173. Jesus Christ series 2023, Part 4

We delve into the plot against Jesus Christ, the Pharisees' crucial role, and the scheming by religious leaders of the time. We examine Jesus’ unyielding focus on his heavenly mission, even when faced with danger, and discuss how this serves as a profound example for us. We then move on to contemplate the significance of the Last Supper, the impact of Jesus' betrayal by those closest to him, and the repercussions of Judas' betrayal. 

Finally, we pause to explore the transformative power of Jesus' resurrection after the agonizing pain he endured for us. The tale of Judas, driven by money and greed, serves as a cautionary tale, reminding us of the consequences of not fully embracing our Christian journey. As we conclude, we examine the importance of sharing the Gospel and the immense love of Jesus that led him to die for us. We leave you with the thought to express our gratitude for God's grace by being generous and supporting our fellow Christians. This episode promises to deepen your understanding of the Biblical narratives and their relevance to our lives today.

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A Call to Salvation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Um, you know, it's one thing when you, when you number one, he's an innocent man, that's one thing. And on top of that, an innocent man being mocked, as you alluded to in the previous section that you covered. Um, you know, being spit on and being hit and so many how they, how they treated him and now he's on the cross and now they're mocking him, you saying that you was the son of God. You, you about to do this and you about to do that. And Welcome to the call by God podcast with Adne Godin and myself, nixon Sylvain. This show is about dialogues of biblical characters and testimonies of Christians who submitted to the will of God. Each week, we bring on one guest so that they can share their story of how they were called by God. I hope this show inspires you. Enjoy Cas. I'm yours truly, brother, nick, and I'm here with sister Adne Godin. Sister Godin, how you doing on this blessed day?

Speaker 2: 1:08

Oh, brother, nick, I am doing good. I had a moment of um sabbatical. Um, I don't think people understand the significance of taking a sabbatical. It's a reset, it's a recharge, it's a rejuvenation, but, most importantly, it is when the sabbatical has a significance and the purpose, and that is to, for me, get into a deeper relationship with the Lord.

Speaker 2: 1:35

Um, I've been, you know, doing some research on the logos app and trying to figure out some stuff how to study the Bible for myself and they have some amazing resources in there and then also just staying in a place of silence because I have a lesson to present on Monday, the 20th of November, and I've just been asking God, what does he want me to talk about? And it's so powerful. He keeps bringing up straddling defense, straddling defense. And I'm like, okay, whatever you want me to share with that. Um, here am I send me.

Speaker 2: 2:11

So I wanted to study the scriptures that show you know things on straddling the fist, and one that comes to mind is you can't serve two masters. But as I bring that to bring my how I'm doing to a close, I'm, I'm just amazing because it's like God chooses you for assignment and all I'm learning to do is say yes to God, not to people, but to God, because it's like a gentle whisper just takes place in my heart when it's presented and he's like, yeah, I want you to do this. Or if it's like, nope, that's not what I want you to do, I just know to say I'm sorry, that's not my assignment, I can't, I can't take that on right now, but it's just so beautiful. How are you doing?

Speaker 1: 2:54

I'm blessed. I mean I can't compare to the things that you got going on in your world, but I like what you're doing in in a good way, because you're single and I believe that single folks have, you know, they got to have a heart to just serve the Lord. You know, and the book of Corinthian talks about that, first Corinthians, chapter seven. You know, so when you're single, yeah, you're supposed to serve God and go hard, but the married man or the married woman will care of the things of the world, how they may please each other and the Lord. So it could make things a little difficult, but but it is a blessing. Marriage is a blessing, but for you to be single and to be indulgent in all those ministries and have so many things going on out, that's a good thing. It just brings me great joy. It brings me great joy because single folks, they could be doing. As a single you could be doing anything you want to do, right, you could just pretty. I mean, god been so good to you, so you understand the assignment, so you understand the call. So I'm speaking to that individual that may not understand the car and they're single and they indulge themselves to other things as ungodly, but I like what you're doing. But for me, overall, I'm blessed. I'm thankful to God for my family, thankful to God for my health, you know, and my strength. I'm just thankful overall. But I'm also thankful for this discussion that God has given us, you and I, the ability to do, because just to talk about Jesus, right, so we've been.

Speaker 1: 4:37

This is the fourth episode We've been talking. We talked about Jesus Christ and his prophecy. Episode two, we talked about when Jesus Christ was a baby and when Jesus Christ was in his preteen. And episode number three, we talked about Jesus Christ when he began his ministry. So now this episode, episode four, is going to be a little challenging, because this is, this is we're going to talk about the plot when Jesus Christ was crucified, jesus Christ death, burial and even his resurrection, and although we know that this is something that he had to go through for us that's why it gets to me, because that was supposed to be us you know everything that we're about to read and the things that Jesus Christ experienced.

Speaker 1: 5:27

That was supposed to be us, for we know that the wages of sin is death. So you know, when there are sin involved, a death must take place. It goes back to when Adam and Eve fell short of that and they disobeyed God. God had to slew an animal just to clothe them because, you remember, they covered, they made clothing, they covered up themselves, but God had to cover them. So if God had to cover them, God didn't just create something and cover them. No, god had to sacrifice something in order to cover them. So that's why it gets to me, because I make it more personal, because I remember when I was lost in my sins and I was lost and now that I'm redeemed and you know I was once blind and now I can see I get it. So whenever we're reading about Jesus, that is like near and dear to my heart. So I'm excited for this episode.

