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April 16, 2025 - Jim Bakker Show
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The Jim Bakker Show with Rick Renner
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All Have Sinned 00:05:03
Hello and welcome to the Jim Baker Family Show coming to you from the village of Borningside, USA, nestled in the beautiful Ozark Mountains.
Today's special guest is author of over 50 books and founding pastor of the Moscow Good News Church in Russia, Pastor Rick Renner.
Our co-host today is Reverend Mondo de la Vega.
And now, live from Grace Street at Borningside, USA, here's your host, Pastor Ricky Baker.
Come on.
Hello, friends.
You're watching the PTL Television Network.
It is an exciting program we have for you today.
We have Rick Renner, the founding pastor of the Moscow Good News Church in Russia.
Renner Ministries is headquartered in Oklahoma with offices in England, Latvia, and Russia.
Rick is one of the most respected authorities of the Bible and has written more than 50 books, including Sparkling Gems from the Greek 1 and 2, Christmas, the rest of the story, The Last Day Survival Guide, which we love.
Pastor Jim Baker loves that book, and a book we're going to be talking about today called Easter, The Rest of the Story.
We're going to be getting into that.
Mono, there's a little bit more to it, I guess.
I never thought that Pastor Rick Renner could write a better book than his last one, but this one tops it off all over the world.
You got to get this book.
This is going to change the way you view Easter, the way you teach about Easter.
And Ricky, you know, the church has gotten out of control when it comes to celebrating Easter.
Yet, this book right here gives you the essence, the true meaning of Easter.
I hope that before this program is over, you visit the website, get this book.
You're not going to want to regret it one bit.
I can tell you that much.
Amen.
You really won't.
Friends, I want you to watch this video from your pastors, Jim and Lori Baker, about why the cross is the answer.
We are in a mess.
Our country's in a mess.
Our country's at war with itself.
We're fighting God.
We're taking crosses off from buildings.
That's right.
I don't know how long man can hold it together because desperate times are coming.
We're at the end of the book.
We're at the end of the story.
We're in the perilous times.
And it can be the greatest time the church has ever had.
The church has got to wake up and say, let's get back to Jesus.
Yes.
You sinned?
You don't say, get out of the church, you sinner.
You don't do that.
You don't say, you've got to resign from your company because you had sinned.
Do you know what?
The Bible says all have sinned.
Doesn't know what it says?
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
What's the answer for America?
It's Jesus Christ.
Amen.
It's the cross.
Amen?
He is the answer.
He is the only answer.
And it's time to get back to God.
Yes.
They're trying to have religion without God.
That's right.
They're trying to have religion without Jesus in this country.
And what are they doing?
It's anarchy.
We can't just throw people out.
You can't just fire people because they sin.
That's a cross problem.
Only the cross can solve the sin problem.
Do you get that?
Come on, church.
We've got the answer.
The church of Jesus Christ has the answer.
And it's time to turn back to Jesus Christ.
It's time to put him back on the throne.
He's on the throne anyway.
Yeah.
But in our lives and in our hearts.
That's right.
And it says right here, honey, in John 3 and 16 through 17.
We all know John 3, 16, I think, right?
I'm going to go ahead and read it, though, so you can get verse 17.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
Amen, friends.
I want to welcome to the program with us Pastor Rick Renner.
Pastor Rick, can you give us an update on your ministry, how everything is going?
You just did recently also a video series called The Sons of Issachar, which people can go and view right now.
And kind of give us an update on all of that.
Easter's Beginning 00:15:19
Well, things are doing really well.
But first of all, I want to say hello to you, Ricky.
Hello to Mondo.
And I want to pass my big hello to Jim and Lori, who Denise and I love so very, very much.
But things are good.
We're here in Moscow.
Kingdom of God is moving forward.
We just keep pushing the work of the enemy out of the way and keep preaching the gospel.
That's what we're called to do.
And I'm really honored that you've invited me to be with you today.
You know, we're talking about this new book today.
I'm very excited because it's Easter, the rest of the story.
In the beginning, you kind of give a little bit of why you love Easter so much.
But for those watching at home, why did you like Easter so much when you were growing up?
Well, when I was growing up, I grew up in a Baptist home and we were very, very serious about our faith.
We celebrated Christmas and we celebrated Easter.
I don't know why we didn't celebrate Pentecost, maybe because we didn't have a Pentecostal experience, but we really loved Easter.
And from the time that I was young, maybe like many of your listeners, I would wake up and I would find next to my bed a basket filled with fake grass and little gifts and chocolates.
And my parents really started every Easter with some kind of a celebration.
And then because we were going to celebrate Jesus' resurrection, my mother would put me in black slacks, little white shirt, and a black bow tie.
And my sisters were dressed up in their finest clothes.
And we would go to church as a family all dressed up because we were going to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.
And I have to tell you, Ricky, I just loved Easter.
I loved the songs up from the grave here rose, the Easter song later by the second chapter of Acts.
I mean, we sang those songs with all of our heart.
But one time, one year, I was listening to the pastor preach.
And I thought, you know, I've heard this message before.
In fact, I've heard it every year.
He preached the same message every single year.
And when I became an adult and God really taught me how to study the Bible and how to dive into history, I thought, you know, there's more to the Easter story than I ever heard.
