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0:00Mark 14.
0:03Now the Passover and unleavened bread
0:06were two days away, and the [music]
0:08chief priests and the scribes were
0:10seeking how to seize him by stealth and
0:13[music] kill him. For they were saying,
0:16"Not during the festival, otherwise
0:19[music] there might be a riot of the
0:21people."
0:23While he was in Bethany at the home of
0:26Simon the leper and reclining at the
0:28table, [music]
0:29there came a woman with an alabaster
0:31vial of very costly [music] perfume of
0:34pure nard. And she broke the vial
0:37[music] and poured it over his head.
0:41But some were indignantly [music]
0:43remarking to one another, "Why has this
0:46perfume been wasted?
0:49for this perfume might have been sold
0:52for over 300 [music]
0:54dinari and the money given to the poor
0:58and they were scolding her.
1:01But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why do
1:05you bother her?
1:07She has done a good deed to me.
1:11For you always have the poor with you,
1:13and whenever you wish, you can do good
1:16to them. But you do not always have me.
1:21She has done what she could. She has
1:23[music] anointed my body beforehand for
1:26the burial.
1:28Truly I [music] say to you, wherever the
1:32gospel is preached in the whole world,
1:35what this woman has done will also be
1:38spoken of in memory of her.
1:42Then Judas Escariat, who was one of the
1:4512, went off to the chief priests in
1:48order to betray him to them. They were
1:51glad when they heard this and promised
1:54to give him money. And he began seeking
1:57how to betray him at an opportune time.
2:04So, we have this scene where Jesus goes
2:07to the house of Simon the Pharisee and
2:11the leper and he's reclining at the
2:16table.
2:17And a woman comes in who is likely a
2:21prostitute
2:24and she brings in this extremely
2:27expensive
2:29symbol of her sinful life.
2:32This is likely something she would have
2:34even used to get attention. It's like a
2:38perfume.
2:40And she brings it in and she breaks it
2:43and pours all of it on his head and his
2:46feet.
2:49And the response from the disciples
2:54which we know was primarily Judas
2:58is oh this is a poor use of money. This
3:02could have been used to serve the poor.
3:06But in the other gospels we are told
3:08that Judas says this because he was
3:12wanting the money for himself.
3:15And the lesson is that not every time
3:18someone raises concerns about money and
3:22not every time those concerns sound like
3:26a burden for the poor. Not every time is
3:29that the case. Not every time is that a
3:31genuine concern. Sometimes there is a
3:35selfish motivation. There is an ambition
3:39in it. And it is not a coincidence that
3:43Mark sandwiches Judas's betrayal
3:48of Jesus to the chief priests for money
3:52right up against this story of the
3:54woman.
3:55This was a trigger moment. This was the
3:59point where Judas had had enough. Maybe
4:03times were tight. Maybe they didn't have
4:06enough money. Maybe Judas felt that.
4:09Maybe he wasn't trusting God,
4:12but for whatever reason, he goes from
4:16being offended at the waste of a
4:19financial resource to betraying Jesus
4:23just like that.
4:25And yet he doesn't say, "I'm a thief.
4:30I have no faith.
4:33I don't trust the way things are going."
4:35He says, "I have a burden for the poor."
4:38He's a complete fraud. And yet he cloaks
4:42his theft, his unbelief, and his
4:46betrayal behind a burden for the poor.
4:50On the first day of unleavened bread,
4:53when the Passover lamb was being
4:55[clears throat] sacrificed,
4:57his disciples said to him, "Where do you
5:00want us to go and prepare for you to eat
5:03the Passover?"
5:05And he sent two of his disciples and
5:07said to them, "Go into the city and a
5:10man will meet you carrying a picture of
5:12water. Follow him."
5:15And wherever he enters, say to the owner
5:17of the house, the teacher says, "Where
5:21is my guest room in which I may eat the
5:24Passover with my disciples?"
5:27and he himself will show you a large
5:30upper room furnished and ready. Prepare
5:34for us there."
5:37The disciples went out and came to the
5:38city and found it just as he had told
5:41them. And they prepared the Passover.
