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The Easter Experience | The Easter Experience | My Life Has A Purpose | May 16, 2021
- [MUSIC]
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- - IT IS THE QUESTION THAT EVERYONE ASKS.
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- MOST PEOPLE SPEND THEIR LIVES SEARCHING FOR
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- AN ANSWER.
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- AS WE GET OLDER, WE BEGIN TO WONDER IS IT EVEN
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- POSSIBLE FOR THE QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED, BUT WE
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- STILL ASK IT.
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- WE ASK THE QUESTION WHEN LIFE IS FULL OF PROMISE.
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- WE ASK THE QUESTION WHEN LIFE
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- BRINGS DISAPPOINTMENT.
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- WE ASK THE QUESTION BECAUSE WE THINK IF IT
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- WERE ANSWERED WE COULD FINALLY MAKE SENSE OF
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- THINGS AND TRULY HAVE SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR.
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- HERE IT IS: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE?
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- ON A JERUSALEM NIGHT MORE THAN 2.000 YEARS AGO,
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- THOSE WHO WERE CLOSEST TO JESUS WERE ASKING THIS
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- SAME QUESTION.
- 00:01:53.837 --> 00:01:56.673
- ON THE EVE OF JESUS' DEATH, HIS FRIENDS WERE
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- LOOKING FOR PURPOSE.
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- THE DEATH OF JESUS HAD BEEN PLANNED BY JEALOUS
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- JEWISH LEADERS FOR MONTHS, BUT KILLING HIM
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- WOULD NOT BE EASY.
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- EVERYWHERE HE WENT HE WAS SURROUNDED BY CROWDS.
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- EVEN EARLIER IN THE WEEK WHEN HE ENTERED JERUSALEM
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- FOR WHAT WE KNOW IT AS A TRIUMPHAL ENTRY, HUNDREDS
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- OF PEOPLE LINED THE STREETS WITH PALM
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- BRANCHES JUST TO HONOR HIM.
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- WITH HIS GROWING POPULARITY, THE JEWISH
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- LEADERS WORRIED THAT IF THEY MADE A MOVE ON
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- JESUS, THE CROWD WOULD RIOT.
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- AND IF WORD GOT BACK TO ROME THERE HAD BEEN A
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- JEWISH RIOT, THESE JEWISH LEADERS FEARED THEY'D
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- BEING REPLACED.
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- SO AN ARRANGEMENT WAS MADE.
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- JUDAS, ONE OF THE 12 DISCIPLES, WOULD TURN
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- JESUS OVER TO HIS ENEMIES WHEN NO ONE WAS AROUND.
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- HIS PRICE WAS 30 PIECES OF SILVER.
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- [MUSIC]
- 00:02:59.870 --> 00:03:18.088
- - PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT MOTIVATED
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- THIS BETRAYAL.
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- SOME SPECULATE THAT JUDAS HAD BEEN EAGER FOR
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- RECOGNITION AND WAS HURT THAT SOME OF THE OTHER
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- DISCIPLES WERE ALWAYS SINGLED OUT FOR
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- SPECIAL ATTENTION.
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- OTHERS SAY HE HAD A CRAVING FOR POWER AND HAD
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- ONLY FOLLOWED JESUS BECAUSE HE EXPECTED JESUS
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- TO BECOME A KING IN THE POLITICAL OR
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- MILITARY SENSE.
- 00:03:38.108 --> 00:03:40.777
- MAYBE JUDAS LONGED FOR RESPECT AND THOUGHT THAT
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- ALIGNING HIMSELF WITH THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS
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- WOULD DO MORE TO ELEVATE HIS SOCIAL STANDING THAN
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- REMAINING WITH A CONTROVERSIAL HOMELESS
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- RABBI FROM GALILEE.
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- OR MAYBE HIS MOTIVES WERE LESS COMPLEX.
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- MAYBE HE WAS HUNGRY FOR MONEY AND HAD EXPECTED TO
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- BECOME RICH AS JESUS GREW IN POPULARITY, BUT AFTER
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- THREE YEARS OF SLEEPING IN THE DIRT WITHOUT A
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- PENNY TO HIS NAME HE DECIDED TO CASH JESUS IN
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- FOR WHATEVER HE COULD GET.
