Ed Young - What Is Truth

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - What Is Truth | December 26, 2024

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Ed young: there's something about large public
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Trials that have always attracted people.
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When there's an issue on the line, or a life on the line, and
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Decisions must be made, and it is taken into the public arena,
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There's something magnetic about that, and so many times the
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Decisions that come out of these proceedings affect the flow of
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The entire history of the world.
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Socrates on trial before the citizens of athens.
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Charles i on trial before the parliament of england, and then
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We look at all the trials that some of us have studied about
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And some of us have viewed: the nuremberg trials, patty hearst,
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O.j. simpson, the trials that took place in one shape, form,
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Or another with richard nixon and clinton over impeachment,
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And then we look at so many procedures today, and we view it
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Right in the comfort of our homes on television, and we are
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Drawn to it to determine the outcome: what is right, what is
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Wrong, who is speaking the truth, and who is off base and
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Purporting a lie?
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But there's one trial, ladies and gentlemen, one trial in all
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Of history that is the most significant trial that has ever
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Taken place, and that was the trial of jesus of nazareth: evil
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Versus good, righteousness versus immortality, and all the
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Issues that you can name in the world were there on the docket
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When jesus christ was placed on trial.
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A little footnote here: as you study the gospels carefully,
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All four report part or all of this trial.
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All four, you see an unusual turn of events.
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Him who is on the docket, who's being tried, is jesus, but in
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The process, those who are prosecuting him end up on the
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Docket, and the truth is they were the ones who were
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Being tried.
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Two trials, in the case of jesus of nazareth: the first was
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A jewish trial, the second was a roman trial.
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The jewish trial, most of us are familiar with the story.
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Out of the upper room, jesus was taken and he was held captive,
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And all the king's army, all the king's men, the pharisees,
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The sadducees, the romans, the chief priests,
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They came out, and they captured him, and they bound him up.
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He was identified by the kiss of judas, you'll remember.
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And he was taken in the middle of the night,
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And a trial was convinced.
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First of all, there's a trial before somebody named annas.
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Annas was the high priest who was recognized by the jews, and
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He tried jesus, and his success at questioning him is
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Almost laughable.
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He asked jesus, "well, tell us what you're teaching," and jesus
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Said in short, "i've been around for 3 1/2 years, and i have
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Taught all over these grounds, all over galilee, judea,
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Decapolis, and everybody knows exactly what i've been teaching,
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And you know exactly what i've been teaching."
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So the high priest annas's examination of jesus,
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I don't think lasted very long, and he took and lateraled him
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To caiaphas.
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Caiaphas was the high priest, a sadducee, who ruled over
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The sanhedrin, and he not only had a part of the jewish support
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But also he was approved by the roman empire
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Who control israel at this time.
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And caiaphas questioned him, and then he questioned him before
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The sanhedrin.
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Now, what was the charge that the jews made against jesus?
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The charge was blasphemy.
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Well, what is that?
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It's a religious term that meant he placed himself in the
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Position of god.
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"thou shalt have no other gods before me."
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And therefore, the charge was he is claiming to be god.
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What was the punishment for blasphemy in a jewish court?
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It was being stoned to death.
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And therefore, we see in the questioning of annas, then the
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Question of caiaphas, then caiaphas in the night took him
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Before the supreme court, the sanhedrin, and then early in the
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Morning, to legitimize at least a little bit of the trial, they
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Took him before the sanhedrin, and jesus admitted that he was
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Indeed the christ, the son of god, and they said, "blasphemy
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By his own lips, blasphemy."
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And certainly by jewish standards it was, but they had
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A problem.
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Now, understand in john chapter number 11 that caiaphas had
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Already dealt with the leadership of israel, and they
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Had determined that jesus must be killed.
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They'd already decided that.
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The decision had already been rendered before they ever
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Started the trial, and his rationale was--this is after he
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Brought lazarus back to life-- "man, everybody's gonna
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Follow him.
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We're gonna lose our position of power, and for the sake of
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The people."
