John Calvin: Judas and Peter

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[00:00:39] This is Troy Angel in your listening to Revived Thoughts.

[00:00:50] The rooster then has well-crowed, not only the rooster, but God makes all his creatures above

[00:00:56] and below to crow, to exhort us to come to him. Every episode we bring you a different voice

[00:01:04] from history and a sermon that they delivered today. We're listening to a sermon by John Calvin.

[00:01:10] It was preached in Geneva in the 1500s. I just dropped my pen. Troy how are you doing today?

[00:01:16] So I'm doing good. I did not drop my pen so over here in Indo all the pens around their tables.

[00:01:21] You know it is not being twirled around in your fingers?

[00:01:25] Exactly. You know okay so if you're listening to this episode the day it launched or you know in

[00:01:30] that week I have two apologies for you if you're listening this episode concurrently. If you're

[00:01:36] listening a year from when this came out then only worry about this, nothing to do with you.

[00:01:39] Well the first one does. So this sermon is a part of an eight-part sermon series we do every year

[00:01:44] on John Calvin and every year we go through he had an eight series on the Passion of the Christ.

[00:01:50] And I loved it so much. I wanted this to be the sermons we put out around Easter. It's just

[00:01:54] super good and I love it because we all know the story of Jesus going on the cross and yet

[00:01:59] he somehow finds a way to find great details that are powerful and they teach you something new all

[00:02:05] the time. With that said, I did not err these originally with an eight-year plan in mind.

[00:02:11] I mean when we first put this out was the first year of my thoughts we had no idea people were

[00:02:14] going to like this show and so we started with episode number seven which was this the episode

[00:02:18] of Jesus going on the cross. And then the next year I was like oh I should use that again and do

[00:02:22] it again in Easter time so then we did episode number eight which is the resurrection. And then I

[00:02:26] will keep going and I started six and then five and four. We're now on episode three. So we are

[00:02:31] sermon three in this story and if you want to go back and listen to them they're all very good

[00:02:36] they're all John Calvin but you're gonna get it very out of order. I do apologize that's just kind

[00:02:41] of the way it is. I did not plan that we planned a lot in Revive Thoughts. We didn't create an

[00:02:46] eight-year Easter map it just kind of happened. Number two apology I think we even joke that like

[00:02:52] and we even joke like if we're still making these in four years then then we'll that'll be a great

[00:02:57] problem to have type of thing. Here we are though. Thanks. Thanks for 2019 and 2020 Joel and Troy. Why

[00:03:03] don't we make a joke of us now in 2024? We're living through what your joke was. Now number two

[00:03:09] apology is see I sound like I'm really well that's you know who could have known right you give me

[00:03:14] grace there. I've got the date wrong on Easter and so this episode's coming out a week early.

[00:03:20] That's my that okay I apologize to you. Troy. Troy. Troy. I don't you don't have anything to apologize for

[00:03:25] okay all right I want to reassure I mean within the within the realm of podcast consumption a week

[00:03:32] and a half within the applicable reference date I think is very acceptable you know I honestly think

[00:03:39] we could have released this we could have released this the month of and and it would still be

[00:03:45] applicable you could do a Christmas episode on like December 10th I feel like if you wanted to so

[00:03:50] there's yeah. This is an Easter episode audience even though we still can't we can have to Easter

[00:03:57] it's still you know what even you know what Joel we can even get more spiritual than that every

[00:04:02] we should treat every day like Easter you know you only live for the resurrection one day the year

[00:04:06] this every sermon is an Easter certain okay we're getting too far with that but the point is and

[00:04:10] you know what Troy with with with the episode released with the you're just really you're just

[00:04:15] curating a new order in which the episodes are released you know at 500 years from now people

[00:04:22] are going to look back to the Revive Thoughts podcast as the definitive order in which the

[00:04:27] sermon should be listened to so it's just a continuation of how media is presented to be consumed.

[00:04:34] Future Calvin commentaries will point out the Revive Thoughts sermon order of ordering of seven eight

[00:04:40] six five four three two one and and this is what that was the originally intended John Calvin

[00:04:46] or debated you know it is is it the superior order in which they should be listened to. That's true

[00:04:51] and we think it might be the best way that you're going to listen to them if you listen to the show

[00:04:56] all right so those are two apologies ready for John Calvin here we go uh oh first some positive

[00:05:02] responses just really um one response I wanted to really hone in on so we got a we got a response

[00:05:08] on Spotify love our Spotify commoners and it was from windy a and the reason I'm laughing is not

[00:05:14] that I'm laughing we got a comment on the spot if I love it we love you we love that you're leaving

[00:05:17] comments guys that that is awesome and we read them all what makes me laugh though is she said I

[00:05:22] really love what you're doing and I love you know this sermon such great wisdom and she said

[00:05:27] that about our George Mueller sermon our very first one Joel windy windy put this in the comment

[00:05:34] on the very first sermon the very first episode we have and I just like to imagine that windy is

[00:05:40] still slowly crawling through the catalog and that and that we're we're rooting for you windy we hope

[00:05:45] that you can make it through all five years of episodes the problem is by the time you hear this

[00:05:49] comment that we're rooting for you when you maybe when you most need it most will be 2026 or 237

[00:05:54] because it'll it'll take you a while I think to get through all 250 something episodes we have

[00:05:59] since that George Mueller sermon thank you windy for enjoying what our original work was and

[00:06:05] I can't wait to hear from you someday yeah and as far uh sorry for

[00:06:11] those early episodes yeah and sorry sorry for any of the rough ones you know but I will say we've

[00:06:15] actually I think we've had a little bit of a renaissance on our earlier episodes we had the guy

[00:06:20] a little bit of a week who was telling us he liked our BB Warfield I had another person write an

[00:06:24] email and say hey I love your George Matheson um I've had another guy actually studies reading some

[00:06:29] of our old sermons to his church and then we have windy going back so you know look at people are

[00:06:34] realizing that the old catalog is good too until they catch up and try to go in order of John

[00:06:41] Calvin okay Joel take us away John Calvin done Calvin we talk about him every year uh you know

[00:06:47] typically it we tried to emphasize different aspects of his life uh but not before giving a quick

[00:06:54] overview to get everyone up the day John Calvin born in the year 1509 and uh our listeners are

[00:07:01] our listeners know the Calvin for you know the the the Reformation a key reformer in the movement