And I bet it's wonderful.
So I took a deep dive.
And that's when I wrote my book, which is called Easter, the Rest of the Story.
Now, a lot of your viewers ordered my book, which is called Christmas, the Rest of the Story.
Well, they know it is beautifully illustrated.
Well, the same illustrator did this book.
And every single page of this book is amazing.
And when he was illustrating that moment when Jesus was flogged and scourged, he said, Rick, he said, the presence of God came into my room where I was.
He said, tears formed in my eyes.
The illustrations are just magnificent.
And they really help you understand exactly what happened in the final hours of Jesus' passion.
And that is what this book is about.
And it's really wonderful.
And Ricky and Mondo, I believe that it should be a keepsake in every home.
People are going to want to put it on their coffee table.
It's a book that their grandkids can look at, their kids can look at, they can look at, because every single page is fully illustrated, and people are going to learn things about Easter they have never heard in their life.
It is just a wonderful book.
I want to tell you something.
Most Easter books that are written give you this cartoon, cutesy little story.
What makes this book different?
This page right here.
Amen.
This page right here tells you all about what you're about to encounter in this book and the experience that it will never be the same for you.
I think the church has gotten away from the seriousness of what really means to have Easter.
Pastor Rick, I'm amazed, not only at you and what you're doing in your ministry and how you teach the word of God, but your passion to understand literally what the scriptures mean just on the fact of this picture right here.
Tell me, why was it so essential for the artist to include this and for you to be okay?
Well, when the artist did the first illustration of that, I was not pleased.
It was a good illustration, but I didn't feel it really showed the impact because when Jesus was flogged, it literally tore his back open.
And Mondo, it's interesting that just today, I'm writing a new book on healing and I've been writing about Isaiah 53, verse 5, which says, by his stripes we are healed.
Well, that's what that illustration is about.
But when people hear that word stripes, they think it was a little nick here and a little bruise there.
But in fact, Jesus' body was completely ripped wide open.
And years later, when Peter wrote about it, in 2 Peter 2, in 1 Peter 2, 24, he said, by his stripes you were healed.
And that word stripes is a Greek word which describes a body that has been so beaten that now it's all distended.
It is discolored.
It is swollen.
It really doesn't even look like a body.
And that is why Isaiah chapter 52 tells us that when Jesus hung on the cross, his figure was so marred, it was so twisted more than any human being had ever been twisted.
Jesus was literally scourged and ripped open.
And because of those stripes, we can be healed.
We thank God for doctors.
I believe we ought to use every tool in the toolbox against sickness and disease.
But you know what?
Jesus took those stripes on his back for our healing.
And when you really understood the price that he paid, it makes you want to embrace what belongs to you.
It's like the money is in the bank.
You just got to claim it.
The healing is in the bank.
It belongs to you by inheritance.
Now you just have to take it and you have to claim it.
But that's why that illustration was so important for me, Mondo.
This is amazing, Pastor Rick.
And as you're watching this program, don't wait till the end of the program to order this book.
I don't even want to call it a book, Ricky.
There's got to be a different name for something like this.
Yeah, this is truly just the story of what actually happened there at what we call Easter.
Absolutely.
Listen, I don't want to keep talking.
Call the number right now, 1-888-988-1588, because it's going to let you know an insight of what really happened during Jesus' last hour before the cross.
I think we have to get away from this idea that this cutesy story that we often tell is not described as an agony of pain that Jesus felt when he was praying in the garden.
Can you describe what that agony was like, Pastor?
Because in your book, you fascinate me on how you described it.
And with your words, we can imagine and use our imagination to really understand.
But tell us, what was the agony like for Jesus and what he felt?
Well, can you open to chapter one?
I want you to show that illustration.
It's an agony, agony in the garden where Jesus is laying on the ground.
And it's interesting that you would ask me to start there because that's where I had my Bible open, because that's where the book begins.
And when you come to Luke chapter 22, it tells us that Jesus came to the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples.
And there on the screen, you see a picture of Jesus praying, and in the distance are three of his disciples who are sleeping.
But in Luke chapter 22, it says, and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast and knelt down and prayed.
And when the Bible says he knelt down, the Greek word literally means he collapsed.
Jesus was under great, great, great spiritual and mental stress at this moment because he knew what was in front of him.
He knew he was going to be scourged.
He knew his beard was going to be ripped out of his face.
He knew his body was going to be pierced.
He was going to be crucified.
And he knew that he would lie in the grave and go to hell.
Jesus knew all of that.
And the Bible tells us, Luke 22, verse 42, that he said, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.
But you know what, Ricky and Mondo?
When you read Matthew's gospel, Matthew says he prayed this three times, three times.
Lord, if it's possible, nevertheless, not my will, but your will.
A second time he prayed it.
A third time he prayed it.
And every time he prayed, he said, not my will, not my will, not my will.
And in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was really dealing with a struggle in his will.
And that struggle is described in verse 43 and verse 44.
And verse 44 says, and being in an agony.
And the word agony that is used here is the Greek word agonidzo.
It is the word which describes two wrestlers that are slugging it out on the mat.
But in this particular case, Jesus was struggling between his heart and his emotions.
In his heart, he knew he was the Lamb of God.
