The Hope Hotline - The Facts and Prophesy of the Crucifixion of Jesus - PART 1

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

The Facts and Prophesy of the Crucifixion of Jesus

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how much information we have yeah you can do that, baby. All right. The facts and prophecy of the crucifixion of Jesus. Today we're going to talk about the facts. And then there will be some prophecy involved. But we're going to talk about the facts about the crucifixion, which a lot of people don't know. Actually, I knew a lot of this.

But I will be honest with you. There was a few aha moments for me that I was like, what? Because I study this stuff. I don't study it for history. You know, some people are like history buffs, and that's the reason why they study this stuff. I could give a, I mean, I love history. Don't get me wrong, but I really don't study the Bible for history. I study the Bible for my faith.

And so that it solidifies my faith. It makes me be able to share my faith. And then when doubters and people who want to, you know, kind of dismiss it, then I have facts and proof to back up what I believe when they have absolutely nothing. So that's how we work on that. But that's the reason why I study. Then you're going to do your thing really quick and then we're going to get going. Is that what you want to do? Do you want me to do it real quick? Yeah. Okay. Do it fast, but let's get going. Yeah. Perfect. Good girlfriend. Okay. Here we go.

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I'll try again for part two. I feel like we need that DJ voice. Yeah. Yeah. Hey DJ, you're playing my song. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. No, he has that. I'm just going to sing it, but I don't want to put anybody to shame. How's your sound in your ear? We were playing with it. Is it loud?

It's loud. It's very loud. Okay. It's not horrible. How's this? Good? It's good. But if you turn it down, I'll see. Sometimes I want to make sure I can hear what you guys are saying. Sometimes you guys don't want me to know. And I need to be watching if you're turning down the volume over there. Because things, they try and get things past me. it's because we love you no it's because you're sneaky little children we would never the peanut gallery look how cute we are the rebellious sneaky children never i look i feel like i'm looking at robert barone from uh what's that

everybody loves raymond when he always goes That's what you guys look like to me. Okay, before we get into anything serious, put you guys back on. I must find out and we're only going to take a very short period of time. But, you

know what I want to know. How's the parasite situation going? I have found nothing. Okay. I haven't disclosed this information yet. Are you serious right now? Oh. What?

Wow. I got discouraged. I didn't see any activity. And if I don't see activity within 48 hours, I'm losing interest. It takes three weeks, sister. And you got Sarah to do this. Sarah, listen, just for the record, I know how you feel. That's what they did with me at the gym.

Oh, my gosh. Just so you know. Just so you know, Sarah, just don't be a quitter. Just keep going. Don't quit. Don't quit. But I know how you feel, Sarah. I was at the gym completely by myself today.

Did you quit, Sarah? I have not quit. Thank you. I would have been shocked. I don't quit anything, literally ever. Have you experienced any? No. And I even do the half flush to stir the poop up a little bit

to see if there's anything in there. You're the ones who wanted to do the parasite cleanse and now I talk about poop. That's how you're going to know. And even apparently blowing your nose. Apparently. There's nothing. Yeah. I'm sad.

How many weeks? I just pivoted. Okay. I'm pivoting to the next thing. Oh, okay. So, okay. That's like, I didn't quit working out. Right.

I'm going just to another gym. What does that do for me? This is Hope's world. Hello. You should join the Y and then come to work out with me because I've been going four or five days a week.

I like, listen. I know you like your bougie situation. It's not bougie. It's a little bougie for me in the wallet. It is. It's not even that expensive for a gym yeah it is no it's like i mean you get what you pay for i guess it's like a 20 membership

yeah they're comparing a month yeah they're comparing it to planet fitness well i wouldn't recommend planet fitness not right now but that's true, we're boycotting. Yeah, well, are we? Oops, we go to Planet Fitness. Oh, see, they don't know. I don't know. You need to look it up, sister. It's not good. We're not going to get into that because we're looking at the facts of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ today. I just would like to say that this feels a little...

But if this was a normal podcast, we'd be all in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a little reminiscent of last year's read through the Bible in a year when Vanessa messaged me when I was really struggling through Jeremiah and she said oh I forgot to tell you. I quit. I stopped like a month ago. Here I am. That's Vanessa.

Just so you know. I'm just saying. Listen you be you. Where's my shirt? Don't. If you if you want a die hard never gonna like never gonna give it up don't go to Vanessa don't go to Tracy I was gonna say don't go to well Heather hurt her ankle but she still could come back okay listen me and Sarah coming back me and Sarah. I think she's not coming back. Me and Sarah. Listen, if I say yes, you know what?

If I say yes, let your yes be yes and your no be no. Before anything more than this is from the evil one. And our shirts are available online. Which should say, let your yes be yes and your no be no. For anything more than this is from the evil one. That's what it should say. But whatever. Whatever, exactly. Again, whatever exactly again okay our shirts are available online so if you need them i will say the yay who's over there including sarah all have

redeeming qualities we do so even though they're quitters we do they have redeeming qualities we know i hate quitters you have to quit on god yet to quit on God. I've yet to quit on God. Look at that. So she's putting first things first. I keep first things first and all the rest. Just, you know, I, I ebb and flow. Amen. Ebbing and flowing. Yeah. That's what the Bible says. Ebbing and flowing. That's what it's all about. As far as the Bible concerned. Ebbing and flowing. I think that's a Bible verse. Let's see where that lines up with the Word of God. Opinions 32 1.

Book of Tracy and Vanessa. That's where that's at. Book of Wisdom. I don't know. That sounds like much wisdom to me. Sounds like a lot of hooey and hoo-ha. Wow. Okay. Okay. me sounds like a lot of hooey and hoo-ha how how okay okay okay now yeah this is gonna be different

because i'm gonna actually i don't want to do this but there's gonna be a bunch of reading but it's not reading like there'll be interjection but it is reading because I have to. Yeah. Like when I tell you the hours, but I can't memorize all this stuff. No, no, no. It's way too much stuff, people. No, this is good. And it's good stuff.

Good stuff. So we're going to, we have them in subjects. Yeah. The facts are under subjects. And then we even have, Tracy has diligently and painstakingly did all the scriptures. Yeah. Because people. A lot of Bible. Because we're going to prove it. We're going to.

It's how you're okay over there. She looks like she's a deer caught in the headlights. She's a little nervous. Yeah. She looks like she's a deer caught in the headlights over there. She's okay. It's a lot, but we'll get through it together. Her eyes.

She has brown eyes and all I could see is the whites of her eyes. That's it. Literally, she's just scared to death. What's going on over there? The verses. But we'll get them together. We're going to do this together. Are you worried about your spelling?

