The Messiah Crucified | Eld. Peng Hoe

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A share from John chapter nineteen today. Also because we

have been reading the Book of John. Well, for those

of you who are part of this church, and the

past twenty one days actually we've got we've been bringing

the church through devotion. And the devotion is simple is

going through the Book of John. The Book of John

is actually a lovely book, one of my favorite. Okay,

everything should be a favorite book like Okay, in the

in the Bible. By the Book of John. It is

actually a very very deep It's written in very deeply

deep deep language. I don't know how to describe it. Okay,

John live the longest amongst of the all the disciples,

and so his gospel was probably the latest that was written.

And of course he is always the one that is

referred to as the disciple that Jesus loved most, and

so he had a very very very very close relationship

with Jesus. He walked closely with a lot, so close

that no later I will also be sharing and teaching

that Jesus actually asked him to take care of his

mother Mary. That was how close they were, and you

know when he writes, he writes amazingly the words enjoy.

I mean, I think Girler made reference to John one one.

You read John chapter one, verse one, and your mind

explodes ready, because it's just one of those scriptures where

I never tell new believers to start with the Book

of John is just one of those books that will

get them.

A little bit.

Oh, I don't know what he's talking about. I always

get them to start with the Book of Mark. The

Gospel of Mark is the one that is very, very

fast moving, very exciting. It starts all straight away Jesus'

ministry already, Matthew and Luke starts off a little bit

further back. You can see some Nativity, and you can

see his genealogy. But the Book of John goes all

the way to time in Memorial. That means there is

in the beginning where God is not even defined by time,

which is true because time is in God. God is

not in time, and so time does not contain God.

And that's how it starts off. And so John writes

it amazingly. So it's really one of those books that is,

I believe, for matured Christians to read and to take

in and so let's let's delve a little bit into

the Book of John today. If we're not going to

do all twenty one chapters, of course, I've got no

time for that. You can take a wholer just teaching

the Book of John. But we're going to go through

the account of the crucifixion because I think it's good

Friday and there's no better time for us to study

the book. And you also, I believe, have read different

portions of it throughout this past twenty one days. Twenty

one chapters in the Book of John, and you should

have finished it today.

Amen.

Okay, So chapter nineteen, and I'm going to make some

references to different verses here, but it's mainly the account

of his crucifixion. So I'm going to start by reading

Versus twenty sorry, Versus seventeen onwards. Okay, stay with me. Yeah,

the crucifixion, and I'm reading from the NLT. If you've

got other versions, creat no problem. I've got some slights, yeah,

to help you. If not, I will stay encourage you

to turn to your Bibles. So they took Jesus away,

carrying the cross by himself. He went to the place

called Place of the skull. In Hebrew, it was called

gold Gota. There they nailed him to the cross. Two

others were crucified with him, one on either side, with

Jesus between them, and Pilot posted a sign on the

cross that read Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.

The place where Jesus was crucified was near the city,

and the sign was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek,

so that many people could read it. Then the leading

priests objected and said to Pilot, changed it from the

King of the Jews to he said, I am King

of the Jews. Pilot replied, no, what I've written, I

have written. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided

his clothes among the four of them. They also took

his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece

from top to bottom. So they said, rather than tearing

it apart, let's throw dice for it. This fulfilled the

scripture that says they divided my garments among themselves, and

true dies for my clothing. So that is what they did,

said the Lord bless the reading of his word. Let's imagine, okay,

I want to bring you all back two thousand years

and this is Jesus staggering into Jerusalem under a heavy

beam of wood and he's walking through the city. It's

probably about a mile plus that he was walking through

the narrow streets of Jerusalem. His hands must have been

really really strong to carry that cross, because it's not

a light cross. It's not cheap wood like we have

today making all the furnitures that we use, but it's

a really really heavy wood. But we know that Jesus

was a carpenter. We know that he worked with his

hands all his life, so he was definitely someone who

was strong. Someone who works with nails and hammers definitely

have strong hands. But we know Jesus also had tender

hands because these were the hands that healed the sick,

the were the hands that blessed children as well.

Amen. So Jesus was crucified.

At about nine am in the morning, okay, nine am

in the morning. Of course, there are they are movies

depicting what Jesus went through on the cross, which you

can watch, which a lot of people who have watched

it can't really take it as well, because really, death

by crucifixion is not only the most humiliating way for

you to execute anyone. It's the most painful and the

most atrocious way to kill a person. Slowly but surely. Okay,

So by nine am in the morning, you can realize

what a mess Jesus' body was in. By the time

that he died, no blood was running down his face.

