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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen. You know nothing at all,

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said Caiaphas.

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Word of advice probably not your best opening line to your church

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Council or your voters assembly.

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But to the Sanhedrin

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well, that's a different story.

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To those Sadducees they had the habit of talking to each other in

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those crass and manipulative ways.

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We would expect nothing less from an aristocratic politician who's

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more concerned with his social status his authority the things that he

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possesses than being kind to others.

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And when you hold the position of high priest not much is off-limits.

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You can say just about whatever you want.

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You are the mouthpiece of God appointed for that year. What you speak

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God speaks.

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So when Caiaphas says, you know nothing at all.

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That's God talking.

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And according to St.

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John

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he identifies it as such that it is God's word.

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Caiaphas rightly says though

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he hadn't intended meaning all different.

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It is better for you

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that one man should die for the people not that the whole nation

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perish.

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Caiaphas wanted to save the integrity of the nation before the Romans

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who had the authority to take it away.

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He was thinking

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Earthly standing but God meant Eternal salvation.

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He was thinking sacrifice one and we get to keep all of our stuff. Yet

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God meant I give you my son so that all of that stuff is meaningless.

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Caiaphas was thinking out of selfish greed, but God speaks to us to

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show us a beautiful and lasting gift.

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It's easy.

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Oh so very common for this world to think one way, but God actually

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means something else.

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Now I do not purport to know what God is up to with all the

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significant, terrible and tragic events in our time.

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There are plenty of people out there who will tell you what will

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happen.

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They will make commentary on it in the news.

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They will write about it in their magazines and they will even preach

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about it from their pulpits. Self-proclaimed prognosticators telling

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you what's going to happen if Trump gets re-elected.

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If Biden takes office. There's no shortage of people out there who

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want to tell you the future.

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What will be the future of social justice, covid in this country, global

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warming, religion in this cancel culture and the new truth your truth

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that emerges from your felt needs.

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These are the know-it-alls that got it all figured out. And want to

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tell you how to preserve

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to redefine and to cultivate a better world.

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But do they know?

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Or will somebody from their midst also rise up like Caiaphas and say, you

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know, nothing at all

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I've got it all figured out.

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Or better yet what we experienced more likely is how this voice, you

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know, nothing at all rails against the Christian Church. You as a

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Christian

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in this cultural tide. The know-it-alls standing poised to tell the

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church what for and in my pastoral experience this voice getting

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louder and bolder by the day.

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So in the text

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we're told about prophecy. We're reminded that man does not speak prophecy by

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his own word.

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But rather prophecy is of God's word alone.

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St.

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John reveals the Divine control at the decisive stage where Jesus

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finds himself in the midst of his enemies. Caiaphas voices a wicked

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thoughts, but God voices a redeeming work.

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God determines to save the people in a far greater way.

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You know nothing at all says Caiaphas.

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Come to find out

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he was right

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about himself, especially.

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But what do you know?

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I guess it depends on what we're talking about, right?

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Do you know theology?

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What it takes to be a pastor or a deaconess?

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Do you know what it means to be a professor

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or seminary administrator perhaps?

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Do you know what it means to be a father, mother,

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a husband or a wife.

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Now we should he the rudimentary meaning of the words, you know,

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nothing and understand that there is much we know but there is far

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more that we still do not know.

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Perhaps we learn a lot more.

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But if we're talking about knowing Jesus. Knowing what the Gospel, so

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clearly defines for us knowing that Jesus loves us and died for us

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just as the scripture has said. Knowing that God has given all for us

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died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins.

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Then then you do know, we do know and better put we have it all we have it.

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By the work of the Holy Spirit through the means by which God has

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appointed for you and me. A bunch of sinners gathered on this beautiful

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campus. A campus that we say we make it our own that God has blessed his

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people through in his church and immeasurable ways. A place where God

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is taught and learned in the head, but also in ourselves as our faith is

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nurtured.

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As our fellow brothers and sisters come alongside of us as sort of a

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whole body experience not just knowing here but knowing

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in our remembrance, especially in our remembrance of our baptism.

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Remembering what we have

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and not just what we know

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is wrapped up in the gift of God's word combined in simple means like

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water. Calling us to be who we are Christians loved by God a person who

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God has stamped his name on our hearts and said you are mine. A

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remembrance of a holy family that were brought into not by our own

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walk up to the font.

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But because Christ has been brought to us, and he has been placed into

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our lives and says, I love you I redeem you.

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A Holy redeemed people into a holy family.

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We've been called by a loving and faithful God and because we have

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this brothers and sisters then the one thing we do actually know even

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when some misinformed bloke tells us that we know nothing.

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Is that we are redeemed.

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And so he was right.

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It is better for you.

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That one man should die for the people.

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And God agrees.

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He should

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those are his words

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in fact, this is his will.

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God's gospel message that comes through his redeeming Son's precious

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death on the cross for you.

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One man did perish for the nation.

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Our Lord and savior the right man.

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Christ the Lord.

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In Jesus name. Amen