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John Bradshaw - The Man Who Stopped The Sun From Shining

April 20, 2025 | S25:E17

John Bradshaw - The Man Who Stopped The Sun From Shining
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It Is Written with John Bradshaw | John Bradshaw - The Man Who Stopped The Sun From Shining | April 20, 2025
  • ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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  • ♪[music ends]♪♪
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  • >>john bradshaw: this is the story of the only man
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  • In history who stopped the sun from shining.
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  • It's also the story of the greatest miscarriage of justice
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  • Known to humankind.
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  • But first, let's bring it a little closer to home.
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  • In june of 2024, sandra hemme was released from a prison
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  • In missouri after serving 43 years for murder,
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  • A crime she did not commit,
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  • Becoming the longest-known wrongly incarcerated woman
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  • In u.s. history.
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  • Reports say certain individuals were "highly motivated
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  • "to look away from where the evidence pointed
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  • And look instead in other directions."
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  • Ms. hemme spent almost half a century
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  • Locked up for no reason at all.
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  • Questions have persisted for decades about the deaths
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  • Of former president john f. kennedy
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  • And civil rights leader dr. martin luther king jr.
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  • The moment jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald on live tv,
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  • People everywhere suspected there was a whole lot more
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  • To the story than the official story.
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  • Dr. king's family don't believe james earl ray fired the bullet
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  • That took the life of the civil rights leader.
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  • Maybe we'll never know what really happened.
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  • Justice isn't always as blind as we'd like to think.
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  • But the man who stopped the sun from shining?
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  • There is no question about who he was
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  • And absolutely no doubt about his guilt.
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  • ♪[somber music]♪
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  • Thanks for joining me on "it is written."
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  • The greatest miscarriage of justice
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  • In the history of the world took place
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  • On what christians now call easter weekend
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  • 2,000 years ago.
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  • The son of god was born as a baby in bethlehem in israel,
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  • Raised in nazareth, and in 27 ad began a very public ministry.
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  • After getting offside with jewish religious leaders,
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  • He was crucified, nailed to a cross.
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  • But during jesus' awful journey to the cross,
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  • There was one man who could have intervened
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  • To stop history's greatest miscarriage of justice,
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  • Prevent an incomprehensible abuse of power,
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  • And turn back a bloodthirsty mob.
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  • He's the only man who ever lived who could have kept
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  • The sun shining in the sky.
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  • We don't know much about his background,
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  • But in the easter story pontius pilate looms large.
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  • He was the governor of judea,
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  • Which is roughly israel and part of jordan today.
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  • By the time jesus was born,
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  • Judea was part of the roman province of syria,
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  • And as the governor of judea,
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  • Pilate reported to the roman emperor.
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  • He had jurisdiction over military matters
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  • And was authorized to impose the death penalty.
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  • The sanhedrin, made of 70 influential jewish men,
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  • Had some influence in civil and political matters,
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  • But with the romans in control,
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  • They had the greatest impact in the religious sphere.
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  • And on the night jesus was arrested,
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  • Everything came together to create the perfect storm.
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  • The jewish leaders overstepped their boundaries,
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  • And the man appointed by the roman empire
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  • To maintain peace and order failed in his duty.
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  • And we remember that every year.
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  • As we look at pilate's role in the easter story,
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  • We see that god gave him opportunity after opportunity
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  • To do something historic, to do the right thing.
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  • Now, i'm not suggesting jesus' death on the cross
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  • Might have been avoided.
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  • It was prophesied that he would be crucified.
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  • But pilate's name could have gone down in history
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  • For all the right reasons if he'd only acted with integrity.
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  • And he could have.
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  • Pilate could have been a daniel who purposed in his heart
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  • That he would honor god, no matter the personal cost.
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  • He could have been like shadrach, meshach, and abednego,
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  • Who knew god could save them from the fiery furnace,
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  • But told the king that even if god did not,
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  • They still weren't going to violate their conscience.
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  • In fact, conscience is a major part of pilate's story.
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  • Conviction came to him again and again
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  • As god spoke to his heart.
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  • So, let's see this unfold.
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  • As we do, we're going to learn something important enough
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  • To be the difference between being saved and being lost.
