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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good Friday tradition. Here on Michael Berry Show, we the
entire team like to play some audio from two of
the seminal movies when I was growing up, The King
of Kings and Jesus of Nazareth, without further adie. This
first clip is from the King of Kings and Jesus
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was on the cross.
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Forget them, Father, well they know not what they do.
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You are the Messiah, then save yourself.
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And us.
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Have you no fear of God?
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We are guilty, but this man has done no wrong.
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Remember me when you have come into the glory of
your kingdom.
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HI, promise you will be with me this day Paradise.
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If that thief, if that thief will be in Paradise,
then I got a pretty good shot of getting there too.
That's how I look at it. When some guy that
you drank a lot and smoked a lot, didn't get
enough sleep lives to be eighty five, I figure, shoot, man,
I ought to make seventy five for sure. That is
the whole message right there, that the thief will be
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in Paradise. This next cut is from the movie, and
this is when Jesus dies on the cross.
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By God, my God, why have you forsaken.
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It is finished, Father, into your hands, I commend my soul.
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He is truly the Christ.
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Now let's turn to Jesus of Nazareth. This is Joseph
of Arimathea. I always struggle to pronounce that correctly. At
the crucifixion from the movie Jesus of Nazareth, he was.
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Despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, unacquainted
with grief.
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He was oppressed.
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And afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth.
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His vaughters a land.
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Slaughter, and there's a sheep before it's sharer is done.
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Surely hearth born mal griefs and carried our sorrows.
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Yet we esteem him stricken, spitted.
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Of God and affliction.
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That he was.
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Wounded for our transgressions. He was abused for our iniquities,
and through his wounds.
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We are slip back to the movie King of Kings.
Mary Magdalen meets Jesus after the resurrection.
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He has risen.
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Sir, Sir, sorry, have you hidden him?
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Tell me where I will take him away.
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Woman, why do you weep because.
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You have taken away my Lord?
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I know not where, touch me not, or I am
not yet ascended to my Father, But go to my disciples.
Tell them I ascend to my Father and your father,
to my God and your God. But first I go
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before them into Galilee.
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There shall they see me.
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Now from king of kings, Jesus appears to his disciples.
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And when the tomb was found empty, some days passed,
and Christ was seen a in Naeus and in Jerusalem,
and those who saw.
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Him knew he was the Lord God.
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And then a final time he came among his disciples
by the shore of Galilee.
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Do you know and love me? Feed my sheep for
my sheep, or in all the nations.
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Go you into all the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature who hungers. I am with you always
until the end of the world.
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The most recent movie depicting the passion of Jesus, Passion
of the Christ, starred Jim Covessel. It was brutal to
watch for those of you who did you know what
I mean. Mel Gibson did the same thing, and it
should be it should be brutal because it was brutal.
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And Jim was interviewed about the making of that film.
We interviewed him shortly after that as well. He tells
the story of how he was struck by lightning while
he was.
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Up on the cross.
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This is a true story.
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It really happened about the fifth take.
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The clouds were so low, the thunder and lightning was
the sound of a howitzer. It was so powerful that
you could feel the earth move. And I saw two
people that was about's closest. These two are to me,
and their eyes were looking up and they were watering
like they were going to cry. And my hair I
couldn't feel it, and I heard it a huge gast
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in the audience because they saw something and I couldn't
hear anything. It was like an eye of a storm.
If you're in the eye of the storm, your hair
could be blowing. It could be thirty nine winds, and
I'd never heard the wind blowing. I could just it
was silence. Five seconds, four three to one, and this
light came right down from heaven and lit me up.
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What people witnessed was an illumination around my body and
a fire on the right and the left side of
my head. And for one moment I was looking at
myself outside my body.
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You get struck with lightning.
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I was struck by lightning.
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Last year. We played this next bit that clip that
we particularly like, and I think we played it most
every year. We received a lot of response from people
who I guess hadn't heard it before. It's one of
our favorites. It's called Sunday Is Coming. It's one of
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the most powerful and inspiring sermons I think ever preached.
