Wednesday Service #18 Luke 22-24 By Josh Monday

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pushing and you know, just spreading God's word. I mean, that's what I was born for. You know. Let's see, let's go to Luke chapter twenty two. That's what we're going to be starting. And I just want to say, like like I always do, I appreciate everybody that listens to this show. It really you know, from the people who listen to my Josh Money Christian conspiracy podcast, everybody listens to this show. I thoroughly enjoy teaching the Bible,

and I thoroughly enjoy teaching it to you guys. So you guys and girls, you know, just in case I out there, you know, I don't want to offend anybody. I mean when I say you guys, I mean everybody. But you know what, you guys and girls, I really appreciate the opportunity to be able to teach you guys. So we're going to be in Luke chapter twenty two. So I just want to go ahead and pull up my notes for that. I got that, now, I got these going take a little simp of water before we

get going here. Perfect, all right, So this is gonna be the plot to kill Jesus. Before we get into that, first, I want to go over what was going on during this time. The feast of unlevin Bread and Passover happened right after each other, so they just called it Passover.

They celebrated both at the same time, okay. In the Bible, Passover or passak and Hebrew commemorates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and marks God's miraculous liberation of his people and is a cornerstone about Jewish and Christian traditions. The story is first described in the Old Testament, specifically in Exodus twelve, where God instructed the Israelites to mark their doorpost with the blood of a sacrifice. Lamb,

what does that remind you of? Well, when I read Exodus twelve to you guys, and then I also kind of break it down for you, you'll see exactly what's going on, so that the Angel would pass over their homes during the tenth plague. This act of protection and deliverance forms the basis of the Passover holiday, which is celebrated annually to remember and reenact the pivotal event. Okay, So I just wanted to explain that to you first, because Passover was going you know. Chapter seven it says

Jesus and his disciples prepared to passover. Right, So I want to go over this for you and give you some context before we get into it. Right, So let me go ahead and read Exodus twelve, verses one through thirty. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be your beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year.

To you speak to all the congregation of Israel. On the tenth of this month, every man shall take for himself a lamb according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household, And if the household is too small through the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of persons, according to each man's need. You shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it

from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the Congregation of Viduals shall kill it at twilight, and they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night, roast it in fire with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs.

They shall eat it. Unleaven bread is leven is a sin right, so unleaven bread would be what they eat here. Do not eat it raw nor boiled at all with water. Not roast it in fire. It's head, with its legs and its intels. You shall let none of it remain until morning. And what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You shall eat it.

And hey, it is the Lord's passover. Sorry, let me turn that down. You shall eat it. I am so sorry. I lost my spot here. Do not eat it raw or boiled. Okay, it says I'm gonna continue. Its legs, you shall let it none of it remain until the morning. And what remains until the morning you shall burn with fire, and thus you shall eat it with a belt on your waist, and your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hands. So you shall eat it in haste.

It is the Lord's passover, for I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt. I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the house where you are, And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you. When I strike the land

of Egypt. So this day shall be you shall be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast. By an everlasting ordinance, seven days, you shall eat on leven bread. On the first day, you shall remove leven from your houses. For whoever eats leven bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. On that

day there shall be a holy convocation. And on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you, no matter of the work you shall be done, no matter the work that shall be done on them, But that which must you must eat, only may be prepared for you. You shall observe the feast of unloved bread on the same day I shall have brought you to armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations on an everlasting ordinance.

And the first month of the fourteenth day of the month, that evening you shall eat on leven bread until the twenty first day of the month, and evening for seven days no eleven breads shall be found in your houses. Okay, you get the point. I don't need to read the whole entire thing because the main points were actually already discussed. Plus, this is review and hopefully you've been following along ever

since I've been reading since Exodus on Sunday Service. Right, So let's go ahead and see how this all connects ways to connect passover to what Jesus did on the Cross. Okay, So, first off, we are slaves to sin, just like the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. Second off, Pharaoh is a picture of Satan. The adversary that wants to keep us in slavery. But see Satan wants us to keep us in slavery. To sin, Pharaoh wanted to keep the Israelites in slavery. Egypt is represented of the world, all right,

Egypt is represented of the world over. Lamb is a pick up Jesus, you show the maschiok right, So the lamb is a picture of Jesus. You shoa the maschioc right, Jesus to Christ. The blood on the wood door post is a picture of the cross. The Israelites were told to stay indoors. That is a picture of faith and sacrifice and then death passing over. We are saved from the second death by putting our faith in Jesus, okay, our faith in God. So it's a beautiful illustration of

our salvation. Okay, But what else did they have to do? WHOA? They had to obey God's word. Oh yeah, that's very important, isn't it. They had to obey God's word. God gave him instructions and they obeyed it. So that's also something that we should also be putting in our in our discipleship, obedience to God. Right. So passover is a significant event

in both. Oh yeah, we talked about that already, understanding the emphasise fulfillment, the sacrifice of Jesus Christian to Passover for shadowing Christ's death the resurrection, where he the Lamb of God was sacrificed to redeem humanity from sin. We kind of already went over that. Here's a more detailed look at the connection redemption deliverance. Passover celebrates the Ageite's

liberation from slavery. For Christians, desleberation is seen as a type of spiritual liberation from sin that Jesus achieved through his sacrifice. I talked about how the lamb connects to Jesus to Passover, lamb whose blood was smeared on the door posts symbolized the protection and deliverance Christian Christians identified Jesus as the Lamb of God whose blood atoned for the sins of the world. The Last Supper, the Last Supper, where Jesus shared a passover meal with his disciples, is

seen as the beginning of the New Covenant. Jesus himself identified the bread and the wine, this body and blood for setting the sacrifice to come, which we're going to go over in a few minutes. Here the fulfillment of prophecy. The timing of Jesus. Jesus crucifixion coincides with the Passover,

fulfilling the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah. Continuing significance, Christians today continue to remember and celebrate the significance of Passover and their understanding of salvation and their relationship with Jesus Christ. And I put on the bottom I made sure you guys understood this. They also had to be obedient to God's word and instruction because if they did everything else but put the blood on the door, what

would happen. They would end up being their firstborn would end up being killed, right, because they did all the other stuff but didn't do that. So they had to be faithful. They had they had to have faith, and they also had to put the blood on the door posts. They didn't go and run and take off, because wouldn't you want to get out of there? I mean you you'd probably be pretty scared if you know in that that was about to happen. But no, they had faith.

They put the blood on the door post. They did exactly like God said. But they obeyed God's word, which is very important. Here's another verse real quick before we get it, and you know what this is. This is nice because I can go over all this, you know, because we have two hours. Okay, our study is not like condensed to forty five minutes like pastors have our studies two hours, so we can go dense, right, So that's what I like. So here's what Paul says in

one Corinthians five, verses seven through eight. Therefore, purge out of the old eleven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unlevened. For indeed, Christ our passover was sacrifice for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast not with the old leven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. You see, I was using these metaphors in there.

I love it. Uh. One Corinthians fifteen, verses one through four is the gospel, so we will this was on the cross who was preparing for second soulm Okay, So let's go ahead and continue. I have my notes pulled up and I am ready to start reading. Let's go. So we have Luke twenty two, verse one, the plot to kill Jesus. Now, the feast of unlevened bread drew near, which is called Passover, So that's what I'm talking about.

They mixed the unleven bread, the feast of unleven bread and Passover, and the chief priest and the scribes sought how they might kill him, for they feared the people. Then Satan entered Judas surnamed Escariot, who was numbered among the twelve. So he went his way and conferred with the chief priest and captains how we might betray him to them. And they were glad and agreed to give him money. So he promised and sought opportunity to betray him to them. In the sense of the multitude. Okay,

so so we have we have, we have Judas. We haven't we have Satan entering Judas. Okay, First of all, Satan is not allowed to just enter whoever he wants, right, I mean if he could, then we would we would we would all be like there would be like crazy stuff happening all the time, right because he would enter one person, that person would probably go and just uh, you know, do some craziness. You know, I don't want to say, you know who who knows what they would do.

