1 00:00:03,036 --> 00:00:04,537 Doing things a little bit differently. 2 00:00:04,537 --> 00:00:08,308 I want to teach at the top of the service, 3 00:00:08,308 --> 00:00:12,178 because it fits the flow of the passage that we're going to go through. 4 00:00:12,712 --> 00:00:15,915 We're going to end the service with some worship 5 00:00:15,915 --> 00:00:18,918 through song. 6 00:00:19,819 --> 00:00:21,821 But before we get into it, I want to make sure 7 00:00:21,821 --> 00:00:25,158 that you know that you're invited to my Bible study Wednesday. 8 00:00:25,191 --> 00:00:27,961 This Wednesday night, we're starting the book of Hebrews. 9 00:00:27,961 --> 00:00:30,296 I'm going to write everyone with an outline 10 00:00:30,296 --> 00:00:31,898 as we go through this chapter by chapter. 11 00:00:31,898 --> 00:00:35,268 There's a verse to memorize every week a sample, a prayer to, 12 00:00:35,301 --> 00:00:38,338 to pray throughout the week based on the on the passage of Scripture 13 00:00:38,338 --> 00:00:39,939 that we're going through in each chapter. 14 00:00:39,939 --> 00:00:42,876 So please take advantage of that. It will be good for you. 15 00:00:42,876 --> 00:00:45,578 It'll be edifying. I'll be encouraging. You'll grow in faith. 16 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:48,681 This morning. 17 00:00:48,681 --> 00:00:50,116 Matthew 26. 18 00:00:50,116 --> 00:00:53,119 There's 75 verses in that chapter. 19 00:00:53,987 --> 00:00:58,191 The chapter numbers and verse numbers are not inspired by God. 20 00:00:58,358 --> 00:01:01,861 The word is, but the chapter numbers and verses are not. 21 00:01:01,895 --> 00:01:06,599 They were added later to help people find certain passage 22 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:08,001 of Scripture to memorize Scripture. 23 00:01:08,001 --> 00:01:10,370 So they divided it all up in these chapters and numbers. 24 00:01:10,370 --> 00:01:14,441 So whoever was doing this got a little bit lost in the text 25 00:01:14,474 --> 00:01:17,744 on Matthew 26 and forgot they were supposed to put another chapter there. 26 00:01:17,744 --> 00:01:19,879 And so it's 75 verses long. 27 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:22,082 It's a very long chapter. 28 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:24,451 And so we're taking four weeks to go through it. 29 00:01:24,451 --> 00:01:27,454 This is week three to go through chapter 26 30 00:01:28,054 --> 00:01:32,559 to help us understand the big idea for this passage that we're in. 31 00:01:32,559 --> 00:01:37,097 For these verses, I want to help us kind of focus 32 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:41,634 in on what this passage is about and where we're going to be landing in this. 33 00:01:41,734 --> 00:01:46,573 The big idea is this at worship prepares our hearts, prayer 34 00:01:46,639 --> 00:01:51,344 strengthens our life, and the Holy Spirit empowers our obedience. 35 00:01:51,478 --> 00:01:55,815 And we're going to see those in this passage keep those in mind. 36 00:01:56,015 --> 00:01:57,517 Worship prepares our hearts. 37 00:01:57,517 --> 00:01:58,985 Prayer strengthens our life. 38 00:01:58,985 --> 00:02:01,154 The Holy Spirit empowers our obedience. 39 00:02:03,223 --> 00:02:04,224 And so 40 00:02:04,224 --> 00:02:09,162 as as we're going to start in verse 30, and I'm just going to take maybe a verse 41 00:02:09,162 --> 00:02:12,499 at a time, maybe a chunk at a time, and we'll stop and and explain it all. 42 00:02:12,499 --> 00:02:13,900 But I want you to watch for those things 43 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:17,637 worship, prayer, and then the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. 44 00:02:18,338 --> 00:02:19,572 So let's just jump in. 45 00:02:19,572 --> 00:02:21,241 There's a lot to get through. 46 00:02:21,241 --> 00:02:24,210 Chapter 26, verse 30. 47 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:28,781 The Bible says, 48 00:02:28,781 --> 00:02:32,352 when they had sung of him, they went out to the Mount of Olives. 49 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:36,389 This follows on the heels of the Passover meal 50 00:02:36,389 --> 00:02:38,658 that Jesus shared with his disciples. 51 00:02:38,658 --> 00:02:43,029 It was a long, multi-hour meal, symbolic 52 00:02:43,029 --> 00:02:46,533 of the liberation from Egypt when God set his people free, 53 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,037 it took on the full meaning in the 54 00:02:51,371 --> 00:02:55,575 in the realization that it was Christ that was giving for the given for them 55 00:02:55,575 --> 00:02:59,546 as their Passover lamb shed his blood for the forgiveness of their sin. 56 00:03:00,346 --> 00:03:03,349 It was during that whole meal that they shared together, 57 00:03:03,383 --> 00:03:05,852 and Jesus revealed to them that he was going to be crucified, 58 00:03:05,852 --> 00:03:09,923 that he be resurrected, that he was the Passover Lamb. 59 00:03:10,356 --> 00:03:11,824 After that happened, 60 00:03:11,824 --> 00:03:15,695 the Bible says in verse three that they sung a hymn, and then they went out, 61 00:03:15,695 --> 00:03:19,465 and I wanted to stop just with this one verse, because I want to focus on this. 62 00:03:19,499 --> 00:03:23,670 They sung a hymn part during the Passover meal, 63 00:03:24,537 --> 00:03:27,674 that singing was part of the meal, 64 00:03:27,674 --> 00:03:30,777 and what they sang was called the Hillel. 65 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:34,514 And it was what we know as Psalm 66 00:03:34,514 --> 00:03:37,650 113 through 118. 67 00:03:37,784 --> 00:03:42,622 All of that scripture was the Hillel, and during the Passover meal 68 00:03:42,655 --> 00:03:48,161 they would sing Psalm 113 through 115 different points. 69 00:03:48,161 --> 00:03:50,897 During the meal, they would sing all of that scripture, 70 00:03:50,897 --> 00:03:53,933 and then after the meal they would sing 71 00:03:53,933 --> 00:03:57,770 what we know as Psalm 116 through 118. 72 00:03:57,770 --> 00:04:00,106 And so after the supper, 73 00:04:01,174 --> 00:04:04,811 now they sung a hymn, and they went out with him. 74 00:04:04,811 --> 00:04:08,781 That they sang is what we read in the Bible as Psalm 75 00:04:08,781 --> 00:04:12,952 116, 117 and 118. 76 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:17,824 I want you to understand this, that Jesus sung 77 00:04:18,291 --> 00:04:21,361 worship songs to his father. 78 00:04:24,697 --> 00:04:27,700 Jesus, saying in worship 79 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:30,670 to His Father he. 80 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:36,109 In this context of the Bible, he was he was leading his disciples 81 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:39,312 in this worship moment through song. 82 00:04:40,313 --> 00:04:41,814 You understand what that means, don't you? 83 00:04:41,814 --> 00:04:44,550 That he's the worship leader 84 00:04:44,550 --> 00:04:48,955 leading the congregation in singing 85 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:52,058 worship to his father? 86 00:04:52,058 --> 00:04:53,760 I was thinking about this this week. 87 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,696 How? Well, how much different would you sing 88 00:04:56,696 --> 00:04:59,699 if Jesus were on this platform leading in worship? 89 00:05:04,437 --> 00:05:07,173 Most of you would do a lot better job, right? 90 00:05:07,173 --> 00:05:10,143 Like. 91 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:13,146 And he is. 92 00:05:15,415 --> 00:05:19,319 Worship through song to honor his father. 93 00:05:20,586 --> 00:05:22,121 I want you to understand this, 94 00:05:22,121 --> 00:05:25,091 and I want to take a little bit of time to talk about worship. 95 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:27,894 Worship is not music, 96 00:05:27,894 --> 00:05:30,897 but music can be worship. 97 00:05:31,297 --> 00:05:34,300 Worship is much bigger than music. 98 00:05:34,534 --> 00:05:35,601 The Bible talks about. 99 00:05:35,601 --> 00:05:39,105 For the church, one of the priorities and purposes of the church is to worship. 100 00:05:40,173 --> 00:05:42,141 I want us to be mature 101 00:05:42,141 --> 00:05:45,778 and not think that music is worship. 102 00:05:46,379 --> 00:05:49,949 It can be, but worship is much bigger than music. 