October 7, 2025 • 19 mins
We explore some often overlooked and untold stories of Jesus by examining moments from his life around the time of his crucifixion.
We discuss how Jesus exemplifies true manhood through His courage, strength, and dedication to His mission.
Join us as we dive into moments from the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus’s trials, and His conquest over death and Hades, highlighting why these stories should be celebrated and emulated.
00:00 Introduction: Iconic Male Heroes
01:54 Reevaluating Jesus as a Manly Man
04:24 The Garden of Gethsemane: A Test of Courage
09:49 The Trial: Facing Authority with Strength
13:31 The Harrowing of Hell: Jesus' Ultimate Victory
18:24 Conclusion: Jesus, The Ultimate Epic Hero
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Men.
When you think about the moviesand the stories that you love
and the characters in thosestories, who are men that you
most would want to be like, whoreally comes to mind for you?
If you think about some recentstories, it might be somebody
like Captain America or Thor,right?
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These kind of heroic, you know,action superhero type figures
who save the day, but also likehave these incredible physiques
and just look like, you know, asmanly a man as they possibly
could.
Maybe you think about somebodylike Jack Reacher, you know,
who's this kind of little morelike real life type character,
but has this larger than lifepersonality and body, right?
(00:45):
We kind of tend to idolize thesevery like hyper masculine
figures that come out of thesestories and movies that we love
and think that's the kind of manthat I want to be.
I want to, I wanna be like that.
Maybe you, you go back tostories that are a little bit
older, stories that were bigduring my young adult years.
Things like, uh, or characterslike William Wallace from
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Braveheart, or Maximus fromGladiator, or even Aragorn from
the Lord of the Rings, movies,characters like that, that just
had these kind of epic storiesthat they were a part of and
stood for all the right thingsin the midst of really, really
difficult circumstances.
Those were the kind of.
Epic hero men that we wanted tobe like, or maybe you go back
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even further to tales andstories for with actors like
John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, orSean Connery as James Bond.
You know, any of those kinds of,again, kind of hyper masculine
figures who stood out and reallykind of represented, yeah, this
is what it looks like to be acool, a badass man.
You know, just whatever.
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It was the kind of man thatevery man seemed to really want
to be like.
Now in the midst of characterslike that, what about Jesus?
Right?
It, it almost kind of seems likelaughable for me to throw his
name into the midst of all ofthose kinds of really masculine,
manly men sort of characters.
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Because when we think aboutJesus, manly man isn't usually
the phrase that we would conjureup as a way of being able to
describe him.
But we're in the midst of thisseries here where I'm actually
trying to say, Hey, I, I dothink there are some reasons
that we should consider Jesus asa manly man.
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We should look at him as the manmost worthy of following, and
the man that we really want tobe like Now, no, he's not going
to have, you know, a chest andabs like Chris Hemsworth has,
and he's not going to be thewomanizer like James Bond was,
but.
I don't know that those thingsare really what makes a man a
man anyway.
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And most of us as men would kindof recognize that those things
aren't attainable or even goodfor most of us.
But what does make a man a trueman are things that Jesus really
embodies.
Here at the Manhood TribesChannel, we talk a lot about
these ideas of the five marks ofmanhood.
And if you've missed me talkingabout that, go back and watch
just our most recent video, uh,episode 48, where I talk about
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how Jesus embodies the fivemarks of manhood.
But I want to today in thisepisode, because we're talking
about characters and stories, Iwant to really try to call out
some of the stories from Jesus'life that help highlight why he
is such a manly man.
Why he is the kind of man thatall of us would want to follow.
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'cause I think what we'veactually done is a real
discredit to Jesus.
There are some moments from hislife.
There are real stories of hisheroism and his strength and his
masculinity that for some reasonhave kind of gotten like left
out.
We just don't talk about thesestories as much, and yet they
are the kinds of things that ifwe were reading an old school
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Western, which show up in thosekinds of stories, or if we were
reading an.