He knew he was born to die on the cross and take away the sins of the world, but his mind and his emotions were saying, no, no, no, certainly you don't want to do this.
And he was in great, great, great agony.
It was like the wrestling match of his life between his heart and his emotions.
And in fact, the agony was so intense, it says he prayed more earnestly, which in Greek is the word ektenes.
And guess what, guys?
It's a word which describes somebody under such excruciating agony that they're laying on the ground, rolling around, writhing like they're writhing in pain, holding themselves on the side.
So when you see these religious pictures of Jesus, you know, with his hands together, he's on his knees, just tenderly, quietly praying.
It was not that way at all.
He was on his face.
Jesus was rolling around, writhing in agony.
And in fact, the verse goes on to say, and his sweat was, as it were, great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Well, we know now, because doctors have examined this, and this agrees with the Greek text, that there was a real medical condition that existed then and still exists today.
It's very rare.
But when an individual is under great, great, great, great mental stress, the mind begins to send signals to the body that it is under pressure.
And the body begins to respond as if it is under real pressure.
And because the body thinks it's under real pressure, the top layer of skin separates from the second layer and it forms a vacuum which fills with blood.
Well, because the person is already suffering and is in agony, they're already sweating.
But now that vacuum has been filled with blood, and the blood then begins to push through the pores of the skin.
It mixes together with the sweat, and it becomes a sweaty mess.
And that's what happened to Jesus.
And the reason the Holy Spirit included this was to let us know the level of pressure that Jesus was under in this moment.
It was the greatest warfare he had ever been through in his life.
And the warfare was not with the devil.
It was with his own mind.
It was with his own will.
And I want to say to you and to all the listeners, that's where the struggle really takes place.
You have authority over the devil.
Jesus had authority over the devil.
He had exercised authority over the devil his entire ministry.
But now in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was dealing with his mind and his emotions.
And now it is so intense, he is sweating blood.
And where are the disciples?
They're sleeping.
In fact, he went to them three times and said, could you not pray with me?
And they just kept falling asleep.
They didn't understand.
You know, it was Jesus' struggle.
It was not theirs.
And many often times when we're going through a hard time, we want people to pray with us and to understand, but they really can't understand because it's our problem.
It's not theirs.
And even if they try to understand what we're going through, they don't just seem to get it because they're not going through it.
It's us.
And now in this moment, Jesus kept saying to his disciples, would you not pray with me?
They just didn't get it.
They didn't understand what Jesus was facing.
So God did what God does.
He provided help in another way.
And we find that in verse 43.
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
And that word strengthening describes a robust injection of energy.
When that angel showed up, it filled Jesus with everything that he needed.
And finally, when you come to verse 46, he went to his disciples and he said, Rise, let's get going.
He knew the moment had come, and he conquered the battle really before he ever went to the cross.
He conquered the battle in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And that is why the book begins there.
And there's something else very interesting.
Most people think that everything in the Garden of Gethsemane happened among those gnarled olive trees, which you can still see today near the church for all nations.
But very near there, there is a grotto.
The word grotto really refers to an underground cave.
And we know from early historical writers, it was right in the middle of the Garden of Gethsemane.
When people would go there, usually they would go to the grotto or to that little cave because it would provide shelter from inclement weather.
And that's where Jesus and his disciples would regularly go.
So he left most of them there in the grotto.
He took three of them with him, walked over to where those big trees are today that you can still see in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And that's where he collapsed.
And he had this event, which we read about in Luke chapter 22.
So that's just how the book begins.
But Jesus really won the battle in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And I want to say to you, Ricky, and Lundo, and to all of our listeners, you can win the battle before you ever come up to the real problem.
If you can win the battle in your mind, if you can surrender to the will of God and really say, Father, I'm going to entrust myself into your hands and really settle that question, you can face anything.
And that's a very important lesson for Measter, the rest of the story.
Amen.
You know, on page 23, you say that people were aware of Jesus' divine power.
So why were they not afraid of him?
Well, they were afraid of him.
And in fact, when you come to John chapter 18, John is recounting the story when Judas Iscariot came with the soldiers to rest Jesus.
And it was a famous movie, a wonderful movie that came out several years ago.
We all went to it.
We loved it.
And it showed Judas Iscariot coming into the garden with a handful of soldiers.
But that's not what happened.
And in fact, Jesus' power was so legendary during his own lifetime that when Judas came, he came with a band of soldiers.
Jesus Heals Malchus' Ear 00:07:17
And that word band is the Greek word spira.
By the way, this is in the book and it's illustrated.
A spira is anywhere between 300 and 600 soldiers.
So when Judas came and they were going to arrest Jesus, He didn't come with just a handful of guys.
He came with 300 to 600 soldiers.
And the Gospels tell us all four Gospels that they came with weapons, they came with lanterns, they came with torches, they came with clubs.
They were ready for an all-out assault because they had all heard about the power of Jesus.
They didn't know what kind of power they were going to be confronted with.
And, you know, many times in the past, the religious leaders had tried to catch him.
And the Bible tells us over and over that he supernaturally slipped through the midst of them and they couldn't seem to ever lay hold of him.
That's why on the night he was arrested, they came with lanterns and torches.
Just in case Jesus tried to slip away from them again, they were prepared to search all night long.
And the Garden of Gethsemane was a place where there were a lot of places to hide.
