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| Sheila Walsh: What Real Love Looks Like | 5 Minutes with Jesus | April 4, 2026
- For hundreds of years that veil separated
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- The holiness of god from sinful men and women.
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- No one but the priests could
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- Go through the veil into the holy of holies.
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- And then only once a year.
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- Now god tore the veil in two and welcomed us all.
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- All who believe in a son to come home to him.
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- What a gift.
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- What a miracle.
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- If you find yourself in the darkness right now
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- Of a good friday, let me remind you
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- Our story doesn't end there
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- Because sunday is coming.
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- I think it's hard for us to ever fully grasp
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- What that friday was like for jesus.
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- Having been betrayed by judas.
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- He was arrested and dragged before
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- Pontius pilate, the roman governor of judea.
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- We read in
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- Matthew's gospel that when judas reflected on what he had done,
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- He tried to return the 30 pieces of silver to the priests.
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- We read that he flung it into the temple.
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- The greek word used here
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- For temple is not the word that we use for the outer
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- Temple precincts in general, which would have been heiron.
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- The word used here is nails.
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- So judas would have passed through the gentile court,
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- The court of women.
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- Then into the court of the israelites.
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- And that was as far as a man who was not a priest could go.
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- He called out to the priest beyond the barrier
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- To take the money back.
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- And when they refused, he threw it at them.
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- And we read he went out and he hung himself.
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- But the humiliation, the suffering of jesus
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- Had just begun.
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- In matthew 27, we've read some of the governor's
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- Soldiers took jesus into the headquarters
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- And called out the entire regiment.
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- They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him.
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- They were all thorn branches into a crown
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- And placed it on his head,
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- And they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter.
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- Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted.
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- Hail, king of the jews!
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- And they spit on him and grabbed the stick
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- And struck him on the head with it.
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- When they were finally tired of mocking him,
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- They took off the robe and put his own clothes
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- On him again, and they led him away to be crucified.
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- Jesus would have
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- Been weak and exhausted at this point.
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- Since his arrest, he'd been questioned all night,
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- Then dragged before pilate, finally
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- Brutally beaten and led off to be crucified.
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- Tacitus, the historian, wrote that crucifixion was a torture
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- Only fit for slaves.
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- Matthew writes, the people
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- Passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads and mockery.
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- Look at you now! they yelled at him.
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- You said you were going to destroy the temple
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- And rebuild it in three days.
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- Well then, if you are the son of god,
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- Save yourself and come down from the cross.
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- The leading priests and teachers of religious law
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- And the elders also mocked jesus.
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- He saved others. they scoffed.
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- But he can't save himself.
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- It wasn't nails that held jesus to that cross.
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- It was love for you and me.
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- Any moment christ could have commanded
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- An army of angels to rescue him.
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- But he was held by love,
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- And the father's plan.
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- At noon.
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- Darkness fell across the whole land until 3:00.
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- At about 3:00.
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- Jesus called out with a loud voice,
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- Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani?
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- Which means, my god, my god,
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- Why have you abandoned me?
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- Some of the bystanders misunderstood
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- And thought he was calling for the prophet elijah.
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- One of them ran and filled a sponge with sour wine,
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- Holding up to him on a reed stick so he could drink,
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- But the rest said,
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- Wait, let's see what the elijah comes to save him.
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- Then jesus shouted out again and he released his spirit.
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- At that moment,
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- The curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was torn in two
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- From top to bottom.
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- The earth shook, rocks split apart, and tombs opened.
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- The bodies of many godly
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- Men and women who had died were raised from the dead.
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- Christ's final cry from the cross
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- Was the one of victory when he said, it is finished.
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- He was saying, bill paid in full.
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- Bill paid in full for every man, woman and child
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- Who will place their trust in me.
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- The curtain in the sanctuary
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- Was torn in two from top to bottom.
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- The veil was not a small curtain like you might have
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- In your home.
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- The veil was 60ft long,
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- 30ft wide, and was four inches thick.
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- It was so massive and heavy that it took
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- 300 priests to maneuver it.
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- No man could have torn that veil.
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- Only god.
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- See, for hundreds of years that veil separated
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- The holiness of god from sinful men and women.
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- No one but the priesthood
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- Go through the veil into the holy of holies.
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- And then only once a year.
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- Now god tore the veil in two and welcomed us all.
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- All who believe in his son to come home to him.
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- What a gift.
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- What a miracle.
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- If you find yourself in the darkness right now
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- Of a good friday, let me remind you
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- Our story doesn't end there because sunday is coming.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, we will never understand what it cost you.
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- And we have no words to say thank you.
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- We'll never understand the weight of the suffering
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- You endured on the cross.
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- And that it wasn't nails or soldiers who held you there.
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- It was because you love us
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- And we thank you, lord.
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- We thank you for your sacrifice.
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- And thank you that good friday doesn't end there.
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- That because of you, sundays on the way,
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- In jesus name, amen.
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