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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Story Becomes Personal 0:00 Father, thank you for the next few moments that we could venture into your word. We just don't want to read the word. We don't want to just read the Bible. We want the Bible to read us, and we honor you0:12 in the next few moments in Jesus name. Chapter to draw.0:23 And the next year, on Wednesday, we will venture in, as pastor Adam has said, into the book of Joshua. We see about the children of Israel and leader Joshua,0:36 possessing the land of Canaan. And so here we are in chapter 15. And again, it's a long chapter and maybe tomorrow or the end of this week, you want to read the entire chapter for your devotions in0:48 the morning or whenever you do that to get the essence of the whole chapter. But I'm gonna just read a few verses today. So would you stand for the reading of God's word? Only 5 verses. We'll start off.1:05 15 and verst 1 through 4. As soon as it was morning having held a meeting with the elders and the host and hidden.1:28 Priests questioned him again. Aren't you going to answer? Look how many things they are accusing you? But Jesus,1:40 but Jesus did not answer. Excuse me. Let we'll stop there. Okay. Let you maybe see it. We'll stop1:52 there. We'll come back and read many, many other You know, I was raised a Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 8 years. Day. You know, I'm familiar with, the Christmas story. I'm2:04 familiar mostly with the Easter story that was told to me. But back then, it was more of someone else's story. Church story. It was2:16 more of their story. But in 19 78, when I gave my heart to Jesus' story. Well, we're about ready to read, which all deals with the last few moments of Jesus'2:27 life, leading to the crucifixion. In 19 78, that became my story. And you might be a person like me that right now, Christianity, faith,2:39 Jesus, and and and the crucifixion is all about someone else's story. It's just simply a historical story. It's simply something, some ritualistic2:51 archive that's talked about, at a certain time of the year. But it's gonna eventually become your story. And I wanna talk about it through 7 principal characters or identities3:03 that we're gonna look at in Mark because every 1 of those is you. And every 1 of those 7 characteristics is me. Lives, we have been 1 of3:14 these 7. So when you read the story of of Mark 15, which deals with all that's taking place with the trial and then3:26 down the Via Della Rosa all the way up to Golgotha. And if you've ever been to Jerusalem, anybody Shalom people here today, people gone to you know what this road looks like. It's very narrow.3:38 It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a It's on a And then Jesus was crucified. And what our challenge is as Christians is that we don't3:49 become so familiar with that story that we yawn and we think that we know it all about it. Amen. Is it what what does this story mean to us? What what does this story mean to you?4:02 That's what it's all about.4:05 What4:05 we're about ready to study over the next few moments. What do we do with this story? Is this story lived out in every day of my life? Does this story drive my marriage? Drive how I work? Drive4:17 how I raise my kids? Drive my lifestyle? If not, it's just a story then. It's just a ritualistic, ritualistic story, and it's not personal. It's someone else's4:28 story. So it's a let's go to the first character that we wanna we wanna look at today. And our and4:40 our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our and our4:46 and our and our and our and our lives. We of being polite. If you ever read the Bible and you always and only identify with the good person in the Bible,4:59 then you probably need to be humbled a little bit and repented. Because I don't always want to identify with the good person in the bible. I want to identify with the bad person in the bible.5:12 Not so much to fall under the guilt or the shame or the condemnation. But I want to learn because it's in the Bible, these people. And so all of us at some time or another are like, and then, and then, and then, and5:24 then, and then, and then, and5:38 you the king of the Jews? And you got a bunch of people on your jobs in society asking the same question. Is Jesus Lord? Is Jesus God? Is5:50 Jesus the Messiah? And yet Jesus is literally standing in front of Punctuous Pilots. And yet Jesus is manifesting his mercy and his goodness on6:01 people's jobs, in their families, and in our nation, but they still are asking this question, is he really king of the Jews? And that's the way6:13 pilots are. I don't know that pilots are really looking