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Visit us online at passioncitychurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, in 2017, Donna and I had the opportunity to visit Jerusalem and we went

one day to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It's a beautiful church of

thousand plus years old. That's on the historic site of the death and burial of

Jesus. And we showed up there. It's amazing to see this gorgeous church, but

when you walk up, you see how beautiful it is. But then there's a ladder just

kind of sitting above the door next to a window. It's a bit odd. I remember

asking our guide, why is there still a ladder up there? Are they working on

something? It seems like an old ladder. Can they take it down? And he explained to

me, well, Ben, there are six different sex of Christians that have a claim on

this building. And there's been a lot of animosity working out who gets to

move where, when, do what? Has power over which door, which window? And as they've

been working out, who gets to control what? No one's been able to decide whose

ladder that is. And so it stayed up there for decades. Which sounds crazy, but

you know, it wasn't too long before that moment that the international news had

a heyday reporting upon one of the sex leading a holy procession towards the

tomb of Christ and another group of monks in holy arrangement got in their way

and a melee broke out. And there was video of it. You see monks flying in from

the back, Superman punching other monks. Their form was terrible, but you can

see the animosity there. And as the international news covered this story, you

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