Epic fantasy, we would go, wow,that character is awesome.
I wanna be like him.
But we as men, in particular inour churches today, don't really
talk about those kinds ofstories.
We don't celebrate themasculinity of Jesus as much,
and I think that's a realdiscredit to Jesus.
He is and was a man.
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He lived as a man, and so weneed to celebrate that side of
him as well.
So today I want to talk about afew stories that are from the
time period around hiscrucifixion.
Now, a lot of people, even ifyou're not religious, you don't
know much about Jesus.
Probably know a little bit abouthis crucifixion that he died on
a cross in the city of Jerusalemand that he came back to life
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three days later.
And that's the kind of centralstory of what Christianity is
all about.
We know some about the thetorture and the agony and the
pain of crucifixion and howawful it was, and that he had to
endure those things, but that'skind of the common stuff that
most people know.
Even a little bit about thoseparts of the stories.
But there's some.
Hidden details in the midst ofthat story that often get
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overlooked that I think I wannapay a little more attention to
today that are gonna highlightfor us the masculinity of Jesus
and really why he is kind of theepic hero that all of us wish
that we could beat.
That he is the kind of man whoactually is worth emulating or
following that we want to try tomodel ourselves after.
So let's look at three differentkind of moments from this series
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of things that happened in thestory of Jesus around the time
of his crucifixion.
The first of those moments isactually to be found in the
Garden of Gethsemane.
This was the time, the nightbefore Jesus's crucifixion where
he went to spend some time inprayer before God has Father,
and really just to.
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Kind of beg the father, Hey,would it be possible for me to
not have to go through with whatI'm about to have to go through?
Would there be a way for me tonot have to go to death to be
put to death for what is aboutto happen?
I.
And we see the, the agony thatJesus goes through in praying
through these things.
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He, he wants to have hisfriends, his disciples close to
him, and yet they kind of keepfalling asleep.
They kind of abandon him in hismoment of, you know, real need
there.
He wants their closeness, theirproximity, and yet they just
kind of can't summon the abilityto stay alert and to stay, uh,
able to be able to help him inthe midst of that trial.
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And so he feels.
Really kind of alone.
He feels like he's going throughit by himself.
And yet in the midst of thatstruggle, in the midst of his
loneliness and in the midst ofhis hesitation about going
through what he's about to gothrough, he's, he's kind of
begging the Lord, Hey, is theresome other way that this can be
done?
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And yet at the same time, hefaces that down with a
tremendous amount of bothcourage and strength.
We see his courage in thestatement where he says in his
prayers to the father, yet, notmy will, but yours be done.
So the courage in that is justfor him to be able to say, Hey,
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I, I really am, I'm submittingmyself to someone else, and this
is going to take everything Ihave and more, and I'm not even
sure that I'm up to the task,but what I am up to is
following.
The ultimate allegiance in mylife, and for Jesus' ultimate
allegiance was his father.
He knew that clear and simple,that that's what he was really
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meant to be about.
And so if the father was saying,let's move forward with this, or
even if the father wasn't sayinganything, but Jesus was clear on
that's what the mission wasgonna be, and the Father wasn't
changing his mind, Jesus foundthe courage to be able to humble
himself, to put his desires andeven his fears beneath.
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His allegiance to his father,that took a lot of courage to
know that what that meant washis agonizing death was in front
of him, and he was going to haveto go through with what he was
facing.
But it took a lot of strength aswell.
We see the picture of Jesus inGethsemane, where he is actually
praying so intensely that he issweating blood.
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This was a physical trial forJesus.
His body was literally.
Pushing back against him saying,this is too much.
This is so much stress that he'sactually having blood come out
of his sweat po.
This is a rare thing that canhappen medically, but it happens
under so much stress and duressthat literally the body is
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saying, no, no, no.
Please stop.
Don't do this.
And so he's having to summonphysically the strength to
actually push forward into whathe knows is expected of him and
the steps that he has to takenext.