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Isn't that something?
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"he must be killed.
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For the sake of the people, he must be killed," so the verdict
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Was already rendered by the high priest, and now they're going
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Through the motion of trying to have some kind of phony trial to
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Legitimize the decision that had already been made, but they had
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A problem.
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The jews at this time could not exercise capital punishment.
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That power had been taken away from them by the romans, so they
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Had to bring pilate in, and then we have the roman trial
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Of jesus.
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We read about it in john, the latter part of john 18
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And the first part of john 19, look at it.
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This is the roman trial--and by the way, the charge of the
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Romans was that he is an insurrectionist, he is a rebel,
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He is inciting a revolution.
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That's what the jews said about jesus.
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Now, what was the punishment by roman law?
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If someone was guilty of being a revolutionary, trying to
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Overthrow the roman government, the punishment was death
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By crucifixion.
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So he goes before pilate, verse 28, chapter number 18 of john,
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"then they led jesus from caiaphas into the praetorium,
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And it was early; and they themselves did not enter into
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The praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might
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Eat the passover.
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Therefore pilate went out to them--"
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Out of his palace there--
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And met the jews, and he asks them,
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"'what accusation do you bring against this man?'"
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"what are your charges?"
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And "they answered and said to him, 'if this man were not an
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Evildoer, we would not have delivered him to you.'"
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See, what is-- they're saying,
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"pilate, we wouldn't have brought this guy here.
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You just stamp our charge and execute him as you do.
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That's all we want you to do.
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Don't get into the legal procedure."
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But pilate did not play the jewish game, so pilate said,
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"take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law."
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And they said, "no, but we can't exercise capital punishment.
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The romans, you've taken from us.
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You're the only one who will do that, and we want you simply to
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Kill him."
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But pilate took jesus in and begins a trial.
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Verse 33, "therefore pilate entered into the praetorium,"
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His palace there in jerusalem, "and summoned jesus and said to
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Him, 'are you the king of the jews?'"
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You see the charge?
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The jews said he's trying to make himself king, and pilate
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Said, "are you the king of the jews?"
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Look how jesus answered, he said, "'are you saying this of
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Your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?'
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Pilate answered, 'i am not a jew am i? your own nation and the
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Chief priests delivered you to me; what have you done?'
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Jesus answered, 'my kingdom is not of this world.
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If my kingdom were of the world, then my servants would be
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Fighting so that i would not be handed over to the jews;
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But as it is, my kingdom is not of this realm.'
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Therefore pilate said to him, 'so you are a king?'
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Jesus answered, 'you say correctly that i am a king.
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For this i have been born, and for this i have come into
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The world--'" listen to this-- "'to testify to the truth.
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Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.'"
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What is jesus saying?
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He's saying, "if you are interested in truth, you'll hear
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My voice, and you will be an advocate of truth in your life."
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And look at pilate, verse 38, "what is truth?"
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The interesting thing is pilate was looking at truth with flesh
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On right in front of him.
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Jesus says, "i am the way," the path, "and i am the truth,
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And i'm the life."
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His life embodied, fleshed-out, lived-out, true truth,
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Eternal truth.
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Pilate says, "what is truth?"
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And jesus had said earlier, "you're looking at it.
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I am truth."
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Well, how do we know that what jesus said was true?
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If you study the life of jesus, you see something that to me is
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Absolutely amazing.
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Everywhere he went, every situation which he found himself
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In, nobody could find anything that was untrue about him.
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Have you noticed that?
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When he was baptized, the father in heaven said,
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"this is my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased."
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When he was on the mount of transfiguration, the father
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Said, "he is superior to these other two prophets.
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He is my son.
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I'm proud of him."
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God affirmed jesus and his purity, and in that he was
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Indeed fleshed-out truth.
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Well, you turn around, and what about those who knew him best,
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His disciples, his buddies, his followers?
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Over and over, they gave title to him about the lamb,
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The spotless lamb.
