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Speaker 1: that loving and leading others is what legacy is all about.

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Speaker 1: Your passover will not pass over my heart, but will

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Speaker 1: stay tuned to immerse yourself in the Greatest Stories Ever Told.

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Speaker 1: From pray do dot COM's podcast Heroes in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm back to Tony Evans, your host for Heroes

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Speaker 2: in the Bible Jesus. If you've enjoyed this podcast so far,

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Speaker 2: please share it with your family and friends so that

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Speaker 2: they can know Jesus Christ in a personal way. Because

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Speaker 2: knowing Jesus is the key to understanding the Bible. Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the greatest story ever told. It is a story

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Speaker 2: of a shepherd's heart for his sheep, a father's love

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Speaker 2: This is a story that continues to shape and mold

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Speaker 2: the world around us, bringing the divine heart of God

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Speaker 2: right into the hearts of you and me. This episode

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Speaker 2: takes us high and low. We will crawl into deep

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Speaker 2: ask the question, am I capable of that same sin?

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Speaker 2: We will begin this story with the prelude, a story

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Speaker 2: captured from another time in space. We will be taken

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Speaker 2: back to Egypt, where Moses pleaded with Pharaoh to let

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Speaker 2: a booking of sords. The first passover Lamb pointed toward

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to go through this episode with you.

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Speaker 2: Here is episode sixteen, the Last Supper.

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Speaker 3: Prelude to chapter sixteen. Listen, Moses said, banging on the

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Speaker 3: Andrew said, climbing up a few stones. Jesus smiled and

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Speaker 3: of this new covenant when he.

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Speaker 7: Said, behold, the days are coming when I will make

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Speaker 7: a new covenant with the people of Israel. It will

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Speaker 7: not be like the covenant that I made with their forefathers.

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Speaker 3: They broke that covenant.

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Speaker 7: For this is the covenant that I will make with

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Speaker 7: my children. I will plant my law within them, and

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Speaker 7: I will write it on their hearts, and I will

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Speaker 7: be their God, and they shall be my people.

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Speaker 3: The cup of wine passed along the table.

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Speaker 6: This is my blood that is shed for you eat

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Speaker 6: and drink in remembrance of me. However, I will not

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Speaker 6: drink until the day I am with you. In my father's.

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Speaker 3: Kingdom, Jesus had instituted a sacred tradition, one that would

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Speaker 3: stretch as far as the Passover itself. Hundreds, then thousands,

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Speaker 3: then millions of people would gather around the world to

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Speaker 3: eat bread and drink wine in remembrance of Jesus's body

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Speaker 3: being broken and blood being shed. For the remission of sins.

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Speaker 3: It would be a symbol of the new covenant, a

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Speaker 3: covenant written in blood. After saying these things, Jesus rose

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Speaker 3: to his feet. He began to sing, leading the disciples

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Speaker 3: in an ancient hymn. His voice was low and methodic.

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Speaker 3: The disciples joined in, as did the angels in heaven.

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Speaker 3: Outside the storm clouds circled in the skies. They raged

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Speaker 3: like caged beasts. Jesus set his gaze to the Mount

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Speaker 3: of Olives. He and his disciples hiked up the mountain

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Speaker 3: to pray. The olive trees whisped gently to the wind.

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Speaker 3: Not too far behind them, Judas lurked behind the trees

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Speaker 3: with a hundred armed guards. Death was awaiting the Lamb

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Speaker 3: of God.

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Speaker 2: The Bible is more than just a set of rules

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Speaker 2: or moral codes. It isn't a history book or a

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Speaker 2: collection of Hebrew fables. The Bible is an interwoven story,

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Speaker 2: ultimately building up to the work and words of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: The prelude to this story is the ultimate example of

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Speaker 2: that concept. The blood of the Lamb protected people from

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Speaker 2: the judgment of God in the same way Jesus is

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Speaker 2: our passover lamb. His blood covers Us from the judgment

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Speaker 2: of God. This episode and the others leading up to

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Speaker 2: the crucifixion will take place during Passover. It is not

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Speaker 2: only poetic, but providential that the lamb would be slain

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Speaker 2: on Passover. The entire system of sacrifice, cleansing, and ceremony

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Speaker 2: and the Old Testament was pointing to Jesus. He is

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Speaker 2: our ultimate sacrifice. He washes us clean. It is him

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Speaker 2: we celebrate. The episode began with betrayal. Judas, one of

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Speaker 2: the Chosen twelve Disciples, set his heart on betraying Jesus.

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Speaker 2: The last few episodes teased that this would happened, dropping

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Speaker 2: hints that Judas's loyalty was on shaky ground. In our

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Speaker 2: last episode, when Jesus was confronting the priest, we got

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Speaker 2: a hint They needed to wait for the perfect moment

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Speaker 2: to strike. They pursued the group of disciples, following closely

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Speaker 2: behind Jesus. One of them met their eyes with a

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Speaker 2: look of curiosity. Jesus met their gaze, then they turned

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Speaker 2: back to Jesus. The high priest Caiaphas, tilted his head

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Speaker 2: and smirked. Perhaps he had found a chink in the armor.