No, I'm worried about how fast I can type. I got them right here. It's going to be okay. It's going to be okay. It's all alright. But, pencil and paper, people. You're going to want them. You're going to want it big time. Especially if, like

when we remember we had the person write in that great question about the book of enoch and like how people think that the bible because it doesn't include everything could potentially be false yeah this will when we're done this is just going to prove factually and actually there is absolutely no way that the bible is not real it It's not true. And that it is like no other. I hate to say that Christianity is a religion, but it is. I mean, because it's so impersonal, but there's no other religion like what God has provided for us. None. That's why they all try and copycat it and

counterfeit it. And when it's all said and done, you're going to know why. So let's get started. The first fact is that Jesus likely saw mass crucifixion as a kid. And this is true. Before he died on the cross, Jesus knew that it was like when Mary and Joseph went to Egypt, right? King Herod's son, what is his name? Archelaus killed 3,000 Jews, 3,000 Jews by crucifixion. And that was during a Passover festival. And this is why Joseph probably left Egypt. And when you see that in Matthew 2.22, he probably left because of this mass crucifixion of 3,000 Jews.

You know what's so funny? And this is so weird. I didn't even know this. And you guys are going to be like, how did you not know this? But you know the name Judah? That's how we get the name Jew from. Did you know that? I didn't.

Isn't that interesting? That is interesting. I had no idea how the name Jew, the Jewish people came from. It stems from the word Judah. The son of, you know. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, that's so crazy. Yeah. Okay. That's just a side note. It's going to get better. Okay. So, so in Matthew 2, 22, when Jesus was first born, it talks about how Joseph and Mary left. That's believed to be the reason why he left. And then when they lived in Galilee, there was a revolt that started, and it was near Nazareth. And it says 2,000 people were crucified. And it also says that Jesus lived four to five miles away

from where this took place. So the odds are, as a young boy, he knew what it would look like to be crucified, which probably had something to do why he was sweating blood. When he was praying, Lord, take this cup from me, because he understood what crucifixion was, what it entailed, and how the Romans did it, and it was going to be not good. So I'm going to read this to you, because this is super important.

The political climate was a tinderbox. By the time of Jesus, Judea had only been a Roman province for roughly 20 years. The political peace was a delicate 10-year collaboration between Pilate, the Roman governor, and Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest. But the people were restless, resentful of Roman rule and the corruption of their leaders. They longed for the days of the Maccabean revolt and the autonomous rule once again. The Maccabean revolt, if you remember right, John is said to, John the Baptist grew up with the Maccabees. That's, I believe, part of this clan.

Factions broke out in the region when talk of insurrection and military uprisings. The people expected a political messiah, not a spiritual one, to deliver them from Rome, which is true. They thought he would come as a man, a king, but instead he came as a baby, which threw everybody off. Enter Jesus, who performed miracles, taught the kingdom of God, and attracted massive crowds. The religious leaders saw popular Jesus as a personal and political threat. Don't worry about it. Logan just came in with a baby. Sorry to distract you guys.

A crowd-turned-riot would mean Roman reinforcements, bloodshed, and a loss of power for both Pilate and Caiaphas. Yet their fear still came true 40 years later when the zealots sparked the great revolt leading to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. What I want you to remember is Pilate. Remember, Pilate and Caiaphas played a huge role in Jesus being crucified. But it's super interesting, especially about Caiaphas. So remember those two names, Pilate, which we all know, Pilate. Everybody remembers him, but a lot of people don't even know about Caiaphas. Next topic, next fact that we're moving into is not your ordinary donkey ride. Now,

this would be the triumphal entry, right? That we see where Jesus comes in and people are throwing palm branches saying, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest. It is not by mistake that those people were there. It is not by mistake that Jesus came in this way. And it was significant because it would show the signs and the prophetic, the prophecy of how he would come. Okay. It would show that he was the Messiah. So the people were in Jerusalem. They would all come, like tens of thousands of people would come for Passover week, which is when Jesus was crucified. So during Passover week, there was a certain day, which we'll get into it, where the Passover lambs were brought in through the Eastern Gate.

The Passover lambs were brought in through the Eastern Gate. They were pure. They were spotless. And those would be the ones that would be the sacrifice, right? Well, Jesus went in and when those lambs would come through, they would be doing the same thing that they did for Jesus. They would be shouting and rejoicing. And so it wasn't like all of a sudden they knew Jesus was coming, so they were there. No, that was something that was already done. But it was significant that they did it for Jesus, because Jesus is the sacrificial lamb. He is our Messiah. He did not, he wasn't being sacrificed for what the Jewish law was about. He was to be the sacrificial lamb for the new covenant

and for what we walk in and the freedom that it provides. So there was no more veil between us, okay? So when Jesus entered the city riding on a donkey, this prophesied what was said 500 years prior to. And it was said in Zechariah 9.9. Zechariah is, if you want to read about prophecies about Jesus, Daniel, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Isaiah is huge. Psalms, huge about Jesus and his coming, as well as other prophecies about other things too. But specifically about Jesus, those are like major prophets, right?

So Zechariah 9.9, it specifically says the coming king, rejoice. And Zechariah, remember, is Old Testament. This was said 500 years before Jesus ever went in through that eastern gate. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of daughter of jerusalem behold your king is coming to you he is just and having salvation lowly and riding on a donkey a colt the foal of a donkey now how in the world was zachariah know that outside of god and it being just God-ordained, a God-inspired word, a prophetic word. There's no way. So when people say that we'll get into what the odds are of prophecies coming to pass, we'll get to that later on.

But for that to have happened is like, it's not even possible that 500 years before that, that prophetic word would come to pass and it would actually be Jesus our Messiah. So the crowd laid down cloaks, palm branches, shouted Hosanna, which means save us now, actually. And they thought Jesus had come to save them from the Romans, but he actually came to save them from their sin. And I put in my notes, side note, but the side note is when kings would come in riding a donkey, that would mean they were coming in peace. Okay. So when Jesus came through that Eastern gate, he was coming in peace. But when key, but, but Jesus comes back on the second time riding a horse, a white horse. And when kings would come in riding horses, that meant war. And so when Jesus returns, it's pretty significant.

When he came in through the eastern gate, he rode a donkey, which means peace. But his second time he comes in Revelation, when he comes back for the second time, he's riding a white horse, which means waging war. So remember that. The next topic, am I moving too fast? No, that's good. Okay, not moving too fast. Sarah, good?

Sarah, am I moving too fast? No, I'm just digging in here. Okay. So if I move too fast, just say slow down. But people, there's so many things that I want to get through it today because friday is like wow yeah no this is so judas was a thief now a lot of people don't know they're like poor judas he didn't have a fighting chance like even if he wanted to god chose him so

no everybody has choices we'll know them by the fruit. Some people are bad seeds from the beginning. Why? Because they make bad decisions from pretty much the get-go. And they're on that course and nothing's going to change them. Not because of God. Because it says Satan comes to tempt us and they just fall prey to Satan's temptation. It's not because God set them up to fail. God did not set Judas up to fail. Judas set himself up to fail. Judas was greedy way, way before he betrayed Jesus. So let's look at scripture because scripture says that Judas was in control of the money box, that he was secretly embezzling the money from the money box and stealing disciples' money. You would say, well, I didn't know they had money. They weren't poor,

guys. The disciples and Jesus were not poor. I mean, they had people giving them things. And that's why people think that pastors and preachers and people in ministry should be down, dirty, rotten, poor, and no shoes, and living on a dirt floor, or whatever. The more poverty you walk in, the better off you are. Actually, scripture says the opposite of that. So there was money, obviously, because he was stealing it. Because in John 12, 6, it says, this he said, not that he cared for the poor, and they're referring to Judas, but because he was a thief and had the money box,

and he used to take what was put in it. So before he even set Jesus up, he was bad. He was a bad seed. He wasn't doing right by the people that he called friends. And so it was an easy pick. Like, that's the guy. He's rotten to the core. So I know I've heard people feel bad for him.

