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 If you would open up your Bibles to Mark chapter 15, I'll be preaching from verses 33-39 and I'll read those in just a second.

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! But leading up to this moment, Jesus has been betrayed.

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 Jesus has been abandoned.

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 His disciples abandoned Him.

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 In fact, in Mark 14, Jesus tells them that they would abandon Him.

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 Peter denies Him three times.

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 And then on 9 a.m. on that Good Friday, after being mocked, He was brought out to Golgotha and He was nailed to a cross.

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 And then there was these passerbys.

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 And they said this, wagging their heads and saying,

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 Aha, you who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself and come down from the cross.

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 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked Him to one another, saying,

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 He saved others.

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 He cannot save Himself.

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 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.

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 Those who were crucified with Him also reviled Him.

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 Now, which brings us to 33 through 39.

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 Hear God's Word.

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 And when the sixth hour had come, that's noon,

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 there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 3 p.m.

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 And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice,

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 Eloi, Eloi, leme sednachthani.

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 Which means, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 And some of the bystanders hearing it said,

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 Behold, He's calling Elijah.

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 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine,

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 put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying,

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 Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.

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 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed His last.

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 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

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 And when the centurion who was facing Him saw that in this way He breathed His last,

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 He said, Truly, this man was the Son of God.

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 Multiple times leading up to Jesus' last breath,

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 we have people saying,

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 If only He would come down.

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 If only He would come down from the cross.

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 What if Jesus had come down from the cross?

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 What if Jesus said from the cross,

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 Enough is enough.

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 You all don't get to kill me.

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 It's time to show you who's boss,

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 and then He calls down legions of angels.

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 That would be quite a different end of this story.

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 It would be quite a show of force, wouldn't it?

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 This Good Friday service wouldn't be so much of a service with hints of sadness and hints of sobriety,

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 but it would be a Good Friday service where we would celebrate the power.

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 But He didn't come down from the cross.

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 Why not?

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 Verses 33 through 39 record the historic account of Jesus' last moments.

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 It's leading up to His death.

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 It records His very last breath.

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 He stayed on the cross until He breathed His last.

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 And Mark, who wrote this gospel, shows us why.

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 Tonight I'm going to walk you through this account,

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 and what I want to help you to see is why Jesus stayed on the cross.

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 Jesus' death accomplished something unexpected,

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 and Jesus' death revealed someone extraordinary.

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 So let me walk you through this account,

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 account starting with this darkness.

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 In verse 33,

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 And when the sixth hour had come,

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 there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

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 This was an untimely and all-encompassing darkness.

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 Now what makes it even more odd

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 is that this darkness rolled in at high noon,

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 where the sun would have been at its peak,

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 it would have been the brightest time of day,

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 so this is unusual, and it's ominous.

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 Untimely, all-encompassing darkness.

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 We know what this is like.

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 Summertime in southeastern Wisconsin,

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 July 3 or 4 p.m.,

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 and a big old thunderstorm starts rolling in.

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 You know what it's like.

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 It's been bright and sunny all day,

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 and then it gets dark,

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 and things get a little ominous,

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 and you start wondering where your kids are.

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 It's time to come in, kids.

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 Because we all know,

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 when a thunderstorm rolls in,

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 that there is something bigger and far more powerful

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 than any human being on the planet.

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 And it's making its presence known.

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 This untimely and all-encompassing darkness

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 that occurred here at the sixth hour

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 was not a thunderstorm rolling in,

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 but something bigger and more powerful than that.

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 But the thing is, we're not told what it is.

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 But what I just want you to see,

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 it is connected to this man

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 who has been nailed to the cross.

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 Which brings us to verse 34.

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 This man on the cross cries out in this darkness.

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 This darkness has enveloped the land.

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 It's enveloped Jesus on the cross.

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 And then he cries out,

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 Eloi, Eloi, lame sebechtani.

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 He's quoting from Psalm 22, verse 1.

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 And Mark keeps Jesus' words in the original Aramaic

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 for emphasis.

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 He translates it,

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 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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 And so what we have here is Jesus

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 quoting from a Psalm of David,

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 one of Israel's greatest kings.

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 And this quote is actually explaining

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 what is happening.

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 The darkness is the visible manifestation

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 of God his Father

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 forsaking him.

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 If you're familiar with the start

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 of the Gospel of Mark,

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 Jesus is baptized,

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 and that is baptism.

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 The heavens open up,

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 and God the Father speaks.