Speaker 1: 6:21

But before we dive into the episode number one I know I said a mouthful I want to thank our Lord and our Savior, jesus Christ, for giving us the strength and afford it to to continue this podcast and give it add in the night of strength, rather to do this podcast. Also, I want to thank all of our listeners, our viewers, those who subscribe and share and even support made. You know we always ask for a small support, as little as 99 cents, I would say the dollar would be the tax. I don't know the percentage of tax worldwide, but you can make a small support or a donation towards the podcast on wwwcalledbygodpodcastcom, so you, I could check out all of our content. We got blogs and also you could follow, you could support our podcast and do whatever that God has placed in your heart. So now let's dive right into the episode.

Speaker 1: 7:22

So now the plot. So what we mean about the plot is that Jesus Christ had a plot. He had a message that not too many people was fond upon, but not too many people was happy about that, and that even happens even to this day. You know, we have a message in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Not too many people is happy about the gospel, but we still must proclaim. So back in the day, over 2000 years ago, jesus Christ was proclaiming the kingdom. Jesus Christ was saying he was God, he was saving people, he was doing miracles, and, of course, not everybody was happy with his message. So therefore, they had to plot how they would get rid of this good man. So, adne, I want you to go ahead and read a few verses about the plot. We could touch on Matthew's chapter 12, verse 14. And we'll talk about the other scriptures as well.

Speaker 2: 8:21

Okay, so so it could make sense. I'm going to start at 12. Is that okay?

Speaker 1: 8:27

Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 2: 8:28

Okay, Well, no, it's better to start at 11. It says, and he answered if you had a sheet that fell into a well on a Sabbath, wouldn't you work to pull it out? Of course you would. And how much more valuable is a person than a sheet? Yes, the law permits a person to do good on the Sabbath. Then he said to the man hold out your hand. So the man held out his hand and it was restored, just like the other one. Then the Pharisees called a meeting to plot how to kill Jesus.

Speaker 1: 9:59

Yeah, that's heavy right there, yeah, so I'm glad that you went above that particular passage just to bring some color and some context into what you just read. And if folks don't know who the Pharisees are, the Pharisees are religious people, whoever that was, but the Pharisees were the ones that added to the law. So when Jesus Christ was doing all these wonderful works, they were against that. And so when we read verse number 14, in the same chapter, chapter 12, when it says then the Pharisees went out and they held a council, they had a meeting, y'all, and how they might destroy him. So when it says him, it's talking about Jesus. So these religious people, they held a meeting to see how they would destroy Jesus. Now there's again. We're talking about the plot here Because, again, whenever a person and we could make it modern, you know whenever a person is out there doing the right thing, and then there's going to be people, that's evil, that's going to be an opposition to that individual or that person or even a group of people.

Speaker 1: 11:22

So, whenever you're trying to stand for what is right, because Jesus Christ was, actually he had healed a man with a withered hand. Of course, the religious people did not like the thought that he was doing that on the Sabbath Day, because you know what to the Sabbath Day today was like, a place of a time of being holy, being with their family, a time of rest. So when Jesus Christ did this good act, they did not like it. They looked at it like as though oh Jesus Christ, you're breaking the law, you breaking the mosaic, go law. Oh, my goodness Jesus. So they did not like that. So we know, in verse number 14, they plotted against him. So also Jesus Christ. He knew the things that was in their heart. So Jesus Christ also withdrew from attack. So, adi, can you go to Matthew's chapter 12, verse 15, read verses 15 through 21,. But do you got anything to add on pretty much what I just said about the Pharisees?

Speaker 2: 12:27

I find it disheartening. And I say I find it disheartening because, as I read the scriptures, every single time something comes out. And to see the Pharisees. Y'all know the scriptures, that's what y'all sit and do. Y'all study the scriptures, y'all study the word and never once did your heart burn in you to say, wow, this is truly the Messiah. Never once did you did it come to your mind that this is the person that we read, reread about and study about in the law. And secondly, to see him performing miracles that you don't even read about in the law. Really, you don't. It don't click. It's like it doesn't click in your mind. Let's fast forward and bring it here to modern day.

Speaker 2: 13:22

And we, when we see people being blessed, and our minds, our hearts, don't burn inside of us to say, hmm, they're doing something different for them to have this type of blessing. Right, I want that, you know, I want what they have, and you, we can try and minister and share, but it's still like a blockage, like there's no receptiveness of what Jesus is doing for us, for people to understand. This is why, why we behave or why we do what we do. So that's what was burning in my heart, because it's like, like Jesus said, if you have a sheep that falls in the hole, aren't you gonna go and get it out? You sure will. But but this man, a human being, y'all y'all trying to test me to see if I'm gonna heal him. He's a son of Abraham. So that that just blew my mind just. Sometimes we have to realize and understand. Sometimes we can be the Pharisees to here in modern day, when if we don't check ourselves, like really, really, truly check ourselves, and that's all that came to mind for me.

Speaker 1: 14:35

So let me do, let me do this. I'll read the verse, because I just want to touch on one verse and I want to talk about when Jesus Christ predicted his death. So yeah, in Matthew, chapter 12, verse 15. I'm not gonna read it all, I'm just one verse. It said but when Jesus Christ knew it, he said he withdrew himself from things and a great multitude follow him and he healed them all. So again the following verse 14, that's when the Pharisees had the meeting and and they was kind of like thinking about how they could destroy him and Jesus, when he, jesus knew it and he withdrew himself From then. So there were times that Jesus Christ escaped, like he just got away. But but what I do want you to read and is the next, following the following chapters when Jesus Christ All predicted his death. We know that Jesus predicted his death a few times. So we're gonna read Matthew's chapter 16, verses 21, and Matthew's 1722 through 23, when Jesus Christ predicted his death. So 16, 20, 21.