Yeah. Because it says Satan entered in him. Satan was already dwelling in that dude. It just was like when Satan entered the serpent. The serpent wasn't the greatest anyway. But, well, maybe he wasn't. I shouldn't say that about the serpent. But Judas wasn't the greatest anyway, but well, maybe it wasn't, I shouldn't say that about the serpent, but, um, but Judas wasn't doing good things to begin with. So this isn't like, uh, we should feel so bad for him. I mean, in some ways I feel bad

for him because he ended up hanging himself and had great regret, but not enough to, not enough to make things right with Jesus only to try and give the money back that he had taken. So it's it's there's a whole thing. But so I find this funny because Jesus, one of the things that when I was studying this out, one of the things that was brought up while I was studying and I thought this was very funny. I mean, I thought this was kind of like a that's interesting when Jesus specifically said, you cannot serve both God and money, what if he was actually saying that to Judas?

Because Judas was present. And that's what mattered to him. And he was stealing. People don't necessarily like it when preachers talk about things that go on in the church and call them out so that it stops cancers or whatever. But to me, potentially, that's what Jesus was doing because Jesus knew he was stealing. So was he not doing the same thing?

Isn't that interesting? I was like, hmm. Matthew 6, 24 says, No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon, and mammon is money. A lot of people in today's world, man, all they care about is if they have money. Because if they have money, then they will be happy.

The truth of the matter is you can have all the money in the world, and you still will not find happiness. Because if that was the case, then why are these people that are super rich on drugs and alcohol and overdosing and they're miserable? They're taking one medication for an upper and then they got to take another one for the downer. Do you know what I'm saying? If that was the case, if money was the answer, then everybody that's rich would be happy. But that's not the case. Only Jesus, only God can bring you true happiness. And when the Holy Spirit dwells in you, that's the fulfillment.

So next topic. Jesus was severely anxious before he died, which is what I alluded to a little while ago. Because he knew the gruesome death that he was going to experience, I think that played a huge part in him sweating blood. In Matthew 26, 2, it says, you know that after two days, you know that after, and this is where Jesus is prophetically speaking to the disciples about him dying and how he will die. So you know that after two days is the

Passover and the son of man will be delivered up to be crucified. So he was prophetically speaking how he was going to die. And what, um, what it was called is hematidrosis is the medical term for what he experienced. And apparently it's pretty rare. It's a rare condition where you can actually sweat blood. I actually, I think on YouTube, and you guys can tell me if I'm wrong. I don't know if you see. Some people have actually sweated blood. It's an actual condition, and they do.

Have you ever seen that? Yeah, I have. It's the weirdest thing now some people say that's like um made up how they're doing it but i'll be honest with you there was like there were pores that had blood coming out of them so i was like and it is a condition so i'm like i wonder interesting i know i don't know but it happens only when you're under high stress and physical emotional or physical emotional stress is what it says. That's how it happens.

Luke 22, 44 says, And being an agony, he prayed more earnestly than he then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Like the anxiety. Yeah. The anxiousness of all that like you just sit there and i sit there and go who would do something like this knowing full well what's to come who would do this for somebody let alone yeah it's just pro it's profound to me next topic the high priest was corrupt this is where it gets super interesting for me. So the high priest, the high priest, this was his job, okay?

He oversaw the temple treasury, the temple police, the religious rituals, he had a lot of power, and the Jewish court. So the high priest was very, very, very powerful, which was not good for Jesus. And at this time, the high priest was corrupt. And he could be bought with bribes, and he was, bribes by the wealthy, the elite Sadducees who agreed to be allies with Rome. That's who he was working with. This is where, you know, like Pilate and Caiaphas come into play. So I'm going to read you something very short because this is

where, this is super interesting about Caiaphas. We all know about Pilate, but this is, I mean, he's a bad dude. The family of Annas ruled the land. His power and influence was so great, he virtually ruled through his son-in-law, Caiaphas, and other sons long after he left office. So Annas leaves office, but it kind of sounds like what we have in our government where we got brainless Joe puppet but behind the scenes there are people you know doing some dirty

dirty work I'll I won't name them because I'll be blocked and I don't want to be blocked right now. But so even though Caiaphas has left office, he's still kind of running things behind the scenes. So their concern wasn't for the family of Annas. Their concern wasn't for the Jewish people, but for their own pockets. See, they're Jewish people, but they don't care about their own people. Sounds like politicians today yep so all they were concerned about is their own pockets power and prestige receiving kickbacks for perks by cooperating with roman by cooperating with the

romans historians describe annis family as extremely corrupt, greedy, and perverting justice. So that's how they are able to do what they did to Jesus, because they were corrupt at the core, which we know that. But I will be honest with you, I didn't know anything about Annas. I didn't know about Caiaphas as far as who they were, as far as their family, what they, why they did what they did, the part that they played. It's very, it's like watching something unfold right before your eyes, like how, how the scheme and the plan, like we're watching right now with, with what we're walking through.

We're seeing revelation come to play, but we never, we never knew how it would come about. But now we're watching the plan unfold right before our eyes, the schemes and the backdooring, like things that they do, which this is interesting about Jesus and his trial, which we'll get into even more. So during big feasts like the Passover, and I'll keep going.

During big feasts like the Passover, Annas and his priestly family inflated prices for sacrificial animals, extorting the poor and stealing funds that belonged to other priests. That's why Jesus angrily, in which I did not understand this. That's why Jesus, and I knew it was bad because they were selling,

but it's big, big picture here. That's why Jesus angrily overturned tables in the temple, calling it a den of thieves, because they were robbing people. They were overpricing things. I always thought it was because they were just selling things and they shouldn't have, but it was because they were extorting people. Like, this is crazy. A direct rebuke against the House of Anus. Anus. That's about correct. Anus.

Can I just call him Anus? Yes. That's not right. He is one. He is an anus. But here's the thing. I will say this. Regroup hope.

That's why they hated him. That's why they hated Jesus, because he called them out on this. This propelled things even further for their hate for him, right? And in wanting to get vengeance on him. It was Annas and Caiaphas who conspired against, arrested, and tried Jesus by the judicial court of which they were also president. So it's like getting arrested in a little county in Georgia, and the sheriff is not only the justice of the peace. He's the judge. He's everything. So you get arrested from, you have no fight because he's the, he's the judge, he's everything. So like you get arrested from like, you have no fight because he's the one that arrested you. Even if he's wrong, which,

you know, you're going to fight your case and say that he was, he's like, nope, it's going to go my way. Cause it's all a setup from the very beginning. It's top heavy. There's no righteousness at the top. Um, because it it all comes from the same place. The family of Annas also tried to silence news of the resurrection. Isn't that interesting? Matthew 28, 11 through 15 says, Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all the things that had happened.