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  • Let's look into the bible.
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  • We'll start in matthew, chapter 27 and verse 1.
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  • And the bible says, "when morning came,
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  • "all the chief priests and elders of the people
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  • "plotted against jesus to put him to death.
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  • "and when they had bound him, they led him away
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  • And delivered him to pontius pilate the governor."
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  • After tolerating jesus' ministry for three and a half years,
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  • Jewish leaders had had enough of it.
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  • This young teacher didn't respect their customs.
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  • He was a threat to their authority,
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  • And he attracted people by the thousands.
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  • He was showing people what faith in god really looked like,
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  • And he did so by portraying god as loving,
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  • By showing empathy and kindness,
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  • By investing in people, by offering hope
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  • And touching even the hardest hearts.
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  • But the jewish authorities decided he had to go.
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  • Was it because he healed people?
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  • Was it because he raised people from the dead
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  • And brought them back to life?
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  • Was it because he offered people hope?
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  • Was it because he restored people's sight
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  • Or gave them back the use of their limbs?
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  • No, they were envious, threatened.
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  • And because the purity of his life was a rebuke
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  • To their obvious corruption,
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  • They thought the best thing they could do to a man
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  • Who raised the dead and healed lepers and cancelled funerals
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  • Was put him to death.
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  • But because they didn't have the authority to execute someone,
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  • They brought him to pilate,
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  • Urging pilate to do what they could not.
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  • "now jesus stood before the governor.
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  • "and the governor asked him, saying,
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  • "'are you the king of the jews?'
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  • Jesus said to him, 'it is as you say.'"
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  • It's clear pilate wasn't moved by the accusations
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  • Brought against jesus.
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  • Jesus had never given pilate any trouble.
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  • He'd never led an insurrection
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  • Or got in the way of the roman armies.
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  • He wasn't a violent man.
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  • He didn't carry himself like a criminal.
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  • He was a religious teacher,
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  • Who couldn't even be accused of profiting from his ministry.
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  • When pilate asked jesus about the accusations
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  • Made against him, jesus stayed silent,
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  • And pilate marveled greatly.
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  • You'd expect someone in that situation
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  • To protest their innocence, to give their side of the story.
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  • But jesus didn't, and pilate was stunned.
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  • He would have been asking himself
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  • What kind of man this was.
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  • Normal people didn't act like this.
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  • It was clear that jesus cared about
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  • More than saving his own life.
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  • He knew he was destined for the cross.
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  • But his commitment to saving you
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  • Was stronger than his commitment to saving himself.
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  • Now, pilate's behavior is interesting.
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  • He was no stranger to killing innocent people.
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  • In luke 13 there's a reference to a time he had a number
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  • Of galileans killed while they were offering sacrifices.
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  • And according to the historian josephus,
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  • When jews protested pilate taking money
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  • From the temple treasury to pay for the building of an aqueduct,
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  • He put down the rebellion by massacring numbers of people.
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  • Pilate ended up losing his job over a massacre
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  • Of samaritan worshipers on mount gerizim
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  • A few years after the death of jesus.
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  • He was no choirboy, but here pilate was looking for a way out
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  • Of condemning an innocent man.
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  • There was something different about jesus,
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  • And pilate didn't want jesus to be put to death.
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  • So, pilate came up with a foolproof plan.
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  • "now at the feast the governor was accustomed to releasing
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  • "to the multitude one prisoner whom they wished.
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  • "and at that time they had a notorious prisoner
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  • Called barabbas."
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  • Mark adds an important detail:
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  • "and there was one named barabbas,
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  • "who was chained with his fellow rebels;
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  • They had committed murder in the rebellion."
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  • Put yourself in pilate's position.
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  • He doesn't want to condemn an innocent man to die,
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  • So he presented the people with two choices.
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  • The obvious choice was a man who may well have healed
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  • Some of the very people baying for his blood.
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  • Pilate would contrast the humble, kind,
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  • Gracious jesus with a murderer.
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  • Surely there was only one possible outcome.
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  • Except that pilate wasn't familiar with the old adage
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  • About lawyers during cross-examination:
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  • Never ask a question you don't know the answer to.