5:44When it was evening, he came with the
5:47twel.
5:49As they were reclining at the table and
5:51eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you
5:55that one of you will betray me, one who
5:58is eating with me."
6:01They began to be grieved and to say to
6:04him one by one, "Surely not I."
6:09And he said to them, "It is one of the
6:1212, one who dips with me in the bull.
6:17For the Son of Man is to go just as it
6:20is written of him. But woe to that man
6:24by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.
6:28It would have been good for that man if
6:31he had not been born.
6:34We're told in the first verse of this
6:35chapter that the chief priests and
6:39scribes were seeking how to seize Jesus
6:42by stealth and kill him.
6:47And they were saying we cannot do it
6:49during the festival. So it seems to me
6:52that Jesus is making public appearances
6:56where there is a very large crowd. But
6:59the chief priests and haters are not
7:02willing to make a move on him in that
7:05setting because they are actually afraid
7:08that the people will riot against them
7:11because the people believe or want to
7:14hear from Jesus.
7:17Okay. So they say that we want to take
7:20him by stealth which means we want to
7:23take him secretly at night. So what is
7:28likely is that while he would show up in
7:32front of everybody, his whereabouts,
7:34where he was sleeping, where they were
7:36meeting in small groups, these things
7:39would have been secret. He would not
7:42have made it widely known. Even the way
7:45he reserves the upper room for the
7:48Passover is kind of cryptic.
7:51He sends these two guys in and they meet
7:53a man. Maybe the man knows who they are.
7:56Maybe Jesus has made arrangements with
7:58the man. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe Jesus
8:02doesn't even want the man to know. But
8:05for whatever reason,
8:07the betrayal is going to amount to one
8:11of the 12 telling
8:14the chief priests where Jesus is at a
8:18time when the public does not know. So
8:21they wouldn't have known where he was
8:23having the Passover. They wouldn't have
8:25known where he was going to be praying.
8:27It would take someone very close who who
8:30knew his movements who was going to
8:32relay it to the haters.
8:37And he says that it is one of the 12.
8:39And the 12 ask, "Is it I?"
8:43which shows an incredible humility that
8:46all of them are unsure as to whether it
8:49is them. This is the first communion
8:52service, this celebration of the
8:54Passover. And it is showing us that all
8:58of us should have this attitude in
8:59communion. Lord, show me, show me what I
9:03don't know about myself.
9:05Show me what could betray you and me.
9:09And Jesus answers them and says,
9:12"It is one of the 12 and it is one who
9:15dips with me
9:17in the bowl."
9:20And the the language is not it's one of
9:24many who dips with me in the bowl. It's
9:27it's the only one. It's the one who dips
9:30with me in the bowl.
9:33So, I see that as suggesting a level of
9:37pride and presumption.
9:39The other 11 are waiting their turn, and
9:43they're deferring to Jesus as he is
9:47dipping in the bowl. But one of them has
9:50so lost his honor, so lost his reverence
9:54that he's got his hand in the bowl at
9:56the same time as Jesus. And this is a
9:59signal as to the attitude that's living
10:01in his heart. Not only is he judging
10:04Jesus for how he's managing finances and
10:07resources, but he's lost his honor. He's
10:11dipping at the same time as the Lord.
10:15While they were eating, he took some
10:17bread and after a blessing, he broke it
10:21and gave it to them and said, "Take it.
10:24This is my body."
10:27And when he had taken a cup and given
10:29thanks, he gave it to them, and they all
10:32drank from it. And he said to them,
10:36"This is my blood of the covenant, which
10:39is poured out for many.
10:42Truly, I say to you, I will never again
10:44drink of the fruit of the vine until
10:47that day when I drink it new in the
10:49kingdom of God."
10:52After singing a hymn, they went out to
10:54the Mount of Olives.
10:57So Jesus is instituting communion and
10:59he's saying
11:01that this bread is a symbol of my body
11:05that is going to be broken for you and
11:09this cup is a symbol of my blood and
11:13it's going to create a new covenant.
