WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.879 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a couple of friends talk 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.960 about the Bible in fun in practical ways. Hey, welcome to the Bible 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.280 Guys. Yes, hey, we have a very exciting segment. Today's Chris 4 00:00:16.280 --> 00:00:19.239 and I'm Jeff, and we are the Bible Guys. I was just laughing 5 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:23.039 about it during the roll in, because it says, let's test Chris's one 6 00:00:23.160 --> 00:00:26.920 direction knowledge. At this time I thinking over to jefffore the start, and 7 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.800 I said, I don't know a single one direction. Well, maybe I 8 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:33.039 recognize it if you were to sing it. Yeah, if I hear it. 9 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:36.039 I don't know that I know anyone direction. I don't know a single 10 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.479 song, let alone a lyric, which means that this game is going to 11 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.439 flop. Okay, well, who knows. Maybe you'll know some Bible verses 12 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:46.000 though that might be that may be a saving grace, that's right. And 13 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:52.159 then our topic today is one of the most important events in human history. 14 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:59.119 So yeah, yeah, So there's the crucifixion of Jesus and we're beginning that 15 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:04.599 process and then the resurrection are the two most important things I believe have ever 16 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.560 happened. And so it's a really big one. But before we get into 17 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.840 that, we always like to have just kind of a light hearted segment. 18 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.640 We take our faith very seriously, we just don't take ourselves too seriously. 19 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:17.719 And so today I'm going to either be reading from the Song of Solomon or 20 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.640 lyrics from a one direction song? Are you ready? Number one said I 21 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:29.760 slept but my heart was awake. I slept but my heart was awake. 22 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:36.079 Is that a Song of Solomon? Direction? Either one? Because that's a 23 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:42.359 great lyric of a line, I slept but my heart was awake. I'm 24 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:48.280 going to say one direction, it's Song of Solomon. Yeah, okay, 25 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:53.079 Number two, you turned around and stole my heart. Oh, that's gotta 26 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.840 be one direction. Stole my heart? Yea, turned around and stole my 27 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.319 heart. That doesn't sound like a verse. Oh I'm joking his one direction? 28 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:07.599 Okay, good, Okay. I'm blinded because you're everything I see. 29 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:13.800 Okay. The thing that gives that away as a lyric, at least I 30 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:21.520 think so is the because it's trying to I'm blinded because what you are everything 31 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:25.639 I see. There's no way that that that's a love notion, which which 32 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:29.680 again is in is all throughout Song of Solomon. I say, Song of 33 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:32.759 Solomon is a love song. I know, but there's no way that that 34 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:37.599 was the conclusion of being blind. So I'm gonna say lyric, it is 35 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:42.159 a lyric. It's lyric from one direction more than this. Okay, fair 36 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:50.199 is the moon, bright is the sun, majestic as the stars. The 37 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:54.439 word fair and majestic leave me to believe that that's possibly a verse. That 38 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:59.840 a verse is that song of Solomon song Solomon six. Nice. There you 39 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.479 go man, today I got three out of four. Yeah, I think 40 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:07.199 so. You just you missed the first one. Yeah, okay. And 41 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.680 then I was sound asleep, but in my tears I was wide awake. 42 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.280 Oh that's gotta be a one direction Let me think. Uh, I was 43 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.960 what I was saying again, sound asleep, yes, but in my tears 44 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:28.280 I was wide awake. That's gotta be a one direction lyric. Come on, 45 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:34.240 Salomon was a good lyrics In my tears, I was wide awake. 46 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:39.120 He was, he is, He is a writer love songs. Wow, 47 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.599 hey to give some give him some props here. Absolutely, man, that's 48 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.080 a big one. I wonder if you had the dance moves to back it 49 00:03:46.159 --> 00:03:49.879 up. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, and hair. I think you 50 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.599 had the hair. Well, yeah, how many wives? How many wives 51 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:57.039 and concubines? Yeah, seven hundred concubines and three hundred wives. Okay, 52 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:00.599 so yeah, thousand thousand, yeah, so yeah, of course, I 53 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:03.240 just can't even imagine the fact that it was monthly makeup expenses. The fact 54 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.400 that he was the most powerful and the richest man and the wisest man in 55 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:10.960 the world, in the world probably had something to do with that, I 56 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.879 guess probably, But okay, well, there you go, Chris, which, 57 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:16.040 by the way, it wasn't bad. Three out of five. You're 58 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:19.920 bat in sixty percent, right, yeah, right, that's that's six hundred. 