But uh, even demons, they can't just they can't just go into a vessel. They have to be they have to be, uh, they have to have permission. Okay, So something is going on here. That's there's more to this, uh than we know. Right. So uh, let's see if there's a Judas was a thief. Yeah, so Judas was you know, Satan went into Judas and the so the Pharisees were see, the Pharisees were wrapped wrapped up in religion,

so they didn't even know they were dealing with Satan himself. Right, So one thing I wanted to I put in my notes is they they didn't even know that the Messiah was right in front of their face, or that God in the flesh was right in front of their face. And they also couldn't see they were blinded by being able to see that Satan, they're dealing with the devil

uh as he entered Judas. They're not even able to see that because because that because they're so blinded and wrapped up in their religion that they don't they're not even thinking about spiritual battles and not even they're not able to see the Messiah or the true sacrificial lamb right in front of their face, the true Word of God. They acted like they knew that. The Law. They fact like they knew the Torah. They knew the Bible. They knew all this stuff or not the Bible. They knew

the Torah so much. And the scribes think they knew the law, and they thought they knew the Old Testament so well. But the Word of God, they wouldn't even recognize it if it was right in front of their face. So what a shame. So let's talk a little bit about Judas. Okay, So Judas was full of greed. You could see it when Mary broke up in the incense. Are not the incense? I'm sorry. Let's read about it real quick. And it's called the spikenard. So let's read

about Judas real quick. He was a thief, right. So in John twelve, verses one through six, as then, six days before passover, Jesus came to Bethany when Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper, and Martha served. But Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table

with him. Then Mary took Mary as actually Mark's mother, took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with fragrance of the oil. But one of his disciples, Judas is Scariot, Simon's son, who would betray him, said why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred dinari and given to the poor. This, he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the money box,

and he used to take what was put in it. Okay, so you see exactly where Judas's heart is and exactly what he was doing. He was thieving. He cared more about the money or taking the money then Jesus. Uh, you know this woman doing this for Jesus. You know he actually like and you see how he tried to lie and say, oh, yeah, what's up with the money

for the poor. And and to be honest, this spikenard is actually three hundred days worth of labor, because the dinari is one day wages one one day's wage, so it is a lot of money, and it was very expensive. But Jesus knows that he's not going to be with them, and that he knows her heart. And she loved Jesus right, She loved him, and she she cared for him. She

cared about putting this oil and annoying his feet. And it also says that she annoyed his head on another I think I don't know if it's in Mark or Matthew, but that actually is the same thing that happened to David before he became king. You have to annoy with oil, Saul, you have to annoy with oil. Jesus is the king of kings, you see. So Judas is too blind to be able to see that. What else do we have.

We have Jesus knowing that he was going to betray him, because listen to this in John six sixty three through sixty four. It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh prophets nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were, who were and who did not believe, and who would betray him. Jesus knew from the very beginning. Right Also in John thirteen ten through eleven.

Jesus said to him who is Bathe who is bathe needs only to wash his feet. He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all of you, for he knew who would betray him. Therefore he said you are not clean. So he already knew. So let's go ahead and continue to read. So we have Satan entering Judas.

That is kind of a powerful thing because I've seen people in the Bible, like in the New Testament, where a demon is possessing a body, but I have never seen in the Bible besides right here where Satan enters a human body. Think about that. I'm surprised that all he did was this. I'm surprised he didn't like go

on a rampage at killing spree. So there must have been some rules to this, you know, because if Satan is very powerful, right, I mean, there's the Angel of the Lord came and killed one hundred and eighty thousand men and one night. Let's let's go ahead and continue. Jesus and his disciples prepare the passover. Then came the day of unleavened bread. Then the Passover must be killed. When the Passover must be killed, then came the day of leven unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed.

And he set Peter and John, saying, go and prepare the Passover for us that we may eat. I think it's is this supposed to say the passover Lamb must be killed? Why does this say the Passover must be killed? Let's see twenty two seven Sacrificed. I don't know why it says. I think it's supposed to be the passover Lamb must be killed. And you see Peter and John, go prepare the Passover for us that we may eat. So they said to him, where do you want us

to What do you want us to prepare? And he said to them, behold, when you enter the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitch of water. Follow him into the house which he enters. Then you shall say to the master of the house. The teacher says to you, where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples. Then he will show you a large furnished upper room where they there make ready. So they went and found it just as he said

to them, and they prepared the passover. Now, as you're reading that, you might think, like, isn't there a bunch of people carrying a picture of water? Well, a bunch of people wouldn't be carrying a picture of water. A bunch of men wouldn't be, but there'd be a lot of women. See, women were the only ones that carried

the picture of water, the water jars. So that's why he said that, because you're going to see a man carrying the picture of water, which is going to stand out and be different than all the other women carrying it. So that's exactly how they found this man. It probably wasn't hard to see the man with the picture of water. Okay, I'm going to go to him. So we have that the word greatly is turned it and passionately longed. Okay, so Jesus institutes, Oh man, I can't just go through

my notes like that without checking these other ones. I'm sorry. I got two sets of notes now, two phones. All right, So let's go over some teaching points for Luke twenty two one through six. Describing the chief priests and the scribes seeking to kill Jesus and Judas is scariest betrayal. This highlights the spiritual warfare and human sinfulness at play.

Now we're going to go over the Last Supper, so I don't really need to go over that yet, because it goes over from verse seven all the way through twenty three and the event. Yes, So the chief priests inscribed seek a way to put Jesus to death, fearing the people's reaction. The Greek term seatonus indicates their active search for a solution. In Luke twenty two three through six,

Judas agrees to betray Jesus. Satan enters Jesus as Scariot, prompting him to conspire with the chief priest to betray Jesus. The Greek word para deny means to hand over or betray, so that word betray is para deny. Okay. And then we read seven through thirteen. Jesus instructs Peter to John to prepare the passover meal. The term hetero musty means to make ready or prepare. See, I'm just trying to

teach you guys Greek on here as well. You see that, But I'm just pronouncing him like butchering the names of all right, So we got a all right now we're going to talk about the Jesus institutes the Last Supper. When when the hour had come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. Then he said to them, with fervent desire, I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer. For I say to you, I will no longer eat of it. I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the

Kingdom of God. Then he took the cup and gave thanks, and said, take this and divide it among yourselves, For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the Kingdom of God comes. And he took the bread, gave thanks, and broke it and gave it to them, saying, this is my body which is given for you. This is in remembrance of me. Likewise, he also took the cup after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed

for you. But behold my hand of my betrayers with me on the table. And truly the son of Man goes as it has been determined, But woe to the man whom he is betrayed. Then they begun to question themselves, which of them it has or would do this thing? Which of them it was? And who would do this thing? I'm sorry, let's see. So in fourteen through twenty, Verses

fourteen through twenty Luke twenty two. Fourteen through twenty, Jesus shares the Passover meal with his disciples, instituting the Last Supper. The phrase to to poiety means do this in remembrance of him, And as far as the teaching points, Jesus institute's the Last Supper symbolized a new covenant in his blood. This act fulfills old Testament prophecy, established a new way

for believers to remember his sacrifice. So communion right, so the disciples are used used to celebrating Passover, but it turns into what he would call the Last Supper, and Jesus is revealing what the whole Passover tradition and the whole passover is about, and showing that the passover points to him. Okay, and that probably that probably is something they probably didn't get all the way, but I thought

it's very interesting. And then we have communion here. I mean, I don't know if you guys take communion at your local church or if you take communion at your house or what you guys do with that. But it's something that I think my church would do. I think once a month is what Calvary Chapel does it. Once a month they do communion. And they don't believe it's literally Jesus's literal blood, or that it's his literal flesh. Okay, I don't believe like that. They don't believe like that. Right,

So let's go ahead and go over. Let's go over Verse Peter two, verse twenty four. It says, who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness,

by whose stripes they were healed, Okay. And also in Hebrews nine, verses eleven through twelve, it says, when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, even though the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is not of this creation, he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calfs, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. And then Jesus is talking about the New Covenant right

here in Luke twenty two, verse twenty. I've gone over this before. Let's go over it again. Jeremiah thirty one through thirty four. Okay, Jeremiah thirty one through thirty four, let's read it. This is the Old Testament. This is why it's so important to read the Old Testament and the New Testament. That's why I really enjoy doing that with you guys, and I think it's hopefully helping you guys out. If it is helping you out, comment below on Spotify and tell me yes, this is really helping

me out. Or you can say I only enjoy New Testament, or you can say I enjoy the old and the new, or I only enjoy the old, I don't enjoy the new. Whatever you want to say, let me know hopefully you enjoy all of it. Look at this, Jeremiah thirty one thirty one. Is that what we're gonna do? Thirty one? Yep, thirty one, thirty one. Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, when I we'll make a new covenant. And remember Jeremiah is prophet, right, He's a prophet. He's speaking

through Jeremiah. Behold days. Know the Lord is actually speaking it says. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke though I was a husband to them,

says the Lord. But this is a new This is a covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days, since the Lord, says the Lord, I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. And I will be there God, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord, For they all shall know me, from the least of them

to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin, and I will remember no more. So I believe this is a p about the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, then you are able to have everything in your heart right. You're able to know right from wrong. I mean, I literally before I got saved. Before I was like reading

the Bible. Before I was like, I was doing so many things wrong, so many things wrong, just so I could just give you a whole list of things I was doing wrong. And then slowly that list started getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Why because the Holy Spirit was working on my life. God was It was like the potter. He was like, you know, he was just shaping me to where I needed to be. And obviously

I was rough around the edges. So when he was doing that pottery, he was probably like like these but you know, I don't know, God does yourself perfect. But I'm just saying I was a little rough around the edges for a long time there. But slowly every single chain was broken. All right, So this is what I

I believe this passage is saying. Now. One thing that I that I would probably would would probably be in contention, which some people would probably contend, is it sounds like he's speaking to the children of Israel, right, not Israel. I'm sorry that the House of Israel, so the twelve tribes and with the House of Judah. It sounds like but from everything I studied, it's explaining when a believe it receives the Holy Spirit. He knows God intimately. And

the Hebrew is actually the same as a is. In the Hebrew, that word intimately is like the same as a a man knowing a woman sexually. But there is no sexual connotation here, obviously, but it does mean to intimately know God like like to intimately know Him is something. Uh, it's something a teacher or preacher or myself or whatever. We we cannot make you feel, but the Holy Spirit can. He can get you intimately with God. Right, no bad connotation there either, just what the Hebrew means. It's like

knowing somebody like intimately. Right, So it's like it's really like becoming one, you know, almost for I received from the Lord that I will also delivered. Let's see, we need to remember that Jesus differs on the cross, Okay, so that will be connected to that verse, and let's continue here Luke twenty two, verse twenty four. Now there was also a dispute among them as to which one of them to be considered the greatest. So we went from somebody being a betrayer of Jesus, which should matter

to them, to who's the greatest. It's crazy, how it's just switched to that, right, They went from who's going to betray Jesus to who's the greatest. So let's let's see here it looks like in Mark. We get a little better picture real quick before we start twenty two Luke, twenty two, twenty four. Let me just read Mark nine thirty three through thirty four. It will kind of give you kind of how they how this this thing switched.

