Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Jesus, The Passion and the Promise (Part 1)

November 29, 2024 | S24:E4806

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus, The Passion and the Promise (Part 1) | November 29, 2024

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This is pathway to victory with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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In just a few short weeks, we'll be celebrating
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The birth of our savior, jesus christ.
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But on today's program, our focus will shift
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From the birth of christ to his death,
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Burial, and resurrection.
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You see, without easter,
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We have no reason to celebrate christmas.
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My message is titled
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"jesus: the passion and the promise",
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On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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This time of the year,
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There's always an interest in our culture
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In spiritual matters, especially about the death
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And the resurrection of jesus.
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That's always a topic for discussion at easter time,
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But it's been my perception
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That that interest is especially acute this year.
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There seems to be a spiritual hunger
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In our country right now.
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But whatever the reason, i believe we as christians
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Need to take advantage in the best sense of the word
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Of people's interest.
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1 peter 3 says, we need to be ready to give an answer
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To anyone who asks us for the hope that is within us.
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Why is the death of jesus important?
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Why is the resurrection important?
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Wednesday night, i had the chance
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To be with my jewish friend.
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He said, "as a christian,
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Which event is more important to you?
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The death of jesus or the resurrection of jesus"?
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Now, that's a great question.
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You know, there are evangelicals today
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Who place a lot of emphasis on the resurrection,
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But don't touch that much
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On the crucifixion on good friday.
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One evangelical interviewed said,
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"you know, i'm tired of racing over
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The events of the passion week
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To get to the resurrection.
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This passion week, i'm going to concentrate
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On the crucifixion".
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I understand that sentiment.
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Sometimes we race right past the death of jesus
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To talk about the resurrection of jesus.
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There are other faith traditions that emphasize
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The death of jesus and don't talk that much
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About the resurrection.
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The fact is that's an equally lethal mistake.
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The death of jesus means nothing
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Apart from the resurrection.
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I mean, the fact is the crucifixion was not unique.
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Tens of thousands of people were crucified by the romans.
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In fact, i think we could take a little test here today.
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I bet there's not anybody here who could name
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One other victim of crucifixion other than jesus
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And perhaps the apostle peter.
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I mean, if there are tens of thousands of people crucified,
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Why is the only one we know that galilean rabbi
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Who lived 2000 years ago?
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It's because he was the only one who was delivered
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From the jaws of death by the holy spirit of god.
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Jesus' resurrection is important.
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It was the validating factor
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That he was truly the son of god.
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And so today we're not going to make the mistake
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Of emphasizing one over the other.
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In the few minutes that we have this morning,
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And aren't you encouraged by the fact i said
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The few minutes that we have together this morning?
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In the few minutes that we have together this morning,
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What i want to do is talk about the reason
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That both the passion, the death of christ,
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And the resurrection of christ, his promise,
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Are equally important, not just to theology,
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But to your life and to my life.
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If you have your bibles this morning,
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I want you to turn to 1 corinthians 15.
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You know when you look throughout the bible,
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The fact is both the resurrection and the death of christ
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Were treated as a part of the gospel.
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In 1 corinthians 15:3 and 4, paul says,
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"for i delivered to you as of first importance
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What i also received,
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That christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
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And that he was buried
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And that he was raised on the third day
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According to the scriptures".
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Do you see it?
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The gospel is both the death and the resurrection
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Of jesus christ.
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Let's talk first about the passion of christ.
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That is, his death.
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Whenever you hear somebody say,
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Why, there is no evidence that there was a man named jesus
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Who actually was born and taught and died,
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The only evidence for that is in the bible,
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You know you are talking to somebody
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Who doesn't know history.
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For the fact is it is a historical fact
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That there was a man named jesus
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Who was crucified around 33 ad,
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Who was crucified because he claimed to be the son of god.
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In jesus' day, you didn't get crucified
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For going around telling people
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To turn the other cheek, okay?
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You got crucified for telling people
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That you were the son of god.
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To the romans that was sedition, treason.
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To the jews, it was blasphemy.
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So there's no doubt that historically,
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That event took place.
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One of the confirming evidences outside of the bible
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Came from the roman historian cornelius tacitus.
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Cornelius tacitus was the most respected
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Roman historian of all time.
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He lived from 55 ad to 120 ad.
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He lived during the reign of six different roman emperors.
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And in his landmark work, "the annals",
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He told the story about nero's destruction of rome by fire
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And how nero tried to shift the blame from himself
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To the christians who were living during that time.
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Listen to what tacitus, the historian, said, quote,
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"hence, to suppress the rumor,
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He falsely charged with the guilt and punished
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With the most exquisite tortures,
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The persons commonly called christians
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Who were hated for their enormities.