59 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.560 That's by far a Hall of Fame baseball career. If you could hit 60 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:30.399 six hundred, it didn't make multiple wives. Okay, no, right, 61 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:34.120 So the Bible never endorsed that, No, God warned against it. Tho 62 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.560 the Kings don't do it right, don't do it anyway. But he did 63 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:42.600 it anyways because people in power and his day did that, right, So 64 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.920 he thought, hey, we're allowed to do He was living like the world, 65 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.319 that's right. Yes, So Matthew, Chapter twenty seven is where we're 66 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.120 at today. Hey, and I have to throw one more comment in there 67 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:56.319 ahead. Isn't it interesting how the wisest man in the world his one downfall 68 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.279 was women? Was women? That was his downfall. That's right, so 69 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.319 interesting? So really, how smart are we, right if we still can't 70 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.319 figure out women? That's right, they can't figure it out, Okay, 71 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.360 Matthew chapter twenty seven, verse fifteen. Then we're also looking at Mark chapter 72 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.399 fifteen, Luke twenty three, and John eighteen. Yeah. So at this 73 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:20.399 point, for the rest of this series, most of these are going to 74 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.680 be probably in all four Gospels, a lot of them. Yes, So 75 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:29.040 here we go, it says in Matthew chapter twenty seven, verse fifteen. 76 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:32.800 Now it was the governor's custom each year during the Passover celebration to release one 77 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:38.439 prisoner to the crowd, anyone they wanted. This year there was a notorious 78 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.319 prisoner, a man named Barabbas. As the crowds gathered before Pilot's house that 79 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:45.879 morning, he asked them, which one do you want me to release to 80 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.639 you, Barabbas or Jesus, who has called the Messiah. He knew very 81 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.439 well that the religious leaders had arrested Jesus out of envy. Just then, 82 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:57.480 as Pilot was sitting on the judgment seat. His wife sent him a message, 83 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.519 leave that innocent ant alone. I suffered through a terrible nightmare about him 84 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:05.240 last night. Meanwhile, the leading priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to 85 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:09.079 ask for Barabbas to be released and for Jesus to be put to death. 86 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.480 So the governor asked again which of these two do you want me to release 87 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.639 to you? And the crowd shouted back Barabbas. Pilot responded, then, 88 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.079 what should I do with Jesus, who has called the Messiah? And they 89 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:23.279 shouted back, crucify him? Why? Pilot demanded, what crime has he 90 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:28.079 committed? But the mob roared even louder, crucify him. Pilot saw that 91 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.800 he wasn't getting anywhere and that a riot was developing, and so he sent 92 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.639 for a bowl of water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, 93 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:38.639 I am innocent of this man's blood. Their responsibility is yours, and all 94 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:42.439 the people yelled back, we will take responsibility for his death, we and 95 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:46.920 our children. So Pilot released Barabbas to them, and he ordered Jesus flogged 96 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.319 with a lead tipped whip, and then turned him over to the Roman soldiers 97 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.600 to be crucified. In Mark, chapter fifteen, verse six, it says, 98 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.439 now it was the governor's custom each year during the Passover celebration to release 99 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:03.399 one prison anyone that people requested. One of the prisoners at that time was 100 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:08.399 Brabis, a revolutionary who had committed murder in an uprising. The crowd went 101 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:12.839 to Pilot and asked him to be released. To release a prisoner as usual, 102 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.720 Would you like me to release to you this king of the Jews, 103 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.319 Pilot asked for He realized by now that the leading priests had arrested Jesus out 104 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:21.560 of envy. But at this point the leading priest stirred up the crowd to 105 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.959 demand the release of Barabbas instead of Jesus. Pilot asked them, then, 106 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.680 what should I do with this man you call the king of the Jews? 107 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.680 They shouted back, crucify him, why, Pilot demanded, What crime has 108 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.680 