Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me the honor of helping you learn God's Word.

Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

Happy to report.

We're now seeing over a billion impressions a year staggering as God's Word is going faster and further than ever.

I'm really excited to help you learn the scriptures, and if you would

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amount, and help me get Bible teaching to someone who needs it and hasn't yet heard it.

God, it's this glimpse into one of Jesus' most difficult days, but it gives us so much hope,

so much clarity, so much instruction.

God, for the people who give me the honor of teaching them, for those, Lord God, that

are having a really difficult season, I pray that this would really minister to them.

God, for those of us who are in a

good season, but we have people in our lives that we know and love, and they're in a tough season. God,

could we take what we learn from Jesus today and minister to them in Jesus' name? We pray. Amen.

All right. Here's where we're at. We're in the Lord's gisemite prayer to catch you up in matthew chapter 26

this is the very end of jesus life these are his final hours he is coming to the place where he's

going to die on the cross in our place for our sins and he has some ominous instruction he says

things like i will be handed over and I will be betrayed.

He knows exactly what is going to happen.

Sometimes for you and I, when we have a hard season in life, we don't see it coming.

We're caught rather suddenly or unexpectedly.

For Jesus, he knew that the purpose for his entrance into human history was ultimately to die on the cross in our place for our sins. So he has been

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