103 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:53,319 The Bible says worship is the expressions 104 00:05:53,319 --> 00:05:56,322 of love and honor to God. 105 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:59,959 So reading the Bible is an act of worship. 106 00:05:59,959 --> 00:06:02,462 Memorize in the Bible is an act of worship. 107 00:06:02,462 --> 00:06:03,429 According to Scripture. 108 00:06:03,429 --> 00:06:05,598 Fasting is an act of worship. 109 00:06:05,598 --> 00:06:08,601 Meditating on Scripture is an act of worship. 110 00:06:08,601 --> 00:06:11,571 Tithing is an act of worship. 111 00:06:11,671 --> 00:06:14,674 Serving is an act of worship. 112 00:06:14,974 --> 00:06:18,077 Singing can be an act of worship. 113 00:06:18,611 --> 00:06:22,081 But I want us to understand that worship drives music. 114 00:06:22,115 --> 00:06:24,217 Music does not drive worship. 115 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:26,919 In order 116 00:06:26,919 --> 00:06:29,922 to be mature and to understand Scripture. 117 00:06:29,922 --> 00:06:32,892 We can't walk out thinking 118 00:06:33,593 --> 00:06:35,828 because of the music I worship. 119 00:06:35,828 --> 00:06:39,799 No, you worship and so you sing. 120 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:43,603 That's biblical because of who God is 121 00:06:43,603 --> 00:06:47,039 and the honor that I that I have for God. 122 00:06:47,073 --> 00:06:50,376 Then I will sing in expressions of that 123 00:06:50,376 --> 00:06:53,379 love and worship. 124 00:06:53,946 --> 00:06:55,581 Worship drives music. 125 00:06:55,581 --> 00:06:57,417 Music does not drive worship. 126 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:02,054 Worship is based on who God is and his character, regardless 127 00:07:02,054 --> 00:07:05,491 of the of the avenue that we use to express that. 128 00:07:06,692 --> 00:07:09,796 So they worshiped through song. 129 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:14,467 Do you follow so far? 130 00:07:18,871 --> 00:07:19,705 Whatever 131 00:07:19,705 --> 00:07:23,109 that expression of worship is, has to be based on the honor 132 00:07:23,109 --> 00:07:26,913 that God is due and the love that I expressed him 133 00:07:26,913 --> 00:07:31,617 because he first loved me has nothing to do with my emotion, has nothing to do with 134 00:07:31,617 --> 00:07:35,421 my experience, has nothing to do with how I feel about it. 135 00:07:41,060 --> 00:07:44,230 I want you to consider the lyrics that Jesus led 136 00:07:44,230 --> 00:07:48,468 his disciples in in their worship of the father through song. 137 00:07:50,236 --> 00:07:52,305 Psalm 116 one 1718. 138 00:07:52,305 --> 00:07:54,106 Jesus is is on the. 139 00:07:54,106 --> 00:07:58,544 He's on the verge of of being arrested 140 00:08:00,413 --> 00:08:02,215 by a mob of hundreds 141 00:08:02,215 --> 00:08:05,318 of men, Romans and Jews together. 142 00:08:05,618 --> 00:08:10,723 No one is going to be flogged and beaten and crucified. 143 00:08:11,257 --> 00:08:16,162 And before any of that happens, he worships his father. 144 00:08:16,229 --> 00:08:18,598 True song. 145 00:08:18,598 --> 00:08:21,601 And I want you to just listen 146 00:08:23,102 --> 00:08:25,705 to what his worship sounds like. 147 00:08:25,705 --> 00:08:28,708 Knowing what is going into 148 00:08:29,075 --> 00:08:31,777 the chords of death entangled me. 149 00:08:31,777 --> 00:08:34,547 The anguish of the grave came over me. 150 00:08:34,547 --> 00:08:37,583 I was overcome by distress and sorrow. 151 00:08:40,019 --> 00:08:42,722 Then I called on the name of the Lord. 152 00:08:42,722 --> 00:08:45,691 Lord save me. 153 00:08:46,292 --> 00:08:49,629 I want you to feel the weight of these words. 154 00:08:51,898 --> 00:08:54,800 Imagine Jesus knowing what he's going into. 155 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,870 This is how he responds and this is how he prepares 156 00:08:59,071 --> 00:08:59,839 for you. 157 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:01,574 Lord have delivered me from death. 158 00:09:01,574 --> 00:09:05,678 My eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk 159 00:09:05,678 --> 00:09:08,681 before the Lord in the land of the living. 160 00:09:10,216 --> 00:09:13,219 Jesus, you're going to die. 161 00:09:13,219 --> 00:09:14,787 And he says, no, no, no, 162 00:09:14,787 --> 00:09:17,790 I've already been delivered from death. 163 00:09:18,024 --> 00:09:21,027 I will walk in the land of the living. 164 00:09:22,895 --> 00:09:23,863 Praise the Lord, 165 00:09:23,863 --> 00:09:27,033 all you nations Extoll him, all you peoples. 166 00:09:27,667 --> 00:09:30,436 He's worthy to praise. He's worthy to be. 167 00:09:30,436 --> 00:09:32,538 I know what he has asked of me. 168 00:09:32,538 --> 00:09:34,674 I know what he has required of me. 169 00:09:34,674 --> 00:09:39,979 And he's still a good God whose worthy to be praised by all people. 170 00:09:40,012 --> 00:09:43,015 Can you imagine? 171 00:09:43,716 --> 00:09:46,185 I was pushed back and about to fall. 172 00:09:46,185 --> 00:09:47,653 But the Lord helped me. 173 00:09:47,653 --> 00:09:50,389 The Lord is my strength and my defense. 174 00:09:50,389 --> 00:09:52,758 He has become my salvation. 175 00:09:52,758 --> 00:09:55,761 I will not die, but live. 176 00:09:55,761 --> 00:09:58,264 I will proclaim what the Lord has done. 177 00:09:58,264 --> 00:10:00,633 The Lord has chastened me severely. 178 00:10:00,633 --> 00:10:02,034 You understand what he's saying? 179 00:10:04,704 --> 00:10:07,707 But he is not giving me over to death. 180 00:10:09,175 --> 00:10:11,210 Open for me the gates of the righteous. 181 00:10:11,210 --> 00:10:13,346 I will enter and give thanks to the Lord. 182 00:10:13,346 --> 00:10:16,716 The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. 183 00:10:16,716 --> 00:10:20,119 The Lord has done this and it's marvelous in our eyes. 184 00:10:20,119 --> 00:10:24,957 The Lord is God, and he has made his light shine on us. 185 00:10:24,957 --> 00:10:30,196 With bows in hand, join in the festival procession up to the horns of the altar. 186 00:10:30,229 --> 00:10:33,299 You are my God, and I will praise you. 187 00:10:33,332 --> 00:10:36,302 You are my God, and I will exalt you. 188 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:41,707 He's praising God in worship song while looking at the cross. 189 00:10:41,707 --> 00:10:44,510 Can you imagine? 190 00:10:44,510 --> 00:10:49,548 Not because he feels like it, necessarily because he's making statements of faith 191 00:10:49,548 --> 00:10:55,388 about the honor of God and His love for His father, even looking at the cross. 192 00:10:56,789 --> 00:10:59,358 That's worship, 193 00:10:59,358 --> 00:11:02,361 and it has everything to do with the character of God 194 00:11:02,361 --> 00:11:05,331 and the words of God in Scripture, 195 00:11:06,198 --> 00:11:09,235 and has nothing to do with how he feels 196 00:11:09,235 --> 00:11:12,238 or his experience. 197 00:11:16,776 --> 00:11:18,878 And I want us to notice that he worships 198 00:11:18,878 --> 00:11:21,881 before he goes to battle. 199 00:11:23,482 --> 00:11:26,452 Worship must always come first. 200 00:11:28,254 --> 00:11:29,388 Some of us have no idea 201 00:11:29,388 --> 00:11:32,391 as the battles we're going to face tomorrow. 202 00:11:33,359 --> 00:11:36,362 And so we prepare for him by worship today. 203 00:11:39,098 --> 00:11:40,032 So they sung to him. 204 00:11:40,032 --> 00:11:41,500 This is what they sang. 205 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:44,503 And then they went out. 206 00:11:45,071 --> 00:11:48,074 Verse 31. 207 00:11:49,141 --> 00:11:51,811 Then Jesus said to them, you will all fall away because of me 208 00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:52,812 this night. 209 00:11:52,812 --> 00:11:55,281 For it is written, I will strike the shepherd, 210 00:11:55,281 --> 00:11:58,417 and the sheep of the flock will be scattered as a prophecy from the 211 00:11:59,318 --> 00:12:02,221 statement from the prophet Zechariah. 