he committed? But the mob roared even louder, crucify him. So to 109 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:43.000 pacify the crowd, Pilot released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with 110 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.480 a lead tipped whip, then turn him over to the Roman soldiers to be 111 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:53.600 crucified. Luke, chapter twenty three, Verse thirteen says, then Pilot called 112 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.800 together the leading priests and other religious leaders along with the people, and he 113 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:00.399 announced his verdict. You brought this man to me accusing him of leading a 114 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:05.360 revolt. I've examined him thoroughly on this point in your presence and find him 115 00:08:05.399 --> 00:08:07.920 innocent. Herod came to the same conclusion and set him back to us. 116 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:11.959 Nothing this man has done calls for the death penalty, So I'll have him 117 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.519 flogged and then I'll release him. And then a mighty roar rose from the 118 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:18.920 crowd, and with one voice, they shouted, kill him and released Barabbas 119 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.040 to us. Barabas was in prison for taking partner insurrection in Jerusalem against the 120 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:30.319 government and for murder. Plot argued with them because he wanted to release Jesus, 121 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.440 but they kept shouting crucify him, crucify him. For the third time, 122 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.879 he demanded, why what crime has he committed? I have no reason 123 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:39.679 to sentence him to death, So all have him flogged and then I will 124 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.840 release him. But the mob shouted louder and louder, demanding that Jesus be 125 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.759 crucified, and their voices prevailed, so Pilot sentenced Jesus to die as they 126 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.639 demanded. As they had requested, he released Barabbas, the man in prison 127 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.759 for insurrection and murder, but he turned Jesus over to them to do as 128 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:03.320 they wished. On eighteen verse thirty eight, it says, remember when he 129 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.120 says, I speak the truth to you, right, that's My kingdom is 130 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.480 all about the truth. What is truth? Pilot asked, And then he 131 00:09:11.519 --> 00:09:15.320 went out again to the people and told them he is not guilty of any 132 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.679 crime. But you have a custom of asking me to release one prisoner each 133 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.639 year at Passover. Would you like me to release this king of the Jews? 134 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.080 But they shouted back, no, not this man, we want Barrabbas. 135 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:28.679 Barrabas was a revolutionary. Then Pilot had Jesus flogged with a lead tipped 136 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.679 whip, and the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his 137 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.840 head, and they put a purple robe on him. Hail King of the 138 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.759 Jews, they mocked, And as they slapped him across the face, Pilot 139 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:41.919 went outside again and said to the people, I'm going to bring him out 140 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:46.840 to you now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty. Then 141 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.240 Jesus came out wearing the crown of Thorns in the purple robe, and Pilot 142 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.919 said, look, here is the man. When they saw him, the 143 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.639 leading priests and temple guards began shouting, crucify him, crucify him. Take 144 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.840 him yourselves and crucify him. Pilot said, I find him not guilty. 145 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:05.519 The Jewish leaders replied, by our law, he ought to die because he 146 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.039 called himself the son of God. When Pilot heard this, he was more 147 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.759 frightened than ever. He took Jesus back into the headquarters again and asked him 148 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.919 where are you from? But Jesus gave no answer. Why don't you talk 149 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.960 to me, Pilot demanded, don't you realize that I have the power to 150 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.240 release you or crucify you. Then Jesus said, you would have no power 151 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:26.600 over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the 152 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:31.159 one who handed me over to you has the greater sin. Then Pilot tried 153 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:33.240 to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, if you release this man, 154 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.679 you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is 155 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.679 a rebel against Caesar. When they said this, Pilot brought Jesus out to 156 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.120 them again. Then Pilot sat down on the judgment seat on the platform that 157 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.720 was called the stone pavement in Hebrew Gabbatha. It was now about noon on 158 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:52.679 the day of preparation for the passover, and Pilot said to the people, 159 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:56.080 look, here is your king. Away with him. They yelled, away 160 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:01.559 with him? Crucify him? What crucify your king? Pilot asked, we 