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Speaker 2: We were also given a hint in episode fourteen, when

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Speaker 2: Mary was anointing Jesus with expensive ointment, Mary the sister

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Speaker 2: of Lazarus, came with an alabaster flax of spikenard and

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Speaker 2: expensive ointment. No doubt, it was her life savings and

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Speaker 2: the only financial security she had, Yet she was content

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Speaker 2: to adorn Jesus with it. She poured out the flask

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Speaker 2: and it spilled onto his hair and feet. The fragrance

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Speaker 2: filled the room. It was an ointment used for burial.

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Speaker 2: Judas watched from the corner of his room. What is

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Speaker 2: she doing? He shouted. His outburst caught the attention of everyone.

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Speaker 2: That is expensive ointment. Why not sell it and give

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Speaker 2: the money to the poor. Judas was in charge of

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Speaker 2: the money bag and would often help himself to whatever

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Speaker 2: was put into it. His outcry to sell the ointment

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Speaker 2: was not out of altruism but greed. Leave her alone,

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Speaker 2: Jesus said, see that she keeps the rest for my burial,

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Speaker 2: for you will always have the poor. But my time

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Speaker 2: here is almost done, Jesus saw through the heart of Judas.

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Speaker 2: Mary was willing to lay down her livelihood to glorify Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Yet Judas, even with all the exposure to the acts

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Speaker 2: of Jesus was gripped by the love of money in

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Speaker 2: a moment of weakness. He would soon learn just how

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Speaker 2: much damage the love of money can do to a man.

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Speaker 2: I want to draw a contrast between Judas and Mary.

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Speaker 2: Mary thought Jesus was worth sacrificing everything for, while Judas

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Speaker 2: thought Jesus was worth sacrificing. To marry Jesus was worth

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Speaker 2: her lifelihood. To Judas, Jesus was worth thirty pieces of silver.

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Speaker 2: Many people scarf at the weakness of Judas, But may

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Speaker 2: I offer up a different perspective. It is possible that

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Speaker 2: you and I have sold Jesus out for far less

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Speaker 2: than thirty pieces of silver. Think about how often you

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Speaker 2: and I have chosen cheap materialism or popularity over Christ.

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Speaker 2: If it was truly our sin that nailed Jesus to

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Speaker 2: the cross, then there are some pretty cheap sins that

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Speaker 2: sold him out for. I don't say this as a condemnation,

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Speaker 2: but as a shift in perspective. As evil as Judas's

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Speaker 2: act was, we are guilty of the same sins. Praise

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Speaker 2: be to God that he loves us and serves us

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Speaker 2: despite our betrayal. One of the more powerful moments in

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Speaker 2: this episode is when Jesus was washing the feet of

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Speaker 2: his disciples. Foot Washing was nasty business. Back in those days.

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Speaker 2: There were no paved roads and no public cleaning system.

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Speaker 2: The roads were laced with excrement of livestock, dirt, and

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Speaker 2: all sorts of filth. On top of that, everyone wore sandals.

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Speaker 2: You can imagine how dirty feet were back then. It

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Speaker 2: was a dishonorable job to wash feet, so much so

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Speaker 2: that it was a job only for gentile slaves. But

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Speaker 2: there Jesus was cloth wrapped around his waist washing his

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Speaker 2: disciples feet. The dirt and grime from their feet splashed

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Speaker 2: up onto the towel and made Jesus dirty. He wore

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Speaker 2: their filth. This was an image of what he would

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Speaker 2: do on the cross. He would wear our filthiness so

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Speaker 2: that we might wear his righteousness. He even washed the

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Speaker 2: feet of Judas, knowing full well that he would betray him.

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Speaker 2: Jesus still served his enemies, and he called us to

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Speaker 2: do the same. What a beautiful picture of God's love

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Speaker 2: for us. The disciples sat down with Jesus for the

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Speaker 2: Passover meal. They exchanged stories, prayers, and laughter. I wish

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Speaker 2: I could have been there to see Jesus laughing with

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Speaker 2: his disciples. Those pure moments must have been a wonder

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Speaker 2: to see. However, the levity of the evening was pause

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Speaker 2: when Jesus said, truly, I say to you, one of

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Speaker 2: you will betray me. What a jarring thing to say.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the disciples dismayed when Jesus said that,

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Speaker 2: do you know what I love most about this scene?

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Speaker 2: The disciples didn't look around the room and start guessing

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Speaker 2: who was going to betray Jesus. They didn't speculate based

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Speaker 2: on people's faithfulness or judge based on appearance. They turned

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Speaker 2: to themselves and asked, Lord, is it I I love

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Speaker 2: that I love? The purity of that question they all

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Speaker 2: looked inward and saw their own potential for betraying Jesus.

