Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - In Remembrance Of Me

April 15, 2025 | S25:E179

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - In Remembrance Of Me | April 15, 2025

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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Again to "pathway to victory."
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For many generations, the feast of unleavened bread was the most
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Significant feast in the jewish tradition.
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It was an annual reminder of the time when god proved himself
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Faithful and led the israelites out of slavery.
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And today, we're going to look at how jesus gave this passover
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Meal a whole new meaning.
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My message is titled, "in remembrance of me,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: in his book, "the god delusion," oxford scientist and
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Atheist, richard dawkins, explained the reason that he has
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Rejected christianity and believes it's merely a myth.
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Dawkins writes, "i don't see jesus coming down and dying on
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A cross as worthy of that grandeur.
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If there is a god, it's gonna be a whole lot bigger and a whole
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Lot more incomprehensible than anything any theologian or
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Religion has ever proposed."
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Of course, richard dawkins is actually making the case
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For christianity.
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If christianity were simply a manufactured myth, it would be a
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Lot more grandiose than god coming in human form, dying on a
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Wooden cross in some remote part of the earth.
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Wouldn't you come up with a better story than that?
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But the fact is that is the gospel.
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And paul says, "although that gospel is foolishness to those
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Who are perishing, it's the power of god unto salvation to
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Everyone who believes."
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And it's that simple message of the gospel that jesus
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Articulates both in his words and illustrates through the
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Ritual we're gonna look at today, in luke chapter 22.
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Remember where we are: we're in the final week of jesus's life.
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We're in that final week in jerusalem where jesus had
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Traveled with his disciples to observe the passover.
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And of course, the real reason he is there is for
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His crucifixion.
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And that's where we pick up the story in luke 22.
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We're probably in wednesday of that passion week.
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Look at verse 1. "now, the feast of unleavened bread, which is
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Called the passover, was approaching."
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As we'll see in a moment, there were hundreds of thousands,
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Perhaps several million, jews who had traveled from all over
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The world to jerusalem to celebrate the most important day
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Of the jewish calendar as far as feast goes, and that
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Was passover.
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Now, "passover" is a catch-all term
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For actually two celebrations.
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One is the meal, the passover meal, which was observed on the
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Jewish calendar between the 14th and 15th day of nisan,
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Not nissan like the car; it's nisan.
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And they celebrated that meal to commemorate what had happened
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1300 years earlier in israel's history.
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Remember the israelites had been held bondage
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In egypt for 400 years?
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And finally, god raised up a leader named moses,
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Who would lead the people out of egypt.
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But first of all, there had to be a change in the heart of
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Pharaoh, and god sent those ten plagues, those ten judgments, on
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Israel, on egypt.
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The first nine were unsuccessful in melting pharaoh's heart.
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But the final plague, the final judgment, would be god sending
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His angel of death to kill the firstborn in every household,
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Both egyptian and israelite.
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But god offered a way out.
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He said, "if you will take the blood of an innocent lamb and
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Sprinkle it on the door post of your house, when i see the blood
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I will pass over you in judgment."
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And that is where the meal of passover came from, to celebrate
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That tenth plague that escaped those who had the faith to put
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The blood on their doorpost and led to the exodus.
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Now, the passover meal was followed by a week-long
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Celebration, the feast of unleavened bread.
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Because that original night in egypt, god had told the
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Israelites, "don't only put the blood on the door post of the
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House, but you've gotta be ready to go at a moment's notice.
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When pharaoh gives the word 'go,' you've gotta be ready
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To go.
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And so you're gonna need some bread for the journey, but don't
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Leaven the bread.
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You don't have time for the leaven to cause the bread
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To rise.
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You've gotta be ready to go."
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And so, they would not only eat the roasted lamb at the passover
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Meal, they would eat the unleavened bread, and that
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Celebration lasted for an entire week.
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So jesus and his disciples, like hundreds of thousands of jews,
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Had come to jerusalem to celebrate the passover.
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It's probably thursday, april the 2nd, ad 30, when jesus would
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Celebrate this meal.
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Now, verses 1 to 6 in luke 22, mark 14 says, took place a
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Couple of days before the passover.
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Before the passover could occur, there is a bit of business that
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Had to take place and that is the betrayal of jesus christ.
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And you see the seeds for that betrayal that preceded the
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Passover taking place in these first six verses.
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Look at verse 2 of luke 22: "and the chief priests and the
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Scribes were seeking how they might put him to death for they
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Were afraid of the people."
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The public opinion had not yet shifted against jesus where they
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Could have arrested jesus in broad daylight and
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Crucified him.
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So they were looking for a way to secretly arrest jesus and do
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Away with him.