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 He says,

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 This is my beloved Son

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 with whom I am well pleased.

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 So why is he forsaking his Son now?

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 Why is God the Father,

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 who is pleased with his Son at his baptism,

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 forsaking Jesus,

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 God the Son,

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 here?

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 Jesus had already experienced

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 a variety of different kinds

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 of forsakenness,

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 of forsakenness,

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 betrayed by Judas,

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 abandoned by his disciples,

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 denied by Peter,

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 and now God the Father?

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 Forsaking him,

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 abandoning him,

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 deserting him?

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 What did Jesus do

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 to deserve that?

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 I hope in your mind

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 you're saying he didn't do anything.

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 Jesus is the only human,

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 fully God,

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 fully human,

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 to live on this planet

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 without ever sinning.

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 Jesus did nothing.

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 He did nothing

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 to deserve this

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 dark God-forsakenness.

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 You know who did deserve it?

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 We deserve that.

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 For all of our sin,

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 God's just wrath.

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 You see,

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 this darkness

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 is not just abandonment.

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 It's God's just punishment

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 for all of our sin

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 poured out in full

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 on Jesus.

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 That's what this darkness is.

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 And it's unexpected.

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 If you heard that Jesus,

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 if you were in Jerusalem that day

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 and you heard that Jesus

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 was being crucified

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 and you wanted to see a spectacle,

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 you'd go and see it,

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 but you were not expecting

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 this darkness.

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 You were not expecting

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 this cry of forsakenness.

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 This cry in the darkness

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 is an explanation

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 of what this darkness is.

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 But there are some bystanders

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 watching this

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 and they hear Jesus

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 cry out,

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 Eloi, Eloi,

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 and they think

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 he's saying Elijah.

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 Elijah.

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 They think he's

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 saying something else.

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 And so in verses 35 and 36,

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 we have this spectacle.

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 These bystanders

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 in verses 35 and 36,

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 they're onlookers.

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 They see this crucifixion

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 as a kind of event,

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 as a kind of a spectacle

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 to come and watch.

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 And maybe something interesting

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 is going to happen.

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 And so this Eloi, Eloi,

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 Lame, Sebechtani,

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 they hear Elijah.

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 Elijah was an Old Testament prophet

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 and he was the one

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 who was taken up alive

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 by a chariot of fire

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 into heaven

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 and the Jews of the time

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 expected him to come back.

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 So one of the bystanders

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 who hears Jesus,

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 thinks he hears Jesus

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 crying for Elijah,

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 he goes and grabs something

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 for him to drink

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 and he says,

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 he's saying,

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 wait!

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 Let us see whether Elijah

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 will come take him down

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 or not!

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 He's not there to see Jesus.

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 He's hoping for a show.

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 Now, if Elijah comes

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 and takes Jesus down,

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 delivers him from the cross,

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 boy, that would say a lot

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 about Jesus with these folks.

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 And he's got some connections.

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 He's connected to Elijah.

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 If Jesus was delivered by Elijah,

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 man, that makes Jesus

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 into someone special.

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 But Elijah doesn't come.

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 And if you were there

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 looking for this spectacle,

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 what happens next

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 would have been very disappointing.

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 Because what happens next

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 in verse 37

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 is that Jesus breathes his last.

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 His last breath.

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 And Jesus uttered a loud cry

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 and breathed his last.

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 Boy, if you're hoping

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 for Jesus to come down

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 from the cross,

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 if you're hoping

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 for Elijah to come,

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 and he breathes his last

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 and he dies,

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 that would have been anticlimactic.

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 It would have been disappointing.

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 Elijah doesn't come.

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 Jesus doesn't come down

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 from the cross.

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 He doesn't save himself.

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 He dies.

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 Now, some would have been thinking

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 if he was the true Messiah,

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 the Christ,

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 the true King of Israel,

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 why would he allow himself

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 to die this way?

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 There were many in attendance

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 who were hoping

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 that he would come down

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 from the cross.

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 But he stayed on the cross

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 until his very last breath.

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 And here there's a pivot.

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 Because what happens next

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 in verses 38 and 39,

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 they happen immediately

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 after he breathes his last.

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 He dies,

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 and then two things happen.

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 Two results happen.

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 The first is in verse 38,

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 and at his death,

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 his death accomplished

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 something unexpected.

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 unexpected.

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 And the curtain of the temple

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 was torn in two

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 from top to bottom.

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 Now, if I were making

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 a movie out of this,

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 I would have had a close-up

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 on Jesus in verse 37,

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 breathing his last.

