"Y la mujer de Pilate, por eso, salió hacia adelante y le dijo a ellos, 'Ajude, le traigo hacia adelante a usted, que usted pueda saber que no encuentro malos en él'.
Entonces Jesus salió hacia adelante, usando el cuerno de ropa y la ropa roja, y la mujer de Pilate, por eso, le dijo a ellos, 'Ajude el hombre'.
Cuando la mujer de Pilate, por eso, le acudió al profeta, llamó a él, diciendo, '¡Crucifí, crucifí a él!'
Y la mujer de Pilate, por eso, le dijo a ellos, 'Ajude a él y crucifí a él, porque no encuentro malos en él'.
Los jeus le respondieron, 'Tenemos una ley, y por nuestra ley debe morir, porque él se ha convertido en el Hijo de Dios'.
Cuando Pilate escuchó eso diciendo, él fue más asustado, y volvió a la sala de juicio, y le dijo a Jesús, '¿Quién eres tú?'
Pero Jesús no le respondió, y le dijo a Pilate a él, '¿Puedes hablar conmigo?'
'¿Sabes que no tengo el poder de crucifizarte, y tengo el poder de liberarte?'
Jesús respondió, 'Tienes que no tener prudencia en todo contra mí, excepto que te han dado de arriba,
por lo que Él que me ha entregado a ti, tiene el gran pecado'.
Y desde entonces, Pilate trató de liberarlo, pero los judíos decían, 'Si te dejas ir este hombre, no eres el amigo de César,
quien sea quien haga a su propio rey hablar contra César'.
Cuando Pilate, por lo tanto, escuchó eso, le trajo a Jesús, y se sentó en la silla del judío, en un lugar llamado 'el pavimento',
que en el hebreo es 'Gabatha', y fue la preparación de la pasajera.
Y en la sexta hora, y le decían a los judíos, 'Susurra tu rey'.
Crieron, '¡Asegúrate! ¡Asegúrate y cruzártelo!' Pilate les decía, '¿Debería cruzar a tu rey?'
El presidente respondió, 'No tenemos a ningún rey, sino a César'.
Entonces se lo llevaron a cruzar, y los tomaron a Jesús y los dejaron ir.
Y él, sacando su cruz, salió a un lugar llamado 'El lugar de la escala',
que es llamado en el hebreo 'Gogatha', donde cruzaron a Él y a dos otros con Él,
en cada lado uno, y Jesús en el medio.
Y Pilate escribió un título y lo colocó en la cruz, y la descripción fue,
"Jesús de Nazareth, el rey de los judíos".
Este título luego lo leería muchos de los judíos,
porque el lugar donde Jesús fue cruzado fue la ciudad de Nidia,
y fue escrito en Hebreo, en griego y en latino.
Entonces dijo el presidente de los judíos a Pilate,
no escriba el rey de los judíos,
sino que él dijo, "Soy el rey de los judíos".
Pilate respondió, "Lo que he escrito, he escrito".
Luego los soldados, cuando cruzaron a Jesús, tomaron su ropa,
y hicieron cuatro partes para cada soldado, y también su ropa.
Ahora la ropa fue sin cuchillo, rovada desde la parte superior.
"Decidieron, por lo tanto, entre sí mismos, 'Dejemos que no se rendan,
pero castren muchas cosas para ello, quien lo serán'.
Que la Escriptura pueda ser, perdón, que la Escriptura pueda ser cumplida,
que diría, 'He partido mi reglamento entre ellos, y por mi vestido hicieron muchas cosas'.
Por eso, las soldadas hicieron estas cosas".
Ahora están by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister,
Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene.
"When Jesus, therefore, saw his mother and his disciple standing by, whom he loved,
he saith unto his mother, 'Woman, behold thy son'.
Then saith he to the disciple, 'Behold thy mother', and from that hour that disciple
took her unto his own home."
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture
might be fulfilled, saith, "Thy thirst.
Now there was a set of vessels full of vinegar, and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and
put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
When Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, he said, 'It is finished'.
He bowed his head and gave up the ghost.
The Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation, that the body should not remain upon the cross
on the Sabbath day, for that Sabbath day was in high day, but saw pilot that their legs
might be broken, that they might be taken away.
They came to soldiers and break the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified
with him.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they break not his legs.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood
and water.
And he that saw a bare record, and this record is true, and he knoweth that he sayeth true
that he might believe.
But these things were done that the scripture should be fulfilled, a bone of him shall not
be broken.
Then again another scripture sayeth, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
And after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear
of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave
him leave.
He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought
a mixture of myrrh and aloe, about a hundred pounds weight, and took there the body of
Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to
bury.
Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new supple
curve wherein was never a man yet laid.
There lay day Jesus therefore, because of the Jews preparation day, for the supple curve
was night.
And let's pray.
Father God we thank you dear Lord, for the wonderful gift you have given us of salvation
dear Lord, through your son Jesus Christ.
We love you for it, and we thank you for our church.
Thank you for our pastor.
Please bless the service tonight in Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
Okay, we're in John chapter 19 here tonight.
And tonight we're going to talk about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the crucifixion
of Jesus Christ.
Of course, at this point, Jesus Christ has already been brought forth to Pilate, Pilate
has questioned him.
And of course, Jesus Christ in chapter 18 and verse 36 specifically tells Pilate that
his kingdom is not of this world.
And of course, the proof of that is the fact that his servants are not fighting for him.
We know that Jesus Christ is fulfilling prophecy here by dying for the sins of the whole world.
And Pilate has the authority, he has the power to release Jesus Christ or to crucify him.
And of course, he's going to give in to the pressure of the Jews, right?
That's what we actually see in the first couple of verses here of chapter 19.
Think of verse number one here, it says, "Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him.
And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put on him
a purple robe and said, 'Hail, King of the Jews!' and they smote him with their hands."
Now, the fact that Pilate is allowing Jesus Christ to be scourged and beaten, he's doing
this in order to placate the Jews.
The Jews want Jesus dead, they want him to be crucified.
And Pilate obviously sees this, so he's trying to appease them, he's trying to placate them.
And so instead of crucifying him, he's just going to severely punish him physically by
scourging him.
This is him seeking to placate the mob by punishing him physically, and of course that's
not enough for the Jews because the Jews are implacable, right?
The Jews want Jesus to die, they do not want him to live, and so they are conspiring against
him and they are trying to put the pressure on Pilate to put him to death, and we obviously
see through this story that Pilate wants to release Jesus Christ, he recognizes that Jesus
is innocent, he is not guilty of any wrongdoing, but of course he is a compromiser, it's not
that he is a believer in Jesus Christ, it's just that he is just simply someone who the
crowd can persuade in their agenda, and of course this is ultimately fulfilling Bible
prophecy, and so we see that he scourges him and this obviously fulfills what the Bible
says regarding Jesus Christ in Isaiah chapter 53, which Jews ironically refer to themselves.
When you ask a Jew who Isaiah 53 is talking about, they believe Isaiah 53 is actually
referring to the nation of Israel, and the reason for that is because they believe themselves
to be God, whereas we know that Isaiah 53 is a prophetic chapter about the Lord Jesus
Christ.
There is no denying that.
When you compare the actual events that took place at the scourging and crucifixion of Jesus
Christ and compare it to Isaiah 53, we obviously see that it is Jesus.