When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, saying, Tell them, his disciples came at night and stole him away while they slept, which we've read all this. But now we understand why they were doing it. And if this comes to the governor's ears, we'll appease him and make you secure. So they took the money and they did as they were instructed. And this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

So they believe that the disciples took his body, that he was not resurrected. Now Caiaphas and Annas, they were responsible. This is crazy. They were responsible not only for the crucifixion of Jesus. They were responsible for Jesus' brother James. I think James was beheaded, if I remember right. The stoning of Stephen.

They were all responsible. And you'll see that in Acts 6.12. And the commission of Saul to Paul to kill Jesus' followers, which is also located in Acts 9. 14, 26, 10 through 12. So they and Paul all collaborated together to kill Christians. Now, most of us know those scriptures, but a lot of us, like me, didn't know all those details, which I think is very important to know.

And it's very profound to understand the degrees and the lengths that people will go like what we're seeing is maniacal in the world right now it happened in jesus's time it was maniacal what they did and that's how they got away with it things have not changed the arrest and trial of jesus was illegal it was completely It couldn't, it shouldn't have happened. Which, like, duh. Of course it was illegal. He was, he was never sent, never did anything. So, like, duh. Of course it was. So let me tell you about the details on that, which I didn't know. Jewish law stated that trials could not be at night during festivals so when was he arrested at night

during passover festival and a capital offense cases could not be reached in a day and he's his was done in less than 24 hours the accused were permitted counsel for defense yet jesus was arrested at night during the passover festival accused by biased judges and tried in secret so no one could testify on his behalf and we're seeing that today yeah you know like the this you like the playbook never changes right yeah it's just different characters but the playbook never changes why because it works yeah all right i mean if you think about trump i feel so bad like the stuff that's along with steve bannon there's a bunch of people right now that they're trying to crucify and all this because they hate them and they are speaking the truth do you hate

me because i tell you the truth is really what you should you could say yeah i know and they are telling the truth and everybody hates them because they don't want the truth right so this is interesting the trial took place in caiaphas's house not a courtroom away from the eyes and ears of the people this small group of religious leaders conspired against jesus and made a mockery of justice now i talk about this all the time but a lot of people don't know this. When Peter denied Jesus, Jesus was in with an earshot. Not only was Jesus in earshot, they looked at each other's face when it happened. The ultimate betrayal is when you're face-to-face with the individual that's betraying you.

And for me, because of this, I feel for Jesus. But Jesus already knew he was going to betray him because Jesus called it out. And Peter was so defiant in saying that's not going to happen. How ashamed must Peter have felt when it actually did occur? But not only ashamed because it occurred, but the last time he does it, it's face to face with Jesus. Let's look at that. All right, Luke 22 through 22, 60 through 62. It says,

but Peter said, man, I do not know what you are saying when the last person said, you're a friend of his. Aren't you one of his disciples? He said, man, I do not know what you are saying. Immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed, and the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. So Peter went out and wept bitterly. I personally get choked up right now. It's like I have I fight back

the tears just for Peter because if you don't think that's you you are crazy everybody's like can you believe Peter? can you believe you? we do this on a daily Sarah's laughing at me

we do this on a daily to the Lord it's true. And, you know, the pain that Peter saw is something we don't see when we do it to Jesus. The gift that he provided for us when we just toss it back, we don't appreciate it or we take it for granted. The pain that Peter must have seen because Jesus was being beaten. He was being in that moment, like he's being tortured as well. And so to see that, to see that beating, but also to see that pain on Jesus's face when he's your best friend, you're one of the three, like you're one

of the three closest and you just betrayed him. Like he said, um, must've been just, must've been terrible. Um, let's look at first Corinthians because I think that for those, uh, those of us that think that poor Peter, I would have never done that. Let's look at 1 Corinthians 10, 12. It says, therefore, let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. Very important never to think so highly of yourself than you ought because thereby the grace of God go you, right? The New Living Translation, I love what the New Living Translation says. It says, if you think you're standing strong, be careful not to fall. Because a lot of times you fall when you think you got it going on. Like, you're the best thing since sliced bread.

Everybody's so lucky to have me. Like, it's ridiculous. People just, or, you know, you just see it. Like, people will leave a a friend group and they'll think man that that's that I just heard a lot of people by doing that like they're gonna feel that one they feel nothing just so you know especially with an attitude like that I hate to be mean because this is not to to be like well it is mean but it is what it is. Like everybody's replaceable. Everybody is replaceable.

That's the truth. If you think that nobody could do your position like you can at your job, or you're the best friend that anybody could ever have, nobody's can ever match up to you. Even in ministry, no one can do as good a job as you do in ministry. They're so lucky to have you or bull crap. That's what I have to say. Bull crap. You know what? I'll give you a great example really fast. I used to do the children's ministry here. I did it for, gosh, I don't know, eight years. It was a long time.

I took the children's ministry from like 11 kids to where we were like 50, 50 plus on Sundays. And it helped grow the church. Tom was like, man, you've killed it. Like you've helped this church grow, right? And I'm like, well, thank you. That means a lot because, you know, you do want to know that you're actually doing something for the kingdom. It's super important. But never once in my life did I think that nobody could do it better than me. Thank God I didn't think that because you know what?

Courtney Angelo came. She kills it. Like she kills it. She does it far better, far superior than I ever have. Trish as well. Like the person that Trish took her spot, that person was really good. They did a good job. They were very passionate about it.

But no one has come close to Trish. That's the facts. So if you think that you're not replaceable, God, and I tell this to people all the time, if people leave and they're like, oh, they left, I'm really bummed about it. And I'm like, don't worry about it. God has never set us up for failure.

You know what, when it's happened every single time somebody has left the church or even left us personally, God, especially if you're not in the wrong, God always brings in someone better. Yep. And he takes you to the next level. That's the truth. That's the facts.

I promise you. Yeah. Never once have Tom and I taken, taken, gone backwards in ministry. Not once. We've only gone better and better and better and better. And so now God's had to give us some correction on some things to help us in that. But I will tell

you, the more righteous you are in things, the more you are propelled forward. So if you have lost something or someone and you are righteous in it, don't worry about it. All you're going to do is go up. I can promise you that. If you are a person that leaves and think you're the crap, well, you're going to find out you're not. That's all I'm going to say about that. No one is. It's the way it goes. You should be humble, not prideful. So what I was going to say, what I want to make sure we add to that is, besides making sure that we have a correct attitude, don't be a Peter where you don't feel like you could ever be like that. You're above all that. Because I will say to you, we sin. And when we sin, we do that

to what Jesus did on the cross for us. We take the cross for granted. How many of us have Christian walks, but we're like, we are a Christian as it is convenient. And we fit God in, or we fit Jesus and the Holy Spirit in when it's convenient, right? That's not the walk, and that's not what God wants. He wants a close, intimate relationship with you. Lukewarm. Lukewarm. Be not hot or cold for the lukewarm else to be out of your mouth.