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 Ah!

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 And he dies.

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 But then,

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 the scene would completely change.

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 And all of a sudden,

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 my camera would be in

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 the temple,

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 the Jewish temple,

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 and it would be looking

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 at the curtain.

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 It would be moved

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 from the cross,

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 which would have had

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 a line of sight

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 on the temple,

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 and would have gone

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 right into the temple.

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 And so let me just

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 kind of explain

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 what's going on

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 in the temple.

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 There are two rooms

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 in the Jewish temple.

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 And if you were to walk

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 in the front door

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 of the Jewish temple,

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 you walk into

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 the holy place.

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 And the holy place

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 is where the Jewish priests

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 would enter and gather

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 and go about

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 their ministry responsibilities.

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 But then,

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 there was the inner sanctum,

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 the holy of holies,

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 where the ark was.

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 And that was believed

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 to be where God himself dwelt.

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 God's present dwelt.

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 And separating the holy place

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 from the holy of holies

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 was this massive,

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 thick,

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 ornate

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 curtain.

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 God required it

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 to separate

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 him and his holiness

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 from sinners,

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 even the priests.

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 And so when we read here

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 that Jesus breathed his last,

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 he dies,

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 and then the curtain

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 in the temple

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 is torn in two,

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 that is cause and effect.

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 The death of Jesus

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 opened the way

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 for sinners

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 to come into the presence

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 of a holy God.

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 And do you notice

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 it was a rending

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 from top to bottom?

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 What that means is

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 it's not man accomplished.

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 This is God wrought.

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 God rending.

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 God making a way

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 into his presence

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 through the death

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 of God the Son.

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 If this was the first time

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 we were reading

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 the Gospel of Mark,

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 and maybe this is the first time

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 you've heard this,

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 this would have been

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 totally unexpected.

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 Through this man's death,

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 God has opened a way

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 into his presence.

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 But that's just

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 the first result.

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 The second result

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 is that Christ's death

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 revealed someone extraordinary.

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 In verse 39,

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 standing opposite Jesus

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 on the cross,

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 watching this whole thing

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 unfold,

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 was a Roman centurion.

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 centurion.

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 And when the centurion

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 who stood facing him

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 saw that in this way

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 he breathed his last,

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 he said,

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 truly,

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 this man was

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 the Son of God.

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 What you need to understand

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 is that

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 this Roman centurion,

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 he's a non-Jew.

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 He's a Gentile.

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 And he's in charge

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 of 100 men.

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 That's what a centurion is.

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 And apparently,

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 he had responsibility

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 for execution duty

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 that day.

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 Which means

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 he would have been

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 no stranger to death.

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 Likely,

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 he had executed many.

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 He had seen

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 many a person die.

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 And he sees the way

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 that Jesus dies

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 and he confesses,

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 truly,

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 this man was

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 the Son of God.

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 You see,

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 the death

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 of Jesus

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 reveals

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 someone extraordinary

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 that he is

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 the Son of God.

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 It's not by

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 bringing himself

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 down from the cross

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 that shows

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 he's the Son of God.

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 It was

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 remaining on the cross

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 until his death

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 that revealed

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 that he's

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 the Son of God.

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 what's surprising

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 in the Gospel

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 of Mark

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 is that

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 this centurion

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 is the only

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 human being,

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 the only

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 human being

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 who saw

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 and confessed

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 Jesus

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 as

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 the Son of God.

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 The only one.

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 And he had a role

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 in putting Jesus

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 to death.

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 For him to say

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 that Jesus

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 is the Son of God

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 is to say

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 that Jesus

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 is God.

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 And that is why

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 the curtain

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 was torn in two.

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 Only God the Son

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 could bear the wrath

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 of God the Father

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 in order to

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 reconcile

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 sinners

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 to himself.

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 Only God

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 could do that.

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 This is God

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 in the flesh.

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 Because Jesus

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 is God,

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 he alone

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 was able

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 to open

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 the way.

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 His

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 substitutionary

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 death

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 removes

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 the penalty

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 of our sin

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 and his

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 sinless

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 life

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 grants us

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 acceptance

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 in God's

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 sight.

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 He is

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 extraordinary.

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 His death

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 reveals him

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 to be

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 someone

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 who is

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 one of a kind,

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 God himself.

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 himself.

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 So when he

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 breathes his

00:19:58.980 --> 00:19:59.500
 last,

00:20:00.500 --> 00:20:01.360
 the curtain

00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:01.820
 is torn

00:20:01.820 --> 00:20:02.320
 in two.

