What Jesus Went Through - Heaven Rule | Pr Jack Ling

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I want to start with this now. Okay,

a question, right, I ask you a question. Has anyone here?

Maybe you don't, you don't want to remember it, but have you

do you feel like you've been betrayed before? Betrayed? Betrayal the feeling of

betrayal, Yeah, betrayed. You know, you trusted a person and then

this person turns against you or does something against you, you know, and

you thought this will never happen. And that's the feeling of betrayal, right,

And sometimes it's people close to you, you know, and you know

in the story of the in the Gospel, you know you will we will

see Jesus going through that. And we remember the name, right, Judas

is the name of the person, the person who has been there with him.

But why, you know, how come he will just turn his back

on the Lord like that? Right? But you know, we know that

forces of darkness are at work, right, and the flesh works very well

with evil, all right, So we must be very careful with that.

When when when we allow our flesh to be free to do whatever it likes,

it will possibly high chances work with evil. Yeah, and that's where

sin comes in. So anyone here you've been betrayed before? Yeah, yeah,

yeah, you feel that way. Maybe the person didn't intend to,

but you feel betrayed, right, anyone here you feel like you have been

you know, someone denied you, meaning uh, you know they anyone I

don't know wherever. Anyone has experienced this huh in front of you, their

friend, but then somewhere else they say, I don't know this person.

Actually is it a rare thing or is that quite common? Anyone you you've

been, you've experienced that before, someone tell you, tells other people actually

I don't know, don't really know this person, or they don't in front

of you, they're like your good friend, but then somewhere else is like,

actually, you know this person not cool enough for me? Whatever it

is? Okay? Uh? And how about this? How about being questioned,

question about what you do, question about who you are? Yeah again

many times maybe these people, these people don't intend to do it, but

you feel that way, right, And then finally accused. How about accused,

whether it's falsely accused or accuse for something you know that happened. Maybe

it was a mistake, and then accusation you were wrong, Yeah, why

did you do this? So? And maybe how about this? How about

abused? Abused? Perhaps physically abused, right, physically assaulted before maybe verbally

mentally right your emotions, you've been hurt that way, abused. So I

want to share with us here from John eighteen, mainly what Jesus went through,

how he went through all of this in this one chapter, and how

he dealt with it, how he dealt with it according to Heaven's rule and

not man's rule, according to the Kingdom of God and not the kingdom of

man, a man according to the spirit, and not the sword, not

the sword. Why, there's a lot of opportunity for violence, right,

but he does not do that. In fact, he stops that. Okay,

now let's look at John eighteen. I brought this prop here, okay,

just you know why, because I have no slights today, so I'm

just gonna have a prop, okay. And this prop represents the sword.

The sword. I don't have a sword. I wish I was looking for

a sword, and I was like, okay, I didn't buy a sword

because you know, don't don't agree with violence. But someone gave this gift

to Ezra has been broken. Now, yeah, this middle but is not

supposed to be there, right, there's a lightsaber supposedly all right, if

you're no Star Wars, okay, anyway, okay, lightsaber. Well,

we're very impressed with these things. Right when when someone pulls out a sword

like sabers like wow, hero, or someone's gonna get hurt, you know,

something like that is very intriguing. But I want to tell you that

throughout what we're going to talk about here, Jesus does not agree with this.

Jesus does not go with this the sword. He goes with the spirit

goes with the spirit. I'll put it here, Okay, the spirit.

You know what is the spirit? I would say, you know, the

Word of God, the Word of God, which is the truth. The

Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit helps us to use the Word of God.

The Holy Spirit leads us into truth. And so that is what Jesus focus

us on the Kingdom of God, not the kingdom of man. You know,

the kingdom of man many times is won by this. Right. The

empire strikes back, you know, kill them all here, destroy right,

the bigger your weapon, the better, right, That's that's the kingdom of

Man. That is the sword. But Jesus does not go with that,

you know, and the Kingdom of God does not need that. All right,

it is the spirit. So now let's look at John eighteen. Okay,

And I've asked Frederick to try and put up at least Bible verses there.

So, children, I don't have slide. So how are you going

to take notes? You listen, right, listen, You're write what you

hear hearing, okay, and you do you do your best, don't worry,

okay. So it's not about copying stuff here, it's thinking and putting

some words down. Okay. Something that's meaningful to you? Everyone say that

meaningful? Yeah, So you take out something that's meaningful to you. Okay,

are we there? Can you put out there? John eighteen, verse

one, Thank you, Frederick? Yeah, John eighteen, verse one,

okay, So let's look at this. After saying these things, Jesus crossed

the key Dron Valley with his disciples and entered a grave of a growth,

a grove of olive trees. Now, okay, pass it for a while

before this, before chapter eighteen one. Chapter seventeen, okay. Chapter seventeen

is the chapter where it is known as Jesus's Longest prayer, Jesus's prayer.