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- HONESTLY, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS PURPOSE WAS.
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- WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THAT A DEAL WAS MADE.
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- [MUSIC]
- 00:04:24.388 --> 00:05:30.354
- - THE NIGHT THIS WAS TO GO DOWN WAS DURING
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- THE PASSOVER.
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- IT WAS A TIME WHEN ALL OF JERUSALEM WOULD BE
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- BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH WORSHIPPERS
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- AND TRAVELERS.
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- EVERY YEAR DURING PASSOVER, THEY'D SET
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- ASIDE SEVEN DAYS TO REMEMBER HOW GOD HAD RESCUED HIS
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- PEOPLE FROM 300 YEARS OF SLAVERY IN EGYPT DURING
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- THE TIME OF MOSES.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - GOD SENT NINE SUPERNATURAL PLAGUES ON
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- THE EGYPTIANS TO PERSUADE THEM TO RELEASE THE JEWS
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- FROM THEIR CAPTIVITY, BUT PHARAOH STUBBORNLY
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- REFUSED TO GOD SENT A FINAL PLAGUE.
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- IT WAS THE WORST OF ALL.
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- HE'D SEND AN ANGEL OF DEATH TO TAKE THE LIFE OF
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- EVERY FIRSTBORN SON IN EGYPT.
- 00:06:17.167 --> 00:06:20.237
- BUT FOR THE JEWS HE PROVIDED A MEANS BY WHICH
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- THEY COULD AVOID THIS JUDGMENT.
- 00:06:22.806 --> 00:06:25.542
- THROUGH MOSES, GOD TOLD THEM THAT EACH HOUSEHOLD
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- MUST TAKE A LAMB, A PERFECT LAMB WITHOUT
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- BLEMISH OR DEFECT AND SACRIFICE.
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- THEN THEY WERE TO TAKE THE LAMB'S BLOOD AND MARK
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- THE DOOR FRAMES OF THEIR HOMES.
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- WHEN THE ANGEL OF DEATH SAW THE BLOOD ON THE DOOR
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- FRAME, IT WOULD PASS OVER THAT HOME.
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- SO THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB WOULD SHIELD THAT FAMILY
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- FROM GOD'S WRATH.
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- BASICALLY THE LAMB GAVE HIS LIFE SO THEY
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- COULD BE SAVED.
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- [MUSIC]
- 00:06:55.639 --> 00:07:11.221
- - SO THE JEWISH PEOPLE CELEBRATED THIS
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- EVENT DURING THE HOLY WEEK OF PASSOVER.
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- THE DAY BEFORE HIS DEATH, JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES
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- WERE GATHERED FOR THIS SACRED MEAL IN AN UPPER
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- ROOM OF A HOUSE IN JERUSALEM.
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- AS THEY'RE RECLINING AROUND THE TABLE, THE
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- DISCIPLES GET INTO AN ARGUMENT.
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- THE ISSUE THEY'RE DEBATING, WHICH ONE OF US
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- WERE THE GREATEST.
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- THEY WERE FIGHTING OVER POSITION AND STATUS, OVER
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- POWER AND PRESTIGE, AND THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME.
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- IN FACT, IT WAS THE THIRD.
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- THIS TIME PERHAPS IT STARTED OVER WHO WOULD
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- GET TO SIT CLOSEST TO JESUS AT THE BANQUET TABLE.
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- [DISCIPLES ARGUE]
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- - JAY WALLACE HAMILTON TELLS US THE GOVERNMENT
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- PROJECT THAT TOOK PLACE DURING THE DEPRESSION,
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- AND IT WAS BEGAN WITH GREAT OPTIMISM AND
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- PASSION BUT IT ENDED WITH FRUSTRATION AND DESPAIR.
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- A GROUP OF UNEMPLOYED MEN WERE HIRED BY THE
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- GOVERNMENT TO BUILD A ROAD.
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- WELL, THEY WERE ELATED TO HAVE A JOB, AND THEY WERE
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- GIVEN PICKS AND SHOVELS AND TOLD TO BUILD THIS
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- ROAD OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS.
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- BUT EVENTUALLY THEY DISCOVERED THE ROAD
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- THEY WERE BUILDING, IT DIDN'T LEAD ANYWHERE.