11:16No longer is it going to be the blood of
11:17bulls and goats. No longer is it going
11:20to be the covenant of Moses. This is
11:24fulfilling what the Lord said through
11:25Jeremiah. I will make a new covenant
11:27with the house of Israel. And it's a
11:30covenant in Christ's blood. He is the
11:33lamb. So here we are at the Passover.
11:37The Passover was the night when the
11:39children of Israel left Egypt. On that
11:42very night, the angel of wrath and of
11:45judgment visited the camp of Egypt and
11:49killed all the firstborn. But on that
11:52night, the people of God killed a lamb.
11:55And they put the blood of that lamb on
11:57their doorposts.
11:59And that lamb signaled to the angels of
12:02wrath that this house belonged to God.
12:06That this house was already atoned for,
12:09that their sins had already been
12:12reckoned and paid for in the death of
12:15that lamb.
12:16But that was only a type of the lamb
12:19that Jesus would be when his blood was
12:22going to be applied to the door of
12:25salvation, to the door of our lives, to
12:27the house of God, so that the judgment
12:31of hell and eternal agony and separation
12:34from God would pass over us as we found
12:38salvation through his blood. So he holds
12:42this and he says, "This is the blood of
12:44a new covenant." And this is fulfilling
12:48the types and shadows of the old
12:50covenant. Jesus is going to make the
12:53sacrifice. He's going to suffer the
12:57agony that we deserve. God in Christ is
13:01going to reconcile the world to himself.
13:04He's not going to have us kill an
13:06animal. He is going to bear in his body
13:10the eternal judgment, the hell in a
13:12manner of speaking that we deserved. So
13:16that if we would accept him and come
13:18into him, be called by his name through
13:22faith, then we can have that blood
13:25applied to our lives
13:28and not receive the judgment, the angel
13:30of death that is passing over the camp
13:33of Egypt.
13:35After singing a hymn, they went out to
13:38the Mount of Olives.
13:40And Jesus said to them, "You will all
13:43fall away because it is written, I will
13:47strike down the shepherd, and the sheep
13:50shall be scattered."
13:53But after I have been raised, I will go
13:56ahead of you to Galilee.
14:00But Peter said to him, "Even though all
14:03may fall away, yet I will not."
14:09Peter is loyal. Peter is determined.
14:13And Peter is sure of himself.
14:18He is determined to prove to Jesus
14:23that he has better intentions and a
14:26better heart and he is a more loyal
14:28friend than the others.
14:31But Peter said to him, "Even though all
14:33may fall away or stumble, yet I will
14:37not." And Jesus said to him, "Truly I
14:42say to you that this very night, before
14:45a rooster crows twice, you yourself will
14:49deny me three times."
14:52Jesus is sure that Peter is going to
14:55fail because he knows what Peter puts
14:58his trust in. Peter puts his trust in in
15:02his own strength, in his own flesh.
15:06And if Peter could rely on the flesh,
15:10he would be loyal.
15:12But does he have the faith to rely on
15:15the Holy Spirit? No.
15:19But Peter kept saying insistently,
15:23"Even if I have to die with you, I will
15:27not deny you."
15:30And they were all saying the same thing
15:32also.
15:34So the gospel writer Mark is wanting us
15:37to know something.
15:40The 12, the 11 did not have a lack of
15:44good intentions. They did not have a
15:47lack of commitment. They did not have a
15:50lack of determination and love for
15:52Jesus. They had a lack of power. They
15:56didn't have power over their own fear of
15:58death. Before the trial, they were
16:01clear. They were determined.
16:04They thought about it. They were warned
16:06about it. They were sure they would not
16:09enter into this temptation.
16:13But their strength
16:15was their confidence. And it was going
16:18to be insufficient.
16:21They came to a place named Gethsemane.
16:24And he said to his disciples, "Sit here
16:26until I have prayed."
16:29And he took with him Peter, James, and
16:31John, and began to be very distressed
16:32and troubled.
16:35Jesus began to be very distressed
16:39and troubled.