But of course Israel, Jews want to be their own God and so they apply Isaiah 53 to themselves.
It says in verse 3 of Isaiah 53, "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief, and we hid as it were our faces from him.
He was despised and we esteemed him not."
Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions," right?
That's essentially picturing the scourging and the beatings that he receives from the
Romans by the pressure of the Jews.
He says he was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed, the Bible
says.
Now as I mentioned the Jews like to apply this to themselves and you don't have to go very
far to see this.
You will often see rabbis online saying that they are dying for the sins of the whole world.
Christians should worship them because of the fact that they are dying for the whole
world and they will point to Isaiah 53 as a proof text.
Obviously it is completely blasphemous, it is stupid and it is very much retarded because
we obviously know that this is addressing the Lord Jesus Christ.
He was actually physically wounded, was physically beaten and chastised.
He was scourged and of course he was nailed to a cross.
And we see here that Isaiah 53 is telling us that all of these afflictions, these physical
afflictions before his death came upon him in order to pay for our transgressions.
And it is obviously a beautiful picture here that he became our substitute.
He essentially allowed himself to be physically wounded as an innocent man, to be wounded
for someone who is guilty of breaking God's commandments such as ourselves.
And so we see that taking place there.
And we also see in John that once they scourge him and beat him, the soldiers platted, meaning
they braided a crown of thorns for him, right?
And what this is referring to is the fact that the soldiers are mocking Jesus Christ
because they obviously are catching wind that Jesus Christ is the king of the Jews.
That's what the controversy is surrounded with, that he's the son of God.
The Roman soldiers know this.
And so mockingly they create, they braid a crown of thorns to place it on his head.
And then they array him with a purple robe saying, hail king of the Jews.
And in fact, in the other parallel passage in the other gospels, it actually says that
they give him a scepter, right?
And they bow their knee to him.
They smite him with the scepter there and they mock him.
And you know, it's obviously a very blasphemous thing to do.
They don't regard him as being God.
But what I want you to notice here is that when he's given a crown, he's given a crown
of thorns.
And I think this is symbolically representing the fact that, you know, the first Adam, when
the curse came upon the world through Adam, through Adam's transgressions, the Bible
actually says in Genesis chapter three, that thorns also in thistles shall it bring forth
to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
So the first Adam, because of his transgression against God's commandments, brings forth thorns,
whereas the last Adam wears the thorns, right?
So he's essentially making up for what Adam and Eve have done to this world, causing the
world to fall into utter chaos and condemnation.
He's basically fixing the problem here, right?
That Adam created.
So although Adam is bringing forth thorns and thistles, Jesus Christ has taken the thorns
and thistles from the ground, the cursed ground, and he's placing it upon his own head to pay
for the transgressions of the world.
It's a beautiful picture there.
And so we see here, of course, that he gets a crown of thorns and ultimately it's so
that he can be crowned in the future, right?
As being the king of the world.
And so he has to suffer in order to fulfill this very sad, but very much necessary.
Look at verse four.
It says your pilot therefore went forth again and saith unto them, behold, I bring him forth
to you that you may know that I find no fault in him.
So it's like, well, you say you find no fault, but you beat him, right?
Unjustly he spat upon, he's beat.
And of course this isn't, don't mistake pilot for being just, you know, ignorantly just
or something like that.
Oh, he's trying to do the right thing.
You know what I mean?
Well, not necessarily because he's still beating Jesus Christ unjustly, he's scourging him.
Really what he's doing is just trying to placate and appease the Jews because they do have some
pull in the political realm at this time, as noted here that they end up convincing pilot
to crucify Jesus Christ.
But he says, look, I beat him.
Look at him.
I final faulted him.
This should be enough.
The fact that he's getting beaten, even though albeit unjustly, but of course the crowd is
not happy with this.
It says in verse five, then came Jesus forth wearing the crown of thorns and the purple
robe and pilot say them to him, behold the man.
So obviously pilot is okay with them mocking Jesus Christ.
This is a major mockery, right?
Placing the robe upon him of purple signifying royalty.
The fact that he's claiming to be the king, they have a crown of thorns.
He's bloodied, he's bruised, he's beaten and he's saying, behold the man.
In other words, are you happy?
Look what I've done to him.
This is what I've allowed.
This is the punishment that we've instituted.
Behold the man in hopes that they would say, okay, that is sufficient.
Let them go there.
You know, they're after, but obviously they want him dead.
Look at verse six.
When the chief priests, and I do want you to notice that it says when the chief priests,
keep in mind that the Jews are there.
It's a crowd of Jews, okay?
And obviously the Jews collectively are guilty for this, right?
But the ones who are spearheading the conspiracy against Jesus Christ are the chief priests,
okay?
These are the leaders of the Jews here, and these are the ones who, what the Bible says,
what Jesus says later on, has the greater sin.
So even though collectively the Jews are guilty of wanting Jesus Christ crucified because
they said, crucify him, they are repeating what the chief priests are saying.
They're saying his blood be on us and on our children.
At the end of the day, the chief priest has the greater sin.
We'll get into that in just a bit, but it says here when the chief priests, therefore,
an officer saw him, they cried out saying, crucify him, crucify him.
Pilate said to him, take him and crucify him for I find no fault in him.
The Jews answered him.
We have a law and by our law, he ought to die.
And I want you to notice this because he made himself the son of God.
Okay.
Now what's important about this?
Well, this is the only thing Jews get right.
Okay.
This is something that Muslims don't seem to get.
You know, it says even the Jews who are just completely unsaved, they're the ones who spearhead
the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Even they knew that Jesus Christ was claiming to be the son of God.
That's something that Muslims just refuse to adhere to, refuse to believe.
And you know, obviously we have a major Jew problem in this nation, but we also have a
major Muslim problem too.
Okay.
And I will say this, you know, I'd much rather witness to a Muslim than a Jew.
And I think Muslims are far more receptive, are far more, you know, I would say a diplomatic
when they're talking to me than a Jew would.
I've never had a really good conversation with the Jew regarding the gospel.
They always have this superiority complex.
They're major majorly blasphemous.
And I'm not saying that Muslims are not, but they do tread lightly when talking to other
Christians and they do try to find common ground with Christians.
They're still going to go to hell.
They're going to split hell wide open.
They reject Jesus Christ as being God and the savior.
And I would say that on the receptive scale, they're a little more receptive than Jews.
That's a fact.
Okay.
And at the end of the day, guess what?
Jews have the greater sin in comparison to the Muslims, right?
Muslims are going to go to hell.
I'm not defending Islam.
I'm not defending Muslims.
It's a religion built upon a pedophile and false.
It's just completely false.
It's godless.
It's wicked.
And if Islam had its way, we would all be dead, obviously, right?
But the reality is this is that Islam, though wicked, does not possess the greater sin in
comparison to the Jews.
The Jews actually literally have a curse upon them instituted by God because they are the
ones who the oracles of God were committed unto the covenants were given to them.
The promises, you know, the offices of the Old Testament and so forth.
And they're obviously spearheading the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
But the point that I'm making here is that they even see here that Jesus Christ is claiming
to be the son of God.
Now, this is not me honoring the Jews.
This is actually me showing how great of their condemnation is because they obviously understood
the message of Jesus Christ that he is the son of God.
And in light of that, they still rejected him, okay?