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  • He assumed that the people in that crowd possessed
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  • Some measure of humanity, some shred of decency,
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  • Some sensitivity to life and death
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  • And reason and commonsense.
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  • But he was wrong.
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  • Envy can do strange things to people.
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  • "therefore, when they had gathered together,
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  • "pilate said to them, 'whom do you want me to release to you?
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  • Barabbas, or jesus who is called christ?'"
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  • Now, notice this: "for he knew that they had handed him over
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  • Because of envy."
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  • He knew. pilate knew full well what was going on.
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  • Therefore, as the governor of judea,
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  • His duty was to free jesus.
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  • He knew that, too.
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  • And as if his conscience was not already burning within him,
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  • He received at that very moment
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  • A remarkable message from his wife.
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  • Now, it's early in the morning.
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  • John writes that pilate presented jesus to the people
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  • At the sixth hour.
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  • And it seems john was reckoning time from midnight,
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  • Different to what you find in the synoptic gospels.
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  • His wife had been sleeping, but she woke up
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  • And had a message delivered to her husband.
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  • I'm not sure how often mrs. pilate sent messages
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  • To her husband while he was doing his job,
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  • How often she told her husband what he should do
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  • In his professional life.
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  • Given the era, my guess is that it didn't happen very often.
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  • So what was happening here was absolutely extraordinary.
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  • Her message was to the point:
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  • "have nothing to do with that just man,
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  • "for i have suffered many things today
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  • In a dream because of him."
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  • So, what do you think is going on inside pilate's mind?
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  • His conscience was screaming at him by now.
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  • He already believed jesus was innocent,
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  • And now his wife sends a message from out of nowhere
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  • Saying the same thing, adding that she had suffered much
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  • In a dream she'd had.
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  • A dream had caused her great anguish.
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  • God was appealing to pilate every way he could,
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  • Even through his wife, who had zero connection
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  • To what was unfolding.
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  • God was giving pilate the same opportunity
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  • He gave nebuchadnezzar and pharaoh.
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  • Pilate could have been a saved man.
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  • And if he'd yielded to the promptings begging him
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  • To do the right thing, pilate would not have been responsible
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  • For sending the son of god to his death.
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  • How many times do you think that happens to people?
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  • Someone planning a crime and a voice inside is saying,
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  • "you shouldn't do this. this is not right.
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  • This isn't how you were raised."
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  • That person in a bar or a restaurant or an office,
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  • Everyone's having fun, but then they remember their spouse,
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  • And conscience says, or the holy spirit says,
  • 00:12:18.828 --> 00:12:22.298
  • "don't let this escalate. get out of here while you can."
  • 00:12:22.298 --> 00:12:25.601
  • That's god speaking, trying to save that person.
  • 00:12:25.601 --> 00:12:28.737
  • A friend says, "we're going to rob a store."
  • 00:12:28.737 --> 00:12:30.506
  • That voice says, "bad idea, don't do it."
  • 00:12:30.506 --> 00:12:33.075
  • But the young man goes along, doesn't mean any real harm.
  • 00:12:33.075 --> 00:12:35.978
  • No one's going to get hurt. he's just along for the thrill.
  • 00:12:35.978 --> 00:12:39.048
  • God is saying, "don't do this. you know better.
  • 00:12:39.048 --> 00:12:42.418
  • I can get you out of this."
  • 00:12:42.418 --> 00:12:44.186
  • And then it all goes bad, and that young man is sitting
  • 00:12:44.186 --> 00:12:47.656
  • In a cell that will be his home for the rest of his life,
  • 00:12:47.656 --> 00:12:51.894
  • Even though his conscience, his better judgment,
  • 00:12:51.894 --> 00:12:55.531
  • Even though god told him plainly,
  • 00:12:55.531 --> 00:12:59.301
  • "you don't want to do this."
  • 00:12:59.301 --> 00:13:01.637
  • In june of 2024, some men outside a nightclub
  • 00:13:01.637 --> 00:13:05.608
  • In canberra, australia, got into a bit of a dispute--
  • 00:13:05.608 --> 00:13:09.445
  • Nothing unusual for a nightclub.
  • 00:13:09.445 --> 00:13:11.780
  • While one man was walking away, he was punched.
