Well, good morning. So glad
to be in the house this morning. If you're joining us on livestream, thank you
for joining us today. It is it is certainly a
a good day. A couple of things,
want to encourage you, that we have a midweek
gathering, 6 o'clock, pastor Justin on Thursday
night, 6 o'clock. Pastor Justin has been doing, a
series, about the table and, it's been
really rich. And so I want to encourage you if you can make
that happen, if your capacity allows for you to be here on Thursday
night, come and be a part of that. It's certainly
in keeping and in line with, where we are in the
season of leading up to Resurrection Sunday.
And with that also, on Good Friday, Good Friday this
year, we are going to have a worship gathering here from
6 to 7. Okay? It will be an hour long. We are going
to partake in communion together, and so, you can
bring your family. We won't have kids ministry. The kids will join
us in here. We will have, I believe we will have a nursery
available, but during that gathering, families will will be in here. And we're God
pray together, we're gonna worship together, and take communion. And so I encourage
you, Good Friday, 6 o'clock to come and be a part
of that hour service. And then, of course, we have resurrection
Sunday, that's March 31st, And so, we're God celebrate the resurrection of
our king because we get to live with him forever. Jesus is alive.
And, and so we're excited about that. I'm going to
ask you guys to, I'm going to ask you for a favor,
okay? Typically visitors who will come on Easter Sunday,
there may be some people who will come once or twice in a year, they'll
choose that day to come to to church and as you can see, our
auditorium is pretty full. If you have the ability to come to
the early gathering that day, I would certainly
appreciate it to allow there to be room in this gathering for our visitors
who come. It is a repeat gathering. You won't miss anything coming
to the early gathering. And so if it is within your capacity to come to
the early gathering on Easter Sunday and participate then, I would
greatly appreciate it so it opens up room for our visitors during
this during this during this time. Speaking of Easter, we are
into that we are into a series. We're gonna start a 3 week series. We're
gonna talk about Jesus' death. We're gonna talk about his burial, and we're
gonna talk about his resurrection on Easter Sunday. And today, we're gonna talk about Jesus'
death and pastor Justin's going to kick off this new series. Would you welcome pastor
Justin?
Thank you,
Thank you, sirs. Just give you a fair
warning. I do not know how long this jacket will make it this morning.
It's a little warm. I'm trying. It's green. Right?
Olive is a shade of green, so don't even
out there. Right? It's the only green I'll wear year
round. If you're able to, would you
stand with me? We're God go ahead and read our passage for this morning.
We'll read it together and then we'll pray and we'll get into the
message today. Are we ready?
So they took Jesus, and he went out bearing his
own cross to the place called the pray of
a skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
There, they crucified him and with him 2
others, 1 on either side and Jesus
between them. Father, we thank you for this day that you've given us. God, I
thank you for the sweet spirit that is in this room today,
God. It is heavy and it is beautiful.
God, I pray that your word would penetrate into our hearts
and the ways that we have made the cross too small, that you would
magnify our view of the cross and the work that you
have accomplished therein. Father, I pray that everything
I say today would be soon forgotten. But, Holy Spirit,
anoint me to preach your words to your people for the
advancement of your kingdom, that the name of Jesus would be
glorified through the power of the Holy Ghost. It's in Christ's name
that I pray. Amen and amen. You guys can be seated.
How many of you guys remember Smokey the Bear?
Right? Right? Everybody remember Smokey the Bear? If you don't know, you youngins,
there was a commercial, pretty tragic and
traumatizing when we were younger and,
and there was a bear and he was a park ranger and
he had a park ranger hat and his name was Smokey, Smokey the Prayer, and
Smokey had a catchphrase. Right? What was the catchphrase Smokey had?
Only you can prevent forest fires. Do you know how much pressure that is
for a 9 year old kid? I'm serious.
I thought my whole life that it was up to me
to prevent force because that's what Smokey told me. They'd show a tragic story
and then he'd come on in the end and he'd point and say only you
can prevent forest fires. And that's heavy.
I'm serious. I carried that for a long time to realize there ain't no way
I was not even there. It had nothing to do with me.
But the reason I'm telling you guys this is because for most of
my life, this is how I have carried the cross.