All right, so we see Jesus'sstrength, his courage.
We see his allegiance to thefather in the midst of this, or
really here at the beginning ofthis very intense trial of what
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he's about to undergo.
But I think because those thingshappen so quickly in the story,
when we read it from thescriptures that we kind of
overlook like how intense andhow severe this really was for
Jesus, this was as agonizing amoment as he had.
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Ever faced in his entire life, and yet here he is
in some ways wanting to not haveto go through with it, but
finding the strength and thecourage to be able to face it
and to go through with it.
Any of us as men, if we werewatching that as a movie, would
look at that man and go.
Yeah, that's the kind of manthat I wanna be.
That's the kind of way that Iwant to face up to the hard
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things in my life.
I want to be able to have thatkind of strength and that kind
of courage to face down mytrials and my fears in that way,
the same way that Jesus did.
There's a manliness to what he'sdoing that is admirable and
something that we ought to bewilling to follow.
Now as we move past the Gardenof Gethsemane, we come to the
trial of Jesus.
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And here again is kind of somedetails that we tend to really
sort of neglect in the way thatwe talk about the crucifixion
story of Jesus.
Jesus goes on trial, but notjust with.
One person or one group ofpeople, but kind of all over the
city of Jerusalem, he has toface down some of the highest
authorities in all of his worldat that time.
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He goes not only to meet withthe high priest and the council.
The Council of Elders andreligious leaders where he has
to defend himself before them,but he also then has to go to
King Herod, who was one of theJewish leaders, and he had to go
before Pontius Pilate, who wasthe Roman governor.
Okay, so these are like, theseare all the most.
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Powerful people in Jesus' world.
It's like in our day, if you hadto go like defend yourself
before the Pope and the King ofEngland and the President of the
United States, you know, allwithin about a 12 hour period,
like this is crazy talk.
Imagining Jesus have to do this.
It was, this would, this wouldbe so.
Out of our depth and beyond whatwe could imagine in terms of
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intimidation and pressure, andyet here Jesus is having to do
it in a very short amount oftime where he's already been
under duress and stress and he'shaving to face down all of these
authority figures.
And yet he does it.
He does it with unbelievabletact and strategy and peace and
calm in the midst of all of theaccusations and the chaos and
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the craziness and the back andforth.
And gosh, it's, it's kind ofremarkable to watch him navigate
this trial or series of trialsand the pressure that he's
under, as he has to face theseincredible, incredibly powerful
figures in his world at thetime.
What we do see about Jesus isthat he displays a lot of
courage, but he doesn't show anydefensiveness.
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He doesn't get into argumentswhere he has to try to prove
himself.
He's not trying to demonstratehis power or to argue his way
out of.
What he knows is coming with hiscrucifixion.
He's not trying to do any ofthat.
He is simply standing for themission that God the father has
given him.
And he declares it very clearly.
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He talks about itstraightforwardly, and for the
most part, it seems like youknow, at least when it comes to
Herod and Pontius Pilate, thatthey can't really find very much
wrong with him.
But in the midst of that, it'salso clear that what he is
standing for is causing chaosand upheaval in the culture
around him, and that ultimatelyis what couldn't be tolerated.
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And so it does lead to hisdeath, but we see him not
backing down from thatpossibility.
He shows tremendous courage inthe face of the most severe and
dire consequences imaginable andin the face of the most powerful
and intimidating people in hisworld.
Could you imagine being in thatkind of place and having to do
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what he did?
Again, it's beyond most of us.
To have to face the things thatJesus faced.
And yet here he is doing itwell, displaying an unbelievable
amount of manly courage in themidst of some of the hardest
trials that he would ever face,and probably harder trials than
you and I would ever face.
He is a manly man.
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He is a man who is worthfollowing and worth imitating.
And these are the kinds ofstories that we as men need to
remind ourselves about Jesus sothat we can see him as the kind
of man that we do want tofollow.
Okay.