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Christus, the founder of that name,
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Was put to death by pontius pilate,
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Procurator of judea in the reign of tiberius,
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But the pernicious superstition,
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Repressed for a time, broke out again,
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Not only through judea where the mischief originated,
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But through the city of rome also".
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What was that pernicious superstition tacitus talked about?
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It was the news that he had been raised from the dead.
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And it didn't matter how much the romans
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Tried to squelch it, that truth spread and spread
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Quicker and farther than any fire
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That nero had ever set before.
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And what is interesting is 200 years after tacitus
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Wrote these words, within just 200 years,
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The christian movement had grown so much
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That it became the dominant religion
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Of the entire roman empire.
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Now, how do you explain that
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Starting with just a handful of people,
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That movement exploding?
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It's because it was rooted in historical fact.
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No, there's no question that historically that jesus died.
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The real question is the question that time magazine
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Posed a few years ago on its cover.
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That is, "why did jesus die"?
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What was the purpose of jesus' death?
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Now, let's get something straight this morning.
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Jesus' life was not taken from him.
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Jesus' death was not the case of some bad men
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Doing a really bad thing and killing jesus.
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Jesus voluntarily gave up his life.
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In john 10:17 and 18 jesus made this prophecy.
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He said, "for this reason, the father loves me,
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Because i lay down my life that i may take it up again".
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There's the resurrection.
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Verse 18, "no one has taken it away from me,
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But i lay it down on my own initiative.
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I have authority to lay it down
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And i have the authority to take it up again.
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This commandment i received from my father".
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Jesus willingly gave his life for us.
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Peter said the same thing a few weeks after the resurrection
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And the ascension of jesus.
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Remember when he stood before the jews,
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Thousands of them,
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On the southern steps of the temple,
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Preaching that message of pentecost?
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Listen to what jesus said to that same crowd
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Who just a few weeks earlier had yelled to pilate,
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"crucify him, crucify him".
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This is what peter said.
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"for this man," jesus was "delivered up
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By the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of god,
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You nailed to the cross by the hands of godless men
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And you put him to death".
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He said to that crowd, yes, you killed jesus.
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But it was all according to the predetermined plan of god.
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God is the one who delivered up his own son for death.
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Why did god do such a thing?
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To deliver his own son up for death?
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Because it was the only way to provide an atonement,
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A covering, for our sin.
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We all need our sin covered and washed away.
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Adam and eve tried to do it with their fig leaves
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That didn't quite fit.
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Make themselves a covering. it didn't cover their sin.
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The jews tried it through those sacrifices.
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The animal sacrifices couldn't cleanse people's sin.
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All of that pointed to the perfect lamb of god, jesus,
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Who would one day forever cover our sin.
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That is what the atonement means.
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It means jesus covered our sin.
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What is it that jesus' atonement accomplished for me?
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There have been throughout history,
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Different theories of the atonement.
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There's the exemplary theory,
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That is christ's death is an example to us
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Of how to suffer unjustly.
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Some people take up the ransom theory,
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And that is that christ's death was a ransom
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Paid to satan to reclaim our soul.
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Some people take the substitutionary theory,
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That christ actually died in our place
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And took the punishment from god that we deserve.
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Which one is the correct one?
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Well, the fact is the atonement is so complex,
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It's almost like looking at a diamond.
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Just as there are many facets of a diamond,
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There are many facets of the atonement.
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The fact is there is some truth, some truth,
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In all of those theories.
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For example, jesus christ's death
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Was an example to us for unjust suffering.
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Joanne terrell wrote a book called "power in the blood",
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And she talked about the fact that one day
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As she was sitting in seminary class
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Listening to the professor talk about different theories
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Of the atonement, immediately her mind went back
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To an experience she had as a little girl.
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As she looked at the blood-soaked mattress
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On which her mother had been brutally murdered
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By her mother's boyfriend,
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She said she saw in her mind that blood-soaked mattress,
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She saw on the wall the hand print,
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The bloody hand print of her mother,
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And she thought immediately
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She had to be able to connect her story
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And her mother's story to jesus' story.
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And she said, "the fact is,
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Jesus truly identifies with us in our suffering
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And provides us with an example of how to live our lives".
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Some conservatives would just write that off
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As liberal triad, oh, that's not what it means at all.
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There is a sense in which jesus' death
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Is an example for us in how to deal with suffering.
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The apostle peter said that in 1 peter 2:21 and 23.
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"for you have been called for this purpose,
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Since christ suffered for you,
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Leaving you an example for you to follow in his steps,
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And although he was being reviled,
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He didn't revile in return;
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While suffering, he uttered no threats
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But kept entrusting himself
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To the one who judges righteously".
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There are some of you who are going through suffering
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In your life right now.
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You need to understand there is no heartache
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You're experiencing right now, especially if it's unjust,
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That jesus doesn't understand.