[00:07:09] originally meant to be a lawyer but when his dad died he decided he was gonna choose his own career

[00:07:15] go his own way he became converted at the age of 24 into this brand new Protestant Christianity

[00:07:22] movement that was that was popping up it was strange it was uh interesting it involved putting faith

[00:07:29] in Christ alone and he was all about it 25 or 26 he wrote a book called The Institutes of the

[00:07:38] Christian Religion which is still a central book in Christian theology he ended up in Geneva where

[00:07:44] he eventually ran a city with rules and ideas that he came up with we have a whole episode on

[00:07:51] this very fascinating semi-controversial and he created a safe haven for Protestant refugees uh

[00:07:59] wrote about ideas that would eventually get him a theological name of Calvinism you know it's it is a

[00:08:07] a theology that was named after his takes on a lot of these things that would come out of the

[00:08:14] Reformation Reformation movement fascinating fella uh definitely worth learning more about if

[00:08:19] this is your first time hearing about Calvin there is so much cool stuff about him uh if this is your

[00:08:27] what is this our fifth episode on Calvin Troy if this is your sixth or seventh episode uh then

[00:08:36] you'll also enjoy hearing about what we're gonna talk about in this episode now let's say we

[00:08:40] we do this summary is just to help everybody kind of be on the same page if you if you don't know

[00:08:46] uh him uh we obviously are not unaware that Calvin is a very controversial person

[00:08:51] we've actually talked about his controversies and some are earlier episodes the burning of Michael

[00:08:56] Sabetis and uh what Calvinism is and stuff like that so if you think oh you're skipping some of those

[00:09:01] big things don't really be skipping it it's just we talked about those off and on for five years

[00:09:06] we've we've moved on to different aspects of them that we want to talk about now uh for this episode

[00:09:11] I wanted to actually talk more about a part of him that i've i've never actually really thought

[00:09:15] about before and when i was doing this episode i was like this is an interesting side of his life

[00:09:18] we hadn't we haven't talked about which is his personality and that sounds weird because he would think

[00:09:24] like oh i would be one of the first things you learn about a guy when you study him but actually not

[00:09:27] really well i when when you think of john calvin's personality uh depending on what theological

[00:09:33] into the spectrum you're on you might think of a a hateful monster who who you know sees an evil

[00:09:40] robotic version of god or whatever you might also see the most generous valiant warrior and lover

[00:09:47] of man and and that's not really true either um it would separate our the all the theological takes

[00:09:53] from the person himself and even some of the great actions he did his personality from what i read

[00:09:58] was a bit awkward and uh a little bit strange and not like a strange in a bad bad way just he was

[00:10:04] he did a little bit of rough time with people um and he also he had a really hard childhood

[00:10:09] like there's a lot of rough things happening so for starters his life was not easy as a kid he had

[00:10:13] multiple bouts of diseases and problems that made him struggle and he didn't really grow up to be

[00:10:18] a healthy person because his body never was healthy you know if you're always ill ill and sick

[00:10:23] as a kid you don't tend to grow up and be fully as strong as maybe you would have um had you not

[00:10:29] gone through this illness especially back in the 1500s when they don't have the hospital health care

[00:10:33] that can you know build up your muscles and stuff the way we can now uh at a young age his data

[00:10:38] planned for him to be a monk so he put him through a monastic lifestyle now the monastic lifestyle

[00:10:44] was not easy it was a workspace idea that you could make yourself a good enough person

[00:10:49] i involved a lot of things like torturing your body including going to bed very very late and

[00:10:54] waking yourself up very very early enforcing your body to do that routinely well Calvin kind of

[00:11:00] never stopped doing that even after he stopped being a monk are going through that kind of process

[00:11:04] and so he usually only operated about four hours of sleep and he would spend all the other time

[00:11:11] reading books and to Calvin's credit the reason he didn't uh want to go to bed early in a size

[00:11:16] because he had so much reading to do he was so much studying to do to make himself a better

[00:11:20] professor or preacher whatever he was working on however he ended up losing his eyesight or pretty

[00:11:25] much you know losing what his eyes could do because of this uh because the stain up late reading

[00:11:31] by candlelight so much he he nearly went blind um by the strain he put on his eyes even his own friend

[00:11:37] one of his friends he didn't know that many but he did have a friend theodore Beza who

[00:11:41] was his close friend said a lot of his ailments were partly his own fault if you'd met this guy

[00:11:47] you would have probably thought him as kind of shy and kind of awkward that was what he wrote in one

[00:11:51] of his own letters was basically that I kind of shy got awkward guy hearing your mind to have

[00:11:55] Paul actually in that way Paul describes himself as like you know i am in person i'm not outgoing but

[00:12:00] i'm being fierce to you here now i will say a caveat i will use is Paul says that about himself

[00:12:09] in one of the letters i can't remember which one i just all the time i had to late night here guys

[00:12:12] uh but i always thought he was kind of being sarcastic because we see him in acts he's very like

[00:12:17] he's very in your face and i do wonder if people are maybe misreading Calvin's notes to his friends

[00:12:23] it's like i you know i'm kind of shy and awkward as maybe Calvin being humble and in reality you know a lot

[00:12:29] of people who are really popular and well like they'll say oh nobody likes me i said you know like oh

[00:12:32] but yeah of course we do you know you're well liked and they just don't sometimes judge themselves

[00:12:36] i do think it's possible maybe Calvin's actually in that camp where he's just you know and his

[00:12:40] meme is his personal letters to his friends he's saying oh i don't know if i'm all that i'm kind of

[00:12:44] an awkward guy or shy you know i am and in reality he's not so we don't know but if we're taking

[00:12:49] him out of face at face value which the couple people i read from did then his face value based on

[00:12:55] those letters and based on what they're saying he would have been a little shy and a little awkward

[00:12:59] yeah i don't i think he was proud based on his behavior and how he

[00:13:06] he does not seek out or tend to put himself in social events you know would you agree with

[00:13:14] that Roy like that is the behavior to me of a introverted person that doesn't yeah he's not

[00:13:21] about he does true he's not looking for a party on a Friday night yeah you know what that is true

[00:13:26] and we talk about you'll talk about a second his his what his dream job was supposed to be so you

[00:13:30] know what you're definitely right he he liked having friends but he was not the guy who was calling

[00:13:36] everybody over to his house right right he was the one that yeah yeah like tabbing friends because

[00:13:43] they talked him into things a lot of times and a lot of good things you know a lot of the times as well