And they came to Capernaium when we when when he was at the house, he asked them what were you discussing on the way, but they kept silent. On the way they had argued with one another about who is the greatest. So when they were on their way to the past or the Last Supper, on the way, they were arguing about who's the greatest. One thing we need to understand is these disciples thought that Jesus was going to have a kingdom here on earth, like an earthly kingdom.

That's why they're wondering who's going to sit at his right hand, his left hand, or whatever. They're not understanding that Jesus is talking about his kingdom in heaven, not his kingdom here on earth. Okay, now, Jesus is going to come and bring a kingdom to this earth. Has he brought the kingdom yet? I don't know. Some people believe that, you know, Jesus already came, this is Satan's Little season. Some people believe that Jesus is still coming

in the future. Some people are pretice. I mean, there's just a whole bunch of different eschatology. But as far as what I believe, I don't believe that Jesus has came back yet, and there hasn't been a millennial reign yet. That's what I believe. That's at all the evidence that I have read and everything, I don't believe that's happened yet.

I believe that the temptation has to be that you knew he came back, then then the devil gets released, and then he comes and tempts you, and you knew that Jesus came back, you knew that he's real, but you still chose to go with the devil. But that's

just my thought. I will have a show on June twenty fourth with Gary Wayne and Ed Maybury where I will ask him a ton of questions about Satan's Little Season, and those two are going to try to do their very best to explain what they feel about it, right, and then I'll tell them what I feel. And I'm going to study a lot of different things about Satan's little season, so I make sure that I'm prepared with some really good questions. So all right, so we have that.

Sorry I'm jumping off track, but kind of excited tonight. I'm happy because I'm just feeling the study. I love it. Luke twenty two, verse twenty five. And he said to them, the kings of the gentiles exercise lords lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors. So a benefactor a benefactor in English, obviously, what it means is is somebody that is financial response financially responsible

for somebody. But a benefactor in the Greek is actually it means someone that bestows gifts gifts on someone to earn their favor. So they bestow gifts on someone to earn their favor. So what it says is the king of the gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors. They give gifts to earn favor, right, so they give like a king will give like, you know, some sheep or a party, or grapes or bananas, whatever the heck they get they

could get, you know, probably not bananas. I guess back then only the kings were even able to eat a banana. So anyways, so that's what that word means, right there. So let's go to Luke twenty two, verse twenty six. But not so among you. On the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger. And he who governs governs as he who serves. For who is greater he who sits at the table, or he who serves. It is not he who sits at

the table. Yet I am among you as one who serves. Okay, So Jesus teaches about true greatness and leadership here, emphasizing the leadership in his kingdom is marked by servanthood and not by power. Right, so Jesus takes the form of a servant, all right, and right here. In Philippians two, verses five through seven, it says, have this mind among yourselves,

which is yours in Christ. Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count a quality with God a thing to be grassed but emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. That was Philippians two, verses five through seven. You see, he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. What was he before a man? That's just just hearing that. It's just amazing that that is the form that Jesus

chose to come. God came in the flesh as a servant to teach us. Right, I think that's very fascinating. And we're going to go to let me see disciples disputes. So the disciples argue about who among them is greatest. Jesus teaches them about true greatness through service, using the Greek diaconon meaning serving, So diaconon diaconon I don't even know if I'm saying it pronouncing it correctly, but it's okay, dia canon meaning serving Luke twenty two, verse twenty eight.

But you are those who have continued with me and my trials, and I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as my father just bestowed one upon me. That you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel. So Jesus was telling them that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel. Wow, I don't believe that we got that portion down there in the

other gospels. But I just don't remember that little part right there where it says that you may eat and drink at my table and my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the Twelve Tribes. I'd have to check, since we've already read Matthew and Mark, I don't remember that being there. So let's go back up to teaching points. See if I have anything here to talk about. We got thirty one through thirty four, Jesus predicts. Okay, we're going to go ahead and read that now. So this

is Luke twenty two, verse thirty one. And the Lord said Simon, Simon, indeed, Satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail. And when you're when you have returned to strength, strengthen your brethren. But he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with you. Both to prison and to death. Then he said, I tell you, Peter, the rooster shall not cruel this day before you will deny three times that

you know me. So I think this is an interesting thing that I probably definitely want to talk about, because these disciples knew Jesus the Christ is shue with him a sheiock personally, and Satan has asked for Peter and saying he's gonna sift you like wheat. That's I would definitely not want to be in that position. But what I would say is that Jesus prayed for you that your faith should not fail, and when you have returned

to me, strengthen your brethren. So so even though Jesus knows the outcome, he knows he's going to deny him three times. Jesus is God, he knows the future, he still says I prayed for you that your faith should not fail, and when you have returned to me, strengthened your brethren. When you return to me, strengthened your brethren, and Peter obviously out of pride. Now Jesus always has to kind of like, you know, kind of teach Peter

what's up. You know, it happens a lot where Peter steps up and says something, and Peter sometimes had to say, get behind me, Satan. He had to kind of correct Peter a lot of times. And this time, you know,

Peter let the pride get the best of him. And also Peter is acting and like, you know, I'm down and I'll go to prison, I'll go to death, and you know, disappoint you know, it's disappointing to Peter probably, but he says then he said, I tell you, Peter, the Russa shall not crow this day before you will deny me three times that you know me. So Peter's denial,

we're told and fulfilled. Right, So Jesus predicts Peter's denial and verses thirty one through thirty four, and then when we get to fifty four through sixty two, it is fulfilled, illustrating human weakness and the need for divine grace. Right, human weakness, we have it, and we cannot say. And if you try to say, I can't believe Peter would do this. I would never do this to Jesus. If I was there, I would go to I would die. I would ride for him. You know, whatever you want

to say, you're not put in that position. We cannot judge Peter because it's just like us trying to judge Adam when we're over here sinning all the time, straight hypocrites, right, because we're not in the position where someone says you, are you gonna worship Jesus or you get your head cut off? We're not in that position yet. Are you gonna worship Jesus or you gonna get put in jail for life? Are you going to bow down to us or worship Jesus and then die? Right here, we're not

put in that position. But if he would have said that he worships Jesus and that he and he will write from Toronto death when when he is at that point where he's asked to either deny or not deny him, then he would be put in a position where he would probably be hung on across as well and crucify it, which is obviously a very scary thing. It's so scary that we're gonna read, you know, coming up, what Jesus

felt about what was going to happen to him. You know, they would have made an example out of Peter, and Peter knew that, and you know, we can't really blame him. We can't really blame him, right because we would probably if we were put in that position ourselves. We don't know what we would do, you know. We can't say, well, yeah, we would do this or we would do that. So Jesus warns Peter in a Versus thirty one through thirty four. Jesus warns Peter that he will deny him three times

before the rooster crows. The Greek a parnee means to deny or disowned. Okay, so just like you just say you know a parent, nise means to deny or disown. Yeah. So what I want to kind of emphasize before we move on is Jesus tells the disciples to pray to not be led into tendation, even though they are literally know Jesus personally. This should let us know just because we are saved doesn't mean the devil leaves you alone. In fact, you are more of an important target when

you're saved. So when you get saved, people think I get saved. I'm good. I'm not gonna get bothered anymore with the devil. I'm in the clear. No more temptations, no more testing, because I am saved. No that's when the battle begins. For those atheists out there that are just have been denying God for years, the devil just goes, you know what, have a good day. I don't even care about you because you're not my all my list.

I already got you already. You know. The only time there'll be a target for the devil is if they were like starting to move towards Christianity or maybe having someone minister to them. Obviously, then that would be like important. But if they're not, if they're just denying God already, and even if they're living a good life, the Devil's like, hey, whatever, But when you become a Christian, you become a target because he wants you to go to Hell right to shield.