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They called him the righteous one, they called him the holy
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One, they call him the pure one.
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All of those who knew him best, they affirmed his life.
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Well, what about his enemies?
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When he was crucified, one of the soldiers who was crucifying
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Him looked at him and said, "surely this is the son of god."
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Even those who were looking for everything they could about what
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He taught, how he lived, and what he did, his enemies here in
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Our scripture, all they could accuse him of was being that he
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Claimed to be the son of god, which we know that was actually
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Factual in and of itself.
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And so you see his enemies come at him, his friends come at him,
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The heavenly father come at him in every area, and even pilate,
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As we'll study.
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Three times in this 19th chapter of john, pilate examined him,
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And every time, he said, "i find no fault in him."
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So we see that pilate said, "what is truth?"
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Not recognizing that he was seeing truth lived out and
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Embodied right in front of him, this jesus of nazareth.
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Then look how pilate handles this.
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You're gonna see pilate is the guy who i call spend a lot
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Of time washing his hands.
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When i was a boy, my mother would say,
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"edwin, did you wash your hands?
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Did you wash your hands?"
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Wherever i would do, i would come in, i would go out.
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Certainly before i would eat, i was always asked, "did you wash
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Your hands?
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Did you wash your hands?"
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Pilate is phi beta kappa on hand-washing.
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His whole agenda here as he decided what to do with jesus,
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He washed his hands in every single occasion.
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Look at it in verse 33, "therefore pilate entered again
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Into the praetorium, and summoned jesus--"
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Then we have all of this questioning.
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Look at verse 38, pilate said, "'what is truth?'
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And when he had said this, he went out--" pilate--
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Before all the jews and the people.
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He said, "i find no guilt in him--" verse 39--
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"but you have a custom," he said.
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Now, what is he doing here?
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First of all, when they brought him to him, he said,
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"i wash my hands of jesus.
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You know, this is not my concern.
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You jews decide.
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You have charge against him, you handle it."
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He said, "i wash my hands.
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He's not a part of my problem."
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And then he comes in second place,
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And he tries to lateral off this.
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He said, "i'm gonna be neutral.
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As far as what to do with jesus, i find no guilt in him, but i'm
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Gonna be a neutral."
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And so, though it's not recorded in john, they mentioned that
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Jesus from galilee, and pilate said, "ah-ha, ho-ho,
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I've got a way out."
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Herod, king herod, is in charge of galilee,
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And he happens to be in town.
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He's in jerusalem.
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So they sent jesus before herod, and herod said, "i've been
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Looking forward to meeting you.
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I've looked forward.
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I've heard about the signs or miracles you perform.
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Come, jesus, do a little trick here.
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Let's have a little magic.
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We need some entertainment in our court."
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And jesus didn't say a word to herod.
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This is the same herod antipas who beheaded john the baptist.
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Jesus didn't say a word, so herod said, "you know, he's not
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Any fun.
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He's not going to perform.
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Put a purple robe on him and send him back, back to pilate."
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Can you imagine pilate sitting there eating breakfast?
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It's still mid-morning.
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He said, "phew, boy, i was sure shrewd.
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You know, i just take a position of neutrality here," and here
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They come bringing jesus back, bringing jesus back, and then he
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Has the idea, he said, "you know there's a tradition that someone
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Can be released in passover, and we have over there in the tower
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Of antonio, right about 1500 feet from me, the most infamous
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Prisoner we've got in a long time, a guy named barabbas."
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And barabbas is a robber, he's a murderer, he's a revolutionary.
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You know, the choice is at passover the people can release
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One person, so pilate went out with this brilliant idea proving
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His neutrality about jesus and said, "look, i release to you
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Barabbas, i release to you jesus: you choose."
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And they said, "who do you want: barabbas or jesus?"
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That he was confident they would take jesus,
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But they said, "barabbas!"
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Pilate was stunned.
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Now he had to release barabbas to them, and he said, "well,
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What do you want me to do with jesus?"
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And they said, "crucify him, crucify him."
