00:00:00Why The Cross Matters Year Round
00:03:12Mark 15 Begins At The Trial
00:09:07The Empty Tomb And First Witnesses
00:11:42Bought With Blood So Live Differently
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We finish the Gospel of Mark by sitting with the brutality of the cross and the shock of the empty tomb, even when it’s nowhere near Easter. I push past abstract belief and ask what it means to live like we’re truly bought by Jesus’ sacrifice and resurrection power.
• why the crucifixion and resurrection should not feel seasonal
• Jesus’ willing surrender as God’s plan rather than a trap
• Mark 15 details from Pilate to Barabbas to the mocking soldiers
• the tearing of the temple curtain and the centurion’s confession
• Mark 16 at the tomb, fear, testimony, and disbelief
• the call to go and proclaim and what belief demands of daily life
• answering the objection that the sacrifice was easier because Jesus would rise
• the deeper cost of leaving heaven to become human for us
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Welcome to the Out Loud Bible Podcast.
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This is Mike.
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If you've been with me for the past several episodes, you'll know we've been going through the Book of Mark, and we're already at the end.
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This is the last episode of this run-through of the Book of Mark.
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It's gone pretty quickly, but that I mean that is what the book does.
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This is the shortest gospel, the shortest biography of Jesus, but uh no less powerful.
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Mark really focuses on what Jesus did, and arguably the most important thing Jesus did was to give his life and to raise it up again.
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And that is what we cover today in Mark 15 and 16.
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I know these readings are often reserved for, you know, like Easter, Good Friday, and Easter.
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Uh, and likely when you're listening to this episode, it's not that time.
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And so it feels a little out of place sometimes, doesn't it?
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Why is that?
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Why do we feel a little, I don't know, uncomfortable or foreign reading Jesus' death and resurrection in some random, you know, weekday in September?
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This is the story we should be reminding ourselves of regularly, not just once a year.
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So as we read through this, I hope it's not just a downer, because I mean this is something worth celebrating.
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Uh we can celebrate his death, not because we're morbid, but because we know that that death is what made it possible for us to be right with God, which is totally worth celebrating and give him all the praise and glory for.
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And we know that he raises again.
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And uh and that death did not have the final say in his life, so it can't have the final say in our life.
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That's awesome.
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Uh, but let's sit with the gravity of the situation, you know, and and remind ourselves of of the atrocities that Jesus went through, that he willingly went through.
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Remember, I mentioned the last episode that Jesus laid his life down willingly.
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He said that of himself.
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And uh he was not the victim here.
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He uh he was not walking into anyone's trap.
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They were walking into God's plan.
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They didn't know it.
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If they had known, they probably wouldn't have done it.
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So they didn't know.
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And God accomplished what he wanted to accomplish.
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Jesus displayed the ultimate selflessness, the ultimate act of a servant to do what he did.
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And this reading, this passage should drive us to gratitude and should change our lives, not just, you know, one time being saved.
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This should change the way we go about our life, day in, day out.
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So let's take this time to remind ourselves what Jesus has done for us.
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Give him the praise and honor and glory for that, and not just say praise and honor and glory, but actually live a life that brings him glory and honor, the life that he allows us to live and is even possible based on what he did.
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Let's check it out.
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Mark 15 and 16 in the New English Translation.
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Well, early in the morning, after forming a plan, the chief priests, with the elders and the experts in the law and the whole Sanhedrin, tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
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So Pilate asked him, Are you the king of the Jews?
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He replied, You say so.
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Well then the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly, so Pilate asked him again, have you nothing to say?
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See how many charges they're bringing against you?
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But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.
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Well, during the feast it was customary to release one prisoner to the people, whomever they requested.
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A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.
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Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom, so Pilate asked them, Do you want me to release this king of the Jews for you?
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For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.
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But the chief priest stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.
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So Pilate spoke to them again.
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Then what do you want me to do with the one you call King of the Jews?
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They shouted back crucify him.
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Pilate asked them why, what has he done wrong?
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But they shouted more insistently, crucify him, and because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them.
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Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.
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So, the soldiers led him into the palace, that is, the governor's residence, and called together the whole cohort, and they put a purple cloak on him, and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him, and they began to salute him.
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Hail, King of the Jews.
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Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him, and they knelt down and paid homage to him.
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When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him, and then they led him away to crucify him.
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The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country.
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He was a father of Alexander and Rufus.
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By the way, what who is Alexander and Rufus?
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We don't know, but the people who were hearing the story first would have known, just placing this as a real situation with real people in a real context.
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We can trust that.
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Well, they brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which is translated place of the skull.
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They offered him wine, mixed with myrrh, but he didn't take it.
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And then they crucified him, and divided his clothes, throwing dice for them to decide what each would take.