212 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:06,559 And Jesus understand it was spoken centuries earlier about him. 213 00:12:07,259 --> 00:12:11,664 He's the shepherd, and he'll be struck, and the sheep are all going to run away. 214 00:12:12,932 --> 00:12:16,202 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee. 215 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:17,036 He knew. 216 00:12:17,036 --> 00:12:20,773 He knew he could look at death because he knew the resurrection was secured. 217 00:12:22,908 --> 00:12:24,744 Peter answered him, though they all fall away 218 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:26,378 because of you, I will never fall away. 219 00:12:26,378 --> 00:12:29,749 Jesus said to him, truly I tell you this very night, 220 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:32,752 before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. 221 00:12:32,852 --> 00:12:37,556 Peter said to him, even if I must die with you, I will not deny you. 222 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:40,893 Oh, Peter. 223 00:12:43,996 --> 00:12:46,999 Jesus could go to the Gethsemane. 224 00:12:48,868 --> 00:12:51,103 And then to the cross, 225 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:54,106 because he knew he would be raised up. 226 00:12:56,909 --> 00:12:59,912 It's interesting 227 00:12:59,945 --> 00:13:02,882 when Peter says, they'll all fall away. 228 00:13:02,882 --> 00:13:05,851 I never will. 229 00:13:06,719 --> 00:13:10,022 Just, just I mean, hours previously. 230 00:13:10,055 --> 00:13:13,359 Jesus says, you're all going to deny me, so I'm going to someone. 231 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:14,794 Someone who's going to deny me. 232 00:13:14,794 --> 00:13:17,696 Whoever dips his hand in the cup after me is going to deny me. 233 00:13:17,696 --> 00:13:19,064 And what are they all asking? 234 00:13:19,064 --> 00:13:21,634 Including Peter? What do they say? Is it me? 235 00:13:23,102 --> 00:13:26,272 Like they don't point fingers at anybody because they know what they're capable of? 236 00:13:26,305 --> 00:13:30,042 But now, a couple hours later, Peter starts pointing fingers like, 237 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:31,143 no, they're going to fall. 238 00:13:31,143 --> 00:13:34,146 There would be no. 239 00:13:38,017 --> 00:13:41,020 And also the same thing. 240 00:13:42,188 --> 00:13:45,057 I'll never fall away. 241 00:13:45,057 --> 00:13:48,060 Jesus says, oh no, Peter, 242 00:13:48,260 --> 00:13:51,263 you will. 243 00:13:51,530 --> 00:13:54,533 And when he says, you will all fall away. 244 00:13:54,733 --> 00:13:59,071 One way that we understand what that means is not just the statement 245 00:13:59,071 --> 00:14:02,775 that all of you will run away, but it's this statement. 246 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:10,416 You, of all people, will fall away. 247 00:14:13,252 --> 00:14:15,921 In other words, you know me best. 248 00:14:15,921 --> 00:14:19,391 And by your own words, you've confessed that I am the Messiah, 249 00:14:19,391 --> 00:14:22,895 and even you all will fall away. 250 00:14:24,096 --> 00:14:27,099 See, there's something incredibly painful. 251 00:14:27,533 --> 00:14:32,504 When the ones who knew him best would run away first. 252 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:39,545 And I see myself in that. 253 00:14:40,579 --> 00:14:43,582 I know him well. 254 00:14:44,283 --> 00:14:47,253 And it even I even I, 255 00:14:48,821 --> 00:14:51,824 I think Jesus will look at me and say, Carl, even 256 00:14:53,158 --> 00:14:56,161 you know me. 257 00:14:57,196 --> 00:15:00,199 Why do you deny me? 258 00:15:01,533 --> 00:15:03,035 There's a point to it. 259 00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:06,538 There's a painter that even even you people. 260 00:15:08,107 --> 00:15:09,708 And Peter's great confession. 261 00:15:09,708 --> 00:15:12,711 Even if they do, I won't. 262 00:15:12,711 --> 00:15:16,215 We have to be careful that we don't confuse our sincerity 263 00:15:16,215 --> 00:15:19,218 with our strength. 264 00:15:20,352 --> 00:15:24,023 We feel very sincere in our belief on Sunday 265 00:15:25,958 --> 00:15:28,260 only to fall away. 266 00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:31,263 Yeah. 267 00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:34,867 Just as Peter, 268 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:38,437 before the rooster crows, you'll deny me three times. 269 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:41,974 The actual phrasing that Jesus says there is. 270 00:15:42,041 --> 00:15:43,976 Is this before. 271 00:15:43,976 --> 00:15:46,378 Before cock crow. 272 00:15:46,378 --> 00:15:48,080 You'll deny me? 273 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,883 And the reason why it says that is we don't understand. 274 00:15:50,883 --> 00:15:55,521 This is just a little bit of, of of like context for you. 275 00:15:57,122 --> 00:15:58,557 The Roman, 276 00:15:58,557 --> 00:16:02,094 especially the soldiers, had this watch of the night 277 00:16:02,861 --> 00:16:06,699 that they learned that the roosters in that they would crow 278 00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:10,903 between 1230 at three times 1230, 130 and 230, basically. 279 00:16:10,903 --> 00:16:14,039 So the hours between midnight and 3 a.m. 280 00:16:14,073 --> 00:16:17,076 they called crow. 281 00:16:17,576 --> 00:16:20,579 So what Jesus is saying is before cockroach, 282 00:16:20,946 --> 00:16:25,384 sometime between midnight and 3 a.m., you will deny me three times. 283 00:16:25,951 --> 00:16:28,654 It's not that he was waiting for the rooster to crow at some point 284 00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:32,358 during the night, like he knew exactly during the time frame in which 285 00:16:32,391 --> 00:16:35,394 the three hour period that Peter would deny him. 286 00:16:37,229 --> 00:16:40,232 You knew it. 287 00:16:41,667 --> 00:16:42,735 Before cockroach? 288 00:16:42,735 --> 00:16:44,403 Before 3 a.m., three times. 289 00:16:44,403 --> 00:16:46,305 You're going to deny me, Peter. 290 00:16:46,305 --> 00:16:49,842 So all of this, that we're reading this, this the the 291 00:16:50,242 --> 00:16:52,911 the hymn singing what we'll see in the garden of sin. Me. 292 00:16:52,911 --> 00:16:55,114 It all happens in this period. The arrest. 293 00:16:55,114 --> 00:16:58,417 It all happens early, early, early, late Thursday night. 294 00:16:58,450 --> 00:16:59,785 Early Friday morning. 295 00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:04,790 And Peter asserts, even if they do, I won't like. 296 00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:07,793 I am so sincere. God, 297 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:09,661 we got to be very careful. 298 00:17:09,661 --> 00:17:12,197 First Corinthians 299 00:17:12,197 --> 00:17:16,001 so if you think you're standing firm, Peter, Carl, 300 00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:19,838 be careful that you don't fall, 301 00:17:20,072 --> 00:17:23,075 right? 302 00:17:23,842 --> 00:17:25,377 Pride goes before destruction. 303 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:26,745 A hottie spirit before a fall. 304 00:17:26,745 --> 00:17:29,748 Even if they deny you, I never will. 305 00:17:32,217 --> 00:17:33,318 We got to be careful that 306 00:17:33,318 --> 00:17:36,321 we don't confuse sincerity with strength. 307 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:38,290 Jesus will tell Peter this later. 308 00:17:38,290 --> 00:17:39,591 You're you're 309 00:17:39,591 --> 00:17:42,861 you're you're spirits willing, but you just can't do what you want to do. 310 00:17:43,996 --> 00:17:46,999 And none of us can in our own power. 311 00:17:47,032 --> 00:17:50,035 Many of us walk out of places like this on the sun and think, okay, man, 312 00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:51,203 this week's going to be different. 313 00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:54,239 And all of a sudden Monday shows up and nothing's changed. 314 00:17:55,741 --> 00:17:58,811 We're very sincere, but at the same time we're very weak. 315 00:17:58,877 --> 00:18:02,081 Or I'm going to address that at the end of this message. 316 00:18:03,282 --> 00:18:06,251 But just understand, this is where Peter was. 317 00:18:07,753 --> 00:18:09,788 Where all the disciples were. 318 00:18:09,788 --> 00:18:12,491 Verse 36, 319 00:18:12,491 --> 00:18:15,294 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane. 320 00:18:15,294 --> 00:18:18,730 And he said to his disciples, sit here while I go over there and pray. 321 00:18:18,730 --> 00:18:21,400 And taken with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. 