Speaker 2: 15:45

Okay. Matthew 16 21 From then on, jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and that he would suffer many terrible things at the hands of the elders, the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but on the third day he would be raised from the dead. But Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him For saying such things. Heaven forbid, lord. He said this will never happen to you. Jesus turned to Peter and said get away from me, satan. You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God.

Speaker 1: 16:34

Wow, I think that was worth mentioning. So Jesus Christ predicted his death and Jesus Christ is pretty much telling them like, hey, this message that I'm about to share, look these religious folks about to kill me. But but Jesus Christ is telling them in a way, look, death is not gonna hold me down, I'm going, I'm gonna die and I'm gonna rise on the third day. I'm another one. Jesus Christ was saying I'm good, and that's why I had you read about what Peter said, because Peter is one of them, one of them disciples, that he's a, he's an interesting character. Peter is one of the interesting characters, but he's a. He's a. He's an individual that was called by God, a disciple of God. But it shows you to add the sister, add the how the enemy can use your brother or your sister in Christ To kind of so doubt or disbelief and in your heart about whatever call that God or assignment that God has in our lives. So you know, I, like God, could put something in your heart and you may have a brother or sister in Christ to be like man. You sure you want to do that. You sure that God gave you revelation on that. But listen what Jesus Christ said to Peter. He said get thee behind me, satan. He said for that, for thou art an offense unto me, for thou Saviour is not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. So, christ, jesus Christ wasn't talking to Peter, he was talking to the enemy. It's just that the enemy it use Peter and that's why we got to be very also careful when God given us assignment and this is a, this task that Jesus have it's really is going to lead to his, it's going to lead to physical harm. And I don't know anybody, the only person. So we could talk about, like American history, right, african American history, where you got the Martin Luther Kings of the world, that that you know the things that they Promoted and in the sense that they knew they was going to die. You know, hey, with the civil rights movement, they knew that it was going to die because the calling was so great, the assignment was so great that they just couldn't let it go. And they knew that. Okay, I know, despite what we do, we're going to promote peace, we're not going to promote violence and we're going to do what's right, but all of that ultimately led him to his demise. I Mean, I'm not comparing Jesus Christ to Martin Luther King. That's just one example that just popped up my head. I'm so.

Speaker 1: 19:23

There's plenty of leaders from back in Jesus. They all the way to present day. There's leaders like that, that, people like that, individuals like that that, yeah, there's believe that people, paul, yeah, people that believe and they stand for what is truth and what is right and what's morally right, and that's what Jesus Christ, jesus Christ is. Ten of disciples, um, peter in that. Hey look, I'm about, I'm about to, I'm about to die, I'm about to suffer bodily harm, but Death will not even hold me. So you know, read the next passage or you got anything to say.

Speaker 2: 20:00

Um, I think we need to bring it to modern day, because if we see Peter reprimanding Christ on an assignment that the Lord has given him, think about how many times we're going to have to do the same thing for two people that we love, right, um, I mean, we might not say, get, be behind me, satan, but we might have to say, hey, you know what? I Understand that you don't see the vision that God has for me, and that's okay. But what the Lord has read has shown me the, the, the burning desire inside of me to fulfill this specific task. I Take it on and I take it head on. You don't have to be a part of it, you don't even have to pray for me if you don't want to.

Speaker 2: 20:47

But this is what it is, is, um, and we also have to understand we wrestle not with flesh and blood. Like Satan entered Pete into Peter to place doubt in Jesus, but Jesus, knowing that the assignment is so great that he had to rebuke the demon, the spirit that entered into Peter To reprimand him. We too have to do the same thing, and sometimes we've got to reprimand and rebuke ourselves, because we will put that doubt in ourselves as well. So when God gives you something that is bigger than your own comprehension, when he gives you an assignment that you just don't even understand, like I'll use me, for example, this abortion recovery talking about Talking to people about not having abortions after I've had them, but to help them understand that God is the author of life and he has given us the ability of life. And anybody that opens their mouth and say we have a right to kill God's precious gems, they're lying to you. They're nothing but demons and that have come to do the assignment of Satan's to end life.

Speaker 1: 22:01

So we all have to understand the assignment and sometimes we have to rebuke and reprimand ourselves as well amen, amen, yes, so let's, let's fast forward to Matthew 17, and then we're gonna talk about the Last Supper. So Matthew 17 22. Okay, verse 22 23, 23 yes okay.

Speaker 2: 22:28

After they gathered again in Galilee, jesus told them the Son of man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies and he will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead, and the disciples were filled with grief yeah, that's tough because they don't.

Speaker 1: 22:45

They don't understand the assignment yet they haven't. They haven't fully come to grips with what Jesus Christ is about to do for a humanity. So it's like they got, they were so they got so caught up with, you know, jesus Christ being around, the relationship that they built with him and they didn't want him to go anywhere. You know they call them rabbi, you know master teacher, you know God. But at the end of the day, jesus Christ was focused. I like how, how Jesus Christ ministry unfolding and even towards the latter end of his tenure here on earth as a human, he is focused at me. Jesus Christ is a focused individual, so he's he conveyed to them few times of how he would die, or he predicted his death. Rather, and that tells you when a person is focused, it ain't nothing you could tell the individual that will deviate or change their mind. And that's why I see here in our Lord and I say that Jesus Christ.

Speaker 1: 23:58

But I want to tiptoe over to how, because we're just talking about the plot and now we're gonna talk about the things that ultimately led to his hand being crucified. But before he was crucified, jesus Christ did something, something important. He changed history, not in the same change history because of what transpired back in Exodus, but he did something very significant and I wanted to talk about that. So I want to talk about the Lord supper. So the Lord supper, so remember Jesus Christ, already predicting his death and now he's sharing some things with his disciples and then now he's, he initiated Lord supper, so during the time of Jesus, right at me. So, and Matthew's 26, because we gonna, we gonna read it. So Matthew 26, verses 20 to 25, let's read that and we'll talk about the, the last supper.