  • 00:13:11.780 --> 00:13:15.284
  • One punch.
  • 00:13:15.284 --> 00:13:16.719
  • The man who was on the receiving end, a father of four,
  • 00:13:16.719 --> 00:13:20.489
  • Is now living with an irreversible brain injury,
  • 00:13:20.489 --> 00:13:22.591
  • While the 21-year-old who threw the punch
  • 00:13:22.591 --> 00:13:25.261
  • Was sentenced to up to six years in prison.
  • 00:13:25.261 --> 00:13:28.130
  • At some stage, both men thought about just walking away.
  • 00:13:28.130 --> 00:13:32.368
  • One did, but one did not, and then?
  • 00:13:32.368 --> 00:13:37.740
  • A british mother recently buried her 17-year-old son
  • 00:13:37.740 --> 00:13:40.576
  • After he made an error of judgment.
  • 00:13:40.576 --> 00:13:42.511
  • She had warned him not to use drugs.
  • 00:13:42.511 --> 00:13:45.214
  • He assured her he wouldn't.
  • 00:13:45.214 --> 00:13:47.616
  • But then he took narcotics while drinking.
  • 00:13:47.616 --> 00:13:50.920
  • Just once, and the result was fatal.
  • 00:13:50.920 --> 00:13:54.390
  • He knew, but instead of following the voice of reason,
  • 00:13:54.390 --> 00:13:58.560
  • He gave in to temptation,
  • 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:00.329
  • And what happened in a moment can never be undone.
  • 00:14:00.329 --> 00:14:05.668
  • Everyone has had that experience to some degree.
  • 00:14:05.668 --> 00:14:09.038
  • It might be a website you should steer clear of
  • 00:14:09.038 --> 00:14:11.440
  • Or an angry word that you think the other person
  • 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.742
  • Deserved to hear.
  • 00:14:13.742 --> 00:14:15.210
  • Something was saying, "don't do it."
  • 00:14:15.210 --> 00:14:17.346
  • And yet you did, and it can't be taken back.
  • 00:14:17.346 --> 00:14:19.815
  • And someone's going to have to live with the consequences
  • 00:14:19.815 --> 00:14:22.117
  • Of those actions for the rest of their life.
  • 00:14:22.117 --> 00:14:25.788
  • You know something?
  • 00:14:25.788 --> 00:14:27.222
  • It's always better to yield to god.
  • 00:14:28.190 --> 00:14:31.427
  • I want to encourage you to surrender
  • 00:14:31.427 --> 00:14:33.228
  • When god speaks to your heart.
  • 00:14:33.228 --> 00:14:35.331
  • Let god's will be done in your life.
  • 00:14:35.331 --> 00:14:40.002
  • The people knew nothing about what was going on
  • 00:14:40.002 --> 00:14:42.304
  • In the heart of pilate.
  • 00:14:42.304 --> 00:14:43.739
  • "the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes
  • 00:14:43.739 --> 00:14:46.375
  • "that they should ask for barabbas and destroy jesus.
  • 00:14:46.375 --> 00:14:49.611
  • "the governor answered and said to them,
  • 00:14:49.611 --> 00:14:51.380
  • "'which of the two do you want me to release to you?'
  • 00:14:51.380 --> 00:14:53.949
  • They said, 'barabbas!'"
  • 00:14:53.949 --> 00:14:56.452
  • Notice what's going on?
  • 00:14:56.452 --> 00:14:57.786
  • Pilate is trying to release jesus.
  • 00:14:57.786 --> 00:15:00.489
  • He's hoping the people would have a change of heart,
  • 00:15:00.489 --> 00:15:02.891
  • But they chose a murderer and rejected a messiah.
  • 00:15:02.891 --> 00:15:07.596
  • Luke writes, "pilate gave sentence
  • 00:15:07.596 --> 00:15:10.366
  • That it should be as they requested."
  • 00:15:10.366 --> 00:15:12.301
  • Pilate could simply have chosen to be a leader and lead.
  • 00:15:12.301 --> 00:15:16.605
  • It was his job, as the person in authority, to do the right thing
  • 00:15:16.605 --> 00:15:20.409
  • And not be pushed around by the people he governed.
