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Speaker 2Welcome back , guys . This week we're spending some time with an Irish prayer from St Patrick called St Patrick's Breastplate or the Deer's Cry . So let me read the beginning of it here . I rise today through a mighty strength , the invocation of the Trinity , through belief in the threeness , through confession of the oneness of the creator of creation . I rise today through the strength of Christ with his baptism , through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial , through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension . So today we're going to key in on this line . I arise today through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial . So let's read about that in the gospel
of John again .
Speaker 2John , the apostle of Jesus , who was an eyewitness of Jesus's crucifixion and burial . So let's go to John 19 . We'll start in verse 16 . So they took Jesus and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the place of a skull , which in Aramaic is called Golgotha . There they crucified him and with him two others , one on either side and Jesus between them . Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross . It read Jesus of Nazareth , the King of the Jews . Now verse 28, .
Speaker 2After this , jesus , knowing that all was now finished , said to fulfill the scripture , I thirst . A jar full of sour wine stood there , so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth . When Jesus had received the sour wine , he said it is finished . And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit . Since it was the day of preparation , so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath for that Sabbath was a high day the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away . So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and the other who had been crucified with him . But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead , they did not break his legs . But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and at once there came out blood and water . He who saw it has borne witness . His testimony is true and he knows that he is telling the truth that you also
may believe , for these things took place , that the scripture might be fulfilled . Not one of his bones will be broken . And again another scripture says they will look on him . Who they had pierced will be broken , and again another scripture says they will look on him , who they had pierced After these things .
Speaker 2Joseph of Arimathea , who was a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews , asked Pilate that he may take away the body of Jesus , and Pilate gave him permission . So he came and took away his body . Nicodemus also , who earlier had come to Jesus , by night , came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes , about 75 pounds in weight . So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices , as is the burial custom of the Jews . Now , in the place where he was crucified , there was a garden and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid . So , because of the Jewish day of preparation , since the tomb was close at hand , they laid Jesus there .
Speaker 2Now St Patrick's breastplate says that we are to arise today through the strength of his crucifixion and his burial . But this line shouldn't make any sense , you see , because the Romans , while having not invented crucifixion , by this time they had perfected it . By this time they had perfected it , which means they were literal experts at inflicting the maximum amount of pain for the longest period of time before someone would finally succumb and die . And the process of crucifixion and you know the flogging and the nails included was meant to bring forth a maximum amount of public shame as well . So why would the crucifixion of Jesus and his burial
be a source of strength ? More on that tomorrow .
Speaker 2I'll leave you with the end of St Patrick's breastplate . May it guide you today . Christ with me , christ before me . Christ behind me . Christ in me . Christ beneath me . Christ above me . Christ on my right . Christ on my left . Christ when I lie down . Christ when I sit down . Christ when I right . Christ on my left . Christ when I lie down . Christ when I sit down . Christ when I arise . Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me . Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me . Christ in every eye that sees me . Christ in every ear that hears me . Amen .
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