Speaker 2: 25:01

Matthew 26, verse 20 to 25, reads when it was evening, jesus sat down at the table with the 12 while they were eating. He said I tell you the truth one of you will betray me. Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn am I the one Lord? He replied one of you who has just eaten from the bowl with me will betray me. For the Son of man must die, as the scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born. Judas, the one who would betray him, also asked Rabbi, am I the one? Jesus said to him. You have said it.

Speaker 2: 25:58

As they were eating, jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it and pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying take this and eat it, for this is my body. And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said each of you drink from it, for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.

Speaker 1: 26:33

Mark my words I will not drink wine again until the day I drink it new with you and my father's kingdom so this is where Jesus Christ, of course, he already told his disciples that there's gonna be one that's gonna betray me, and also this is when he initiated the Lord's supper. So, though, in the time of Jesus, the Jews would eat the Passover in the following way so they're having a meal, passover meal, and then we know every, every item or food item on the menu has a meaning behind it. So the Passover goes back, dating back all the way back to the Old Testament, when it, when the each, the Israelites, were under the bondage of the Egyptians. God had all these plagues, plague the Egyptians, but, but there was one final test that had to go through, one final plague that had to go through, where God was going to kill what? Every firstborn, one of the firstborn out of every child. So, as a result, the people in that day, they had to. They had to cover their doorposts with lamb blood and they had to put the blood on their doorposts, and also, they had to, they had to eat a Passover meal. That's what they did. They ate a meal to celebrate, to commemorate that moment when the death spirit, the, the death angel, came through and it passed over. It passed over the children of Israel and it went to the Egypt's, the Egyptians, household and it slew all the firstborns. So that's their way of celebrating or commemorating God and giving God the glory for not killing them, for not, you know, killing the Israelites and allowing the death angel to pass over.

Speaker 1: 28:39

So, gee, this is so significant to the point where, first of all, let me talk about what they did in the Old Testament. So the meat represented the sacrifice that was slain on their behalf. That's the meat that they ate. Remember, every meal, every food item on that they had on a plate had a meaning. So the meat represented the sacrifice. The bitter herbs represented their bitter experience in Egypt. The unleavened bread represented the haste in which they left because again, after the last plague, the Israelites took off. They, you know, we would say, in the hood, they dipped I don't know if they still use that word, man, I got dip, but anyways they left right. And then the wine, the grape juice represented. It represented two things the blood that was shed in Egypt and also the good life in a promised land. So what would happen at in that day? The leaders of the household would offer prayers and they would eat and they would drink, and four cups of wine and others would follow with with this lead.

Speaker 1: 29:58

So the Passover is like a deliverance. It's like a deliverance story. It's like we, as Christians, when we are covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, when the death angel comes, the spiritual death angel come, it pass over us as Christians, it does not kill us, and that's what's going to happen in the last day when Jesus Christ returned. So then, in this particular context, so Jesus, he served as the leader and he led them through the mill. Remember they having a Passover meal? And once the food was gone there, it remained only one piece of unleavened bread and a final cup of wine to drink.

Speaker 1: 30:38

Then he changed in God. Jesus changed the significance of the Lord's Supper. From now on, he said, the bread, the bread is going to represent his body and in the cup, the blood is going to represent the new covenant, the blood. So Jesus Christ changed those emblems, those representations of that particular meal. He said this memorial would no longer be remembered by the Jews. Freedom from the Egyptian bondage. It would now commemorate their own personal freedom from the bondage of sin because of his body and blood. That right there is amazing.

Speaker 2: 31:25

I, when I think about the Lord's Supper he says do this in remembrance of me. What I've learned to do is, every morning, before I leave home, every day, I praise and I worship God, and I really do mean that. But on Sundays is just a special day because I feel like I'm going to have dinner with you know, my Lord and Savior, and I always take a glimpse back into history and just seeing him as a baby, innocent, vulnerable, grown up to 12 years old where he's searching and seeking for his relationship with God, and then his baptism with John, and then teaching and preaching and then getting to the point where it's like, okay, three years on earth, I've done what I've come to do. Now let me institutionalize this amazing meal that my children, my brothers and sisters will have every Lord's day with each other, and for them to do it in remembrance of me.

Speaker 2: 32:34

Sometimes I have to remember that he's not just relegated to just the scriptures. It's walking through the scriptures and remembering the sacrifice that he made, like Jesus, left Pal the palace of heaven to come down here to be a lowly servant, to be mistreated like us, be done dirty like us. Only you know. For him, for his father to understand, because it's like I couldn't understand why in the world are they always sinning, like what is wrong with them? But Jesus came down and lived the life and he was like, okay, daddy, this is what it is, this is what they're going through. And then he reconciles us to our father and then, as we're reconciled, we get to sit in service in his presence and we are able to sing songs and hymns and spiritual songs. Then we take this meal. Yes, it's to everybody, it's just a little bit of cracker, but it's deeper than that. It is his actual spiritual body that we partake in. That gives us life. And then the blood because the blood is life is in the blood. The blood of Jesus gives us life To understand all of that he institutionalized for us to constantly be in a regenerative state of walking with him, of being with him, of being one with him.

Speaker 2: 34:06

And that's what I've learned so much about the Lord's Supper is that it is a moment of not just me communing with my brothers and sisters in Christ, but I am communing with my Savior, my Lord, until he says okay, this world is about to end and we're going to eat this together in heaven.

