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

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Speaker 1: grow and flourish beautifully in my life in Jesus name. Amen,

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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 dot COM's podcast Heroes in the Bible.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm doc 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 fane, family and friends so

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: love for his children, and a hero's triumph over death

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

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Speaker 2: This episode takes us high and low. We will crawl

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Speaker 2: end both fearful and hopeful at the same time. This

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Speaker 2: as a mirror. Allow the actions of Judas to jar

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Speaker 2: with the Prelude, a story captured from another time in space.

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Speaker 2: We will be taken back to Egypt, where Moses pleaded

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Speaker 7: with their forefathers.

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Speaker 3: They broke that covenant.

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Speaker 8: For this is the covenant that I will make with

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Speaker 8: my children. I will plant my law within them, and

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Speaker 8: I will write it on their hearts.

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Speaker 7: And I will be their God, and they shall be

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Speaker 7: 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

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Speaker 6: father's kingdom.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 3: 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 Lifelio. 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 I

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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 take

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Speaker 2: and drink of it, Jesus said, and handed the cup

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Speaker 2: to his disciples. This phrase, this is my covenant, taking

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Speaker 2: drink of it was a Semitic idiom used for marriage proposals.

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

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Speaker 2: go to his father and request an audience with the

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Speaker 2: woman's family. The two families would gather and discuss a

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Speaker 2: bride price. The bride price was not a dowry or

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

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Speaker 2: a chance to propose to the woman so she could

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Speaker 2: say yes or no. With the families gathered together, the

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Speaker 2: man would pour a cup of wine and hand it

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Speaker 2: to the woman and say, this is my covenant, take

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Speaker 2: and drink from it. In other words, he was asking

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Speaker 2: her will you marry me, And if the woman took

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Speaker 2: a sip from the cup, she was essentially saying yes,

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Speaker 2: I will marry you. From that point forward, the woman

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Speaker 2: referred to as one who was bought with a price.

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Speaker 2: The man would leave her for a while to build

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Speaker 2: a home, which was called a mansion. The best man

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Speaker 2: would be the one to relay messages back and forth

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Speaker 2: while the woman got herself ready anticipating the day, the

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Speaker 2: trumpets sounded so she could be brought to the groom

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Speaker 2: when the father dean the mansion ready, and only when

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Speaker 2: the father deaned, the groom would be allowed to retrieve

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Speaker 2: his bride and they would have a feast and celebrate

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Speaker 2: their union together. Do you see the parallels? Scripture refers

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Speaker 2: to Jesus as the groom and us as the bride.

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Speaker 2: He offers us the cup of his covenant through his sacrifice,

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Speaker 2: the bride price was his life. By putting our faith

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Speaker 2: in him, we say yes. Jesus communicates to us through

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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, his best man, and when God the

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Speaker 2: Father deems heaven fit for us, Jesus will return with

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Speaker 2: trumpets to retrieve us. Communion is far more than a

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Speaker 2: tradition when we remember Jesus's sacrifice. Communion is a continual

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Speaker 2: practice of remembering the promises exchanged between Us and Jesus.

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Speaker 2: I pray this story inspired you to see your relationship

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Speaker 2: with God in a whole new light. As we continue,

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Speaker 2: May we be continually contemplating Christ's sacrifice and love for us.

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Speaker 2: In our next episode, the brutality of Christ's death begins.

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Speaker 2: Yet even in the trial, beating in mockery We never

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Speaker 2: get the sense that Jesus is a victim. He is

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Speaker 2: a conquering hero. He is a devoted groom doing whatever

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Speaker 2: it takes to retrieve his bride. Join us next time

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Speaker 2: for episode seventeen, God on Trial. Thanks again for listening.

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