I have had felt this overwhelming sense
of guilt and shame and this
heavy weight because my sin is what sent him
there. And my whole life I have felt this weight,
this pressure that that if it wasn't for me and my
sin, then he wouldn't have had to die. And there's
hymns and songs and it was my sin that held him there and it was
the thought of me and I'm just my whole life. I'm like God, this is
this is heavy. And I feel like on my
journey over the past, few months years that I've felt the
love of God say, son, you've made the cross way too small.
You have made the cross way too small.
I we will never understand the magnitude of what was accomplished
on the cross of Christ, but the love of God is
whispered to me over days months years of
what exactly has been accomplished on the cross.
And every new revelation magnifies
its beauty and lessens the burden for me in my
life. I know that my sin was
responsible, but that's an incomplete and a small
and minuscule
the accomplishment of the cross.
I'm gonna give you guys a disclaimer. I am fully aware that there are many
things that I don't know. I don't know what I don't
know, but I know that I don't know what I don't know,
and therefore, I'm open to God showing me what I don't
know. Somebody got that.
I know that's that's Southern, but there was one guy was like, I'm tracking.
I am tracking you today.
So, however, this is an attempt for us to find even more
value, even more value
in the cross than we already have. So
we're gonna start with one thing we do know, the forgiveness and the
atonement, since that's what we know.
The cross provided the means for our redemption. First
Corinthians 57 says this, cleanse out the old leaven
that you may be a new lump as you really are unleavened for
Christ, our Passover lamb
has been sacrificed. Our Passover lamb
has been sacrificed. Paul describes
Jesus as our Passover lamb. Pastor Kevin, referred to a series
that we've been doing on Thursday nights. And I've I shared some of this
information with you guys that have been attending. But
Paul describes Jesus as our Passover lamb. Where does this come from?
This originates in Exodus chapter 12 verses 1 through
13. The Israelite people are about to be brought out of slavery
from Egypt and God is giving them specific instructions
on what's going to happen before the angel of
death comes and all of the firstborn of
everyone that does not have the blood covering their
house will be killed that night. And God gives him specific
instructions. He says, matter of fact, look, everything we've done up to this point, I'm
changing it. This month is gonna be the 1st month of the new year.
Starting in this month, this is gonna be the 1st month of the new year.
And what I want you guys to do is on the 10th day of this
month, I want you to take a lamb, a perfect spotless
lamb, and bring it into your household and keep it there for the week. Then
for the whole week, what you're going to do is inspect this
lamb for spots and blemishes. And then on
the 14th day of the month at sundown, you're going to
slaughter the lamb and you and your family are going to take the blood of
the lamb and you're gonna sprinkle it on your posts and the angel of the
Lord will see the blood and passah or
pass over. Passah
is the Hebrew worship means to spare or protect it
was not that the angel of the Lord just skipped over the house it
spared that house. Passover was to
passah, spare or protect.
John chapter 12 verse 1 tells us that Jesus
arrived in Bethany 6 days before Passover
on 9th day of the month. And then John theater 12 verse
12 tells us the the next pray, that
was the word that he used, the next pray, which would have been the 10th
day of the month that Jesus on a donkey
rode into Jerusalem, which was the center of the house of
worship for the Israelite people. The lamb of God
brought in to his house on the 10th day.
And for the rest of the week, all they did was try to find
faults in Jesus. They was asking him, like, tricky questions. They were trying
to trip him up. They were inspecting the lamb for blemishes
and spots. And then on 14th day,
the Friday, the lamb of God, the Passover lamb
was slain on the cross at the same time that the
priests were taking lambs and slaughtering them for the
people. The true Passover lamb was being
slain at the same time that those Passover lambs were being
slain right before sundown.
Revelation 138, John describes Jesus this way.
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose names has not been
written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb
who was slain. I don't particularly like the way the e f ESV says it,
but if you didn't catch that in all that language, Jesus is the
lamb who was slain before the foundation
of the world.
That's hard for me to get my head around. That's hard for me to
get my head around that before the world was created, the Spirit
had some type of conversation. We're gonna
make a world, we're gonna make man, and they're gonna mess this
up big time.
But I know what we'll do. I know what we'll do. I know what we'll
do. Jesus said, matter of fact, I'll go and be slain for
them. I'll go in their place
and be slain for them and but that's not really good enough. God's
like, you know what? I love the way Graham Cook describes it. He says, no.
We can't just forgive them. We're gonna have to kill them.
We're gonna have to kill them, And then what we'll do then what
we'll do is we'll we'll we'll we'll tell them that if you if you
die with him, that will will submerge you in theater.
