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You're listening to The Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Well, good morning everyone,

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and welcome to the Bible Guys,
or good evening if that's when you

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choose to listen to us. Welcome, Yes, welcome, Welcome. You're

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definitely welcome at all hours, So
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You're assuming they're thanking us, well, no, no, I mean they're

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welcome to join us. I see, Jeff, we are going to do

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a segment that is very sophisticated and
very near and dear to our hearts.

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Right that we only bring the finest
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brand new with us today, just
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find the most important and authentic news, and we've found maybe the most authentic

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news on the planet. It's the
Babylon Being. And we would say that

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this is a half a step more
reliable than CNN, OH or any of

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the news channels. Right, So, any news channel that sells advertising is

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not giving you the news, giving
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listen to to be able to watch
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So anyways, the Babylon Bee,
we think is they also sell commercials,

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but they're more honest about the fact
that it's just satire. So the

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Babylon b says this article today that
we felt like you should read and listen

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and hear about is The title is, I don't need church. I study

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the Bible for myself, says man
who has clearly never studied the Bible for

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himself. Austin, Texas, a
local man declared himself free of any need

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to belong to a local church,
relying instead on the fact that he studies

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the Bible for himself, clearly indicating
he has never studied the Bible for himself.

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I don't need the church, the
man said, confidently. I'm perfectly

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capable of reading my Bible and knowing
exactly what it says. Maybe some people

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need pastors and teachers and other believers, not me. I have a full

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understanding of absolutely everything. I've got
it covered. Despite repeated invitations from family

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and friends, the man has remain
convinced that belonging to a local church is

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entirely unnecessary. Frian Nah, I'm
good, he said. The way everyone

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keeps talking about it, you'd think
there was something in the Bible about it,

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but being really important to gather with
believers to study it. Not for

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me. There's nothing anyone else could
do to help me comprehend the Bible better

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than I already do. When asked
to listen list some of his favorite passages,

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the man was quick to offer multiple
examples. Definitely the positive stuff,

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he said, you know, the
Jesus stuff, loving everyone, the part

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where says nobody's ever allowed to judge
anyone's really good and God helps those who

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helps themselves part so good. At
publishing time, the man had also reassured

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his family of friends he was totally
fine with his way of life, with

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the way his wife was crumbling down
around him. So there you go.

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Yeah, So it's so funny,
because that's a pretty clever angle on the

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fact that the Bible talks about how
we need church, right, we need

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each other, and God designed the
church for us and it's a necessity.

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That's correct. It's so funny.
Well, you cannot, you cannot grow

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into the Christian God designed you for
it to be without being in a body

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of believers. It's not possible.
Right. The Bible says that the church.

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Every person that's a believer is a
part of the church, the big

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Church, and you can't but we're
a part of a body. And you

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can't sever a peace from the body
and have the peace still thrive and grow.

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Instead it rots and stinks, right, right, And that's been my

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experience with people who sever themselves from
the body. Yeah, yeah, for

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sure. And then also I thought
it was funny he quotes here, God

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helps those who helps themselves. So
which is in case you want to know,

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I want all of the listeners to
know this. So you guys are

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a Bible experts, that phrase God
helps those who helps themselves is not in

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the Bible. Correct. Correct?
In fact that after Easter, I'm not

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sure if this will air during this
series or not, but right after Easter,

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we're going into a series called did
Jesus Say that? Oh right,

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And it's actually like four it's a
four week series on misconceptions on what Jesus

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said. Are you doing that one? God helps those who helps themselves?

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No, we're doing as we just
covered it. No, we're doing God

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never gives me more than I can
handle. Oh yeah, yeah. People

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always say that God never give you
then you can handle that's that's the phrase

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that people. It's a misquote right
of a verse on temptation. That's right.

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Yeah, okay, well, hey
man, there you go, only

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the finest news for our people.
If you never watch their read The Babylon

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b you should go check it out
when you're done with this podcast today.

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We think they're funny, right,
and they have both social and political commentary

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from a satire standpoint, and I
just I think they're hysterically. I laugh

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and laugh and laugh all day long
when I get into that. So okay,

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well, here we are. We
are continuing with our study through all

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of the two hundred and fifty events
in the life of Jesus. And yesterday

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Jesus had gone to the cross as
we were talking on the on the podcast,

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Father forgive them Today you'll be with
me in paradise. He asks John

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to take care of his mother.
So these are really significant. And then

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we're going to continue on and this
again is in all four Gospels, Matthew

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chapter twenty seven, Mark fifteen,
Luke chapter twenty three, and John chapter

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nineteen. So we're going to read
all four. Listen along and see if

