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Allen Jackson - The Display of Good and Evil (Part 2)

March 12, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - The Display of Good and Evil (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - The Display of Good and Evil (Part 2) | March 12, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world,
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  • Allen jackson: may i ask you, if you're on trial and the judge
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  • Is in a really hard place and there's some angry,
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  • Powerful people shouting for your execution
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  • And the judge knows you're innocent.
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  • Do you think it'd be okay if he just caved to the crowd?
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  • No, i don't think any of us would.
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  • We would want him to do what he thought was right even if there
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  • Was some consequence for it, that's what we call character.
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  • That's the difference in being a character and having character.
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  • And tragically, we live in a culture that tends to reward
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  • And celebrate being a character.
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  • If you have character and you hold a set of values--
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  • We have all sorts of fancy language
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  • And all sorts of explanations.
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  • "well, it's business."
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  • Or, "if i forfeit that opportunity, it would have
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  • A financial impact on me and then that would have a financial
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  • Impact on my children, therefore i have complete license to do
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  • Whatever i need to do to get as much as i can, can all i get
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  • And sit on the can because it's gonna go to my kids."
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  • Folks, pilate could have been a participant
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  • In the eternal kingdom of god.
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  • That would be a much better place to have stood than being
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  • The one that condemned him to death when your earth suit
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  • Wears out.
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  • Agreed?
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  • Pilate surrendered jesus to the murderous mob.
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  • We don't do that, we don't sit on the beam of the judgment
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  • Seat, the roman judgment seat.
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  • We don't occupy a praetorium and have our own personal guard
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  • And a guard of people that we can command.
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  • We cave in other ways.
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  • We surrender children to abortionists.
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  • We look away while lewd, obscene material is made available
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  • To our children in school libraries.
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  • We think we can elect somebody to go do that for us so we don't
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  • Have to pay any attention, we don't have to use our voices.
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  • Why should we invest the time and the energy?
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  • That's what we chose them-- they should go be bold.
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  • Seems to me we've all spent too much time in that middle place
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  • Where pilate found himself.
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  • I think it's one of the reasons luke takes so much time to help
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  • Us understand the scene because by the time luke is putting this
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  • Gospel together, many scholars imagine he did it with paul
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  • While paul was under guard in caesarea.
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  • So paul is nearing the end of his ministry and luke has
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  • Traveled with him through much of that and luke has seen
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  • The pressure that comes because of the gospel.
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  • He's seen the opposition at ephesus, he's seen the riots,
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  • He's seen the trauma in philippi, he understands
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  • What it means.
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  • And so when he's telling us the story, he's illuminating
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  • That pressure.
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  • I think he's trying to help us understand we have choices
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  • To make.
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  • Verse 26: "as they led him away, they seized simon from cyrene,
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  • Who was on his way in from the country, and they put the cross
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  • On him and they made him carry it behind jesus."
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  • By this point, jesus has been beaten severely.
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  • In fact, he's hemorrhaged enough that he's too weak to carry
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  • The cross.
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  • A normal expectation for prisoners, but most prisoners
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  • Headed for crucifixion would not have been beaten as severely
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  • As jesus has been.
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  • "a large number of people followed him, including women
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  • Who mourned and wailed for him."
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  • It's an interesting study, i'll give you one you can do
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  • On your own.
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  • There's a number of phrases, particularly in the last few
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  • Chapters of luke's gospel, where he points attention to the women
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  • Who were engaged.
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  • It's here, he says, "there's a large number of people following
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  • Him, including women," it's a highlight, "who mourned
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  • And wailed for him."
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  • They were willing to be identified with jesus.
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  • They had the courage in the streets of jerusalem, the same
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  • Streets where, just a few hours earlier, they'd screamed,
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  • "crucify him."
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  • Now these women have the courage to mourn on his behalf.
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  • Remarkable.
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  • "jesus turned and said to them," jesus stops.