for an answer. Are really looking for an answer. I don't know if pilots are literally looking for an answer. Pilots6:25 don't have when when when we deal with pilots, we don't have to respond sometimes to pilots all the time. The story tells us6:37 that pilot asked Jesus a question and Jesus didn't say anything to him the second time.6:54 Your life needs to be talked about. Not everything question in your life needs to be debated. Not every question that's asked of you do you need to give your opinion to. Sometimes7:05 the best virtue is to keep your mouth shut up, and keep your mouth silent. And Jesus doesn't say a word to defend himself. He doesn't get baited into an7:17 argument. And how many times have I been guilty and you've been guilty? When people are not gonna change. I love Jesus.7:30 In all that Jesus is, he isn't gonna answer the fools questions. He's not gonna enter into a debate. May I have that much7:42 wisdom? When I am around pilots who don't really want an answer, who just wanna bait me into a conversation, who just wanna fish for information,7:54 who wanna just conjure up strife. Come on. Somebody knows what I'm talking about today. Keep your mouth shut. Talk to the hand.8:08 I got no opinion. Sorry. And this situation, it doesn't matter. If he's the8:45 So don't get baited into these conversations that are hostile, where people don't really want an answer. And you walk away more frustrated.8:57 Jesus teaches me absolutely how to do that. And pilots, which are us too, have a conscience, but they have no conviction.9:11 They have a conscience. The Bible says he knew what those religious leaders were all about. He knew it. But to satisfy the crowd,9:23 he was going to turn Jesus over to them to be crucified. This guy is not stupid. He's not ignorant. He's not naive. So he has some level9:35 of consciousness. You can have the conscience which says, I know the difference between right and wrong, but I'm not gonna do what's right. That's pilots in our9:47 lives. He has a conscience, but he has no conviction, because conviction will carry out the right answers. Here's here's my quote. It'll9:58 go on the screen. Here's a little quote I want to give you. Today, the truth is, has no purpose if you are not grounded in a relationship with Jesus Christ.10:12 Everybody's got a conscience. The most immoral, wicked, ungodly sinner, whatever we were, has a but that doesn't10:24 mean we're gonna obey the consciousness to do right. It comes to a relationship It comes to a relationship with Jesus Christ and comes to a relationship that's within his word. The second person I want10:36 to introduce you to is Barabbas. In verse number 6, it says, and the festival pilot used to release for the people a prisoner whom they10:48 requested. There was 1 named Barabbas who was in prison10:54 with rebels who10:54 had committed murder during the rebellion. 1 who had committed murder during the rebellion. Wanting to satisfy the crowd, this is a little bit of that conscience portion, pilot released Barabbas to them11:06 wanting to satisfy the crowd. How many times have I been guilty, you've been guilty, of wanting to satisfy the crowd? I know what I should do, but the pressure of the crowd is so strong.11:19 After having Jesus flogged or whipped, he handed him over to be crucified. How many times can we be guilty of maybe being a pilot? And how many times can I be guilty and you be guilty11:31 of being a Barabbas? Barabbas are just simply known. Barabbas are guilty. Barabbas are sinners.11:43 Barabbas are spiritual and natural criminals, rebels and murderers and enemies of God. We have all been Barabbas'.11:55 Here's what the Bible says in Philippians 3 18. For I have often told you and now say again with tears that many live as enemies of the cross of12:07 Christ. And before you came to Christ, you were an enemy. Now, you may have not thought that way. You may have not looked at Jesus that way, but that's what the Bible says. Because the12:18 Bible says, if you're not for him, you're automatically against him. I I didn't believe in Jesus. I was not propagating the gospel. I was not12:30 pointing people to Christ. Then you became an enemy of the cross. The Bible says this in Ephesians.12:50 You may have been educated, you may have had a lot of followers, but you were without hope and without God in the world. We were all guilty.13:02 Being this man, Barabbas understood that day, whether he realized it or not, that Jesus was becoming his substitution.13:14 He was taking the place of Barabbas. This was not accidental. This was not initiated necessarily by Pilate. This is what God had13:26 foreordained. That day, Barabbas should have died for his sin. But Jesus stepped in and he took the