161 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.120 have no king, but Caesar, the leading priest, shouted back, and 162 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.960 then Pilot turned Jesus over to them to be crucified, And so they took 163 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:15.000 Jesus away. There's a lot in there in there, yeah, yeah, 164 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.240 so I mean we're talking about the crown of thorns. We're talking about purple 165 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:26.679 robes slapping him in the faces, cat of nine tails that are lead tipped, 166 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.480 barbus barrabas. Oh goodness, gracious, what is truth? I mean 167 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.200 this, this is every one of these four Our listeners should go back and 168 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:39.799 read all four of these passages, right and and just unpacked, because every 169 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:45.360 one of these passages has different details. So you know, how we we 170 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.679 plan easters. Oh I probably shouldn't say this, just in case we decided 171 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:54.159 to do it, but yeah, this is after or rate before easter. 172 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.480 So oh no, no, no, no, I'm talking about an easter 173 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.559 idea. Oh yeah, that we've never done. Ever, nobody's ever done. 174 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:01.399 It's just the idea I had one time. But I don't think I 175 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:05.799 don't think he'll ever do it. Let's not tell anybody you might, All 176 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:07.759 right, Fine, well then how about this? Then? How about let 177 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:13.440 me just say this, the idea that we are Barabbas, right, Like, 178 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.799 I love that idea. Yeah, so Brabas was sentenced to die. 179 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:18.759 Yes, Jesus died in his place, right, Yeah? Yeah, so 180 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.799 we are braves, so we're the ones that are pardoned. Yeah. There 181 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:31.679 was an old movie, guilt It. A Christian college back in the day 182 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:37.200 made a movie and it was all about being Barabbas, and it kind of 183 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.960 parallels jesus rise to fame and Barrabbas's rise to fame and then the two of 184 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:46.639 them standing together, Brabbis assuming then he's a good guy. I'm a bad 185 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:48.919 guy. This is it for me, And instead Jesus dies in his place. 186 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.399 Pretty pretty amazing story. Yeah, well, you know what I'm gonna 187 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:58.399 say, my idea because even the thousand people who listen to this, many 188 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.799 of them aren't connected to heritage and and certainly if we do this idea, 189 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:03.120 it'll be years down the road. So here it is. I had this 190 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:11.759 idea of doing a modern like a post resurrection investigation where this guy is going 191 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:16.879 around and he's investigating whether Jesus truly was the son of God. And every 192 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.440 time that he talks with somebody there said, yeah, he was the son 193 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.399 of God. He rose again, and he'd say, no, it can't 194 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.039 be true, and he was indignant and he was just angry. And then 195 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:28.240 and then he would talk to somebody else and they say, yeah, I 196 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.360 saw him walking on the road to you know, you know, and he 197 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:33.840 says, he said, no, no, no, he can't be true. 198 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:37.080 He can't be alive. There's no way. And then finally it comes 199 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:41.120 to like this big tension point where you know, I'm really cutting through a 200 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:45.840 lot of this, but it comes to a tension point where somebody confronts him 201 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.360 and says, why why why are you saying that it can't be true? 202 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.399 He says, because it means if he's alive, that means that he truly 203 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.519 was the son of God, Like, yeah, but why is that a 204 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.240 problem. And then he collapses and says, because I'm Barabbas. Yeah, 205 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.879 right, so Barrabas then becomes a convert. Yeah, yeah, it was 206 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:09.519 just it was historically there is within some Christian historical beliefs that yes, Brabas 207 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:11.480 did become a believer, which is what gave me the idea. Yeah, 208 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:16.559 that's cool. So the note about Barabbas, this is, this is really 209 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:22.159 amazing. The note about Barabbas in Luke chapter twenty three, it says who 210 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:26.879 was Barabbas? Jewish men had names that I identified them with their fathers. 211 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:31.799 Simon Peter, for example, is called Simon, son of John. Barabbas 212 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.559 is never identified by his given name. In this name, Barabbas is not 213 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:41.480 much help either. Bar Abbas means son of Abbah or son of Daddy. 