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It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him, and the inscription of the charge against him read The King of the Jews.
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And they crucified two outlaws with him, one on his right and one on his left, and those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, Ah, you who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself.
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Come down from the cross.
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In the same way, even the chief priests, together with the experts in the law, were mocking him among themselves.
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He saved others, but he cannot save himself.
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Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now that we may see and believe.
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Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
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And now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, and around three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eli Eli, I'm a Sabakfani, which means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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And when one of the bystanders heard it, they said, Well, listen, he's calling for Elijah.
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Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, Leave him alone.
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Let's see if Elijah will come to take him down.
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But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.
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And the temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom.
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Now when the centurion who stood in front of him saw how he died, he said, Truly this man was God's son.
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There were also women watching from a distance, among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James the Younger and of Joseph, and Salome.
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When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support, and many other women who had come up to Jerusalem were there too.
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Now when evening had come, since it was the day of preparation, that is the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded member of the council, who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
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Pilate was surprised that he was already dead.
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He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.
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When Pilate was informed by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
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After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock.
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Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.
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Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph, saw where the body was placed.
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When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices so that they may go and anoint him, and very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise they went to the tomb, and they had been asking each other who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb.
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But when they looked up, they saw that the stone which was very large had been rolled back.
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Then as they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
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But he said to them, Don't be alarmed.
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You're looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified.
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He's been raised.
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He's not here.
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Look, there's the place where they laid him.
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But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he's going ahead of you into Galilee.
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You'll see him there just as he told you.
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And then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
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Early on the first day of the week after he arose he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons, and she went out and told those who were with him while they were mourning and weeping.
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And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they didn't believe.
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After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on the way to the country, and they went back and told the rest, but they didn't believe them, and then he appeared to the eleven themselves while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him resurrected.
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He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
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The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who doesn't believe will be condemned.
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And these signs will accompany those who believe.
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In my name they will drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages, they'll pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink won't harm them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll be well.
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After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
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They went out and proclaimed everywhere while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.
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And that is the end of the book of Mark.
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Well, Jesus came and did what he needed to do.
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Are you and I doing what we need to do?
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If we believe this, if we believe Mark to be a reliable account based on eyewitness testimonies just like the disciples had eyewitness testimonies that Jesus raised from the dead, but frankly they didn't believe it, and it's kind of easy for us to not really believe it, too, being two thousand years removed.
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But if we do really believe this, then we have to believe that he bought us with his blood, with his death, purchased us.
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We're his now.
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And so our life is not our own.
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We don't get to just live how we want.
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No one's truly free.
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You're either a slave to sin or a slave to Jesus.
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Pick your master.
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But what we read today should compel us to live all the more as a slave for Jesus based on what he did.
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Serving him with eager hearts and willing hearts, not out of compulsion, but as a life of gratitude for his sacrifice.
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Some people will say, well, how much of a sacrifice was it really if he knew that he was gonna rise from the dead again?
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Have you thought about that?
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Was it really a sacrifice if he's God and he was he knew he was gonna rise again?
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Like death wasn't gonna be the end for him.
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How much of a sacrifice was it?
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I've heard that.
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And yes, while we can take a look at the circumstances of his life on earth, like I mean, he lived in relative obscurity.
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He developed a few close friends, one of them betrayed him.
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Then he was beaten, he was mocked, he was killed, he faced resistance his entire ministry, and it just culminated into this absolute just mockery of a trial and brutal execution.
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I mean, that is that is sacrifice, but I don't think that was even the greatest sacrifice.
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Bear with me.
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Because after our reading today, we read that Jesus, after all these things, he rose back to heaven and sat right back down on the right hand of the throne of God.
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That's where he belongs.
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That's where he was before coming to earth, with all the comforts of heaven, with all the privileges and power and authority of being God in heaven.
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I think the biggest sacrifice is that he gave all of that up to become human in the first place.
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He gave up all of the privileges of heaven to become like us because he loved us so much.
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He wanted to be with us and walk with us.
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Show us the Father.
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And what did we give him in return?
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Death penalty.
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To say, well, he knew he was going to rise from the dead, how much of a sacrifice was it really?
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I think demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of how much he gave up for us in the first place to come down from his throne in heaven.
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He didn't need to do that.
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To become one of us, and then to go through all the things that we put him through.
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For his unconditional, completely selfless love to be met with mockery and persecution, betrayal, denial, brutality, for his last moments to be strung up alongside two criminals as one of them, and to be taunted.
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Well, you you the son of God, why don't you save yourself?
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He could have, but he didn't.
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Talk about restraint and self-sacrifice.
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He could have been thinking about how nice and comfy his throne next to God is up in heaven, but he was thinking about you and me.