It's up there with Billy Graham level stuff, and for me,
that's the high point.
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Brother.
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It's the Reverend S. M. Lockridge.
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This is.
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Well.
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You talk about a profound proclamation of the central message
of Christianity, the hope over despair, the victory of hope
over despair, light over darkness, and life over death. And
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he really takes you into the despair of Christ after
the crucifixion, and I think that's powerful to remember. I
think that's a strong, strong mesasin. It has always been
a lot to me. And then he reminds us that
even in their darkest hours, you know what you're right,
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Ramon said, I.
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Need to just play it.
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So we're just gonna play. This is called Sunday's Coming
by the Reverend sm. Lockridge, and I love it.
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It's Friday, Jesus is praying, Peter's are sleeping Judas is betrayed.
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But Sunday's coming. It's Friday.
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Pilot's struggling, The council is conspiring, the crowd is fillified.
They don't even know that Sunday's coming.
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It's Friday.
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The disciple of the running light sheep without a shepherd,
Mary's crime. Peter is denying, but they don't know that
Sundays are coming. It's Friday. The Romans beat by Jesus.
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They robe him in scar they crown him with thorn,
but they don't know that Sunday's coming.
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It's Friday.
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See Jesus walking to Calvin, his blood dripping, his bodies stumbling,
and his spirits burden. But you see, it's only Friday.
Sunday's coming. It's Friday. The world's winning people are sinning
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and evils gritted.
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It's Friday.
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The soldiers nailed my Savior's hands to the cross. They
nailed my Savior's feet to the cross, and then they
raise him up next to criminals. It's Friede. But let
me tell you something. Sunday's coming.
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It's pride. The disciples are questioning what has happened to
their king.
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And the Pharisees are celebrated that their scheming has been.
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Achieved, but they don't know.
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It's only Fride. Sunday's come. It's Pride. He's hanging on
the cross, feeling for sinking by his father, left alone
and done. Can't nobody save him? Oh, it's Friday, But
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Sunday's coming. It's Friday. There trembles, the sky grows dark.
My king yields his spirit. It's Friday. Hope is lost,
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death has won, Sin has conquered, and Satan's just a laughing.
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It's Friday.
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Jesus is buried, a soldier stands God, and a rock
is rolled into place.
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But it's Friday. It is only fry. Sunday is a coming.
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I don't have a monkey, pop, can't bend over to them,
wear my socks.
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I think.
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Michael Berry Ross Michael Very show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
On Good Friday, beginning of the Celebration of the Resurrection.
We have a few of our favorites in this. Next
one is one of them. It's it's a man of
remarkable faith, the Reverend G. E. Patterson and his timeless
sermon Dawn of a New Day. You never heard of
Bishop Patterson. You haven't heard our Good Friday special every year,
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But we always enjoy listening to it anew and this
is a gift, is a God given gift. Dawn of
a new day is not just any sermon. It is
a beacon of hope in a world shrouded in darkness.
And it's as if you are suddenly bathed in the
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warm light of a new beginning, which is what the
resurrection represents. Bishop Patterson, if you listen carefully, doesn't just preach.
He paints a picture, a picture of a sunrise breaking
through the clouds after a long dark night, Redemption, renewal,
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the promise of better days ahead.
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How couldn't they treat him so bad?
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He was not guilty of insurrection, He was only guilty
of omning, plinding the eyes. He will only guilty of
unstopping death. Is he will only guilty of multiplying fish
and load and feeding a hungry multitude. But as I
asked the question, why are you treating my lord in
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the fashion? I hear the words of the prophet Isaiah
rolling from seven hundred years of prophecy out of that
fifty kurd chap of his book, saying he's not been
deaten for anything that he's done, but he is louded
for our transgression, ruse for our enigmoitat the chastisement of
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our peace came upon him. And it is with this
strikes that we are healed. They whipped his back to
heal your back age.