  • 00:15:20.409 --> 00:15:23.412
  • But pilate was weak.
  • 00:15:23.412 --> 00:15:25.914
  • He even tried to get out of the whole situation
  • 00:15:25.914 --> 00:15:28.083
  • By having jesus sent to herod and make it herod's problem,
  • 00:15:28.083 --> 00:15:32.521
  • Only for herod to send jesus back.
  • 00:15:32.521 --> 00:15:35.657
  • When he needed backbone, pilate wilted.
  • 00:15:35.657 --> 00:15:40.029
  • You might have had that experience, too.
  • 00:15:40.029 --> 00:15:41.830
  • When temptation comes, your reservoir of strength is small,
  • 00:15:41.830 --> 00:15:46.135
  • And you say that awful thing, or you lash out,
  • 00:15:46.135 --> 00:15:48.637
  • Or you're critical or dishonest or immoral.
  • 00:15:48.637 --> 00:15:51.807
  • But a follower of jesus can have strength in moments like that.
  • 00:15:51.807 --> 00:15:56.478
  • I'll tell you how.
  • 00:15:56.478 --> 00:15:57.813
  • Crumbling like pilate did is not really the result
  • 00:15:57.813 --> 00:16:01.784
  • Of what happens in the moment.
  • 00:16:01.784 --> 00:16:03.786
  • Instead, it's the result of what has happened over time.
  • 00:16:03.786 --> 00:16:07.456
  • If you're connecting with god on a daily basis,
  • 00:16:07.456 --> 00:16:10.659
  • You are far less likely to fold in the face of temptation.
  • 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:15.397
  • Your daily devotional time strengthens you for those times
  • 00:16:15.397 --> 00:16:18.667
  • Of strong temptation.
  • 00:16:18.667 --> 00:16:20.402
  • I was digging something out of the ground in my yard recently,
  • 00:16:20.402 --> 00:16:22.905
  • And it was stubborn, really hard to shift.
  • 00:16:22.905 --> 00:16:26.508
  • And that's because it had a root system that went deep.
  • 00:16:26.508 --> 00:16:30.279
  • If you put down deep roots and fasten them around jesus,
  • 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:35.350
  • Temptation won't be able to easily push you over.
  • 00:16:35.350 --> 00:16:39.888
  • Prayer puts down roots.
  • 00:16:39.888 --> 00:16:41.890
  • Reading the bible puts down roots.
  • 00:16:41.890 --> 00:16:44.593
  • Grow your relationship with god today and tomorrow
  • 00:16:44.593 --> 00:16:48.263
  • And the day after, and when temptation presses in,
  • 00:16:48.263 --> 00:16:51.934
  • You won't easily be uprooted
  • 00:16:51.934 --> 00:16:53.669
  • Because the roots of your faith go down deep.
  • 00:16:53.669 --> 00:16:58.807
  • Now, "pilate said to them, 'what then shall i do
  • 00:16:58.807 --> 00:17:01.810
  • With jesus who is called christ?'"
  • 00:17:01.810 --> 00:17:05.447
  • And "they all said to him,
  • 00:17:05.447 --> 00:17:08.117
  • 'let him be crucified!'"
  • 00:17:08.117 --> 00:17:12.121
  • He tried again. in his mind he's thinking
  • 00:17:12.121 --> 00:17:14.957
  • These good religious people surely wouldn't want to harm
  • 00:17:14.957 --> 00:17:18.026
  • An obviously innocent man.
  • 00:17:18.026 --> 00:17:20.696
  • Pilate was dead wrong.
  • 00:17:20.696 --> 00:17:22.431
  • "from then on pilate sought to release him,
  • 00:17:22.431 --> 00:17:26.235
  • "but the jews cried out, saying, 'if you let this man go,
  • 00:17:26.235 --> 00:17:29.505
  • "'you are not caesar's friend.
  • 00:17:29.505 --> 00:17:31.373
  • Whoever makes himself a king speaks against caesar.'"
  • 00:17:31.373 --> 00:17:35.611
  • So you see what pushed pilate over the line?
  • 00:17:35.611 --> 00:17:38.514
  • He was so concerned about his job,
  • 00:17:38.514 --> 00:17:40.782
  • So concerned about his reputation with his boss
  • 00:17:40.782 --> 00:17:43.418
  • That he was prepared to allow a gross miscarriage of justice.