All right, if you kind of just turn back in your Bible bit you

will see if you know you have the Red letter Bible is all almost all

in red because Jesus is talking a lot here. He's praying, and he's

praying about unity. He's praying about you know, his people, he says,

saying, he repeats this many times. You know, I'm not of

this world. I'm not of this world. And they are not of this

world. We are not of this world. He's trying to say, his

people are not in this world. All right. We are in the world,

but we are not off the world. Yeah, and his kingdom is

not of this world. So he prayed all that, and now chapter eighteen

is where he's here, verse one, right, he went with his disciples.

How come there? Oh the version changed, okay, all right,

no worries. Yeah, and Kjim is good, yeah, okay, So

he is with his disciples. So his disciples actually heard the prayers, all

right, and so he crosses this brook keyd drawn very interesting, right,

you know, everything that's mentioned in the Bible is worth checking out because I

think there's some significance, right, so book brook Key draw on What is

that? Okay brook Key drawn? Apparently is like I know, train or

like a river beside the temple, beside the temple, near the temple.

So what happens here? You know, the temple is where they sacrifice animals,

right, and there's a lot of blood and blood keeps flowing in that

river, right and you can smell it, you know, you can smell

blood very strong, is very memorable. You know what you smell, you

know it's blood. You know. Someone was saying that. I think yesterday

at the hospital, Adril was saying, oh, okay, smell the blood,

you know, because there was a lot of blood, you know,

Reza at that time. So the whole disciples and Jesus crossed this river and

actually was reminded of the blood. And I think, you know, Jesus

was reminded himself that this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to

bleed, I'm going to be a sacrifice. And so he keeps his focus

being reminded this way. And so they go to this garden. This garden

is where they usually meet. Now I want to explain to you. Now

let's maybe go to verse two. All right, this is where we see

the betrayal happening. Okay, so we're talking about betrayal, right. Verse

two says and Judas who betrayed him. Judas, who betrayed him, also

knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples. Right,

See Judas knows this place. This is the place Jesus met often with his

disciples. I want to ask us a question here. Is there a place

we meet often with Jesus? All right? Because this is where he meets

with disciples often, right, I hope Excyberjaya here in Tinya hotel is a

place you meet with Jesus often, at least here to start with. And

then there's homes, right Can that be another place? You mean often with

Jesus there? And of course you know in your own life personally, is

there a place? Is there a time you meet often with Jesus? You

know, when I was in Sydney, my timing the place was not the

usual place. Everything got a bit jumbled up, right, because I daily

pray a prayer, and I actually say a prayer that's quite repetitive, you

know. I pray for a few things quite repetitively. And I realized that

actually helps me because when I was in Sydney, it kind of the timing

was off, and I didn't say these prayers, you know, for a

few days. Then I find myself feeling lost because it's not what I usually

do. And so this is a reminder to us, you know, we

need to be at a place that we do something often repetitive, even if

it's repetitive prayer, even if you say the Lord's prayer every day, don't

look down on that. It's very powerful, you know. It keeps you.

You know, it's like a compass. It keeps you focused. You

know, it reminds you of who you are. It reminds you of what

you're here to do. And so I thank god I'm back here in Malaysia,

and you know, I'm not at a foreign land. I love being

at a familiar place doing you know, saying the familiar prayer and spending time

with the Lord, a place where we meet often with Jesus. Hallelujah.

Let's keep doing that. Yeah. And so you see, Jesus, he's

not a secretive guy. He doesn't need to keep secrets, he doesn't need

to hide anyone you know why. He's not afraid. He's not afraid of

anything. And so when you know when when Judas was planning the betrayal,

I don't know what was on his mind. I believe he was thinking,

ah, he knows I'm gonna betray him. Maybe he's gonna hide somewhere.

Maybe he's going to gather a gang to fight back, you know, with

swords, right, and so, but you see Jesus goes to the place

that was familiar, and it's almost like saying, Judas, you know where

I'm gonna be here. Yeah, I'm just gonna be here, And Judas

comes and goes like, oh, exactly, He's just there, all right.