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  • Remember now, he has been beaten horribly, too weak to carry
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  • His cross, and he turns and says to the women, "'daughters
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  • Of jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves
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  • And for your children.
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  • For the time will come when you will say, 'blessed are the
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  • Barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts
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  • That never nursed!'
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  • And they will say to the mountains, 'fall on us!'
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  • And to the hills, 'cover us!'
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  • For if men do these things when the tree is green,
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  • What will happen when it's dry?"
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  • Luke is presenting to us a very public humiliation and torture.
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  • Jesus is severely beaten, but he still has a message
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  • For the people.
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  • Through all the injustice, through all the false
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  • Accusations, through the mock trial, through the cries
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  • Of the people of the city to whom he has come with a message
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  • Of the kingdom of god is at hand and they have demanded
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  • His execution.
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  • Jesus still has a message for the people.
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  • Jesus cares enough about them to tell them what's ahead.
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  • He said things are going to get difficult.
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  • He has a message for his followers.
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  • He makes a point to tell us about the women following jesus.
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  • Even jesus's message is directed towards those women,
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  • The daughters of jerusalem.
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  • That last sentence is worth noting.
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  • He said, "if men do these things when the tree is green,
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  • What will happen when it is dry?"
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  • If they'll do these things while i'm here physically amongst you,
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  • What do you think they will do to my people in my absence?
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  • If you'll allow me, i would submit the women
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  • In our current setting need to hear the voice of the lord.
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  • Protect your children.
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  • Men are not without responsibility
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  • As husbands and fathers.
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  • But at the moment, we're locked in this national debate about
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  • Abortion with people demanding the privilege of terminating
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  • The lives of their children up to the point of delivery.
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  • And the block amongst us, the block amongst our population
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  • That's been identified is most advocating for that are the most
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  • Educated women.
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  • Every time i hear that report, i think, "educated in what way?"
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  • Not on the principles of scripture.
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  • Luke 23, same chapter, verse 34: "jesus said, 'father,
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  • Forgive them, for they don't know what they're doing.'
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  • And they divided up his clothes by casting lots."
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  • You know, when jesus said that, "father, forgive them, they
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  • Don't know what they're doing," i don't know how you understand
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  • That prayer, but i think it bears just
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  • A moment's commentary.
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  • I believe the centurion and the roman soldiers that nailed him
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  • To the cross understood exactly what they were doing.
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  • They've crucified dozens if not hundreds of people.
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  • They know how to loop the rope over their wrist and pull
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  • The arm taut so they can nail them to the cross.
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  • They know how to position them.
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  • They're gonna suffocate on that cross.
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  • That's the point of crucifixion.
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  • It's slow, it's torturous, it's awful, it's horrific,
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  • It's intended to inspire terror in the enemies of rome.
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  • They know exactly what they're doing.
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  • Jesus isn't confused.
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  • He's not addled.
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  • "father, forgive them."
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  • They know they're crucifying a man by the name of jesus
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  • Who's from nazareth.
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  • I don't believe they understood the full implications
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  • Of what was happening.
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  • That the innocent, sinless, son of god was being nailed
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  • To that cross.
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  • And jesus, through the haze of the pain and the tremendous
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  • Injustice and the anger and the rage that almost anyone
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  • Would have felt in that position,
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  • He says to them something that we have to hear.
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  • "father, forgive them."
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  • Because usually the assignment for you and me in order to
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  • Benefit from jesus's sacrifice on the cross and be forgiven is
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  • We have to be willing to forgive.
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  • And that is never simple, not for any one of us.
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  • "the people stood watching, the rulers even sneered at him.
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  • And they said, 'he saved others; let him save himself if he's the
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  • Christ of god, the chosen one.'
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  • The soldiers also came up and mocked him.
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  • They offered him wine vinegar and they said, 'if you're
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  • The king of the jews, save yourself.'
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  • There was a written notice above him, which read: this is
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  • The king of the jews."
