Day 316 (Matthew 27, Mark 15) - Year 6
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Over the next few days, we're reading about the hinge point of history in the foundation of our faith, even though they may be familiar to you. Try not to rush through these readings or gloss over them. Sit with them, if you can.

Today's reading has a lot in common with tomorrow's reading, so today will break up the first half, then tomorrow will tackle the last half as the day breaks. Jesus has been through three religious trials, and the rulers declared him guilty. The next step, if they want to enact the death penalty, is to present him to the roman govener punches pilot, because only the romans can hand down the death penalty.

So he's taken from his religious trials to a civil trial with pilot. The people accuse jesus of claiming to be a king, since that would pose a threat to the roman authorities. In looks account.

They even say jesus had forbidden them to pay their taxes, diseases. But we know that's a alive based on his response to them. In loop twenty, pilot questioned him about being a king. And in Jones account, jesus explains that his kingdom is not of this world, otherwise his followers would be fight, and they aren't. He says he's not there to fight, but to speak truth.

The pilot response to the question that has always been a popular response to the gas, what is truth in loops? Account pilot in's jesus to king heard before proceeding with things IT seems like pilot is trying to find a looper for having to make a judgment because jesus from another jurisdiction, even though his alleged crimes have been committed in jerusalem. So he sends him off taking here at a higher authority, the king and his soldiers tried to wound and shame jesus by putting a purple robe and a crown of thorns on his head, marking his royalty, and sent him back to punches.

Pilot, so now pilot has to make some kind of judgment call. But before jesus was ever brought to pilot for the first time, while he was still being beaten and marked at the high priest house overnight, pilotto wife was asleep in her bed, having a nightmare about jesus. IT was so upsetting that SHE since worked the pilot to leave jesus alone.

Maybe this stream is from god as a means of heping further judgment on pilot when he surrenders jesus to be crucified. Or maybe this dream is from satan, who continues to try to throw the cruise of fiction, because he knows that means his defeat. When pilot returns to the people, he declares jesus innocent, but he offers him an option.

He says, typically, on passed over, we released a prisoner. So should IT be jesus for this guy named barabbas. Barabbas is a convicted balon who committed multiple crimes, including robbery, insurrection and even murder.

And the people choose to release barabbas. If you were with us during the old estimate, you may remember the story of the sacrificial goat in the scapegoat from movida sixteen. One goat is sacrificed as a centre offering, and the other is set into the wilderness.

This is a picture of that story, actually, that was a picture of this story, and it's also a picture of us. We are baraba said three, because Chris was, as the sin offering, the people demand that jesus be crucified. Pilot tries to dodge any responsibility by handing jesus over to the people.

But no matter how dismissive he is, and no matter how many times he watches his hands, s passivity doesn't equal innocence. As the people respond, they accidently speak a truth that is anyone's only hope in matter. Twenty seven, twenty five, they say his blood beyond us.

And on our children, they didn't realize IT, but that is the only hope for any of us that the blood of his sacrifice would cover our, since his willing sacrifice paid for the sense of all guards kids in light of what we know about god's sovereignty, that he's the one who says rulers in their places of authority, like jesus says in john nineteen eleven, then we know god is sovereign. Every trial jesus encounters in every ruler who hands down a verdict, and we also know god a sovereign. Those verdicts that resulted in Chris death, because revelation thirteen eight tells us the cross was the plan even before the world was formed.

But no, god's great attention to detail IT bothered me that there were only six trials. Why not seven? If god lobs numbers and symbolic as medicine seems to, why did these trials stop one short of the number that represents perfection and completion especially it's such an important moment script or doesn't tell us.

But I have a theory. I'm always hesitant to share my thoughts and opinions with you because I don't want to a risk kept anyone think they're scripture. But occasionally I do share them because I think it's important to be curious about the unclear aspects of scripture while holding our conclusions with an open hand.

So let me be clear, this is just a theory and it's not in scripture. And I very well could be wrong. I wonder if after the three religious trials declaiming him guilty and the three civil trials declaring him innocent, the seventh and final verdict is actually the one handed out by god, the father, a firming and approving of the finished work of Chris' on the cross his bill loved son in hume is well pleased.

The perfect complete verdict handed down by the one retired judge, but maybe not. okay. Now, back description while all the trials of jesus are taking place, judis has realised the magnet of what he's done in handing over an innocent man.

He feels like he can't live with the waiter that guilt, so he takes the silver and throws IT back into the temple. The priest take the money and buy a field to serve as a cemetery in juice died by suicide. Matthew tells us juice changed his mind, but the original text Marks is differently than a change of heart.

I've heard this described as worldly sorrow, like in second currency in seventeen IT says, godless sorrow brings repentance that leads to life without regret. But world, this sorrow brings death. World service is different from repentance. World, they sorrow has no hope. And that's where judd's found himself.

My god chat today was all over this text in the humility jesus displays as he submits to the father's plans, as he received the false accusations and the marking, in the rejection of the people who love so much, the people he wept over not long ago. I ate with him in this moment, knowing i've done this to him as much as judice, just as much as pilot, just as much as the crowds, and still he covers me with the blood of his sacrifice. Still he brings me the peace and hope that he promised his followers right before. This all started happening less than twenty four hours ago, and still in always, he is where the joy is.

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