It'd be better for you to be so cold and have no desire to be a Christian than for you to pretend that you are one or believe that you are one while you're living in the world, you're living, pretending to be a Christian. And then the hardest people to get saved, I believe, are the lukewarm because they already believe they're saved. I agree. And it's like, that's why the gospel is so clear. Be cold because you know you need him when you're lukewarm.

And I would love to tell what the lukewarm means because it's so much deeper than just lukewarm. But if you study out Revelation and you study about the seven churches, you'll find out what lukewarm is, and it's not good. So you will not go to heaven being lukewarm. It actually says he'll spew you. Cold go to hell. He spews the lukewarm.

He hates it. If you live in compromise, not good. We're just looking at the face of Jesus, just like Peter did every time we do these things. I will tell you, the way that that doesn't happen is the four essentials. You do the four essentials every single day, every day, prayer, Bible study, fellowship, and worship. Every day you do those four things, you will never have to worry about being Peter. You just won't. It's worthy.

I mean, he's worthy. Jesus likely spent his last night in a dungeon. What? He did. After being accused and condemned and beaten, Jesus does not appear before Pilate until the next morning. So where did he hold up until dawn? A dungeon was discovered beneath the historical site of Caiaphas,

his house, and that's where he was. That's where they believe. Scholars believe Jesus was likely changed in this damp, dark stone pit until morning. How horrible is that? That just breaks my heart. It just breaks my heart. If you don't look at Resurrection Sunday, I say Easter.

Some people are so offended by Easter. Get over it. But if you don't look at this Sunday differently after we're done, after these two podcasts, I don't know what will help you. I really don't. Because you almost can't get through this without your heart breaking and tears flowing and just understanding the magnitude of love that he has for us. It blows my mind.

Barabbas. I've taught this too. It's super interesting. Barabbas was a radical extremist. But Barabbas and Jesus actually shared the same first name. And we see this in Scripture. But it's interesting that Barabbas actually means son of man. Isn't that what it says? Son of man.

Let me look really quick. Son of a father. Son of a father. And Jesus stands for son of God. Isn't that interesting? But let's find out about. so let's see uh barabbas was uh i have to tell you about this because it it correlates with the at the time when jesus was crucified he was likely he likely belonged to a group known as the zealots. He had been arrested during an insurrection, probably for an assassination. Which, what did we learn?

Crucifixions happened to people who were insurrectionists. It was likely his cross that Jesus was crucified on. And Barabbas and Jesus also have the same first name, which is Jesus Barabbas and Jesus, which was the Messiah. That's what they called them, Jesus the Messiah and Jesus Barabbas, which Pilate referred to him as. Jesus, next one. Jesus was verbally and physically abused.

Now, I have some diagrams. Yes. I am 11 minutes in, and I'm kicking butt and taking names. You're doing great. I'm moving fast, people. I hope you, I'm not moving too fast though, right? You're totally in and I'm kicking butt and taking naps. You're doing great. I'm moving fast, people. I hope you, I'm not moving too fast though, right? No, this is so good.

You're totally understanding what I'm saying. Yeah. Beautiful. Jesus was verbally and physically abused. So put, let me look. Okay. Yeah, put that thing up there. This one?

Yeah. The first one? Yeah. Okay. I'll tell what that is in one second flogging was done before being crucified so you would get flogged and that tool right there you was what they used i'll tell you what that name is in a second once i get to that in my notes um sometimes the flogging was so bad you would die during it that's why you couldn't go beyond 40 lashes because they said

anything more than 40 would kill you um it would can it would cause serious blood loss shock and skin were hanging in ribbons and what was a flogging so a flogging was when the romans the romans were really good at this okay The Romans used a flagellum. Flagellum. Flagellum. That's what it's called. A whip with shards of metal, glass, and bone at the end of the leather thongs. So every time Jesus was being whipped, it was shards of metal and glass and bone going into his skin.

Along with the leather strap that was coming across him. Now, if you, do you want to put that other one up? So when they whipped, see the one to the right? It says underneath the body, it says the direction of the whip marks. That's how they were, I mean, the Romans were very good at this. They had a specific way of doing it that would cause such harm to the body but wouldn't kill you. So it would be downward to the side marks

that were being given to you, whips. Okay? So when you were whipped, the lacerations would tear into skeletal would tear into the skeletal muscle leaving the back brutally mutilated exposing muscle and bone and the thing is is they love they they would take you and they would flog you naked so it went all the way down to your buttocks which ouchy mama because i've done glutes glutes for exercising and i can't even imagine you know what i'm saying yeah i'm not even being funny no i know can you imagine people don't think how bad

their butt can hurt but can you imagine especially if they're going into muscle right right exactly um afterwards he was mocked his beard ripped, and beaten over the head with a rod. This is, I almost cried. He was beaten with a rod by up to 600 soldiers in the nearby barracks. Matthew 27 through 31 says, The soldiers mocked Jesus. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium

and gathered the whole garrison around him, and they stripped him, and they put a scarlet robe on him, and when they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. And if anybody knows about the thorns, they were so long. How long they were. There was a specific bush that they pulled them from, and the thorns were extra long. And they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews. And then they spat on him, and they took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him.

They put his own clothes on him and led him away to be crucified. Now, they did this on purpose, because when they put that robe on him, the robe signified royalty, right? But his back was clotting. And when they ripped that robe off, all that clotted blood ripped off with it. So the pain that that inflicted would be severe. And then Jesus was forced to walk two miles carrying a hundred pound cross, which he wasn't able to do it the whole way because he was just so badly beaten and so weak that he was unable to do it the whole way.

But for two miles, he carried a cross to his own execution site. What I want to do is I made a list. So the next time we want to have the list that I created right here. Next time we want to be these things. Think of the brutality that Jesus suffered for each and every single one of us. Right. Next time you want to sin. Think about what we just talked about. OK.

Next time you want to compromise in your walk with God. Think about that. Six hundred soldiers. That's not even the flogging. Taking a rod and beating you. Next time you want to be moody, treat people any kind of way you think. It's just how I feel, so I'm just going to do it.

And you don't even have to be moody to be mean. You can just be mean. Tear your brother or sister down behind their back to another person. Think about that. And think about the sacrifice that was made for your salvation. Maybe, maybe that'll stop people from living outside of what God did for us. And Jesus paying that price. Run to holiness. Run to holiness. Jesus was crucified naked. Most people think he had a loincloth on. He did not. Okay, every time we see pics, it's with Jesus with a loincloth. That's not true. They would strip you naked to humiliate you, to make you ashamed, to embarrass you. And that they, they, everyone that was crucified was always naked.

Matthew, it says that, um, let me see. In Matthew, it says that Jesus' garments were torn off and being divided among the Roman soldiers. And this fulfilled the prophecy in Psalms 22. And who wrote Psalms 22? King David, his own relative, his own relative. When he was writing about the Messiah to come, he didn't even know it'd be his own blood. His own relative, when he was writing about the Messiah to come, he didn't even know it'd be his own blood. Isn't that amazing?