place of you and I and the Barabbas's of this13:38 world that were criminals and sinners and rebellious and harden hearted. And he came in And he took our place. And he died13:50 so that we could live. And he was punished so we can be declared innocent. And he was bound so that we could be free. And he was judged so that we could be14:02 forgiven. That day, Barabbas should have died. We all should die in our sin and and go to hell. But Jesus said, I14:14 will take your place. I will take your place. When I was growing up, when I much like today, you have aluminum cans and plastic bottles. And how many of you know you can go to the redemption14:26 center and virtually gain get money for that. But when I was a little boy, you had Coke bottles or just bottles. And they had a redemptive value that based upon14:38 the the size or the ounces within that bottle. Is there anybody in my generation that remembers that? Come on. I I'd steal them from the neighbors. I'd go over and I I I You you go to any14:49 market and you had like 5 cent bottles and you you had like the 10 cent bottles. Man, if you got the 10 cent bottles, you were in the money. Because you you could do a lot with a dollar, man. You could15:01 you could feed a family of 4 or at least 4 kids potato chips and some ice cream and strawberry soda for a dollar. Come on now. And so so we we still15:13 bottles but here here's the reality of cans or plastic or even those bottles. Value to someone else.15:26 And that which is of no value to us, the person that declares that there's value, will give you something that's value to you for giving it to them. And that's the relationship15:38 between Jesus Christ and God and the story of Barabbas. You and I are Barabbas in this story that should have died and paid it paid for our sins, but Jesus absolutely took our paid for our sins. But Jesus absolutely took15:50 our place. My question that I have to ask about Barabbas is this, is that what happened to Barabbas? What do you do after when you're literally, this guy's in prison16:02 and he's he's moments away from being executed from either being a thief or a robber or a murderer or hanging around a murder. It's going through those last moments. If you've ever seen16:14 anybody on death row, very humbled by what's about ready to take place. That's where16:26 Barabbas is. Only to hear him say them telling him, you are pardoned. You are released. When he walk come on, let's be there. When he walks out of16:38 the prison and says, what just happened? He's like us, we don't fully understand the price that he paid. The debt that was exchanged between16:49 his son and the father. We're just overwhelmed. Did was his life changed? Life? What do we do after we're saved and been forgiven?17:01 Do we return back to the vile life that we once lived? Or are we eternally grateful now? I don't want to be embarrassed anymore in my life.17:14 Because of what Jesus did for us. The divorce is found in verse 16, the17:19 third character. The soldiers led17:19 him away into the The soldiers led him away into the palace that is, the governor's residence and called the whole company.17:31 The third characteristic. First, we had17:59 They don't want to lose their job. They don't wanna lose their friends, and they don't wanna lose their reputation. We're all guilty of that. You might you might18:11 be guilty of that with on your job. There might come a time when a boss asks you to do something. There might come some time when a husband asks you to do something or, your grown18:23 children now that when you become a parent. And soldiers just follow orders.18:38 Pilot or I say no to the, to the government that's asking me to lead an innocent man to be crucified. I could lose my job. I don't know what that means18:50 to you. But if there ever comes a place where you are asked by whomever to deny your faith in Jesus Christ, you're gonna have to make a decision. You're gonna have to make a stand.19:02 If someone asks you to embezzle or cheat or lie, you're gonna have to make a stand. If someone tells you, do not pray in the name of Jesus or bring that Bible anymore, you're19:14 gonna have to make a stand or you'll be like the soldier and just simply comply. I'm just following orders. I don't wanna lose my reputation. I don't wanna19:26 lose friends or whatever it is. So I'm asking you ahead of time to think about it. What are my non negotiables in my faith?19:39 Right?19:46 Well What will I never not do for the Lord? It's a nonIdentifying with Biblical Characters 19:58 negotiable in my faith. The next is the Simons of Cyrenes that we see in this story. They forced a man coming in from the country who was passing20:10 by to carry Jesus'20:13 Yeah, it's true.20:13 Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true.20:14 Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Yeah,20:21 it sleep deprived and his frail flesh gave out and he20:32 collapsed. It just so happens out of the massive crowd that was there. 