For example, there were gnarled trees, there were big rocks, and there were a lot of tombs in the Garden of Gethsemane because the very pious Jews in Jerusalem liked to be buried there because of prophetic scriptures that had been given about the Mount of Olives.
And so they thought maybe Jesus would hide.
So they came with all kinds of torches and lanterns.
And just in case Jesus manifested his power, they came with full weaponry.
They came with knives.
They came with clubs.
And guess what?
All of that weaponry was to no avail.
Because in John chapter 18, Jesus stepped forward and said, who do you seek?
And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
And Jesus said, I am he.
That's what the King James Version says.
But the Greek says, ego Ami.
It literally means, I am.
And it's the very same words that God spoke to Moses in Exodus chapter 3 when God said, I am that I am.
So they said, we're looking for Jesus of Nazareth.
And Jesus said, all right, that's who you're looking for.
But let me tell you who I really am.
I am that I am.
He declared that he was God in the flesh.
And the Bible tells us in John chapter 18, there was such a divine blast of power when Jesus identified himself that the soldiers went backward and fell to the ground.
Now, that's really what it means.
So 300 to 600 soldiers, plus the religious leaders, plus the temple police, all of them together.
They're all trying to somehow resist an invisible force that's been detonated that's pushing them back.
They cannot resist it.
They collapse to the ground.
Wow.
And that's when Peter swung into action.
Something else I never heard growing up.
He grabbed a sword and he happened to see one of these men laying on the ground.
And this man's name was Malchus.
And Malchus was the public spokesman of the high priest.
Well, the high priest had a lot of bad things to say about Jesus, but he didn't say it.
His spokesman said it.
So Malchus, this spokesman, over the years had said a lot of foul things about Jesus and the disciples.
Well, when Peter, who was a hothead, saw Malchus laying there incapacitated by the power of God, he said, here is my opportunity.
And he grabbed a sword and swung.
And the Bible says, cut off his right ear.
But do you really think he was aiming for the ear?
Who says, I'm going to cut your ear off?
He was swinging for the head, and he got the ear.
Praise God, he missed.
But as Malchus now is getting up off of the ground and blood is pouring from the side of his head and his ear is missing, we're told in the Gospel of Matthew that Jesus said, give me just a minute.
So now Jesus in this very intense moment has to step in and clean up Peter's mess.
And the Bible says he laid his hand on Malchus' head.
Now, we don't know whether Jesus picked the ear up that had been severed and put it back or whether he just grew a new ear.
But when Jesus was finished praying for Malchus, there was a new ear on this side of his head.
And then can I tell you what happened next?
I'm telling you, this is amazing.
Please forgive me for talking and talking, but I love Easter, the rest of the story.
When you come to the Gospel of Mark, it tells us what happened next.
And this is another event that most people have never heard about.
Listen to this.
It says in verse 51, and there followed him, followed Jesus, a certain young man having a linen cloth cast about his naked body.
So there was a naked boy in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And the young men, that is the young men that were there in the garden who came to arrest Jesus, laid hold of him in verse 52, and he fled, leaving the linen cloth and leaving from them naked.
So who in the world is the naked boy in the Garden of Gethsemane?
Well, the answer is the word linencloth.
Because those words, linen cloth, and by the way, this is also illustrated in that book.
Those words, linen cloth, are a word which describes a burial shroud.
Well, I told you there were a lot of tombs in the Garden of Gethsemane, and that's where rich Jews buried their dead.
And how would they bury their dead?
They would bury them naked, and they would cover them with a linen cloth.
That's exactly how they buried Jesus.
But now, when Jesus said, I am he, and that power knocked all those soldiers back to the ground, that power accidentally touched a young boy that had just been dead.
That's why he's naked.
He's laying in his tomb covered with a linen cloth.
This power of God, a periphery resurrection, touches him.
He's accidentally raised from the dead by the power of God, comes crawling out of his tomb.
And now a young boy just raised from the dead is standing in the middle of all these soldiers holding his linen cloth.
And they all know this is a dead boy that's just come back to life again.
And somebody said, catch that boy, because the last thing they wanted at that moment was the story of another resurrection.
And the young man fled naked, and those soldiers and Judas Iscariot stood there holding the bearer shroud of a boy that had just been raised from the dead.
You know, when you put all this together, you really discover they did not have the authority to take Jesus.
In fact, Jesus said he had the ability to call 12 legions of angels.
He could have called 144,000 angels that were at his disposal at that moment.
But the Bible tells us after all these events in the Garden of Gethsemane took place, they led him to Caiaphas.
And the word led is the word ago.
It's a Greek word which describes putting the rope around the neck of an animal to lead it to its slaughter.
Jesus allowed them to take him.
Pilate's Dilemma 00:13:13
And it might have looked like they were taking him, but in fact, Jesus was led.
He was being led by the Holy Spirit to be flogged, to be scourged, to die on the cross, to be buried and to be resurrected.
He had won the battle while he was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Is that amazing, guys?
Wow.
Amen.
Wow.
Amen.
I never knew that story.
I've read the Bible.
I try to understand it as much as my mind can possibly comprehend the stories, but you have opened up a different dimension.
And if you want to read more about what Pastor Renner is explaining and ministering on, I urge you to get the book today.