Psalm 22, 17 through 18 says, I count all my bones. They look and stare at me. They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. People, if you're crazy, if you don't think that the Bible is real, that is Old Testament prophecy about the Messiah coming.

There's no way to deny it. Nails were driven into wrists and ankles, not hands and feet. Even though it said hands and feet in the scriptures, it actually, it is, but they were actually your wrist and your ankles. And we'll get into that. It says, okay, and why were they the wrist and the ankles? And the reason is because it was a more painful and humiliating process to be done this way. Also, the weight of your body could not hold up your hands. I mean,

the way they crucified, which I have a picture of. Yeah. Thank you, darling. The way they crucified, if they would have crucified in the palm of the hands, the weight of the body would have ripped the hand and the flesh. so it could have never sustained the weight of a person. Even the feet couldn't do it. Do you want me to show that now? One second. Let me see. I've got to make sure I'm correct with my notes.

Yeah. Okay, so the one thing that I found out, the reason why they would crucify is because basically the Romans were afraid of insurrectionists. They were afraid of a takeover, which actually happened in 70 AD. But the reason they did it this way is to basically say, don't mess with us. This is what will happen to you if you mess with us. So if you pull up that other one, not the placement of the nails, but do you have the other one that's real? This one?

Yep. So here's the thing. Put that one up, baby. So that right there is a real bone. They've only found one person that was crucified. And there's a reason why they only found one person that's been crucified bones. And this was an ankle bone that they found. I believe this is the one that they're that they say it was. And that's one of the reasons why they confirmed that they knew how they were being crucified. This is one of the reasons, not the reason, though, and how it was placed through the ankles. If you look at the bottom picture, that's exactly how someone who was crucified, it was done through the side on the post. And we have a picture of that. So you want to put that one up? Mm-hmm. of that so you want to put that one up okay since the weight of a fully grown man was suspended

against gravity by four to seven inches uh by four to seven inch iron nails since death could take only could take a few days nails would have ripped clean through the soft tissue of hands and feet instead the romans pounded nails into the wrist then secured the cross beam to the already vertical pole the legs were bent at a 45-degree angle, while the heels' ankles were nailed to either side. The scholars tell us that as more body weight was placed on the nails, the legs eventually gave out, causing the shoulders, elbows, and wrists to be pulled out of socket.

That is extremely painful. This redirected the weight onto his extended chest, forcing him into an almost perpetual state of inhalation, which is asphyxiation and organ failure and heart attack, which soon follows. If the soldiers were in a hurry, they would break the legs to speed along the death. However, when they went to do this to Jesus, he had already died. None of them but his bones were broken, fulfilling the prophecy, which is in Psalms 22, 14 through 16, again written by David. I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It has melted within me. My strength is dried up like a pot,

with like a pot's herd and my tongue clings to my jaws. You have brought me to the dust of death for dogs have surrounded me. The congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet. Psalms 34 20 says again, written by David, he guards all his bones and not one of them is broken all prophetic all prophecy about Jesus and his crucifixion and how he would die the thief on the cross was not a robber which they call him a thief which everybody thinks he's a robber that's not the case so Greek terminology says a robber was actually an insurrectionist, which we call terrorist today. Okay. So the two thieves were probably a part of Barabbas's group. And so Barabbas should have been one of the guys with those two guys,

right? He was the worst one of all. And so he's pulled out. Jesus is put in his place. And these two co-conspirators with Barabbas die next to Jesus. We know that one rejects the Lord and the other one accepts him, right? And so how profound, even Jesus, while he's dying on the cross, is winning the lost. What are we doing in our last days? Right. Fulfillment of prophecy shows that Jesus was given a criminal's death, which that was prophetic. Isaiah 53, 9. Another great prophet another one that talks about the um the the isaiah not only talked about jesus and his coming but he also talks about uh what's revelational look like right the end of

days and they made his grave with the wicked but with the rich at his death because he had done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth okay Okay, we're going to move to the next subject, right? The next fact. The location and timing of the crucifixion were significant. And they were. How many minutes am I over? Because I got one, two, three, four. You're one minute over.

Okay. And I only have four left, right? Is there another page of those? One, two, three. That's it. After this one. Right? Girls. I'm doing good. Yeah worried the location and timing of the crucifixion were significant according to roman custom jesus was crucified outside the city gates along a well-traveled road making his death a public

spectacle during the passover passover festival celebrated god's deliverance of the Jews from Egypt. Remember, Passover was when Moses took the Jewish people out from underneath Pharaoh, right? The Passover is the lamb's blood on the post of the door, one on the top and the two on the sides, right? That's Passover. A lot of people don't know that. You don't know how, but you don't know that.

And you need to know that. Passover just wasn't a festival. Passover celebrates the Passover of when God freed his people, the Israelites, from Pharaoh and exited them out of Egypt. So the Passover festival celebrated God's deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, right? So the Passover festival celebrated God's deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, death and slavery through the blood of the lamb, which the lamb's blood was on the post, okay?

Does that make sense? Okay. Jesus' death fulfilled prophecy full of Jewish symbolism. So we're gonna get into this. He died around 3 p.m. the same time Passover lambs were being slaughtered in the temple, not by accident. Jesus was both the spotless red heifer

sacrificed outside the camp to purify people from sin and the Passover lamb sacrificed to save his people from death. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, which is said in John 1, 29. That is significant. Nothing God does is by accident. Nothing. We are that important.

That's the lengths he will go to prove to us how much he loves us, how much he sent his own son to die for us. He'll go to these lengths to make sure that all of these little things, all these little puzzle pieces line up so So you know, he is true to his word. You know, he is faithful and nothing is by accident. Your steps are ordered. If he did this and he went to these great lengths, your steps are ordered. You can know that as specific as he was through all of this, through the prophetic word about Jesus in the Old Testament to when Jesus actually walked this earth and then was crucified, as much as Jesus' steps were ordered, so are yours.

You have nothing to worry about. He's got it all taken care of. If you read the word, you win every time. It's do you make the right choices to win? Let's look at the next one. Four significant supernatural events occurred when Jesus died. This is beautiful. This is beautiful. I mean, God is so good to us. And Jesus, like, unbelievable that a man would do this for us. Jesus hung on the cross from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. before he died. Mark 15, 25 says that.

There was a total solar eclipse the last three hours of Jesus' life, which is also stated in Matthew 27, 45. We have a solar eclipse coming in April. There's significance to that, apparently. I've done some study. There's significance to that apparently. I've done some study. Huh? It's close to the Passover. Yes. But I won't go into that, but there's some significance to

this biblically. If you look at the signs of the times in the sky, it's very exciting. And I'm not one of these blue moon, orange moon, like, I'm not one of those people. But, I love John Hagee, but I'm just not one of those people. I love him.

He's great. But whatever. I digress. When Jesus died, listen to this. Listen to what I say, and then I'm going to repeat it at the end. When Jesus died, the curtain veil in the temple tore from top to bottom. Matthew 27, 41 tells us that. This thick woven curtain separated the holy of holies,

the room where God's presence and ark of the covenant dwelt, a room only the high priest could enter once a year. Listen, it split from top to bottom, not bottom to top. There's a reason. Because if it had been torn the opposite way, people would say men did it. But because it's torn from the top to the bottom, there was no way.