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you can see the differences or the
extra information that you pick up from each

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of the passages. So it says, remember they crucified Jesus at nine am,

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and then it says at noon,
darkness fell across the whole land until

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three o'clock. At about three o'clock, Jesus called out with a loud voice,

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Eli Eli Lama sabaktinae, which means, my God, My God,

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why have you abandoned me. Some
of the bystanders understood and thought he was

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calling for the prophet Elijah, or
misunderstood, I'm sorry, and thought he

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was calling for the prophet Elijah.
One of them ran and filled a sponge

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with sour wine, holding it up
to him on a reed stick so he

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could drink. But the rest said, wait, let's see whether Elijah comes

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to save him. Then Jesus shouted
out again, and he released his spirit.

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At that moment, the curtain in
the sanctuary of the Temple was torn

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into from top to bottom. The
earth shook, rocks split apart, and

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tombs opened. The bodies of many
godly men and women who had died were

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raised from the dead. They left
the cemetery after jesus resurrection, went into

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the Holy City of Jerusalem and appeared
to many people. The Roman officer and

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the other soldiers at the crucifixion were
terrified by the earthquake and all that had

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happened, and they said, this
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Many women who had come from Galilee
with Jesus to care for him were watching

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from a distance. Among them were
Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of James

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and Joseph, and the mother of
James and John, the sons of Zebedee.

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In Mark chapter fifteen, verse thirty
three, it says at noon,

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darkness fell across the whole land until
three o'clock. Then at three o'clock Jesus

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called out with a loud voice,
Eloi Lama sabactny, which means, my

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God, My God, why have
you abandoned me. Some of the bystanders

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misunderstood and thought he was calling for
the prophet Elijah, and one of them

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ran and filled a spongeous our wine, holding it up to him on a

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reed stick so he could drink.
Wait, he said, let's see whether

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Elijah comes to take him down.
Then Jesus uttered another loud cry and breathed

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his last, and the curtain in
the sanctuary of the temple was torn into

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from top to bottom. When the
Roman officer, who stood facing him,

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saw how he had died, he
exclaimed, this man truly was the son

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of God. Some women were there
watching from a distance, including Mary Magdalene,

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Mary the mother of James the younger, and of Joseph, and Salimay.

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They had been followers of Jesus and
had cared for him while he was

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in Galilee. Many other women who
had come with him to Jerusalem were also

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there. Then, in Luke chapter
twenty three, says by this time,

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as about noon, darkness fell across
the whole land, until three o'clock the

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light from the sun was gone,
and suddenly the curtain in the sanctuary of

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the temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, Father, I

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entrust my spirit into your hands,
And with those words he breathed his lass.

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When the Roman officer, overseeing the
execution, saw what had happened,

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he worshiped God and said, surely
this man was innocent. And when all

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the crowd that came to see the
crucifixion saw what had happened, they went

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home in deep sorrow. But Jesus'
friends, including the women who had followed

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him, from Galilee stood at a
distance watching, and then in John chapter

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nineteen, verse twenty eight, it
says Jesus knew that his mission was now

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finished, and to fulfill scripture,
he said, I am thirsty. A

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jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge on it,

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put it on a hissup branch,
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When Jesus tasted, he said,
it is finished, and then he

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bowed his head and released his spirit. It was the day of preparation.

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The Jewish leaders didn't want the bodies
hanging there the next day, which was

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the Sabbath, in a very special
sabbath because it was the passover, so

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they asked Pilot to hasten their dads
by ordering that their legs be broken,

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then their bodies could be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the

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legs of the two men crucified with
Jesus, but when they came to Jesus

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they saw that he was already dead, so they didn't break his legs.

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One of the soldiers, however,
pierced his side with the beer, and

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immediately blood and water float out.
This report is from an eyewitness given,

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giving an accurate account. He speaks
the truth so that you also can believe

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these things happened in fulfillment of the
scriptures that say no one of his bones

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will be broken, and they will
look on one they pierced. So we

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covered a lot there. Yeah,
that's that's so sad. It's so sombering.