[00:13:49] but um i don't i definitely had friends like that like i would have friends that would just normally

[00:13:55] just stayed in but they want to hang out just because they want to see what will we'll get up to

[00:14:01] i don't know yeah i mean maybe not some more in these days i'm thinking more back in the college days

[00:14:05] but Calvin so he did have some friends right like theodore baza like he mentioned uh but again

[00:14:11] not necessarily a super social guy and the friendships he did have he had instructed and enjoyed

[00:14:23] because of their common goal around god and you know different theological references that they

[00:14:30] were aligned under it wasn't so much personality friendships it was the common reverence for god

[00:14:37] that that uh aligned and developed these friendships that he would have with people which is neat

[00:14:42] and you know maybe the way a lot of friendship should be but uh it's not like his personalities are

[00:14:48] clicking in his humor aligns with with other people around him and to become friends that way

[00:14:52] based on you know how we see it here so in a lot of ways yet he did struggle to make friends his

[00:14:57] dream job would be like a a librarian in a corner that would write books for the church so uh very

[00:15:06] exciting very you know definitely the life of the party for sure uh he didn't like he didn't want

[00:15:11] to preach like he wasn't he didn't want to be a preacher it was him constantly getting talked

[00:15:17] into it by the people around him that that uh set him on those paths so much so that one of his

[00:15:22] friends when he came to do knee jeneva said that he would be cursed if he didn't preach their

[00:15:28] different time so he preached in jeneva and jeneva at the time was just a you know very small

[00:15:35] normal town today it's a very famous and well known place but in that day it was a middle of the

[00:15:42] nowhere town uh Calvin is a big part of why jeneva is famous now is because of his presence there

[00:15:52] it's weird to think about Calvin you know with all this reputation and all of the impact he made

[00:15:59] in with what jeneva would eventually become to imagine him just uh preaching in a small tiny church

[00:16:06] in a middle of the nowhere town that wasn't you know hardly on the map at that point uh I didn't

[00:16:11] want to clarify to for anybody listening I just wanted to point out that the person I was reading

[00:16:17] said that made it sound like his goal was never to be the leader of a church he wanted to be your

[00:16:20] researcher you know basically like a professor of theologian type in a library so case you're suddenly

[00:16:26] typing and going can I get that exact quote so I can also make that my quote so I can become you know

[00:16:29] that's you're not gonna find that exact quote somewhere but that's some glitch you know that was kind

[00:16:33] of his goal is not to be the big leader that he became his entire life he struggled with chronic asthma

[00:16:40] attacks migraines that cut them up all night kidney stones hemorrhoids gallstones severe arthritis

[00:16:47] frequent flu's accompanied often by raging fevers now I can see why somebody struggling with

[00:16:54] these medical ills would not want to be the leader of anything personally speaking if I had those

[00:16:59] and I had to go outside my house I wouldn't want to do that either I am my goodness support guy

[00:17:05] uh Calvin would have been a miserable person I mean wouldn't he I if you had half those think maybe

[00:17:10] you do I'm sorry but if you had half those things attacking you on a daily how are you gonna get

[00:17:14] anything done um he had all of them one quote I said uh I saw about Calvin said Calvin is an amazing

[00:17:23] man to admire but not one to emulate he did a lot for the church but he worked himself so hard his

[00:17:28] body never got to rest never really got to recover from the illnesses because he kept pushing himself

[00:17:33] and pushing himself and that the last five or so years one person said he one you know researcher

[00:17:39] of his life said he was basically a skeleton of a man because he just he was unable to let himself

[00:17:43] not work uh his wife that he never really planned the marriage we didn't hold up a

[00:17:47] sod on that last year it was very sweet when they got together uh but died only after nine or eight

[00:17:52] years together she had miscarried and then ever had any other biological children together

[00:17:56] the people who hated him had said of him that she died of boredom which is just a mean thing to say

[00:18:02] and apparently he did have a lot of haters some people even named their dogs after him and so when

[00:18:07] you know you're walking on the street and going out and helping Calvin stop barking they're making

[00:18:11] fun of you we won't know much uh more than that about Calvin's personal life most of what we know

[00:18:16] about Calvin's personal life doesn't come from his sermons or his public ministries or his books

[00:18:20] they came from his private friends letters and he was big on sharing his physical pains his

[00:18:27] emotional pains his spiritual struggles with his friends personally in letters he did not

[00:18:32] however do these things often or hardly at all from the public ministry if you read through his

[00:18:37] commentaries and stuff you're not gonna see a lot of personal anecdotes and stuff that not

[00:18:42] things you would see today you see a lot of that and today we talk about our own experiences we

[00:18:46] we often preach about our own life stories from the pulpit uh you don't see that in John Calvin

[00:18:51] back then that wasn't something they did they kept your personal life your personal life and

[00:18:54] your spiritual life and what you told the people was different and so what we know about him with

[00:18:59] his friends and his struggles it really does come from those private letters however in this

[00:19:03] private letters he would be very open he would weep and struggle you could tell he was sharing

[00:19:08] his heart um he was not a stoic that believed you couldn't share emotion he just was very

[00:19:14] he wanted to be very firm that the emotions and the hardships you share are for your friends or

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[00:20:02] when John Calvin died uh he asked to be buried in a box in an unmarked commoners grave

[00:20:09] didn't that people not come and see his body and it was a little bit hard because he was so famous

[00:20:15] an english ambassador came to france specifically to come and see his body and pay respects

[00:20:20] and the council refused to let him do so per his wishes to this day we still have no idea uh

[00:20:27] where he was buried he wanted himself to be forgotten and only what Christ did to be remembered

[00:20:34] now listen to part four of the series on Jesus crucifixion this one focusing on the story of Peter and

[00:20:41] Judas then they spit in his face and struck him and some slapped him saying prophesied to us

[00:21:03] you Christ who is it that struck you Peter denies Jesus now Peter was sitting outside in the court

[00:21:12] yard and a servant girl came up to him and said you also were with Jesus the Galilean but he denied

[00:21:18] it before them all saying I do not know what you mean and when he went out to the entrance another

[00:21:24] servant girl saw him and she said to the bystanders this man was with Jesus of Nazareth

[00:21:30] and again he denied it with an oath I do not know the man after a little while the bystanders came

[00:21:37] up and said to Peter certainly you two are one of them for your accent betrays you then he began