322 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,335 He began to be sorrowful and troubled. 323 00:18:23,335 --> 00:18:26,038 Then he said to them, my soul is very sorry even to death. 324 00:18:26,038 --> 00:18:28,707 Remain here and watch with me. 325 00:18:28,707 --> 00:18:32,211 And going a little further, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, 326 00:18:32,211 --> 00:18:35,981 My father, if it be possible, let this cup pastoring nevertheless 327 00:18:36,148 --> 00:18:38,584 not as I will, but as you will. 328 00:18:38,584 --> 00:18:41,587 He goes with him to a place called Gethsemane 329 00:18:41,854 --> 00:18:44,890 that literally means the place of the press. 330 00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:47,759 And I was at the base of the Mount of Olives, 331 00:18:49,428 --> 00:18:52,131 and he goes to the place where the olives were pressed. 332 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:56,335 Now the mountain balls are full of olive trees, and they would harvest the olives. 333 00:18:56,335 --> 00:18:58,537 And there was a press at the bottom, and they would 334 00:18:58,537 --> 00:19:02,374 the press was this big stone trough. 335 00:19:02,374 --> 00:19:06,178 And in this trough they would put the olives and they would roll a big, 336 00:19:06,211 --> 00:19:11,917 a big stone circle overall, and it would crush the olives. 337 00:19:11,917 --> 00:19:16,221 And and from the olives would come the, the oil of the olive, 338 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:18,423 and almost had this red tint to it. 339 00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:21,426 So it did look very much like blood. 340 00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,830 That's Gethsemane. 341 00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:26,899 Jesus goes to that place. 342 00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:29,201 He often went there. This wasn't a new place for him. 343 00:19:29,201 --> 00:19:32,171 It was a walled garden. 344 00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:36,742 He knew this was a common experience for him. 345 00:19:38,143 --> 00:19:41,280 He wasn't running away from Judas in the approaching army. 346 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:42,948 Judas knew he would be there. 347 00:19:42,948 --> 00:19:44,383 He always went there. 348 00:19:44,383 --> 00:19:45,784 He was going to the place 349 00:19:45,784 --> 00:19:48,854 where he would always be, so that Judas would know where to bring 350 00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:52,958 the Roman soldiers to arrest him, the Jewish leaders to arrest him, 351 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:56,595 and he goes to the place of crushing. 352 00:19:57,863 --> 00:20:00,532 The significant thing about the olive 353 00:20:00,532 --> 00:20:03,535 being crushed to produce the oil 354 00:20:04,136 --> 00:20:05,070 prophecy. 355 00:20:05,070 --> 00:20:08,840 And I think, says he was crushed for our iniquity. 356 00:20:09,775 --> 00:20:12,511 The chastisement of our sin was laid upon him. 357 00:20:12,511 --> 00:20:13,745 By his stripes we are healed. 358 00:20:13,745 --> 00:20:15,581 He was crushed for our iniquity. 359 00:20:15,581 --> 00:20:20,552 And all through the Bible all this is implemented of the Holy Spirit. 360 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:24,122 And tell the son was crushed. 361 00:20:24,723 --> 00:20:27,759 The Holy Spirit would not be realized. 362 00:20:28,227 --> 00:20:31,029 So he knew this had to happen. 363 00:20:31,029 --> 00:20:34,633 So he was at the place of crushing, knowing that the Holy Spirit 364 00:20:34,633 --> 00:20:36,134 will be revealed through this. 365 00:20:36,134 --> 00:20:39,338 But the crushing has to happen at Gethsemane. 366 00:20:42,241 --> 00:20:44,443 He says, sit here and pray. 367 00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:45,510 He takes it. 368 00:20:45,510 --> 00:20:48,614 Peter, James and John, they were the three of that God is special 369 00:20:48,614 --> 00:20:50,349 glimpse of Jesus that the others never got. 370 00:20:50,349 --> 00:20:53,619 They were with those three, with Jesus at the amount of transfiguration. 371 00:20:53,652 --> 00:20:55,053 Those three were with Jesus 372 00:20:55,053 --> 00:20:59,391 at the raising of Jairus daughter, and those three Jesus in the garden. 373 00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:05,397 They got a special glimpse of both his exaltation on the mountain 374 00:21:05,430 --> 00:21:11,103 Transfiguration, his power in raising just his daughter, and his humanity 375 00:21:11,236 --> 00:21:14,239 in the crushing at the garden. 376 00:21:15,641 --> 00:21:17,175 He began to be sorrowful, in trouble. 377 00:21:17,175 --> 00:21:20,746 He said to them, my soul is very sorrowful, even to death. 378 00:21:22,281 --> 00:21:23,815 There was such 379 00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:27,319 deep, profound, heavy sorrow that had come over him. 380 00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:28,754 It nearly killed him. 381 00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:31,423 And the book of John tells us, I'm sorry. 382 00:21:31,423 --> 00:21:36,595 The Book of Luke, chapter 22, verse 43, tells us that heaven dispatched an angel 383 00:21:36,762 --> 00:21:40,699 to strengthen him so he wouldn't die under the sorrow of what 384 00:21:40,699 --> 00:21:44,803 he was looking at, that keep him alive so he could die on the cross. 385 00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:46,872 So so profound. 386 00:21:51,276 --> 00:21:53,145 And he says, just watch. 387 00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:54,613 Stay awake and pray. 388 00:21:54,613 --> 00:21:56,748 You'd think that was all the motivation 389 00:21:56,748 --> 00:22:00,852 they would need to be faithful and stay awake and pray. 390 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,923 And they couldn't even manage that. 391 00:22:06,591 --> 00:22:08,694 The Bible says in Luke 2244 392 00:22:08,694 --> 00:22:13,131 that this, this, this pressure was so intense that he sweat drops of blood 393 00:22:13,131 --> 00:22:16,635 that the capillaries in his head burst from the internal pressure. 394 00:22:21,873 --> 00:22:24,876 Watch and pray. 395 00:22:25,911 --> 00:22:27,813 When I look at this and I look at how troubled 396 00:22:27,813 --> 00:22:29,548 Jesus was, have you ever thought of this? 397 00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:32,551 Why was he so troubled about death? 398 00:22:34,152 --> 00:22:35,587 He had come from the father. 399 00:22:35,587 --> 00:22:37,155 He was. He laid aside heaven. 400 00:22:37,155 --> 00:22:39,624 He knew heaven was real. He knew he was headed. 401 00:22:39,624 --> 00:22:40,892 Why was he so troubled? 402 00:22:40,892 --> 00:22:44,663 Why were so many others after him could face death 403 00:22:44,663 --> 00:22:47,999 with even joy and anticipation in it? 404 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:49,501 He's so troubled. 405 00:22:49,501 --> 00:22:51,436 You ever thought about that? 406 00:22:51,436 --> 00:22:52,971 Jesus. You of all people. 407 00:22:58,310 --> 00:22:59,745 Well, I was thinking about that. 408 00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:02,748 And this is what I. 409 00:23:04,383 --> 00:23:07,386 You look at others who face death and. 410 00:23:10,455 --> 00:23:11,390 John Huss, 411 00:23:11,390 --> 00:23:15,026 the martyr for his face, said what I confess with my lips. 412 00:23:15,026 --> 00:23:16,395 I now see it with my blood. 