But you know, Muslims are constantly, "Oh, show me a verse in the Bible" or "Jesus Christ
says that I'm God."
Well, even if there was just an explicit statement in the Bible made by Jesus Christ, they still
wouldn't believe it.
That's a fact.
You know, anytime someone says, "Show me one verse in the Bible," all of us have had
an experience when talking about salvation or any essential doctrine of the faith.
Or someone wants us to show them a clear portion of scripture, we do, and it's just not enough
for them.
It's not enough.
I'll tell you why.
Because they don't really want the truth.
They don't want the truth.
They don't want to be convinced.
They want to continue in their delusion that they have to work for their salvation, or
in their delusion that Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, He's not the Savior.
They're not trying to seek the truth, they're trying to win an argument is what they're trying
to do.
And this is why debating and arguing is just a fool's errand.
It's a wild goose chase.
We're not to cast our pearls before swine, the Bible says.
We're not to strive with others.
And quite frankly, after the first and second admonition, we should reject people who subvert
the word of God because according to the Bible, they're heretics, because once they're shown
clear portions of scripture and they're denying it, it's not that they're not understanding,
it's that they're rejecting the Bible.
And you know, one of the clear scriptures, and I always tell this to Muslims, it's like,
you know, show me a verse in the Bible that says that Jesus Christ is God.
Well, how about I show you a verse in the Bible where God says that Jesus Christ is
God?
Hebrews one eight, right?
And you know, one out of ten Muslims actually says, wow, I actually have never seen that.
Only had one tell me that.
One told me, and this is a person who was, you know, getting into Islam and they were,
you know, being persuaded by Islam or whatever, and they said, you know, this is just one
thing I'm having a problem with Christianity is that, you know, this whole thing that
Jesus Christ is the son of God, that he's God, but there's no verse in the Bible that
says that he is.
And of course, John one, one should be sufficient, right?
That's completely sufficient.
But here Hebrews one eight is one of the most explicit scriptures and it's just, it's just
a game over.
It's a checkmate when it comes to that.
And I gave it to this person and I said, wow, I've actually never seen that.
Thank you so much for giving me that.
It gives me a lot to think about, which in turn kind of made me think like, okay, you're
not going to believe it still.
You know what I mean?
You know, a lot to think about.
There's not much to think about.
The response should be, oh yeah, I'm wrong.
Okay.
He is God.
Oh, wait.
Okay.
Yeah.
He is God.
Never mind.
Sorry about that.
Islam is stupid, you know, but obviously, you know, they're not necessarily looking
for the truth.
They want to accumulate arguments against Christianity is what they're trying to do.
And so the point is, is that this is something that the Jews understood that Jesus Christ
was claiming that he was the son of God because he was and he is.
And that makes their punishment even more severe.
And so they want to kill him, they want to put him to death because obviously if he's
coming to be the son of God, he's also claiming that he's God, right?
And that's why they said previously for a good work, you know, we stone thee not because
that thou being a man makest thyself God, right?
So even they understood that Jesus Christ was asserting deity, which is true.
He is God.
Look at verse number eight.
It says when Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid.
So once they said, you know, oh, we want to crucify him because of the fact that he's
claiming to be the son of God.
Pilot was just like, excuse me.
He was the more afraid.
It says then when he get into the judgment hall and say them to Jesus, whence art thou?
But Jesus gave him no answer now.
Don't misunderstand Pilots reaction here.
Okay.
This is not pilot thinking like, oh man, I wonder if this is the Messiah.
This is possibly the Christ.
This is pilot being superstitious, okay?
This is his superstitious fear because of the fact that it's possible that he might be
condemning deity of sorts, right?
A God or something like that.
That's what he's essentially doing here.
It's not because he believes the Bible.
He's not adherent to Old Testament scriptures.
You know, we can possibly infer that maybe pilot is a God fearing man or whatever, that
he might believe, you know, that God exists and maybe this man is associated with him
or so of sorts.
We don't really know.
But at the end of the day, it's not because he actually wants to be saved.
It's not because of the fact that he believes in the God of the Bible.
This is just him being superstitious because, you know, Romans were obviously polytheistic
people who believed in various gods.
So he doesn't want to be guilty of condemning someone who's associated with a deity of sorts.
And this is important to note because of the fact that, you know, even today you'll run
into people on the street, at the door, mostly online, who seem to be God fearing people,
right?
They seem to have a belief in God, they even have some sort of reverence or fear of God,
but they don't really believe in the God of the Bible.
And these people are fearful, right?
You know, they'll even agree with our message to a certain degree, they'll agree with the
concepts of the Bible, but they're not saved.
And we have a society today that's just rampant with fear and just completely afraid of the
unknown, of that which is spiritual and supernatural.
This is why, you know, you can get a video on Instagram Reels of some AI ghost, right?
How many of you know what I'm talking about?
Best thing to watch right before you go to bed, okay?
You know?
Wait for it, right?
It's just like the shadow person or something, right?
That passes by or something, incoming, you know, just whatever.
And then, you know, they'll show the video and then you go to the comments section and
then people in the comments section will say, "I rebuke this in the name of Jesus" or something.
I'm like, "Bro, it's a video."
You know?
First of all, Jesus is not listening.
I remember like, I don't know if it was like two weeks ago, some guy was really mad at
me because I was saying stuff about fags or whatever.
And he got really upset.
Oh, I had a post that said, you know, trans people are just retarded fags.
Something good like that, right?
And that thing did numbers, okay?
That thing was doing numbers.
And this guy responded.
He was so upset.
He was so mad.
And he's just rebuking me and all this stuff.
And I'm just getting smart with him.
And I'm just kind of like, you know, I'm not really taking him serious.
And he's just like, I can't believe you.
I rebuke you in Jesus' name.
And I was like, oh no, something bad just happened to me.
Psych.
You know, I'm thinking, do you really think, and I told him, I said, God's not listening
to you.
He's not hearing you.
And frankly, most people who rebuke people through online, you know, like that, like I
rebuke you in the name of Jesus and I restrain you and all that, they're not even saved.
God's not listening to that.
It's all superstitious mumbo jumbo that doesn't even make it past the atmosphere.
It can't make it past the atmosphere, the stratosphere.
It doesn't make it to the throne of God.
God's not listening to that.
It's all superstitious nonsense that people put forth.
And so it's just like, I claim no energy from this, you know,
this negative video, no negative energy.
I'm like, bro, it's just a video.
And furthermore, it's AI.
It's not even real.
But you know superstitious people have always existed.
Even when it comes to superstition about, you know, God, right?
I mean, think about Jonah, the book of Jonah, where Jonah's in the boat,
and a storm comes, and people, they're like freaking out in the boat.
And then when they ask Jonah about his occupation, he talks about the fact
that he's like a preacher, that he believes in the God of the Bible.
And they're just like, what?
It's not because they believe.
It's not because they adhere to the God of the Bible.
They're just being superstitious.
Now, fortunately, their superstition aided them in tossing that dude over,
you know, over into the water to spill the waters.
But at the end of the day, it did nothing for them eternally.
God's not listening to them.
God was there troubling the waters to punish Jonah
so he can be tossed over, the well can eat him up,
he can get right with God, so forth.
The point that I'm making here is that Pilate
is just superstitiously afraid.
And let me just say this,
no Christian in here should be superstitious about anything.
Okay, the Bible is black and white.