[00:21:43] to invoke a curse on himself and to swear I do not know the man and immediately the rooster crowed

[00:21:50] and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus before the rooster crowed you will deny me three times

[00:21:57] and he went out and wept bitterly Jesus delivered a pilot when morning came all the chief priests

[00:22:05] in the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death and they bound him

[00:22:10] and let him away and delivered him over to pilot the governor Judas hangs himself

[00:22:17] then when Judas his betrayer saw that Jesus was condemned he changed his mind and brought back

[00:22:23] the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priest and the elders saying I have sinned by betraying

[00:22:28] innocent blood they said what is that to us see to it yourself and throwing down the pieces

[00:22:35] of silver into the temple he departed and he went and hanged himself but the chief priests taking

[00:22:42] the pieces of silver said it is not lawful to put them in the treasury since it is blood money

[00:22:48] so they took counsel and bought with them the potters field as a burial place for strangers

[00:22:54] therefore that field has been called the field of blood to this day

[00:22:58] then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah saying

[00:23:02] and they took the thirty pieces of silver the price of him on whom a price had been set by some

[00:23:07] of the sons of Israel and they gave them for the potters field as the lord directed me

[00:23:14] Matthew 26 67 through 27 10

[00:23:19] as St Paul says that the preaching of the gospel is the odor of life to those whom God calls to

[00:23:24] salvation and odor of death to all reprimates who perish also we have two noteworthy examples

[00:23:33] who are here proposed to us to show that the death and passion of the son of God was to the

[00:23:39] salvation of one and pushed another into condemnation for in the fall of Peter is seen the need which

[00:23:45] he had of being drawn out of the pit in which he was trapped for while he was there he was

[00:23:51] banished from the kingdom of heaven he was alienated from all hope of salvation and cut off from

[00:23:56] the church as a rotten member nevertheless the death of our lord Jesus did not fail to benefit him

[00:24:03] although he may not have been worthy of it as for Judas it is said that seeing that Jesus Christ

[00:24:09] is condemned he is seized with despair now in this condemnation of our lord Jesus as we have said

[00:24:16] one must take courage to open God for we are absolved by virtue of the fact that our lord

[00:24:22] Jesus was condemned but it was necessary that we had these two mirrors in order that we might be

[00:24:28] able so much the better to know that unless we are by special grace called to be shareers of the

[00:24:34] fruit of the death and passion of the son of God it will be useless to us it is not enough then

[00:24:40] that our lord Jesus Christ has suffered but the good which he acquired for us must be communicated

[00:24:46] and we must be put in possession of it that is done when we are drawn to him by faith

[00:24:52] but to better understand all this let us follow the thread of the history which is here narrated to us

[00:24:59] it is said that our lord Jesus was treated with every shame in the house of the high priest

[00:25:04] chiafus that they spit in his face that he was insulted and made fun of by calling him profit

[00:25:10] indeed is disgrace now that was in order that we might know that what he suffered in person

[00:25:17] was to deliver us before God and before his angels for no one needs to spit in our face in order

[00:25:23] for us to bear many spots and blemishes before God all of us are not only disfigured by our sins

[00:25:29] but full of infection and abominable here is the son of God who is his living image where his glory

[00:25:36] and majesty shine who suffered such shames in order that in his name now we can appear before

[00:25:42] God to obtain grace and that he may know us and own us as his children and that all our stains and

[00:25:48] spots may be wiped away that I say is what we have to consider in the first place

[00:25:55] now we come to the fall of Peter it is said a chamber made seeing him accused him of being a

[00:26:01] disciple of Jesus he denies it another chamber made returns he denies it again then more press him

[00:26:10] and make quite an issue of it then he begins to swear and even to curse and to use it as a means

[00:26:16] of showing hatred as if he said may I be damned may I perish may the earth swallow me up if I know him

[00:26:25] there then is the fall of a saint Peter and not one but three falls which are so heavy

[00:26:33] and so enormous that we surely ought to be frightened reading this story

[00:26:38] now we know the zeal which was in him moreover he had been praised by our Lord Jesus Christ

[00:26:44] and the name of Peter had been given to him to note the firmness and consistency of his faith

[00:26:50] he had been taught in such a good school he had heard this doctrine whoever will announce me before

[00:26:57] men him while I also renounce before God my Father to disavow him from me yet we see how he stumbles

[00:27:05] each one of us here surely has to have occasion to tremble for unless we are sustained from on high

[00:27:11] the weakness of Peter was no greater than our sins so in the first place we see how frail man are

[00:27:18] as soon as God has let go with his hand for this is not spoken of some maca of some profane man

[00:27:26] of someone who had never heard a particle of the gospel who had no fear of God and who had

[00:27:31] borne no reverence to our Lord Jesus Christ it is entirely the contrary for there were already

[00:27:37] some excellent gifts in Peter it had been said to him from the mouth of the Son of God

[00:27:42] flesh and blood have not revealed to you these things but my Father it is then the spirit of God

[00:27:50] which dwells in Peter yet how little he resists renouncing our Lord Jesus a chamber made

[00:27:57] if a man had assailed him if we had been some honorable person who had assailed him there might

[00:28:02] have been some excuse but we see that it required only a chamber made to make him give up hope of

[00:28:08] life and of salvation let us contemplate then in the person of Peter that it is very necessary

[00:28:15] that God strengthens us each and every minute for it is impossible to persevere otherwise

[00:28:22] although we may have tried to draw near to God and though we may have done many deeds of virtue

[00:28:27] all the same at the least little turning of the hand we will be entirely changed unless God

[00:28:33] continues to give us invincible constancy let us learn then to practice the admonition of St. Paul

[00:28:41] let him who stands take heed lest he fall it is true that we cannot maintain ourselves but let

[00:28:48] us recourse to him who as means however let us walk in all humility as St. Paul says in the other

[00:28:55] passage since it is God who gives the will and the deed and he does it by his good pleasure be

[00:29:01] advised sezzy to work out your salvation and fear and trembling Philippians 2 13 and 12 B

[00:29:10] as if he said that all presumption surely ought to be beaten down and indeed all in difference

[00:29:16] when we see what necessity we have to be helped by God and in so many ways it is not right

[00:29:22] that we be on our guard indeed that we do not presume at all on our own strength but that we be

[00:29:28] solicitous to call upon God evening and morning and to put ourselves in his keeping and leading

[00:29:35] that then is what we have to observe in the first place it is even very necessary for us to assume