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That's why we have a sympathetic high priest, jesus,
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To whom we can talk to in the midst of our suffering.
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He understands it.
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If you're suffering unjustly,
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Remember, god eventually will settle the score.
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That's what jesus said.
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Jesus said, i'm going to entrust myself
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To the one who judges rightly.
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Yes, jesus' death is an example of suffering,
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But that's not all it is.
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The fact is there are many people
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Who are great examples of what it means to suffer unjustly.
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Jesus' death was also, secondly, a payment for our sin.
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Jesus died in order to pay the payment
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That must be paid for our sin to satisfy god's requirement.
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God said the soul that sins shall surely die.
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God has a payment that must be paid for our sin.
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Sin creates a debt, an obligation to god.
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Somebody has to pay.
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We can either spend eternity in hell
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Paying for that debt ourself
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Or we can allow jesus to make the payment for us.
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Now, to some people that is a repulsive idea.
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The idea that god demands a sacrifice for sin,
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That god is a blood thirsty god
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And he requires that his own son die for our sin,
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They think that's divine child abuse for god to be that way.
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But god is a holy god.
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He has to demand payment for sin.
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That's what a just god is all about.
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Some people are offended by that, i think.
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Because deep down they don't want to think that their sin
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Is so serious that it demands a payment from god.
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They don't want to think that their sin
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Is just that big of a deal, but it is.
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God cannot overlook the sin in your life or in my life.
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He's a holy god and that's why nahum 1:3 says,
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"god cannot allow the guilty to go unpunished".
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A righteous god must be paid for sin.
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We either pay it
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Or we can allow christ to pay that price for us.
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And that's why 1 john 2:2 says,
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Talking about christ,
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"he is the propitiation", and that's a $5 word.
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That word simply means he is the satisfaction,
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"for our sin; and not only for our sin,
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But the sin of the entire world".
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Why did christ die? yes, he is an example of suffering.
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Yes, he is a payment for our sin.
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Thirdly, his death provides a redemption
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From spiritual slavery.
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Remember we said that word redeem,
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There are two greek words for it.
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One word is exagorazo.
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It means out of the marketplace.
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In paul's day, if you wanted to buy a slave,
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You'd go down and you'd see that man or woman
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Or boy or girl standing up on the slave auction block,
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And if you wanted them for yours, you would pay the price.
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And once you paid the price,
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You would exagorazo them.
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You would take them out of the marketplace
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And home to do whatever you wanted to do with 'em.
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The bible says, all of us, apart from god,
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Are in the marketplace of sin.
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We are satan's slave
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And he has no good intentions for any one of us.
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But god, because he loved you and me so much,
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He looked down on our situation and he redeemed us.
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He paid the price, not to satan,
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But he paid the price for our redemption
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And he has delivered us out of the marketplace
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Of sin and death into the marvelous kingdom
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Of his own light.
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That's what paul said in colossians 1:13 and 14,
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"for he delivered us from the domain of darkness,
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And he transferred us to the kingdom
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Of his beloved son in whom we have redemption,
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The forgiveness of our sins".
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Robert schuller was the former pastor
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Of the crystal cathedral in southern california.
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Now, robert schuller's theology was questionable at times,
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But he had some great stories.
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Now, i remember one of the stories he told years ago.
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It was about a little boy who had made a miniature sailboat.
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He spent months working on that sailboat
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And when he was finished, he was so excited,
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He decided to take it down to the local pond to try it out.
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So he put his sailboat in the pond,
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He watched it float around,
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And suddenly a gust of wind filled the sails
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And took that sailboat far away
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From the little boy out of his sight.
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The boy was heartbroken.
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He had lost that boat he had spent months making.
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A few days later, that little boy
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Was walking down the street.
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He walked by the local toy store
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And he looked in the plate glass window
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And to his surprise, he saw his red sailboat.
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And he was so excited, he went into the store
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And said, "mr., mr., that's my boat.
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Can i please have it"?
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The owner of the store said,
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"well, i'd love to give it to you,
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But i purchased that from somebody else.
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You'll have to buy it".
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That little boy reached into his pocket.
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He pulled out a sweaty wad of dollar bills.
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He gave it to the store owner. he purchased the boat.
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He took that boat and went outside,
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Walking down the street and clutching it close to his chest,
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And he said to that sailboat,
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"you're mine twice now.
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Once because i made you and now because i bought you".
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That's how god looks at you. that's how god looks at me.
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If we are christians, we belong to god twice.
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God is the one who made us.
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He's the one who created us.
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But the wind of sin and rebellion filled our lives
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And took us far away from god.
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God had every right to give up on us.
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He had every right to allow us to spend eternity
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Separated from him, but the bible says,
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Because of the great love with which he loved us,
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He sent christ to make the ultimate payment for our sins.