One more story, and it's notactually the crucifixion itself,
so I want to talk aboutsomething that happens after the
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crucifixion.
And depending on the traditionthat you grew up in, if you are
a Christian, uh, you may nothave heard much of this story at
all.
If you're not a Christian, youprobably have never heard this
story, but depending on yourtradition, it's not something
that necessarily gets talkedabout very much.
It is what happens after Jesusgets crucified.
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In some traditions, this storyis referred to as the harrowing
of hell, but I don't thinkthat's actually the best
terminology for it because we'renot gonna actually talk about
hell.
We're gonna talk about what issometimes referred to in our
language as the underworld, orin the biblical language was
just simply referred to deathand Hades.
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It was the place where peoplewent when they died.
And in biblical and churchtradition, we know that Jesus
descended into this placebecause he died.
And as all people do when theydie, they go to this place, the
underworld, or what was calledin that World Shield or Hades.
It was the place that deadpeople went to after they died.
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Jesus was no different.
He went to that place as well,but he did something very
different in that place than anyother human had ever done.
He conquered it.
He went into death itself anddefeated death.
Scripture talks about the ideathat he rested the keys from
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death and Hades, and we see thispicture of him in the final book
of the Scriptures, the Book ofRevelation, where Jesus'
pictured holding the keys todeath and Hades symbolizing how
he has overcome a place.
And a figure that no human beinghad any power to be able to do,
and yet Jesus walks right intothe place and just simply says,
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Nope, no more death is not goingto have a hold on me, and it's
not going to have a hold onanyone else who chooses to
follow me.
Now it's part of the churchtradition that while he was
there, he freed many of the deadsouls who had lived in times
past, but who had their faith inwhat God was going to do through
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the Messiah.
And so he brought with him outof death so many souls who had
already had their faith in himand were willing to follow him.
This is a beautiful picture.
He becomes, Lord, over death andHades to where it no longer has
to have authority over humanbeings.
These were unconquerablefigures.
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These were things that humanbeings could not do.
Okay?
Right.
This is the, this is the bigboss at the end of the video
game, and yet here Jesus istaking on this.
Epic battle with death.
The very figure who would bringsouls down to the land of the
underworld and Hades, the rulerof this underworld.
Jesus conquers all of it andbecomes Lord of that place so
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that his authority extends to.
Everywhere.
There is no place where Jesus isnot king, and we know from this
story that because of hisauthority, anyone who chooses to
follow him does not have totaste death.
We do not have to go to thisplace where the souls of the
dead have to go.
We get to be with Jesus forever.
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Now this is the kind of epicheroism that we are looking for
in most of our manly figuresthat we want to be like.
These are the kinds of storiesthat light up the movie screens
and that have us wanting to readand reread these epic tales of
these heroes that we absolutelylove.
Jesus is not only no differentfrom them, he's actually the
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standout version of them.
He is the version of hero thatall of these other heroes are
trying to point to.
He is the one who succeeded inthe epic battle.
This is not just a story.
This is something that reallyhappened.
This is not a myth.
This is not a movie.
This is not a fiction.
Jesus conquered death and Hades.
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He defeated the final boss andthrough.
That victory, he achievedvictory for us as well.
This is the ultimate liberation.
This is the ultimate freedom atthe end of the movie.
If you think about WilliamWallace yelling, freedom, or you
think about Aragorn leading thecharge to, uh, set more door
free from the power of Sauron.
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Or you think about the Avengersliberating Earth from Thanos,
like this is the epic scene herewhere Jesus liberates humanity
from death and Hades.
Nothing else like this has everhappened in all of human
history, and Jesus is the manwho did it.
Okay.
These have been some incrediblestories and I hope that they
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have encouraged you and excitedyou to see Jesus as a man who is
the epic hero that you wouldwant to follow If you're
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And I would love for you tocomment down in, uh, the
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comments below, just somethingabout what's a story of Jesus
that helps you want to followhim.