214 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.840 He could have been anybody's son or nobody's son, right, And that's just 215 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.000 the point. Barabbas, son of an unnamed father, committed a crime because 216 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:56.360 Jesus died in his place. Brabbas, the son of any man, right, 217 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.360 committed a crime. Because Jesus died in his place, the son of 218 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.480 God, this man was set free. We too are sinners and criminals who 219 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.399 have broken God's law. Like Barabbas, we deserve to die. But Jesus 220 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.919 has died in our place for our sins, and we've been set free. 221 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.200 We don't have to be very important people to accept our freedom in Christ. 222 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.200 In fact, thanks to Jesus, God adopts us all as his own sons 223 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:24.360 and daughters and gives us the right to call him our dear father Galatians for 224 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.240 Yeah, yeah, that's very interesting, fantastic, It's fantastic. It's the 225 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.759 breakdown of Brabs' name, which is son of daddy, of daddy, right, 226 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.440 which is us? Right, that's a perfect representation of us. Right. 227 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.039 We're a son of any man, right, right, and we need 228 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.440 or daughter of any man. And that's Barabbas. Nobody's significant except he's a 229 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:48.240 murder and insurrectionist, and that's what we are, right and insurrectionists against against 230 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.279 our creator. We committed mutiny against our creator, right, And how ironic 231 00:15:54.000 --> 00:16:00.799 that I think about this. They crucified Jesus and Pilot says no, and 232 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.279 then what does he say? He says, he says, they try to 233 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:10.559 blackmail Pilot, and they said in John chapter eighteen, but Pilot tried to 234 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:11.679 release him. They said, if you release this man, you're no friend 235 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:17.519 of Caesar. Because anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar. 236 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:22.919 So here's what they're doing. They're saying that you have to crucify Jesus 237 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:27.799 because he's an insurrectionist, right, But Jesus wasn't, and he's trying to 238 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.600 pull off a coup. He's trying to pull off coup, and yet they 239 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:37.320 released the insurrectionists the insurrectionists, So what does it mean. It is even 240 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:42.799 more symbolic that Jesus died for our sins. He paid the price in this 241 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:47.679 particular case. It's so specific and I've never even had this thought before till 242 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:56.159 just now that that Jesus was actually tried and sentenced for the actual crime that 243 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:02.360 was broken that Barabbas did. Isn't that crazy? And that's so symbolic of 244 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:07.279 Jesus paying for our sins specifically, So it's our sins. That's the reason 245 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:11.240 why Jesus was on the cross, which is the entire idea of the lamb. 246 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.279 Right when when John the Baptist said, behold the Lamb of God, 247 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:18.799 who takes the sin of the world, they would take their sin and symbolically 248 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:22.880 place it on that lamb. Now that lamb is guilty of that sin symbolically 249 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:27.799 and then the lamb would be sacrificed. But it happens exactly that way with 250 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.000 the lamb of God standing next to the son of Man. Right, the 251 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.359 son of Amen, son of Amen. Jesus is the son of Man right, 252 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:37.759 and he's the son of Amen. Right, isn't it Isn't that amazing? 253 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:44.279 It is amazing? This is fabulous. And then of course you know, 254 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:49.319 I just I get so angry in my spirit when it says the Pharisees 255 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:55.440 and the religious leaders persuaded the crowd to say, give us Barravius and crucify 256 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:57.319 him. So, you know, people who think that it's just an angry 257 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:02.000 crowd who just gets caught up in emotion, that's probably true, but here 258 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.359 are the Pharisees. Man, just do you're being manipulated with false news everything 259 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.839 they can't right? Right? Right? Have you ever seen that clip where 260 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:12.400 all the news, all the news stations say the exact same word. It 261 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.839 freaks out and it's like that. That's when I realized I was like, 262 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:19.559 oh, we're more like Cuba than I thought. Yes, right, because 263 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.160 you know, being told what to believe you and I went to Cuba, 264 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:25.759 right, and we know that many times. Yeah, yeah, and we 265 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:27.880 know that, like that's a dictatorship and all that. It didn't feel free 266 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:32.319 at all. And then I saw those news clippings of all the newscasts are 267 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:36.119 