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Speaker 2: This is one of the major themes of this epistle.

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Speaker 2: We are all capable of evil and dependent on God's

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Speaker 2: spirit to guide our hearts into righteousness. Jesus did not

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Speaker 2: hold Judas's temptation against him. We're all flawed people and

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Speaker 2: capable of sin. That's why Jesus gave Judas a choice.

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Speaker 2: He extended the peace of bread to him, and if

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Speaker 2: Judas took it, he would seal his faith. In that moment,

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Speaker 2: Judas could have repented. He could have looked Jesus in

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Speaker 2: the eyes and beg for forgiveness. The pouch filled with

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Speaker 2: silver in his pocket was heavy, like Adam and Eve

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Speaker 2: with the forbidden fruit in the garden. Jesus gave Judas

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Speaker 2: a choice. Would he refuse to eat and live a

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Speaker 2: life with Jesus, or would he take the food and

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Speaker 2: betray his creator. He took the bread, then looked up

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Speaker 2: at Jesus with a trembling hand. He took it from

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Speaker 2: Jesus and ate. We're all given a choice, and Jesus

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Speaker 2: always offers a better path to follow. When the lives

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Speaker 2: of the enemy tempt us, Jesus is there with an

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Speaker 2: outstretched hand, giving us another way. The episode ends with

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Speaker 2: Jesus establishing a covenant with his disciples. He breaks the

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Speaker 2: bread and gives it to them, representing his body that

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Speaker 2: would be broken on their behalf. He then gives them

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Speaker 2: the cup of wine, representing the blood that would be

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Speaker 2: shed for him. Jesus's words have significance here, especially as

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Speaker 2: it pertains to the cup. This is my covenant, taking

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Speaker 2: drink of it, said and handed the cup to his disciples.

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Speaker 2: This phrase, this is my covenant, taking drink of it

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Speaker 2: was a Semitic idiom used for marriage proposals. When a

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Speaker 2: man desired to marry a woman, he would go to

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Speaker 2: his father and request an audience with the woman's family.

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Speaker 2: The two families would gather and discuss a bride price.

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Speaker 2: The bride price was not a dowry or buying the

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Speaker 2: woman like property. The bride price was buying a chance

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Speaker 2: to propose to the woman so she could say yes

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Speaker 2: or no. With the families gathered together, the man would

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Speaker 2: pour a cup of wine and hand it to the

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Speaker 2: woman and say, this is my covenant, Take and drink

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Speaker 2: from it. In other words, he was asking her will

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Speaker 2: you marry me, And if the woman took a sip

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Speaker 2: from the cup, she was essentially saying yes, I will

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Speaker 2: marry you. From that point forward, the woman referred to

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Speaker 2: as one who was bought with a price. The man

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Speaker 2: would leave her for a while to build a home,

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Speaker 2: which was called a mansion. The best man would be

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Speaker 2: the one to relay messages back and forth while the

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Speaker 2: woman got herself ready anticipating the day the trumpets sounded

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Speaker 2: so she could be brought to the groom when the

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Speaker 2: father deemed the mansion ready, and only when the Father

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Speaker 2: deemed the groom would be allowed to retrieve his bride

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Speaker 2: and they would have a feast and celebrate their union together.

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Speaker 2: Do you see the parallels? Scripture refers to Jesus as

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Speaker 2: the groom and us as the bride. He offers us

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Speaker 2: the cup of his covenant through his sacrifice, the bride

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Speaker 2: price was his life. By putting our faith in him,

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Speaker 2: we say yes. Jesus communicates to us through the Holy Spirit,

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Speaker 2: his best man, and when God the Father deems heaven

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Speaker 2: fit for us, Jesus will return with trumpets to retrieve us.

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Speaker 2: Communion is far more than a tradition when we remember

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Speaker 2: Jesus's sacrifice. Communion is a continual practice of remembering the

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Speaker 2: promises exchanged between Us and Jesus. I pray this story

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Speaker 2: inspired you to see your relationship with God in a

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Speaker 2: whole new light. As we continue, may we be continually

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Speaker 2: contemplating Christ's sacrifice and love for us. In our next episode,

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Speaker 2: the brutality of Christ's death begins. Yet even in the

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Speaker 2: trial beating in mockery, we never get the sense that

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Speaker 2: Jesus is a victim. He is a conquering hero. He

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Speaker 2: is a devoted groom doing whatever it takes to retrieve

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Speaker 2: his bride. Join us next time for episode seventeen, God

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Speaker 2: on Trial. Thanks again for listening. For more inspiring stories,

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Speaker 2: pray dot com. And to expand your heroes in the

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Speaker 2: a family member or friend so that they can know

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ in a personal way. You never know how

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