And when you come out, that'll be called being born again.
We'll kill them too and then they'll be born again. And Holy Spirit, it'll be
then your job to reveal them everything that Jesus had done for them and empower
them. Before the foundation of the world, this
had already been established. You know what that tells us? Redemption
is in his nature.
Redemption is in his nature.
We can see this in his interaction before Pilate with
Barabbas. If you're not familiar with the
story, before Jesus goes to the
cross, they're standing before Pilate and it was their
custom that on a holy pray, they would let somebody go free,
a prisoner go free and so they bring out Jesus
and they bring out Barabbas and Barabbas is a bad guy.
Barabbas murders people,
murders people. He's a
rebel. He leads insurrections against the government.
He tried to overthrow the government. Him
and a whole bunch of other people, and they bring this guy out and they
put him here and then they bring Jesus, son of God, who's never
done anything wrong, Perfect spotless
lamb and they bring him out and you know what Pilate says. Pray. Who do
you want? Who do you want? And what do they
say? What did they say?
Give us Barabbas. He said, who do
you want, Barabbas? Yes. Give us Barabbas.
And Jesus is there silent because he
knew what God knew. And I love the way that Judah Smith says it. He
says that God knew, Jesus knew that
God had to treat Jesus like Barabbas so he
could treat Barabbas like Jesus.
Even his name, Bar means son,
Abba means father, the son of the father for the
son of the father.
It's it's in his nature.
Redemption is in his nature. He
Why? Because he was a substitutionary Passover
lamb slain before he even decided to make the
world. That's his character. That's who he is.
Our redemption, the forgiveness of sin, our
atonement is found in the cross.
Calvary is also the fulfillment of God's promise to the serpent. Yeah.
He made a promise to the serpent in Genesis 315. So get
this. I will put enmity between you and the woman and
between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head
and you shall bruise his heel. This is God's promise to
the serpent. This is referred to as a seed war. This is a
millennia Holy battle
garden.
Man was created to have dominion on the earth.
It was a birthright that god gave his people. Be
fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth.
Reign over it, rule over it. I want you to do a little thought exercise
with me for a second. Think of something that has
been created and then given a purpose.
Name one thing that has ever been created that was created and
then given purpose. You can't do
it, can you? You can't do it. Why?
Because nothing is created without purpose. You are created
for a purpose. Nothing is created and
then given a purpose. So how much more so
mankind created for a purpose?
We are created to be God's regents on the
earth, representatives of the heavenly kingdom
here on this earth. We we so detach
the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of earth, and we and we
and we say things like, well, that's just a supernatural. He has set things
in order here on Earth the same way they are
in heaven. Why did Jesus pray? Your will hear the way it is up
there. What where do we even get these concepts
of kingdom? We don't just come up with these on our own.
God has set this in motion
and the authority and dominion of mankind has been usurped by
the enemy or given away throughout history. We have
given away the authority that God has given us. And according
to Deuteronomy chapter 32 verses 8 and 9, look at this. It says, when the
most high gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of
God. But the lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
What does this mean? Growing up, my mom used to tell me, well,
the Jews were God's chosen people. And I'm like, well, flip them a
fish. Lucky them. Right? How'd they get that?
Right? Have you you've heard that Jews were are God's
chosen people. Well, where did that come from? This is where it came from. God
divided the nations up and he took Israel as himself. Have you
read passages in the New Testament theatre seem like, well, that was
kinda harsh for Jesus to say that, but we don't understand it
Where the Syrophoenician woman is coming to Jesus for something, he said, Look, it's not
my time to come to you yet. I'm here for the Jews right now. And
she's like, Well, even dogs get crumbs from the master's table. And he's
like, I love your tenacity, lady. He did that's
Justin speak, man. It's a little bit cleaner than that if you go read
it, but that's the gist of it. It's all throughout the New
Testament. You can see it, and Jesus is like, it's not my time for that
yet. It's not my time for that yet. And I'm like, what is he talking
about here? Why? Because God had come for the nation of Israel
first. Why? Because those were his allotted people.
The accomplishment of the cross is that Jesus reclaimed all
authority that man had abdicated and gave it back to us as
regents. Matthew 28 18, I love this.
I love what Jesus says here. Jesus came and said to
them now this is after the death, burial, and resurrection. And
look at what Jesus says. What is that first quotation?
All authority in heaven and
on earth has been given to me.