You know, his his bags. His bag was probably in ribbons.

You could see just slash and whip marks on it.

There was spit all over him because that was what

people were doing. The soldiers were spitting on him. The

bruises were marked all over him. And then they nailed

him to the cross and they strung him up between

two other criminals. And he had been said by Isaiah

centuries ago. And Shakina started off today's communion by reading

Isaiah chapter fifty three, which is a very very powerful,

powerful scripture of prophecy. And you realize this. You know,

God is a god of details. If you read Isaiah,

which was written seven hundred years before the accounts of

the Gospel, it's actually quite crazy to think that seven

hundred years later something took place to almost if not,

I would say, to the exact depiction of how it

was stated in Isaiah. A prophet who wrote those words

seven hundred years ago. And in Isaiah fifty three, verse twelve,

it says he was numbered with transgressors. What do you

think that means? That means that he was actually hanging

on the cross with two the offenders. That's what a

transgressor is. And then the notice was neil above his head.

This is the king of the Jews. And notice that

no one actually believe you think about it, except Pontius Pilot,

because Pontius Pilot realized that after talking and after interviewing

this person, this person not only did he not do

anything wrong to deserve the death punishment, he realized that

this person is definitely special and unique. He's not anyone ordinary,

even Pontius Pilot's wife. Notice that, but the Jews, the

whole Sanhedrin, the whole counsel of the Jews didn't acknowledge

that he was king. So other than Pontius Pilot, of course,

you know that they're only if you look at the

Apostle's creed today, there are only two humans that are

mentioned in Apostles creed. One was, of course Merry mother

of Jesus, and the other one was other than Pontious Pilot,

who I think we remember as someone who contributed to

the death of Jesus as well, because he could have

done something but he did not. And you study historically

who is Pontious Pilot, Well, he was someone who technically

Rome doesn't quite lie. The Emperor in Rome don't quite

like him. Then the people of the Jews also don't

quite like him. But he was basically trying to appease

everyone by not getting into any more trouble, and so

he was trying to find a way out and trying

to wash his hands clean. That's why you see how

he was behaving. It's almost like you go and crucify him.

Of course, the Jews say that we don't have capital

punishment under our law. The Roman law doesn't allow us

in our council to condemn someone to death, and that's

why they wanted him to do it. But he eventually

gave it back to them and allowed them to do

whatever that he wanted to do. So it was Pointious

Pilot who believed he was the king of the Jews.

It was also one of the thieves hanging next to

him who believed that this man has done nothing wrong,

and this man is going into an amazing kingdom one day,

and that's why one of the thieves, while everyone was laughing,

including the thief on the other side, he said that

please remember me, and Jesus actually said, I remember you,

and today you'll be with me in Paradise. I'll explain

a little bit more shortly. So everyone laughed. They took

his clothes away, they gambled his clothes actually.

And left him. Actually he was hanging naked.

If you want to try to imagine what was Jesus's

condition on the cross, because if you look at all

the pictures that is actually drawn of the crucifixion, he

always has a loin cloth covering him. But in reality,

actually he was hung naked. That's how they actually humiliate

you on the cross. I think that's only one church

that has got that depiction of a naked Jesus on

the cross, and it's the church in Barcelona, which I

visited once before. It's called the Salgadha Familiar. It's an

amazing structure. If you've ever been to Barcelona, you will

know that church is one of the two visit places.

And the sculptor and the architect behind that church is

this famous Catalan architect known as Gaudi Uh and you

see actually a full, fully.

Naked Jesus on the cross. And that's how they.

Really humiliate by everything fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah. And

so this chapter actually has a tremendous sense of plan

being unfolded, that all the things that had happened were

actually foreseen. Really, and that's why you can even read

from the old testimony in Psalms chapter twenty two, they

have peers my hands and my feet, and they cast

lots for my clothing. While King David wrote this a

thousand years previously, but that never happened to King David.

How could he write about a death that would bring

in tense thirds and bring these located joints. David was

someone who never went through any of those experiences. He

was a king that everyone knew lived well to a

certain extent. But this is the miracle of the Bible,

and it's called the miracle of prophecy. And this is

one of the reasons why we believe the Bible is real.