So Jesus is not afraid of what's happening, he's not afraid of what's

to come. Yeah, And how good it is to be able to be

to live life like that. No matter what happens to me, I will

still be at the place. I will still be there. And if you

want to catch me, you want to do anything to me, I'm not

a free because I'm doing what's right. I'm doing what is true, what

is right. I will keep going on this way, and I don't need

to fight back I don't need to fight you back there, no need to.

I don't need to have another sword to fight with you. All right,

I know where I'm going. So now verse three, this one is

where we It is very interesting. Wirst three you come Okay, yeah,

oh, it just keeps going like that. Okay, fine, right,

yay. Worse three. Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops and

officers from the chief priests and pharisees, came there with lentns, torches and

weapons. Let's take notice of this Judas. He brought a detachment of troops.

How many do you think we're there? The troops? How many?

I know in the movies we see something like five people, six something like,

you know, but actually, according to you know, you know,

according to scholars, it was probably one hundred people an army because they were

ready to fight. They were ready to do something, because they don't know

what to expect. We are going to do something, you know, violent,

We're going to catch someone. And this guy, Jesus, we've been

hearing about him and people's he's actually now more and more popular, and he's

been healing people right, raising the dead. Such a powerful person, and

so that's why I believe they are just expecting, like people are going to

rise up, going to back him up, going to fight for him.

And so they brought a hundred people or maybe more to come and capture this

Jesus. Right, so you see the judgment of troops. Not only that

you look down there, lanterns, torches and weapons. Everyone say weapons.

They brought weapons, were ready to fight. La Okay, they were ready

for a war or something. And they brought lanterns and tortures. Why because

uh, you know, they not only for just it's a nighttime thing.

I believe they were going to they were ready to search. They were thinking,

this guy's gonna hide, he's gonna be hi, he gonna escape somewhere.

We're gonna search him. We're gonna find him, and we're gonna search

with lanterns and torches and go Everywhere's gonna be a dramatic scene, right,

stuff like that. But then they come and Jesus and disciples were there looking

at them. They're there. They're just there. Made an easy job for

them. Okay. So just just so, I mean I never really noticed

this, but as I read, I got like, oh yeah, really,

they're actually ready to do something big, a big project. But Jesus

made it easy for them. I'm just here. Now we go on,

it will be more interesting. Let's go on verse four and uh, let's

go with worst fourth us. Right, Let's see what Jesus says was for

Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him, went forward and

he went forward? Hey, they answered him. Is it that looks like

five? Okay? Now I'll read my one? Okay? Verse four?

Hey, wait, I'm in the wrong book. Wait, I mean,

Matthew, let me turn it, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,

Ah, right, we have it. Now let me listen to John just

in case anyway. Verse eighteen okay, sorry, Chapter eighteen, Verse four

here, okay, Yeah, Jesus there for, knowing all things that would

come upon him, went forward and said to them, whom are you seeking?

You know? Again, like I said, he's not hiding, he's

not afraid. He comes forward to them. They're like weapons and lanterns and

everything's like who are you seeking? I mean, I think maybe they couldn't

recognize him. They still wonder is this Jesus or what you know? And

Judas is like you know, and it's like you shure it is Jesus,

right, because everyone looked the same the time. Yea, every right.

And so Jesus came up to them and said, who are you looking for?

Who are looking for? Right? And they say, they say Jesus

of Nazareus verse five and six. Let's go to that. He said,

Jesus or Nazarus were looking for Jesus or Nazru's that you've seen it, and

it's like, I'm he, I am he right, I am he.

Judas was there right, stood there to confirm, yes, this is the

guy right. I think other versions of the Bible said he actually maybe him

to confirm this is him, right, but students was there just to confirm

and he we're looking for next one, next verse. Yeah. Know what

happened here? Okay, look at this now when he said I am he,

they drew back and fell to the ground, all hundreds of them or

what. But they were like they were stunned. They were stunned. They

were shocked, like the guy is just standing here and is this really him?

I think they were surprised because says they drew back and fell to the

ground. Right. I want to tell you something here. What I noticed

here is that even in a time where it looks really scary, where you

know, it looks impossible, like one hundred people is here to destroy you,

against you, Jesus is still in control, and people who want to

threaten him will fall back. They they can't, they can't believe it.

They're afraid. A hundred soldiers, you know, with weapons and leopards,

they were afraid rather than Jesus. Jesus, one man, you know,

being targeted. He can come up to them, say hey, we're looking

for Oh yeah, I'm the guy, catch mina, get me all right.