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They were sitting there thinking, how can we do this,
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When on that wednesday opportunity came knocking at
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Their door.
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And that opportunity was named judas.
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Look at verse 4: "and he went away and discussed with the
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Chief priest and officers how he might betray him to them and
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They were glad and agreed to give him money and he consented
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And began seeking a good opportunity to betray him to
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Them apart from the multitude."
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That's what they wanted: a way to betray jesus apart from the
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Crowds so that they wouldn't suffer the wrath.
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Now, many people ask the question, was judas a christian?
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And the answer is absolutely not.
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He is what the bible terms a tare, t-a-r-e.
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A tare was a plant, a seed that looked like wheat.
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It grew alongside wheat.
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It even began to bloom and flourish like wheat, but only
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For a season.
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Eventually, it strangled out the wheat.
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Jesus talked about spiritual wheat and spiritual tares.
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Believers and unbelievers that exist side by side, perhaps in
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The church.
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They both appear alike.
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One is real and one is fake. that was judas.
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He was a fake follower of jesus christ.
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Yes, he was in the community of believers.
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He heard the teaching of jesus.
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He probably embraced some of the teachings of jesus, but he was
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Not a believer.
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And the bible says that satan entered into judas.
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He looked for a weak point in the life of judas to use for his
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Own purpose.
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And that point of vulnerability was greed, his obsession
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With money.
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And god--satan used that obsession with money as the
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Entry point into judas's life.
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And so he sold him out for thirty pieces of silver.
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Now, i want you to write down zachariah 11, verse 12.
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This old testament book was written 700 years before christ.
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And in zachariah 11, verse 12, zachariah prophesied that the
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Messiah would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, one of the
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Most amazing prophecies you find in scripture anywhere.
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Now all of this in verses 1 to 6 are setting the stage for the
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Passover meal.
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Let's look, beginning in verse 7 with the observance that jesus
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Celebrated of the passover: "then came the first day of
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Unleavened bread on which the passover lamb had to
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Be sacrificed."
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We're now at thursday, "and jesus sent peter and john
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Saying, 'go and prepare the passover for us so that we may
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Eat it.'
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And they said to him, 'where do you want us to prepare it?'"
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Now, according to josephus, the jewish historian, there could
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Have been as many as 2.6 million jews in jerusalem.
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Make no mistake about it, jerusalem was very crowded.
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And so if you came to jerusalem as a pilgrim to celebrate
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Passover, the natural question is the one peter asked: "what
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Are we to do to find a place?"
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And notice what he says here.
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Jesus says in verse 10: "go look for a man who will be carrying
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A pitcher of water on his head.
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Follow him to wherever he is going and ask him for a room."
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Of course, all of this was pre-arranged by god.
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And so verse 12 tells us that peter and john found that owner
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And they took him or took them to a large furnished upper room,
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Verse 12 says, where they would prepare the passover.
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Now notice, jesus sent peter and john to make these
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Arrangements secretly.
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He didn't ask all of the apostles to go, just peter
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And john.
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Why is that?
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Because he wanted to keep the location secret from judas.
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Jesus wasn't afraid of dying.
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He didn't want to die prematurely, because he had some
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Important business to take care of before his arrest, his
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Trials, and his crucifixion, and the important business was the
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Passover meal.
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As we'll see in a moment, jesus was gonna use that meal.
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He was gonna transform its meaning to a brand-new meaning.
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It was also during the passover meal, which went several hours,
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That jesus would give one of his most important discourses that
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Is found in john 13 through 16, his final instructions to
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His disciples.
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So it was very important to keep this information away from judas
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Until the last moment.
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Look at verse 13: "and so they departed and they found
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Everything just as he had told them and they prepared
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The passover."
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Now, let's look at the partaking of the meal itself.
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Let me say a word about the significance of this entire
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Passover meal.
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Sometimes we call it the last supper.
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Well, it wasn't the last supper that jesus would have with
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His disciples.
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In his resurrection body for the forty days he was on earth,
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Jesus ate with his disciples numerous times in that brand new
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Body, which leads us to know that in our new bodies, we're
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Gonna be able to eat as well, which is the most thrilling part
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Of heaven for many of you right now, to know that you're gonna
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Be able to eat.
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The real importance of this meal was jesus was gonna transform
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Its meaning.
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For 1300 years, this meal had pointed back to israel's
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Physical deliverance from egypt from--but from this point on,
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Jesus would transform the meaning of this meal to point to
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The spiritual deliverance from sin he would offer us through
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His death on the cross.
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Look at verse 14: "when the hour had come, jesus reclined at the
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Table and the apostles with him."
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He reclined at the table.
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It was normal in a meal like this to have a low
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Setting table.
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And around the table in a horseshoe shape were couches and
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People reclined to eat.