1 man is chosen out of the crowd.20:45 You and I are that person. We are the Simon of Cyrenes that get the privilege of carrying Jesus's cross.20:57 Is it chance? Is it coincidence? Or have some things been predestined by God to do? And will I do it is the question.21:11 Is it an accident that Simon Cyrene is in that exact place at that exact moment? Is life about chance?21:24 Or does God have a divine place for you in life? Does God have a divine people for you to be around? Does God have a divine plan for you? Or is everything just a chance where21:36 I could say yes, no, no biggie, whatever? Or is there a define something divine about the will of God? Something to think21:48 about. What an amazing privilege for him to get that beam that has this22:00 man sweat and blood on it and put it on his back and identify with his sweat and with his blood and with his mockers22:13 and his sneers as he walks side by side with Jesus. And22:25 does not hate his his own father and mother, wife and children, brother and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciples.22:39 Cross and to follow him. Simon Simon Sarenes are this. Because if you read that scripture, it talks about22:52 It says, Simon of Cyrene, which is Northern Africa. So this was a black man. It says there in the scripture, in the crucifixion, amazing in the story.23:04 Mark has to tell us that he had 2 sons, Alexander and Rufus. What does that have to do with23:15 this amazing story around And23:44 father. And he understands that his that his actions will affect his children. Drop the mic, slams, slaps somebody, hits somebody.23:58 Does he understand that? Do I understand that as a man? That how I relate to Jesus 1 way good or bad or indifferent is gonna affect my children?24:10 That's what the Bible wants you to know. That it wasn't just about carrying the cross. It was about when he carries the cross, his family will be saved, his children will come to24:21 know the Lord. And they'll never stop talking about my daddy that day that helped Jesus. Not about him being a plumber,24:33 an electrician, building a fence, riding a cowboy horse, killing a deer. I wanna talk about him. He carried the cross that day.24:48 Sounding so somber tonight, but I'm going to attempt to show you in Roman 16, verse 13. Paul would later write Now, this is a long time after this story.25:01 Great Rufus chosen in the Lord and also his mother and mine. What the heck?25:14 What the heck?25:17 All because of Simon Cyrene. Yeah. Rufus is now a grown man in the kingdom of God. And and missus Rufus is saved.25:30 And Paul, the apostle, the great apostle Paul adopted her as his spiritual mother all because of a man, Simon Cyrene, who stepped up and carried25:42 the cross for Jesus Christ. And took that mockery, and took that persecution, took that humiliation, took that shame. You25:54 call yourself a man following Jesus. Nothing but a weak man. I don't need to go to church. I don't need no cheese. I don't26:05 need no crutch. Because that's the way the world will talk to us as men. I'm a Simon Sareens.26:25 We're almost done. Can you handle anymore? Are you ready to go home? I mean, is it In Mark 15 verse 39, here's the next character.26:37 When the Centurion who was standing opposite of him, Jesus, saw the way he breathed, saw saw the way he breathed,26:49 saw the way Jesus breathed. How many of you pay how many of you pay attention to people's breath? Who is this27:00 guy? We're all centurions. He's a professional policeman, law officer,27:13 high ranking centurion means he's over 100 soldiers. Whatever you wanna call him. Captain, sheriff, colonel, I I don't care27:24 what you wanna say. He has at least 100 soldiers. This guy is a professional Centurion soldier that handles Roman crucifixion.27:38 He's seen hundreds of people crucified. I work in that industry and usually officers have seen so much.27:50 They're non bothered. There's a sense of callousness about them. They they feel but they don't feel. They have emotion but they don't show a lot of emotion. They just seen so much.28:05 How long. You're smarter than me. Look it up. How often crucifixions would take place, but they were very familiar during that day. That's the way Rome punished criminals.28:17 How many he saw, but I could promise you this was not his first crucifixion. And yet he never in his life had seen a man like that die.28:33 Stout, professional, non emotional. But he says this, truly, this man was the son