We believe that everything it says is real because no

other book can write so accurately of all historical events

that have been taking place for the past four thousand years,

and yet a lot of people choose not to believe

in it. The miracle of prophecy. And God knows the

end from the beginning. He knows the future as well

as we know the past, because he is a god

who reveals his plan, and he shows us what he's

going to do long before he does it. And that

is how we know he knows. And that is how

we can face an uncertain future with calm and peace,

because we know he knows how it's going to end.

Amen. And he has told us what we need to

know about the future. Amen.

So let's read on the Cross Verses twenty five to thirty.

He says this, standing near the cross were Jesus's mother

and his mother's sister, Marry the wife sorry Mary, the

wife of Cleopus, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his

mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said,

to her, dear woman, here is your son. And he

said to this disciple, here is your mother. And from

then on this disciple took her into his home. The

Death of Jesus Verse twenty eight. Jesus knew that his

mission was now finished, and to fulfill scripture he said,

I am thirsty. A jar of sour wine was sitting there,

so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on

a high sock branch, and held it up to his lips.

When Jesus had tasted it, he said it is finished.

Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Okay,

now I'm going to get into the message proper because

i want to highlight something today. You see, a man's

dying words are usually remembered, and you should be remembered.

I mean, that's a term in law called the dying declaration.

Usually in the law of evidence, a dying declaration is

actually got a lot more weight, and when it's adduced

as evidence in court, it carries more weight because usually

when a person before he's dying speaks the truth okay,

unless it's a serial liar that Noah wants to lie

all the way to his death. By people somehow before

they go, they can be brutally, brutally honest, and so

they know their time is limited, and so we usually

pay attention to what they have to say. And so

when a young man thirty three years of age knew

he was dying, and you knew he had lived such

an outstanding life, you would definitely listen carefully to what

he has to say. And I want to highlight this. Okay,

In the Book of John we see a record of

I believe it's about three things that Jesus said, But

if you search through the four Gospels, there are actually

seven last words that was caught by someone and then

passed down to us. That's why we have the Gospels today.

And this somehow known as the seven last Words of Jesus.

And we know that the number seven is very, very

significant in the scripture because it's also the number of perfection.

It's the number that depicts God.

It is almost as if Jesus was saying, I'm going

to preach you a perfect sermon from my cross, and

I want you to remember this seven things. So I

just want to highlight these seven things that Jesus said

on the cross, so that we remember this, the seven

large words of Jesus. From the Gospel. You will see

the first three hours he said something. In the first

three hours he was basically concerned about other people. And

then the final three hours in particular, you will see

him changing the focus a little bit and he's going

to be speaking a little bit more about himself. But

we know from the Gospels, especially in Mark chapter fifteen,

that he died in about six hours, a period of

six hours, which in a way it was considered quite

short for death by crucifixion. Usually someone who is crucified

takes about two to seven days to die, depending on

how severe the sorry they used to break their licks,

because that will cause them to their death to hasten.

And we will read later that that never happened to Jesus. Okay,

first thing that he says is this, and this is

a record from Luke, chapter twenty three, verse thirty four.

He says, Father, forgive them, for they know not what

they do.

And you see his.

First concern on the cross was for the feelings of

the soldiers who had nailed him. Quite quite crazy, right

you think about this, were the soldiers who humiliated him,

the soldiers who could do something, the soldiers who were

taking command from Pontius Pilot, who probably knew or so

that this guy did not do anything wrong. This was

someone who committed no sin in his life. And he

actually Jesus actually shouted, Father, forgive them. They don't know

what they are doing. So he was actually concerned for

those who had actually put nails into him, thinking of

the day when they will actually be standing before God

and they have to account for their lives to God,

and Jesus in a way prays for the forgiveness of

his persecutors. I think that it's something that we've got

to understand Jesus because he demonstrates compassion, and he reminds

us that that is something that we need to do,

even though we are going through and facing suffering ourselves.

Even when we pray the Lord's prayer forgive our debts.

As we forgive our debts, it's important for us to

remember that that is Jesus' role because he is gone

and he can forgive sins, and he wants to forgive sins,

but he wants us to also learn to forgive others,

because if we don't understand forgiving others, then Jesus can

actually choose not to forgive us. That is what the

Lord's Prayer really is about. If you studied in them

and you realize that God wants to teach all his

children to extend forgiveness to everyone, not just to people

whom you want to, but especially to people who you

don't want to as well, because that's how we ourselves

receive God's forgiveness in our lives.

Amen.

So this is Jesus forgive them, for they know not

what they do. The second thing that he says, truly,

I tell you today, you'll be with me in Paradise

Luke chapter twenty three, and for the tree. And this

actually concerns the two criminals next to him on the Crossus.