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They nail his hand.
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Stretch his arms in order to heal your hands and
heal your arm condition.
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Ha.
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They nail his siege to take care of the condition
in your legs and in your swelling ankles. Four glod
the guard. Well, why did they put a crown of
seventy two thorns on his head? May cough most of
our problems somehow in the head They originate in the
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head seventy two thawns. To take care of your migraine headaches,
seventy two fawns. To take care of your gear, eye, nose,
and proof condition. Seventy trough tawns. To take care of
your cycle somatic illness.
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Says he was wood.
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Fire, a transgression and cruise our enigmataire.
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But as he hung on the cross, powering in his body.
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All of our sin and all of our disease, the
worst suffering that he could ever have insitted on him,
he looked in the heaven and heaven blacked out. But
before it blacked out, he saw the Father turn his
back on him, and he said, he lying. He lied
Lamas back to that, my God, my God, why help
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thou forsaken me? God, Glory to God. God had to
turn his back on Jesus because when he looked on
the cross, he couldn't see Jesus because he saw our sin.
He saw your dope at it, he saw your alcoholism,
he saw your cancer, he saw your eads. He saw
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all of our sin, and all of our would disease.
This hang you on Seesus, and when he saw him
coming with our sin, he had to turn his back.
But my God hung out there where on Cavarea, and
he died all alone. Isaiah already said he's got to
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do it by himself, for he looked through prophecy and said,
who is this that cometh from Eden with todd dormitone
from Bolshap, traveling in the greatness of his shrip, traveling
and treading the wine dress alone? He said, I looked
and there was none to help. So with my own
arm I brought salvation under me. He did it all
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find himself, God, Gloria coming Aliah Hell took a holiday.
Demons were rejoicing my mind. They were saying, look at him,
a fath uh huh. He got away from my master
back in the wilderness. He refused to bow down when
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Satom told him that I'll give you the kingdom.
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Of the world.
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He refused when the devil said, turned the stone in
the bread.
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But look we got him.
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Now he's hanging on Calvary, and I just heard him
ask the Father, why have you forsaken man? Demons were
rejoicing here and the saints were trouble. But he died
out there by himself and final it when he said, Father,
in the thine.
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Hands, I commend my spirit.
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Because the body couldn't die as long as the spirit
dwelled within.
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So he dismissed his spirit into the throne room of
the Father.
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Hey, and the Father had already given him a challenge.
The son said, I'm going down, prepare me a body,
and I'll go and regime man. But the Father let
him know, son, you are my son. But it's a
hazardous trip you're taking. You're going to be tempted, You're
gonna be tested, You're gonna be tried, and your keys
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of authority are going to be buried in the very
depths of hell. And the only way you can collect
your authority, you've got to battle the demons of hell.
But he said, that's all right. In burn hoffins and
sacrifices for sin. I have had no pleasure but to
find it. Have thou prepared me? Then I said, Lord,
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I come in the volume of the book. It's written
to me to do thy willow God. While the demons
were with Joe saying Jesus was dying well on Calvary,
died until the earth began to reel and rob die
until the sun black child died till the moon tripped
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in blood, died till the Roman centuriary on her smote
himself on the breast and said, we made a mistake.
Jess has got to be the son of God. Lord,
have mercy. But when he died, and I'm gonna quit wool,
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Joseph went to get his body. But I believe Joseph
news now it's not gonna be here forever. He just
want to borrow it for the weekend. And he laid
him in his own new tube. And that spirit that
Jesus commended to the Father. While the body was reposed
in sleep. He went down into the deep recesses of
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Hell and banged on Hell's iron cakes. And shouldn't lift
up your here o he cakes, and be lifted up.
You have a lasting doors, and the King of glory.
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Shall come in a demon.
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Little father said, who is the king of glory? But
I heard him say the Lord song in my head, Lord,
the Lord money Hell.
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Lift up your heads. This is coach mom.
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Fellers, and you listen to the Michael Berry show.
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Good that all re