Speaker 2: 34:26

And I think that's one of the things that breaks my heart when I hear you know, in the denominational world they take the Lord's Supper only on the first Sunday, but yet y'all collect money every Sunday. I think that's heartbreaking for me that we've relegated him to just one Sunday. But when it comes to that money, baby, we pick it, we pick it, look, and then you pass the collection place four or five times but you can't even remember the true sacrifice of Jesus' death on the cross for you. So I'm always going to bring it back to. If you are in a body where they don't even celebrate the death, the burial and resurrection of Jesus every Sunday by partaking of this meal called the Lord's Supper, you're in the wrong house and it's time for you to get into the right house.

Speaker 1: 35:29

Wow, now that's a mic jar. I think you said a mouthful right there. As it relates to the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper I think you said this before it's not a funeral. It's a time to remember our Savior, remember his death, burial and even his resurrection.

Speaker 1: 35:56

And for me I can't speak for everybody, but for me I strive to make it more personal. So this, how, jesus Christ, he's sitting with the disciples at a table right now, at this moment, right now when he's initiating the new way of doing things. And the same way that I picture myself when I'm in the local congregation, I picture Jesus Christ Like I picture like there's a huge table and then you got Christ at the center of it all, and I picture all my brothers and sisters in Christ and we're all partaking in this spiritual food. We're partaking in the body, the blood. I picture it, I envision it. So while I'm picturing us, all of us partaking, also remember, I'm remembering him and I'm celebrating what he did for us, like I said, the death, the burial and even the resurrection. And I think, when it comes to the Lord's Supper, I think people have to make it more personal, because what Jesus Christ went through, they need to look at it like dude, it was supposed to be you on that cross. Jesus Christ wasn't supposed to be on that cross. It was used to also be having nails go through your wrist and your foot and being hung out there on the cross Like that was supposed to be us. But what Jesus Christ did? He sacrificed himself for all of humanity, just so we won't have to go through that kind of cruelty, that kind of punishment, that type of agony and pain that he did it for us. And that's how you personalize the Lord's Supper. And then you're right, it's not something that you do once a month or once every other month or once a year, and it's not only given to a priest, it's given to all members in the body of Christ. Every first day of the week, every first day of the week when we come together, we partake in the Lord's Supper.

Speaker 1: 38:13

So after they partook and after he initiated the Lord's Supper, of course he already said it that somebody's going to betray him. And we already know who that is Judas. Nobody won't name a child Judas. That's the Aesir way. That's the Aesir way, judas, judas. So verse 26, verse 47.

Speaker 1: 38:38

Judas, yeah, verse chapter 26, verse 47 says and while he spake lo, judas, one of the twelve, came with him a great multitude with swords and staves and from the chief priests and the elders of the people. And this is the time where Jesus Christ is getting betrayed and he's being arrested by these people in that day. So it was Judas the one that initiated it and that kind of like led these people to Jesus. And you know what I think about adding before we go on to the next point, because we're going to talk about how Jesus Christ went before Caiaphas and Pilate and Herod. It's always people in your circle. So Jesus Christ got betrayed, but it wasn't someone number one, it was his own family, it was the Jews. The Jews didn't like what he was saying, but the Jews had to get somebody in his circle. So those people right there are part of Jesus family, his circle, and also the Jews. They were the ones that ultimately led him to be crucified.

Speaker 2: 40:06

I had to learn to pray and ask God to provide me with people he wanted in my life. What I love about Jesus. Jesus knew Judas' heart but he gave him that opportunity to be around him. And it's not so much that Jesus didn't know what Judas was thinking, it was like adneism. Maybe if he comes around me, something I'm doing will penetrate his heart and he won't be so greedy.

Speaker 2: 40:45

Right when we read scriptures, judas was greedy. He was driven by money. He was driven by obtaining more and more and more. Because when we go to John, when the woman you know was it John 12, chapter 12, where the woman married anointed Jesus and he said why this waste Like, first of all, jesus is worthy of all of it. That's the first thing You're talking about. Some widest waste Like Jesus ain't worthy of that sacrifice. Jesus is worth all of it.

Speaker 2: 41:26

It could have been sold to take care of the poor, but he didn't say it because he wanted to take care of the poor. He said it because he was the one that handled the finances and he was skimming some money off the top where nobody would recognize. But it just showed that even though people walk with you, it doesn't mean that they see the assignment that is given to you. They don't have the true buy-in. And that's one of the things we have to be careful of as people walking this journey. Not everyone is going to buy-in to the Christian journey. Not everyone is going to have a buy-in on how it needs to be done, how God gave a specific command on how to save souls. Even people in the church are against what needs to be done. There are people that says nope, that's not how it is. We're not the only ones that this assignment is given to, and I was listening to Brother Willie B Williams on yesterday and he said this is scripture. It's not what I'm saying, and sometimes we fail to realize and understand that. It's not what Adne says, it's not what Nick says, it's what God says.

Speaker 2: 42:46

If you're reading the same Bible and it tells you this is how you are added to the body of Christ, jesus became that Lamb of Sacrifice for the body of Christ. Who are we to say that's not what it is? We listen to everybody else but Jesus. So let me bring it back to Judas. Judas was listening to everybody else but Jesus and that means that in the spiritual, his ears may have heard, but his heart did not receive. And a lot of us, our ears are hearing, but our hearts are not receiving the truth. To betray someone's mean, to betray someone means that there is no love for that person at all. There's to betray a person to the point where they lose their lives, there is no love for that person at all. Let me bring it to us.