Get several copies.
I'm telling you, you're not going to want to put this down.
You're going to want to share this.
This will be a legacy gift that you can pass down from generation to generation.
Call the number right now, 1-888-988-1588.
Or if you'd like to visit the website, jimbakershow.com and visit the affiliate page of Norai Ministries or Norai Media and get the book right there.
Get several copies.
This is an extraordinary book in the sense that we get the insight, really the insight story, Ricky, of a moment of Jesus' life that has never been told in this manner before.
The battle that he battled was the greatest battle that he's ever come across was the battle of the mind.
And if you wonder why you're battling your thoughts, don't feel alone.
Jesus himself took on that battle with you.
And this is the reason why we see a lot of deaths today committing suicide because the battle of the mind, we call it mental health illnesses.
This is a real struggle.
If Jesus himself dealt with that, I can tell you that he's given us a way out.
And that way out is through his blood.
Listen, don't miss this moment.
This could be one of the greatest witnessing tools that you can give somebody as a gift today that can change their perspective on the life of Jesus, the last few hours, I believe, that can change everything.
Amen.
Pastor Rick, how did Pilate attempt to avoid responsibility on Jesus' crucifixion?
We see he was trying to continuously pass it off, but why is that?
Well, all of this is in the book.
And I just want to say to all the grandparents that are listening, you need to get this book for your grandkids.
Please order this book.
I'm not trying to sell a book.
I really believe this book will cause Easter to come alive.
And when your kids and your grandkids and your friends see the illustrations, they will not want to put this book down.
But Pilate was a very rough character.
Most Roman governors were only governor for two years.
That's all they could handle in Judea.
But Pilate was governor for 10 years.
Well, to be in that position for 10 years, you had to be a pretty brutal individual.
And Pilate was really brutal.
But when he looked into the face of Jesus, he must have seen something in Jesus' eyes that completely captivated him.
And in fact, he asked Jesus three times, are you the king of the Jews?
You know why he asked him three times?
Pilate was the chief attorney of the land.
He was.
He was the attorney general of Israel.
All law was in his hand.
And by Roman law, you had a right to defend yourself three times.
And if you did not defend yourself after the third time, you were automatically charged.
And that's why Pilate was so amazed.
He kept asking Jesus, are you not going to answer me?
Do you not hear what I'm asking you?
Do you not realize that I have the power to take your life?
Are you not listening to me?
And Jesus passed up through all three chances because he knew his role was to be the Lamb of God to die on that cross.
But Pilate was just stunned by this.
And Pilate said, I find no cause in this man.
The Greek word hitama, it means I find no reasonable charge against this man.
Well, Pilate was the chief lawyer of the nation.
If anybody had known Jesus had broken a law or had committed treason, Pilate would have been the one to know that.
But he couldn't find it.
And not only that, Pilate's wife had had a dream the night before.
She came in just as Jesus' trial was beginning.
She said, be good to this man.
This is a righteous man.
And many people believe that Pilate's wife was privately a believer.
But when Pilate found out that Jesus really came from Nazareth, he was thrilled because that was not his jurisdiction.
That was the jurisdiction of Herod Antipas.
And guess what?
Because it was the time of the Passover, Herod Antipas happened to be in town.
He was just on the other side of Jerusalem in his palace.
And Pilate said, hip, hip, hooray.
If you're from Nazareth, it means I'm not the one that has to deal with you.
You are under Herod Antipas' jurisdiction.
And he sent Jesus across town to Herod.
And when Jesus stood in front of Herod, the Bible says Herod was elated because for a long time he had heard stories about Jesus.
Well, what stories had he heard?
His father was Herod the Great.
He knew that his father, Herod the Great, had killed all the babies trying to kill Jesus, but Jesus escaped.
Herod Antipas knew that the wise men came to see his father, Herod the Great.
For all these years, he'd been hearing legendary stories about the power of Jesus and the miracles of Jesus.
So Jesus' name was a big name in the Herod house.
And now Jesus is standing in front of Herod Antipas.
And Herod wants to see Jesus perform a miracle on demand.
And Jesus refuses to do it.
And the Bible says Herod was so incensed that he and his soldiers, his bodyguards, began to mock Jesus.
And the word mock means a game of charades.
And we know what that means.
It means they began to pretend like they were people that were being healed.
They were falling on the ground.
They were mocking Jesus saying, oh, yeah, come on, miracle worker, now I can see.
And they were acting like their eyes had been opened or their ears had been opened, just mocking Jesus.
And then when they were finished mocking Jesus, they wrapped Jesus in a scarlet robe.
A scarlet robe was the robe worn by political candidates that were running for office.
This was no accident that it was a scarlet robe.
Then when they sent Jesus back across town to Pilate again, and Jesus showed up in a scarlet robe, it was Herod's declaration, this is no king.
This is a pretender running for office.
This is a wannabe who wants to be the king of the Jews.
It was insulting and it was mockery.
And then Jesus ended up once again in front of Pilate.
Pilate couldn't seem to get rid of this problem.
But you know, when I was writing my book, Easter, the rest of the story, I was thinking about people who feel like they've been passed from one person to another person and just knocked around in life.
That's what Jesus felt.
Pilate didn't know what to do with him, so Pilate sent him across town.