And one of them mocked him, but the other one said, hey,

don't do that to Jesus. Why are you doing that

to Jesus. We deserve to be hanging on the cross,

but he doesn't. And then the dying thief saw in

Jesus the king of the future, and he said, Lord,

remember me when you come into your kingdom. It's an

amazing statement to make because you look at this dying,

bleeding man next to you, and he's humilated just like

you have been. But year in your mind you are saying,

he's a king and he's one day going to have

a kingdom. And I believe in this person. And because

above Jesus' hate. Also it's actually a sign the pilot

put on top which says King of the Jews, and

they always put the crime on the notice on top

of those who are crucified, basically trying to tell other people,

don't be like this. But today's Jesus says, today you

will be with me in paradise. Jesus speaks to a

repentant thief, assuring him of salvation and future companionship.

Amazing.

But you know, I just want to take this moment

to teach a little bit and segue into the teaching

on baptism, because I've heard many people who tell me that,

you know, from this scripture it's not essential that we

get water baptized, because they claim that the thief hanging

on the cross never got water baptized, and so does

that mean that.

He's not safe?

And most people say no, that's it shows that we

don't have to be water baptized and we are still safe.

I want us to just remember this, okay, the first

name and the best way for Christianity to be recognized,

as in the early days it was actually recognized as

the way, get the Way.

And sometimes I like to tell people that I'm.

The follower of the Way, because that's how the early

believers actually recognize themselves as Christians. They don't call them Christians.

They say we follow the way because Jesus said I

Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. So basically,

it is a road to be traveled, right if you're

following the way, it's a road to be traveled which

actually begins with repentance, which is definitely what this person

hanging on across his teeth, hanging on the cross head,

and then it ends up in heaven one day.

Raise the lot.

So if someone dies near the beginning of their pilgrimage,

if someone dies before he even starts his journey, I

believe they are already on the way. So I believe

that this person truly hanging on the cross next to

Jesus will be with him in Paradise when he dies

on that day itself. The problem is that those who

die before they have traveled very far, but those who

live and don't travel at all. So the problem is

not those who don't travel very far. Now, the problem

is those who are alive and do we choose to

obey God because you have a whole life a hate

of you. If you tell me that you're going to

die today itself, then I believe you're on your way.

But if we know that we still have our lives

ahead of us, then we should obey the commands and

the ordinances of God. So I would always when this

scripture is used to say, you don't need to get

water Baptists, I'll tell them, no, that is an act

of obedience. And this is something I want to teach

all of us, because again it's disciple first, the team

for this year, and as disciples, we are followers of

the way, we are followers of Christ. If you follow Jesus,

then follow exactly what he did, because Jesus was one

man who did not need to get water baptized, but

he's still out of obedience, wanting to model something out

God himself baptized by his cousin John the Baptist.

Amen.

Okay, so sorry, a little bit of sad way, but

I want us to remember this when someone says it's

not necessary, because it is an act of obedience ultimately.

Amen.

The third thing he says is woman, behold your son,

and then he looks at John, behold your mother. John nineteen.

This one we saw just now we read it. So

there were women at the cross, which actually says a

lot about the women. Of course, they did not have

as much to fear from the Romans. And so the

men ran away because they were afraid of the Roman soldiers,

but the women's stay. And here is Jesus surrounded by

some of the women related to him, and among them

was actually his own mother, Mary, and she must have

remembered the prediction of Simeon.

If you read the count in Luke chapter two.

Simeon, uh, you know, when he saw Jesus in marriage,

said this a sword will pierce your own heart too,

and this boy is going to bring great pain into

your life. And now Mary was looking at a son

as naked in death as he was in birth. Think

about how humiliating it was for him as well as her.

So definitely there was almost a short piercing through her heart.

There is a close bond between Mary and Jesus because

Joseph was technically his foster father if you think about it,

and Mary was always his own mother, right, And so

Jesus looked down from the court cross and then he's

seeing Mary, and then straight away he's making arrangements for her.

And he did not commit her to any of his

physical brothers, but to John, the one he loved most,

who understood him best, and he committed his mother to

the apostle or the disciple, John, and he said, dear woman,

this is your son, John, this is your mother. And

there must have been something in his voice that told

John that he wanted what he wanted him to do,

because John immediately took Mary away from the cross to

his own home. You read the account in the Gospels,

and Jesus was actually anxious, not just about his mother's future,

but also present, and he didn't want her to suffer

any more than she already was suffering, any more than

it's necessary. So John took her away. And this shows

us two things about Jesus. First, he honored his obligations

at a human level. He did this is an example

to earth not to be so heavily minded that we

are of no earthly use, but to honor our earthly obligations.