A man, what's something that youknow about him that you think of
and go, yeah, that's a manly manthat I want to follow.
So put that down in thecomments.
I look forward to responding towhat you have to say, and I'll
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We'll talk soon.
Men.
When you think about the moviesand the stories that you love
and the characters in thosestories, who are men that you
most would want to be like, whoreally comes to mind for you?
If you think about some recentstories, it might be somebody
like Captain America or Thor,right?
(00:22):
These kind of heroic, you know,action superhero type figures
who save the day, but also likehave these incredible physiques
and just look like, you know, asmanly a man as they possibly
could.
Maybe you think about somebodylike Jack Reacher, you know,
who's this kind of little morelike real life type character,
but has this larger than lifepersonality and body, right?
(00:45):
We kind of tend to idolize thesevery like hyper masculine
figures that come out of thesestories and movies that we love
and think that's the kind of manthat I want to be.
I want to, I wanna be like that.
Maybe you, you go back tostories that are a little bit
older, stories that were bigduring my young adult years.
Things like, uh, or characterslike William Wallace from
(01:06):
Braveheart, or Maximus fromGladiator, or even Aragorn from
the Lord of the Rings, movies,characters like that, that just
had these kind of epic storiesthat they were a part of and
stood for all the right thingsin the midst of really, really
difficult circumstances.
Those were the kind of.
Epic hero men that we wanted tobe like, or maybe you go back
(01:29):
even further to tales andstories for with actors like
John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, orSean Connery as James Bond.
You know, any of those kinds of,again, kind of hyper masculine
figures who stood out and reallykind of represented, yeah, this
is what it looks like to be acool, a badass man.
You know, just whatever.
(01:49):
It was the kind of man thatevery man seemed to really want
to be like.
Now in the midst of characterslike that, what about Jesus?
Right?
It, it almost kind of seems likelaughable for me to throw his
name into the midst of all ofthose kinds of really masculine,
manly men sort of characters.
(02:11):
Because when we think aboutJesus, manly man isn't usually
the phrase that we would conjureup as a way of being able to
describe him.
But we're in the midst of thisseries here where I'm actually
trying to say, Hey, I, I dothink there are some reasons
that we should consider Jesus asa manly man.
(02:33):
We should look at him as the manmost worthy of following, and
the man that we really want tobe like Now, no, he's not going
to have, you know, a chest andabs like Chris Hemsworth has,
and he's not going to be thewomanizer like James Bond was,
but.
I don't know that those thingsare really what makes a man a
man anyway.
(02:53):
And most of us as men would kindof recognize that those things
aren't attainable or even goodfor most of us.
But what does make a man a trueman are things that Jesus really
embodies.
Here at the Manhood TribesChannel, we talk a lot about
these ideas of the five marks ofmanhood.
And if you've missed me talkingabout that, go back and watch
just our most recent video, uh,episode 48, where I talk about
(03:17):
how Jesus embodies the fivemarks of manhood.
But I want to today in thisepisode, because we're talking
about characters and stories, Iwant to really try to call out
some of the stories from Jesus'life that help highlight why he
is such a manly man.
Why he is the kind of man thatall of us would want to follow.
(03:37):
'cause I think what we'veactually done is a real
discredit to Jesus.
There are some moments from hislife.
There are real stories of hisheroism and his strength and his
masculinity that for some reasonhave kind of gotten like left
out.
We just don't talk about thesestories as much, and yet they
are the kinds of things that ifwe were reading an old school
(03:59):
Western, which show up in thosekinds of stories, or if we were
reading an.
Epic fantasy, we would go, wow,that character is awesome.
I wanna be like him.
But we as men, in particular inour churches today, don't really
talk about those kinds ofstories.
We don't celebrate themasculinity of Jesus as much,
and I think that's a realdiscredit to Jesus.
He is and was a man.
(04:19):
He lived as a man, and so weneed to celebrate that side of
him as well.
So today I want to talk about afew stories that are from the
time period around hiscrucifixion.