Speaker 2: 43:49

Some of us are Judas. Some of us are not even willing to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with our coworkers, with our family members, with friends, people we call friends. Some of us are Judas because we claim to love these people but we don't. We betray them every single day. We allow them to walk this earth without even planting the seed of the gospel in them, and I've been guilty. I'm learning more now than ever to open my mouth and just have the conversation and plant the seed of Jesus, because that's all I need to do is plant that seed, and maybe I will be the one to water it, or God will send another person to come behind me to water it, but it's just planting the seed. We need to love Jesus enough to plant the seed of the gospel and stop being Judas.

Speaker 1: 44:52

And Judas. Ultimately he hung himself, he committed suicide and I am certain because he fell guilty for what he did to an innocent and just man. So of course he harmed himself and God Jesus would have forgiven him. But moving forward, so when Jesus Christ got betrayed, he went before Caiaphas, then he went before Herod and he went before Pilate. And let's read about what Pilate Pilate because I know Pilate, he did Pilates. He delivered Jesus to be crucified. So we could read that in verse Matthew's chapter 27, verses 24 through 26. So, adne, go ahead and read what Pilate how did Pilate deliver Jesus to be crucified?

Speaker 2: 45:42

I'm reading it in the message Bible. It says when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere and that a riot was imminent, he took a basin of water and washed his hands in full sight of the crowd, saying I am washing my hands of the responsibility of this man's death. From now on, it is in your hands, your judge and jury. The crowd answered we'll take the blame, we and our children after us. Then he pardoned Barabbas. Sorry, barabbas, delete that. Then he pardoned Barabbas, but he had Jesus whipped and then handed over for crucifixion.

Speaker 1: 46:30

You see, Pilate didn't want to have none do with it. Pilate is like look, this man is an innocent man, this man is a judgment, he ain't doing nothing wrong. They would rather get rid of. Release a criminal. Barabbas, They'd rather. So that's us, because we're Barabbas Again. We see these things, we read these things in the Bible and we see God's hand. God is moving right through it because God, Jesus Christ, he's going to do what he's needed to do because he's focused, he's on assignment.

Speaker 1: 47:05

This Barabbas guy was a criminal. He was the guy that was in bondage. It was in jail. So the innocent is on a verge of persecution, while the one who committed a crime get free or become free. And that is us. We were in spiritual bondage, we were in sin, we were in jail. But God says, in order for me to release this sin, this bondage, from your life, someone innocent has to die. I have to die in order for you to be released. So we are Barabbas, and I just thought I'll add that point before you go on to the next. So the next point is when they mocked our Savior. And this is going to be tough because we're going to be talking about how they mocked Jesus, how he got crucified and how he died and he resurrected. So here, this is the point where they mocked him. So when you read it, I don't know if you could dissect it, and then we'll go on to the next where him being crucified, so Jesus Christ being mocked, in verse number 27 to verse 31.

Speaker 2: 48:18

The soldiers assigned to the governor took Jesus into the governor's palace and got the entire brigade together for some fun. So Jesus became a circus clown to them. They stripped him and dressed him in a red toga. They planted a crown from the branches of a thorn bush and set it on his head. They put a stick in his hand for a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mocking reverence. Bravo, king of the Jews. They said Bravo. Then they spit on him and hit him on the head with the stick. When they had their fun, they took off the toga and put on his clothes back on him. Sorry, put. Then they put. They took off the toga and put his own clothes back on him. Then they proceeded out to the crucifixion.

Speaker 2: 49:22

So before you kill me, you make fun of me. Before you hang me on the cross, you make a mockery of me like this is a joke. You make me out to be a joke and the thing for me as Adne, being transparent, reading this, it pricks my heart. Why? Because Jesus went through all of this for me and I have not walked this journey in complete surrenderance and submission to him. I have not postrated myself to the point of Jesus. I can't move and function without you leading and guiding my life. You have been my savior and not my Lord, and there are so many of us that Jesus is our savior but he is not our Lord and I have to say I repent of that, because to see reading it in this version it gives you a completely different glimpse of the mockery right, because they strip him of his clothes and put a toga on him.

Speaker 2: 50:39

I don't know if anybody knows what a toga is. It's just like this thing that you wrap around your waist and then they plant a crown of thorns. If you've ever gotten roses and got pricked by a thorn, can you imagine that going on his head? That's, that's cutting him right. And then you take a stick and put it in his hand and you take that same stick and hit him in the head where the thorn of thorn, the crown thorn, is on his head.

Speaker 2: 51:13

So the abuse was serious. Oh, they spit on him. Now we know for us, nowadays somebody spit on you, christian or not. Look, we fighting, we strapping, re-rolling because you ain't putting your bodily fluids on me. But Jesus said nothing. He didn't say a word. He took that humiliation, he took the spit, he took everything for us. I think it's honestly time that some of us go back, read this story, read this historical account. I said stories, please forgive me, but read this biblical historical account to see how much Jesus genuinely, wholeheartedly, unapologetically, unconditionally loves humanity. Because there is no man on this time side of life that would have done what Jesus did and allowed these people to do what they did to him. Jesus could have called 12 legions of angels and he didn't. That is pure love. That is pure love it.

Speaker 1: 52:35

Yeah, I want to move, keep moving on him being crucified, found in the same chapter, verses 32, 44. So we just going pretty much be reading on this chapter here, cuz you know it has so much him crucified, dying and red being resurrected. The following check the chapter who?

Speaker 2: 53:00

along the way, they came on a man from sirene named Simon and made him carry Jesus's cross. Arriving at Galgotha, the place they called the the Skull Hill, they offered him a mild pain killer, a mixture of wine and mer, but when he tasted it he wouldn't drink it. After they had finished nailing him to the cross and were waiting for him to die, they wild away the time by throwing dice for his clothes. Above his head, they had posted the criminal charge against him. This is Jesus, the king of the Jews. Along with him, they also crucified two criminals, one to his right and the other to his left.