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You know. You read that and
you're like, oh, I'm just

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somber at this point. So,
you know, so we talk about this

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on Good Friday especially. We should
talk about it more, but on Good

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Friday that you know, the greatest
the greatest difficulty that Jesus experienced on the

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cross wasn't the physical pain, although
that was excruciating. It was the fact

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that Jesus looks up into heaven and
says, my God, my God,

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why have you abandoned me? Or
why have you forsaken me? And so

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it's the belief that, you know, based on everything that is explained to

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us, that Jesus became sin,
that Jesus took on all the sin of

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humanity at that point, you know, fulfilling the scripture being the perfect sacrifice

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for humanity. And then God the
Father turns his back and for the first

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time and only time, and eternity
past and eternity future. God the Father

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and God the Son are separated.
And so the idea that Jesus is now

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separated from his father, and he
cries out and say, why have you

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forsaken me? You know, that
is the darkest time in all of history,

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and so that that would have been
something that obviously we don't understand,

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but it seems to be way more
excruciating as an experience. Yeah, you

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know, so you know, the
Father, so of the Holy Spirit worked

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together relationally and intrinsically, and you
know, in a dynamic in such a

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way that you and I can't even
possibly comprehend. So he had never been

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separated from the Father in all of
eternity, not just in time. Right,

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there had never been so there had
never been a beginning or an ending

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to Jesus Christ. And so to
be now separated from the Father. Why

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it's because the Bible says in a
couple different places that God cannot look upon

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sin, right, he can't tolerate
sin. And so second of these,

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chapter five says, and here's a
quote, he became sin for us,

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who knew no sin, so that
we might be made the righteousness of God

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in him. And so the idea
is that he embodied all of the sin

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of humanity. So think about that, every bad thing you've ever done,

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every lie you ever told, every
time you ever heard of person, every

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time. But he also took on
the sins of every despot and every horrible

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dictator, every child molester and every
murderer and every genocidal leader. He took

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on every horrific sin that has ever
been committed, and he paid for all

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of it on the cross. So
he embodied, literally embodied all of the

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collective evil for all of humanity.
Right, and in that moment, Jesus

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says, God, why did you
abandon me now in this, in this

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moment, this total desperation of God
turned his back. Yeah, right and

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symbolically, yeah, symbolically And and
by the way, one little caveat.

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I think what you said and what
you meant to say were you said God

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couldn't look on sin. But I
think what you meant to say was God

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cannot have sin be a part of
who he is. Yeah. Well,

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it says in the Old Testament that
he won't won't even look at it.

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God the Father will not look at
sin. Does say that, Yeah,

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did not know that, huh,
yeah, and so so because of that,

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then God rejects it. This is
why you and I have to be

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clothed in Jesus righteousness, because we
are sinners. Right, So the only

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way he can look upon us with
favor would be the fact that we're clothed

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in Jesus when he looks at me
and you now by faith in Christ and

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any of our listeners who've placed to
faith in Christ Jesus. Right, So

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that's it is, he became sin
for us who knew no sin. He

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was sinless, and they became the
embodiment of all of the collective sin of

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all of humanity from all time,
past, present, future. He became

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sin for us who knew no sin, so that we might be made the

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righteousness of God in him. So
theologically he looks upon me and you and

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sees no sin, and it's because
we're clothed and the righteousness clothes. Well

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yeah, so, but the theological
nuance is that is that he turns back

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as he could look on sin.
And that's what That's what the Old Testament

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tells us, right. That is
interesting. I'm not sure I've hung on

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to that nuance. Yeah, yeah, I mean either way, it's you

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know, it's really powerful, the
same application. But but yeah, the

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reason why that's interesting, that's really
interesting. The uh uh so, so

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Jesus dies at three o'clock, and
let's let's not overlook the fact, I

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guess we can get to in a
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falls across the land. The sun. The sun goes away at noon,

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right, right, so at the
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noon is is the high the high
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darkness falls across the land and then
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darkness, Oh, it must have
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says there is no light from the
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is an unbelievable miracle. And then
let's not overlook the fact that it says,

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ready for this one. We don't
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bodies of many godly men and women
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and they left the cemetery after Jesus's
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three days later, right or you
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went into the Holy City of Jerusalem
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mom, So they're not zombies,
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But I mean, in our world, the only visual that we have

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in our minds of people rising from
a grave out of the cemetery the Thriller

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video. Right, So they were
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fully alive like Lazarus. I just
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No no, no, no.
Yeah, So this wasn't a horror movie.

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This was a celebration. Yeah,
hi, mom, it is hilarious.