[00:29:42] that the temptations although they may not be large will have soon overwhelmed us unless God by

[00:29:48] his grace works on it and he remedies it and those who imagine themselves to be the most

[00:29:54] hearty when they are far from blows find themselves as it were lost if there is only a little wind

[00:30:00] that blows it is true that if God assists us we persevere however great the storms that arise

[00:30:09] for we know the figure of speech that our Lord Jesus Christ drew that it building with a good

[00:30:14] foundation and built of good material although there that comes a great torrent always remains

[00:30:22] whole but what is built upon sand will soon go away in decay for although there may not be any

[00:30:30] enemy who fights us yet we will be conquered immediately when God withdraws from us or let's

[00:30:36] go of our hand as we see in Peter but it is still worse that it is not only once that he denies the

[00:30:43] Lord Jesus but he repeats it as many times as he is questioned we see that it did not matter at all

[00:30:50] to him that he was going from bad to worse even as he added his shout of hate as it were asking

[00:30:57] that God may curse him and swallow him up when we see that let us know that he who has fallen

[00:31:04] instead of wanting to be raised soon will plunge himself even more deeply into ruin until he

[00:31:11] completely perishes in it unless God remedies it this is the condition of men from the beginning

[00:31:20] they make themselves believe that they are marvels in their own power yet our Lord shows by experience

[00:31:26] that it is nothing and that only a little wind blows and they are beaten down still they are

[00:31:33] persuaded that they can stand up again but on the contrary they only augment their evil adding

[00:31:40] fault upon fault overflowing still more with preposterous deeds if Saint Peter had been tempted 100

[00:31:46] times in a day he would have renounced Jesus Christ 100 times and 1000 besides that is where he

[00:31:53] would have been unless God had pity on him but he spared him and did not wish to prove him further

[00:32:01] yet the three falls mentioned here are enough to show a dreadful example

[00:32:06] and it ought to make our hair stand up on end when we see that for the third time Peter so

[00:32:11] forgot himself and that he was as senseless as a brute to renounce his salvation

[00:32:18] we must always observe that if still other temptations had come upon him

[00:32:23] he would have resisted them no better and he would have put into the most profound depths of

[00:32:29] depravity unless God had spared him that much that then is how we have to profit from this doctrine

[00:32:38] now we do not hear these things in order to judge Peter and to condemn his cowardice

[00:32:44] may we know our weakness may we even know that we can do nothing at all may we not be inflated

[00:32:50] with pride attributing to ourselves by foolish opinions some virtue however may we also know

[00:32:58] since the devil has so many means to plot our ruin he would soon put an end to us since

[00:33:04] Saint Peter fell without Satan even making any appearance then finally let us know that our Lord

[00:33:11] Jesus has pity on us when he does not permit us to be tempted without limit for it is certain

[00:33:17] that always so much more evil would be uncovered and that there would be no end unless we were held

[00:33:24] back by his goodness these are all the things we have to observe however it is said

[00:33:31] Peter after having heard the cock crow as Saint Luke tells after Jesus Christ looked at him

[00:33:38] went outside and wept bitterly by this conclusion it is shown as I have already mentioned

[00:33:45] that the death and passion of our Lord Jesus has already produced its effect and its power in

[00:33:50] that Peter has been raised from such a horrible fall for isn't it a miracle that God had pity on

[00:33:57] him and that he still obtained mercy after having committed such a detestable fault we have declared

[00:34:05] that he could not have the excuse of ignorance as his fault of having renounced Jesus Christ

[00:34:10] were small for it had been said and pronounced to him that if he did not make confession of his

[00:34:16] and give testimony before men he would deserve to be entirely cut off before the angels of God

[00:34:22] in that his name be erased from the book of life however it does not matter to him that he sells

[00:34:29] this miserable and frail life by such a villainous renunciation indeed he has not even led before

[00:34:35] the judges he has not questioned through torture until he was at his physical limits there is only

[00:34:42] a chambermate who speaks to him nevertheless he did not forget all fear of God when then we see

[00:34:50] that let us think how much more necessary it was for us God displayed the infinite treasures of his

[00:34:57] goodness when he still allowed Peter to be a share of the fruit of the death and passion of his son

[00:35:04] it is then a miracle which ought to enrapture us that Peter obtained remission for such a great

[00:35:11] indeed as it appears by his repentance for it is certain that if a man is touched to the quick

[00:35:18] after having failed and he mones and wails before God to obtain pardon it is a sign that God has

[00:35:24] already received him and that he has reconciled him to himself for also repentance is a peculiar

[00:35:31] gift proceeding from the Holy Spirit who shows us that God has pity on us and that he does not

[00:35:36] will that we perish but he draws us to himself now we see that in Peter it follows then that already

[00:35:46] the death and passion of our Lord Jesus Christ was profitable to him indeed in a marvelous way as I

[00:35:52] have already said but in the first place let us note that Saint Peter always remained sleepy

[00:35:58] and stupid until he received the sign of which our Lord Jesus Christ had warned him that is

[00:36:04] that the cock would not crow until he renounced him three times or better that the cock would not

[00:36:10] crow for the second time unless Peter had already made his renunciations

[00:36:15] for if we were deprived of the grace of God and he did not exhort us to return to him it is certain

[00:36:22] that we would be preoccupied by Satan and all our senses would be brutalized so that we would have

[00:36:27] neither any scruple nor good movement to return to the way of salvation that then is what we must

[00:36:34] contemplate further in the person of Peter but when Saint Luke tells that Jesus Christ looked at him

[00:36:40] through that we are so much better taught that it is not sufficient to be stung and that someone

[00:36:46] tug on our ears to make us return to God but Jesus Christ must cast his glance and his look upon us

[00:36:53] now it is true that it is here spoken of only the look of the eyes however our Lord Jesus does

[00:36:59] not converse with us in a visible manner yet it is certain that until he cast his glance upon us

[00:37:06] we will always be blockaded fools in our faults and we will never think to moan and whale although

[00:37:12] we may have provoked the wrath of God although he may have his bow bent and his sword unsheathed

[00:37:20] we will always remain in our indifference until our Lord Jesus has made us feel that he has not

[00:37:26] forgotten us and that he is not willing that we perish but wishes to draw us back to himself

[00:37:32] and that it may be so we hear daily sermons by which we are exalted to repentance and how will

[00:37:38] we touch by them there are as many admonitions as there could be does not all creation inside us