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  • You see, the one thing for which you could be crucified, period,
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  • Was if you claim to be a king, because caesar would stand
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  • No pretenders to the throne.
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  • There's an interesting contrast that luke gives us.
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  • In verse 27, the passage is just before this one in your notes.
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  • He tells us, "there was a large number of people following
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  • Jesus, including women who mourned and wailed for him."
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  • A large number of people, and many women, mourning for jesus,
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  • Wailing for him through the streets of the city
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  • Of jerusalem.
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  • And just outside the city gates, luke gives us the contrast
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  • In verse 35.
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  • He said, "there's people that stood watching."
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  • They have no opinion, they express no opinion.
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  • They remain moot.
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  • We have a lot of those today.
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  • And then there's this other group, the rulers that are
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  • Sneering at jesus.
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  • "he saved others, let him save himself."
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  • And the soldiers who were mocking him.
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  • It's a very sharp contrast luke gives us.
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  • In the same scene, in the same screen, in the same emotional
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  • Setting, there are people mourning and wailing.
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  • There are others sneering, there are others mocking, there's
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  • A group silently just watching the whole thing play out.
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  • Sounds a whole lot like the world we live in.
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  • Mourners, watchers, those sneering.
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  • So i have a question.
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  • When evil is apparent, what do you do?
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  • You need to think about your answer.
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  • Luke 23 verse 39: "one of the criminals who hung there
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  • Hurled insults at jesus: 'aren't you the messiah?
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  • Save yourself and us!'
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  • But the other criminal rebuked him.
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  • 'don't you fear god?' he said,
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  • 'since you're under the same sentence?
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  • We are punished justly, for we are getting
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  • What our deeds deserve.
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  • But this man's done nothing wrong.'
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  • Then he said, 'jesus, remember me when you come
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  • Into your kingdom.'
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  • Jesus answered, 'i tell you the truth, today you'll be with me
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  • In paradise.'"
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  • There's that dimensional thing luke keeps doing for us,
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  • Reminding us that there's a hope beyond time.
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  • Folks, please don't give that up.
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  • Please don't live your life just for this dimension.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i enjoy life.
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  • It's a beautiful place god has given us.
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  • It's an amazing creation.
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  • It's spectacular and wondrous and it's beyond description, but
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  • There's something far better and sometimes we get so anchored
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  • Into time that we miss the joy and the hope of eternity.
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  • And i believe luke is reminding us of that, but he's back
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  • To this contrast.
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  • We followed it all the way from the first chapter of luke
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  • Until now.
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  • From those that believe and those who don't believe,
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  • Those who don't want to believe.
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  • Now on the cross, there's this contrast between two criminals.
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  • If you're reading this with anything like an open mind,
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  • You--it's hard to escape what luke keeps saying.
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  • Some mourned and wailed and some jeered and some mocked.
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  • Even on the cross, on either side of jesus, there's
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  • A criminal who's hurling insults at him and another
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  • Who is acknowledging him as king.
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  • Luke consistently shows us the differing choices made
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  • By the people around jesus.
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  • He takes us to the dinner table in a pharisees's home.
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  • And the pharisees, the experts in the scripture, the ones
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  • That should know him, the ones who lead god's people
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  • In regular worship.
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  • And a sinful woman.
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  • One believes and the other doesn't.
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  • It's a consistent message.
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  • Folks, you and i are not without opportunity.
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  • It's too easy to look at other people and miss
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  • Our own opportunities.
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  • Same chapter, 23 verse 44: "it's about the sixth hour,"
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  • It's noon, "and darkness came over the whole land
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  • Until the ninth hour,"
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  • It's friday afternoon, "the sun stopped shining.
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  • And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
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  • Jesus called out with a loud voice, 'father, into your hands
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  • I commit my spirit.'
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  • And when he'd said this, he breathed his last.
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  • And the centurion, seeing what had happened, praised god
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  • And said, 'surely this was a righteous man.'