He wants you to not believe in Jesus. So that's how you get a target on your back. This is even if you know Jesus personally, the devil still try to attack. Look what it says, Satan asks for you that he may sift you as wheat. Now is Peter a disciple of Jesus? Yes? Does Peter know Jesus? Yes? Does Peter believe that Jesus is the son of God? Yes? So what do we have going on here? The devil's still allowed to touch him? Yes, what about job, oh,

my servant job. When he asked God if he could tempt his servant job or actually, God said that he could try to attempt to serve a job. Which is so such an intense story. I can't wait to get the job with you, guys, So let's continue Luke twenty two, verse thirty five. And he said to them, when I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything? So they said nothing. Then he said to them, but now he who has a money bag, let him

take it, and likeness like likewise a knapsack. And he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one. For I say to you that this is written, this which is written, must still be accomplished in me. And he was numbered with the transgressors, for the things concerning me have an end. So they said, look, Lord, here are two swords. And he said to them it is enough. So so right here we have instructions for the time of crisis. Jesus advises his disciples to prepare

for the coming challenges, indicating a shift from previous instructions. Right, So he's kind of warning them about what is to come. Now the mission has changed a little bit. Now you've got to kind of be ready for battle. You know. You know, people attacking, so you better be ready. So we already talked about Jesus's denial and foretold and fulfilled.

So let's go ahead and continue here, all right. So the prayer in the garden, coming out, he went to the Mount of Olives as he was accustomed, and his disciples also followed him. When he came to the place, he said to them, pray that you may not enter into the temptation. See this is the part I was talking about. He said, when he comes to the place, he said to them, pray that you may not enter

into temptation. So even though they're with Jesus personally know Jesus, he still says for them to pray that they do not get let into temptation. So all these Christians out here, they might feel like they're untouchable and that they're good and they don't need to worry about the devil touching them because they're so holy. Understand that these disciples walk with God, walk with Jesus dropped everything to walk with God, and they were actually literally walking with God and actually

literally doing miracles with him. And what does Jesus say to them? Pray that you may not enter into temptation. So what does that say to us? We also need to pray that we do not enter into temptation, and we also need to pray, and we also need to make sure we drop the pride, drop the ego, and understand that we're not untouchable, and that the devil is like a roaring lion waiting to pounce Luke twenty two,

verse forty one. And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed, saying, Father, if it is your will, take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done, which is so powerful. So can you imagine knowing your future, knowing what you're about to go through, you know, the just the whole entire scenario that's about to unfold. Can you imagine? Okay, now,

Jesus is God. But it says right there in Philippians, what was it two verses five through seven that he poured out? Where is that at Philippians two verses five through seven? Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ. Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count quality with God a thing to be grasped. He emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. So he knew what he was going to go through.

And he has to feel the pain of a man. Okay, he's gonna feel the pain. He's gonna feel the whips, he's gonna feel being spit on, being hit, hanging on the cross, knowing that he's gonna die from what I would say is a broken heart, you know, because he's up there three days and it's just everything that he is going through, he starts to feel pretty stressed out so much that he starts sweating blood. Okay, Then an angel appeared to him from heaven, strengthening him, and being

in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Then his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. I just think that it's fascinating that Jesus prays and then an angel appeared to him from heaven. So it almost seems that angels are carded messengers and they come and you pray and then they deliver the message to God. And it looks like the Angel appeared to him from heavens to strengthening him. And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Then his sweat became like great drops of

blood falling down to the ground. When he rose up from prayer and had come out to his disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow. Then he said to them, why do you sleep? Rise and pray lest you enter into temptation. So sometimes we may think that we're good, like sometimes God wants us. I know that, you know, obviously God made us to live the way we live where we you know, we're able to function for a certain amount of hours. You know, depending on who you are,

some people get more sleep than others. I don't know why, what's up with me? But right because I work and I'm a podcaster and I have kids, I don't get that much sleep, even though I would love to sleep but sleep in. But I got three kids, I got three shows I do, and I got I'm adding a fourth show. And I am working, you know, fifty fifty hours a week or something for my job, and I'm on call twenty four to seven. But God prepares us for sleep, you know, I mean God prepared our body

like for sleep. But sometimes he wants us to sacrifice sleep and time to be with him, to pray with him. And this is the time where he knows that his time is coming, his time is short, and he wants to spend time with his disciples, and he wants them to realize that he's going to pass away and he's going to die on the cross, even though he's coming back after three days, but you know, he wants them to He wants that moment with them right, and he

wants them to be in deep prayer. So, Luke forty six, let me go to my notes real quick and see if I'm missing anything. Nope, Chapter becludes with jesus arrest. That's in forty seven, which we're about to go over. And let me check these other notes instructions of time of crisis in thirty five through thirty eight. So Jesus prays on the mount of all of Jesus prayed earnestly, asking for the cup to be taken from him, yet

he submits to the father's will. The Greek Agniah reflects his intense anguish, which is completely understandable because we don't know how we're gonna die. We don't know, you know, whether it's gonna happen in a month, whether it's gonna happen in twenty years, forty years, whether we're gonna be killed in an auto wreck, or we're gonna be killed with a heart attack, or we're going to be killed in our We're just gonna die in our sleep. I

don't yeah, you know, we don't know. But Jesus knows every single step from beginning to end of what's gonna happen. So this is true anguish that he's going through. That is why his sweat became like drop, great drops of blood falling down to the ground, because he is truly anxiety, and it must have been so hard on him. Betrayal

and arrest. In Gethsemine this is Luke twenty two, verse forty seven, it says, and while he was still speaking, behold the multitude, and he was called ju And he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss him. But Jesus said to him, Judas, are you betraying the son of Man with the kiss? When those around him saw that he was what was going to happen. They said

to him, Lord, shall we strike with the sword. And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear. So we have in other I think it's in Matthew or Mark. I can't remember which one it is. We have the verse where it's talking about Peter is the one that cut this guy's ear off, and Jesus he touched his ear and healed him. So who we know that Peter is the one that Let me tell, I'm sorry, guys, I worked all day to day. I do this on Monday nights.

I apologize that I mean to Yann. So Peter, you guys you know I'm human. I love you guys, but I'm just I'm only human. So sometimes I get tired. So it looks like I'm gonna have to drink some caffeine. D you want to? But I guess I will, okay. So so while he was speaking, behold in multitude. Okay, So in other gospels, I think it's either Mark or Matthew, Peter is the one that actually did that did this, Okay, But Jesus answered and said, permit even this, and he

touched his ear and healed him. Then Jesus said to the chief priest, captains of the temple, and the elders who had come to him, have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs? When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize me. But this is your hour and the power of this. But this is your hour and the power of darkness. So Matthew twenty six fifty six spays all, but all this was done that the scriptures of the

prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled. That's going to be happening here. This is a better description of what happened right there. Peter denies Jesus and weeps bitterly. So Judas betrays Jesus with the kiss into his arrests. Peter denies Jesus three times. Is going to happen right here. So, having arrested him, they led him and brought him into the high priest house,

but Peter followed at a distance. Now, when they kindled a fire in the midst of the courtyard, had sat down together. Peter sat among them, and a certain servant girl, seeing him as he sat by the fire, looked intently at him and said this man was all so with him, But he denied him. He denied him, saying, woman, I do not know him. And after a little while another saw him and said, you also were one of them? Are you also are of them? But Peter said, man,

I am not. Then, after about an hour had passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, surely this fellow is with him, he is a Galilean. But Peter said, man, I do not know what you're saying. Immediately while he was speaking, the rooster crowed, and the Lord turned and looked at Peter. That Peter remembered the word of the Lord how he had said to him before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. So Peter went out and wept bitterly.

He wept bitterly. Jesus or Peter denies. The Greek word ernesto is used for Peter's denial. The Greek word er er ernestatto. It's used for Peter's denial. And let's see if I have any teaching points on that Peter's denial. Yep, we talked about that illustrating human weakness and the need for divine grace. Now, like I said, before we go judging Peter, you know, he's in the position where he wants to see what's gonna happen to Jesus. Like he's trying to be like almost like an undercover spy, and

people are pointing him out and he's denying them. You know, there's kind of a little better explanation of how Peter reacted here, and it looks like he he kind of tried to act like he's totally not his follower, like he was, you know, kind of cussing or swearing. It seems like in Matthew twenty six, seventy four through seventy five.

Then he began to curse and swear, saying I do not know the man immediately at rooster crode and Jesus, and Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. So he went out and wept bitterly. So I just want to point out that part right there. Seeing Matthew, you get kind of a little more detail. That's why it's good to go through all the accounts.

The gospel message, because you get a little thing here and you get a little something there that might be a little bit different added or taken away. That's something that is kind of important where you're kind of seeing him. Then he began to curse and swear, you know, so not only is he kind of denying him, but he's also cursing and swearing, which is like totally not acting like a disciple of Jesus. Right, So that's what we have. Like I said, don't judge Peter, because who knows what

you would do. Right. Jesus mocked and beaten. Now, the men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him, and having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him saying, prophesy, who is the one who struck you? And many other things that alsphemously spoke against him, and many other things they blasphemy spoke against him. See, they didn't even know that God was right there in the flesh. They didn't even know. They couldn't even see it because

religion was blinding their eyes. So Jesus faces the Sanhedrin as soon as it was day. The algis of the people, both chief priests and Scrias came together and led him into the council, saying, if you are the Christ, tell us. But he said to them, if I tell you, you will not, by no means believe. And if I also ask you, you will by no means answer me. Or let me go here. After the sun of man will sit on the right hand of the power of God.