Speaker 2: 53:56

People passing along the road jeered, asking, asking sorry, shaking their heads and and mocking lament. You brag that you could tear down the temple and then rebuild it in three days. So show us your stuff, save yourself. If you really, if you're really God's son, come down from the cross. The high priest, along with the religion scholars and leaders, were right there mixing it up with the rest of them, having a great time poking fun at him. He saved others. He can't save himself. King of Israel, is he then? Let him come down from the cross. Will all become believers. Then he was so sure of God. Well, let him rescue his son now. Ooh, if he wants him. He did claim to be God's son, didn't he? Even the two criminals crucified next to him, wow, joined in the mockery.

Speaker 1: 55:04

Wow, I'm. I think what you just read spoke for itself, spoke for itself. I mean, yeah, to be rolling dice, casting lots and and mocking him, you know it's one thing. When you, when you, number one, he's an innocent man, that's one thing. And on top of that innocent man being mocked as you alluded to in the previous section that you covered, you know being spit on and being hit and so many, how they, how they treated him, and now he's on the cross and now they're mocking him, you saying that you was the son of God, you, you about to do this and you about to do that, and just, I just just trying to visualize in my mind it's sickening, it's sad that it has come to this point and what, what I think overall, what I'd like or what I love, what God didn't do, that God didn't send out a legion of angels although it is tough for me to hear, you know, even when he was reading, and I'm like man, it's tough cuz I'm like, wow, that's, this is supposed to be us, we supposed to be going through what Jesus Christ is experiencing. But Jesus Christ could kid, could have easily called a lesion of his angels to destroy humanity or destroy the people around him, the destroy it and come. They could have come rescue him, but he didn't even do that. He took it all for us and this is why we, when Christians are saved and we think about Jesus Christ at least we supposed to think of him in that way. Like man, he did something for us that we couldn't even do for ourselves. That's what Jesus Christ did. The thing is, we're here temporarily, we're here just, we're here on earth temporarily, but one day we will be with him eternal. And, annie, I'm gonna let you know that right now, when I see my Lord, when I see Jesus, when I go back home, whenever he returns, I have a lot of questions to ask him. I'm sure everybody had that the same thing in mind. Number one, I'm gonna give him a big hug and I will ask him some questions, because there's there's a lot of things that we don't know what he did while he was here on earth, but I think what he was displayed here was written in these manuscript, in the book, the.

Speaker 1: 57:40

What you just read, it's enough. It's enough to make you think about your, your soul. What we just read about Jesus, is enough to make somebody think about man. This, this is an innocent God, it's one. It's one thing. When a person is a criminal, you'll be like, okay, that person kind of like deserve it right, this person going around killing people, doing all kind of crazy stuff and all kind of sinful acts, you kind of like some people may not feel sorry for that individual, but we're talking about an innocent man here, so that's why I wait. When you just read how he's being crucified, ah yeah, that's tough. So if you don't have anything to add, we could go on to the next section, which is another tough part, which is his death.

Speaker 2: 58:31

I, I want to bring light. I want to bring light to this part. They offered him a mild pain killer, a mixture of wine and mer, but when he tasted it, he wouldn't take it. Y'all. Jesus wanted to feel every single thing for us. Think about a woman who goes into labor nowadays and they have an epidural. The first thing she's screaming for is give me felt every single pain for us, every single pain from the nails in his hand, his hand, and you're, you're, you know, you're working in with pain, and they're screaming out for that for them. I will think that's powerful. Yeah, that just takes me to a completely different mindset regarding Jesus and what he did for us.

Speaker 1: 1:00:05

He felt it all, everything and if you're human at one point or the other, someone you know been in pain before, I mean you're, you're female, you had children at me, but so you can. Yeah, you know the pain and agony that women could deal with when they are going through birth and, like you said, they try to give him a pain killer. Yeah, I don't know pain killer. Wow, that's heavy. That's heavy right there mmm that is heavy. Yeah, I know that's heavy, whoo.

Speaker 2: 1:00:38

I read that and I was like, oh, he said they tried to sedate him and he said no, he said no.

Speaker 1: 1:00:49

I know verse 45 through 56. I know it's tough to read it, but it's tough all right, yeah, it's necessary.

Speaker 2: 1:01:01

Though from noon to three the whole earth was dark. Around mid afternoon Jesus groaned out from the depths, crying loudly Eli, eli Lama, sabaqsana, which means my God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Some bat by standards. Who heard him say? Who heard him said he's calling for Elijah? One of them ran and got a sponge soaked in sour wine and lifted it up, lifted it on a stick so he could drink. The others joke, don't be in such a hurry. Let's see if Elijah comes and saves him. But Jesus, again crying out loudly, breathed his last breath.

Speaker 2: 1:01:51

At that moment, the temple curtains was ripped into top to bottom. There was an earthquake and rocks were split in pieces. What more? Tombs were opened up and many bodies of believers asleep in their graves were raised. After Jesus' resurrection, they left the tomb, entered the holy city and appeared to many. The captain of the guard and those with him, when they saw the earthquake and everything else that was happening, were scared to death. They said this has to be the Son of God. There were also quite a few women watching from a distance, women who had followed Jesus from Galilee in order to serve him. Among them were Mary Magdalene, mary, the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the Zebedee brothers, so that's James and John.

Speaker 1: 1:03:04

The death. Eli, eli Lama Shabbat tonight. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So, although it's sad as it sounds that Jesus Christ in this scene, died in the fashion, in the way that he died, like wow, okay, so Jesus Christ died and finally they you know, a lot of things happen when Jesus Christ died the darkness, the earthquakes, and so many things happen. And even, as sad as it sounds, jesus Christ's death. I think I just want to transition to the most exciting part I mean because we could have another hour dialogue of this whole scene. But this is not the end. It's not the end.