Now, a lot of people, even ifyou're not religious, you don't
know much about Jesus.
Probably know a little bit abouthis crucifixion that he died on
a cross in the city of Jerusalemand that he came back to life
(04:40):
three days later.
And that's the kind of centralstory of what Christianity is
all about.
We know some about the thetorture and the agony and the
pain of crucifixion and howawful it was, and that he had to
endure those things, but that'skind of the common stuff that
most people know.
Even a little bit about thoseparts of the stories.
But there's some.
Hidden details in the midst ofthat story that often get
(05:03):
overlooked that I think I wannapay a little more attention to
today that are gonna highlightfor us the masculinity of Jesus
and really why he is kind of theepic hero that all of us wish
that we could beat.
That he is the kind of man whoactually is worth emulating or
following that we want to try tomodel ourselves after.
So let's look at three differentkind of moments from this series
(05:27):
of things that happened in thestory of Jesus around the time
of his crucifixion.
The first of those moments isactually to be found in the
Garden of Gethsemane.
This was the time, the nightbefore Jesus's crucifixion where
he went to spend some time inprayer before God has Father,
and really just to.
(05:48):
Kind of beg the father, Hey,would it be possible for me to
not have to go through with whatI'm about to have to go through?
Would there be a way for me tonot have to go to death to be
put to death for what is aboutto happen?
I.
And we see the, the agony thatJesus goes through in praying
through these things.
(06:08):
He, he wants to have hisfriends, his disciples close to
him, and yet they kind of keepfalling asleep.
They kind of abandon him in hismoment of, you know, real need
there.
He wants their closeness, theirproximity, and yet they just
kind of can't summon the abilityto stay alert and to stay, uh,
able to be able to help him inthe midst of that trial.
(06:29):
And so he feels.
Really kind of alone.
He feels like he's going throughit by himself.
And yet in the midst of thatstruggle, in the midst of his
loneliness and in the midst ofhis hesitation about going
through what he's about to gothrough, he's, he's kind of
begging the Lord, Hey, is theresome other way that this can be
done?
(06:50):
And yet at the same time, hefaces that down with a
tremendous amount of bothcourage and strength.
We see his courage in thestatement where he says in his
prayers to the father, yet, notmy will, but yours be done.
So the courage in that is justfor him to be able to say, Hey,
(07:10):
I, I really am, I'm submittingmyself to someone else, and this
is going to take everything Ihave and more, and I'm not even
sure that I'm up to the task,but what I am up to is
following.
The ultimate allegiance in mylife, and for Jesus' ultimate
allegiance was his father.
He knew that clear and simple,that that's what he was really
(07:31):
meant to be about.
And so if the father was saying,let's move forward with this, or
even if the father wasn't sayinganything, but Jesus was clear on
that's what the mission wasgonna be, and the Father wasn't
changing his mind, Jesus foundthe courage to be able to humble
himself, to put his desires andeven his fears beneath.
(07:52):
His allegiance to his father,that took a lot of courage to
know that what that meant washis agonizing death was in front
of him, and he was going to haveto go through with what he was
facing.
But it took a lot of strength aswell.
We see the picture of Jesus inGethsemane, where he is actually
praying so intensely that he issweating blood.
(08:14):
This was a physical trial forJesus.
His body was literally.
Pushing back against him saying,this is too much.
This is so much stress that he'sactually having blood come out
of his sweat po.
This is a rare thing that canhappen medically, but it happens
under so much stress and duressthat literally the body is
(08:35):
saying, no, no, no.
Please stop.
Don't do this.
And so he's having to summonphysically the strength to
actually push forward into whathe knows is expected of him and
the steps that he has to takenext.
All right, so we see Jesus'sstrength, his courage.
We see his allegiance to thefather in the midst of this, or
really here at the beginning ofthis very intense trial of what
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he's about to undergo.
But I think because those thingshappen so quickly in the story,
when we read it from thescriptures that we kind of
overlook like how intense andhow severe this really was for
Jesus, this was as agonizing amoment as he had.