If people understood how big that veil was, not possible. Only God tore that veil. God's the one that said, nothing will separate me from man. What Jesus did on the cross, the rule and the law is no longer existing. We have a new covenant, and I want to be close to you. You be close to me. There's nothing that separates us anymore.

We have a relationship instead of a bunch of laws, which are okay, but they're not perfect. This is perfection, what Jesus did. At the same time, there was a massive earthquake, which is we see in Matthew 27, 51. In Jewish history, earthquakes accompanied special divine acts of God, like when God gave his law to Moses on Mount Sinai. At the same time as the earthquake, ancient Jewish saints came walking out of their graves. Matthew 27, 52. When has that ever happened? Yeah. Exactly.

Yeah. The supernatural events show that Jesus took, so all of this is taking place on Friday. Remember that. Like Friday's super important. Like we're closed. Okay. The church is closed. The world will be open.

I always tried to take good Friday off when I worked a secular job because for me, it's significant. Fridays. Now we'll be here because we're going to be sharing stuff. But outside of that, like Friday's very important and people should reflect on the importance of Friday. Sunday's very important, and people should reflect on the importance of Friday. Sunday's very important, but Friday, if you don't have Friday, you don't have Sunday. Remember that. This is super significant. The supernatural events show that Jesus took God's judgment and wrath on the cross for our sin.

Through Jesus as high priest, we have now access to God's presence. Jesus has perfectly fulfilled the law of God on our behalf. The resurrections show Jesus's victory over death. Amen. Jesus, we got three more. Jesus's burial was unusual. You think at the cross it's over, but it's not. If you think at the cross it was done, it's not.

It gets better. Okay. Most crucified people, which I did not know this, but most crucified people, there's a reason why there's only one foot with a nail in it that we can see what a crucified person looked like. And here's the reason why. Most crucified people were not formally buried. Their bodies were actually left on a rubbish dump. So they were thrown in the trash, like at the dump. Okay. And then the dogs would come and eat them. So it's very unusual. That's how it always happened. So it is extremely significant

that Jesus was actually buried in a tomb and only tombs were used for the wealthy, right? Very significant. So archaeologists have uncovered only one crucified person with an iron nail still intact in his heel. And the fact that Jesus was buried after death was a big deal. Joseph of Arimathea had to act fast because he knew. Because he's actually a part of the Sanhedrin. Okay? But he was a disciple of Jesus, believe it or not. He did not agree with

what they did. And so he went and he appealed to Pilate for Jesus's body and he got it. And then he buried it. Instead, he grabbed it, he buried it instead of it being thrown away. If he would not have done that, then Jesus would never have rose again. We would have no proof of the stone was rolled away and that Jesus was risen again if he had been put on a dump heap. Because somebody would have said they stole his body. But this way, there's no way. All of these little details are very significant. Every detail in your life is very significant to God. If you think it's not, before he formed you in the womb, he knew you.

Okay? If he cares for the sparrow, how much more does he care for you? It's very important that you know that. The men who buried Jesus, this is the next one. The men who buried Jesus belonged to the group that condemned him. How funky is that? That is crazy. Like, he will make your enemies.

He will turn them for your good. Like, you think there's no way that person will hate me forever. No. God has a way of turning the hearts of people. And you never know. You never know if we can get Nancy Pelosi pelosi to come our way pray for them do you know what i'm saying you don't know you don't know who can be saved so never ever ever give up on anybody amen even if you hate them amen you should never even want your worstest worstest that ain't a word worst enemy yeah to go to Right. Fight tooth and nail for every single person you know,

whether you love or despise them, because there's hope for us all. And two of them, two of them came his way, which is amazing. Nicodemus was a Pharisee, and Joseph of Arimathea was a Sadducee, which they really didn't like each other, because they believed two different things about the coming of God and the not coming of God. They all believed in God, but how things would play out, they didn't believe it. They both belonged to the Sanhedrin that condemned Jesus.

And even though they secretly believed in Jesus and had disagreed with the decision, Joseph buried Jesus in a brand new tomb that he had just built for himself, which was like you had to be wealthy to have a tomb in rock. Okay. John 19, 38 through 42 says, After this, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus,

and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took the body of Jesus. And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds, a hundred pounds. Like, oh my gosh. And then they took, that's so expensive guys. Like for back in that day, like that is unbelievably, you are wealthy. Huh? It's expensive for right now. Oh oh yeah that's true but can you believe it 100 pounds yeah that's crazy yeah and then they took the body of jesus and bound it in strips of linen with the spices as the custom of the jews is to bury

now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden and in the garden a new tomb in which one had not yet been laid so there they laid j Jesus because of the Jews' preparation day for the tomb was nearby. And this scripture right here was fulfillment of prophecy because in Isaiah 53, 9 it says, And they made his grave with the wicked, but with the rich at his death, because he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

I think this is my last one. Is this my last one. Is this my last one? The timing of the resurrection was significant? Yep. Okay. Okay, I'm going to read this to you because I can't memorize this and I couldn't memorize half the things I told you already.

That's why I've read a lot of it to you. And I apologize for that. But could you guys have remembered half of that nonsense? Not nonsense, that stuff? Yeah, no. Nope. Never in a million years. During the festival, the Passover lambs were sacrificed on the 14th day of the month.

Everything is important. Everything is significant. So during the festival, the Passover lambs were sacrificed on the 14th day of the month. Two days later, the Jews celebrated the Feast of First Fruits. What's the Feast of First Fruits? Okay. The Feast of First Fruits, that they would experience God's redemption. The Feast of First Fruits was God's redemption. And be witness to the world. Okay, what is Sunday? Sarah's crying. Jesus redeemed us. That's what it is. In the Jewish calendar, a new day begins when the sun sets, not when it rises.

Super important. This means that when Jesus arose on the third day, it was the same day as the first fruits. God's redemption. Everything's important. Everything's significant. Your steps are ordered just like they were for Jesus. Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. The resurrection proves Jesus' victory over sin and death.

Those who believe in him have been redeemed and will also be resurrected when he returns. Amen? Amen. 1 Corinthians 15, 20-23 says, But now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death,

by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order That word again. Christ the first fruits afterwards, those who are Christ's at his coming. Now Daniel, it gets better. Oopsie, I'm not done. You lied to me. Oh no, that's me. I lied to you. I was like,

wait, what? Daniel 12, 2 says, and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Now, how would he have known that? Yeah. The resurrection is proof of salvation. And now I'm going to finish up. Yeah, that one was it. I thought that's what you said. It's all right, girl. Okay. It's all right. This is it.

I think I already showed it, though. The resurrection is proof of salvation. Jesus was beaten, mocked, abused, accused of being a blasphemer, and died a criminal's death. But God raised him from the dead, vindicating him and thereby proving his innocence. The resurrection proved that Jesus was telling the truth. God would not have accepted or resurrected a phony.