Speaker 2: 1:03:59

A lot of times we look at this scene as the saddest scene, but I heard a preacher say it this way this scene must be the most joyous scene, because we look at the resurrection as the greatest moment of joy, and I believe it was Orpheus Hayward that said that. He said the day Jesus died on that cross must be the day that we glory and are filled with joy Because of his death and then him going into the grave. We have something to look forward to. Yes, it's saddened, as when we read it, because we think about, that should have been us, but the most joyous time is the fact that Jesus said I will do this for them, I will take on this for them. My daddy turned his back on me for them and I remember Brother Daryl Smith saying it and it stuck with me.

Speaker 2: 1:05:09

This is the only time that the Father and the Holy Spirit was not with Jesus. This is the only time Jesus felt alone. This is the only time where Jesus doesn't feel the presence of his Father, and that is for us. Hallelujah, thank you, jesus, for doing this. Hallelujah, thank you, father, for not stepping in, because you knew you wanted reconciliation with us and the only way for it to happen is for your son to say yes to the cross, yes to the grave, yes to hell, and to defeat it all for us. Thank you, father, hallelujah. Thank you.

Speaker 1: 1:06:04

Amen, amen, I like how you put it, even the death of the celebration, because he did tell his disciples that he was going to die and rise up on the third day. So on one Sunday. I'm going to just go ahead and read it, daniel, I can't help myself, so I'm going to just read verse chapter 28 of Matthews, verses one. It says now, after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And I'm going to fast forward, I'm going to go down where it says they was talking to the angel. In verse number five it said but the angel said to the women do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. And verse number six says he is not here, for he has risen. For he has risen. Glory to God. As he said come see the place where he laid. Lord. Ever he has risen. Death, death couldn't even hold him down.

Speaker 2: 1:07:13

That could not hold him down. Hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 1:07:17

Jesus Christ, oh, man, and here it is the verse number 10. Then Jesus said to them, because you know, jesus was with the people 40 days before he went on up to glory. He had some final instructions to get to the folks and he went out up there to glory. So Jesus said to them do not be afraid, go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee and there they will see me, because even some didn't even believe, like Thomas Wow, the death, the bear and the resurrection. So so we talked about the plot Jesus Christ being crucified, the death, the bear and the resurrection.

Speaker 1: 1:08:01

I think I want to close out with this. I want to close out where Romans, chapter six, verses one. I'm going to do that. I'm going to close out where Romans, chapter six, verse one. So, romans, chapter six, verse one. Maybe I should have you read in your Bible, maybe that would be a good close out, because I know yours. Yeah, are you going to read one through or through nine? No, no, no, no. Romans one through, let's go, let's go through 10. One through 10 and we'll close it out.

Speaker 2: 1:08:36

So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not. If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind. When we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace A new life and a new land. That's what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus. When we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light field world by our Father, so that we can see where we're going in our new grace sovereign country.

Speaker 2: 1:09:41

Can't, sorry, could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ. A decisive end to the sin, miserable life no longer at sins every beck and call. What we believe is this if we get included in Christ's sin conquer death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead, it was a signal of the end of death at the end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive, he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you. God speaks your mother tongue and you hang on every word. You were dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did. I'm sorry, I'm going to reread it. Put that part you are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.

Speaker 1: 1:11:03

Wow, I told you I was going to close out with that what Jesus Christ did. That even applies to us. When we get baptized, we are experienced the death, the burial and even the resurrection. I had me just read it. You understand the significance of Jesus Christ's death, burial and resurrection. Remember that God sold out the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever should believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Listen, world. Jesus Christ is coming soon. We do not know the day or the hour when he will return.

Speaker 1: 1:11:38

Even if you're just looking at your time watch, waiting for the King to return, anything could happen to you at any given day. We just pray that you don't get in a car accident. We just pray that you don't get sick. We just pray that a building does not collapse. But today is the day. Harden not your heart. Give your life to Jesus Christ. I'm not talking about a sinner's prayer. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. You got to believe in Jesus Christ, you got to confess, you got to repent of all of your sins and you got to be baptized for the remission of your sins. Find yourself a local church of Christ, not any church. Find yourself a local church of Christ that will teach you the doctrine of Christ, and you got to be faithful unto death and let God use you. So adding this is the conclusion of our episode of series of Jesus Christ, and we're going to close out this 2020, 2020, hold on 2023 with a bang. That's it.

Speaker 2: 1:12:42

Amen, amen. I am elated, I am honored, I am humbled that Jesus loves me so much to die for me, that he loves me so much that he sought out for me. He gave me such a hunger and a thirst to search and seek for him. And finding him, I know without a shadow of a doubt, without any misconstrued notion, that where I am in the body of Christ, the church of Christ is where it's at. I don't care what anyone is saying. Jesus has one betrothed and when you think about that, there is no man that is able to get engaged to more than one woman and marry her. He will go to jail for polygamy. Jesus died for one. No doubt in my mind, and I am grateful and thankful that I am in that number. That's all I wanted to share.

Speaker 1: 1:13:59

Amen, all right world, remember that Jesus Christ, he is the King of Kings and he's the Lord of Lords. Be blessed. That's it for now, but before we go, please continue to listen, subscribe, share our podcast. Also, if you want to support our show, please scroll down to the bottom of the show notes and click on the link that says buy me a coffee. We were greatly appreciated. Thank you for listening and remember God is good all the time, and all the time God is good, and also Jesus Christ loves you. Thank you.