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- THEY WERE GIVEN A JOB FOR THE SAKE OF WORKING.
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- THE JOB REALLY DIDN'T HAVE AN ULTIMATE PURPOSE,
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- AND SOON THE PRODUCTIVITY DECLINED, THE MORALE OF
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- THE MEN DROPPED OFF AND THEY QUIT.
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- AND HAMILTON CONCLUDES THIS WAY.
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- "ROADS TO NOWHERE ARE HARD TO BUILD."
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- [SOFT MUSIC]
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- WHEN YOU'RE NOT LIVING OUT THE TRUE PURPOSE FOR
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- YOUR LIFE, IT'S EASY TO FIND YOURSELF
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- DISCOURAGED AND FRUSTRATED.
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- AND MAYBE YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE ON A ROAD
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- THAT LEADS TO NOWHERE.
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- YOU WORK HARD TO GET AHEAD AND TO PAY THE
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- BILLS, TO ACHIEVE THE AMERICAN DREAM, BUT NOW
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- YOU'RE WONDERING IF THERE ISN'T SOMETHING MORE.
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- OR MAYBE YOU GO TO THE GYM, AND YOU TRY YOUR
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- BEST TO LOOK YOUR BEST, AND YOUR APPEARANCE IS
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- YOUR PURPOSE, BUT LET'S BE HONEST, YOU'RE NOT
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- GETTING ANY YOUNGER AND THIS IS NOT A BATTLE
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- YOU'RE GONNA WIN.
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- OR MAYBE YOU CLIMBED THE LADDER AT WORK UNTIL YOU
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- FINALLY GET THE CORNER OFFICE WITH THE GREAT
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- PARKING SPACE AND THE IMPRESSIVE TITLE,
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- AND THEN YOU REALIZE THAT ROAD DOESN'T REALLY
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- GO ANYWHERE EITHER.
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- ROADS LIKE THAT ARE HARD TO BUILD.
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- SO HOW DO WE DISCOVER OUR TRUE PURPOSE IN LIFE?
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- IT WAS LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE JESUS WOULD DIE
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- AND THE DISCIPLES STILL NEEDED HELP WITH THIS ONE.
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- WHAT WAS KEEPING THE DISCIPLES FROM LIVING OUT
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- THEIR TRUE PURPOSE IS THE SAME THING THAT USUALLY
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- GETS US GOING DOWN THE ROAD TO NOWHERE.
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- WE THINK THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS ALL ABOUT US.
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- WE PUT THE FOCUS ON OURSELVES AND ASSUME THAT
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- THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO HAVE THE
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- RIGHT SEAT AT THE TABLE.
- 00:10:20.110 --> 00:10:22.278
- THE DISCIPLES WERE CAUGHT UP WITH THE QUESTION
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- WHO IS THE GREATEST?
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- AND 2.000 YEARS LATER, WE REALLY HAVEN'T CHANGED.
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- [MEN IN ROOM ARGUING]
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- - ENJOY THE SEAT.
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- NO, NO, NO.
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- LET'S JUST LEAVE--
- 00:10:52.742 --> 00:10:55.078
- - JESUS KNOWS HE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT WITH
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- THE DISCIPLES TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND WHAT
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- THEIR LIVES REALLY NEED TO BE ABOUT, AND THE TIME
- 00:11:02.152 --> 00:11:05.188
- FOR SERMONS IS OVER.
- 00:11:05.255 --> 00:11:07.757
- SO JESUS PICKS UP A TOWEL AND A BASIN OF WATER AND
- 00:11:07.824 --> 00:11:11.361
- HE BEGINS TO WASH THE DISCIPLES' FEET.
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- MANY OF THE DISCIPLES LIKELY WENT BAREFOOT,
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- AT THE BEST WORE SANDALS,
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- SO THIS WAS A DISGUSTING TASK.
- 00:11:18.568 --> 00:11:21.771
- MOST ROADS WERE JUST DIRT, AND THERE WAS NO
- 00:11:21.838 --> 00:11:24.340
- SANITATION DEPARTMENT TO CLEAR AWAY THE GARBAGE
- 00:11:24.407 --> 00:11:26.710
- AND ANIMAL DROPPINGS THAT LITTERED THE ALLEYWAYS.