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  • When all the people who had gathered to witness the sight
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  • Saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away.
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  • But all those who knew him, including the women,"
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  • There's luke again.
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  • He's determined that we won't miss the fact that the women
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  • Have some prominent role in this tragic, terrifying,
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  • Pressure-filled part of jesus's life.
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  • "those who knew him, including the women who had followed him
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  • From galilee, stood at a distance,
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  • Watching these things."
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  • The centurion again is a sharp contrast with the sneering
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  • Rulers of verse 35.
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  • "surely, this man was the son of god."
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  • The rulers of the people were standing there going,
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  • "if you're the son of god," and the roman centurion,
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  • The hated executioner-- imagine the vulnerability
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  • Of that centurion when he praises god, affirming jesus.
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  • Some of you remember the message jesus gave to one
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  • Of the churches at the beginning of the book of revelation.
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  • He said, "you're lukewarm, i'm gonna spit you out of my mouth."
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  • Be hot or cold.
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  • Luke's inviting us to that.
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  • You decide which of those criminals you are.
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  • You decide whether you'll sneer, you'll be silent, or you'll
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  • Mourn when the kingdom of god is diminished, mocked, ridiculed,
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  • Or suffers.
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  • I got a couple of minutes.
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  • We can finish, kinda.
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  • Luke 24, it's a resurrection chapter.
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • After those horrific scenes, you need the resurrection chapter.
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  • "on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the
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  • Women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
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  • They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but
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  • When they entered, they didn't find the body of the lord.
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  • They were wondering about this and suddenly two men in clothes
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  • That gleamed like lightning stood beside them."
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  • Luke began his gospel with angelic visits and he's going
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  • To conclude his gospel with angelic visits.
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  • I don't believe we should imagine that we can complete
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  • Our assignment without the support and help
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  • From the kingdom of god.
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  • "in their fright the women bowed down with their faces to
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  • The ground, but the men said to them, 'why do you look
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  • For the living among the dead?
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  • He is not here; he has risen!
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  • Remember how he told you, while he was still with you
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  • In galilee: 'the son of man must be delivered into the hands
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  • Of sinful men.'"
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  • Do you ima--the angels knew what was happening in the earth.
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  • They're repeating the message jesus had delivered.
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  • We tend to think the veil between where we are
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  • And next is so thick that it's impenetrable.
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  • That is not the message of scripture.
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  • The angels have been listening to what jesus had to say.
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  • They've been listening to what the crowd had to say.
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  • And when the bible says, "everything whispered in the
  • 00:19:51.073 --> 00:19:52.975
  • Secret will be shouted from the housetops," we're the only ones
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  • That think it's secret.
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  • You know, i have to smile a bit at how stubborn we are
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  • In our willingness to believe.
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  • I think most of us imagine that google is listening most
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  • Of the time.
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  • How many times have you had a con--kathy and i had
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  • A conversation and we talked about, you know, i'd like
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  • A new pair of shoes.
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  • And the next time you open your phone, all it's filled with
  • 00:20:14.463 --> 00:20:19.334
  • Is shoe advertisements that i didn't go looking for.
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  • But we're so stubborn, we're so reluctant to believe that god
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  • Listens or that the spiritual world is paying any attention.
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  • "well pastor, you know, i'm just not sure i believe
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  • In all of those things."
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  • "oh, you mean, like, the bible."
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  • The angels knew what jesus had been saying.
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  • "remember how he told you, while he was still with you
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  • In galilee: 'the son of man must be delivered into the hands of
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  • Sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again?'
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  • Then they remembered his words."
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  • Yeah, with a little angelic prompt.
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  • You have two guys in bright white clothing with faces
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  • So illuminated you can't look at them, and they say,
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  • "do you remember john 3:16?"
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  • "uh, no."
  • 00:21:12.120 --> 00:21:15.691
  • "for god so loved--" "oh yeah, we heard that one!"
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  • Then they remembered his words.