413 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:19,197 He embraced it. 414 00:23:19,197 --> 00:23:21,733 The Bishop Polycarp said, 415 00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:25,837 these 86 years I have served my Lord, and he has not once injured me. 416 00:23:25,837 --> 00:23:28,840 I will not deny him now. 417 00:23:28,974 --> 00:23:31,276 And Jesus in the garden says, God, 418 00:23:31,276 --> 00:23:34,279 please, no. 419 00:23:34,312 --> 00:23:36,481 Do you know why? 420 00:23:36,481 --> 00:23:39,451 Because Jesus is the only one 421 00:23:40,352 --> 00:23:45,757 who will experience the full wrath of God's rage 422 00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:49,261 because of sin. 423 00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:52,230 Everyone after him 424 00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:57,702 that are his looks at death, not with fear and the pressure of the wrath of God, 425 00:23:57,702 --> 00:24:01,640 but with the liberation and the joy of the resurrection of God. 426 00:24:01,673 --> 00:24:03,942 So it's different. 427 00:24:03,942 --> 00:24:06,545 He and He alone looks 428 00:24:06,545 --> 00:24:10,515 at the full wrath of the fury of God that will be poured out 429 00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:14,820 for all of humanity's sin on himself alone. 430 00:24:16,521 --> 00:24:17,389 It's so 431 00:24:17,389 --> 00:24:21,460 overwhelming that it nearly kills him. 432 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:25,263 An angel has to be dispatched to keep him alive, 433 00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:29,601 because he knows the fury of the wrath of God. 434 00:24:32,337 --> 00:24:33,338 And he says, father, 435 00:24:33,338 --> 00:24:36,341 if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 436 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,544 It was this cup that he was about to drink. 437 00:24:39,544 --> 00:24:41,346 Wasn't the cup of the crucifixion. 438 00:24:41,346 --> 00:24:42,581 It wasn't the cup of pain. 439 00:24:42,581 --> 00:24:46,151 It was the cup of the wrath of God all through the Old Testament. 440 00:24:46,184 --> 00:24:48,954 The Bible speaks about the cup of wrath. 441 00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:54,392 Psalm 75 for in the hand of the Lord there is a cup of foaming wine, 442 00:24:54,392 --> 00:24:59,464 well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of there shall drain it 443 00:24:59,464 --> 00:25:03,835 down to the dregs, the wrath of God that will be poured out on those 444 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:05,337 who are not his. 445 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:07,305 Wake yourself, wake yourself. 446 00:25:07,305 --> 00:25:10,876 Stand up on Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord 447 00:25:10,876 --> 00:25:15,680 the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs of the bowl, 448 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,317 the cup of staggering, the wrath of God poured out. 449 00:25:20,051 --> 00:25:23,355 Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me, 450 00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:26,791 take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, 451 00:25:26,791 --> 00:25:30,028 and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 452 00:25:30,061 --> 00:25:31,830 This is what Jesus is referring 453 00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:35,934 to, the cup of the wrath of God that will be poured out 454 00:25:36,902 --> 00:25:39,037 because of man's evil. 455 00:25:39,037 --> 00:25:41,940 In revelation 456 00:25:41,940 --> 00:25:46,144 614 and 16, he talks about the wrath of God, 457 00:25:46,144 --> 00:25:51,283 the ultimate punishment of God's wrath on the sin of humanity. 458 00:25:51,316 --> 00:25:54,319 This is what Jesus is experiencing. 459 00:25:58,156 --> 00:26:03,028 Every follower of his after this time faces death 460 00:26:03,161 --> 00:26:07,632 not with fear of wrath, but with a promise of life. 461 00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:11,703 Jesus alone 462 00:26:11,703 --> 00:26:16,241 looked at the full wrath of God all alone. 463 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:18,310 Children. 464 00:26:18,310 --> 00:26:21,513 His work of 1938 said this. 465 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,650 As his death was unique, so was his anguish. 466 00:26:26,184 --> 00:26:29,254 Our best response is hushed worship. 467 00:26:33,558 --> 00:26:37,095 This is why we can look at death without fear, without anxiety. 468 00:26:37,095 --> 00:26:40,098 This is why Paul wrote in first Corinthians 15, where, O 469 00:26:40,098 --> 00:26:43,101 death is your victory, and where, O death is your sting? 470 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:46,905 There's no fear. 471 00:26:47,672 --> 00:26:49,741 I've told some friends of mine that the new way 472 00:26:49,741 --> 00:26:52,210 I want to respond when people say, hey pastor, how are you doing this? 473 00:26:52,210 --> 00:26:53,311 I want to respond. 474 00:26:53,311 --> 00:26:56,314 The only thing that would make this day better is if I was dead. 475 00:26:57,749 --> 00:26:59,951 Not because this day is bad, 476 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:03,588 but because I believe what Paul said to live as Christ, to die his game. 477 00:27:04,589 --> 00:27:07,626 The only thing that makes this day better is if I'm in heaven. 478 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:13,431 Because we look at death differently now 479 00:27:13,431 --> 00:27:16,434 because he bore it all. 480 00:27:17,736 --> 00:27:20,505 He says, if it's possible, let this cup pastor me. 481 00:27:20,505 --> 00:27:22,907 There's one sense that there's nothing impossible for God. 482 00:27:22,907 --> 00:27:25,477 Do you understand that? Nothing a possible for him. 483 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:28,713 But there's another sense that there are some things that are impossible for him. 484 00:27:29,214 --> 00:27:31,316 It's impossible for God to lie. 485 00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:33,918 It's impossible for God to sin. 486 00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:36,521 It's impossible for God to be tempted by evil, 487 00:27:36,521 --> 00:27:39,491 and it is impossible for God to do anything 488 00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:42,494 that is contrary to his redemptive plan. 489 00:27:43,261 --> 00:27:45,664 And so it was not possible for the cup of God's 490 00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:48,667 wrath to pass from Jesus. 491 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,504 But Jesus is saying something else here to not only 492 00:27:53,038 --> 00:27:56,574 not only will I subject myself to your full wrath poured out on me, 493 00:27:56,574 --> 00:28:00,679 but if it's possible, let that cup not let it pass from me. 494 00:28:00,712 --> 00:28:03,281 Don't. I don't want to live in that forever. 495 00:28:03,281 --> 00:28:06,251 I don't want to live in your wrath for eternity. 496 00:28:07,118 --> 00:28:11,189 So I will drink of the cup of your wrath, but let it then pass from me. 497 00:28:12,257 --> 00:28:15,260 Do you understand what he's saying here? 498 00:28:17,829 --> 00:28:20,832 If it's possible. 499 00:28:21,633 --> 00:28:24,636 Verse 40. 500 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:27,772 And he came to the disciples and found them sleep. 501 00:28:27,772 --> 00:28:32,177 And he said to Peter, So Peter, did you not watch 502 00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:35,280 with the one hour watch and pray that you may not enter temptation? 503 00:28:35,313 --> 00:28:37,315 The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak. 504 00:28:37,315 --> 00:28:39,918 Again for the second time he went away and prayed, My Father, 505 00:28:39,918 --> 00:28:43,822 if this cup cannot pass from me until I drink it, your will be done. 506 00:28:43,822 --> 00:28:45,657 And he came again and found them sleeping in. 507 00:28:45,657 --> 00:28:48,026 Their eyes were heavy, so leaving them again, 508 00:28:48,026 --> 00:28:51,563 he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words. 509 00:28:51,563 --> 00:28:54,532 Then he came to his disciples and said to them, sleep and take your rest. 510 00:28:54,532 --> 00:28:55,300 Later on. 511 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,434 See the hours at hand. 512 00:28:56,434 --> 00:28:59,070 The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 513 00:28:59,070 --> 00:29:00,472 Rise! Let us be going. 