- 00:11:26.776 --> 00:11:29.446
- THERE WAS ALSO NO INDOOR PLUMBING, SO RAW HUMAN
- 00:11:29.512 --> 00:11:32.182
- SEWAGE COMMONLY FLOWED THROUGH THE STREETS.
- 00:11:32.248 --> 00:11:35.985
- WASHING THE FEET OF A HOUSE GUEST WAS A JOB
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- RESERVED FOR THE LOWEST SERVANT IN THE HOUSE.
- 00:11:38.755 --> 00:11:41.891
- SO WHILE THE DISCIPLES ARE ARGUING OVER WHO GETS
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- THE HIGHEST POSITION, JESUS QUIETLY TAKES
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- THE LOWEST, AND HE DEMONSTRATES A
- 00:11:49.966 --> 00:11:53.036
- DIFFERENT WAY TO LIVE.
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- [SOFT MUSIC]
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- - LORD...
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- I WON'T LET YOU WASH MY FEET.
- 00:12:14.624 --> 00:12:17.160
- - PETER, LESS I WASH YOU, YOU CAN'T HAVE
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- ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME.
- 00:12:20.163 --> 00:12:24.234
- - THEN YOU MUST WASH MY HEAD AND HANDS AS WELL.
- 00:12:25.702 --> 00:12:29.472
- - OH, PETER.
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- A PERSON WHO HAS HAD A BATH ONLY NEEDS THEIR
- 00:12:32.609 --> 00:12:34.377
- FEET WASHED TO BE ENTIRELY CLEAN.
- 00:12:34.444 --> 00:12:39.582
- AND YOU ARE CLEAN.
- 00:12:39.649 --> 00:12:40.950
- - BUT IT WASN'T JUST PETER'S FEET HE WASHED.
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- THERE WAS JAMES AND JOHN, AND MATTHEW AND ANDREW.
- 00:12:43.820 --> 00:12:46.222
- AND ALL 12 VERY ORDINARY MEN WATCHED IN AMAZEMENT
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- AS THE HANDS THAT CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH
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- LOVINGLY WASHED THEM CLEAN.
- 00:12:52.896 --> 00:12:55.965
- BUT HERE'S WHAT REALLY GETS ME.
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- JESUS DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE, EVEN TO THE
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- POINT OF SERVING JUDAS.
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- I'M AMAZED BY THIS BECAUSE IF I KNEW THAT
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- SOMEONE WAS GONNA BETRAY ME, AND I HAD THE FULL
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- POWER OF THE UNIVERSE AT MY DISPOSAL, I CAN TELL
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- YOU WHAT I WOULDN'T DO. I WOULDN'T SERVE THEM.
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- SERVE THEM UP? ABSOLUTELY.
- 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:17.954
- BUT I WOULDN'T SERVE JUDAS, YET JESUS TAKES A
- 00:13:18.021 --> 00:13:21.624
- TOWEL, HE KNEELS DOWN AND WASHES HIS FEET.
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- JESUS KNOWS THAT JUDAS HAS SOLD HIM OUT
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- FOR A FEW SILVER COINS.
- 00:13:34.537 --> 00:13:37.674
- JESUS KNOWS THAT BEFORE THE NIGHT IS UP, THIS MAN
- 00:13:37.740 --> 00:13:39.909
- WILL TURN HIM OVER TO AN AGONIZING DEATH,
- 00:13:39.976 --> 00:13:42.846
- BUT THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
- 00:13:42.912 --> 00:13:45.548
- JESUS GENTLY WASHES THE FILTH OF THE STREETS FROM
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- THE FEET OF HIS BETRAYER.
- 00:13:48.551 --> 00:13:52.488
- - YOU CALL ME TEACHER AND LORD AND RIGHTLY SO,
- 00:14:05.935 --> 00:14:11.040
- FOR THAT IS WHO I AM.
- 00:14:11.107 --> 00:14:14.744
- BUT IF YOUR TEACHER AND LORD WASHES YOUR FEET,
- 00:14:14.811 --> 00:14:20.683
- THEN YOU SHOULD ALSO WASH ONE ANOTHER'S FEET.
- 00:14:20.750 --> 00:14:24.821
- I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW.
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- DO AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU.
