WEBVTT 00:26.530 --> 00:29.430 Turn the key and push the door. 00:31.430 --> 00:33.090 Get out here, he shouted. 00:33.790 --> 00:40.250 But I stayed there on the floor, frozen in the terror that rose and filled 00:40.250 --> 00:41.130 my brain. 00:41.530 --> 00:47.410 For I knew what they intended, I could not face the pain. 00:51.310 --> 00:55.810 Then soldiers came into the cell and they dragged me to the yard. 00:56.230 --> 01:01.490 They threw me down before a cross, rocked the whip down hard. 01:02.410 --> 01:05.890 Carry it, they shouted, as I struggled to my feet. 01:06.750 --> 01:10.990 I put my shoulder under it and dragged it to the street. 01:11.630 --> 01:16.070 I stumbled through a wall of screams as they drove me through the gate. 01:16.950 --> 01:21.310 It seemed that thousands lined the streets, their voices filled with hate, 01:21.950 --> 01:26.610 like a wolf pack in the night that moves in for the kill. 01:29.030 --> 01:35.110 They closed the gap and fought us as we started up the hill. 01:39.210 --> 01:43.830 And it seemed I'd barely reached the top when they grabbed me from behind. 01:44.390 --> 01:50.950 They threw the cross down under me and tied the ropes that bind the arms close to 01:50.950 --> 01:54.190 the beams as they nailed the feet and hands. 01:54.610 --> 02:02.210 And they raised the cross up in the air and dropped it in its stand. 02:07.290 --> 02:07.970 Through 02:11.160 --> 02:14.600 a blur of pain, I saw the cross there next to mine. 02:14.600 --> 02:20.860 There were people all around it, so I looked to read the sign. 02:23.760 --> 02:30.000 It was nailed there up above his head so the world could see the news that the man 02:30.000 --> 02:38.520 who seemed so helpless there was the king of all the Jews. 02:40.760 --> 02:46.160 And the crowd that stood around his cross made jokes about his name. 02:46.740 --> 02:51.200 They shouted, laughed, and spat on him, so I joined in the game. 02:51.980 --> 02:56.620 I said, hey, if you're the king, why don't you get us down from here? 02:59.160 --> 03:03.260 But the taunt just sounded hollow. 03:04.560 --> 03:05.400 It echoed 03:08.790 --> 03:11.970 in my ears. 03:14.170 --> 03:19.050 Because he looked at me with eyes that seemed to reach into my heart. 03:19.890 --> 03:24.090 They shone a light on all my lies and tore my life apart. 03:24.750 --> 03:29.250 There was more that lay behind that gaze than simply blood and clay. 03:32.190 --> 03:34.910 But knowing was too much for me. 03:34.910 --> 03:46.590 I had to look away, but I chanced another look at him while he was looking down, 03:47.390 --> 03:51.770 where the soldiers who just crucified us drank there on the ground. 03:52.650 --> 03:57.170 And although he spoke them quietly, somehow his words came through. 03:58.770 --> 03:59.930 He said, Father, 04:05.690 --> 04:07.710 please forgive them. 04:10.370 --> 04:12.750 They don't know what they do. 04:16.190 --> 04:22.990 Then as if they'd heard him speak, the crowd began to roar, whipped to frenzy 04:22.990 --> 04:26.110 by the priests who urged them on to more. 04:26.550 --> 04:31.210 But the worse the accusations, now the plainer I could see. 04:32.730 --> 04:39.970 The guilt, the accusers, not the one there next to me. 04:43.920 --> 04:48.680 But the man upon the other cross began to curse and swear. 04:49.320 --> 04:53.900 And his voice was filled with venom as he hurled it through the air. 04:53.900 --> 05:00.740 All the horror that was in him and had laid his life to waste came out in every 05:00.740 --> 05:01.260 syllable. 05:02.300 --> 05:06.580 He flung in Jesus' face and Jesus only looked at him. 05:07.180 --> 05:11.880 But something rose inside of me in spite of all that watched us there. 05:12.460 --> 05:18.060 It couldn't be denied because his righteousness and innocence were shining 05:18.060 --> 05:19.000 bright and strong. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.100 I just couldn't keep my silence if that cursing still went on. 05:24.400 --> 05:29.180 I cried out, don't you fear the wrath of God even at the end. 05:29.740 --> 05:31.820 He'll curse us both into the pit. 05:32.380 --> 05:33.700 Is that what you intend? 05:34.340 --> 05:36.600 We're only getting what we're due. 05:36.820 --> 05:38.880 We've sinned our whole lives long. 05:38.880 --> 05:48.040 But don't you talk to him that way, because he's done nothing wrong. 06:00.600 --> 06:01.240 All 06:04.920 --> 06:08.420 my courage in a voice not quite my own. 06:10.140 --> 06:14.720 I asked him, Lord, remember me when you come into your throne. 06:19.790 --> 06:25.050 He answered me, and even then his love was undisguised. 06:28.150 --> 06:39.970 He said, before the sun has set today, you'll be with me in paradise. 06:43.930 --> 06:48.690 The shouts and curses did not stop even when the sunlight ceased. 06:50.690 --> 06:55.390 But somehow in the midst of it, my soul had been released. 06:58.070 --> 07:05.310 And though the agony continued, it was still too small a price to be 07:05.310 --> 07:15.860 allowed to hear those words and to die beside the Christ. 07:15.860 --> 07:18.620 The darkness 08:07.420 --> 08:13.960 changed to dawning, and I heard the sound of voices. 08:16.560 --> 08:19.440 The air was warm around me. 08:22.020 --> 08:24.380 I stood beside a stream, 08:28.330 --> 08:42.010 and Abraham was speaking to the multitudes before him, the unfolding of the answer to 08:42.010 --> 08:47.750 our prayers and hopes and dreams. 08:48.650 --> 08:58.670 Then far across the chasm came a rumbling like the thunder, and the Prince of Peace 08:58.670 --> 09:06.150 came shining from his mouth the power stream. 09:09.190 --> 09:18.410 And the walls and towers crumbled, and the gates of hell went under as 09:18.410 --> 09:26.430 thousands sang the victory we have been redeemed. 09:28.250 --> 09:33.250 Jesus is the Lord of all. 09:33.590 --> 09:38.470 Jesus is the Lord of all. 09:38.830 --> 09:43.490 Jesus is the Lord of all. 09:44.110 --> 09:46.830 We have been redeemed. 09:48.610 --> 09:53.990 Jesus is the Lord of all. 09:54.150 --> 09:59.130 Jesus is the Lord of all. 09:59.470 --> 10:04.210 Jesus is the Lord of all. 10:04.750 --> 10:08.750 We have been redeemed. 10:09.710 --> 10:16.430 Joy, joy, joy. 10:19.730 --> 10:24.750 Jesus is the Lord of all. 10:25.290 --> 10:29.910 Jesus is the Lord of all. 10:30.330 --> 10:35.130 Jesus is the Lord of all. 10:35.130 --> 10:41.890 We have been redeemed.