saying the exact same words, and I was like, hmm, this is 268 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:40.319 not uh. I'm feeling like some sheep here. So that's what happens is 269 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:44.440 they convinced the crowd, right, And that's why we talked a couple of 270 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.880 days and probably threatened it said persuaded, right. So a couple of days 271 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:52.400 ago they had both sides of this argument. Now they have three things really 272 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:56.240 worked to their favor. One, they were able to have the entire Sanhedrin 273 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.400 convict him of blasphemy. That would turn big chunk of the crowd against Jesus 274 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.440 at this point. Boy, we never saw that in Jesus, right, 275 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.480 And of course Jesus didn't commit blasphemy, but that's what they convicted him on. 276 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.359 And so a big group of that crowd to go, oh my goodness, 277 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:15.440 well we can't support a heretic, right. And then some of them 278 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:22.200 where we don't want problems with Rome, right, and so hey, I'll 279 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:25.119 just get behind let's get rid of that guy. And then they pick an 280 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:30.160 extremely popular insurrectionist Barrebus, right, so the Jewish people didn't look down on 281 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:32.759 him. He was kind of a folk hero. This is like let Robin 282 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.599 Hood go right, That's kind of how they would have viewed him. And 283 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:40.680 so they have these three things that worked into their advantage. Apparently he committed 284 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.000 blasphemy, we don't want trouble with Rome, and he released to us Robin 285 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:48.799 Hood. And it's those three things together that I think the these priests and 286 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.759 pharisees and religous leaders are able to shift that whole crowd so quickly. It's 287 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:57.599 so fast they turn, and it's because you know, they had worked the 288 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:03.799 crowd so well. Yeah, because because anybody who was challenging Rome as like 289 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:07.319 a person who rises up against that power, like as either a zealet or 290 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.519 insurrectionist, they would be a hero. Because all the Jewish people wanted out 291 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.160 from under the thumber Rome. So anybody who challenged that is a friend. 292 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:21.440 So then you know, to just kind of wrap it up, he beats 293 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:25.480 he has Jesus beat, even though he doesn't feel he's guilty, but he 294 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:29.200 has Jesus beat with and we know Jesus was beat to where he didn't even 295 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.519 look human anymore, is what the Bible says. He's barely recognizable as a 296 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.519 man. Yeah, forty stripes save one would have been the legal limit, 297 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.240 right, So thirty nine times with this cat of nine tails that had oftentimes 298 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:47.160 there would be nails or here it mentions the lead tips, and it would 299 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:51.240 just slice you open. And the guys that use the whips were experts at 300 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:53.559 just carving you up. That was the whole point, was to beat you 301 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:57.519 almost to death. And Pilot said it, said over and over. He 302 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:03.200 said he was insistent. He said he demanded of them because he said, 303 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:04.720 no, I'm gonna I'm gonna have Hi whipped and I'm going to release him 304 00:21:04.759 --> 00:21:07.319 back and that'll be that. That'll be the punishing. And that's enough, 305 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.119 right, So it's enough you you priests and pharisees. That should be good. 306 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.960 Right. We'll just beat the stuffings out of him, teach him a 307 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:17.920 lesson, and then that's fine. I don't want to kill him, and 308 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.200 instead, uh, you know, he surrenders to it. He surrenders to 309 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:29.039 it. And so the agony, the devastating punishment that Jesus is taking for 310 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.240 our sin on behalf of barabbas, and we're all barrabbas from here all the 311 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:36.400 way to the cross. It's just it's it's now you know why Jesus saying 312 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.240 God, let this cup pass from me. He didn't want the physical agony, 313 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:41.119 but he's about to be separated from his father for the first time. 314 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.519 Right that those things together where he becomes sin for us, it's just a 315 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:51.799 devastating thing. So thank God. Well, we're going to continue with jesus 316 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:56.480 treatment with the the soldiers tomorrow, right, and how they they're going to 317 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.839 rough Jesus up and lead him away to be crucified. All right, Well, 318 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:06.599 don't look forward to reading that, but it is important. So we 319 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:11.079 will see you then on the Bible, guys. M.