- 00:14:30.727 --> 00:14:33.630
- - THIS WHOLE FOOT WASHING THING IS SO
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- STRANGE AND FOREIGN TO US TODAY.
- 00:14:37.700 --> 00:14:40.203
- I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T MISS ITS
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- IMPLICATIONS BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES CHANGE EVERYTHING.
- 00:14:41.938 --> 00:14:45.441
- JESUS IS SAYING LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR, THE
- 00:14:45.508 --> 00:14:49.045
- PURPOSE OF LIFE IS NOT TO BE THE GREATEST,
- 00:14:49.112 --> 00:14:52.415
- THE WEALTHIEST OR MOST POWERFUL.
- 00:14:52.482 --> 00:14:55.018
- THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS NOT TO HAVE YOUR NEEDS
- 00:14:55.084 --> 00:14:58.288
- MET OR YOUR DESIRES CATERED TO.
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- THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO LOVE OTHERS, TO PUT THEIR
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- NEEDS AHEAD OF YOUR OWN, IT IS TO BE A FOOT WASHER.
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- EARLY IN HIS MINISTRY, JESUS GAVE THIS PURPOSE
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- STATEMENT FOR HIS LIFE.
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- HE SAID THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED
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- BUT TO SERVE AND TO GIVE HIS LIFE
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- AS A RANSOM FOR MANY.
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- JESUS SAYS I CAME TO GIVE AND I CAME TO SERVE,
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- AND THAT IS THE ROAD THAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TO BUILD.
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- I REALIZE THIS IS NOT AN APPEALING
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- OR POPULAR INVITATION.
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- IT GOES AGAINST EVERY OTHER MESSAGE OF THE
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- WORLD WE LIVE IN. AND NOT ONLY THAT,
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- IT GOES AGAINST OUR OWN HUMAN NATURE.
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- IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, YOU WANT TO BE A MONEY MAKER,
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- A RESUME BUILDER, A STATUS SEEKER,
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- NOT A FOOT WASHER.
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- IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, THERE'S AN IMMEDIATE
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- OBJECTION TO SUCH A CALL.
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- WE MAY NOT SAY IT QUITE THIS WAY BUT IT GOES
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- SOMETHING LIKE THIS, IF MY LIFE ISN'T ABOUT ME,
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- THEN I WON'T BE HAPPY.
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- MOST OF US WOULD SAY THAT THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
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- IS TO BE HAPPY.
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- WE THINK THAT WE'LL BE HAPPY IF WE'RE SERVED,
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- NOT IF WE SERVE.
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- BUT WHEN JESUS WASHES THE FEET OF THE DISCIPLES,
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- HE'S CALLING US TO A VERY DIFFERENT WAY OF LIFE.
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- HERE HE IS THE HIGHEST SERVING THE LOWEST,
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- THE CREATOR SERVING THE CREATION, THE ONE WHO
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- POSSESSED EVERYTHING NOW MAKES HIMSELF NOTHING.
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- HE HAD THE WORLD AS HIS FOOTSTOOL, AND NOW HE
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- WASHES THE FEET OF THE WORLD AND HE CALLS US
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- TO DO THE SAME.
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- THERE WAS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE NOT LONG AGO IN A
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- MAJOR NEWSPAPER ENTITLED "STUDIES FIND DEPRESSION
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- EPIDEMIC IN YOUNG ADULTS." PEOPLE BORN IN THE LAST 30
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- YEARS ARE THREE TO TEN TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE DEPRESSED
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- THAN THEIR GRANDPARENTS.
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- THE ARTICLE SAID THE REASON FOR THIS IS CULTURAL
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- OCCURRENCES THAT HAVE EXALTED THE INDIVIDUAL.
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- IN OTHER WORDS, THE MORE AND MORE I FOCUS ON MYSELF, THE
- 00:17:09.052 --> 00:17:12.922
- MORE AND MORE DEPRESSED I BECOME.
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- THAT SEEMS IRRATIONAL, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE,
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- BUT IT'S A PARADOX.
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- IT IS THE UPSIDE DOWN WAY OF GOD.
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- NOW, WHEN WE TAKE THE FOCUS OFF OF OURSELVES AND WE PUT
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- IT ON OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS, WE DISCOVER THE LIFE
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- WE REALLY WANTED ALL ALONG.