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They would recline on their elbow with one hand, and eat
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With the other hand.
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We find from john 13 and other accounts that at the head of
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That horseshoe shape were two people: the apostle john was to
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The right of jesus in the place of honor.
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Judas was in the second place of honor on the left, as well.
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Look at verse 15, what jesus said.
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"and he said to them, 'i have earnestly desired to eat this
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Passover with you.'"
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Literally in greek: "i have desired with a great desire, to
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Eat this passover with you before i suffer, for i say to
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You, i shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the
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Kingdom of god."
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Now that evening, jesus observed the traditional passover meal.
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We call it the seder.
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Some of you have eaten a jewish seder passover meal.
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It's a very complicated meal and it paints a picture of the
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Deliverance israel experienced from egypt, and every element of
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That seder meal is very important.
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Now, what we call the lord's supper where jesus singles out
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Two of these elements to attach a new meaning to them, it
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Occurred between the second and the third cup.
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That's where this takes place.
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Look at verse 19 where jesus takes the bread, after drinking
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The second cup.
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Look at verse 19: "and when he had taken some bread and given
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Thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, 'this is my
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Body which is given for you.
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Do this in remembrance of me.'"
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Now, this bread jesus took was unleavened.
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We talked about one reason for that.
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The leaven was used to make the bread rise.
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And in the exodus experience, they didn't have time to wait
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Around for the rising bread.
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So they didn't leaven it, according to god's instruction.
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But there's another reason that the bread was without leaven.
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In the old testament, leaven represented sin.
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And since this bread ultimately would represent the body of
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Jesus christ, it had to be without leaven, without sin.
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The fact that god's son came in bodily form is foundational to
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The christian faith.
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Jesus wasn't just a spirit like the gnostics believed.
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He wasn't a sanctified casper, the friendly ghost.
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He came in full bodily form.
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That's the essence of the gospel.
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The sacrifice had to come in human form.
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And the bread represents the fact that jesus, the son, was
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Willing to give up the perks and privileges of heaven to take on
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Bodily form, to offer himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
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And so jesus, holding the bread, said, "this is my body which is
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Given for you."
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And then notice, after eating the bread before the third cup,
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Verse 20, he says, "and in the same way, jesus took the cup
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After they had eaten, saying, 'this cup which is poured out
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For you is the new covenant in my blood.'"
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The cup represents the new covenant, the new agreement, the
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New testament, if you will, that means agreement that god has
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Made with man.
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The old testament, the old agreement, was based on works.
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The old testament was very simple.
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God said, "here are my rules, obey them and you'll find favor
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With me, disobey them and you'll be judged by me."
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The only problem was nobody was capable of keeping those
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Endless regulations.
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And so, built within the old covenant was a system of
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Sacrifices that you could offer to atone for, to cover for,
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Your shortcomings.
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But those sacrifices were very limited in their efficacy.
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I mean, if the blood of animals, bulls and goats, could take away
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Sin, why not just offer it one time?
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Why did god have the israelites engage in these
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Endless sacrifices?
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To make them long for that future, once-for-all sacrifice,
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That would forever remove the stain of their sin.
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And that sacrifice would be the sacrifice of jesus, the lamb of
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God who takes away the sin of the world.
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And that's why jesus said, "this cup now represents the new
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Covenant, the new agreement, not based on your works, but based
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On my grace, demonstrated by my blood that has been shed
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For you."
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Jesus, the lamb of god, is the only way any of us can escape
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God's judgment.
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That is the picture in this passover meal: "this is my body,
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This is my blood, which is given for you."
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You know what?
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It's so easy to get lost in this chapter in the chronology of
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Jesus's life, in the details of the seder meal, that we forget
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The real purpose of this entire passage.
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And so, for the last couple of minutes that we have, i wanna
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Point us to the real purpose of the passover meal that's found
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In two words repeated twice in this passage.
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Those words "for you," are a translation of the greek
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Preposition "huper," for.
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Huper, h-u-p-e-r.
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That preposition, huper, can mean for the benefit of, but it
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Can also mean in the place of.
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This is my body which is given in the place of your body.
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This is my blood which has been given in the place of
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Your blood.
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That is one of the most foundational doctrines of
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Christianity: the substitutionary atonement of
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Jesus christ for us.
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Jesus was the sin substitute.
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You know, from the opening pages of the book of genesis, god
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Started teaching mankind that truth, that what we needed was
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A substitute for our sin.
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And to do that, something innocent has to die for those of
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Us who are guilty.
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And of course, all of it pointed to jesus christ, the lamb of god
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Who would take away the sin of the world.
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And so, when jesus said, "this is my body, which is for you,"
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He's saying, "i am sacrificing my body in the place of
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Your body.