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Come on.
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Talk about sacrifice.
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Gee whiz.
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Praise Jesus for his sacrifice.
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We're his now.
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Let's go live like it.
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That's the thinking out loud.
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Thought for the day.
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Thanks for joining me here in the book of Mark.
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I hope it's been a blessing to you.
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And we'll see you next time on the Out Loud Bible Podcast.
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Welcome to the Out Loud Bible Podcast.
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This is Mike.
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If you've been with me for the past several episodes, you'll know we've been going through the Book of Mark, and we're already at the end.
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This is the last episode of this run-through of the Book of Mark.
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It's gone pretty quickly, but that I mean that is what the book does.
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This is the shortest gospel, the shortest biography of Jesus, but uh no less powerful.
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Mark really focuses on what Jesus did, and arguably the most important thing Jesus did was to give his life and to raise it up again.
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And that is what we cover today in Mark 15 and 16.
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I know these readings are often reserved for, you know, like Easter, Good Friday, and Easter.
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Uh, and likely when you're listening to this episode, it's not that time.
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And so it feels a little out of place sometimes, doesn't it?
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Why is that?
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Why do we feel a little, I don't know, uncomfortable or foreign reading Jesus' death and resurrection in some random, you know, weekday in September?
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This is the story we should be reminding ourselves of regularly, not just once a year.
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So as we read through this, I hope it's not just a downer, because I mean this is something worth celebrating.
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Uh we can celebrate his death, not because we're morbid, but because we know that that death is what made it possible for us to be right with God, which is totally worth celebrating and give him all the praise and glory for.
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And we know that he raises again.
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And uh and that death did not have the final say in his life, so it can't have the final say in our life.
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That's awesome.
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Uh, but let's sit with the gravity of the situation, you know, and and remind ourselves of of the atrocities that Jesus went through, that he willingly went through.
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Remember, I mentioned the last episode that Jesus laid his life down willingly.
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He said that of himself.
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And uh he was not the victim here.
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He uh he was not walking into anyone's trap.
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They were walking into God's plan.
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They didn't know it.
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If they had known, they probably wouldn't have done it.
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So they didn't know.
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And God accomplished what he wanted to accomplish.
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Jesus displayed the ultimate selflessness, the ultimate act of a servant to do what he did.
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And this reading, this passage should drive us to gratitude and should change our lives, not just, you know, one time being saved.
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This should change the way we go about our life, day in, day out.
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So let's take this time to remind ourselves what Jesus has done for us.
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Give him the praise and honor and glory for that, and not just say praise and honor and glory, but actually live a life that brings him glory and honor, the life that he allows us to live and is even possible based on what he did.
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Let's check it out.
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Mark 15 and 16 in the New English Translation.
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Well, early in the morning, after forming a plan, the chief priests, with the elders and the experts in the law and the whole Sanhedrin, tied Jesus up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.
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So Pilate asked him, Are you the king of the Jews?
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He replied, You say so.
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Well then the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly, so Pilate asked him again, have you nothing to say?
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See how many charges they're bringing against you?
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But Jesus made no further reply, so that Pilate was amazed.
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Well, during the feast it was customary to release one prisoner to the people, whomever they requested.
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A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.
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Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom, so Pilate asked them, Do you want me to release this king of the Jews for you?
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For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.
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But the chief priest stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.
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So Pilate spoke to them again.
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Then what do you want me to do with the one you call King of the Jews?
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They shouted back crucify him.
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Pilate asked them why, what has he done wrong?
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But they shouted more insistently, crucify him, and because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them.
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Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.
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So, the soldiers led him into the palace, that is, the governor's residence, and called together the whole cohort, and they put a purple cloak on him, and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him, and they began to salute him.
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Hail, King of the Jews.
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Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him, and they knelt down and paid homage to him.
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When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him, and then they led him away to crucify him.
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The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country.
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He was a father of Alexander and Rufus.
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By the way, what who is Alexander and Rufus?
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We don't know, but the people who were hearing the story first would have known, just placing this as a real situation with real people in a real context.
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We can trust that.
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Well, they brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha, which is translated place of the skull.
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They offered him wine, mixed with myrrh, but he didn't take it.
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And then they crucified him, and divided his clothes, throwing dice for them to decide what each would take.
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It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him, and the inscription of the charge against him read The King of the Jews.
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And they crucified two outlaws with him, one on his right and one on his left, and those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads and saying, Ah, you who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself.
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Come down from the cross.
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In the same way, even the chief priests, together with the experts in the law, were mocking him among themselves.
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He saved others, but he cannot save himself.
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Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now that we may see and believe.
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Those who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.
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And now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, and around three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eli Eli, I'm a Sabakfani, which means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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And when one of the bystanders heard it, they said, Well, listen, he's calling for Elijah.