16:42He's in agony.
16:46And he said to them, "My soul is deeply
16:50grieved to the point of death.
16:54Remain here and keep watch."
16:58He feels
16:59the anguish. He feels the threat. And he
17:04feels it more keenly than any human
17:06being because he's feeling it for all
17:09human beings.
17:13And he's asking them, "Remain here and
17:16keep watch."
17:18He senses that the betrayal is going to
17:21be Judas slipping away to tell the chief
17:24priests and and scribes where he's
17:27praying.
17:29And he's saying, "Keep watch."
17:32And he went a little beyond them.
17:35And that's the whole story right there.
17:39He went beyond them, beyond their
17:41strength, beyond their fears, beyond
17:44their flesh, beyond their sorrow.
17:49And he went a little beyond them and
17:51fell to the ground and began to pray
17:53that if it were possible, the hour might
17:56pass him by.
17:58And he was saying, "Aba, Father, all
18:03things are possible for you.
18:06Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I
18:10will, but what you will.
18:13Aba is like daddy.
18:17It's the Hebrew word for your father,
18:20but it's an affectionate term. It's not
18:22like the word father. It's more like the
18:24word daddy. Aba, father. All things are
18:28possible for you. Remove this cup. This
18:32is the cup of total surrender.
18:36This is the cup of of willingly drinking
18:40God's way even when you know it's going
18:43to cost you your life.
18:45It's almost like drinking poison.
18:48It's the total surrender of yourself.
18:53And he came and found them sleeping and
18:57he said to Peter, Peter was the one who
19:00was most determined to prove how loyal
19:02he was. So he says to Peter, "Simon,
19:06are you asleep?
19:09Could you not keep watch for one hour?"
19:13He wants Simon to face that he doesn't
19:16have the power.
19:19Simon, can you admit that you weren't
19:22able to be faithful even for one hour?
19:28Keep watching and praying that you may
19:31not come into temptation.
19:33The spirit is willing, but the flesh is
19:35weak.
19:37You want to do God's will. You want to
19:40do what's right. You want to help, but
19:43you don't have the power. Your flesh is
19:45weak.
19:48And again, he went away and prayed,
19:50saying the same words.
19:52And again, he came and found them
19:55sleeping.
19:56for their eyes were very heavy and they
20:00did not know what to answer him.
20:04This is a picture of human power to be
20:08faithful without the power of the Holy
20:11Spirit. It's not possible.
20:16And he came to them a third time and
20:18said to them, "Are you still sleeping
20:21and resting?
20:23It is enough. The hour has come. Behold,
20:27the Son of Man is being betrayed into
20:29the hands of sinners. Get up. Let us be
20:33going. Behold, the one who betrays me is
20:36at hand.
20:40So when it comes to travail in the
20:43spirit, Peter is asleep.
20:47But when it comes to relying on the
20:49flesh, Peter is going to be very active.
20:54Immediately, while he was still
20:56speaking, Judas, one of the twel, came
20:59up accompanied by a crowd with swords
21:02and clubs,
21:04who were from the chief priests and the
21:06scribes and the elders.
21:10And he who was betraying him had given
21:13them a signal saying, "Whomever I kiss,
21:16he is the one. Seize him and lead him
21:20away under guard."
21:23After coming, Judas immediately went to
21:25him, saying, "Rabbi,"
21:28and kissed him.
21:30They laid hands on him and seized him.
21:33But one of those who stood by
21:36drew his sword, Peter,
21:40and struck the slave of the high priest
21:42and cut off his ear.
21:45And Jesus said to them, "Have you come
21:48out with swords and clubs to arrest me
21:52as you would against a robber?"
21:56Peter's asleep when it's time to pray,
21:59but Peter's alive if he can fight in the
22:02flesh.
22:03and he would have fought to the bloody
22:05end if he could have leaned on the
22:07flesh. But he did not have the faith to
22:10trust in the way in the power in the
22:14will of the father. He did not have the
22:16relationship with aba father that Jesus
22:20had. So Jesus says to those arresting
22:23him, "Have you come out with swords and
22:26clubs to arrest me as you would against
22:28a robber?
