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Let's do this thing. We are going to jump in. If you have your Bibles, turn to Mark chapter number 15. Mark chapter number 15 is where we're going to be.

And I was talking to a friend this morning. He was like, man, he was like, I've been watching preach for a while. You don't really do illustrations, do you?

And I was like, no pastor michael really got the

illustrations on lock and i be getting lost up in there like i be i be going i start i've done because when

i first started preaching stuff and getting around pastor michael that's how he thinks he's like

all right how can we and he's got like i need a mousetrap and uh some rubber bands and it's like okay

what is that gonna and then he does it it's like, okay, what is that going to? And then he does it.

It's like, oh my God, that was the greatest thing ever. Me, I'd be up there and be like, all right,

so this mousetrap here is, man, what was I supposed to be saying? So I really just, you know,

I'd just be talking up here. So it's going to be a great study, though. But we're going to start in verse number 16 here, and we're going to read a little portion of

scripture.

If you got it, say, I got it.

If you don't, too bad.

Okay.

Verse number 16, it says this.

The soldiers took Jesus into the courtyard of the governor's headquarters and they called out the entire regiment.

They dressed him in a purple robe and they wove thorn branches into a crown. They put it on his

head and then they saluted him and taunted him. Hail the king of the Jews and they struck him on the

head with a reed stick, spit on him, dropped to their

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