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  • "when they came back to the tomb, when they came back
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  • From the tomb, they told all these things to the eleven."
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  • These are jesus's closest friends.
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  • These women and these 11 guys are jesus's closest friends.
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  • "and to all the others, and it was," and he said--luke
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  • Tells us who the women were.
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  • This fascinates me.
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  • "it was mary magdalene, joanna.
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  • Mary the mother of james, and the others who were with them
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  • Told this to his apostles.
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  • But they did not believe them."
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  • This is mary magdalene.
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  • They've been on this whole journey together and they come
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  • Back and say the tomb is empty.
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  • Two really bright people reminded us of what jesus
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  • Told us.
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  • They're not talking to the roman guards, they're not talking
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  • To the courtiers outside pilate's office, they're talking
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  • To his best friends.
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  • There's no-- we don't believe that.
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  • The women, "they did not believe the women, because their words
  • 00:22:46.948 --> 00:22:50.585
  • Seemed to them like nonsense.
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  • Peter, however, he got up and ran to the tomb.
  • 00:22:53.321 --> 00:22:58.260
  • Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves,
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  • And he went away wondering to himself what happened."
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  • And if you're reading this, "listen to the women!"
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  • Right?
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  • They told you!
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  • Now all the men on the way home tonight, "are you gonna listen
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  • To me?"
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  • Women have recovered enough to go searching.
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  • I think that's noteworthy.
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  • The men haven't recovered that much yet.
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  • We'll save that for another session.
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  • I wanna close with a prayer.
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  • For those of us that are in a mountaintop and everything's
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  • Wonderful, that's awesome.
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  • Those are wonderful times and seasons in life.
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  • If maybe you're not in that place and you're in some other
  • 00:23:43.338 --> 00:23:47.476
  • Location, you may be in the depth of the valley of despair,
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  • We're gonna stand together and invite god into our lives.
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  • You can stand with me.
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  • We're gonna declare ourselves overcomers.
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  • We're not gonna overlook evil.
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  • We're not gonna excuse it.
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  • We're not gonna lack the courage that pilate lacked.
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  • We're not just gonna act like we don't notice.
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  • We'll take our stand and then we will trust the lord, amen?
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  • Hallelujah.
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  • Father, i thank you for your word, for its truth and power
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  • And authority, for clarity that it brings to us.
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  • Lord, we live in a broken world.
  • 00:24:31.520 --> 00:24:32.954
  • In a fallen world, a world that has more pain and anguish
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  • And suffering and loss than we would like.
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  • And lord some days it seems as if it's too much.
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  • And we pause tonight, lord, to pray for one another.
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  • I thank you for the hope we have that life is greater than death,
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  • That your love and mercy and grace triumph
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  • Over every expression of evil.
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  • That greater is the spirit that is within us than the spirit
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  • In this world.
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  • And i thank you, father, that you have called us
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  • To be overcomers.
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  • And so now we present ourselves to you, lord, in all our frailty
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  • And all our weakness and all that we lack and all that
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  • We're not and the places we've made mistakes, lord,
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  • We ask for your forgiveness.
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  • Lord, we choose to forgive those who have harmed us.
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  • And i ask now that you bring life to our mortal bodies,
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  • Bring strength to us, renew our strength, revive our strength,
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  • Refresh our strength, bring life to us.
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  • A health triumph over sickness and disease, where there is
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  • Heaviness and darkness and despair, may joy triumph
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  • Over discouragement.
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  • I thank you for it tonight.
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  • I praise you for it.
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  • Lord, we give you glory and honor and thank you that
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  • In the midst of our lives your name will be exalted,
  • 00:26:05.914 --> 00:26:09.417
  • That your purposes will break forth and we will know
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  • The victory of our lord.
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  • In jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership is
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  • About influence.
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  • Well, i have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book.
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  • The title is gonna give away where i'm headed.
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  • It's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
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  • Our family system or our life experience, we feel a little
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  • Uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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