22:30Every day I was with you in the temple
22:33teaching and you did not seize me. But
22:36this has taken place to fulfill the
22:38scriptures.
22:41And they all left him and fled.
22:44The disciples. They fled.
22:49A young man was following him wearing
22:52nothing but a linen sheet over his naked
22:54body. And they seized him. But he pulled
22:59free of the linen sheet and escaped
23:01naked.
23:03Some people think that was Mark because
23:06it doesn't appear in any of the other
23:07stories.
23:09So, it may have been Mark as a young boy
23:12following along. And it just shows how
23:15terrified everybody was.
23:18He would rather run away naked
23:21than be caught with the Lord as alone
23:25he's marched away under arrest.
23:30They led Jesus away to the high priests
23:33and the chief priests and the elders and
23:36the scribes gathered together. Peter
23:39followed him at a distance
23:43right into the courtyard of the high
23:45priest and he was sitting with the
23:47officers and warming himself at the
23:49fire.
23:51Peter can't give up. He's promised that
23:54he's going to stay with him and his
23:56loyalty pushes him to to follow. He gets
23:59all the way into the courtyard of
24:01Caiaphas.
24:04Now, the chief priests and the whole
24:05council kept trying to obtain testimony
24:08against Jesus to put him to death, and
24:11they were not finding any.
24:14They're trying to get people to testify
24:16against him so that they can charge him
24:18on the testimony of multiple witnesses,
24:21[snorts] but they could not find any.
24:23For many were giving false testimony
24:25against him, but their testimony was not
24:27consistent.
24:30Some stood up and began to give false
24:32testimony against him, saying, "We heard
24:34him say, I will destroy this temple made
24:37with hands, and in 3 days I will build
24:39another made without hands."
24:43Not even in this respect was their
24:45testimony consistent.
24:47Do you recognize what they're saying?
24:50Like all liars and slanderers, they are
24:53saying something that has a ring
24:57of truth to it.
24:59because he said you will destroy this
25:02temple and in three days I will build it
25:05back and he was speaking about his own
25:08body. John says he did not say I will
25:12destroy this temple but this is how
25:16liars twist the truth
25:19so that the unscrupulous or the naive
25:22and the ignorant can say yeah I think I
25:25remember that that's what was said. No,
25:27that is not at all what was said. Those
25:30words were used, but you have scrambled
25:32them up into a lie.
25:36The high priest stood up and came
25:38forward and questioned Jesus, saying,
25:41"Do you not answer?
25:44What is it that these men are testifying
25:46against you?" So, they're all telling
25:49their lies, and he's not answering.
25:52He's not even saying a word. He's
25:54letting them contradict themselves.
25:57And the high priest is angry that Jesus
26:00is not stirred and riled up by the false
26:03accusation.
26:05So he says, "Do you not answer?
26:08What is this that they're saying against
26:09you?" But he kept silent and did not
26:12answer. Again, the high priest was
26:14questioning him and saying to him, "Are
26:17you
26:19the Christ?
26:23Are you the Messiah?
26:26the son of the blessed one.
26:31And Jesus said, "I am, and you shall see
26:35the son of man sitting at the right hand
26:37of power and coming with the clouds of
26:40heaven."
26:44The chief priest is putting him under
26:45oath. He's forcing him to speak. And
26:49Jesus acknowledges.
26:52Tearing his clothes, the high priest
26:55said, "What further need do we have of
26:58witnesses?
27:00You have heard the blasphemy.
27:04How does it seem to you?" And they all
27:07condemned him to be deserving of death
27:13because he claimed to be the son of God.
27:16Because he claimed to be
27:20the one, the son of the blessed one, the
27:23Messiah, the anointed one.
27:27Some began to spit at him and to
27:31blindfold him and to beat him with their
27:34fists and to say to him, "Prophesy."
27:39And the officers received him with slaps
27:43in the face.
27:47You see, Jesus was in the garden praying
27:51until he sweat great drops of blood. And
27:55what he was praying for was the grace to
27:57not enter into temptation.
