WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:03.960 What does power, true power look like? 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:07.000 What does truth look like? 00:00:08.300 --> 00:00:11.980 For the Romans, true power was this. 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:17.920 It was the hand that both figuratively and literally 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:26.440 took the spear and thrust it into the heart of their enemy. 00:00:27.219 --> 00:00:29.679 And the Romans were excellent at this. 00:00:30.899 --> 00:00:32.420 They headed down to an art. 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:36.759 The Roman historian Plutarch said of Julius Caesar, 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:37.960 quote, 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:43.000 For although it was not full ten years that he waged war in Gaul, 00:00:43.659 --> 00:00:48.000 he took by storm more than 800 cities, subdued 300 nations, 00:00:48.539 --> 00:00:53.200 and fought pitched battles at different times with three million men, 00:00:53.420 --> 00:00:57.039 of whom he slew one million in hand-to-hand fighting, 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:00.339 and took as many more as prisoners. 00:01:03.219 --> 00:01:13.420 As unlikely as it is that Caesar's forces killed and enslaved two million Gallic warriors, 00:01:13.420 --> 00:01:15.560 it's very clear that for Rome, 00:01:16.260 --> 00:01:20.260 killing, subduing, crushing, 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:22.340 this was true power. 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:24.780 This is what true power looked like. 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:32.120 The hand that held the spear that thrust it into their enemies. 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:34.579 The gods gave them victory. 00:01:34.579 --> 00:01:41.480 And this view of true power became the worldview that spoke to a powerful truth. 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:44.640 Divine favor rests upon the victors. 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:47.939 The ones who, after the dust settles, 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:52.640 are still standing while the defeated are lying in a pool of blood, 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:53.540 or in this case, 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:56.760 hanging on a wooden crucifix. 00:01:58.200 --> 00:01:59.900 These are the powerful ones. 00:02:00.620 --> 00:02:02.760 These are the people that are on the right side of truth. 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:10.439 We pick up the passion narrative with the confrontation between Jesus and Pilate. 00:02:12.259 --> 00:02:14.620 They have a conversation about truth, 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:17.580 and about what real power looks like. 00:02:19.140 --> 00:02:23.020 Pilate begins the interrogation by asking a pivotal question 00:02:23.020 --> 00:02:25.920 to see if Jesus is an insurrectionist, 00:02:26.219 --> 00:02:30.180 and therefore deserves to be crucified upon the cross, 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:38.200 or if he is just a regular religious leader 00:02:38.200 --> 00:02:40.520 to whom Rome doesn't really care about 00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:43.360 and has just caused a problem amongst his own people. 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:48.719 Is Jesus trying to destroy the true power of Rome? 00:02:50.379 --> 00:02:52.680 Verse 33, if you're following along with me, 00:02:52.819 --> 00:02:55.540 there should be a few more Bibles at the welcome table 00:02:55.540 --> 00:02:57.280 if you want to get up at any time and follow along. 00:02:57.340 --> 00:02:58.180 You're more than welcome to. 00:02:58.180 --> 00:03:01.920 Verse 33 begins our section, and this is what it says. 00:03:03.659 --> 00:03:06.379 So Pilate entered the headquarters again and called Jesus 00:03:06.379 --> 00:03:07.180 and said to him, 00:03:08.099 --> 00:03:09.920 Are you the king of the Jews? 00:03:11.180 --> 00:03:12.560 It's quite the question to ask. 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.060 This opening question is so critical to the narrative 00:03:17.060 --> 00:03:20.140 that all four gospel writers have included it 00:03:20.140 --> 00:03:24.319 as the first thing that Pilate asks of Jesus. 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:27.259 If Jesus is the king of the Jews, 00:03:27.519 --> 00:03:29.819 then he must be an enemy of Rome, 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:35.659 for Rome is supreme in whatever land she is in. 00:03:35.799 --> 00:03:38.139 Rome shares a throne with nobody. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.500 No movement, no person, no group. 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:44.120 So a king of the Jews, 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:48.840 it had the potential of being something more than 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:52.099 just this man who is a pretender 00:03:52.099 --> 00:03:54.400 could be the start of a revolution 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.840 that looks to cause a huge problem in a Roman province. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:02.719 And what does Rome do to problems? 00:04:03.460 --> 00:04:04.659 Rome crushes problems. 00:04:05.620 --> 00:04:09.039 Again, where is true power situated? 00:04:09.300 --> 00:04:10.500 In the Roman mind, 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:12.400 it's the hand that holds the spear 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.580 that thrusts the spear into the heart of the enemy. 00:04:17.540 --> 00:04:18.780 So how does Jesus answer? 00:04:19.980 --> 00:04:20.800 Verse 34. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.180 Jesus answered him, 00:04:23.740 --> 00:04:26.300 Do you say this of your own accord 00:04:26.300 --> 00:04:28.899 or did others say it to you about me? 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.959 This isn't Jesus trying to get himself away from the cross. 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.220 This isn't Jesus all of a sudden 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:40.000 having a bout of cowardice. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.939 Jesus knows he's going to the cross. 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:43.740 He knows it. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.620 But he makes sure that he will go 00:04:46.620 --> 00:04:48.720 not as a revolutionary 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:50.740 or an insurrectionist against Rome, 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:52.319 but as the Messiah, 00:04:52.860 --> 00:04:53.939 as the Anointed One, 00:04:54.019 --> 00:04:56.819 as the One who is betrayed and rejected 00:04:56.819 --> 00:04:59.360 by His own people for the salvation 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:00.959 and for their salvation 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:02.620 and the salvation of the entire world. 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:05.980 He has not come to set up a temporal, 00:05:06.579 --> 00:05:09.540 earthly kingdom armed with spears and swords. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:12.139 In fact, the only weapon 00:05:12.139 --> 00:05:14.079 that Jesus is armed with is truth. 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.180 For He is a King whose kingdom is eternal. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.519 We'll see this as we continue. 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:23.639 Look with me at verses 35 to 37. 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:27.160 Pilate answered, 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:28.720 Am I a Jew? 00:05:29.180 --> 00:05:31.279 Your own nation and the chief priests 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:32.660 have delivered you over to me. 00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:33.959 What have you done? 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:35.879 Jesus answered, 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:38.259 My kingdom is not of this world. 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:40.659 If my kingdom were of this world, 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:42.839 my servants would have been fighting 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:46.100 that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.040 But my kingdom is not from this world. 00:05:50.740 --> 00:05:52.159 Then Pilate said to Him, 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:53.159 So you are a king. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:54.879 Jesus answered, 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:56.860 You say that I am a king? 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.040 For this purpose I was born, 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.439 and for this purpose I have come into the world, 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:03.019 to bear witness to the truth. 00:06:04.139 --> 00:06:05.079 And we'll pause there. 00:06:06.339 --> 00:06:08.420 Notice that Jesus doesn't answer the question 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:10.360 that would pin him as a revolutionary. 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:12.899 Pilate, he asks him, 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:16.259 Listen, why don't you answer them? 00:06:16.540 --> 00:06:19.879 They've accused you of being an enemy of Rome. 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:22.659 Jesus does not answer the question, 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:23.360 What have you done? 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:26.960 But instead, he responds by talking about 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:28.879 true kingship, 00:06:29.460 --> 00:06:30.439 his kingdom, 00:06:31.340 --> 00:06:33.100 and what it truly means 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:37.240 for Jesus to be the long-awaited Messiah, 00:06:37.379 --> 00:06:39.960 the king of the entire cosmos, 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:41.500 the entire universe. 