Then they said, are you the son of God? So he said to them, you rightly said that I am. And they said, what further testimony do we need? For we have heard it ourselves from his mouth, which is not really true, because he says, you rightly said that I am. You see, he's Jesus knows exactly how to answer them and exactly how to deflect, and he knows exactly how to talk. I think we could finish chapter

twenty three. Hopefully. It looks like it's ten eighteen. We got about a good what thirty maybe forty minutes to finish chapter twenty three. I think we'll be fine. Jesus is a rest in trial. The chapter concludes with Jesus is arrest and the beginning of his trial. Verses forty seven through seventy one set in the stage for his ultimate sacrifice. Let's see if I have anything about the

events Jesus before the Sanhedrin. Jesus has brought before the council and the question about his identity as the son of God. The Greek epion means said or declared the mocking and beating of Jesus. Jesus is mocked and beaten by those holding him. The Greek emphasizedis means to mock or ridicule. Let's go ahead and check out some practical applications that you could use for your life. Reflect on

betrayal and forgiveness. Consider how Jesus responded to betrayal with love and forgiveness, and apply this to your own relationship. Embrace Okay, yeah, so betrayal. So consider how Jesus responded to betrayal with love and forgiveness and apply this to your own relationship. Yeah, that's something we all need to do right So right now, if you are fighting with your spouse, or you're arguing, or you're not doing good, then you need to respond with love and forgiveness. So

I'll try to do the same. Apply it to your own relationship. Embrace servanthood. Seek opportunities to serve others selfishly following Jesus example of leadership through service. Yes, it's so easy for us to want to be served. It's so easy sometimes to be like, hey, I want to go out to eat. I want to go to a restaurant, and then the server comes up, Hi, how you doing, mammer? Serve? What can I do for you? Can I get you a water? Of course? Can I get you a soda

or whatever? And then you're being served? Can I get and then well, would you like a steak? Do you want extra ranch? Yes? Do you want this? You're being served the whole time. Right, So you know some people like that. But what Jesus is saying that we as disciples need to be in service to others. That is important. Right, don't put yourself first, but others first. Right, love your

neighbor as you love yourself. Commit to prayer like Jesus in the Garden of Gonsemite, prioritize prayer in times of trial, seeking God's strength and guidance. That is so vastly important. We need to understand that even if you are a child of God, and if you are saved and you're walking with the Lord, the devil is not going to leave you alone unless you resist. If he tempts you and you resist him, he's going to flee. James four to seven says that, okay, so yes, it's not like

he's going to be able to just tempt you. Like God's never going to give you anything that you can't handle, and he's not going to let the devil give you something that you can't handle. You can get over it. It's up to you to get over whatever sin that he's offering you or temptation. Okay, acknowledge human weakness, recognize your own weakness, and rely on God's grace. As Peter's story

reminds us of the need for repentance and restoration. Obviously Peter repented right because he did this, and you don't see him going off and being like Judas and hanging himself. No, obviously he weeps bitterly. He that is repentance. You're crying because you care about what you did, right, And then you know, restoration, you know you gotta once you do see God again, which he does see Jesus again, restoration happens. So all right, very nice. Chapter twenty two was filled

with a lot of stuff. I literally put most of my time into chapter twenty two because I had like a bunch of breakdowns on the whole entire loop chapter twenty two. So that's why it almost went like an hour and ten minutes just for one chapter. It was dent. Here's some connecting and additional scriptures. Betrayal and Forgiveness Matthew six, verses fourteen through fifteen emphasizes the importance of forgiving others as God forgives us servant leadership. Go to Mark ten,

verses forty three through forty five. Those verses reinforce the call to serve others as Jesus did. Philippians four Versus six through seven encourage us believers to pray and seek God's peace in difficult times. Human weakness and grace Tewod Corinthians twelve, verses nine through ten speaks to the sufficiency of God's grace and our weakness because sometimes we are weak, sometimes we are human. Sometimes we let the flesh win,

sometimes we let the devil win. Right, So thank God for God's grace, because if we didn't have God's grace, then we would not be in a very good position, would we. Because we are all sinners. We just have to try to be obedient the best that we can. Let's go ahead and check this out. We have Luke

twenty three, verse one. Then the whole multitude of them arose and let him to Pilot, and they began to accuse him, saying, we found this fella perverting the nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a king or Messiah a king. Then Pilot asked him, saying, are you the king of the Jews? And he answered him and said it is as you say. So Pilot said to the chief priests and crown, I

find no fault in this man. But they but they were the more fear, saying he stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Juday a beginning from Galilee to this place. You see a bunch of lies. So Jesus is brought before a Pilot by the assembly who accuses him of mislaying the nation and opposing payment and taxes in Caesar, which he didn't obviously said pay to Caesar, what is Caesar's? Pay to God's? What is God right? So we went

over that. So they're they're lying. Now shall bear false witness? Wow, they are breaking the Ten Commandments. For them, knowing the law so much and their religion, they're breaking the ten Commandments by bearing false witness against Jesus. Do you notice that describes the Pharisees, the lawyers, all of them. They are meant to study the law, to know it back and forth, and to know God's commandments. And right here they're bear bring false witness against God himself. Do you

see this? This is crazy? And the Greek term Christos means anointed one or Messiah, just so we know what that means. And in Luke three Pilot asked Jesus to see the king of the Jews. Jesus responds, you have said so. The phrase you said so is a Greek idiomatic expression affirming the statement. And then when Luke twenty three four, Pilot tells the the chief priest and the crowd that he finds no basis to charge against Jesus. Right, he finds no fault in him. So now we're going

to go ahead and see when Jesus faces Herod. When Pilot heard of Galilee, he asked if the man were a Galilean, and as soon as he knew that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction. He sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time. Now, when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had desired for a long time to see him because he had heard many things about him, and he hoped to see

some miracle done by him. Then he questioned him with many words, but he answered him nothing, And the chief priests inscribed stood and vehemently accused him that Herod's with this man of war, treated him with the contempt and mocked him, arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him back to Pilot. That very day, Pilot and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been in enmity with each other. So you see Herod, I think it's I think Herod's dad. I think this is

not the King Herod that is. I think I already went over this before. I think this is Herod. I think this is the Herod that tried to kill Jesus's son. Okay, so it might be mistaken, or it might be the exact one. I'd have to I don't want to, like really take the time to look that up. It's not very important, but so Jesus sent to Herod. Upon learning that Jesus is a Galilean, Pilot sends him to Herod,

who was in Jerusalem at that time. Herod mocks Jesus. Herod, hoping to see a miracle, questions Jesus, but receives no answer. Herod and his soldiers mock Jesus, dressed him in a splendid robe and send him back to Pilot. Which we talked about. Are these just the events? These are events? Yeah, let's see. I want to have some good teaching points. Have we gone to twenty five yet? Nope, we haven't. Let's continue. Looks like we're gonna do this chapter fairly quick.

So Luke twenty three, verse thirteen. Then, Pilot, when he had called together the chief priest, the rulers, and the people, said to them, you have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people, and indeed haven't examined him in your presence. I found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. No, neither did Herod or I sent you back to him, And indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by him.

I will there for chastise him and release him, for it is necessary for him to release For it is necessary for him to release one of them at the feast. And they all cried out at once, saying, away with this man that released Brabbas, who has been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city for murder. So just to let you guys know, besides him being a murderer, he did a rebellion against Rome. Okay, so he was rebelling against Rome, and he also murdered Jesus.

No fault at all, no sin. People are bearing false witness against him. These are scribes, pharisees, and lawyers and sadducees that are breaking the ten commandments by bearing false witness against him. Brabas murderer that did a rebellion in the city against the Romans. So Pilot, therefore, wishing to release Jesus, called out, called out to them, but they shouted saying, crucify him, crucify him. Then he said to them the third tom why what evil has he done?