But and he even say says, okaymana. He even says, I'm

him, don't touch any of these other people. Wow, I tell you

man, we'll talk about gangster right right, big boss. Now Jesus really

is the big boss, because say you don't touch any of them, right,

and they will listen to him. He is in authority in a situation

where you should be afraid, you should be thinking out your sword and comelah,

comela, you know, like fright back, you know. But Jesus

he's not afraid, and he can't say. And he comes up to them,

they fall down. He says, don't touch them you're looking for me,

right, just get me, Just get me. Don't touch them?

All right? Where's that verse he says, don't touch them? Verse eight?

Right? Hey, I think it's verse seven to nine. Let's okay,

it's verse seven to nine, Frederick. Right. He asked them again,

He asked them again, who are you seeking? You want to be?

Are you sure you got the right guy? Right? This is I

am Jesus of Nazareth. You can get me, and he says, don't

touch them, eight at nine, verse eight at nine. Okay, he

is still in control. Amen, any of us here, you're going through

a situation. You feel like one hundred people is against you. You feel

like you know someone's trying to give you issues and problems. Look to Jesus,

right, and don't be afraid. He is still in control. You

know, Reza's situation, it looks like it's going to be the end.

Anna's handback situation looks hopeless. But Jesus is still in control. Amen.

Amen, let's continue to put a trust in him. We may not have

it all together, right, but if we hold on to Jesus, he

is in control. We are not in control, We are not in control.

But it's Okay, Jesus is in control, so hold on to him.

Amen, Amen, praise God. Now go to verse ten level.

Let's see the reaction of the flesh. Let's see the reaction of mankind.

Peter. What happens here? I'll read verse ten and eleven? Right,

yeah, okay. Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and

struck the high priest servant and cut off his right ear. The servant's name

was Malchus. Very interesting. Again, there's no the names don't appear for

no reason. Malcus was mentioned. You ever realize the guy's name is malcous,

Yeah, Malchus. And she's a good name, you know. Apparently

it means king. Ah, it means king. It's a Greek name,

I believe. So see what happened here, Simon Peter. You know he

said to Jesus, right, he said, I will never leave you,

I will never betray you. Right. He says something like to Jesus at

one point and then so he's trying to live up to his word. Right

now, he ticks up his sword, and what happens. He goes to

this person. Who's this guy? A high pre servant, not even a

soldier. He's like soldiers, soldiers. I don't want to find oh,

find this guy. This guy, he's a servant. And you know what

it does. See if it makes sense to you, are right here,

you see the sword. If I cut Paul's here here, it will be

his left ear. So how come you guys this way? So actually he

does it from the back. He's like, the servant is here, I'm

going to care him. Ah ah, hey he does. He springs a

surprise. You know, he thinks very smart, right, Sarah, Peter

is a coward at this point, at least, right, he's he's afraid.

He's a scared He's a scary guy. Right, He's afraid, and

so he tries to do something brave. And that's that's the amount he can

do. Right, He's such just for no soldier, soldier. So a

word, okay, go get this guy right and cuts the off the right

side. So I mean, I'm just imagining, huh. Right. And

then the servants name was malcous. Why the name mentioned? Why is his

name mentioned? Right? Because I believe, I mean, if you stud

in the Bible, you'll see a lot of the names right is either most

of it is in Hebrew, like a Jewish name like caiaphas Ana's right,

but Malchus is a Greek name. Peter is a Greek name. If you

notice something the pattern, I believe those who have become Christians they change it

to a Greek name, so they have a Hebrew name and then now it's

a Greek name. So Malchus actually is now a Christian. And so that's

why his name is mentioned because you know the guy, the guy you know

you can't is Malchus, the guy who's worshiping with us today. Ah yeah,

yeah, praise God. My ear was a healed by Jesus. Yeah,

so Malchus actually, I mean, if you were healed by Jesus,

the ear that was cut off, don't you want to believe in it?

Yeah. Then also in the middle of this opportunity to evangelize this, Jesus

prays Godah yeah, so Thak. You know, you seize every opportunity that

we have to be able to pray for someone, you know, speak healing

over someone, and uh uh they will, they will be they will follow

Jesus. And so you know what Jesus does. He Jesus said to Peter,

put your sword away, don't use this thing. Right. I don't

need you to use this when you are betrayed, when you are denied,

when you are accused and abused. Keep this away, keep it away.

I don't need you to I don't need to go behind someone and cut the

ear and then choose the weaker guy. You know, right, No,

no need violence, No need the sword. Right? Uh? The spirit

is enough. Say hey, sure, I not drink the cup which my

father has given me. I need to do this job. I've got something

to do. I need to get this done, So don't stop me.