514 00:29:00,472 --> 00:29:02,741 See my betrayers at hand. 515 00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:05,276 He comes back and says, can you not stay awake 516 00:29:06,344 --> 00:29:07,212 for even an hour? 517 00:29:07,212 --> 00:29:08,346 He does it three times. 518 00:29:08,346 --> 00:29:11,349 He's probably in that garden praying for three hours. 519 00:29:11,816 --> 00:29:14,753 He didn't expect much of his disciples, just that they would stay awake 520 00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:18,656 and pray after pledging him their allegiance and to die with him. 521 00:29:18,656 --> 00:29:21,659 They can't even stay awake and pray. 522 00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:31,703 I love the fact that Jesus models for us, 523 00:29:31,703 --> 00:29:36,141 praying alone in his own prayer closet and praying with each other. 524 00:29:36,174 --> 00:29:39,177 He models both. 525 00:29:39,944 --> 00:29:41,513 Peter claimed they would die for him 526 00:29:41,513 --> 00:29:44,516 and he can't even stay awake and pray for him. 527 00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:47,152 Peter had great aspirations. 528 00:29:47,152 --> 00:29:50,155 He had very little discipline. 529 00:29:51,222 --> 00:29:53,691 We cannot prepare for great acts of courage 530 00:29:53,691 --> 00:29:56,694 while neglecting quiet acts of dependance. 531 00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:01,399 We can't prepare 532 00:30:01,399 --> 00:30:04,402 for the battle tomorrow without praying 533 00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:07,472 intimately today. 534 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:10,542 People in church, we often want 535 00:30:10,542 --> 00:30:13,678 spiritual victories without the discipline of spiritual dependance. 536 00:30:14,078 --> 00:30:15,814 And this is what Jesus is saying. 537 00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:17,315 You're going to face temptation. 538 00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:20,985 Pray because you, your spirit wants to, but your body you can't. 539 00:30:22,053 --> 00:30:25,056 You must spend time 540 00:30:25,423 --> 00:30:28,426 in prayer. 541 00:30:29,427 --> 00:30:30,862 I want you to understand this, that 542 00:30:30,862 --> 00:30:33,865 praying is harder than making promises. 543 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,770 We've got to be a house of prayer. 544 00:30:38,937 --> 00:30:41,539 And that comes by not saying 545 00:30:41,539 --> 00:30:44,542 that we are, but by actually praying. 546 00:30:44,642 --> 00:30:46,911 It means that individually, as Christ followers, 547 00:30:46,911 --> 00:30:51,149 we have consistent, separate 548 00:30:51,182 --> 00:30:54,786 times of personal prayer in our lives every day. 549 00:30:56,988 --> 00:30:58,957 But it also means we have the opportunity 550 00:30:58,957 --> 00:31:01,960 of the first Tuesday of every month 551 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:05,263 to be a house of prayer. 552 00:31:05,663 --> 00:31:09,667 It also means that every Sunday, we have the opportunity to approach 553 00:31:09,667 --> 00:31:13,905 God's throne of grace with other people right here in this place. 554 00:31:16,674 --> 00:31:18,309 Making promises is a lot 555 00:31:18,309 --> 00:31:21,312 easier than praying. 556 00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:26,117 He says. 557 00:31:26,117 --> 00:31:28,453 Your will be done. 558 00:31:28,453 --> 00:31:30,455 When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, 559 00:31:30,455 --> 00:31:34,025 he taught them that prayer your kingdom come, your will be done. 560 00:31:34,092 --> 00:31:36,427 And then he practiced it in the garden. 561 00:31:38,062 --> 00:31:41,065 He is the supreme model. 562 00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:46,237 Of obedience. 563 00:31:47,705 --> 00:31:48,539 Verse 47. 564 00:31:48,539 --> 00:31:52,310 While he was still speaking, Judas came out of the 12, 565 00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:57,015 or Jesus, Judas came one of the 12, and with him a great crowd with swords 566 00:31:57,015 --> 00:32:00,184 and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. Now 567 00:32:00,184 --> 00:32:04,722 the betrayer had given them a sign saying, the one I kiss as the man sees him. 568 00:32:04,722 --> 00:32:07,992 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, greetings, Rabbi. 569 00:32:08,893 --> 00:32:10,395 And he kissed him. 570 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:13,398 And Jesus said to him, friend, do what you came to do. 571 00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:16,401 Then they came 572 00:32:16,401 --> 00:32:19,370 up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. 573 00:32:20,305 --> 00:32:22,340 When the Bible says, A great crowd 574 00:32:22,340 --> 00:32:25,343 came with Judas, 575 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,946 what we understand is 576 00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:30,949 it was a literal detachment of soldiers, 577 00:32:31,015 --> 00:32:34,719 and a detachment in that day was one tenth of a legion. 578 00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:36,988 Allegiant is 6000 soldiers. 579 00:32:36,988 --> 00:32:39,991 One tenth of that is how many of you math students? 580 00:32:40,258 --> 00:32:43,194 Up to 600 men came to arrest Jesus. 581 00:32:46,731 --> 00:32:49,734 And the fact that Judas looks at him 582 00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:53,705 and says, greetings, Rabbi, what a hypocrite. 583 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,475 And he kissed Jesus. 584 00:32:57,475 --> 00:33:01,879 That was the sign that he had worked out with the authorities to indicate 585 00:33:01,913 --> 00:33:02,613 who Jesus was. 586 00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:05,984 Because they didn't have facial recognition, they didn't have photo ID, 587 00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:07,819 they all heard about Jesus. 588 00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:11,189 But if I'm never even saw him, it was dark in the garden. 589 00:33:11,189 --> 00:33:11,990 There were no lights. 590 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:15,593 And so the sign was whoever I kissed, that's the one. 591 00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:19,063 And so he kisses him with this brotherly love kiss 592 00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:23,001 says, greetings, my rabbi. 593 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:25,436 I can't imagine the betrayal. 594 00:33:25,436 --> 00:33:28,439 And Jesus response is so gentle 595 00:33:29,707 --> 00:33:32,710 friend. 596 00:33:32,744 --> 00:33:35,747 Do what you gotta do. 597 00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:40,518 They laid hands on him. 598 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,321 Verse 51, to behold, 599 00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:46,591 one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand 600 00:33:46,591 --> 00:33:49,827 and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear. 601 00:33:49,827 --> 00:33:53,664 And Jesus said to him, put your sword back into its place for all who 602 00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:55,233 take the sword of Paris by the sword. 603 00:33:55,233 --> 00:33:57,869 Do you think that I cannot feel to my father? 604 00:33:57,869 --> 00:34:01,305 And he will at once in me more than 12 legions of angels? 605 00:34:01,305 --> 00:34:03,775 But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled? 606 00:34:03,775 --> 00:34:04,976 That it must be so? 607 00:34:08,312 --> 00:34:08,946 We know from the 608 00:34:08,946 --> 00:34:11,949 book of John that the one who grabbed his sword was Peter, 609 00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:14,719 and the man whose ear was cut off 610 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,722 as the high priest servant Malchus. 611 00:34:19,223 --> 00:34:23,761 It was said of that day, in that time of Israel that was so dangerous at night 612 00:34:23,761 --> 00:34:27,832 that a man did not walk around after dark without at least one 613 00:34:27,832 --> 00:34:30,835 sword, maybe two. 614 00:34:31,002 --> 00:34:32,537 So? So all the disciples 615 00:34:32,537 --> 00:34:35,540 all had their carry permits. 