I found no reason for death in him. I will therefore chastise him and let him go. But they're insistent. But they were insistent demanding with loud voices that he be crucified, and their voices, the voices of these men and the chief priests prevailed. So Pilot gave sentence that it should be as they requested, and he released to them the one they requested for the rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison, but he delivered Jesus to

their will. So I know that on like the Passion of Christ, and I don't know, like not Passion of Christ, but some of these shows, it seems like the like the scribes and Pharisees placed this crowd there. You know, I don't see it here in the scriptures, right, I

don't see it. I don't see it exactly like that, but you think maybe they might have placed these people, because why would they want to release Barabus instead, you know, like these it just seems like it was kind of to set up this way because the Pharisees, one of them,

he wanted Jesus killed so bad and crucified. I'm not it's this is not in the word here, but it just seems like that because most of the people he didn't do anything wrong to them, right, So and Luke one through twenty five which is what we just went over, details the trial of Jesus before Pilot and Herod. Despite finding no fault in him, Pilot succumbs to the crowds of demands. This highlights the theme of injustice and fulfillment of Isaiah fifty three seven. He was oppressed and afflicted,

yet he did not open his mouth. Yes, so that is so he doesn't open his mouth, and he doesn't you know, you know that he could send a legion of angels to come and slap Pilot the face and knock his head, probably all the way to California. I don't know. I'm just saying, you know, I mean, he could send a legion to angels and destroy every single person that's there besides his disciples. And you know, all the people that are saying that he can literally do that,

he has to keep his mouth shut. Can you imagine what that took for him to just take it and why all this is going on knowing that he could like literally have him wiped out in a second. Well, this is why we should appreciate what he did for us, right, because he has the power to do that, Yet he didn't do anything like that, and he actually kept quiet and silent, so that what they were doing was going to happen, because why because it's his father's will for him to do it, and he you know, let you

will be done, Let this cup pass for me. No, oh, he's going to do God's will. Right now, we're going to talk about the king on a cross Luke twenty three, twenty six. Now, as they led him away, they led whole of a certain men, Simon, a Syrianan who is coming from a country, from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it. After Jesus and a great multitude of people followed him, and

women who also mourned, mourned and lamented, lamented him. But Jesus, turning to them, said, daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, will weep for yourselves and for your children. For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, blessed are the barren wombs and never bore and breasts which have nursed. Then they will begin to say, to the mountains fall on us, and to the hills cover us. For if they do these things in the green wood,

what will be done in the dry. So that's in okay, now, let's go here Luke twenty three, verse thirty two. And there was also two others criminals led with him to be put to death. And when they had come to the place called cavalry, they were crucified. They crucified him and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. Then Jesus said, Father, forgive me, for forgive them, for they know not what they do. And they divided

his garments and cast lots. And the people stood looking on, but even the rulers with them sneered, saying he saved others, let him save himself if he is the Christ, the chosen of God. The soldiers also mocked him, coming and offering him sour wine, saying, if you are King of the Jews, save yourself. As an inscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, this

is the king of the Jews. Now I have gone over this, uh in in Matthew and in Mark in more detail, and I've kind of showed you a few things here and there. If you want to go back to those parts you can. I'm just kind of just reading over this just to uh, you know, for the sake of time, just kind of going over this section where I'm not going over all the all the different

h sayings and everything. Okay, so but the you know, because I kind of go a little more in depth on the one where I went over in Mark, I think our Matthew, I think, Matthew, I'll go over all super in depth on this. But then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed him, saying, if you are the Christ, save yourself and us. But the other answered rebuke in him, saying, do not do you not even

fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation. And we need and indeed justly, for we receive the do reward of our deeds. But this man has done nothing wrong. Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom. And Jesus said to him, as surely I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. So we need to understand a few things on this portion. So in Ephesians four Aphesians four, I think four through eight something like that. At the

check it talks about Jesus when he dies. He he said he ascended to heaven, but first he descended into the lower parts of the earth. Let's see what verse that is. Let me just I want to give you the right, the right one Ephesians four, verses four through eight. Is that what it is? There's no home spirit, h Phesians, Jesus descends into hell. Okay, I was close Ephesian Seasans four nine. Okay, let's see Apheasians four nine. Ephesians four nine.

Thank you guys for your patience. I just want to make sure when I am, I just don't want to be quoting the verse wrong. Okay, we'll start here. H and A Peasans four seven. But to each one of us grace has given according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore, he says, when he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men. Verse nine says, now this he ascended, what does it mean but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth.

He who descended is also the one who us said it far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things, And he himself gave some. He himself gave some to be apostles, prophets, some evangelists, and pastors and teachers. So I don't need to go over that portion. The very important part was he ascended. But before he ascended, first descended into the lower parts of the earth. What

do we have in the lower parts of the earth. Well, we have Shiel on one side, and then a giant chasm or a golf, and on the other side is what's called Abraham's bosom, and you have Paradise. We kind of talked about that when we went over in Luke sixteen the story of Lazarus and the rich Man in Lazaruth. Right, we talked about that already. So what does he mean is surely I see to you today you will be

in pairs. So Jesus probably went into the earth, descended, grabbed all the prophets that he's gonna grab, takes them to heaven. Right, So he descended into the lower parts of the earth, then he ascended to heaven, is what I'm seeing. Does the Bible say that, No, you see in the Apostles Creed, But I'm kind of seeing that he went descended into heaven, or descended into the lower parts of the earth, and then he ascended to heaven, which means he went up to heaven. That's what ascended

means descending means to go down. So what is down? Well, there's lower parts of the earth. Well it's just magma. Well that's what the scientists would tell you, but they have no idea because the farthest that we've ever dug

down is eight miles. But what I do is like I always do, and Christians should also do this, you know, if you want to or not, whatever you want to do, I'm not pushing it on you, but we need to take God's word and place it above what anybody ever tells you in science and in all these different people that try to tell you things, because the Bible is is what's going to tell you. Know, God is the one that created the heavens and the earth, and He's

going to tell us the true information. You know. That's what I'm saying. But my whole point is it says, as surely I see you today, you will be in paradise with me in paradise. So does that mean that the thief got to go with Jesus into the earth into paradise down there, or did he get to ascend to heaven. Well, the only time that anybody can enter heaven is when Jesus died on the cross. Right, then that's when this very that's when the power change happened.

And that's when you know, it's very powerful. You know, people don't understand, but it was so powerful when Jesus walked the earth, and it's so powerful what he did on this cross. It is like a huge shift in power. Okay, he has the keys to the hell, he has the keys to earth, he has the keys to heaven. Okay, So Jesus dies on the cross. This is going to be Luke twenty three, verse forty four. Now it was about the sixth hour. There was a darkness over all

the earth until the ninth hour. Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn into And when Jesus had cried out with the loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands, I commit my spirit. Having said this, he breathed his lass. So when the centurion saw that what happened, he glorified God, saying, certainly this was a

righteous man. And the whole crowd we came together in that sight, seeing that he had what had been done, beat their breasts in return with all their acquaintances, and the women who followed him from Galilee stood at the distance, watching the watching these things. So we'll look at what this my teaching points, says so Verses twenty sixty forty three describes a crucifixion where Jesus is mocked and scorned, yet even in his suffering, he extends grace, saying, Father,

forgive them, for they know not what they do. This demonstrates his divine love and mercy even when he's on the cross. After everything has happened, he says that it's like God's grace is so sufficient and so beautiful. The repentant thief, so in Verses thirty nine through forty three, one of the criminals crucified alongside Jesus acknowledges his innocence and asked to be remembered in his kingdom. Jesus responds, truly, I tell you today you will be with me in Paradise,

illustrating the immediacy of salvation through faith. This is a perfect picture of what we get when we believe that Jesus died on the cross. When we believe, let me read it real quick. What is it? One Corinthians fifteen, Verses one through four. Very important. Let me go over that because it is the gospel message. And you guys need to hear this. You need to hear this. Where is it? I have it? I have it actually already pulled up somewhere in here. All right, I guess I'll

just go there. I already know the verse First Corinthians fifteen Versus one through four. You need one through five. Here. This is Paul speaking moreover, brother, And I declare to you the gospel which I preach to you, which also you received, in which you stand by, which also you are saved if you hold fast that word which I

preach to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I have received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures, and that he was seen by Cephis, and by the twelve. After that he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remained to present, but some have fallen asleep after they have seen. After that he was

seen by James, that all the apostles. Then, last of all, he was seen by me also as by one born out of due time. The gospel message is right there, the bread and butter for I delivered to first, which was received. That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. That he also was buried, and that he rose again after the third day according to the scriptures, and that he was seen. Okay, we have to believe that in order for us to receive salvation. Okay, we

have to believe that. Believe it, all right. The Death of Jesus Verses forty nine, forty four through forty nine describe this supernatural events surrounding Jesus's death, including darkness over the land and the tearing of the temple veil, symbolizing the new access of God through Christ. I also want to go over something, Okay, I want to go over something that is vastly important. It's going to be in the book of Matthew, and it is just blew me away.

In case I have any new listeners, I just want to make sure that you understand what is going on here when Jesus dies on this cross. Okay, so it says this and Matthew twenty seven will start out at fifty and Jesus cried out again a loud voice and

yielded up his spirit. Then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened, and any bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised coming out of the graves. After his resurrection, they went into the Holy City, which is Jerusalem, and appeared to many. Are you kidding me? To me that that is fascinating. The saints of old of the Old Testament ended up coming out of the graves, right,

that is just. And it says they came coming out of the graves after so there was an earthquake that split the earth. These these saints came from out of the graves and they appeared to many in the Holy City. To me, that is fascinating. Okay, that is very fascinating. And then that is actually a that is actually a prophecy that has talked about in the book of Ezekiel about the dry bones. I mean, we have to go there real quick, because I know I have it somewhere.