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Then someone ran, filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to drink, saying, Leave him alone.
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Let's see if Elijah will come to take him down.
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But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.
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And the temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom.
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Now when the centurion who stood in front of him saw how he died, he said, Truly this man was God's son.
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There were also women watching from a distance, among them were Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James the Younger and of Joseph, and Salome.
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When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support, and many other women who had come up to Jerusalem were there too.
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Now when evening had come, since it was the day of preparation, that is the day before the Sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a highly regarded member of the council, who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
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Pilate was surprised that he was already dead.
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He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.
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When Pilate was informed by the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.
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After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock.
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Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.
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Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joseph, saw where the body was placed.
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When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, bought aromatic spices so that they may go and anoint him, and very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise they went to the tomb, and they had been asking each other who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb.
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But when they looked up, they saw that the stone which was very large had been rolled back.
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Then as they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
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But he said to them, Don't be alarmed.
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You're looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified.
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He's been raised.
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He's not here.
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Look, there's the place where they laid him.
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But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he's going ahead of you into Galilee.
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You'll see him there just as he told you.
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And then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
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Early on the first day of the week after he arose he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons, and she went out and told those who were with him while they were mourning and weeping.
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And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they didn't believe.
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After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on the way to the country, and they went back and told the rest, but they didn't believe them, and then he appeared to the eleven themselves while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him resurrected.
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He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
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The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who doesn't believe will be condemned.
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And these signs will accompany those who believe.
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In my name they will drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages, they'll pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink won't harm them, and they'll place their hands on the sick, and they'll be well.
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After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
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They went out and proclaimed everywhere while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.
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And that is the end of the book of Mark.
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Well, Jesus came and did what he needed to do.
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Are you and I doing what we need to do?
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If we believe this, if we believe Mark to be a reliable account based on eyewitness testimonies just like the disciples had eyewitness testimonies that Jesus raised from the dead, but frankly they didn't believe it, and it's kind of easy for us to not really believe it, too, being two thousand years removed.
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But if we do really believe this, then we have to believe that he bought us with his blood, with his death, purchased us.
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We're his now.
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And so our life is not our own.
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We don't get to just live how we want.
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No one's truly free.
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You're either a slave to sin or a slave to Jesus.
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Pick your master.
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But what we read today should compel us to live all the more as a slave for Jesus based on what he did.
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Serving him with eager hearts and willing hearts, not out of compulsion, but as a life of gratitude for his sacrifice.
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Some people will say, well, how much of a sacrifice was it really if he knew that he was gonna rise from the dead again?
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Have you thought about that?
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Was it really a sacrifice if he's God and he was he knew he was gonna rise again?
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Like death wasn't gonna be the end for him.
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How much of a sacrifice was it?
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I've heard that.
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And yes, while we can take a look at the circumstances of his life on earth, like I mean, he lived in relative obscurity.
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He developed a few close friends, one of them betrayed him.
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Then he was beaten, he was mocked, he was killed, he faced resistance his entire ministry, and it just culminated into this absolute just mockery of a trial and brutal execution.
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I mean, that is that is sacrifice, but I don't think that was even the greatest sacrifice.
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Bear with me.
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Because after our reading today, we read that Jesus, after all these things, he rose back to heaven and sat right back down on the right hand of the throne of God.
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That's where he belongs.
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That's where he was before coming to earth, with all the comforts of heaven, with all the privileges and power and authority of being God in heaven.
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I think the biggest sacrifice is that he gave all of that up to become human in the first place.
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He gave up all of the privileges of heaven to become like us because he loved us so much.
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He wanted to be with us and walk with us.
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Show us the Father.
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And what did we give him in return?
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Death penalty.
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To say, well, he knew he was going to rise from the dead, how much of a sacrifice was it really?
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I think demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of how much he gave up for us in the first place to come down from his throne in heaven.
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He didn't need to do that.
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To become one of us, and then to go through all the things that we put him through.
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For his unconditional, completely selfless love to be met with mockery and persecution, betrayal, denial, brutality, for his last moments to be strung up alongside two criminals as one of them, and to be taunted.
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Well, you you the son of God, why don't you save yourself?
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He could have, but he didn't.
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Talk about restraint and self-sacrifice.
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He could have been thinking about how nice and comfy his throne next to God is up in heaven, but he was thinking about you and me.
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Come on.
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Talk about sacrifice.
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Gee whiz.
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Praise Jesus for his sacrifice.
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We're his now.
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Let's go live like it.
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That's the thinking out loud.
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Thought for the day.
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Thanks for joining me here in the book of Mark.
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I hope it's been a blessing to you.
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And we'll see you next time on the Out Loud Bible Podcast.
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