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I am spilling my blood in the place of your blood to provide
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That covering for sin."
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You know, reclining around that table that last night at that
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Passover meal, every one, every one of the apostles, needed to
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Hear that message.
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But there were two people who desperately needed to hear
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That message.
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Two men who within just a few hours would sin a terrible sin
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Against jesus.
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Two men who would betray the lord jesus.
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They needed to hear that message of forgiveness.
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One of those men we know well: his name was judas.
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He betrayed the lord for 30 pieces of silver.
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But there was another man there who would also betray the lord.
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His name was peter.
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Within a few hours, peter would leave that upper room and in the
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Courtyard of caiaphas, he would deny even knowing the lord, not
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Once, twice, or--but three times.
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His sin was just as heinous, just as grievous, as that
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Of judas.
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In fact, jesus anticipated the failure of peter and that's
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Exactly what happened, as we'll see next time.
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Peter denied the lord three different times, but he turned
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And found god's forgiveness.
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And within 7 weeks, he was transformed and not just to the
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Leader of the apostles, but to the greatest evangelist the
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World has ever known.
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Two men failed god that night.
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Peter failed and turned toward god and received
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His forgiveness.
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Judas failed god and turned away and rejected that forgiveness.
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What jesus said to both of those men is, "this is my body, this
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Is my blood, which is being offered for you.
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My sacrifice is sufficient to take care of any sin, including
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The sin of denying me."
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And what jesus said that night 2000 years ago, he's saying to
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You right now: "my body, my blood, is being offered not for
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Somebody else.
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It's being offered for you.
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It doesn't matter what you've done, i'm ready to forgive you
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If you will turn to me."
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You say, "pastor, that just couldn't be true.
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You don't know what i've done."
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You're right, i don't know what you've done, but i know what
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Others have done.
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God forgave moses who was guilty of murder.
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God forgave david who was guilty of murder and adultery.
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God forgave paul who was guilty of murder and blasphemy.
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God forgave peter who denied him three times, and god would have
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Forgiven judas had he turned and received that forgiveness.
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And god is willing to forgive you as well.
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"this is my body.
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This is my blood which is given for you."
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Jeffress: someone is listening to me at this very moment who's
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Ready to take this first step of faith, to follow god's
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Prompting, and say yes to his invitation.
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God is standing before you with open arms and he's ready
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To forgive if you are only willing to ask.
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Not long ago, i heard from a friend named oscar who listens
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To "pathway to victory" on his commute to work every day.
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He wrote, "i've begun to thank god daily for his forgiveness
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Through his son.
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It's because of what i learned in one of your teaching series.
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I was searching for guidance and your study brought me to tears.
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'pathway to victory' has become god's answer for me."
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Well, thank you for those encouraging words, oscar.
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And let me add, when you support "pathway to victory," or become
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A pathway partner, you become the channel through which god
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Reaches men and women like oscar and so many others.
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So thank you for helping us pierce the darkness of our day
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With the only hope of the world,
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That is the gospel of jesus christ.
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Now stay right there.
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I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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Jeffress: we know that easter is much more than chocolate bunnies
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And easter eggs.
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Easter celebrates the most important event in all
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Of human history.
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Announcer: in "the power of the cross," dr. robert jeffress
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Retraces the steps of jesus each day of holy week, from bethany
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To jerusalem to calvary and to the empty tomb.
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Jeffress: through his incredible sacrifice, jesus conquered sin
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And death once and for all.
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And this beautifully illustrated book provides a trustworthy and
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Approachable way to share the good news with someone you love.
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Announcer: "the power of the cross" is a full-color, 96-page
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Together, we are proclaiming the radical, transforming power
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Of the cross of christ,
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The only hope for our beloved
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Country and world.
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Jeffress: the lord's supper reminds us of jesus's
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Ultimate sacrifice.
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And every time we eat the bread and drink from the cup, we're
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Clearly reminded of christ's broken body and his blood
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Spilled for us.
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Well, nobody is perfect and the people in our lives will
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Inevitably disappoint us.
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But perhaps the deepest hurt of all comes when somebody we love
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Breaks our trust.
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Next time we'll look at the shocking moment when jesus was
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Betrayed by one of his closest companions.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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Series, "the power of the cross."
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Jeffress: the psalmist said, "sorrow endures the night, but
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Joy comes in the morning."
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There is something about night time, something about the
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Darkness, that intensifies whatever struggle
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We're experiencing.
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Today, we're going to look at the longest night in jesus's
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Entire life.
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Announcer: set your dvr and join
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Us next time for the message,
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"the longest night,"
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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Robert Jeffress - In Remembrance Of Me

April 15, 2025 | S25:E179

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