Oh my goodness, I wish I could on the fly, remember Ezekiel. Oh man, I wish I had this in my notes where's it at Ezekiel? I think it's Ezekiel fourteen one. Let me just shoot if I could shoot from the hip and remember this, it's going to be amazing because it really has to do with something I didn't get to teach you guys last time, which I really want to teach you. So everybody that's listening that I've been following along, I forgot to I mean not forgot.

I just learned about this. Watch. I bet you it's going to be some of the elders of Israel came and sat before me, the son of Man, the idols and their hearts. Therefore speak to them. Ah, where is it? Okay? I know what to do. Just give me a second. Sorry, guys, I really want to the prophecy about the dry bones, Ezekiel thirty seven, That's what it was. I was way off f act, like I'm all close thirty seven, but I was actually saying Ezekiel fourteen all right, laughing my

own jokes again. That's that's just funny I'm talking about. You know, I'm talking to myself the whole time when I'm doing these shows, right, all right, let me read this to you that way, you know, So The reason why I'm reading this is because when Jesus died on the cross, it was an earthquake, and then there was these, these these saints who were just bones, and the earth ended up becoming flesh and walking the earth and appearing to many. Let's read this Ezekiel thirty seven, The dry

bones live. I believe this is a prophecy of that at exact moments, the hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the spirit of the Lord right, which is the Holy Spirit, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. Then he caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and indeed they were very dry. And he said to me, son of Man, can these bones live?

So I answered, oh, Lord God, you know again he said to me, prophesy to these bones, and say to them, oh, dry bones. Hear the word of the Lord, that says the Lord God to these bones. Surely I will cause breath to enter you. Breath is a word in the Hebrew spirit. So he's gonna cause these dry bones, and he's gonna cause a spirit to go into them. Surely I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

I will put seinws, which are tendants, on you, and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesized as I was commanded. As I prophesized, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling, and the dry bones came together, bone to bone. Indeed, as I looked the se news which are the tendants, and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over. But there was no

breath in them. And he also said to me, prophesied to the breath, prophesize, son of man, and say to the breath, thus says the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath and breathe on the slain, that they may live. So I prophesized as he commanded me, and breathe and breath came into them, and they lived and stood upon their feet and exceedingly great army. Then he said to me, Sen of Ben, these bones are

the whole house of Israel. And they indeed say, our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and ourselves are cut off. Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord God. Behold, oh my people, I'll open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves and bring you into the land of Israel. That's exactly what happened. This is fascinating. Right. Then you shall know

that I am the Lord. When I have opened your graves and my people and brought you up from the graves, I will put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that the Lord have spoken it and performed it, says the Lord. What this is fascinating, isn't it. I mean, I don't know. This kind of stuff right here is like to me is just as deep. It's

so deep. It says that He's just want to let you guys know that I really didn't really get to explain that to you guys before, but if you stuck around to the end of this show, hopefully it was worth it. Dry Bones, and all of a sudden, he puts tendants sig News, which are tendants and flesh, and he breathed the spirit into them, and they're able to form an army and walk around and show up to people, this is what happened. And if you read the Book of Matthew, when Jesus died on the cross, this is

how powerful it was. Okay, when Jesus was here, this was it was so powerful. And I think that a lot of people just know the surface level of what's going on theyn't know the deeper meaning behind it. So another thing that you can look up is Psalms eighty two one. I've gone over this a lot of times, where God is talking to the lowercase g gods in the congregation and he's telling them that they didn't show mercy to the poor, the needy, and all these things

that they did wrong. Well, you if you study Michael, doctor Michael Heiser's work, you see what he thinks is that those gods, lowercase g gods, are sons of gods or angels or fallen angels that were looking over these cities. They made mistakes and they they were not treating people justly. And what God did was take the power away from them and gave it to Jesus when he died on

the cross. Now, I don't know if that's true, but that's what he believes, and that's some of his work, but I think it is definitely fascinating to think about. And if you did stick around until the end of the show, please go to Spotify and you know comment. Let's continue reading. Now, Behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good and just man. He had not consented to their decision. Indeed, he was from Armathea, a city of the Jews, who himself was also waiting

for the Kingdom of God. This man went to Pilot and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb. There it was hone out of the rock, and no one had ever lain before. That day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew near, and the women who had come with him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and fragrant oils, and

they rested on the sabbath according to the commandment. Okay, so very very fascinating. Some of the stuff that I read to you about Ezekiel I kind of what happened was I was on somebody's show, and I was talking about that very event, and then I was like, oh, let me just go to Ezekiel and read through for you guys, and I mean for them the audience. And I started reading and then I saw that part about the dry bones, and I was like, oh, and then it says it's gonna appear to the city, the people

in the city. I was like, I gotta show my Sunday Service and Wednesday service crew this and I forgot to show you guys. But hey, God is great. I still got to show you, you know. So let's see how far this goes. Okay, we got about fifteen minutes. Can we go through this Luke twenty four and then what's next after that? Oh, we're gonna finish Luke right now. Oh this is awesome, all right, cool, cool, cool, awesome, awesome, awesome. Okay, let's go. H Well, we got practical applications we got

to go through though, too. I don't know if we're gonna be able to do Luke twenty four place shit, Okay, that okay, practical applications stand firm in the truth. Like Pilot. We may face pressure to conform to the world, we must stand firm and the truth, even when it's unpopular. Extend forgiveness. Jesus example of forgiving those who wronged him challenges us to forgive others reflecting his love and grace.

Embrace salvation. The story of repenting thieves reminds us that it's never too late to turn to Christ and receive his gift to salvation. People need to realize that that's very important, right because some people say, oh, well, you know I did this, I did this, I did that. God will never forgive me when it's not true. Live with hope. The tearing of the temple veil signifies our direct access to God. We can live with hope and

confidence and our relationship with Him. Okay, and we'll just go ahead and stop there for that, but I will continue. Let's go ahead and read Luke twenty four. I think we can kind of bust through this quickly. It's not going to be a whole in depth, dense study right here. This is just going to be the end of Luke. So I want to just go over it real quick.

So he is risen now on the first day of the week, very morning in the earth, very early in the morning, They and certain other women with them came to the tomb, bringing the spices with them they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, and they went in and did not find his body, of the Lord Jesus. And it happened as they were greatly perplexed about this, And behold two men stood by

them in the shining garments. Then as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, why do you seek the living among the dead. He is not here, but is risen. Remember how he spoke to you when he was still in galley, saying, the sun of man must be delivered into the hands of a sinful men and be crucified, and on the third day rise again. And this is actually in red. So remember how he spoke to you when he was in gality,

saying the sun of meent Wow. Okay, oh yeah, because nevermind, because he that was Jesus speaking to them. So that's why it's in red. And they remembered his words when they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary, the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, And their words seemed to be like idle tales, and they did not

believe them. But Peter arose and ran to the tomb, and stooping down, he saw the lion cloths lying by themselves, and he departed, marveling to himself at what happened. He departed, marveling to himself at what happened? What had happened? So I can let's see I got, you know, ten minutes or so. So let's go to Luke twenty three. Nope, we're in twenty four. Let's see any teaching points I could go over the empty tomb. The woman who visited the tomb found it empty, and the two angels proclaimed,

he is not here. He has risen. The pivotal moment confirms the fulfillment of Jesus's prophecy about his resurrection. Right, so, the two men that were there were actually two angels. Whenever angels come to earth, they always come in the form of a human. That's why they say two men the road to Emmaeus. This is interesting right here. Now behold, two of them were traveling the same day to a village called a MAOIs or a moss E M m a U s, which was seven miles from Jerusalem, and

they talked together all these things which had happened. So it was while they conversed and reasoned that Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained so that they did not know him. And he said to them, what kind of conversation is that you have with one another as you walk and are sad? Then one of those name was Cleophus, answered and said to them, are you Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem? Have not known the things which happen on these days?

And he said to him what things? And they said to them the things concerning Jesus and Nazareth. He was a prophet mighty indeed, and word before God and all the people. And how the chief priests and other rulers delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified him. But he was hoping that he was, But we were hoping that it was he who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened. Yes, and certain women of our company who

arrived in the tomb early astonished us. When they did not find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive. And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women said. But him they did not see. And he said to them, oh, foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all the prophets have spoken, ought not the Christ have not

suffered these things to enter his glory? And the beginning of Moses, and all the prophets he expounded on them, and the scriptures of things concerning him. So yeah, all the way to thirty five, Jesus appears to two disciples on the road or massas, and they do not recognize him until he breaks bread with them. So let's go ahead and re read that part. The disciples' eyes open,

So in Luke twenty four to twenty eight. Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and he indicated that he would have gone farther, and they constrain him, saying, abide with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent. And he went in to stay with them. Now it came to pass as he sat at the table with them, that he took bread blessed and broke it, and he gave it to them, and their eyes were open, and they knew him,

and he vanished from their sight. Wow. And they said to one another, do not did not our heart burn with us within us while he talked with us on the road, and he opened the scriptures to us. And they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven who were gathered together, saying, the Lord is risen. Indeed, and appeared to Simon, and he told about the things that had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in breaking of bread.