  • 00:17:43.418 --> 00:17:48.790
  • So what influences you?
  • 00:17:48.790 --> 00:17:51.527
  • There are people who would follow jesus,
  • 00:17:51.527 --> 00:17:53.795
  • But they're concerned about what others would think.
  • 00:17:53.795 --> 00:17:56.565
  • Or they're concerned about their livelihood.
  • 00:17:56.565 --> 00:17:58.734
  • But that's not how faith works.
  • 00:17:58.734 --> 00:18:01.069
  • Abraham followed god, not knowing where he was going.
  • 00:18:01.069 --> 00:18:04.439
  • James and john followed jesus, leaving their jobs behind.
  • 00:18:04.439 --> 00:18:08.310
  • Shadrach, meshach, and abednego were faithful,
  • 00:18:08.310 --> 00:18:10.646
  • Believing it would cost them their lives.
  • 00:18:10.646 --> 00:18:13.215
  • And in each case, god blessed them for their faithfulness.
  • 00:18:13.215 --> 00:18:19.588
  • You can't do the right thing for god and be worse off.
  • 00:18:19.588 --> 00:18:23.225
  • So don't worry about what people think or how they react
  • 00:18:23.225 --> 00:18:27.229
  • Or what they say.
  • 00:18:27.229 --> 00:18:29.331
  • Put god first, knowing that god said,
  • 00:18:29.331 --> 00:18:32.134
  • "those who honor me i will honor."
  • 00:18:32.134 --> 00:18:37.072
  • Pilate is now exasperated.
  • 00:18:37.072 --> 00:18:40.509
  • He asks a desperate question:
  • 00:18:40.509 --> 00:18:43.946
  • "'why, what evil has he done?' but they cried out all the more,
  • 00:18:43.946 --> 00:18:48.617
  • Saying, 'let him be crucified!'"
  • 00:18:48.617 --> 00:18:52.054
  • The people ignore his appeal: "what evil has he done?"
  • 00:18:52.054 --> 00:18:56.191
  • They don't even want to go there.
  • 00:18:56.191 --> 00:18:57.526
  • They just want him gone.
  • 00:18:57.526 --> 00:19:00.195
  • And pilate knows they have no grounds for this
  • 00:19:00.195 --> 00:19:03.232
  • And that the life of jesus is hanging in the balance.
  • 00:19:03.232 --> 00:19:05.934
  • Ahead of him, crucifixion,
  • 00:19:05.934 --> 00:19:08.103
  • A revolting, brutal, painful death.
  • 00:19:08.103 --> 00:19:11.773
  • Pilate could stand in defense of his creator.
  • 00:19:11.773 --> 00:19:15.544
  • All he needs to do is make the right decision.
  • 00:19:15.544 --> 00:19:20.215
  • "when pilate saw that he could not prevail at all,
  • 00:19:20.215 --> 00:19:22.351
  • "but rather that a tumult was rising,
  • 00:19:22.351 --> 00:19:24.653
  • "he took water and washed his hands before the multitude,
  • 00:19:24.653 --> 00:19:28.190
  • "saying, 'i am innocent of the blood of this just person.
  • 00:19:28.190 --> 00:19:33.829
  • You see to it.'"
  • 00:19:33.829 --> 00:19:35.864
  • And that doesn't make any sense.
  • 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:38.200
  • "i'm telling you he is righteous,
  • 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.570
  • But i'm handing him over to be crucified anyway."
  • 00:19:41.570 --> 00:19:45.474
  • Pilate wasn't innocent of anything.
  • 00:19:45.474 --> 00:19:48.477
  • Now, if you were pilate, what would you have done?
  • 00:19:48.477 --> 00:19:50.879
  • What a fearful responsibility to hold the life of the son of god
  • 00:19:50.879 --> 00:19:55.450
  • In your hands!
  • 00:19:55.450 --> 00:19:57.786
  • This was an opportunity for pilate to speak up for jesus,
  • 00:19:57.786 --> 00:20:01.089
  • To acknowledge what everyone could see and prevent
  • 00:20:01.089 --> 00:20:04.726
  • A gross miscarriage of justice, and an opportunity for pilate
  • 00:20:04.726 --> 00:20:09.064
  • To yield to that voice speaking to his heart.