28:01And this shows him
28:04avoiding that temptation.
28:07He does not respond in the way his
28:11enemies predicted.
28:14He does not defend himself.
28:17He is not afraid.
28:19He does not punch back.
28:23He does not spit back.
28:27He is not the puppet on the strings of
28:31their intimidation.
28:34He is completely under the power of of
28:39his father.
28:42As Peter was below in the courtyard, one
28:45of the servant girls of the high priest
28:47came and seeing Peter warming himself,
28:51she looked at him and said, "You were
28:54also with Jesus the Nazarene."
28:58But he denied it,
29:01saying, "I neither know nor understand
29:05what you are talking about. The threat
29:08here is association. [clears throat]
29:11Is Peter going to be associated
29:14with the mocked, with the ridiculed,
29:18with the hated and rejected and
29:21condemned Christ.
29:23He doesn't want to be connected.
29:26And she's trying to connect him. I think
29:28you belong with him. And he doesn't want
29:31anything to do with it.
29:35I neither know nor understand what you
29:37are talking about.
29:41And he went out into the porch. The
29:44servant girl saw him and began once more
29:47to say to the bystanders, "This is one
29:50of them."
29:53But again he denied it.
29:56And after a little while the bystanders
29:58were again saying to Peter, "Surely you
30:01are one of them. You are a Galilean too.
30:05But he began to curse and swear, I do
30:08not know this man.
30:12I do not know this man you are talking
30:15about.
30:17Immediately a rooster crowed a second
30:20time.
30:22And Peter remembered how Jesus had made
30:25the remark to him, "Before a rooster
30:28crows twice, you will deny me three
30:30times."
30:32And he began to weep.
30:38I've been to Caiaphas's house.
30:41I've seen the hole in the rock where
30:45they would lower the prisoners down.
30:48I've seen the the cells
30:51with the holes in the rock where they
30:54would tie the prisoner with his hands
30:57spread out and his feet spread out and
31:00beat him with a whip called the cat of
31:03nine tales.
31:05I've seen the very place where Jesus was
31:09arrested and held overnight. And I
31:12remember
31:14coming out of that place and imagining
31:18his hands and wrists tied in those
31:22in those positions.
31:25And we came out on the porch on the
31:28patio outside Caiaphas's house.
31:31And as we stood there, there was a
31:34plaque. And I said to our companions, I
31:37said, "This is the place where Peter
31:40denied Jesus." And right at [music] that
31:43moment, the rooster crowed. An actual
31:46rooster down in the valley crowed.
31:51And you know, roosters crow all the
31:52time. There was nothing special about
31:55that. But sometimes very ordinary events
31:59take on very extraordinary impact and
32:02meaning when God has pointed to them as
32:06markers of a change that is taking place
32:09in you.
32:12Jesus was not going to be disappointed
32:15by Peter's betrayal because he loved
32:18Peter and he knew that he was [music]
32:20too weak to be faithful.
32:24But he wanted Peter to know that.
32:28And when Peter learned not to trust in
32:30himself, that was actually progress.
32:34That was actually a step of repentance
32:38that would make way for Peter to receive
32:40a new and greater outpouring of power on
32:44the day of Pentecost. One day, the man
32:47who cowed and denied the Lord before a
32:51servant girl would stand before a
32:53multitude and acknowledge that he
32:56belonged with them, with Jesus.
32:59But he didn't have that power yet. And
33:02so when the rooster crows, he goes out
33:05and he begins to weep.
33:10The literal says,
33:12"When he remembered this,
33:15rushing out, he began weeping."
33:19When the rooster crowed, Peter is
33:21rushing from the courtyard, sobbing and
33:24weeping. Oh God, who am I? What is wrong
33:29with me? Why can I not live up to my
33:33commitments? Why have I betrayed you?
33:38And this is an agony, but it's also the
33:41beginning of hope. Because as confidence
33:45collapses [music] in himself, confidence
33:48can be born in Christ Jesus. [music]

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