616 00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:38,576 You know, they had practice at the range. 617 00:34:41,512 --> 00:34:44,515 And one of them draws. 618 00:34:48,820 --> 00:34:49,654 It's interesting. 619 00:34:49,654 --> 00:34:52,457 Some people say, well, see, this means that Jesus was a pacifist. 620 00:34:52,457 --> 00:34:56,794 Maybe, but but please understand, he didn't say, throw your sword away. 621 00:34:56,794 --> 00:34:58,029 He said, put it back in his place. 622 00:34:58,029 --> 00:35:01,032 It has a place. 623 00:35:01,732 --> 00:35:04,335 But violence 624 00:35:04,335 --> 00:35:07,438 and aggression in defense of Christ is never appropriate. 625 00:35:07,672 --> 00:35:09,107 He can take care of himself. 626 00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:11,576 He says, you think I 627 00:35:11,576 --> 00:35:15,213 couldn't ask my father for 12 legions of angels? 628 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,983 If a legion is 6000, 12 legions is how much? 629 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:21,652 72,000 angels. 630 00:35:21,652 --> 00:35:23,020 Now you go back to the Old Testament. 631 00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:26,023 There's an account in the Old Testament where one angel 632 00:35:26,624 --> 00:35:30,228 killed 185,000 soldiers in one night. 633 00:35:30,428 --> 00:35:36,667 So 72,000 times, 185,000 is over 13 billion. 634 00:35:37,935 --> 00:35:40,638 That's the army Jesus has at his beck and call. 635 00:35:40,638 --> 00:35:43,574 I think he's okay. 636 00:35:43,574 --> 00:35:44,909 And you're going to be so ignorant. 637 00:35:44,909 --> 00:35:47,912 You come at me with a club. 638 00:35:48,913 --> 00:35:51,883 You do not understand who I am. 639 00:35:51,883 --> 00:35:54,819 And I love the fact that Jesus healed Malchus ear. Why? 640 00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:58,556 Because Peter, at striking the high priest, was high Priest's 641 00:35:58,556 --> 00:36:00,358 servant was guilty of a capital crime. 642 00:36:00,358 --> 00:36:02,760 He deserved death for his sin. 643 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,865 And Jesus said, let me heal that so you don't have to die for your sin. 644 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,076 Why did Peter strike Malchus? 645 00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:24,882 Well, one I think Peter thought Jesus was a national national, a national Savior. 646 00:36:26,017 --> 00:36:29,020 He attached his politics to his Savior, 647 00:36:29,820 --> 00:36:31,455 so he stormed the Capitol. 648 00:36:31,455 --> 00:36:34,458 It just. 649 00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:38,229 And he also had just promised he would die for Jesus. 650 00:36:38,229 --> 00:36:41,232 So now was the time to prove it. 651 00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:44,535 And at this point you said, I don't need you to die from. 652 00:36:44,535 --> 00:36:47,538 I need you to live for me. 653 00:36:47,538 --> 00:36:50,541 You'll die for me later. 654 00:37:02,186 --> 00:37:02,920 Verse 54. 655 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,458 But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so? 656 00:37:07,758 --> 00:37:11,696 At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, have you come against out 657 00:37:11,862 --> 00:37:14,899 as against a robber with swords and clubs, and capture me? 658 00:37:14,999 --> 00:37:17,435 After day I sat in the temple teaching you didn't sees me. 659 00:37:17,435 --> 00:37:18,869 But all this is taking place 660 00:37:18,869 --> 00:37:20,938 with the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. 661 00:37:20,938 --> 00:37:22,673 He said, I'm in control of all of this. 662 00:37:22,673 --> 00:37:23,908 I'm orchestrating all this. 663 00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:27,778 I am doing this so that the Word of God continues to be fulfilled. 664 00:37:27,812 --> 00:37:30,815 This is at my direction, not yours. 665 00:37:31,282 --> 00:37:32,750 I have this literally in my life down. 666 00:37:32,750 --> 00:37:34,952 I have the Lord to pick it up and now is the time. 667 00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:48,032 And then the most telling verse in this section, 668 00:37:48,065 --> 00:37:51,602 the second part of verse 56, then all the disciples left him 669 00:37:51,602 --> 00:37:54,572 and fled. 670 00:37:56,107 --> 00:37:56,774 They ran away. 671 00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:59,110 Cowards, 672 00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:02,113 very sincere and very weak. 673 00:38:02,179 --> 00:38:04,815 And they remained cowards even after they saw 674 00:38:04,815 --> 00:38:07,818 the resurrected Lord. 675 00:38:08,219 --> 00:38:11,222 They remain cowards. 676 00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:14,859 This led to his crucifixion, which led to his resurrection. 677 00:38:14,892 --> 00:38:17,361 They saw him. They ate with him. They talked with him. 678 00:38:17,361 --> 00:38:19,797 They watched with them, and they remained cowards. 679 00:38:19,797 --> 00:38:22,900 Even after believing in the resurrected Jesus. 680 00:38:28,773 --> 00:38:30,775 And though they started as cowards, 681 00:38:30,775 --> 00:38:33,778 they ended up as martyrs, 682 00:38:33,911 --> 00:38:36,347 bold and courageous. How? What happened? 683 00:38:36,347 --> 00:38:37,715 What changed them? 684 00:38:37,715 --> 00:38:39,950 It wasn't the realization of the resurrection. 685 00:38:39,950 --> 00:38:43,054 They knew that before and they still stated cowards. 686 00:38:44,221 --> 00:38:47,058 What changed 687 00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:50,061 50 days later 688 00:38:50,428 --> 00:38:52,430 that what we call Pentecost. 689 00:38:54,498 --> 00:38:56,400 Jesus said in acts one eight, 690 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,937 stay until the Holy Spirit comes upon you and power. 691 00:38:59,970 --> 00:39:05,176 Luke says it this way until you are closed with the power of the spirit, 692 00:39:05,543 --> 00:39:09,613 and when you're clothed with the power spirit, you will receive power, 693 00:39:09,613 --> 00:39:13,751 and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth. 694 00:39:14,452 --> 00:39:16,053 What changed was the Holy Spirit. 695 00:39:16,053 --> 00:39:17,355 They started as cowards. 696 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:19,557 But the story doesn't end is cowards. 697 00:39:19,557 --> 00:39:22,960 They tried to follow God and be obedient to God in their own power, 698 00:39:22,993 --> 00:39:24,995 not relying on the power 699 00:39:24,995 --> 00:39:28,799 of the Holy Spirit to come upon them, to enable them to live a holy life 700 00:39:28,799 --> 00:39:32,470 and a righteous life and obedient life, and a courageous life and a bold life. 701 00:39:33,170 --> 00:39:36,173 Everything done in their own power was a failure. 702 00:39:36,173 --> 00:39:40,344 They ran away as cowards, but once closed with the power of those spirit, 703 00:39:40,344 --> 00:39:44,115 everything changed before the Holy Spirit came upon them in power. 704 00:39:44,148 --> 00:39:46,917 They didn't understand Scripture. They didn't understand God's Word. 705 00:39:46,917 --> 00:39:49,854 They misinterpreted it. They didn't understand God's plan. 706 00:39:49,854 --> 00:39:52,957 They ran away from little junior high girls that question them. 707 00:39:52,957 --> 00:39:57,595 And once the Holy Spirit came upon them in power, immediately brilliant! 708 00:39:58,229 --> 00:40:02,466 Understood God's Word in the intricacies of it all. 709 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:06,504 Incredible teachers and preachers leading multitudes to Christ, 710 00:40:06,537 --> 00:40:09,740 faithful in their witness, martyrs willingly. 711 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:11,175 Everything changed. 712 00:40:11,175 --> 00:40:14,345 Had nothing to do with the Bible study, had nothing to do with more service, 713 00:40:14,378 --> 00:40:16,113 had nothing to do with another program, 714 00:40:16,113 --> 00:40:18,215 and everything to do with the Holy Spirit come upon. 715 00:40:18,215 --> 00:40:19,517 Now, here's the thing. 