  • 00:20:09.064 --> 00:20:11.933
  • What better opportunity could the roman governor have
  • 00:20:11.933 --> 00:20:14.503
  • To accept jesus than having a personal audience with him
  • 00:20:14.503 --> 00:20:17.939
  • And seeing for himself that jesus
  • 00:20:17.939 --> 00:20:20.242
  • Was just who he claimed to be?
  • 00:20:20.242 --> 00:20:22.277
  • And then things got dark. john again:
  • 00:20:23.245 --> 00:20:26.114
  • "then pilate...took jesus, and scourged him."
  • 00:20:26.114 --> 00:20:30.652
  • He had him whipped with a whip made of leather cords embedded
  • 00:20:30.652 --> 00:20:34.923
  • With nails and fragments of metal and bone shards.
  • 00:20:34.923 --> 00:20:40.896
  • "and the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it
  • 00:20:40.896 --> 00:20:43.565
  • "on his head, and they put on him a purple robe
  • 00:20:43.565 --> 00:20:47.569
  • "and said, 'hail, king of the jews!'
  • 00:20:47.569 --> 00:20:51.239
  • And they smote him with their hands."
  • 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:54.209
  • The brutality against jesus was in full swing.
  • 00:20:54.209 --> 00:20:58.213
  • Back to matthew:
  • 00:20:58.213 --> 00:20:59.815
  • "and all the people answered and said,
  • 00:20:59.815 --> 00:21:01.817
  • 'his blood be on us and on our children.'"
  • 00:21:01.817 --> 00:21:05.721
  • And those words turned out to be prophetic.
  • 00:21:05.721 --> 00:21:08.423
  • "then he released barabbas to them;
  • 00:21:08.423 --> 00:21:10.726
  • "and when he had scourged jesus,
  • 00:21:10.726 --> 00:21:12.728
  • He delivered him to be crucified."
  • 00:21:12.728 --> 00:21:15.530
  • And with his conscience still burning,
  • 00:21:15.530 --> 00:21:18.967
  • "pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross.
  • 00:21:18.967 --> 00:21:22.838
  • "and the writing was: 'jesus of nazareth,
  • 00:21:22.838 --> 00:21:25.841
  • "the king of the jews.' ...
  • 00:21:25.841 --> 00:21:27.509
  • "therefore the chief priests of the jews said to pilate,
  • 00:21:27.509 --> 00:21:31.179
  • "'do not write "the king of the jews," but,
  • 00:21:31.179 --> 00:21:33.081
  • "he said, 'i am the king of the jews.'"'
  • 00:21:33.081 --> 00:21:35.417
  • Pilate answered, 'what i have written, i have written.'"
  • 00:21:35.417 --> 00:21:40.088
  • That was a vain attempt to soothe his burning conscience.
  • 00:21:40.088 --> 00:21:45.594
  • And crucified between two common criminals,
  • 00:21:46.561 --> 00:21:49.898
  • Jesus hung on a cross.
  • 00:21:49.898 --> 00:21:53.001
  • "now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour
  • 00:21:53.001 --> 00:21:55.370
  • There was darkness over all the land."
  • 00:21:55.370 --> 00:21:58.373
  • The sun refused to shine as its maker
  • 00:21:58.373 --> 00:22:01.376
  • Was suspended between heaven and earth,
  • 00:22:01.376 --> 00:22:03.779
  • Bearing the sins of the whole world--
  • 00:22:03.779 --> 00:22:06.481
  • Bearing your sins.
  • 00:22:06.481 --> 00:22:08.817
  • Pontius pilate was the only man in the world
  • 00:22:08.817 --> 00:22:12.354
  • Who could have prevented that darkness, but instead,
  • 00:22:12.354 --> 00:22:15.791
  • His refusal to surrender to the pleading of god sent jesus
  • 00:22:15.791 --> 00:22:20.395
  • To the cross and stopped the sun from shining in the sky.
  • 00:22:20.395 --> 00:22:26.334
  • And what became of pilate? well, we don't know for sure.