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.439 If Jesus was a temporal king 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.160 of the Jewish state, 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.920 then why would the Jewish leaders 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:50.860 be handing him over? 00:06:50.860 --> 00:06:54.860 No, his kingdom is not an earthly one, 00:06:55.340 --> 00:06:56.300 but a heavenly one. 00:06:57.139 --> 00:06:59.500 Therefore, worldly ways to bring heaven to earth 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:00.460 are doomed to fail. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:02.879 And this is a lesson for us. 00:07:03.980 --> 00:07:09.319 We desire the joys of eternal love and happiness 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.520 to know a guilt-free conscience, 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:13.819 to be in a right relationship 00:07:13.819 --> 00:07:17.819 for all of those that are in our lives 00:07:17.819 --> 00:07:18.639 to be forgiven, 00:07:18.980 --> 00:07:20.520 to have the ability to forgive. 00:07:20.860 --> 00:07:22.680 In short, 00:07:23.400 --> 00:07:26.879 we desire to have all of the things 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:27.860 that heaven is, 00:07:29.020 --> 00:07:31.920 to live in a heavenly state. 00:07:32.540 --> 00:07:34.000 This is our desire, 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.300 except there's a problem. 00:07:38.300 --> 00:07:39.560 All too often, 00:07:39.740 --> 00:07:43.160 we try to gain heavenly things 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.400 by not submitting to Christ, 00:07:45.480 --> 00:07:46.620 who is the king over all, 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:48.620 but by doing more, 00:07:48.620 --> 00:07:49.899 by earning more, 00:07:50.060 --> 00:07:52.579 by engaging in more self-care, 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:55.540 and cutting out toxicity in our lives, 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:57.500 and eating super well, 00:07:57.780 --> 00:07:58.560 and doing, 00:07:58.959 --> 00:07:59.579 and thinking, 00:07:59.939 --> 00:08:00.860 and just being better. 00:08:00.980 --> 00:08:03.280 But it's all from inside. 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:06.139 Or it's all from the culture around us, 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:08.620 which is all to say that it is temporal. 00:08:08.780 --> 00:08:09.519 It is not eternal. 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:10.500 It is not heavenly. 00:08:10.859 --> 00:08:11.699 It is earthly. 00:08:12.659 --> 00:08:16.279 How can we achieve our soul's desire, 00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:17.680 which is heaven itself, 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:19.479 by earthly means? 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:28.080 Worldly ways to bring heaven to earth 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:29.480 are doomed to fail. 00:08:30.420 --> 00:08:31.620 This is why the Son of God 00:08:31.620 --> 00:08:32.639 took on human flesh. 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:34.460 Notice that God, 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:35.600 in His salvation plan, 00:08:35.680 --> 00:08:36.279 didn't say, 00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:38.039 ascend to me. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:39.560 He said, 00:08:39.659 --> 00:08:41.779 I will descend to you. 00:08:41.779 --> 00:08:44.899 And that He did. 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:45.659 The Son of God 00:08:45.659 --> 00:08:47.159 took on human flesh. 00:08:47.819 --> 00:08:49.480 He established the kingdom of God 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:50.740 and to proclaim the truth. 00:08:51.740 --> 00:08:53.419 But the truth about what? 00:08:55.199 --> 00:08:56.259 Throughout the Bible, 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:00.159 truth is not merely the absence of a lie, 00:09:00.319 --> 00:09:01.439 but must be understood 00:09:01.439 --> 00:09:04.000 as the reality of God's essential being. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:06.720 It's not that God tells the truth, 00:09:07.379 --> 00:09:08.959 or that God doesn't lie. 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.199 It's that God is truth. 00:09:11.779 --> 00:09:13.039 Not a truth, 00:09:13.139 --> 00:09:13.759 or the truth. 00:09:13.860 --> 00:09:15.480 He is truth itself. 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:17.319 So, 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:19.339 we are witnessing Jesus, 00:09:20.220 --> 00:09:22.319 bearing witness to who God is. 00:09:23.899 --> 00:09:26.059 We are witnessing Jesus 00:09:26.059 --> 00:09:28.899 playing out, 00:09:29.019 --> 00:09:29.500 in a sense, 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:31.259 the reality of truth. 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:34.220 He is making plain in His life, 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:35.120 passion, 00:09:35.259 --> 00:09:35.860 and resurrection 00:09:35.860 --> 00:09:38.559 that God is mighty to save. 00:09:39.939 --> 00:09:41.019 That truth, 00:09:41.019 --> 00:09:42.600 that true power 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:44.840 is not found in the hand 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:46.100 that holds the spear 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:48.740 that crushes the enemy. 