716 00:40:20,651 --> 00:40:21,786 You and I 717 00:40:21,786 --> 00:40:26,891 can feel very sincere in this place and walk out cowards, 718 00:40:28,259 --> 00:40:29,994 because we try to muster up 719 00:40:29,994 --> 00:40:33,063 that I will be faithful and I'm going to be good. 720 00:40:33,063 --> 00:40:34,665 And even if I have to God, 721 00:40:34,665 --> 00:40:39,236 I will never relying on the Holy Spirit's power to come upon us. 722 00:40:39,236 --> 00:40:43,641 When I accept Jesus as my Savior and I pledge my allegiance 723 00:40:43,641 --> 00:40:47,411 to Him and Him alone, he enters my life through the Holy Spirit. 724 00:40:47,411 --> 00:40:49,013 So the Holy Spirit is in me. 725 00:40:49,013 --> 00:40:52,783 But there's a there's another thing that has to happen for me, 726 00:40:52,783 --> 00:40:56,854 to the holy life and a righteous life and a bold life and understanding life, 727 00:40:56,921 --> 00:40:59,890 and the Holy Spirit has to come upon me. 728 00:41:00,558 --> 00:41:02,193 He's in me for salvation. 729 00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:04,028 He's upon me for power. 730 00:41:06,997 --> 00:41:10,000 And as Lucas said, 731 00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:12,002 when you're clothed 732 00:41:12,002 --> 00:41:14,972 with the power of the Holy Spirit. 733 00:41:16,740 --> 00:41:19,710 Not talking about salvation, the Holy Spirit is in you 734 00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:23,714 by profession of faith, but upon you in 735 00:41:23,714 --> 00:41:26,717 power. 736 00:41:26,750 --> 00:41:29,386 There's a lot of talk about Jesus. 737 00:41:29,386 --> 00:41:31,055 Come be my personal Savior. 738 00:41:31,055 --> 00:41:34,158 I want us to be careful about that because he's not our personal chef. 739 00:41:36,093 --> 00:41:39,396 So so that is that's right in a sense. 740 00:41:39,430 --> 00:41:42,933 But what's more right is not just that he's my personal savior, 741 00:41:42,933 --> 00:41:45,936 but I am his personal disciple. 742 00:41:46,904 --> 00:41:49,907 Do you feel the difference? 743 00:41:51,942 --> 00:41:54,778 And father, as your personal disciple, 744 00:41:54,778 --> 00:41:59,383 empower me with the power of your spirit to live a holy life. 745 00:41:59,416 --> 00:42:02,419 Empower the power of your spirit to live a righteous life. 746 00:42:02,419 --> 00:42:07,758 Empower the power of your Holy Spirit to help me deny myself and power 747 00:42:07,758 --> 00:42:11,962 with the power of Your Holy Spirit to put to death sin in my life. 748 00:42:11,996 --> 00:42:16,066 Empower me with the power of your spirit to be a bold witness. 749 00:42:16,066 --> 00:42:19,069 Empower the power of your spirit to understand your word. 750 00:42:21,038 --> 00:42:23,541 In myself, I fail. 751 00:42:23,541 --> 00:42:24,909 You are in me now. 752 00:42:24,909 --> 00:42:27,511 Come upon me 753 00:42:27,511 --> 00:42:32,616 empowering by the power of your spirit to live a life of love, joy, 754 00:42:32,616 --> 00:42:36,220 peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. 755 00:42:36,253 --> 00:42:39,056 Because in my own power I can't. 756 00:42:39,056 --> 00:42:42,059 It changes everything. 757 00:42:46,330 --> 00:42:49,333 And that same Holy Spirit is available to us 758 00:42:50,134 --> 00:42:53,904 worship and powers or prepares our hearts. 759 00:42:54,672 --> 00:42:58,142 Prayer strengthens our life and the Holy Spirit 760 00:42:58,142 --> 00:43:01,178 empowers us to be obedient. 761 00:43:02,012 --> 00:43:03,614 The band come up here. 762 00:43:03,614 --> 00:43:07,618 We're going to finish this morning as they started 763 00:43:07,785 --> 00:43:10,788 in worship through song, 764 00:43:11,055 --> 00:43:13,791 and I'm going to invite you into prayer 765 00:43:13,791 --> 00:43:16,794 as they practiced 766 00:43:17,361 --> 00:43:21,298 so that the Holy Spirit will come upon. 767 00:43:26,203 --> 00:43:29,173 I want you to pray with me. 768 00:43:33,978 --> 00:43:36,981 Please, my dear friends, 769 00:43:37,181 --> 00:43:41,051 would you take the moment of this moment and agree with God 770 00:43:42,786 --> 00:43:44,254 that sin, 771 00:43:44,254 --> 00:43:48,158 unconfessed and unrepentant, has separated you from God? 772 00:43:49,426 --> 00:43:52,429 That Jesus gave his life 773 00:43:52,496 --> 00:43:55,299 to be the sin penalty? 774 00:43:55,299 --> 00:44:00,471 He absorbed the full cup of the wrath of God in himself, so we wouldn't have to. 775 00:44:01,972 --> 00:44:04,975 Would you agree with that? 776 00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:08,979 Would you in this moment say, 777 00:44:08,979 --> 00:44:11,315 God, I admit my sin 778 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:15,819 and I accept Jesus as the payment for it, 779 00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:19,223 and I pledge my allegiance 780 00:44:19,757 --> 00:44:22,760 to you and you alone. 781 00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:26,697 Thank you for for giving me. 782 00:44:26,730 --> 00:44:30,734 Now, Tom, say, would you empower me with the power? 783 00:44:30,734 --> 00:44:33,737 Would you clothe me with the power of your spirit? 784 00:44:34,271 --> 00:44:35,773 You are in me now. 785 00:44:35,773 --> 00:44:41,612 Come upon me, clothe me in the power of your spirit to live a holy life, 786 00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:45,382 to live an obedient life, to live a life of righteousness. 787 00:44:45,416 --> 00:44:50,988 Would you clothe me in the power of your spirit to walk away and announce sin? 788 00:44:51,221 --> 00:44:53,457 Would you clothe me in the power of your spirit 789 00:44:53,457 --> 00:44:57,027 to understand your word deeply and intricately? 790 00:44:57,061 --> 00:44:57,428 Would you 791 00:44:57,428 --> 00:45:01,432 clothe me with the power of your spirit to live a godly life and a holy life? 792 00:45:01,432 --> 00:45:03,667 Would you clothe me in the power of your spirit? 793 00:45:12,176 --> 00:45:15,179 Father, your word tells us 794 00:45:15,412 --> 00:45:17,848 that if you wouldn't spare your own son for us, 795 00:45:17,848 --> 00:45:20,851 why would you spare from us your spirit, 796 00:45:21,852 --> 00:45:23,987 that you know how to give good and perfect gift? 797 00:45:23,987 --> 00:45:27,891 So why would you not give us the spirit for those who ask? 798 00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:31,862 And there are some in this place who are asking you, 799 00:45:31,862 --> 00:45:35,499 God, would you've clothed me in the power of your spirit? 800 00:45:36,066 --> 00:45:39,970 I cannot do this. 801 00:45:40,037 --> 00:45:43,040 If you don't move, I'm done. 802 00:45:43,841 --> 00:45:45,442 If you don't come upon me, 803 00:45:45,442 --> 00:45:48,479 I am a coward and I'm worthless 804 00:45:48,512 --> 00:45:51,515 in my pursuit of you. 805 00:45:52,716 --> 00:45:53,150 Oh, God, 806 00:45:53,150 --> 00:45:56,153 would you clothe me in the power of your spirit? 807 00:45:56,420 --> 00:46:00,057 That the power of your spirit would be would 808 00:46:00,057 --> 00:46:03,060 characterize my life? 809 00:46:03,894 --> 00:46:06,897 Would drive my faith? 810 00:46:07,264 --> 00:46:08,732 In your name I pray. Amen. 811 00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:10,667 Listen, 812 00:46:10,667 --> 00:46:14,037 if the power of the Holy Spirit doesn't characterize your life 813 00:46:14,037 --> 00:46:17,040 and is not the experience of your faith, implore 814 00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:22,279 God by the name of His Son that he would clothe 815 00:46:22,279 --> 00:46:25,282 you with the power of His Holy Spirit. 816 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:27,951 And so we're going to finish today. 817 00:46:27,951 --> 00:46:30,754 Don't worry about the time, please. 818 00:46:30,754 --> 00:46:33,423 We're going to worship through song. 819 00:46:33,423 --> 00:46:36,426 There will be people who will pray 820 00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:39,630 a house of prayer 821 00:46:39,630 --> 00:46:43,634 and implore God, by the name of the son, to clothe 822 00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:47,271 you with the power of your spirit, to live a holy life. 823 00:46:49,139 --> 00:46:50,374 Stand up. Let's sing.