Yeah, are there gray areas in the Bible?
Of course there are,
but we don't need to be superstitious
regarding these things.
Now you say to yourself like,
well, yeah, obviously we're not supposed to,
but here's the thing,
aren't people superstitious about Israel?
I wouldn't say that.
You know, I can't tell you how many messages are,
man, what you're doing, you know,
I don't know, God's gonna,
I would hate to be you, man, you know,
making all these videos against Israel,
it's just, God's gonna punish you,
and oh, oh man, I just hate to be you.
I'm like, what's the issue?
But they're just being superstitious,
'cause they bought into the superstitious lie
that if you curse Israel,
you'll be cursed or something like that.
Well, I can't curse Israel because I am Israel.
I'm the Israel of God, okay?
And, you know, but there's people out there
that are like that, you know?
And I'm not talking about superstition as in, like,
tossing salt over your shoulder
or having a rabbit's foot or whatever.
But, you know, some people are super, you know,
people are superstition, there's Christians out there
who believe in like crystals and stuff, right?
You guys know what I'm talking about?
It's just like, if you rub this on your forehead, you know?
And it's just nonsense.
But, you know, at the end of the day,
we need to make sure that as Christians
we're grounded in the Bible.
We're not like Pilate over here.
Yeah, Pilate is afraid,
but not because he truly believes that Jesus Christ
is the creator of the universe.
He just hears deity, he hears God,
and then he's automatically thinking like,
"Oh man, am I doing wrong by condemning this man
who's potentially associated with some form of deity?"
Okay, so that's why he goes into the judgment hall
and he says to Jesus, "Whence art thou?"
Jesus gave him no answer.
Says in verse 10, "Then saith Pilate unto him,
Speakest thou not unto me?
Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee
and have power to release thee?"
Jesus answered, "Thou couldst have no power at all against me,
except that were given thee from above.
Therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin."
Now, what is Jesus Christ referring to here?
He's essentially saying the only reason you have
this position of authority is because God allowed you to have it.
It's not necessarily that God sanctioned for Pilate
to have this position, but the fact that Pilate has it
is an indication that God allowed it, right?
So, you know, there's instances where God does give a person
a position of authority because he takes one down
and sets up another, but there's other instances
where he does not approve of a particular ruler,
but he allows it because of the fact that it will fulfill
some future purpose, right?
Maybe it's a nation who needs a wicked ruler
because they themselves are wicked
and God wants to punish that particular nation
with a wicked leader.
So he doesn't put a stamp of approval on evil rulers,
but he allows that to fulfill a particular role.
You understand?
And so what he's saying here,
what Jesus is saying is that,
you know, whatever authority you think you have,
someone gave it to you.
And he's specifically saying that God allowed him
to have that authority.
And he says,
therefore he that delivered me unto thee,
who's he referring to?
The Jews, hath the greater sin.
So, you know, obviously what he's referring to here
is that Pilate is someone caught in the crossfire.
Like he is given this authority.
He's allowed to have this position of authority,
but he's kind of caught in this situation
where the Jews who have a nefarious agenda
against Jesus Christ have brought an innocent man before Pilate
and he's giving in to the desires of the Jews.
It's still sin.
And in fact, it's in my opinion that Pilate is in hell.
Pilate was not saved, he didn't get saved, you know,
and obviously, you know, he's probably in a very low hell
because of the fact that he sanctioned the crucifixion
of Jesus Christ as being an authority.
But let me just tell you, the people who, you know,
he has like the fifth floor, you know, or let's just say,
he has the 20th floor and they,
the Jews have like the fifth, fourth, possibly third floor in hell.
You understand? Like they're closer to the core than Pilate is.
He's still suffering majorly because of it, because he still has sin.
But Jesus is saying that the Jews have the greater sin.
Now, what does this tell us?
This tells us that sins have certain degrees, do they not?
And that's important to know today on a various in various ways.
You know, we obviously know that in the Bible
there are certain sins that are worse than others.
Now, sometimes when you tell people this, you're like, oh, no.
All sin is all the same.
And there to a certain degree, I agree with that when it comes to hell, right?
Because the Bible says whosoever keep it, the whole law
yet offended one point, he's guilty of all. Right.
So even though you've never committed murder, adultery
or, you know, any of any capital crimes, so to speak.
Let's just say, for instance, you've only lied.
Lying is obviously not as bad as murder, but in God's eyes,
when it comes to eternal damnation is just as bad.
It'll take you to hell still. Right.
So in that case, obviously it's equal in the sense that any sin will take you to hell.
But when it comes to just the broader
study of sin in the Bible, there are sins that are worse than others.
And we need to make sure that we communicate this to people, to Christianity,
because of the fact that they're under this false assumption that somehow
physical adultery is the same as adultery in the heart, right?
And you say, where do people say stuff like that?
Well, you know, whenever you whenever you condemn psychopath murderers,
for example, who claim to have gotten saved, which the vast majority of them,
I would say all of them are not saved.
Let's just name like Ted Bundy, for example, you know, Ted Bundy,
Jeffrey Dahmer, these absolute devils who are possessed by demons,
who are just reprobate beyond the hope of salvation.
You know, these guys will have claimed to have gotten saved later on.
Right. And this is like the checkmate that the world will try to get to us
and be like, yeah, but you think like someone like Ted Bundy was saved.
And it's just like, no, he lied about getting saved.
OK, Jeffrey Dahmer lied about getting saved.
But then you have other Christians who will get mad at the fact
that we're condemning a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Right. And then we're like, I can't believe you would say that.
The gospel can save them.
And yeah, you know, we didn't commit the kind of murder,
but we've committed murder in our hearts, you know,
and we deserve the same thing.
It's just like, well, you know, I've hated people in my heart, but sorry.
No, that's not the same as physical murder.
That's not the same as chopping a body up, committing necrophilia,
which is absolutely abominable.
It's not the same.
Necrophilia is the greater sin.
OK, physical murder is the greater sin.
Now, how do we know that God categorizes some sins as being greater than others?
Because there are different punishments instituted on this earth
for particular sins that are considered crimes, right?
No one was put to death in the Bible for committing adultery in the heart
because you can't find out who committed adultery in the heart.
God's not policing.
God's not sanctioning earthly authorities to police people's thought life.
You understand?
And so, you know, obviously, certain sins are worse than others.
And in fact, you know, here's a great example of this,
would be fornication and adultery.
Fornication, fornicators will not put to death in the Bible, adulterers were.
Showing us that one is considered a capital crime and one is not.
Though both would fall under the canopy of being a sexual sin,
fornication obviously is not as bad as adultery,
as noted by the fact that adulterers will put to death.
You understand?
What is that showing us?
It's showing us that adulterers have the greater sin.
You know, murder, physical murder versus murder in the heart
and various others that we can talk about.
You know, I would say this, you know,
sodomy is the greater sin.
Bestiality is the greater sin.
Pedophilia is the greater sin.
And don't allow Christians to try to put them
on the same level as like lying or something.
Oh, you know, yeah, but you're prideful.
You know what? Yeah, you know, we all struggle with pride,
but not all of us struggle with pedophilia, though.
Sodomy and bestiality in all manner of abominations,
that actually is worse in the eyes of God as known about the fact that
an earthly punishment that was instituted upon that was the physical death penalty.