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 This is

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 something

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 unexpected,

00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:07.280
 our salvation.

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 And

00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:11.400
 the centurion

00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:12.260
 confesses,

00:20:12.860 --> 00:20:13.480
 truly this is

00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:14.300
 the Son of God.

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 This is

00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:16.800
 someone

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 extraordinary.

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 extraordinary.

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 So what if

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 there was no

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 darkness?

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 What if

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 Jesus never

00:20:26.580 --> 00:20:27.460
 cried out,

00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:29.460
 Eloi,

00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:29.960
 Eloi,

00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:30.180
 leme

00:20:30.180 --> 00:20:30.840
 sebectani?

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 What happens

00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:34.100
 if Jesus did

00:20:34.100 --> 00:20:34.519
 come down

00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:35.259
 from the cross?

00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:36.539
 He didn't

00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:36.900
 die.

00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:38.140
 He lived to

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 an old age

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 of 80

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 and enjoyed

00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:40.759
 retirement.

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 What happens

00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:44.759
 if he didn't

00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:46.019
 breathe his

00:20:46.019 --> 00:20:47.319
 last on

00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:48.039
 the cross?

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 There would

00:20:51.619 --> 00:20:51.900
 be no

00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:52.339
 salvation

00:20:52.339 --> 00:20:52.960
 for us.

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 There would

00:20:55.139 --> 00:20:55.440
 be no

00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:56.180
 payment made.

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 There would

00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:56.940
 be no

00:20:56.940 --> 00:20:57.859
 opening,

00:20:58.079 --> 00:20:58.579
 rending of

00:20:58.579 --> 00:20:59.099
 the curtain.

00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:02.359
 Why didn't

00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:03.900
 Jesus just

00:21:03.900 --> 00:21:04.799
 say enough

00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:05.359
 is enough

00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:05.940
 and come

00:21:05.940 --> 00:21:07.099
 down from

00:21:07.099 --> 00:21:08.220
 his cross

00:21:08.220 --> 00:21:09.200
 to display

00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:10.359
 his power?

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 Because it

00:21:13.539 --> 00:21:14.259
 wasn't loving.

00:21:14.259 --> 00:21:15.519
 that would

00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:15.940
 not have

00:21:15.940 --> 00:21:16.359
 been loving.

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 Our

00:21:18.140 --> 00:21:18.839
 loving

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 king

00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:21.500
 stayed on

00:21:21.500 --> 00:21:22.400
 the cross

00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.619
 to bear

00:21:23.619 --> 00:21:24.640
 the full

00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:25.779
 venting of

00:21:25.779 --> 00:21:26.259
 God the

00:21:26.259 --> 00:21:27.339
 Father's wrath

00:21:27.339 --> 00:21:28.660
 to remove

00:21:28.660 --> 00:21:29.519
 the obstacle

00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.299
 of sin

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 so that we

00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:32.640
 could enter

00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:33.460
 into

00:21:33.460 --> 00:21:34.920
 an eternal

00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:36.259
 and life-giving

00:21:36.259 --> 00:21:36.940
 relationship

00:21:36.940 --> 00:21:37.660
 with God.

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 It's only

00:21:39.779 --> 00:21:40.220
 because he

00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:40.660
 stayed on

00:21:40.660 --> 00:21:41.140
 the cross.

00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:42.240
 He had

00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:42.480
 two.

00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:44.460
 He is

00:21:44.460 --> 00:21:45.200
 the Isaiah

00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:45.920
 53

00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:46.720
 suffering

00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:47.259
 servant.

00:21:48.059 --> 00:21:48.519
 This was

00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:49.240
 God's will

00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:49.839
 from before

00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:50.660
 the foundation

00:21:50.660 --> 00:21:53.000
 of the

00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:53.500
 world.

00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:54.079
 And why

00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:54.339
 would he

00:21:54.339 --> 00:21:54.680
 do it?

00:21:55.900 --> 00:21:57.000
 How deep,

00:21:57.779 --> 00:21:58.559
 how vast,

00:21:59.140 --> 00:22:00.059
 how great

00:22:00.059 --> 00:22:01.380
 is his

00:22:01.380 --> 00:22:01.720
 love.

00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:01.680
 How deep

00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:01.759
 is his love.

00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:01.680
 How deep

00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:02.339
 is his love.

00:22:02.339 --> 00:22:06.880
 How deep