So it says right here, I'm sorry. In a chapter in verse twenty seven, he says, and beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded to them, in all the scriptures and things concerning himself, I wish I wish we could have. I know we have a lot of the PropheC he's already known, But it would be very nice to hear that conversation right there, that part Jesus expounding on the scriptures and things concerning himself. That would

be great. I would love to hear that conversation. So this encounter emphasizes the importance of spiritual insight and the breaking of bread as a means of revelation. So we have Jesus appears to his disciples. Now as they said these things, Jesus himself this is Luke twenty four thirty six. Okay. Now, as they said these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them and said to them, peace to you. But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they

had seen it. They were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. And he said to them, why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet. This is it myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have. When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. But they did not believe. For But while they still did not believe, for joy and marveled, he said to them,

have you any food here? So they gave him a piece of boiled fish and some honeycomb. He took it and ate it in their presence, so it reminds me of when the two angels came to Sodamega Mora and they were eating with Lot. They were able to eat, they were able to drink, they were able to grab Lot's wife, so they physically were able to do that. And Jesus is saying, do you have any food here, so that they they're like, okay, They got boiled fish and honeycomb. He took it and ate it in their presence.

Very very interesting, So we have to understand that he's able to eat, you know. So he asks flesh and blood? Are flesh and bone there? Like he's it's very interesting. So that's why he says that, like he showed him his hands, his feets, why they did not believe, enjoy and marvel at him? Do you have any food, you know, so that they believe in the more? Ah so Luke

twenty four, verse forty four the scriptures open. Then he said to them, these are the words which I spoke to you while I was with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms concerning me. And he opened their understanding that they might comprehend the scriptures. Lord, please, Father God, in the name of Jesus, you show the michiock.

Please open our understanding so we can understand the scriptures just like you did, so that we can comprehend the scriptures. Open our understanding so we can comprehend the Scripture's, Lord, I pray in Jesus's name, every single par and that's listening to the show, open up their understanding so they can comprehend the scriptures in jesus name. Amen, let's continue, and also me too, Lord Luke twenty four to forty six.

Then he said to them, thus it is written, and thus it is necessary for Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and the repentance and remission of sins should be preaching his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but terry in this city of Jerusalem

until you have endured the power from on high. So the ascension in Luke twenty four point fifty, it says, and he led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. Now it came to pass while he blessed them, that he parted from them and carried it up into heaven, read up into heaven, and they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. A men. So one thing we got

to understand, that he went up to heaven. Now there's only one way up, one way down on the biblical cosmology model. All right, just letting you know the ascension, okay, So Jesus, okay, Jesus appears to his disciples. Here's it says. Jesus appears to his disciples, offering them peace and proving his physical resurrection by showing his wounds and eating with them.

He opens their minds to understand the scriptures, highlighting the necessity the necessity of his suffering and resurrection, and then the ascension. Jesus leads his disciples to Bethany, blesses them, and ascends into heaven. This event marks the completion of his early ministry and the beginning of the disciples mission to spread the Gospel. What a beautiful, beautiful scene we see here. And then let's see if there's anything else in the events page. Jesus led them out as far

as Bethany, lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. They worshiped him to return to Jelusalem with great joy, countill he praising God in the temple, which we read he opened up the mind's understanding. We understand that we already went over that perfect We kind of went over everything I needed to go over with my notes. What I'll go over now is the practical applications you can kind of put into your own life.

Embrace the resurrection. Just as the women and disciples were transformed by the news of the resurrection, we too should let the reality of this risen Christ transform our lives and fill us with hope. Yes, fill us with hope, because Jesus died on the cross for us, and we have a mediator between us and God. To be able to pray directly to the Father. We do not need to go into a temple. We don't need to go into a church. We don't need to go into a building.

We don't need to have a priest speak for us. We don't need any of that. We have a mediator between us and God and Jesus Christ. He actually, you know, he made us holy. You know, there's a giant gulf between us and God because we're so unholy. But Jesus actually created a bridge for us to go straight to the Father. So that is amazing in itself. We're also forgiven for our sins, you know. For God so love

the world. He gave his only begotten son, for whoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life. John three point sixteen. There's just so much stuff we need to embrace here. Okay, seek spiritual insight like the disciples on the Road to Ammaeus. We should seek to recognize Jesus in our daily lives, especially through scripture and communion. Of course, we need to recognize Jesus in our lives, our daily lives, of course, and we need to read scripture.

Good news. Good thing is we have this podcast. I'm gonna go ahead and stop screenshare because I don't need that up. Good thing is we have this podcast and this Bible study to kind of read scripture to you and for you to understand the scriptures the best of my ability. God will just speak through me as a vessel, and hopefully it's assisting you guys be witnesses. Jesus commissioned his disciples to be witnesses of his resurrection. We are called to share the gospel and the hope of the

resurrection with others. Okay, we need to share the gospel. That is like part of discipleship, right, disciples, When I want to share the gospel, message and hope of the resurrection with others, live with expectation. The ascension reminds us that Jesus will return. We should live with the expectation of his return, remaining faithful and diligent in our walk

with him. For sure, A men to that. Okay. I will give you a couple additional scriptures that you guys can look up that will help you with your study. And we are running in perfect timing. So next week we're going to start John. Isn't that a blessing? This so awesome? So one Corinthians fifteen, three through four. Oh, we already talked about it already. See God put that in my mind for you guys to know. Look up first Corinthians one through ten, you know, look it up.

Paul emphasized the importance of the resurrection as a core tenet of the Gospel, Acts one eight through eleven. Is some other verses. I want you to go through the ascension and the promise of the Holy Spirit and power believers to be witnesses to the ends of the earth. John twenty verses nineteen through twenty nine. Jesus posts resurrection appearances to his disciples, including Thomas, reinforced the reality of his phys resurrection, and Thomas says, my Lord, my God,

we'll read it. I'm gonna save that from when we get there. It's fascinating and it's beautiful. Okay. So wow. So we're gonna be in John next week. How how amazing, and please join me for that and also join me for Sunday service. We're gonna be in Deuteronomy. That's another, uh, just a fun study that I really loving and uh yeah, amazing. So thank you guys so much for joining me. I really appreciate it, and you know, praise God. You know, we we're gonna be in John one next week and

we're gonna be talking a lot about you know. Uh, it points to a lot of it points to Jesus being God. We'll go over a lot of that, and if you're a Unitarian or if you are a Oneness, then we are still gonna still keep keep studying with me. You know, I'm not gonna just like put the Trinity the whole time, but I am going to kind of give different ideas I think of what people believe, so that you guys understand and know, and that way I could teach you, you know, a couple different things and

then you could make your own decision from there. But thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate everybody that's listening. Like I said, comment on Spotify so I could see your comments, or DM me at Josh Monday Underscore Podcast. If you want to join my Patreon, you could just go to my Instagram at Josh Monday Underscore Podcast and just click on my bio. There's a link tree there you could go into that or check on my YouTube, whatever you want to do. I really appreciate that.

So let's go ahead and end this in prayer. So Father God and the name of Jesus, thank you so much, and your show with them Atchak's name, Lord, thank you so much for this beautiful time, this glorious time for us to be able to do studies. And also, you know, thank you for let us go all the way through the Book of Luke or the Gospel of Luke. Now we're going to be in the Gospel of John. Lord, and please me in being able to comprehend the scriptures and also to be able to teach and preach to

the best of my ability. And please, Lord, give me the strength and the power to be able to do that. And everybody that's listening, Give people the strength and the power. If they have ears, then let them hear. You know, we're just trying to go verse by verse and we're trying to build faith through your word, like Romans ten seventeen says faith come with by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Lord, we're just trying to spread

your gospel message. We're just trying to get people bringing these conspiracy theorists and all these Christians back to the Word. You know, that's just just what we need. We need scripture. We need verse by verse studies so that we can get closer to You until we can build our shield of faith to be able to dodge the wiles of the devil. Like Ephesian six twelve through sixteen, says, and we know that we wrestle not against flesh and blood,

but principalities of evil. So we're trying to build our faith so that we can dodge the wiles of the devil, and also so that we're able to do spiritual battle against these principalities of evil that are in heavenly places. So we need your help to do that. Lord, So just break the chains of everything that people are going through right now, and just let us start from scratch.

Let us start new and bury all of our sins in the deepest part of the ocean, Father God, and let us just I just want to tell you I appreciate you sending your son to die on the cross for our sins. We did not deserve it. We don't deserve your grace, but as a free gift, we appreciate salvation. Lord. Thank you. We know we don't deserve it, and our works are filthy rags to you, but you still give us the grace and the ability for us to be saved.

I appreciate it. Lord, Thank you, and anybody that's listening, thank you so much. I love you, Lord, Thank you, Please bless our we us listening, God and Jesus' name. Amen, thank you so much for tuning in. Like I said, share the show with his many many people as you feel needed and let it get out to as many people as you can. And also comment on Spotify below if you enjoyed the study. God bless you and thank you so much. Love you, God bless you