And so very much clear there that there are greater sins than others.
And we need to make a distinction between the two.
That's why it's important for you to get yourself a King James Bible, by the way.
OK. And not some Bible that labels adultery as sexual
promiscuity or something like that, where the where the phrase is so vague.
You could just impose anything upon it that deals with any sexual immorality
or something like that.
Those terms in the Bible are specifically placed there for a reason.
They're worded like that for a specific reason, because we need to differentiate
and make a distinction between the sin and the greater sin.
Here's the distinction.
The Romans versus the Jews, the Romans sin for sure.
I mean, Jesus Christ was crucified on a cross,
which was an instrument constructed by the Romans.
So that's pretty simple.
However, the Jews are the ones who brought Jesus to the Romans
to be killed. OK.
And so, you know, people always like to say, oh, you know,
you're just ignoring the Romans.
No, the Romans were definitely guilty.
Just not as guilty as the Jews.
And then they'll say like, well, we all crucified Jesus.
You know, I wasn't there 2000 years ago, no.
And I wasn't rooting like kill, crucify him, crucify him.
Was Jesus Christ crucified for my sins? Of course.
But I'm not there just celebrating his crucifixion
as though he deserved it.
Like the Jews did, right?
And let me give you proof of the fact that, you know,
even some of the Romans were not as guilty as the Jews
that deliver Jesus unto the Romans.
You know, when he was crucified, what did Jesus say?
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Right.
And I believe he was referring to some of the Romans that were nearby. Right.
It could have been referring to some of the Jews,
but I think it's referring to many of the Romans point being here
is that Jesus Christ is specific.
And by the way, here's another indication that there is a greater sin.
The Bible talks about the greater condemnation or the greater damnation.
That shows us that there's different levels of hell in the Bible too. Right.
You know, and there's not different levels of heaven,
but there are different levels of authority in the millennial reign.
Just as there's different levels of punishment in hell,
as noted by the fact that Matthew chapter 23,
when Jesus Christ is preaching against the Jews who are the Pharisees,
he said that they have the greater damnation.
Why do they have the greater damnation?
Well, you know, an overview of who they are,
they're false prophets who are teaching a false gospel.
So what we can say here, aside from the fact that Jews are just guilty
of a lot of stuff, just in general, false prophets do
and will receive the greater damnation than just your regular sinner
that you meet at the door.
Why? Because a false prophet intentionally
preaches a false gospel to damn people to hell.
Now, the person they are deceiving will also go to hell,
but he will not occupy the same level of hell
that the person who damned him there will go to,
because the person who damned him there intentionally went to their door,
preached the false gospel, led them astray and therefore damned them.
God views that as being extremely wicked.
And in fact, he labels people like that as the workers of iniquity.
We're all sinners, of course,
but we're not all workers of iniquity, though.
A worker of iniquity is someone who conjures up evil devices
to damn people to hell, to take advantage of innocent people.
This is why Jesus talked about the greater damnation.
There's there's no other way to interpret what greater damnation would be.
I mean, how would we how would we interpret that?
What would be what's an alternative interpretation of greater damnation
is referring to hell.
And if there's a greater damnation, that means there is levels
of punishment for people. And who's at the core?
Who would we I would I would put forth, you know, that the person
who's at the core of hell is possibly Judas Iscariot, who
sold Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
Who's a Jew, too, by the way.
But he's at the core, right?
And then you have like, you know, the people who are like
right on top of them, like their foot is like right here,
are like the chief priests, right?
Like he can basically smell their hair burning or whatever.
He's just right there, OK?
And then you have Jews and just Israel overall.
And then it just kind of makes its way out, understand?
Point being here is that Jesus Christ is talking about the source of authority,
but he's also defining the fact, describing the fact that there is a greater sin.
This isn't something to, you know, comfort pilot.
It's like, oh, OK, I don't have the greatest sin.
You know what I mean? Like, OK, thanks for telling me that.
This is just saying like, hey, buddy, you don't really have power at all.
You're just like you're you're just a pawn in this whole thing.
You're just a tool, OK?
First of all, you're a tool in the hand of God, OK?
Because you're being used to fulfill Bible prophecy.
And preachers are going to be talking about you for the next 2000 years.
Using you as an illustration, you know, your ears are going to be burning.
And, you know, my ears are burning, you know, because people are talking about you.
But here's the thing, though, is that also it's showing us that
he's also a tool, a pawn in the hand of the Jews as well
to carry out their nefarious agenda against the Son of God.
Because number 12 and from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him.
But the Jews cried out, saying, if thou let this man go, thou are not Caesar's friend.
Whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.
So, you know, Pilate, because he is very superstitious,
you know, he's that what Jesus just told him is affecting him and he wants to release him.
But he's giving into the pressure of the Jews
that is essentially questioning his loyalty to Caesar.
And he doesn't want that because that's his livelihood there.
OK, so Pilate was guilty of sin, but the Jews obviously had a greater sin.
Look, verse 13 says, when Pilate therefore heard that saying,
He brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat in a place
that is called the pavement, which in the Hebrew, but in the Hebrew Gabbatha.
And it was the preparation of the Passover in about the sixth hour.
And he said unto the Jews, Behold your king.
But they cried out away with him, away with him, crucify him.
Pilate said unto him, Shall I crucify your king?
The chief priest answered, We have no king, but Caesar.
Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified.
And they took Jesus and led him away.
So we see here that Pilate obviously views
that he's not going to win this argument against the Jews.
And he gives in to the desires of the mob.
And I do want you to notice in verse 13 that the place
where he goes to see his judgment seat is called the pavement.
And then it goes out of its way to tell us that in the Hebrew tongue,
it's Gabbatha. Right.
Now, why is it telling us that?
Because of the fact that the New Testament is not written in Hebrew.
That's why, you know, despite what these Hebrew roots movement
and these Hebrew Judy eyes just want to say.
Oh, you know, the New Testament is actually written in Hebrew.
Wrong, because if this is written in Hebrew, this would be redundant.
If it's already said to us in Hebrew, why is he clarifying what it says in Hebrew?
I'll tell you why, because it's written in Greek.
Only absolute idiots and wannabe scholars will say that this is written all in Hebrew.
OK, it's all in Greek. OK.
Now, how do we know this? Because there's various instances in the New Testament
where Jesus and his disciples will say something in Hebrew or Aramaic, right?
And the Bible will tell us that they're saying that in that particular language, OK?
Or something will be said, a name will be given.
And then the Bible will give us the Hebrew rendition or the Aramaic rendition
of that particular name or place or statement.
But how about the fact that Jesus Christ calls himself the Alpha and the Omega?
The New Testament is written in Hebrew.
He didn't say I am the Aleph.
And I forgot what's the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
I don't remember. Aleph is the first one.
He didn't say it. He said I am Alpha and Omega.
Why? Because of the fact that he spoke Greek
and the New Testament is written in the Greek language there.
So he ends up giving in to their desires.
And of course, he ends up sanctioning him to be crucified,
fulfilling Bible prophecy.
Look at verse 17, it says, and he bearing his cross,
went forth into a place called the place of a skull,
which is called in the Hebrew gogotha. There we go again,
where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one and Jesus in
the midst. Now, obviously this is showing us here that Jesus Christ,
and I already preached on this when I preached the sermon on he keepeth all his
bones.