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Ever faced in his entire life, and yet here he is
in some ways wanting to not haveto go through with it, but
finding the strength and thecourage to be able to face it
and to go through with it.
Any of us as men, if we werewatching that as a movie, would
look at that man and go.
Yeah, that's the kind of manthat I wanna be.
That's the kind of way that Iwant to face up to the hard
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things in my life.
I want to be able to have thatkind of strength and that kind
of courage to face down mytrials and my fears in that way,
the same way that Jesus did.
There's a manliness to what he'sdoing that is admirable and
something that we ought to bewilling to follow.
Now as we move past the Gardenof Gethsemane, we come to the
trial of Jesus.
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And here again is kind of somedetails that we tend to really
sort of neglect in the way thatwe talk about the crucifixion
story of Jesus.
Jesus goes on trial, but notjust with.
One person or one group ofpeople, but kind of all over the
city of Jerusalem, he has toface down some of the highest
authorities in all of his worldat that time.
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He goes not only to meet withthe high priest and the council.
The Council of Elders andreligious leaders where he has
to defend himself before them,but he also then has to go to
King Herod, who was one of theJewish leaders, and he had to go
before Pontius Pilate, who wasthe Roman governor.
Okay, so these are like, theseare all the most.
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Powerful people in Jesus' world.
It's like in our day, if you hadto go like defend yourself
before the Pope and the King ofEngland and the President of the
United States, you know, allwithin about a 12 hour period,
like this is crazy talk.
Imagining Jesus have to do this.
It was, this would, this wouldbe so.
Out of our depth and beyond whatwe could imagine in terms of
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intimidation and pressure, andyet here Jesus is having to do
it in a very short amount oftime where he's already been
under duress and stress and he'shaving to face down all of these
authority figures.
And yet he does it.
He does it with unbelievabletact and strategy and peace and
calm in the midst of all of theaccusations and the chaos and
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the craziness and the back andforth.
And gosh, it's, it's kind ofremarkable to watch him navigate
this trial or series of trialsand the pressure that he's
under, as he has to face theseincredible, incredibly powerful
figures in his world at thetime.
What we do see about Jesus isthat he displays a lot of
courage, but he doesn't show anydefensiveness.
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He doesn't get into argumentswhere he has to try to prove
himself.
He's not trying to demonstratehis power or to argue his way
out of.
What he knows is coming with hiscrucifixion.
He's not trying to do any ofthat.
He is simply standing for themission that God the father has
given him.
And he declares it very clearly.
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He talks about itstraightforwardly, and for the
most part, it seems like youknow, at least when it comes to
Herod and Pontius Pilate, thatthey can't really find very much
wrong with him.
But in the midst of that, it'salso clear that what he is
standing for is causing chaosand upheaval in the culture
around him, and that ultimatelyis what couldn't be tolerated.
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And so it does lead to hisdeath, but we see him not
backing down from thatpossibility.
He shows tremendous courage inthe face of the most severe and
dire consequences imaginable andin the face of the most powerful
and intimidating people in hisworld.
Could you imagine being in thatkind of place and having to do
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what he did?
Again, it's beyond most of us.
To have to face the things thatJesus faced.
And yet here he is doing itwell, displaying an unbelievable
amount of manly courage in themidst of some of the hardest
trials that he would ever face,and probably harder trials than
you and I would ever face.
He is a manly man.
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He is a man who is worthfollowing and worth imitating.
And these are the kinds ofstories that we as men need to
remind ourselves about Jesus sothat we can see him as the kind
of man that we do want tofollow.
Okay.
One more story, and it's notactually the crucifixion itself,
so I want to talk aboutsomething that happens after the
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crucifixion.
And depending on the traditionthat you grew up in, if you are
a Christian, uh, you may nothave heard much of this story at
all.
If you're not a Christian, youprobably have never heard this
story, but depending on yourtradition, it's not something
that necessarily gets talkedabout very much.