Herod didn't know what to do with him, so Herod sent him back across town.
And, you know, Jesus absolutely understands.
And if you're one of those people and you feel that you've been passed around, you've been beaten, you've been abused, passed from one person to another, Jesus absolutely understands because that is what happened to him.
But when he was finally, at last, in front of Pilate, Pilate was put into a very difficult position where he had to either save his own career or crucify Jesus.
And when he had to decide between him and Jesus, he chose to kill Jesus.
And the first thing he did was send Jesus to be scourged.
Now, Mondo, you have that picture of Jesus being beaten.
That's the moment when Jesus was scourged.
A Roman scourging was the worst persecution in the entire Roman Empire.
And in fact, the scourge was so terrible that if there was a big demonstration, a big revolt, all that had to happen was for a Roman soldier to hold a scourge up into the air.
And immediately the crowd would calm down because no one wanted to be scourged.
And when they scourged you, they tied you to a column.
It was a half column.
In fact, that half column that Jesus was scourged on is still in Jerusalem today.
You can see it in the church of the Holy Sepulchre.
It's really there.
And by the way, it's illustrated in the book.
And they tied him over it.
They bound his arms so that he could not move.
And then two men came, each having a scourge, and they began to whip him from both sides, taking turns.
One would whip, and then another whip, and another whip.
The scourge had three long strands of leather, and on each end of leather, there were pieces of glass, metal, and bone.
It was very sharp.
And these would lodge into the flesh.
And the person scourging would then jerk back so that when they would jerk back, the bone, the metal, and the glass would pull hunks of flesh out of the victim.
And we're told by the writer Josephus and Eusebius that many people died from the scourging.
He could lay open the sinews.
There were times when people's bowels would spill out.
A scourge was a horrible, horrible event.
So when you see Jesus illustrated on the cross or in a painting, and he just has a few little marks on his body, it fails to miss the point.
Jesus was completely ripped open.
And because no one wants to offend anybody else, they always paint Jesus with a little garment around his waist to hide his private parts.
But my friends, he did not have anything wrapped around his waist.
His buttocks was ripped open.
His chest was ripped open.
Every part of his body was ripped open.
And Jesus took those stripes for you and for me.
And then afterward, he had to carry the cross beam of the cross all the way to the place of execution.
Imagine the weight of that cross on his shoulders that had been ripped open.
And then when they crucified him, they didn't crucify you through the palms of the hands like most people think.
And this also is illustrated in the book.
They crucified you through your wrists.
If they crucified you through the palms of your hands, it would rip through your hand.
So Romans crucified through the wrists, and they drove the nail through the ankles into the side of the upward post.
And the victim then would push up on his feet to breathe and would slump back down, push back up, slump back down, and every time he would slump back down, it would begin to pull his arms out of socket.
And it was very normal in crucifixion for a person's arms to be extended nine inches longer than normal.
That's how far their arms would be pulled out of socket.
And finally, when they could no longer push up on their foot because their arms have been so pulled out of socket, they have the ability to pull themselves up anymore.
They would stay in that slumped position.
Their lungs would begin to fill with liquid and they would die of asphyxiation or they would drown to death in their own liquid.
And that is precisely what happened to Jesus.
And that is why it was so hard for him to breathe at the very end.
But finally, Jesus took him one deep breath and cried out and said, it is finished.
In Greek, it is the word telestai.
It means, Father, I finish the mission that you've assigned to me.
It's done.
It was also the word which described the closing of a chapter in the beginning of a new chapter.
Jesus cried out, the old covenant is finished.
The new covenant is beginning.
It was also telestai, the word which was used to stamp on a debt when a debt had been paid in full.
Jesus was saying, telestai, it is finished.
The debt is paid in full.
Jesus let out the greatest battle cry in human history, and then he gave up the ghost.
And when the soldier came to see if he was dead, well, Roman soldiers knew dead people.
That was their specialty, was working with death.
When they saw that he was dead, just to make sure, they put a spear into his side and blood and water came out, proof that he had asphyxiated or he had drowned to death in his own liquids in his lungs.
That's what happened to Jesus.
It was quite an event.
Isn't that amazing?
If this story doesn't move your soul, for God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son, you don't send your son to have a crucifixion to be mocked, to be ridiculed, just for the fun of it.
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The greatest story of all time has been told in so many different ways, but when you really get down to the nitty-gritty of really of what happened, if your heart's not moved, if your heart doesn't move one inch to hear what they did to our Savior, then you have to ask yourself, where is my heart?
Because we have failed in the church to really display the agony that our Savior, Jesus Christ, had to endure the process of getting to the cross and then the process of hanging in the cross for you and I to be forgiven of our sins,
for you and I to realize that someone loved us enough to bear witness of some of the most unbelievable hatreds that mankind had towards one man.
The betrayal that took place, the significance of understanding even the kiss that Judas gave him was so significant.
And I don't mean to go back on the story, Pastor Renner, but the significance of that kiss is what we're watching today in many families today in ministry, in our politics, in our nation.
Explain to us the character that bears witness on the betrayal because I believe, maybe I'm wrong, but you can correct me if I'm wrong, Pastor.
How did Jesus get past the betrayal of one of his own?
Well, when Judas Iscariot came to Jesus, Jesus greeted him and said, Hello, friend.