And what this is essentially putting forth is the fact that Jesus Christ is
essentially centered or in the middle of two testaments, is it? Is he not?
He centered between the old covenant and the new covenant,
that new covenant being introduced by his death and the shedding of his blood.
And, you know, the old covenant brings forth death, right? Well,
one of the thieves,
one of the criminals that was on the cross did not believe on the Lord,
therefore experienced spiritual death. The other thief,
the other male factor, should I say, you know, did believe on the Lord.
And although he physically died,
he will one day rise again because of the fact that Jesus Christ told him today
that shall be with me in paradise, symbolizing representing that new covenant,
that old covenant produced death or as a new covenant produces life. Right.
And who is the mediator of the two is Jesus Christ.
He's there in the midst. And of course we see later on that,
although they break the bones of the male factors,
they did not break the bones of Jesus Christ. Why?
Because the Old Testament says that he keep it all his bones and his bones is
a symbolic representation of his promises because he keeps all his promises.
Right. So it's a very powerful illustration there of salvation,
old and new covenant. Look at verse 19. It says,
and pilot wrote a title and put it on the cross and the writing was Jesus of
Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Now pilot, you know,
gave in to the mob,
but he's trolling the mob now because he's kind of mad that they pressured him
and to crucify Jesus.
So he puts this inscription over on the cross where Jesus Christ was crucified.
He puts Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews,
something that the Pharisees and the Jews did not like. It says in verse 20,
this title then read many of the Jews for the place where Jesus was crucified was
nigh to the city and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin.
Then said the chief priest of the Jews to pilot, right?
Not the King of the Jews,
but that he said I am the King of the Jews pilot answer what I have written.
And I've written, you know, oh, way to stand up to the Jews.
They're pilot, you know, it's like these,
these pastors out there who might believe in replacement theology,
but they're not willing to preach it really hard for fear of the Jews. Right.
And so it's just like this weak stance. It's like too little,
too late there, buddy. What I've written, I've written.
Now it's good that he wrote that and it's good that he, you know,
he, he stood up to the bullies or whatever, but you know,
obviously it's too little, too late.
Now I do want to mention a couple of things regarding this inscription that
is written on the cross here and I want you to notice that it's written in
Hebrew and Greek and Latin.
Now that's important because obviously this is an, uh, uh,
an official inscription,
a legal inscription that's being given by the Romans so that people who speak
these various languages can understand what's being written there.
Now the point that I want to make here is the fact that I want you to notice
that Aramaic is not mentioned there. Okay. And what does Aramaic? Well,
Aramaic es una lengua semítica. Okay. Que básicamente diríamos que es la lengua
siriana. Y la razón por la que quiero mencionar eso es porque el hecho de que,
sabes, hay una nueva posición o una nueva teoría being put forth that Jesus
Christ was not a Jew, but rather he was Aramaic as noted by the fact that he
spoke Aramaic. Now it's definitely true that Jesus Christ did speak Aramaic.
We know that, right? We see various instances in the New Testament where he
will say something and it tells us that he says it in that tongue, in the
Styrian tongue, Aramaic tongue, he's speaking that language. But, you know, here's the
thing though, folks, is that, you know, only Aramaic was essentially a regional
language, okay? And it wasn't spoken by a lot of people, it was only spoken by a very
few amount of Jews. Aramaic was a regional dialect, so to speak, not a
language that would be used for literary or official works, which is why
it's not mentioned in the inscription where Jesus Christ was crucified. It wasn't
used for anything official by the Romans, it's not a language of empire, of the
government, or any type of scholarship, okay? And it wasn't used for
international communication either. The reason the inscription was not in Aramaic
was because of the fact that every Jew who knew Aramaic knows Greek, okay? So
Aramaic was kind of subject to that, to like a particular region, which is why
it's not placed in that inscription because it's kind of just used for like
everyday talk with your neighbors in the neighborhoods or whatever. Galileans
spoke a form of Aramaic, okay? With a, you know, like a different
pronunciation, but it was essentially Aramaic. But here's the thing is that, you
know, every Jew did speak Greek because Greek was the lingua franca of the day,
meaning that it was spoken widely by basically everyone. If anybody wanted
participate in commerce, if they wanted to sell things or buy things from other
individuals, they had to speak Greek, okay? And so that's important to know. Now, why
is that important? Well, because of the fact, as I mentioned, a lot of people are
asserting that Jesus Christ was not a Jew. And this is coming from people on
the internet who just absolutely hate Jews to the point where they're just
like, they just deny that Jesus Christ was a Jew. But at that point, you just deny reality.
It's like you go so extreme into one position that you just
absolutely deny what the Bible actually teaches. And I've had people message me
they're like, "Hey, I just want to let you know your stuff is great but you got one
error and that is that Jesus Christ was not a Jew." And I'm like, "What?" They're like, "Yeah, he
was Aramaic." You know, but here's the thing is that Aramaic came from Aram.
Jesus Christ comes from Judah. Those are two different regions, two different
descendants, ancestors. Okay, the Syrians were Gentiles. He said, "Then why don't you
speak Aramaic?" Because that's just the language that he learned being in
Galilee. You know, I'm Guatemalan, but I grew up here in America, so I speak
English. Doesn't make me an Englishman. Doesn't make me from England. This is the
language that I just learned growing up here, right? And I am from here, okay?
People are like, "I'm calling ICE on you." So I go for it. Maybe they might like our
service, yeah, man. But, you know, Aram is essentially, you know, he's the
ancestor of the Syrians. Jesus Christ was not of Syria. He's just speaking that
dialect in the New Testament because that was the region that he essentially
grew up in. It doesn't automatically make him Araman. And it's very easy to prove
that Jesus Christ was a Jew. I mean, you see that throughout the New Testament,
the fact that the reason they call them Jews is because they are of Judah. That's
literally why they call them Jews. And obviously people who, you know, just hate
Jews, they really just hate the religion of the Jews, which is absolutely
understandable. We hate the religion of the Jews because it's a false religion
that rejects Jesus Christ. But the ethnicity of being a Jew in the Bible is
associated with the tribe of Judah. That's why they call Jesus Christ the
lion of the tribe of Aramaic, of Syria, no of Judah. The lion of the tribe of Judah.
That's where his ancestors, that's where King David's from, you know, that lineage
there is found through Judah. And so, you know, Aramaic, though being the language that he
spoke, you know, doesn't make him a Syrian at all. Okay. And so anybody who spoke Aramaic
in that time period also spoke Greek and Greek was used in commerce. It was used in business.
Obviously it's used to write the entire New Testament, you know, and by the way, Aramaic
and Hebrew are not the same. Okay. Hebrew by the first century was dying out as in being
used conversationally, but obviously it wasn't dying out as far as literary is concerned,
right? Because the Bible, they were reading the Bible in Hebrew. We have instances where
they're speaking Hebrew, but it wasn't as commonly used conversationally as Aramaic was,
but it was used because if you remember, even after the resurrection and the ascension,
Jesus Christ appeared to the apostle Paul and he spoke to them. And the Bible says that
he spoke to him in the Hebrew tongue. So he's speaking Hebrew to the apostle Paul. So obviously
people are using it, but it's just not as widely used conversationally as Aramaic was,
and especially not as Greek was. Okay. So that's important to know. Uh, let me see if I want
to say anything else about this. The descendants of Aram became known as their Aramaic because
of course their homeland was in the regions of Damascus, which is the capital of Syria.