[00:37:45] to come to God if our senses are well ruled so as to have some particle of prudence when the sun rises

[00:37:52] in the morning does it not call us to adore our God after that if we notice how the earth and

[00:37:59] all elements perform their offices the beasts and the trees that shows us that we must draw up to our

[00:38:05] God in order that he may be glorified in us and that we may not think of doing otherwise the rooster

[00:38:12] then has well-crowed and not only the rooster but God makes all his creatures above and below to

[00:38:18] crow to exhort us to come to him what is more he surely deems to open his sacred mouth through the

[00:38:26] law through his prophets and through the gospel to say return to me however it is seen as it were

[00:38:34] that we are dull such a stupidity is seen in us that we are basically monsters it is very necessary

[00:38:42] that our Lord Jesus regard us in pity as he did Peter in order to draw for much true

[00:38:48] wailing to give testimony of our penitence for when it is said that Peter wept bitterly it is to note

[00:38:56] the sorrow which St. Paul speaks in 2 Corinthians when he says that it works towards salvation

[00:39:02] 2 Corinthians 7 9 and 10 and that we ought not to flee but that we even ought to seek it

[00:39:09] although naturally we wish to enjoy ourselves and not to experience any nuisance yet we must have

[00:39:15] some melancholy as when God touches us with anguish we must be tormented in our hearts after having

[00:39:21] offended him for such unrest is to lead us to real rest and such sorrow is to make us rejoice both

[00:39:28] before God and before angels soon we will see that Judas repented but it is in another

[00:39:36] and different fashion but as for Peter he wept to show that he was greatly displeasing in his sin

[00:39:43] and he has fully returned to Jesus Christ let us note also that he went out to weep it is true

[00:39:52] that it still preceded from his weakness that he feared to show his repentance before the crowd

[00:39:59] but though that may be when he weeps alone he shows that he is touched by his fault and offense

[00:40:05] for he does not seek men to witness his repenting but being alone he weeps before God

[00:40:12] that is also how we must do it where if we weep only before men by that we show our hypocrisy

[00:40:20] but when each one has collected his thoughts and examines his faults and sins if he is then

[00:40:25] touched with anguish it is a sign that there is no make believe in him and that he knew his judge

[00:40:31] and that he is there to ask pardon and he well knew that it is the office of God to draw back

[00:40:37] from the depths those who are already as it were damned and lost

[00:40:44] that then in summary is what we have to remember from the account here given of the fall of Peter

[00:40:50] and concerning these three renunciations by which he had deserved to be cut off from the kingdom

[00:40:56] unless Jesus Christ had already displayed the power of his death and passion in order to draw him

[00:41:02] to repentance as we see that it came to pass. Next it is said the priests and governors took council

[00:41:10] to condemn Jesus but because that was not in their power they led him bound and tied to the governor

[00:41:16] who had jurisdiction over the country that is Pontius Pilate. After that the gospels tell that Judas

[00:41:24] repented seeing that Jesus Christ was condemned and threw down the money which he had received as

[00:41:30] the price and payment for his betray to completely confess his fault. However the priests are not

[00:41:36] willing to receive the money but it buys a potter's field where there had been some tile making so

[00:41:43] that the field was useless and could be neither cultivated nor seated they buy then this field to

[00:41:49] bury passers-by. Indeed they do it undercover of some devotion for they said that it was not lawful

[00:41:56] that this money be put with the offerings of the temple which the gospel writer says that was

[00:42:01] said by the prophet was fulfilled that the thirty denari by which God had been appraised by the people

[00:42:08] of Israel could be used for the pottery we have here to consider what was already begun that is

[00:42:15] the death and passion of our Lord Jesus does not bear fruit in all men because it is a special grace

[00:42:22] that God gives to his elect when he touches them by his Holy Spirit. Although they have fallen

[00:42:28] he raises them although they have gone astray like wandering sheep he corrects them and extends to

[00:42:34] them his hand to bring them back to his fold for there is Judas who is entirely cut off from the

[00:42:40] number of the children of God it is even necessary that his condemnation appear before men and

[00:42:46] that it be entirely obvious so let us learn following what I have already mentioned to know in

[00:42:52] everything and buy everything in the inestimable goodness of our God for as he declared his love toward

[00:42:59] mankind when he spared not his only son but delivered him to death for sinners also he declares a

[00:43:06] love which he bears especially toward us when by his Holy Spirit he touches us by the knowledge of

[00:43:12] our sins and he makes us wail and draws us to himself with repentance. The entrance then that we

[00:43:19] have come to our Lord Jesus Christ does not proceed from us but it is God that governs us

[00:43:25] and these circumstances are good to note behold Judas who had been a disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ

[00:43:32] he had done miracles in his name yet what is the issue of it may we then learn to fear and to walk

[00:43:40] in care casting ourselves entirely upon our God and may we pray that he may not permit us to fall

[00:43:47] into such confusion as this miserable wretch and even when we have fallen that he may raise us again

[00:43:54] by his power and that we may return to him not with such a repentance as that of Judas but with a true

[00:44:01] and right confession for the wicked mock God as much as they can they are pleased with their sins

[00:44:07] they even take glory in them and in the end they become as shameless as prostitutes as it is said

[00:44:13] by the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel besides in the end God makes them feel their sins and they are

[00:44:21] in such fright that they fret and cry oh no but it is not in order to conceive some hope and to

[00:44:28] present themselves to God rather it is a fury which drives them they flee as far as possible

[00:44:35] and they would like to pull down God from his throne it is only a matter of fretting and of

[00:44:40] gnashing their teeth and complete rebellion against him now we surely must come to another

[00:44:44] kind of repentance that is not that we are frightened seeing that we cannot escape the judgment

[00:44:50] in the hand of God but that we confess our sin and detest it in next that we do not cease to draw

[00:44:56] near to God indeed being summoned before him without being drawn to him by force but for our own

[00:45:03] good pleasure we come to do him homage and to confess that we deserve to perish nevertheless

[00:45:11] being assured that although we deserve a hundred thousand deaths he will not however cease to have

[00:45:17] pity on us that was the repentance of Peter but that of Judas ought to show us that it is not

[00:45:24] sufficient to have some feeling of our faults and some awareness but we must be fully converted

[00:45:30] to God this is very noteworthy because we see how many and nearly all flatter themselves they

[00:45:37] will be saved when they have made confession in a word of their faults however grievous they are