All authority in heaven on earth has been given to
me. Go therefore and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all I have commanded you and behold I am
with you always even through the end of the
age. Jesus accomplished on the cross
the reclamation of the authority that we had abdicated and that had
been you served. And what did he do? He gave it back to us now
empowered by the Holy Spirit for us to go and
be regents and ambassadors of the kingdom in the earth.
You gave up the authority I gave you. I'll come get it back,
and I will give it back to you, but now I'm sending you
with my spirit. And now the gospel is
available to who? All nations
that happened at the cross. I read a verse this past
Thursday where Jesus said, and this used to mess me up.
He said, hey, you'll do greater things than
me. Have you read that passage? You'll do
greater things than me, and I'm like, God is
that possible Until you realize that Jesus was 1
man in one place at one time
and now and now he has given us
the promised Holy Spirit. And now you get to be a regent at
your job and you get to be at your job and you get to be
where you're at on vacation and and where you go grocery shop at, and the
places that you interact. And now we are doing greater things because
the spirit has been multiplied and magnified and the gospel of
Jesus Christ is preached to all nations.
And he accomplished it at the cross. What we
had given up, he took back for us.
The way in which he died was one of the most brutal deaths in the
history of the planet. The Romans had perfected crucifixion.
They spent about 500 years perfecting their craft.
Crucifixion was not just a way to die. It was a method
of torture, and it was a statement to all would
be opposition to Rome.
Imagine we let out a service here, and we all get out, and
we go down here on San Ridley and right in front of First Watch, There's
3 men hanging bleeding naked
on crosses in the side of the road and a sign that
says, this is what they did. Do you think you would be doing the same
things to mess around and find out like that? You probably would not.
Right? You would not and that was the point. That was the
point. Anybody that's God come and defy
the Roman rule like this, this is what'll happen to you. This
is exactly what will happen to you.
It was a method of torture. It was a particularly
cruel and unusual form of disposing
people. Disposing people,
says Jeremy Ward, head of the physiology department at King's College in
London. Each aspect of the death on the cross had its
particular ghastliness, some less accurately depicted
by artists than others, the discovery of the bones of a crucified
man now in a museum in Israel point to the fact that the feet
were likely not stacked on the front of the cross. In
the remains, the nail goes through the heel leading to the conclusion that
the crucified were more likely nailed with their ankles
on either side of the cross mass. Can you
imagine that? This it's not this
picture we see here. Most likely, your feet are on both
sides of the pillar, and there's a nail through both
ankles. So so the only thing
to support you is your ligaments and your tissue
resting against that nail. It's not like they said, well, let's put him a
little foot rest up there to stand on. No. They probably
laid him down, nailed it through, and then slid it up and
let it drop into place.
Both sides of the mast. Both sides of the
mast.
Ward says some artist interpretations have been especially accurate. The
classic position of the hands in paintings is that they are clenched.
A neurologist suggested that the church was due to the fact that if the median
nerve was struck, it would cause neuropathy,
which controls the thumb and finger so they would indeed clench in a particular
way as that would have been contributed to death, but it would not have been
nice. As far as a nail goes through your hand,
it causes nerve damage, and you can't control the
way your fist will church up. So now
you don't have anything to grab onto. There's there's
nothing to grab onto anyway, and there's nothing to really support
your weight except the nail that's through both ankles and a
beam of wood. Your arms were usually positioned
higher than your torso.
Said that he is said to have expired after 6 hours
on a Friday. In addition to the positioning of the cross, Ward says that
the length of survival also depended on the health of the individual
being crucified and on the severity of their treatment beforehand. They
routinely whipped them and had them carry at least part of
their cross to the side of the execution. I mean, we we quote this
verse, and by Christ's stripes, we are healed. And we have no idea what
those stripes actually were. The Romans were
brutal. There were some instances that the man being
crucified never made it to the cross.
Never made it to the cross. They would take
them and they would strip them down. They would strip them down and
they would tie them to a block. And they had this
crazy thing with pieces of leather hanging off of it
with glass and metal or whatever that they could inflict pain
with, and they
whipped him. I tried to
cut my 2 fingertips off the other pray.
Didn't particularly like that, but if you've ever hit your finger
on something or or it's like if you get hurt, now your body says, hey,
touch everything with that. Right?