It's something that's very very important. Sometimes people tell me, oh,

I know everything in heaven, everything spiritual. Come back, come

back to earth, because this is where our feet is

planted in and we have obligations and responsibilities to one

another as well. Okay, it tells us that even though

Jesus was suffering badly, his heart remained concerned for others

and there suffering. And that is astonishing because we usually

find that the more we suffer, the more preoccupied we

are with our own suffering. But Jesus was actually concerned

with others. The fourth thing that he says is I'm

thirsty or I thirst John Chapter nineteen, verse twenty eight.

And so from twelve pm to about three it's a

different situation. Now the next three things that you see,

Jesus is talking about himself mainly, and he starts off

with this, I am thirsty because he is in the midday.

The sun is blazing, its beating down on him, and

you can imagine, no, in crucifixion, your mouth is completely

dry and you are desperate for some liquid, and your

whole body is actually drying up. And that's when Jesus

actually is I'm thirsty. And what does this tell us

about Jesus? Firstly, his humanity. Jesus really wants human and

we know he is fully human, we know he's also

fully God, but as a man, he wants thirsty, and

he admitted it. He experienced human passions, he experienced human pressures,

and they even mocked his Actually, you know what, they did.

They gave him vinegar. They gave him sour wine, which

actually made it worse because it had a drying effect.

That's why alcohol does sometimes. And they fed him that

it dried him up even more, making him even thirsty.

The second thing is this in a way, it teaches

us about the hell that Jesus was going through. Why

do I say this because I believe Jesus went to

hell on the cross. If you want to know what

hell is, then I am thirsty. Tells you a lot

about what Jesus has taught us before. If you remember,

there was an account of a rich man who had

everything on earth, even at a good funeral, but then

he finished up in hell. And what was he doing.

He was begging for one drop off water on his tongue.

And that's how Jesus talked about hell, and now he

was going through it himself. Jesus went through Hell so

that you could go to heaven. Think about it, because

it was also on the cross that we read wventually

the Father turned away, it was completely dark, and that

is what it's about. For a moment when we are

not in God's presence. That's what hell is is an

eternity outside the presence of God. I want us to

ponder upon that. Okay, the fifth thing he says, My God,

my God, why have you forsaken me? Matthew Chapter twenty seven.

Then it was a lonely time. That is when I

say God turned away because he realized that Father God

was not there, and he's essentially asking why if you

left me. It's really a terrible loneliness. If ever we

feel loneliness, is because God is no longer with us.

And I pray that it's not a feeling that believers

will ever experience. I know there are days when even

the best of us go through the loneliest days.

But I want you to know God is always in

our lives. Always.

Not once will he turn away from us, because he says,

if you come near to me, I will come near

to you. But for that moment, Father God actually turned away,

and there was the time he was without his father.

And then Jesus actually quotes the p sum that expresses

his suffering and the temporary separation from God the Father,

and he is actually taken from two that says, why

have you forsaken me? And this was the hell that

Jesus went through as well, the Father turning away from him.

The sixth thing that he says it is finished. John

chapter nineteen, verse thirty. And so when Jesus says it's finished,

he meant that at the age of thirty three, I

have done every single thing that God wanted me to do.

And I don't think anyone else will will ever be

able to say it. Whether we reach the age of

seventy eighteen ninety years, we'll not be able to say

it's finished like the way Jesus actually said it, because

he knew that he reached the end of his pilgrimage,

and it just means it's completed, not ended, completed.

So I finished the work that you have given me

to do. I've completed it.

Everything that God ever wanted me to do is done.

And I believe Jesus was satisfied at that very time

because that was where he chose, and he made that

choice that it is done, and I'm going to give

up everything now. He knew that the work of atonement,

basically the work of pain for your sin and mind,

the work of redeeming people, the work of breaking Satan's

power of people, all these things were completed on the cross,

and he doesn't need to do anything more to conquer

Satan because it is done on the cross. And then

it says he dismissed his spirit. In a way, he

dismissed his life, so that in a way it was

Jesus who actually decided that it's time for me to go.