Understand. God would not do this just for anybody. But he did it for Jesus. Because Jesus was not a phony. He was not a liar. and he was not a sinner. Jesus was who he said he was, right? He is the Son of God, the Messiah, the way, the truth, and the life, which is what he's called in Matthew.

The resurrection proves that belief in Jesus is grounded in truth, not foolishness. The resurrection proved that Jesus had the authority to forgive sins and showed that God not only accepted Jesus's sacrifice and payment for sin, but he declared Jesus victorious by raising him from the dead. Amen. Now, I do want to say, do this one thing before we move on. Okay. And this is taking two minutes, and then I'm going to close out with a scripture. Now, for those of you that go, there is no way the Bible is real. It's a whole bunch of stories.

I'm going to prove you wrong. Jesus fulfilled more than 300 prophecies. If the Bible is just a book of a bunch of stories, and it's not an inspired word of God, how did 300 prophecies come to pass so more than 300 prophecies uh and then uh then let's see he fulfilled 300 prophecies in 450 years plus okay before he was So mathematically, the odds of one person fulfilling that many proclamations is astounding. So Jesus fulfilled each prophecy with 100% accuracy, and all were announced and historically documented more than 400 years before he ever

walked the earth. How can that be? Great question. It blows my mind, athetheists and a lot of atheists, when they really study the scriptures out, they find out they can't disprove it. So they become Christians because most scientists and things like that are atheists and they'll dig just to prove their case. They're an educated person. But a lot of times once they're done digging and they see how many prophetic things came to pass, they can't even dispute that this is an inspired word of God, these things actually happened, and that salvation is for each and every single one of us if we so desire to receive it. So Jesus fulfilled each prophecy with 100% accuracy and all were announced and historically documented more than 450 years before he ever

walked the earth as predicted jesus the messiah suffered and died making atonement for sin and his blood mathematic now this blows my mind mathematic mathematically speaking the odds of anyone fulfilling this amount of prophecy are staggering but mathematicians put it this way i should have made you make a chart of this. One person fulfilling eight prophecies, just eight prophecies, is one in one quadrillion. One in one quadrillion. That's two. Let me see.

One, two, three, four, five. That is 15, 16, 17 zeros. One in one quadrillion. Okay? Just to fulfill eight prophecies he did over 300 one person fulfilling 48 prophecies is one chance in 10 to the 157th power that's insane and one person fulfilling 300 plus prophecies is my Jesus. Exactly. That's it.

It is the magnificent detail of these prophecies that mark the Bible as the inspired word of God. Only God could foreknow and accomplish all that was written about the Christ. This historical accuracy and reliability sets the Bible apart from any other book or record. For people who doubt whether he is real or whether that the Bible is true, you cannot argue what I'm telling you right now. The New Testament was written after the death of Jesus Christ. Archaeologists have found thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament. Some of these pieces of manuscripts are dated less than a hundred years after the original letters were written. In terms of historical reliability, the Bible is superior to any other ancient writings. Like, everybody wants to use Aristotle and Socrates.

They got nothing on this. Nothing. The Bible tells us that long before the world began, God had planned that the crucifixion of Jesus would be the method and payment for sin. And that is truth. The only payment that would reconcile sinners to a holy and loving God. I want you to think about that. Because from the very beginning, God knew that this would have to be the outcome.

From the very beginning. Jesus knew. When the earth was being created, Jesus knew. He was there. And he knew that this was being created, Jesus knew he was there and he knew that this was going to have to take place. I'm going to leave you with this last scripture. I want to try and do a salvation call, but I might ball my brains out. That's okay. I don't even know if I can do it.

Huh? I think you can do it. First Peter 1, 19 through 20 says, I don't even know if I can read this scripture. I mean, listen, I've barely held it together this whole entire time. I'm impressed. I know. I'm like, listen. I know.

I don't cry over hardly anything ever. It's true. But this stuff gets me every time. When it comes to God, Jesus, I'm done for. The Holy Spirit, I'm done for. Because nothing and no one would ever do for us like they've done for us. Nothing. No being, no person, no whatever, spirit, whatever.

Nothing. No universe. Yep. 1 Peter 1, 19 through 20 says, He paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ, the sinless spotless lamb of God. God chose him for this purpose long before the world began. But now in these final days, he has sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for you. at that like i when i read that scripture i'm like that is perfect peter was brilliant when he wrote that that is god inspired and he did do this for you if you don't know jesus as your lord and savior if your walk is like

barely hanging on if if your walk is a walk of convenience so many people in church today they go to churches and the churches really aren't church they're like social clubs they're like discotheques they're like legionnaires or isn't it legionnaires or legion clubs or what's those clubs that all these older people go to? What is those? Elks Clubs? I mean, it's become, you know, church isn't church anymore. It's not really about your walk with God.

It's about socializing and talking about being a Christian but not living as one. The Word is very clear. We're not to be a hearer of the Word. We're to be a doer of the Word. And it's more about being grace conscious and not sin conscious. But the thing is, that's not what Jesus said. Jesus came to this earth and he said, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

So did John the Baptist. And for me, if that's you today, if you've walked away from him, or maybe you've never even known him, or maybe you didn't even know you walk, you walk around and you claim Christianity and you think you were saved until now. And you realize I am not. Then today's your day because if nothing else if nothing more than hearing everything that we just talked about doesn't move you and say what who where would anything or anybody do anything like this for me nobody would nobody would i mean most dads won't die for their sons, let alone a son die for the people of this world.

Most people won't. I'll tell you this. There ain't no way Tom's giving up Tommy for not one of us, including me probably. But God did. And so if you want to get your life right today, I offer it to you. Just say this prayer with me. We're going to make it short and sweet. Not because we want to make it short and sweet,

but because with God, people make things so religious. And it's just not. It's super simple, super easy. And it's not difficult. You will, it's free, but you'll give up everything. You'll give up you and you'll never be happier that you did. Say this prayer. Heavenly Father, I just come to you

and I thank you, Lord, for what you did on the cross. Never before have I ever known how important and the lengths that you went for me. I ask you to forgive me of my sin. I thank you for dying on the cross. I thank you, Lord, for the stripes that you bore. Those stripes provide healing for me. I thank you that you left a very rich lifestyle in heaven

to become poor so that I might be rich. All these things you did for me on the cross. I give you my life. I give you my all. Wherever you say go, I will go. Whatever you say do, I will do from this moment forward. I thank you. I praise you in Jesus mighty name. We pray. Amen. I hope you enjoyed that. If you like that, Friday is going to be really good because Friday is a lot more prophecy,

but none of what you've heard. So it's all fresh and new. Please join us on Friday. Thank you so much for tuning in. Sorry for going so long, but I hope, I hope, I hope you learned a lot.

And I hope it changed you forever in looking at how you walk in your walk with your Christianity. Like when you say you're a Christian, that means you are Christ-like. So your walk with God every day needs to reflect that. I hope it does be a shiny city on a hill. And I'll see you on Friday. Bye. Real talk. Real talk.

Real talk. Thank you. you you you