Don't stop me from fulfilling my destiny with your sword, with violence. You're

going through something, I know. Sometimes you feel like you want to get

violent. You want to fight back, you want to hit back, right,

you want to retaliate. But Jesus will tell us put it back,

put back the sword, because that's not the way to solve issues. That's

not the way you know things you're going to overcome. Amen, hallelujah.

Now verse twelve and thirteen. Let's look at that verse twelve and thirteen.

Everyone doing okay? Kids? Able to take notes? So fast? You

mean you're fast, or me, I'm fast? Let me see your notes?

Or so many things written here. Very good, very good, very

good. Right, all right, here we go, all right, first

twelve and thirteen. It's talking about pilot, pilot, okay, first twelve

and thirteen. Yeah, from then on Pilot start to release him. Am

I getting this right? Let me see? Yeah? Yeah, okay,

anyway, uh right, yeah, sorry, let me I wrote some wrong

things here, just trying to link it back together. Okay, never mind,

okay, uh I'm talking about it. Sorry, sorry, I'm looking

at the wrong chapter. This chapter nineteen, okay, verse twelve. So

the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus

and bound him. First, they led him to Onnas, for he was

the father in law of Caiaphas, who was high priests that year. It

was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man

should die for the people. All right, So you see here, you

know, the soldiers arrested Jesus, although Jesus actually gave himself to them,

all right, And so they arrested him, and look at this right if

you notice this, they led them ed him to Anna's first, who was

who the father in law of Caiaphas, So anest was not really the high

priest at that moment. Chiaphus was officially the high priest, but they had

to bring him to Anna's first. So, I mean, if you look

at this thing, it was already very fishy situation. Why they have to

bring to Anna's first, right, And obviously he was calling the shots,

right, And so you look at the situation, it's a very fleshly situation.

Someone was in power and they wanted, you know, to hold on

to power. And so there's these two names there, Anna's father in law

of Caiaphas, Right, And then we move on to verse fifteen and eighteen,

right where we see Jesus denying sorry or Peter denying Jesus Siven. Peter

followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now disciple was known to the

high Priest and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the High priest verse sixteen.

Yeah, but Peter stood at the door outside. Then the other disciple,

who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her

who kept the door, and brought Peter in. Right, we know this

part. What happens is Peter denies Jesus, right three times by the time

the rooster crows, he denies Jesus three times, although he said he wouldn't,

all right, and Jesus actually prophesied that, right, you will deny

me. But how does Jesus deal with someone who denies him? Right again,

if you did it by the sword, you would cut this guy off.

You will not probably won't work with this guy anymore, right, because

he told you you were going to deny me. And how brave of you

to go ahead cut the guy's hair from the back. Right. There's so

many flaws that we can see in Peter. But we know you know later

on in the chapters down the road, as Peter met Jesus again, he

forgives him. Jesus forgives Peter who denied him. Yeah, and Jesus even

empowered him and trusted him, say you feed my sheep, if you love

me, feed my sheep, feed my lambs. I entrust you to do

my work. Still, uh and uh, yeah, I mean, if

we look at this, how do we deal with people who have been denying

us? How do we deal with people who have been going against us?

If we go by the sword, by the flesh, by the kingdom of

man, it will be, it will end up in aggression and violence.

But let's go by the spirit. Let's go by the spirit. Let's go

by the Kingdom of God. And you know, through that, through the

Holy Spirit. Again, as I said earlier, by our own strength,

we are not able. By our own strength. We you know, we

feel like hope, giving up hope, giving up trust. But this,

by the Holy Spirit and holding onto Jesus, he is able, and then

he is able, and so we keep holding on to him. And whether

we face betrayal, denial, accusations. You know, I don't think I

will read on some more, but I just want to tell you a bit

more. You know, when Jesus was faced with Pilate and he says,

are you the King of the Jews? If you read on in the next

few verses, are you the King of the Jews? Right, he's the

one declaring that. And you know, you know, the story of the

gospel is that pilot eventually puts the signed King of the Jews on the cross,

and the priests actually said, no, don't put that, don't put

that right, because we don't want him to declare him the king of Jews

by pilots is not. He's already done. Even at that point, God

is in control and God the class, Jesus the King of the Jews.

All right, and and you know, you know how frustrated I believe the

priests and all these people were, what all going as not as planned?

You know, now we're declaring him killed the Jews. Now you know he's

in control. We try to search for him and bring all the soldiers and

and and and he's like, yeah, here I am and they fall down

to the ground. God is still in control. Amen. Amen. We

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