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Now, a little subset here, can you imagine barabbas there in
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The prison hearing all of this about 1500 feet away, and what
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Did he hear?
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His name, "barabbas!"
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All the crowd.
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Then what did he hear?
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"crucify him."
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Then what did he hear?
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"crucify him."
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Then what did he hear?
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"may his blood be on our hands," said the people.
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So barabbas said, "it's bad enough i'm gonna be crucified,
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But look at all the people," but the guard came in and said
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To barabbas, "you've been set free."
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The cross of barabbas had already been constructed,
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And i think jesus died on that cross.
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No better example in the bible than how jesus died on a cross
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For you and for me, substitutionary atonement.
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We deserve hell.
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Jesus took hell on him, so what is left for you and me but for
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Go to heaven?
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So, this is barabbas, and now we see he keeps on washing
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His hands.
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He decided, "well, you know--" he had nothing to do with him.
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He tried to run in herod, he tried to run in barabbas, and
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All of a sudden he's got jesus on his hands, and then he
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Compromises by having jesus scourged.
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Look at chapter 19, "pilate then took jesus and scourged him--"
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And by the way, scourging many times--
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Most of the time, in fact--
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Historians tell us, led to death.
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They would whip them with whips with bone and with pieces of
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Iron in it, and they would lacerate their back and
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Their body.
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He was beaten, he was slapped, perhaps beyond even recognition.
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His face, his body was totally obliterated.
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And then look what pilate did, pilate came out again and said
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To them, "behold, i am bringing him out to you
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So that you may know--"
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He says he's guilty, he doesn't have any guilt,
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He's guiltless.
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Verse 5, "jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns
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And the purple robe."
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Pilate said ecce homo.
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Behold, the man!
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What was he doing?
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He was saying, "look, i find no guilt in him.
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There's no reason to crucify him, and i want you to look what
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We've done to him.
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He'd been beaten, he's been slapped, he's been whipped to
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The inch of his life.
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Look at him, behold the man."
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What do you wanna do with him?
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And they said, "crucify him."
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He tried compromise.
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"just a little bit, beat him up.
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He's guiltless, but beat him up.
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Maybe we'll have some compassion."
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"crucify him," they said.
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And look, finally, in chapter-- in verse 10, "so pilate said to
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Him 'you do not speak to me?
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Do you not know--'" referring to jesus--
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"'i have authority to release you,
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And i have authority to crucify you?'
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Jesus answered, 'you would have no authority over me
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Unless it had been given to you from above.'"
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Remember, he'd already said, "my kingdom is from above.
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My kingdom is not of this earth.
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My kingdom is based on truth.
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For this reason, he who delivered me to you has the
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Greater sin," and another gospel tell us that pilate's wife,
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Claudius, who evidently was some kind of religious person, told
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Him she had a dream, and he has to have nothing to do
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With jesus.
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By the way, how did pilate get his position of authority
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In judea?
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I'll tell you, it's because he married claudius.
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Claudius was a great-great granddaughter of one of the
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Roman emperors, probably augustus.
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Pilate was italian.
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You see, the best decision you ever made was when he said,
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"i do," and that's how he got this position,
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So his wife certainly had great influence on it
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And warned him about jesus.
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In verse 12, "as a result of this pilate made efforts
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To release him."
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He'd already said not guilty, not guilty, no guilt in him, now
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He made even further evidence to release jesus.
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"but the jews cried out saying, 'if you release this man, you
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Are no friend of caesar; everyone who makes him out to be
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A king opposes caesar,' therefore when pilate heard
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These words, he brought jesus out, and sat down the judgment
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Seat at a place called the pavement."
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Verse 14, "now it was a day of preparation for the passover; it
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Was about the sixth hour.
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And he said to the jews, 'behold, your king!'"
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Verse 15, "so they cried out, 'away with him, away with him,
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Crucify him!'
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Pilate said to them, 'shall i crucify your king?'
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The chief priests answered, 'we have no king but caesar.'
