing it without Jesus. Yeah. You know 00:22:20.579 --> 00:22:22.660 what I'm saying. But without him physically there. 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.339 Right. Yeah. Right. And so, and so then when 00:22:26.339 --> 00:22:29.059 he goes through this, you see him in complete 00:22:29.059 --> 00:22:32.869 control. You see him. you see him calm collected 00:22:32.869 --> 00:22:35.849 knowing what's going to happen and you still 00:22:35.849 --> 00:22:38.130 see him proclaiming who he is yeah right because 00:22:38.130 --> 00:22:40.569 you do have accounts of him talking to pilot 00:22:40.569 --> 00:22:42.809 and pilots like who are you and he's like i am 00:22:42.809 --> 00:22:46.609 who i am yeah and you have accounts where and 00:22:46.609 --> 00:22:49.170 you have accounts where where pilots like i can't 00:22:49.170 --> 00:22:51.849 find any fault in this guy like he says he is 00:22:51.849 --> 00:22:57.309 your king right and Well, I think that I think 00:22:57.309 --> 00:22:59.529 because with the narrative, because we've been 00:22:59.529 --> 00:23:02.549 positioning that Jesus is in control the entire 00:23:02.549 --> 00:23:05.410 time. And I can hear somebody typing away. And 00:23:05.410 --> 00:23:07.069 by the way, you need to tune into the next episode 00:23:07.069 --> 00:23:08.869 because you say, well, what about when on the 00:23:08.869 --> 00:23:10.289 cross? He says, my God, my God, why have you 00:23:10.289 --> 00:23:13.430 forsaken me? Go read Psalm 22. We'll be there 00:23:13.430 --> 00:23:16.349 next week. Jesus is in control of everything 00:23:16.349 --> 00:23:18.549 that's happening. And he's walking through intentionally 00:23:18.549 --> 00:23:22.450 to do everything to its completion so that when 00:23:22.450 --> 00:23:26.839 he rises later, death, hell. Defeated. And even 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:30.039 the language he uses on the cross when he says 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:32.900 it is finished. Like the words that are actually 00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:35.740 used there is not just him saying my life is 00:23:35.740 --> 00:23:38.299 done. Right. It's him saying that I have fulfilled 00:23:38.299 --> 00:23:41.240 everything I need. Yeah. I have fulfilled the 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.039 purpose of why I came to this earth. Yep. And 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:47.559 so him saying it is finished is him saying. I 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:49.539 have fulfilled the works of the prophets. I have 00:23:49.539 --> 00:23:52.440 fulfilled the works of the law. I have fulfilled 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:55.480 Torah. Yep. I have become Torah made flesh and 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:59.339 Torah died on the cross for you. Right. And it's 00:23:59.339 --> 00:24:00.779 going to be beyond just for you. It's going to 00:24:00.779 --> 00:24:02.960 be for all nations. Yeah. Even those Romans who 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:07.019 put them up there. Right. Yep. I do think there 00:24:07.019 --> 00:24:10.119 is a tendency and I'm always a little bit hesitant 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:12.539 when we're, when we're talking about the crucifixion 00:24:12.539 --> 00:24:15.329 to approach it lightly. because it's a really 00:24:15.329 --> 00:24:19.430 intense and serious story. And ironically, this 00:24:19.430 --> 00:24:22.690 video will post pretty close to Easter. We did 00:24:22.690 --> 00:24:24.670 not plan that, by the way. We did not plan that. 00:24:24.789 --> 00:24:27.269 It just happened to be that that's how it happened. 00:24:27.869 --> 00:24:29.910 And I would encourage you, when we were talking 00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:32.569 about resurrection, which is what was going to 00:24:32.569 --> 00:24:34.549 come up in a few weeks when we talk about the 00:24:34.549 --> 00:24:37.329 resurrection. But when we talk about the crucifixion 00:24:37.329 --> 00:24:39.509 and resurrection, like it's okay to sit there 00:24:39.509 --> 00:24:42.009 and be somber and recognize the gravity of the 00:24:42.009 --> 00:24:44.009 moment. Jesus literally sweat blood getting ready 00:24:44.009 --> 00:24:48.509 for it. Right. But you have to recognize that 00:24:48.509 --> 00:24:51.970 it wasn't like nobody did anything to him. He 00:24:51.970 --> 00:24:54.309 walked through it intentionally. Yeah. Right. 00:24:54.990 --> 00:24:58.250 He willingly placed himself in this position 00:24:58.250 --> 00:25:01.990 so that all things could be made right. Yeah. 00:25:02.009 --> 00:25:05.250 And that's, that's, I would say maybe the, the, 00:25:05.690 --> 00:25:07.829 The other side of the thing that we talk about 00:25:07.829 --> 00:25:10.430 with this story is in some ways we're also called 00:25:10.430 --> 00:25:12.210 to do that. We are called to walk into chaos 00:25:12.210 --> 00:25:15.490 and be willing to absorb things so that people 00:25:15.490 --> 00:25:19.789 can see the light. Yeah. Now, caveat, that does 00:25:19.789 --> 00:25:21.710 not mean you need to go get put up on a cross, 00:25:21.829 --> 00:25:24.630 right? I'm just talking about when you're willing 00:25:24.630 --> 00:25:26.369 to take the hit so that somebody else can see 00:25:26.369 --> 00:25:28.450 light, that you're actually walking in the footsteps 00:25:28.450 --> 00:25:31.769 of Jesus, that it's your control, you're stepping 00:25:31.769 --> 00:25:35.279 in and intentionally. Yeah. And if you look at 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:37.519 when Jesus says, you know, pick up your cross 