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So so holy cow, I mean, what an unbelievable Like, we

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don't talk about that that often.
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and so many religious leaders became Christians
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why it wasn't just one guy,
right, it was all these many godly

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men, right right, It's all
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if a bunch of them were former
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would have respected, that were followers, true followers of God coming back,

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not just you know, random people, probably random people to but people that

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would have credibility, but mental life. The Bible says a bunch of people

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became followers of Jesus that day,
right, and that's why. So so

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it goes dark from noon to three. Now keep in mind, uh,

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six six thirty or six o'clock is
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sabbath and not just any Sabbath in
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Sundownyeah, sundown, because this would
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Jesus gives up the ghost or his
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right, so in three hours in
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spare there where it was going to
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in parenthes in one of the versions, this was a very special sabbath,

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right because it was the passover.
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up and push through this illegal uh
just you know this this illegal trial and

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execution where they're where they're crucive.
They're having Jesus being crucified by the Romans

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illegally, and it's against uh their
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or kill anybody in the sabbath.
Really, so anybody has to be buried

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before the beginning of this, which
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pushing this thing through. Well,
so anyway, that's that's why that details

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there, and then let's let's talk
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Yeah, oh that's huge. That's
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But before we get to that part, you're talking about trying to bury him

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right away. That's why they went
to a pilot, said hey, would

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you break their legs right? Just
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they knew that the idea of being
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cross for days. Sometimes they would
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right from thirst, they would die
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come in and picking out their eyes
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horrific death. But here it's just
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hey, we need to cut this
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died with suffocation. So your arms
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your body hanging below your arms at
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and eventually your ship you become very
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begin to fill with water. You
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themselves up to breathe on their their
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down because you can't hold yourself up
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the idea is go break their legs. Now they can't pull themselves up at

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all because it's only your arms instead
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up on the nail and then let
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and then push yourself up on the
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your weight down on the wrists.
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and then they'll just suffocate right and
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a within an hour or so they
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died first, because Jesus died first
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legs, right, and then they
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because he had already died, which
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just another one of those things to
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no bone is broken, that's right, he's finished with all the commitment.

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So he says it is finished,
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and then into your hands I commit
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the Bible says that the tombs open
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you to the point that you were
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okay, yeah, So the veil
ripping in two. You know that

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most of us who are listening,
I'm sure are Christians. We all understand

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the significance of this, but just
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So the temple is where God lived. God lived in one location,

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and this is the moment, the
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where later in the New Testament it
says, now we are the temple,

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right, our bodies are the temple
that God ceases to exist in one location,

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in the Holy of holies inside the
temple. But the veils ripped in

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two, which means everybody has access. Hebrew says, we can boldly go

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before the throne, which is unheard
of. And God basically rushes out from

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one location and his spirit floods out, and now He is in the hearts

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and in the minds and the souls
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is the part of God, the
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says is better for us, right, because Jesus is only one person.

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He's God in the flesh, representative
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person. But he says, it
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remember when I leave, because I'm
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now we have God in us.
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Christ. But then also that that
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the Holy Spirit dwells in every believer, that makes us you know, uh,

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the actual temple, and symbolically it
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Jesus and we're a nation of priests, and Jesus is the high priest.

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So all of that symbolism that happened
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centuries was you know, the priest
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the sacrifice and the lamb. Well, Jesus is the lamb, that's right.

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Jesus is the high priest. Jesus
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took care of all of it.
So when Jesus says, why did you

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forsake me? This isn't like a
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and if you read some twenty two, it talks about what the Messiah's

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death it's going to be like.
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story of how horrific crucifixion is,
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thing. But to Jesus, the
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Even more at times, a million
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embodiment of sin for one who had
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it's all done in a short amount
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to die? Here? For him, in a short amount of time,

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he had done everything you needed to
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sin in his body. If you
sin, you will die, and he's

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taking that punishment, but he pays
the price like the lamb. Right without

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the shedding of blood, there's no
forgiveness of sins. So he took the

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punishment for your sin and my sin
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he paid the price for us sin
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he shouts out, it is finished, to tell us did it literally means

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it's paid in full, like there
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the big rubber stamp, paid in
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of us. And then he says, now into your hands, I commit

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my spirit right and he gives up
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an astounding thing. But literally,
it doesn't matter what you've done past,

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present, of future. Jesus was
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committed, every sin that was being
committed in the moment. He forgave right

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there on the cross, and everything
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Jesus pre chose to forgive. And
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when we choose by faith. Salvation
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so by faith we just choose to
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offers us forgiveness and every sin that
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Jesus forgave in that moment. And
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finished. Yeah, And he goes
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if we confess with our mouth and
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Jesus from the dead that we will
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name of the Lord will be saved. And then in passing that one little

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caveat that I mentioned where God can't
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chapter one, where it says he
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God's asking a bunch of questions there. It doesn't mean that God does not

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have the ability to notice sinful people. It's that God cannot participate with sin

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of any way. And so at
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unity of the Trinity, it's NonStop, perpetual, perfect participation all the time.

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And when Jesus took on the embodiment
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God was like, I can't participate
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Jesus was like, I feel abandoned. Yeah. Well, hey, that's

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a great place to end, and
that's well past our time. So there's

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a lot in there. Yeah,
so we'll continue next time on the Bible. Guys,