of God.28:46 Oh my God. I've never seen a man die that way. I've never seen a man tortured that way. I've never seen a man not28:58 defend himself. Not say you're doing me wrong. You're all going to hell. I'm innocent. He didn't say a29:10 word to defend himself. When they offered him the sponge of the wine to kill and to to deaden his pain, he rejected it. I don't I don't need no painkillers. I'm gonna take it all.29:25 His last breaths was all about forgive them for they know not what the who the are you? That when he took his29:37 last breath, he made a confession. This proud prominent atheist man said, truly this is the son of God.29:49 From the centurion are people that are high ranking who have high ranking influential positions he saw something. He30:01 heard something that day. He knew something that day. And he felt something that day that could not be absolutely ignored. Him and snickered at30:12 Jesus and said, here is a guy that says in 3 days he'll he'll he'll he'll rebuild the temple. Why can't he help himself on the cross? Why won't why don't he come off the cross? It's30:24 not that he couldn't, it's the fact that he wouldn't. There's a vast difference because it'll show on it'll show on the screen here right now30:36 The oddities that probably the centurion saw that he had never seen before. And you'll see on the screen the 5 oddities that took place around the death of Jesus.30:49 It'll come up right now. Watch. Just keep watching. Just keep no no oddities. Okay. That's why we need you to give more money to the building program because we31:01 can't put on the screen 5 things. But the Bible tells us the Bible tells us, that Jesus was crucified. They don't go back. And and and31:12 3 historians, non Christian historians talk about the crucifixion of Christ. 3 3 historians say people say, well, I'm into science. We'll go back and study the science then. This is not31:24 having to do with anything about Christian faith. 3 natural historians wrote and you could look at today about this man from Nazareth and how he died and what happened31:36 around his death. So he got on the cross, they put him on the cross at 9 o'clock. At 12 o'clock, the things start happening and then he dies at 3 o'clock.31:48 6 hours, he's on the cross suspended to between earth and heaven. The first thing that happens is at 12 noon to 3, there is darkness. It is black.32:00 Absolutely darkness. How many of you would recognize that at noontime, all of a sudden it went dark that would catch your attention? Okay? Then then what begins to happen is at32:12 the moment at 3 o'clock he dies, there's a giant earthquake that takes place. At that moment, the Bible says that rocks in Jerusalem began to fall and split in32:24 half. That's the third thing that began to happen. The fourth thing that begins to happen, it says dead people are raised from the dead and start walking the earth. How many of you saw your great great grandmama32:36 all of a sudden start walking to this earth? That capture catch your attention that would take place. And the fifth sign that took place was the veil in the temple was32:48 ripped in 2. A thick veil was ripped from 2. Not from bottom, it was ripped from top to bottom, which signified that no man could just simply do32:59 it, which signified that we all have access to God anymore, that we don't have to go through a man to get into the holies of holies or come into the presence of God. That the old testament has ceased to33:11 exist and that there was a New Testament of grace that was offered to us. I believe that that centurion saw some of those things as well as what he saw about Jesus33:23 and it captured his attention. 2 more points and we're done. It says, and there were also women watching from a distance. Among them was Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and the younger Jose33:35 or Jose and and Salome. The last second to last were the women. No brothers were around. No men were around.33:48 Lord, we'll never leave you or forsake you. We're for you. I'll die for you. They're all hiding.34:00 It's there. These women don't flee. They don't leave. They don't abandon. They don't desert. They don't hide. They don't run from the Lord Jesus. They are there when34:12 it's unpopular. They are there when it's not fun. It's there when they don't understand everything. And they're there when it hurts. They're faithful and dependable and loyal women during dying moments and34:24 difficult moments and devastating moments. I want to take a moment because I think Jesus is encouraging women when he puts this verse here. He's encouraging women in their value,34:36 in their value, that these are not ignorant women. These are not naive women. These are not