- 00:17:29.972 --> 00:17:33.776
- AND AS THE NIGHT WENT ON, JESUS CONTINUED TO POINT TO
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- THIS LIFE OF SERVICE FOR HIS DISCIPLES.
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- THE JEWISH PASSOVER MEAL WAS A BEAUTIFUL RITUAL.
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- SPECIFIC FOODS AND GLASSES OF WINE WERE USED TO PAINT A
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- PICTURE OF THAT ANCIENT SACRIFICE IN EGYPT REMINDING
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- THEM OF HOW GOD ALLOWED THE BLOOD OF AN INNOCENT LAMB TO
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- SHIELD THEM FROM JUDGMENT AND FREE THEM FROM BONDAGE.
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- BUT AS THEIR MEAL WAS ENDING, JESUS CHANGED THE
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- SCRIPT, AND HE USED THE SACRED PASSOVER SYMBOLS TO
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- PREDICT WHAT WOULD BE HIS GREATEST ACT OF SERVICE.
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- - TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT.
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- THIS IS MY BODY, BROKEN FOR YOU.
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- [MUSIC]
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- TAKE THIS AND DRINK.
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- THIS IS MY BLOOD; A NEW COVENANT BETWEEN GOD
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- AND HIS PEOPLE.
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- IT WILL BE POURED OUT AS A SACRIFICE TO
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- FORGIVE THE SINS OF MANY.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - AS THE BREAD AND THE CUP MADE THEIR WAY AROUND THE
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- TABLE, WHAT MUST THE DISCIPLES HAVE THOUGHT?
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- WHAT DOES THIS MEAN THAT HIS BODY IS GIVEN FOR ME, THAT
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- HIS BLOOD IS POURED OUT AS A SACRIFICE?
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- IS JESUS EQUATING HIMSELF WITH THE PASSOVER LAMB?
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- SCRIPTURE GIVES US NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE
- 00:19:40.236 --> 00:19:42.605
- DISCIPLES GRASPED WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO TELL THEM, BUT
- 00:19:42.672 --> 00:19:46.576
- WITHIN 24 HOURS, JESUS WOULD BE DEAD, AND PERHAPS THEN,
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- THEY BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND.
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- [MUSIC]
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- - FIRST, JESUS SERVES THE DISCIPLES BUT HUMBLY WASHING
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- THEIR FEET, AND THEN HE DEMONSTRATES JUST HOW FAR
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- HIS SERVICE WILL GO.
- 00:20:04.994 --> 00:20:06.862
- DO YOU NOTICE THAT HE SERVES THE DISCIPLES EVEN THOUGH
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- HE'S GOT HIS OWN PROBLEMS?
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- AND MAYBE YOU'RE TEMPTED NOT TO SERVE BECAUSE YOUR LIFE
- 00:20:12.034 --> 00:20:15.805
- JUST ISN'T GOING THAT WELL RIGHT NOW.
- 00:20:15.871 --> 00:20:19.208
- MAYBE YOU'RE SO CAUGHT UP WITH ALL OF YOUR OWN ISSUES,
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- IT'S HARD TO THINK OF ANYBODY ELSE, AND YOU
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- RATIONALIZE, I DON'T NEED TO SERVE BECAUSE I'M
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- OVERWORKED AT WORK, OR I'M OUT OF WORK, OR I HAVE A
- 00:20:27.416 --> 00:20:29.986
- PHYSICAL ILLNESS, OR I HAVE ELDERLY PARENTS
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- OR DEMANDING CHILDREN.
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- BUT DO YOU NOTICE THAT JESUS SERVES EVEN THOUGH HE'S JUST
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- A FEW HOURS AWAY FROM FACING UNIMAGINABLE TORTURE.
- 00:20:40.229 --> 00:20:45.101
- AND DO YOU NOTICE THAT JESUS SERVES THE VERY PEOPLE WHO
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- WILL HURT HIM.
- 00:20:47.937 --> 00:20:50.072
- SOMETIMES THE MOST DIFFICULT PEOPLE TO SERVE IN OUR LIFE
- 00:20:50.139 --> 00:20:52.541
- ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WOUNDED US.
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- HOW DO YOU SERVE A SPOUSE WHO'S NEVER THOUGHT
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- OF YOUR NEEDS?