Okay. And I know this is really, you know, uh, interesting to you and you love hearing
about this, but I'm just telling you right now, like because I'm on social media, I see
this stuff and it's just, it kind of blows my mind that people think this, you know, it's
just absolutely absurd. It's stupid. It is retarded that people would just deny the fact
that Jesus comes from the tribal Jews just because they hate the modern state of Israel
or they hate modern Judaism. Well, you can't throw out the baby with the bath water because
then you just look like an idiot. You give more ammo to the people who actually know
what the Bible says, but deny some of its teachings. You know what I mean? You're giving them
ammo by making yourself look stupid by calling Jesus Christ an Aramean. And by the way, one
of the reasons why they want to push that is because they believe Arameans were more
light skinned. They're more white, you know, like the, like the Catholic Jesus. So they're
kind of like, yeah, yeah, Aramean. That's why he was like white and stuff like that.
It's just like, no, I'm sorry. It's, uh, you're that's erroneous. It's not true. So it's
written in Hebrew because of the fact that, you know, you have Jews that are speaking
Hebrew. It's written in Greek because of the fact that that's the lingua franca of the day.
And of course Latin, because that's the language of the Roman empire as well. So those three
particular languages were used to communicate more than Aramaic was. Aramaic was kind of
like a household language. People would speak with their neighbors, their families, but
anybody who spoke it obviously knew Greek as well. Look at verse 23, if you would verse
23, then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts
to every soldier apart. And also his coat. Now the coat was without seam woven from the
top throughout. This is the verse 24. They said, therefore among themselves, let us not
rend it, but cast lots for it. Whose it shall be that the scripture might be fulfilled,
which say they pardoned my raiment among them. And for my vesture, they did cast lots. These
things therefore the soldiers did. So we see here that they're stripping him of his garments
and we see that some of his garments they're taking and they're tearing into four to kind
of disperse it amongst themselves. But one of them they did not tear and that was his
coat, right? And it says here that his coat was woven from top throughout. And I believe
this is kind of like a picture of his deity, right? You have his clothing being rent apart
because his clothing kind of pictures his humanity. He's dying, right? He, you know, God did die when
he was crucified, he died and that's essentially his garments being rent. Whereas his coat, his
divinity was not, it was woven from top to bottom throughout. And the reason the coat was woven
from top throughout is because of the fact that I believe it's picturing the garments that the high
priest would wear in the Old Testament, which is also woven from top without. And so this is
referring to the fact that even though he's dying on the cross, as a human, he's retaining his
divinity. God did go to hell for three days and three nights in his divinity. That's what the
Bible is teaching there. And so they're parting that and they're fulfilling scripture by doing so.
Look at verse 25. Now they're stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister,
married the wife of Cleopas and Mary Magdalene. You know, they're not really getting very
creative with the names here. You know, it's just like Mary one, Mary two and Mary three.
When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciples standing by whom he loved,
he said unto his mother, woman, behold thy son. Then say he to the disciple, behold thy mother.
And from that hour, that disciple took her unto his own home. Now I'm not giving you any
spiritual application, but I'm going to give you some information here because you need to know
this. And the first thing I want to mention here is the fact that the Bible seems to indicate that
Joseph has already died. And I'm talking about Joseph, the stepfather of Jesus Christ. And the
reason for this, because Jesus is dying. He would be the one responsible for taking care of his mother.
And obviously if Joseph was still alive, he would have just allowed his mother to just stay with,
you know, his stepfather and he would have taken care of her. This is implying that Joseph has
already died. Okay. The second thing I want to mention is that the disciples, I believe is referring
to John. It doesn't explicitly say his name, but I believe it is referring to John. Most would agree
that this is referring to the apostle John. And you can kind of see it both ways that he's being
really humble or he's being really prideful. You know what I mean? Like, because you could say he's
being real humble because he's not really naming himself, but then he puts the little, you know,
whom Jesus loved. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I don't know who this is talking about
here. He loved me or whatever. Obviously he loved all his disciples, but John is specifically
putting that little detail there. Okay. And he is basically tying up loose ends before he dies.
Okay. He is basically leaving his mother in the care of John the disciple. And this isn't because
Mary is divine or something like that. This isn't like, Oh, John, Hey, by the way, John venerate my
mother, right? Make sure you make some sort of statute and you got to make sure that these
churches that are coming down the pipeline create ways to honor my mother or something like that.
He didn't leave anything in that regard. There's no instruction to just worship his mom or something.
Okay. And in fact, you know, woman is not a very venerating thing to say now, is it? Right?
You know, I've never called my mom woman. I'm not just like, Hey woman, what you got for me?
I might say to my wife every now and then, depending on how hungry I am, or if I want to piss
off a feminist or something, I might do it. But you know, you know, to call your mom woman,
but you know what? Jesus did because he's Jesus and he's God. And he's, he's, I think he's doing
that because he knew some, some, some idiot Catholic was going to place Mary, his mother on a
pedestal, on a pedestal and venerate her, which is basically worship. It's the same thing. But yet
we see here, Jesus is like, woman, behold thy son. Right. I mean, he's, he's basically saying he
didn't say mother, right. And it's not that he was void of this vocabulary because in verse 27,
he tells the disciple, behold thy mother. So, you know, you know, he's obviously trying to make a
point here that Mary, and we're not downplaying the importance of Mary. Mary was an important
person. Mary is a Godly woman, you know, and I look forward to meeting Mary and telling her
about all the stories of these Catholics and all that, you know, but let me, let me say this. Mary had
to be saved though. Okay. Mary was not sinless. She's not the co-redemptrix, co-mediator. Even your
stupid Pope agrees with us now, though he venerates Mary too. He worships Mary, but now he's saying,
Hey, don't use co-redemptrix, co-mediatrix or whatever, because, you know, it's confusing people.
But the point is, you know, Mary is not divine. She, there is no immaculate conception with Mary,
which is the teaching that Mary was sinless. That's blasphemy. Okay. You're putting Mary
on the same pedestal with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and man,
and she was a sinner. And no, she was not a perpetual version either. Why? Because she had
other children after Jesus Christ. And if she didn't have children, if she didn't come together
with Joseph after Jesus, she would be sinning against God. Cause the biblical model is that
Mary people do that stuff. Okay. And that would be a violation of the scriptures. Mary is a good
Christian, which is why she participated in that as noted by the fact that they had many kids
thereafter. Point being here is that Jesus Christ is honoring his mother, but not beyond the boundary
of how you're supposed to honor your mother. Right? And we see this around his ministry. Woman is not
my time yet. I mean, right when he starts his ministry, right? And then later on his mom and
his brothers are coming to look for him. And he's just like, who is my mother? He's just like,
what is he communicating here? You know, she's physically my mother, but you know, this, these
people are more important because they actually came to hear the preaching of God's word. And I
do believe that he's kind of condemning his, his blood relatives there because they're not there
listening to the preaching. He's preaching the word of God and they think they have some VIP access.
You know, it's funny. It's just like, Oh, well, no, no, we don't venerate Mary. We're just saying
que si realmente quieres llegar a Jesus, solo vas a la madre primero.
Bueno, es divertido porque la madre no puede acceder a Jesús a la vez que está en esta tierra.