And you know I told you before crucifixion satistics longer

takes days. But he died in six hours, not because

he had been flogged, but because it was completed, and

so he every on his own. Amen, why do you

think he chose three o'clock, Because if you study the scriptures,

you were realized that at the same time it was

passed over. And if you remember the count in scriptures

in the Book of Exodus, passover was when the Lord

passed over because the houses that had the blood of

the slaughtered animals marking and in a way redeeming them,

covering their sins, and God passed over instead of bringing

judgment upon them. That was the same time all across Jerusalem,

hundreds and maybe even thousands of lambs were being killed,

and Jesus was the lamb of God and he offered

the ultimate sacrifice. And because we know after that no

other lamb needed to be slaughtered because of what Jesus

has already gone through. At that same time, Amen, the

sevent thing he says, Father, into your hands, I commit

my spirit Chapter twenty three. And so at the very

last final thing he said was to use the prayer

that his mother Mary had taught him as a little boy.

Is from Psalm thirty one, verse five. And every Jewish

boy is taught to say this prayer when they go

to bait at night. Actually, into your hands, I commit

my spirit. And he just added one word. He added

the word father. He added the word abah. He added

the word that actually is daddy or dada in today's language.

And he says, Daddy, I commit myself into your hands

and my spirit unto you. And with that he had

spoken seven times, and Jesus surrenders his life to God,

demonstrating his trust and his confidence in God. Amen, we're

going to invite the ban up. I want us to

reflect upon the seven things that the Lord has shared

with us, because really, I believe this is the dying

declaration of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and these are things

that we should never forget, and I believe we need

to keep remembering that Jesus, it's not He's not just

in the tomb, because after this they brought him down, Okay,

and thank god, there were two from the council who

were secret believers. They were Jews in the Sanhedrin, the

council that actually executed him. But there were two of them,

Nicodemus and there was Joseph of Arimitia, who in a

way were secret believers. They were Christians, and so Joseph

had a tomb, and actually Joseph offered that tomb, and

all this in fulfillment of Isaiah as well, the proper Isaiah,

because he says that they made his grave with the

rich in his death. What usually happens to anyone who

is crucified is they actually bring the bodies and they

throw them into this valley in Jerusalem. It's a valley

called Gehnnah, and Gehinnnah is another word for haides. It's

a place where almost like a forgotten place for those

who uh, just people want to get rid of. Its

where garbage is thrown, is where bodies and dead bodies

are actually thrown. Actually up to maybe about the sixties.

If you go to Jerusalem, it's still there, and it's

still a place where people are dumb things. But today

I heard that it's a nice place that is being done.

I've never been there, but that is what go Hannah is.

But Jesus was not thrown into that valley like Judas

is scared.

Was.

He ended up in the tomb with Actually it's a

nice tomb, the Garden tomb. And again, fulfilling the scriptures

is amazing. No, he is fulfillment of scripture after scripture

after scripture. His death is probably one of the most

recorded events, hundreds of years before it ever took place.

And the fact that it happened to the tea. Sometimes.

You know, the Jews skip Isaiah fifty three because it's

in their scriptures as well. But if you read Isaiah

fifty three, it's almost impossible for you not to think

of Jesus because no one else went through that exact depiction.

And we have accounts of the crucifixion, and these are

not one or two or three people writing. You know, too,

historical facts are accepted just because a few people say

that it is true. You know, people believe and no

one will ever question that Julius Caesar invaded England. I

don't think anyone will question that because in a way

it did happen. But you know, Jesus Christ died and

was resurrected was also written. The accounts of it, the

historical accounts of it, is amazing because it's not just

a few written documents. These are thousands of documents written

and they don't vary that much. That actually tells you

about the authenticity of the scriptures that we have today

as an historical account which reflects the truth. And so

I tell you why that people still don't want to

accept the truth. It's because you see Julius Caesar died

or if Julius you know that the history says that

Julius Caesar invaded England, then of course all of us

will like, yeah, so what's in it for me? It

does nothing to you, It does nothing to me, It

does nothing to you. Probably does nothing to the English

as well, because they're so far off in history. But

if you claim that Jesus Christ died and rose again,

you would have to change your life. There is a

demand to change your life because that is us acknowledging

that this is God. And if he really is God,

then is he the God of my life is the

question that we have to ask ourselves. And I pray

today for each and every one of us here that

if it's anything, I believe that our Creator is calling us,

it's calling us, it's don't ever give up your faith.

Those who believe and those who are year to discover.

I believe he's saying I'm here and I'm real, and

history will tell you that I'm real. Historical records will

tell you that I'm real. But it is still for

us now to not just look and search the evidence,

but for us to experience the one true and Living God.

In our lives.

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