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It was the blood of his own son by which he redeemed us.
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And by trusting in christ who's our savior,
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We become god's again.
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We belong to god twice if we're a christian,
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Once because he made us,
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But secondly because he bought us, he purchased us
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With the blood of his son.
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What did the death of christ accomplish for us?
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Certainly it was an example of suffering.
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It was a payment for sins.
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It was a redemption from spiritual slavery.
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But equally important to christ's death is his resurrection.
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You see, unlike those today
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Who have these near death experiences
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Where they get to the precipice of death,
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They see something,
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But then they're brought back from the edge
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To tell us what they saw,
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Jesus, he didn't have a near death experience.
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He had a death experience.
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He actually died,
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But god reached down and delivered him from the grave.
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Why is that important to us?
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Let me just mention four things
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About christ's resurrection
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That make it a pivotal event for each one of us.
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First of all, christ's resurrection
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Was prophesied by christ himself.
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This story of the resurrection, as liberals claim,
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Was not some story that was added on
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By his followers decades later to make a good story better.
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No, it was a part of what christ taught.
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The late theologian, john stott
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Noted that every time jesus talked about his death,
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He also talked about his resurrection.
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Just jot down these references. matthew 16:21.
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"from that time jesus began to show his disciples
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That he must go to jerusalem,
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And suffer many things from the elders
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And the chief priests and scribes,
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And be killed and raised on the third day".
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Or matthew 17:22 and 23.
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Now, "while they were gathering together in galilee,
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Jesus said to them,
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'the son of man is going to be delivered
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Into the hands of men; and they will kill him,
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And he will be raised up on the third day',
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And they were deeply grieved".
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Or john 2:19, "jesus answered
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And said to them, 'destroy this temple,
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And in three days i will raise it up'".
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Do you see that?
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Every time he talked about his death,
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He also talked about his coming resurrection.
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That resurrection would be the single proof
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That jesus was exactly who he said he was.
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When we were in jerusalem, we went to the empty tomb.
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Oh, and by the way, it's still empty. did you know that?
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After 2000 years, nobody in there.
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But outside that empty tomb, there is a scripture plaque,
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And i asked carolyn to take a picture of it
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'cause i wanted to show it to you today.
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Outside the empty tomb is this plaque.
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It's a quotation of romans 1:4.
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See it up there?
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Jesus christ was declared to be the son of god
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With power by his resurrection from the dead.
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That was the proof that jesus was who he said he was.
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This resurrection was prophesied by christ.
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Secondly, it was proclaimed by the apostles.
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Nor was the resurrection just simply some postscript
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To the apostles' teaching.
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It was a part of their core teaching
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That jesus had been raised from the dead.
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Go back to peter for just a moment.
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Remember i talked about his sermon at pentecost
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Preached just weeks after the death of christ?
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Here was peter on the southern steps of the temple,
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Preaching to that group, that mob,
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Who had crucified christ earlier.
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Listen to what he said,
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Not just about the death, but the resurrection.
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We read a portion of it a few minutes ago
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From the scripture.
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Acts 2, beginning with verse 23.
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"this man", jesus, "delivered up by the predetermined plan
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And foreknowledge of god,
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You nailed to the cross by the hands of godless men
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And you put him to death.
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And god raised him up again,
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Putting an end to the agony of death,
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Since it was impossible for him
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To be held in its power.
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This jesus god raised up again
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To which we were all witnesses".
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Now think about this.
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If the resurrection were simply fiction,
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If jesus was still in that tomb,
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That crowd would've known about it.
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♪ music ♪
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The empty tomb gives us reason to celebrate.
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Romans 1:4 says that jesus christ, our lord,
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Was declared with power to be the son of god
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By the resurrection from the dead.
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And because of easter, today, we can live as redeemed,
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Regenerated, and yes, resurrected people.
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In closing, i wanted to remind you
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There's nothing more inspiring
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And realize he is still not there.
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He has risen from the dead, just as he said.
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Why both the passion and the promise are so crucial
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To our christian faith.
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Well, today we learned that jesus' death
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Was an example of suffering, a payment for our sins,
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And redemption from spiritual slavery.
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And next time we will look at four facts
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About christ's resurrection that make it a pivotal event
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For each one of us today.
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Stay tuned for a preview
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Of what's coming up next in our series,
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The incomparable christ.
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So the question is, what difference does the resurrection
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Of jesus christ actually make to me?
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It answers that all important question that job asked.
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"if a man dies, will he live again"?
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When i close my eyes for the last time here on earth,
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Do i just slip into nothingness
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Or is there something on the other side of the grave?
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The resurrection of jesus answers that.
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Robert Jeffress - Jesus, The Passion and the Promise (Part 1)

November 29, 2024 | S24:E4806

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