Como se nota por el hecho de que ella está buscando a Jesús y él está solo ignorándola.
Y él es como, estas son mis madres, hermanos y hermanas, estas son las personas que hacen el will de Dios,
esta es mi familia, y simplemente ignora a ellos.
Bueno, eso no ha ayudado mucho ahora, ¿no?
Entonces ese patrón no funciona.
"Oh, si realmente quieres ir a Jesús, tienes que ir a María". Bueno, María realmente falló en esa área en el principio,
así que no pudo ir a su hijo.
El punto de ser aquí es que María era una mujer de Dios, pero eso solo termina ahí.
Ella es una sinera, ¿de acuerdo?
Y John es una persona justa, porque yo creo que él la toma y él la cuida.
Y María no es solo Dios, porque ella estaba en la cruz.
Lo vemos en la P.E. 1, que también participa en la ministra.
Si lees la P.E. 1, María está allí con sus otros hijos.
Ahora que Jesus Cristo se ha resucitado, ellos dicen, "Sí, sí, sí, creo que es Dios".
Y ellos se salen y empiezan a solucionar.
Estos 3,000 personas que se salieron en la P.E. 2, María y sus otros hermanos...
... eran entre las personas que recogían el Gospelo allí.
Y eso es genial.
Y por cierto, mi último punto sobre María...
... es que María no está mencionada mucho en el Nuevo Testamento.
Si ella es tan importante dentro del reloj de la Cristianidad y la doctrina cristiana...
... ¿por qué es que ella no está mencionada después de los Gospelos?
No es que ella murió.
Ella terminó de morir, pero no murió inmediatamente después de la ascensión.
Ella estaba allí participando en la ministra.
Pero tú no escuchas de ella después.
¿Por qué? Porque ella no es tan importante.
Es por eso. Ella se nació a Jesús.
Sí, ella hizo un buen trabajo haciendo eso.
Pero el botón se detuvo ahí.
Oh, man, eso suena como una broma.
Bueno, a la iglesia católica romana, por supuesto.
Pero no soy un católico romano.
Yo era un católico romano en un momento, pero luego me salvo.
¿Por qué se detuvo de ser un católico romano?
Salvación. Me salvo.
Creí en el Señor Jesus Cristo.
Por eso dejé el catolicismo.
Dejé a los católicos romanos y se unieron a la cristiana bíblica.
No se va a volver a casa.
Vamos a seguir aquí.
Verso 28.
Después de esto, Jesús sabiendo que todas las cosas ya eran cumplidas,
que la Escritura podría ser cumplida, dijo, "me cansé".
Ahora había un vaso full de vinagre
y ellos llenaron la esponja con vinagre y la pusieron en su boca.
Y cuando Jesús, por lo tanto, recibió la vinagre,
dijo, "se acabó". Y se rompió la cabeza y le dieron al dios.
Ahora, quiero que te notes que aquí vemos que Jesus Cristo
tomó el vaso de vinagre que está en Hisop.
Y en Marta 15, intentaron darle un vinagre con mar.
Y ese vinagre con mar, la Biblia dice que no lo recibió.
Y creo que el vinagre con mar es alcohol.
Y que fue mezclado con algo seditivo que lo ayudaría
a no sentir el dolor que estaba sufriendo en la cruz.
Probablemente algo que hicieron a aquellos que murieron en la cruz.
Sin embargo, este vinagre con mar no es alcoholista como lo consideramos.
Es más como kombucha.
Esa es básicamente lo que se refiere.
Y esto no es algo que debió de la censura.
Realmente fue algo que se dio a soldados en sitios de cruce
para, en definitiva, hidratarlos cuando están deshidratados
haciendo su trabajo o lo que sea.
Y así vemos aquí que se refiere al wine mezclado con mar,
pero acepta la mezcla de vinagre y en el hicep en el 29.
Ahora, ¿qué significa esto?
Bueno, creo que la significación de esto es el hecho de que Jesus Cristo
está tastando la muerte de cada hombre.
Lo que es por lo que, de pronto, cuando lo tasto, ¿qué dice?
Se termina y luego muere.
Y es simbólicamente representando lo que dice en Hebra 2.9
que él, por la gracia de Dios, debería tastar la muerte de cada hombre.
Él está viviendo la muerte que tú y yo merecemos, ¿de acuerdo?
Y obviamente, él se refiere al wine que se molestan con el mar.
El que molestan el dolor y, sabes, el peor camino.
Y acepta el vinagre en lugar.
Y por eso, él cumple su trabajo aquí, muere.
Y su alma descende en el mal, en este momento, por tres días y tres noches.
V. 31, "Los judíos, por lo tanto, porque fue la preparación, los cuerpos no deberían quedarse en el cruce en el día de sabatía, porque el día de sabatía no era el día de Juegos, pero que sus piernas podrían estar rompidas y que podrían estar tomadas.
Ya estoy de tiempo. Seguiré en esto la próxima semana.
Entonces, lo que vemos aquí es que Jesús Cristo muriendo en el cruce, Nicodemus y Joseph de Ormeteor.
Le preguntan por su cuerpo y, por supuesto, lo toman.
¿Qué son algunas cosas que podemos aprender en este particular capítulo?
Lo que podemos aprender es que, ya sabes, no concedan a la presión de cualquier mob.
No sean como Pilate que solo porque una multitud está buscando hacer mal,
están presionando a ti para hacer mal, eso significa que tienes que hacerlo también, ¿verdad?
Pilate es un primer ejemplo de una persona que no tiene convicción.
Una persona de convicción no es persuadida por una cantidad de personas.
Están persuadidas por la cantidad de la Escritura, están persuadidas por los comandos de Dios.
Y vas a llegar a un cruce de un día en tu vida cristiana,
donde vas a estar colocado en una posición como Pilate,
donde las personas van a estar presionando a ti para compromisarte con Dios,
y tienes que asegurarte que no compromises, no importa cuántas personas van contra el grano, ¿verdad?
¿Cuántas personas están presionando a ti para hacer esta decisión particular?
¿Cuántas personas están presionando a ti para romper los comandos de Dios?
Para ser un pequeño compromiso, para dejar de ir a la iglesia, para dejar de estar tan envidiosos sobre las cosas de Dios.
Tendrás tu familia, tus amigos, tus compañeros, personas criticando a ti.
¡No seas como Pilate!
Solo sirva a Dios y, ¿sabes qué?
Cualquier consecuencia que suceda, déjalo suceder, porque eso es el will de Dios.
Así que, si hay algo que podemos aprender de este capítulo particular,
aparte de la resistencia de Jesucristo, es el hecho de que no seas como Pilate.
Don't give in to the mob, give in to what the Bible actually says.
And stick by your guns. Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
And Lord, we're thankful for the crucifixion.
We're thankful for the fact that Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins.
And that he tasted death for every man.
And Lord, we as well have to bear our own cross.
If we're going to follow you, we need to take up our cross and die daily.
And that death may not be a physical death.
It could be one day, death because of what we believe in.
But the death that you require for us is a daily dying.
That we would be willing to be a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable to God,
which is our reasonable service.
Help us to do so, Lord.
And I pray, Father God, that you bless us as we go on our way.
Give us a great weekend of salvations, baptisms,
and people who are receptive to the preaching of God's word.
We love you and we thank you.
Prueba las cosas en el nombre de Jesús. Amén.