Do you know that's the only time Jesus ever called one of his disciples friend?
That's the only time.
And it tells us that he had a unique relationship with Judas.
Well, think about it.
Judas handled all the money of the ministry.
It meant that he and Jesus were talking all the time because decisions had to be made.
Who are we going to feed?
Who are we going to help with humanitarian relief?
Jesus and Judas were working together all the time.
But Jesus knew that Judas had a flaw.
He knew that.
But Jesus loved him in spite of his flaw.
And when Judas came, he actually said, Hey, buddy, that's really what it means in Greek.
Hi, buddy.
Hey, friend.
Hey, comrade.
Hey, my companion.
And then Judas did the unthinkable.
And here is what's very interesting.
When Judas came forward, he called Jesus teacher.
He did not call Jesus Lord.
And in fact, if you look at all the Gospels, all the disciples called Jesus Lord.
Judas only called Jesus teacher.
He received Jesus on the level as a teacher and respected him, wanted to get the bang out of Jesus' teaching ministry, but he had never really submitted to the Lordship of Jesus.
And a crucial moment came that revealed the real level of their relationship.
And sometimes in life, you come to a moment with a relative or a friend.
You always thought that you knew them and you always thought that they knew you.
But a revealing moment comes when you find out, you know what?
They're not who I thought they were.
Wow.
And it's always a disappointing moment.
But Jesus was enabled by the grace of God to overlook it.
And God's grace will allow you to overlook it too.
But can I share one more thing?
In Isaiah 53, I want to go back to the work of the cross.
In Isaiah 53, verse 4, it says, Surely he has borne our griefs.
That word griefs is the word for pains, physical pains.
He has carried our sorrows.
This word sorrows is connected to the mental realm.
Notice this.
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
He was wounded for our transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
But look at those two words.
He was stricken and smitten of God.
Now, those words are kind of hard to see.
But when Jesus was on the cross, he absorbed human sin.
Jesus literally became sin.
Jesus absorbed all human sickness.
Jesus became a mess of sin and sickness.
And when the Bible says he was stricken and smitten of God, that word spit means to strike an enemy.
When God struck Jesus on the cross, he really wasn't striking Jesus.
God was dealing a death blow to sin.
He was striking sin that Jesus had absorbed.
Jesus was striking sickness, illness, disease that Jesus had absorbed.
This was a death strike, a death blow of God the Father striking these things that had been released into the world because of Adam's transgression.
God literally dealt a death blow to sin, lack of peace, to sickness.
And that is why verse 5 gloriously says he was wounded for our transgressions.
The word transgressions describes our rebellious attitude.
He was bruised for our iniquities, the things we've done that we know we're not supposed to do.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
And the word peace is the word shalom.
It describes wholeness in every area of our life, which means God really desires for us to have wholeness, that we be whole individuals.
And that's why the end of the verse says, and with his stripes we are healed.
And that word healed is the word Raphael.
The same word for Jehovah, Raphael, I am the Lord thy God that healeth thee.
It's the word always used to describe physical healing.
So in the work of the cross, Jesus took the price for our transgressions, for our iniquities.
He paid the price so that if we are mentally tormented or in mental anguish, it can be removed.
And if we're bearing any kind of ailment in our physical bodies, those stripes on Jesus' bodies were afflicted on him so that we can be physically healed.
That is clearly what the Bible teaches in Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 and verse 5.
Now, Mondo and Ricky, I grew up in a wonderful church, but I never heard that Jesus died for my sicknesses.
Never heard that.
In fact, when we said that by his stripes we are healed, we always said that means you get spiritually healed the day you get saved.
Guys, that's not true.
Nobody gets healed the day they get saved.
The Bible says we're dead.
We're dead in sin.
You don't heal a dead person.
Dead people have to be resurrected.
We were resurrected the day that we were saved.
You don't heal somebody that's dead.
So this is not spiritual healing.
This is a word, the word Raphael, it describes physical healing.
And that means part of the work of Christ on the cross really did include procuring for me and for you healing, freedom from pain, freedom from mental and anguish and torment, that we would be able to have wholeness and peace in our life, and that we would not be sick.
That really is what the gospel is about.
And that's why the gospel is called good news.
And all of this is included.
Easter, The Rest Of The Story 00:10:38
in Easter, the rest of the story.
There's so much to the story of Easter, and we need to understand every single piece of it because it's all so relevant.
And I'm thankful that you've allowed me to share it with you.
Easter, the rest of the story.
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It is right here.
Mona, I love it.
It says on the front very clearly, he is not here, for he has risen.
Pastor Rick, I want to say thank you for writing this.
Just a few minutes left in the broadcast.
I'm going to ask a question of what the significance is for Mary Magdalene discovering the empty tomb first.
Well, she was a woman, and she was the first one to preach the gospel.
And I even think that is so very important because, you know, people say women can't preach and women can't do this and women can't do that.
But the gospel is liberating for everybody.
And Mary Magdalene was the first one there.
And she was the one who was the first to see Jesus raised from the dead.
And she was the first to return to the apostles and to preach.
And she was the one who told them that he's been raised from the dead.
Wow.
Pretty significant.
And God is still using women today.
And that's also in Christmas.
That's also in Easter, the rest of the story.