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:41.700 and follow me, like, look at the context of what 00:25:41.700 --> 00:25:43.799 he's saying that he's putting that in the context 00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:46.319 of how you live your life. Yeah. Right. Like, 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:48.859 are you living your life like Jesus has called 00:25:48.859 --> 00:25:51.259 you to live your life or how Jesus has called 00:25:51.259 --> 00:25:53.259 you to live your life? Yeah. Right. That is the 00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:55.440 question that's being asked. Yeah. It's not a, 00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:58.900 it's not a, hey, you got to make sure you. are 00:25:58.900 --> 00:26:01.519 murdered for the gospel. You're right. Sorry, 00:26:01.619 --> 00:26:04.339 I shouldn't laugh at that. But yeah, 100%. Right? 00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:07.799 It's also not, like, unless God calls you to, 00:26:07.859 --> 00:26:09.539 it's not sell everything and give it to the poor. 00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:12.140 But you should care about the poor. And you should 00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:13.779 be willing to do that if he does call you to 00:26:13.779 --> 00:26:17.799 it, right? Correct. Right? But I actually had 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:19.599 a conversation with somebody a while ago where 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:22.099 we were talking about that very thing, and they're 00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:24.380 like, well, God never said that it was bad for 00:26:24.380 --> 00:26:26.140 me to have nice things. I was like, you're missing 00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:29.759 the point. Right. If God comes to you and says, 00:26:29.859 --> 00:26:31.960 hey, all this nice stuff you have, I want you 00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:35.140 to sell it and move to middle of nowhere village 00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:38.220 in Africa. Sorry, middle of nowhere village in 00:26:38.220 --> 00:26:41.359 Africa. Yeah. He's talking about you. Yeah. Yeah. 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.980 So if he says do that, then guess what? We do 00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:49.799 it. We do it. Yeah. Right? The point is that 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:53.539 if Jesus is you or you're walking in the steps 00:26:53.539 --> 00:26:57.519 of Jesus, if Jesus was X, Y, Z. Mm -hmm. Well, 00:26:57.559 --> 00:26:59.000 what does it look like for Jesus to do those 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:02.819 things? Right. And we step into those, um, including 00:27:02.819 --> 00:27:05.200 that we're willing to step into death if it means 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:08.220 following Jesus. Yes. That's just not the first 00:27:08.220 --> 00:27:12.859 choice. Right. Like even Jesus was like, listen, 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:16.000 if this cup can pass for me, but if it can't, 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:18.859 I'm willing to walk through it. Right. And, uh, 00:27:19.019 --> 00:27:22.160 we, and we, we give our love to the, the people 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:24.779 who've died on behalf of the gospel over thousands 00:27:24.779 --> 00:27:27.910 of years. Yeah. Right. they're, they're heroes 00:27:27.910 --> 00:27:29.349 of the faith for a reason because they're, they're 00:27:29.349 --> 00:27:33.329 willing to give literally everything. Yeah. Also, 00:27:33.450 --> 00:27:34.769 you need to be willing to live for the gospel. 00:27:35.190 --> 00:27:39.049 Yep. Not just die for it. Yep. Yeah. So that's 00:27:39.049 --> 00:27:41.650 crucifixion. I'm not going to do a, do a lighthearted 00:27:41.650 --> 00:27:44.730 exit because I think it's, it's worth, um, sitting 00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:46.569 in it. It's worth sitting in the weight. Yeah. 00:27:46.569 --> 00:27:49.549 Like feeling the weight of it. Yeah. Um, I think 00:27:49.549 --> 00:27:52.450 we often just skim over it and being like, okay. 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.579 Jesus went to the cross, died for our sins, move 00:27:55.579 --> 00:27:59.019 on. Right. But it's worth sitting in the weight 00:27:59.019 --> 00:28:04.400 of how horrendous this was. Yeah. This is a somber 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:07.680 time. People are losing their rabbi, their teacher, 00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:10.759 their Lord and savior. It's intense. Right. People 00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:13.740 who have given up their lives to follow him are 00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:16.160 now saying, is this, is this ending right now? 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:19.319 Yeah. Which actually segues really well into 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:20.680 what we're going to be talking about in our next 00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:23.200 episode. Jesus actually preaches one more sermon 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.839 for his people before he goes. Yep. And we'll 00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:27.900 talk about that next week. Yep. Till next time. 00:28:29.869 --> 00:28:32.089 And that's a wrap for today's episode of Love 00:28:32.089 --> 00:28:34.549 and Context. 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