00:09:49.980 --> 00:09:50.960 Not at all. 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:53.840 But truth, 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:55.399 true power, 00:09:56.059 --> 00:09:57.539 is found in sacrifice, 00:09:57.840 --> 00:09:58.100 forgiveness, 00:09:58.279 --> 00:09:58.659 and love. 00:10:00.419 --> 00:10:01.759 Jesus is bearing witness 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.699 to the very heart of God. 00:10:03.699 --> 00:10:03.740 God, 00:10:03.740 --> 00:10:04.240 God, 00:10:06.299 --> 00:10:06.939 who is love, 00:10:07.259 --> 00:10:08.379 and saw it just and right 00:10:08.379 --> 00:10:09.399 to give up His Son 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.360 for the salvation of us. 00:10:12.700 --> 00:10:13.580 And if we are honest, 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:14.419 we are sinful, 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:16.379 we are deceptive, 00:10:16.500 --> 00:10:18.059 we are liars to our core. 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:20.360 We do not seek the truth. 00:10:21.379 --> 00:10:23.679 We seek anything but. 00:10:24.419 --> 00:10:25.720 And if we like the truth, 00:10:26.259 --> 00:10:28.179 but there's something inconvenient about it, 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:29.639 we mask it, 00:10:29.700 --> 00:10:31.620 or we explain it away. 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.820 We are not people that walk in the truth. 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:35.440 And God, 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:36.900 in His goodness, 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:38.879 saw fit to send His Son 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:39.960 to die on our behalf. 00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:43.860 And what's remarkable about this 00:10:43.860 --> 00:10:45.000 is that the truth is 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:48.060 this cannot be accomplished 00:10:48.060 --> 00:10:50.280 by any other way 00:10:50.280 --> 00:10:51.700 apart from the sinless Savior 00:10:51.700 --> 00:10:53.780 to be beaten to the edge of death, 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:56.100 to hang upon a hellish tree 00:10:56.100 --> 00:10:57.760 completely alone 00:10:57.760 --> 00:10:58.880 and abandoned. 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:00.560 There's no other way. 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.839 There's no other plan B 00:11:03.839 --> 00:11:05.179 if the plan A didn't work. 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:06.219 This was the plan. 00:11:07.239 --> 00:11:09.500 It took God in flesh 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:11.059 to die on our behalf 00:11:11.059 --> 00:11:12.419 to save us 00:11:12.419 --> 00:11:13.799 from our sin 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:15.039 and from evil 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:15.759 and from death. 00:11:17.359 --> 00:11:19.099 Truth isn't just the absence 00:11:19.099 --> 00:11:20.539 of a lie we see. 00:11:21.459 --> 00:11:23.819 It is love expressing itself 00:11:23.819 --> 00:11:27.000 in selfless love 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:28.479 and action. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.080 There are no multiple truths. 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:35.779 There are no other ways 00:11:35.779 --> 00:11:36.539 for our sin 00:11:36.539 --> 00:11:37.920 and our brokenness, 00:11:38.019 --> 00:11:38.460 our evil, 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:39.399 to be taken away. 00:11:40.139 --> 00:11:41.820 For it is the same Savior, 00:11:41.980 --> 00:11:43.180 Christ the King, 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:43.860 who says 00:11:43.860 --> 00:11:46.080 in John chapter 14, 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:47.399 so a few chapters earlier, 00:11:47.980 --> 00:11:48.820 6 and 7, 00:11:48.899 --> 00:11:49.460 what does He say? 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:50.539 I am the way, 00:11:50.700 --> 00:11:51.600 the truth, 00:11:51.700 --> 00:11:52.279 and the life. 00:11:52.460 --> 00:11:53.500 No one comes to the Father 00:11:53.500 --> 00:11:55.240 except through Me. 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:57.259 If you had known Me, 00:11:57.340 --> 00:11:58.420 you would have known My Father. 00:11:58.419 --> 00:11:58.860 Father also, 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:00.539 from now on, 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:01.959 you do not know Him, 00:12:02.339 --> 00:12:03.360 or you do know Him 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:04.279 and have seen Him. 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:07.699 Jesus is truth. 00:12:08.379 --> 00:12:09.399 And what He has come to do 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:10.159 is truth. 00:12:10.539 --> 00:12:11.860 And it is real power. 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:14.839 So Jesus ends His confrontation 00:12:14.839 --> 00:12:15.679 with Pilate 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:16.479 with this sentence. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.120 everyone who is of the truth 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:21.360 listens to My voice. 00:12:23.060 --> 00:12:26.000 It's quite the sentence. 00:12:27.060 --> 00:12:28.680 And He puts it towards Pilate, 00:12:28.740 --> 00:12:30.180 but He puts it towards us 00:12:30.180 --> 00:12:31.019 this morning. 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:33.500 So the question is, 00:12:33.580 --> 00:12:34.779 will you listen 00:12:34.779 --> 00:12:36.500 to the voice of the Messiah 00:12:36.500 --> 00:12:37.420 as He journeys 00:12:37.420 --> 00:12:38.720 toward the cross? 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.240 Will you receive the truth 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:42.220 and live by the truth 00:12:42.220 --> 00:12:44.080 and forsake all lies? 00:12:48.580 --> 00:12:50.220 This section ends with Pilate 00:12:50.220 --> 00:12:50.759 asking, 00:12:51.160 --> 00:12:52.639 what is truth? 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.220 We won't get into 00:12:56.220 --> 00:12:58.600 what Pilate may or may not 00:12:58.600 --> 00:12:59.919 have been referring to here, 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:01.919 but what is truth 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:02.620 is the question 00:13:02.620 --> 00:13:03.899 that Pilate puts forward. 00:13:03.899 --> 00:13:07.379 and it seems that John 00:13:07.379 --> 00:13:09.259 will answer that question 00:13:09.259 --> 00:13:11.699 by everything that follows. 00:13:12.419 --> 00:13:13.419 What is the truth? 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.899 The truth is God 00:13:16.899 --> 00:13:18.159 hanging upon a tree. 00:13:19.259 --> 00:13:22.079 The truth is that He dies 00:13:22.079 --> 00:13:23.100 for our sins 00:13:23.100 --> 00:13:24.799 as the Passover Lamb. 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:26.939 The truth is He will be buried, 00:13:27.699 --> 00:13:29.019 but the truth also is that 00:13:29.019 --> 00:13:30.699 in three days He will rise again. 00:13:31.899 --> 00:13:32.919 That is the truth. 00:13:33.899 --> 00:13:36.059 The passion and death of Christ 00:13:36.059 --> 00:13:39.340 says that the truth is not 00:13:39.340 --> 00:13:41.079 the powerful strong hand 00:13:41.079 --> 00:13:41.779 that crushes, 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.779 but the life that lays down 00:13:44.779 --> 00:13:47.259 Himself for the sake of others. 00:13:48.019 --> 00:13:49.279 It's not the hand 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:50.199 that holds a spear 00:13:50.199 --> 00:13:51.720 that thrusts it into the enemy, 00:13:52.579 --> 00:13:54.980 but the side that takes that blow. 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:57.299 That's where true power is. 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:02.059 Friends, let us hear 00:14:02.059 --> 00:14:04.439 and listen to His voice today 00:14:04.439 --> 00:14:07.500 and let us walk in this truth 00:14:07.500 --> 00:14:08.759 for today, 00:14:09.179 --> 00:14:09.859 for tomorrow, 00:14:10.379 --> 00:14:12.000 as we celebrate on Sunday 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:12.779 and forevermore. 00:14:13.579 --> 00:14:14.359 I'll pray 00:14:14.359 --> 00:14:16.299 and then we will all together pray. 00:14:16.299 --> 00:14:20.299 Father, thank you that through Jesus 00:14:20.299 --> 00:14:21.459 we see truth 00:14:21.459 --> 00:14:22.639 and we see you 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:23.559 and we see your heart 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:24.839 towards us, 00:14:25.319 --> 00:14:26.319 that you have treated us 00:14:26.319 --> 00:14:27.539 not as we deserve, 00:14:28.219 --> 00:14:29.839 you have showered upon us grace, 00:14:30.740 --> 00:14:31.699 and that you have showed us 00:14:31.699 --> 00:14:32.620 that true power 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:35.219 is not about destroying our enemies, 00:14:35.359 --> 00:14:36.779 but laying down our life 00:14:36.779 --> 00:14:38.179 for our enemies 00:14:38.179 --> 00:14:39.699 to make our enemies our friends. 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:42.379 Lord, help us to think 00:14:42.379 --> 00:14:43.980 about what Christ has done for us 00:14:43.980 --> 00:14:45.220 on the cross of Calvary 00:14:45.220 --> 00:14:47.420 and let that truth 00:14:47.420 --> 00:14:49.220 sink deep into our hearts. 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:51.660 We pray this in Christ's name. 00:14:52.700 --> 00:14:53.040 Amen. 00:14:53.080 --> 00:14:53.180 Amen. 00:14:53.179 --> 00:14:54.179 Amen. 00:14:54.959 --> 00:14:55.079 Amen. 00:14:55.079 --> 00:14:55.219 Amen. 00:14:55.219 --> 00:14:55.379 Amen. 00:14:55.839 --> 00:14:55.899 Amen. 00:14:56.539 --> 00:14:57.199 Amen. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:01.599 Amen. 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:10.039 Amen. 00:15:10.059 --> 00:15:10.259 Amen. 00:15:19.139 --> 00:15:19.539 Amen. 00:15:19.859 --> 00:15:20.079 Amen. 00:15:20.079 --> 00:15:20.319 Amen. 00:15:20.319 --> 00:15:21.240 Amen. 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:21.339 Amen. 00:15:21.379 --> 00:15:22.159 Amen. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:22.319 Amen.