This is powerful.
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Oh, man, this is powerful book.
I want to ask you this before we leave the air.
What was Jesus been doing for the last 2,000 years?
I think everybody wants to know what has he been up to?
What's going on in heaven?
What's going on with Jesus?
Well, he's been seated at the Father's right handstand, really busy praying for me.
Praying for you.
He ever lives to make intercession for us.
And of course, he is the head of the church.
He's giving directions to the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit's carrying out his lordship, his instructions in the church.
But Jesus is really staying busy for these last 2,000 years.
And one of these days soon, he's coming.
And by the way, guys, I have a new book coming out called The Rapture of the Antichrist and the Tribulation.
Jesus is going to come real, real soon.
And Jesus is preparing for the moment when the Father says, okay, this is the moment.
Go get him.
Oh, it's right in front of us.
It is just so glorious.
Amen.
Friends, we want to make sure that you are prepared.
The most important preparation you can do is spiritual preparation.
Make sure you have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
It is the most important decision that you will ever make is saying yes to Jesus Christ, knowing him and allowing him to know you.
I want you to watch this video from your friend, your pastor, Pastor Jim Baker.
This is really important, friends.
Pay attention to what he's saying right now.
I'm asking you to turn your life to God before it's too late.
To give your heart to Jesus.
This is a nation that has a curse on it.
It has brought the curse on itself.
And just what I read to you from the Bible, what the Spirit speaks and says to this nation, this is time for you to make sure you're right with God.
The whole world, I'm sorry to say, probably won't be saved.
The Bible says something that scares me: it says, Narrow is the way to heaven, and that few there be that find it.
As we see in America, millions have turned from God, turned away, just as I read in the scripture.
In the latter times, people will depart from the faith.
So don't be discouraged by what you see.
Understand, God knew this was coming and He told us about it in His Word.
But we need to be right with God, we need to make sure we're walking with God.
If you've made mistakes in your life and the devil keeps reminding you of your sins, just say, No, I am a child of God.
I've given my life to Jesus.
He forgives me of all my sins, He cleanses me from all unrighteousness.
And if you're not sure, just say, Jesus, come into my heart.
I used to get saved every week when I was a little boy, when a young teenager, and all the sermons would scare me to death.
And I think, well, that's not such a bad idea.
I think people need to stop taking God for granted.
And I think we need to walk softly before Him and reverently before Him and let Him serve us.
If you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He died on the cross, that He rose from the grave, you will have eternal life.
Ask Him to forgive your sins, He will come in.
He says, I'll forgive your sins.
I'll forgive you of all your unrighteousness.
And He says, I want to bury your sins in the deepest sea of God's forgetfulness.
He says, I'm going to never remember them against you.
So, when the devil tries to tell you what you did in the past, you say, Devil, it's under the blood.
You're a liar.
That's right.
So, today, serve God with all your heart.
He's coming soon.
Wow.
Pastor Rick Renner, as people watch today, if somebody's on the fence about giving their life to the Lord or rededicating their life to doing His will, what would you say to them right now as they watch this program?
Don't waste a minute.
You need to do it today.
What can you lose by giving your life to Jesus?
Everything is in front of you.
It guarantees your eternity.
It guarantees you're going to have authority and power right now in your life.
There's every reason for you to make that decision.
So do it today.
And I also just want to say thank you to you, Ricky.
Thank you, Damondo.
Big hello to Jim and precious Lori, all the partners of this ministry.
Thank you for what you do and for touching the world with the gospel.
Amen.
The mission of this ministry is to always preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, getting the church prepared.
As we're watching events taking place all over the world, the church should be there.
We should be the number one of all nations to show up and show up with help.
You can do that today.
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You know why?
Because the church has the answer.
The church arrives first, and the church is the one that stays.
The church will always be the one that God will use in a time of need.
And this ministry has dedicated itself to be able to be one of those ministries that can continue to serve the community, serve other ministries by bringing you the very best food.
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We love you.
Amen.
Friends, we want you to make the most important decision you've ever made in your entire life.
Call our number.
It's 1-888-988-1588.
Give your life to Jesus today.
It'll be the best decision you have ever made.
Friends, that doesn't mean that life is always going to be easy.
It doesn't mean you won't face trials and tribulations.
It simply means you have already won those trials and tribulations.
It means that your yoke will be easy because you have now put your burden on Christ.
He has absorbed that on the cross as so beautifully written right here in this book.
Friends, we want you to have an eternal position secured.
We care more about your eternal position than your temporary happiness.
It's why we call out the culture today that is anti-God, anti-Jesus, and anti-Christ.
Friends, we want to make sure that you know the one true living God, the way, the truth, and the life, the only way to the Father, Jesus Christ.
It really is the only way to heaven, friends.
And we want to make sure you have a relationship with him and he has a relationship with you.
Pastor Rick Rutter, I want to say thank you for being on the broadcast, talking about your book today.
It's been an honor to speak with you.
I know Pastor Jim Baker loves you deeply.
He considers you a wonderful friend.
And thank you for being a faithful member of coming on and being a part of what this program is all about, preaching the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Friends, if you're watching this today, if you're going to work or going to sleep, if you're about your midday business, don't let anybody convince you otherwise.
God loves you.
He really does.
Bye-bye for today.
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