It is what happens after Jesusgets crucified.
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In some traditions, this storyis referred to as the harrowing
of hell, but I don't thinkthat's actually the best
terminology for it because we'renot gonna actually talk about
hell.
We're gonna talk about what issometimes referred to in our
language as the underworld, orin the biblical language was
just simply referred to deathand Hades.
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It was the place where peoplewent when they died.
And in biblical and churchtradition, we know that Jesus
descended into this placebecause he died.
And as all people do when theydie, they go to this place, the
underworld, or what was calledin that World Shield or Hades.
It was the place that deadpeople went to after they died.
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Jesus was no different.
He went to that place as well,but he did something very
different in that place than anyother human had ever done.
He conquered it.
He went into death itself anddefeated death.
Scripture talks about the ideathat he rested the keys from
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death and Hades, and we see thispicture of him in the final book
of the Scriptures, the Book ofRevelation, where Jesus'
pictured holding the keys todeath and Hades symbolizing how
he has overcome a place.
And a figure that no human beinghad any power to be able to do,
and yet Jesus walks right intothe place and just simply says,
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Nope, no more death is not goingto have a hold on me, and it's
not going to have a hold onanyone else who chooses to
follow me.
Now it's part of the churchtradition that while he was
there, he freed many of the deadsouls who had lived in times
past, but who had their faith inwhat God was going to do through
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the Messiah.
And so he brought with him outof death so many souls who had
already had their faith in himand were willing to follow him.
This is a beautiful picture.
He becomes, Lord, over death andHades to where it no longer has
to have authority over humanbeings.
These were unconquerablefigures.
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These were things that humanbeings could not do.
Okay?
Right.
This is the, this is the bigboss at the end of the video
game, and yet here Jesus istaking on this.
Epic battle with death.
The very figure who would bringsouls down to the land of the
underworld and Hades, the rulerof this underworld.
Jesus conquers all of it andbecomes Lord of that place so
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that his authority extends to.
Everywhere.
There is no place where Jesus isnot king, and we know from this
story that because of hisauthority, anyone who chooses to
follow him does not have totaste death.
We do not have to go to thisplace where the souls of the
dead have to go.
We get to be with Jesus forever.
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Now this is the kind of epicheroism that we are looking for
in most of our manly figuresthat we want to be like.
These are the kinds of storiesthat light up the movie screens
and that have us wanting to readand reread these epic tales of
these heroes that we absolutelylove.
Jesus is not only no differentfrom them, he's actually the
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standout version of them.
He is the version of hero thatall of these other heroes are
trying to point to.
He is the one who succeeded inthe epic battle.
This is not just a story.
This is something that reallyhappened.
This is not a myth.
This is not a movie.
This is not a fiction.
Jesus conquered death and Hades.
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He defeated the final boss andthrough.
That victory, he achievedvictory for us as well.
This is the ultimate liberation.
This is the ultimate freedom atthe end of the movie.
If you think about WilliamWallace yelling, freedom, or you
think about Aragorn leading thecharge to, uh, set more door
free from the power of Sauron.
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Or you think about the Avengersliberating Earth from Thanos,
like this is the epic scene herewhere Jesus liberates humanity
from death and Hades.
Nothing else like this has everhappened in all of human
history, and Jesus is the manwho did it.
Okay.
These have been some incrediblestories and I hope that they
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have encouraged you and excitedyou to see Jesus as a man who is
the epic hero that you wouldwant to follow If you're
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video and to subscribe to thechannel to help me get this
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these things as well.
And I would love for you tocomment down in, uh, the
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comments below, just somethingabout what's a story of Jesus
that helps you want to followhim.
A man, what's something that youknow about him that you think of
and go, yeah, that's a manly manthat I want to follow.
So put that down in thecomments.
I look forward to responding towhat you have to say, and I'll
see you again next time here onthe Manhood Tribes Channel.
We'll talk soon.
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