silly women. These are not stupid women. These are not women of manipulation. These are not women of baggage.34:48 These are not desperate house wives, gossip girls, sex in the city women, or bad girls. These are holy, chaste, and righteous women of God.35:01 Puts a twist on the way society looks at women today. I've been doing ministry for a while now and I could tell you this, I love men and I35:13 think they're pretty great. And I've had a lot of men as employees and I've had a lot of women as employees. And overall, ministry have been my best employees versus the35:25 men. Now they've been good men. I'm not saying that. But overall, if I look at the percentage, women have made better employees than than men.35:37 It says something to me. And the last 1 is this 1 and we're done. It says this, prominent35:50 member of the Sanhedrin who himself was looking forward to the kingdom of God came and boldly went to Pilate asked for Jesus's body. Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, summoning the Centurion. He asked him36:00 whether he was already dead. Out from the Centurion, he gave the corpse, gave gave the body to Joseph. And after he brought some linen and cloth,36:12 Joseph took, he took Jesus' body down and he he personally wrapped it in the linen, then he laid him in the tomb, his tomb, cut out of a rock and he rolled the stone against the36:24 entrance of the tomb. We've looked at today that all of us can identify that sometimes we're pilots, sometimes we're Barabbas', sometimes we're soldiers, Simon of Cyrene, Centurions,36:36 and women's. But sometimes we need to be Josephs of Arimathea. Josephs of Arimathea are people who give generously to the cause of Christ. Joseph are36:48 Joseph of Arimathea are people who use their money to finance Jesus' message and ministry. And Joseph of Arimathea use their influence, their stature, and their prominence when37:00 needed or called upon to witness, to promote, and to position Jesus's body. If there is no Joseph, and I don't have time to go into37:12 this, Joseph had enough money that he had a tomb. G didn't have a tomb. He had enough money for a tomb. To have a tomb, you had to have some money now. Okay?37:25 The disciples and the women can't go to Pilot and ask for the body. It takes a prominent man by the name of Joseph of Arimathea to go before the strongest man governor and say, I37:37 want his body. And Pilot doesn't negotiate with him and deny him. He says, I give it to you. And there are people that need that are in the marketplace, business people,37:48 affluent people, that can do things that some Christians and preachers can't do. And they are so needed in the body of Christ to promote the kingdom of God and the message of Christ.38:03 And do the work that that the body of Christ and so desperately needs to be done. And it says this in closing, the last verse in Mark 15.38:15 Mary Magdalene and the mother Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jose, Jose, whatever you want to say, were watching where they lay where he was laid.38:27 No matter how that's how it ends. No matter how bad it looks, feels, or seems in your life, the story is not over. There is a to be continued because38:39 Jesus is Lord. There's a resurrection coming. It's pretty sad right now, but it's to be continued. God, I thank38:51 you so much for the beautiful story in Mark's version around the crucifixion and the 7 prominent characters in this story. We pray that we identify with every single 1 of them,39:03 God, and we can play a role, God, and the good ones, God, and we can learn from the bad ones. We thank you, Lord, that as we end chapter 15 now, God, sometimes it looks39:14 dire in our lives. It looks hopeless in our lives. Sometimes there's deaths in our lives. Chapter 16. Oh, God. And on Sunday morning, there's a resurrection. There is39:26 a to be continued. Yes. And I thank you for that to be continued in the story of people's lives today. That it may look this way right now and it may feel this way right now. You39:38 may be experienced something right now, but if you'll trust the Lord, it's not over. It's just a comma. It's not a period. It's not a dead dead dead end39:50 in your life. God will make a way where there is no other way. We sang the song. He's a way maker. He's a miracle worker. He's a promise keeper. He's a light.40:04 Yes. I pray that there would be a to be continued in your life. God's not done with the situation. God's not done with your life. And it won't always be the way you're feeling or experienced today.Show more In this video 0:00 The Story Becomes Personal19:57 Identifying with Biblical Characters40:08 The Call to Faith and Action
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