[00:45:43] it seems to them they are free and clear as if all they had to do was to wipe their mouths

[00:45:49] and even if some instances mention to them they imagine that they have done a great mistake

[00:45:54] why they say have I not recognized my fault have I not done penitence

[00:46:01] that is all the payment they make as if God were a little child who was appeased by some laughter

[00:46:06] even a false laughter which is full of hypocrisy and lying let us fear then when God admonishes

[00:46:13] us and he makes us feel our faults but let us not let it stop everything there for that is not

[00:46:19] proper repentance but here is the test by which we can know whether we are truly repentant or not

[00:46:26] it is when of our free will we seek complete accord with God and we do not flee being judged by him

[00:46:33] indeed provided that he receives us in mercy this is what he will do after we plead guilty

[00:46:41] for he who will judge himself in order to plead guilty before God before angels and before men

[00:46:47] will be justified and absolved since he asks only that God may be favorable toward him

[00:46:53] that then in summary is what we have to observe now this confession of Judas had to be made in order

[00:47:00] to render the priests all the more inexcusable also the gospel writer gives this account so that we

[00:47:06] may contemplate so much the better the blindness that Satan had put into all these repurpents

[00:47:13] and that each one may think of himself when God proposes to us such examples of his wrath

[00:47:20] and of his vengeance and he shows that men are as it were mad that they are depraved of sense and

[00:47:27] of reason that they are brutish to fling themselves with an infernal fury it is in order that each one

[00:47:34] of us may bow his head and that each one of us may know that we could often come to that unless

[00:47:39] we were preserved by the goodness and grace of our God however let us be advised not to fight against

[00:47:45] our own consciences as the priests did for all those who so hard at themselves against God in the end

[00:47:52] will fall into such a reprobate condition that they will no longer have any reason in them

[00:47:58] even after being undone before God they will also cease to be at all ashamed before men

[00:48:04] for it is a good thing that their wickedness is shown to all and that they be put in such disgrace

[00:48:10] that everyone may be horrified by their villainy that then is why the gospel writer has here related

[00:48:17] to us that when Judas came to pay back the money the priests were not at all moved by it

[00:48:23] it is true that they do say that it is not lawful to put it into the coffer of the treasury

[00:48:28] but that is the price of blood hypocrites always know how to guard their appearances they always make a

[00:48:35] show of covering for their iniquities but this is only mocking God for the number come in integrity

[00:48:42] and openness to him for what is there to say oh we will not put this money with the sacred

[00:48:47] treasury because it is the price of blood then this money had it been stolen it is known that the

[00:48:54] priests lived off the treasury of the temple as today in the papacy those who are called

[00:49:00] praylets and people of the church gobble up the tithes and do not care for what purposes they apply

[00:49:05] them although the priests had drawn from the tithes of the temple the money which they had given

[00:49:11] to Judas it does not matter to them they have no regard now they make an issue of putting this money

[00:49:17] back into the coffer of the treasury by which means they repulse Judas as it were by mockery and

[00:49:24] as if they said perhaps this wicked man did betray his master yet in order that we may not be

[00:49:30] sharers and his offense on our part and in order to keep our hands clean since they had used this

[00:49:35] money for such a purpose we will buy with it a field for the burial of strangers indeed to say

[00:49:42] that they have surely satisfied God and that he might not know how to ask more though there was

[00:49:48] some fault in what they did that is how hypocrites will always have their satisfactions thinking to

[00:49:54] buy their way out but this is only child's play yet let us know that this is recited to us in order

[00:50:00] that we may learn when we have fallen to recognize our faults and truth and not to make circuits from

[00:50:06] one side or from another but in everything and by everything to frankly bear condemnation

[00:50:13] that then is what has shown to us meanwhile let us pray to God that he removed from us the blindfold

[00:50:19] Satan is trying to put on in order that we may not die in our flatteries wishing to excuse evil

[00:50:26] but that more and more we may take the trouble to examine well all our vices to condemn them

[00:50:33] and to make an upright confession of them besides we also see how God overthrows the opinion of

[00:50:39] hypocrites that in the end they remain frustrated by what they had pretended for the priests had

[00:50:45] wished to erase their fault and that no one might ever mention it that is why they pretend when

[00:50:51] they buy a field for the burial of strangers but God turns that entirely to the contrary of their

[00:50:57] intention for this field must be called field of blood or field of murder that memorial must be

[00:51:04] perpetual and it remains forever on the mouths of men women and little children so that this

[00:51:10] detestable crime which had been committed by the priests is daily known and manifest and they say

[00:51:17] behold the field of blood that is the field that was bought with the price of betrayal and who did it

[00:51:25] the priests and the chiefs of all the people so then we see when hypocrites try to hide themselves

[00:51:33] in their crimes and to disguise themselves that God uncovers their villainy all the more

[00:51:39] and causes their shame to be known by all men and that everyone holds them in detestation

[00:51:46] that is why I have said it is all the more necessary that we be advised to come to God

[00:51:52] and there to uncover all our offenses in order that it may please him to bury them before him

[00:51:58] before his angels and before all the world when we have recognized them on our part

[00:52:05] finally the gospel writer cites a passage from the prophet to show that this is not recited only

[00:52:10] on account of the sin of Judas or on account of the devilish obscenity of the priests but on

[00:52:16] account of the condemnation of all people in general he says then what was written by the prophet

[00:52:22] has been fulfilled the God was appraised at thirty denariah and that was applied when a potter's

[00:52:29] field now zakiraya from whom this passage is drawn compares our lord Jesus Christ to a shepherd

[00:52:36] and says that wishing to govern the Jewish people he had taken his staff or a shepherd's

[00:52:41] crook which was called beauty in order to say that he had a condition so well ordered that it was

[00:52:48] possible among those people indeed that he might be allowed to be led by the hand of God

[00:52:53] is there anything more desirable and that it may be so where is our sovereign joy and bliss

[00:53:00] unless God cares for our salvation and he performs the office of shepherd among us that then was

[00:53:06] a government of God in those people when it is spoken of this rod not of a staff which is to strike

[00:53:12] and break everything but to lead and govern peaceably the sheep which become docile now it is said

[00:53:19] he took a second rod as in fact when the people had been returned from the captivity of Babylon

[00:53:25] God has then gone back to his position as shepherd after such a horrible dissipation

[00:53:31] as had existed previously he gathers in the people to govern them peaceably under his hand