  • 00:22:26.334 --> 00:22:29.404
  • Some reports say he took his own life.
  • 00:22:29.404 --> 00:22:31.506
  • Some say someone else took his life.
  • 00:22:31.506 --> 00:22:34.643
  • Either way, it seems certain things didn't end well
  • 00:22:34.643 --> 00:22:38.613
  • For pilate--when it all could have ended gloriously.
  • 00:22:38.613 --> 00:22:44.119
  • Pilate, the man who stopped the sun from shining--
  • 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:48.957
  • Yet, he couldn't stop the light from shining.
  • 00:22:48.957 --> 00:22:53.595
  • The light of the cross still shines,
  • 00:22:53.595 --> 00:22:55.997
  • Illuminating the whole world,
  • 00:22:55.997 --> 00:22:58.867
  • Giving you the opportunity to do what pilate did not.
  • 00:22:58.867 --> 00:23:05.407
  • So, how is it with you today?
  • 00:23:05.407 --> 00:23:07.909
  • God is speaking to your heart, but are you responding?
  • 00:23:07.909 --> 00:23:12.347
  • If you're stuck in sin or some destructive habit pattern,
  • 00:23:12.347 --> 00:23:15.884
  • Jesus is appealing to you to surrender that to him.
  • 00:23:15.884 --> 00:23:18.720
  • If you're having problems trusting god, believing in god,
  • 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:22.090
  • God is asking for your heart.
  • 00:23:22.090 --> 00:23:24.125
  • And if you've never chosen jesus,
  • 00:23:24.125 --> 00:23:26.428
  • God is asking you to do so
  • 00:23:26.428 --> 00:23:27.762
  • And to trust that he will live his life in you.
  • 00:23:27.762 --> 00:23:30.532
  • He'll give you peace that passes understanding.
  • 00:23:30.532 --> 00:23:33.168
  • He'll give you purpose, and he'll give you forever.
  • 00:23:33.168 --> 00:23:37.439
  • All it takes is a decision,
  • 00:23:37.439 --> 00:23:40.075
  • The decision that pilate wouldn't make.
  • 00:23:40.075 --> 00:23:44.346
  • Can you believe today?
  • 00:23:44.346 --> 00:23:46.715
  • Believe that jesus died for you.
  • 00:23:46.715 --> 00:23:48.950
  • Believe that jesus is everything he said he was.
  • 00:23:48.950 --> 00:23:52.487
  • Believe that jesus is coming back soon.
  • 00:23:52.487 --> 00:23:55.724
  • If you do so, he'll come back for you
  • 00:23:55.724 --> 00:23:59.194
  • And usher you into a future that has no end.
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  • Friend, if you'll believe in jesus today,
  • 00:24:02.831 --> 00:24:05.433
  • If you'll accept him as your savior,
  • 00:24:05.433 --> 00:24:08.036
  • You can know with confidence
  • 00:24:08.036 --> 00:24:10.872
  • That you have everlasting life.
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  • >>john: let me pray with you now.
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  • Our father in heaven, we thank you
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  • That there is power in the cross,
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  • And you've included in the bible stories like that of pilate
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  • So that we can learn what not to do
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  • And how to respond when you speak to our hearts.
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  • Now, friend, i believe that right now
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  • God might be speaking to your heart.
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  • I know he's speaking to some heart right now.
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  • And if that's you, would you surrender your life to jesus?
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  • Remember the story of pilate.
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  • Saying no to jesus leads nowhere fast.
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  • Would you say to jesus, "yes, i accept your will for my life.
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  • Yes, i accept jesus as my lord and savior."
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  • Lord, you heard every one of those yeses,
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  • You've seen every heart, and so bless now, i pray.
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  • Friend, if you've asked jesus to be your lord and savior,
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  • He is that right now, and you can know that,
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  • From this moment on, you have the gift of everlasting life.
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  • Cling to jesus and you'll never let that go.
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  • Lord, we thank you,
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  • And we pray in jesus' name.
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  • Amen.
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  • Thank you so much for joining me.
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  • I'm looking forward to seeing you again next time.
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  • Until then, remember:
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  • "it is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.'"
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  • ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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  • ♪[music ends]♪♪
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