- 00:21:00.149 --> 00:21:02.551
- HOW DO YOU SERVE A CHILD WHO NEVER SAID THANK YOU?
- 00:21:02.618 --> 00:21:06.389
- HOW DO YOU SERVE A COWORKER WHO STABBED YOU IN THE BACK?
- 00:21:06.455 --> 00:21:09.358
- HOW DO YOU SERVE A NEIGHBOR WHO GOSSIPED OR A FATHER WHO
- 00:21:09.425 --> 00:21:13.429
- BELITTLED YOU AS A CHILD?
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- AND YET, JESUS SETS FOR US THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE.
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- HE WASHES THE FEET THAT WILL LEAD THE SOLDIERS
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- TO HIS ARREST.
- 00:21:24.807 --> 00:21:27.510
- AND THEN HE OFFERS THEM THE BREAD AND THE CUP,
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- COMMUNION, THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF SACRIFICE AND
- 00:21:31.113 --> 00:21:35.751
- UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF SERVICE,
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- AND HE GIVES IT TO THE DISCIPLES, THE VERY
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- DISCIPLES WHO LATER BETRAY HIM AND ABANDON HIM AND
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- DENY HIM WHEN HE NEEDS THEM THE MOST.
- 00:21:49.065 --> 00:21:53.402
- [MUSIC]
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- AS HE SHARED THE BREAD AND THE WINE, AS HE POINTED THE
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- DISCIPLES TOWARD HIS GREATEST ACT OF SERVICE,
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- JESUS SAID, "DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME." JESUS IS
- 00:22:12.655 --> 00:22:17.593
- SAYING, REMEMBER IT.
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- I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER JUST HOW FAR I WAS WILLING TO GO
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- IN SERVING YOU.
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- AND TO THIS DAY, EVERY TIME WE TAKE THE BREAD AND THE
- 00:22:25.768 --> 00:22:28.270
- CUP, JESUS SAYS FOR US TO REMEMBER THE FACT THAT WHEN
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- HE SERVED, HE GAVE IT ALL UP.
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- HE HELD NOTHING BACK.
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- HE SERVED IN A WAY THAT COST HIM EVERYTHING.
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- - JUDAS.
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- GO AND DO QUICKLY WHAT YOU MUST DO.
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- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- 00:22:58.267 --> 00:23:39.742
- - SO WHAT ROAD DO YOU FIND YOURSELF ON?
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- YOU WOULD THINK IN OUR DAY THE MONEY WOULD BUY
- 00:23:43.412 --> 00:23:45.514
- HAPPINESS, THAT SUCCESS WOULD BRING SIGNIFICANCE,
- 00:23:45.581 --> 00:23:49.685
- THAT RECOGNITION WOULD FEEL REWARDING,
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- BUT IT REALLY DOESN'T.
- 00:23:52.321 --> 00:23:53.989
- IN FACT, THE BIBLE WOULD TEACH THAT THESE SELFISH
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- PURSUITS ARE REALLY ROADS THAT LEAD TO NOWHERE.
- 00:23:56.826 --> 00:24:02.131
- AND THE TRUTH IS, ROADS THAT LEAD TO NOWHERE
- 00:24:02.198 --> 00:24:05.634
- ARE HARD TO BUILD.
- 00:24:05.701 --> 00:24:08.838
- WHEN JESUS WAS HERE ON EARTH, HE SAID HE CAME TO
- 00:24:08.904 --> 00:24:13.342
- SERVE AND TO GIVE, AND NOW HE INVITES US TO DO THE SAME.
- 00:24:13.409 --> 00:24:19.782
- HE CALLS US DOWN THAT SAME ROAD.
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- AT FIRST GLANCE, THAT PURPOSE MAY NOT SEEM VERY
- 00:24:21.784 --> 00:24:26.021
- GLAMOROUS OR EXCITING OR FULFILLING, BUT IT IS THE
- 00:24:26.088 --> 00:24:31.293
- PURPOSE WE WERE MADE FOR.
- 00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:34.530
- IT IS OUR TRUE PURPOSE, AND IT CHANGES OUR LIVES,
- 00:24:34.597 --> 00:24:39.068
- IT CHANGES THE WORLD.
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- IT'S A PURPOSE THAT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.
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- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
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