[00:53:37] but in the end there was such villainous in gratitude that God had to quit everything

[00:53:43] so he says oh I see what it is I need not lose my time or my trouble with you

[00:53:50] he speaks here in the common fashion of men let us get on the march at once pay me that I may go

[00:53:56] away which they brought him thirty denari what says he is this the reward and payment I get from

[00:54:03] you for when he speaks of thirty denari he considers the ties which they made in the temple

[00:54:10] they were since they used them in hypocrisy without faith and without repentance only vain ceremonies

[00:54:17] which nevertheless the priests and the Jews prized highly as today the papists when they have done

[00:54:24] many holies and all their beautiful devotions it seems to them that God is almost indebted to them

[00:54:32] now God says all that is only rubbish how says he have I gained from you you're having gone

[00:54:40] perhaps that is the payment for a shepherd I would be obliged to you oh no oh no I have nothing

[00:54:48] to do with it go throw that in the pottery and may you decorate the mouths and handles of your

[00:54:55] pots with it go I am leaving you use that in your tile as if he said if it rains in your temple

[00:55:02] fix it yourselves as for me I no longer have any part or portion with you I wish you would go away

[00:55:10] and do not think to appease me here by bringing me as it were the payment of a scoundrel I do not approve

[00:55:17] at all of any of it that then is what the prophet in summary had intended now we know that what was

[00:55:24] predicted of our God then was fulfilled in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ who was our true God

[00:55:30] manifest in the flesh so it was necessary that in a visible manger this passage be verified

[00:55:37] and that Jesus Christ was appraised at only 30 to nareye that is that the people showed such

[00:55:43] villainous ingratitude toward him who was the eternal shepherd whom God had established over his

[00:55:48] people it is certain that since the people had left being governed by God also our Lord Jesus

[00:55:55] always performed the office of mediator indeed although he had not yet appeared in human flesh

[00:56:02] we must remember this well in order that we may learn on our part if God has exercised the

[00:56:08] grace to receive us as it were under his hand and we are his flock and he gives us our Lord Jesus

[00:56:16] Christ for a shepherd not to sting him so that his spirit is satan and wearyed by our acts of rebellion

[00:56:22] and ingratitude also we may not throw him any bouquets of flowers as they say in common proverb

[00:56:31] but since he gives himself to us may we cling to him as our God and King may we dedicate our whole

[00:56:37] lives to him and may we not bring him a payment that he rejects but may we present to him both

[00:56:43] our souls and our bodies for it is also very right that he should have all preeminence over us

[00:56:49] and that he possesses us entirely when we see that he seeks only our salvation now to end it

[00:56:56] and come to the conclusion it is said our Lord Jesus having been led before pilot answered

[00:57:02] nothing pilot asked him saying do you not speak at all do you not see the witnesses they have brought

[00:57:09] here against you and he handles his peace so that the judge marveled greatly in the first place we

[00:57:16] have to keep in memory when our Lord Jesus Christ is judged before an earthly judge that it was

[00:57:21] in order that we might be exempt and absolved from the condemnation which we deserve before the

[00:57:26] heavenly judge we know that we cannot escape what is written by the prophet Isaiah that every knee

[00:57:33] must bow before God Isaiah 45 23 since God is the judge of the world how can we subsist before his

[00:57:41] face and before his majesty there is not one of us who is not constrained to condemn himself a hundred

[00:57:48] thousand times when have we lived only a year in the world there are already a hundred thousand

[00:57:56] faults by which we deserve to be condemned there is no one who has not this testimony engraved upon

[00:58:03] his heart and he was not convinced of it now God who sees much more clearly than we how will

[00:58:09] he not condemn us when each one of us is able to condemn himself in so many ways but here our Lord

[00:58:17] Jesus is subjected to this humiliation of being accused before an earthly judge even before a

[00:58:23] profane man before a man who was pushed only by his greed and his ambition when then the son of

[00:58:31] God is humiliated to that extent let us know that it is in order that we may be able to come with

[00:58:37] heads raised before God and that he may receive us and that fear may no longer cause us to draw back

[00:58:43] from his judgment seat but that we may dare to approach it boldly knowing that we will be received

[00:58:49] there in mercy we even know that Jesus Christ acquired authority and power and sovereign

[00:58:55] dominion to be judge of the world and when he is condemned by pilot it is in order that today

[00:59:01] we may come boldly to him indeed knowing that power is given to him to judge us since he stood

[00:59:08] there may we know that he wished to bear our condemnation and that he did not intend a trial to

[00:59:14] justify himself also knowing well that he had to be condemned indeed in our person for although

[00:59:23] he was without spot or blemish he bore all our sins upon himself we need not be astonished then

[00:59:31] that he stood there as if he had been convicted for otherwise he could not have performed the

[00:59:36] office of mediator except by accepting a sentence and confessing that in our persons he had

[00:59:42] deserved to be condemned that then is what the silence of our Lord Jesus Christ implies

[00:59:48] in order that today we can call upon God with full voice and that we can ask him for pardon for

[00:59:54] all vices and offenses now let us bow in humble reverence before the majesty of our God

[01:00:06] thank you for listening to today's episode of revived

[01:00:15] Thosody sermon was narrated by Nick Garland long time reader for us Nick Garland thank you so

[01:00:20] much for reading today's sermon Nick Garland is a great guy I met him over the summer and he's

[01:00:28] really nice guy met him in Pennsylvania as I was traveling through and we're really grateful

[01:00:32] for him reading this episode and he's read some others for us too make sure you go check them out

[01:00:36] I believe Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim the Syrian was another one he did for us over the summer it's a

[01:00:42] really good one so go check those out also this episode came out before Easter you know what that

[01:00:49] means you need to also go listen to it when Easter hits too so make sure you re-listen to this

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[01:01:10] Easter message from John Calvin and I will say to in all seriousness if you have not listened to

[01:01:15] these sermons I think that John Calvin sermon series that we've done even though it is out of order

[01:01:21] on Jesus Christ's resurrection and crucifixion resurrection will deeply encourage you and I do

[01:01:27] recommend going and listening through all those episodes if you're if you're wanting to look at

[01:01:31] Easter if you're feeling like I've heard this story before I need to I need to hear a fresh

[01:01:35] go listen to those sermons by John Calvin they will hit you hard and you will you will have

[01:01:39] a deep appreciation for the cross and and have new eyes to look at I really do think you will

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