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So he then handed him over to them to be crucified."
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You see the final choice: christ or caesar.
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Christ or caesar?
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Ladies and gentlemen, we make that choice ourselves every
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Single day in which we live, and so many of us, we spend all of
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Our time washing our hands.
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"you know, that's no-- not in my court,
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Have no problem there."
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Oh, we go and say, "you know, i'm gonna be neutral on this.
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It's too controversial.
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I'm just gonna be neutral about it."
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That's what pilate did, "i'm gonna be neutral about jesus."
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Or we could say, "i'm gonna compromise a little bit.
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I'm gonna go along.
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And that gullible part of our brain speaks to that irrational
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Part of our brain, speaks to that perdition part of our
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Brain, and then speaks to the reason part of our brain.
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We say, "well, i'm gonna take the philosophy that--"
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Sam rayburn, speaker of the house, from texas was asked by
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Young john kennedy when he first was elected to congress.
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"how do you make it up in washington?"
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Mr. sam said, "the way you get along is to go along.
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Way you get along is to go along."
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A lot of us who go by the name of christian have adopted the
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Same philosophy that mr. sam advocated to young john kennedy
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And the same philosophy that pilate had
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As he dealt with jesus.
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The choice is always christ or caesar,
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Christ or caesar.
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You say, "well, if i stand up and i do this, and i do that,
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Man, i'll be in trouble."
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In my office, let us say for example, here's a man who
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Decides he's gonna marry another man, and we're gonna give office
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Party for him, and i need to go to the wedding and reception.
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Now, i don't agree with it, but i don't wanna cause any
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Controversy here.
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Let me tell you something, folks.
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We as christians have to learn how to speak the truth and live
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The truth in love.
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It's gonna be expensive to do it.
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[congregation applauding]
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People come and say, "well, as christians,
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We supposed to be lovers.
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How is it that god can send somebody to hell?"
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God, ladies and gentlemen, never sends anybody to hell.
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In heaven, there can be no garbage.
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No garbage can ever get into heaven, and long as there's
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Garbage in your life or in my life, we cannot get into heaven,
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Because garbage in your life and my life will be burned up.
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That's what you do with garbage, but thank the lord that jesus is
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A garbage collector.
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Now, i say that reverently, and he comes and takes the garbage
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Out of your life and out of my life, and then the results
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Is heaven.
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May we learn how not to be pilate but how to stand with
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Family and friends on these moral issues that are as clear
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As they can be.
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We don't say, "i don't have anything to do with that."
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We're just like, "i'm just gonna be neutral on this.
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I'm just neutral.
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I'm neutral on this."
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Or we go and say, "well, i'm gonna compromise
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A little bit on this."
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Because the choice keeps coming back to you and to me, ladies
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And gentlemen.
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Everywhere we turn, everywhere you go, will it be christ
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Or caesar?
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And when we as christians begin to reverently and humbly choose
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Christ, we'll change america, and we'll change the world.
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Ed young: we have all felt alone.
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Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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On earth.
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But god did not create us to live in
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A constant state of loneliness.
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We need community and fellowship
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Ed young: pilate did everything he could
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To avoid passing judgment on jesus.
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He tried to wash his hands of the responsibility.
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Then he tried to pass the decision off to someone else.
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And finally, he tried to please the crowd
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Through compromise and bargaining or delaying.
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Does this sound like anybody you know?
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Pilate's actions are similar to what many of us do
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When confronted with the truth in jesus christ.
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We want to stay neutral, to put off any decision.
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Listen, jesus is either lord of all,
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Or he's not lord at all.
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If you've been living a life straddling the fence,
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You know it gets really, really uncomfortable.
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If you're ready right now, to let jesus become
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Lord and center of your life, new life,
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Here's what you need to do:
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Call the number on your screen.
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Thank you for watching today and make plans to tune in next time
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As we take another exciting step on "the winning walk"
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Ed Young - What Is Truth

December 26, 2024 | S

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