So you imagine you get hit one
time with this brutal device
and it just lands wherever it lands
on your back flesh bone muscle tissue
ligaments anything and then the only way to get it out is for them to
snatch it and everything goes flying with it and that would have
been enough but they go right back to the same spot he'd been hit
in. Some of these criminals hung on this
cross for days and Jesus died within 6 hours. Why?
Because they were killing him on the way.
39 times they hit this man
over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over and over and
over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
and over. They hit him.
39 times.
And then they said, get up And they put they they put a
robe on him. And if you've ever put a band aid on something
that's hurt, right? They put a robe on him and then it
stuck to whatever was wet, whatever tissue was there
long enough where they could spit on him and and put the crown on him
and humiliate him. And then when it was time to carry the cross, they snatched
it off and ripped open whatever wound was there.
Can you see why 9 year old me is like, God this is heavy. My
sin did this. He's like, it's bigger than you.
It's bigger than just that son, don't make the cross this small.
I didn't do all this just to have you have a small view of the
cross.
Then they then they put his they were ordered to carry parts of their
cross. And so he had to carry his cross and I
love the way the gospels, I love the way God understands
us because they brought somebody along
to help him carry it. I read
passages that say, pick up your cross and follow me and some
days, oh my God, I can't do this. I wanna quit.
Now I realize he sent somebody to help me carry it.
He sent someone to help bear the burden. If he did it for his son,
why wouldn't he do it for me? He did do it for
me because he did it to his son. The son
of the father for the son of the father.
By the time they got there to the side of the execution,
they were already pretty traumatized and had probably lost a
major amount of blood. For some,
it could be a day or more and how they were treated once installed on
the cross had a significant effect as well. You have to maintain the
weight of the body on the legs so that the weight of the arms isn't
too much so that you can breathe properly.
As he hung there, he would slowly suffocate.
His body would slink down so church, and the only way to
get a good breath was to pick himself back up against the
nails. It's torture.
It's brutal. They were making a
statement and this is what the Jews asked for. Give
us Barabbas
They They didn't know what he would accomplish.
Gradually, the exhaustion gets worse and worse, and you can't keep the weight
up as warden. It is known that the guards would break the legs
in order to hasten death sometimes. So was the case with those
on either side of Jesus according to the gospels.
Romans 5:6 says, for
while we were still weak at the right
time Christ died for the ungodly. Do you think it's
any coincidence that he came when he
came? Pray out to me, I would say, can I be
poisoned and and die in my sleep? Or it
could have been an electric chair in 2019. Or it could have
been a lethal injection, or he could have been killed,
when they were trying to wipe out all of the babies. But instead, he comes
at the point in history where the most brutal way to
die is the way to die. Do you think that's coincidence? He
just so happened on a Roman cross? No. He said, I'll take the most
amount of pain for the most amount of time if that's
what it takes. Why? Because he was the lamb who was slain before
the foundation of the world. Redemption is in his
nature.
This is the death we should have died. This
is the death we should have died. And as a matter of fact,
it is the death that we died.
We need to understand that we were so corrupted in our
flesh. Mankind had been so corrupted
in our flesh that we could not just be forgiven, we
had to be crucified.
We had to be crucified. Romans
6:6 to 7 says, we know that our old
self our old self
was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be
brought to nothing so that we would no longer be
enslaved to sin for one who has died has
been set free from sin. Galatians 2:20
says, I have been crucified with Christ.
Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ lives in me. The
life that I live now, I live by faith in the son of God who
loved me and gave himself for me. That should be our life verse
every single day of the week. I have been crucified with
Christ. Literally, I died with him.
Jesus did not just die for us, he died as us.
He did not just die for us, he died as
us. The accomplishment of the cross
places us in a present future life instead of a
past present reality. Our old nature has been
killed and our past has been redeemed. I love
I love so much that Jesus' very first miracle
was turning water into wine. And you know why I love it so
much? Wine takes time. Right?
You don't just put the pray. I still hadn't figured out how that works, by
the way. I said, I told y'all that's I God need a little
bit more time. I just now realized that. I don't know how to thresh or
press grapes yet, but I'll get there. Wine
takes time. Am I right? There's a fermentation
process, but look at what Jesus did. He gave the
water a past it never had.
I don't know if I'm even talking to anybody today.
He gave the water a pass it never had.
The the cross gives us
a present future reality instead of this
present past mentality that we're always walking in.
We're always looking back, oh, I did this and I'm so this, and our mind
is back here when we have been crucified with him. That means
all that is dead too. Now, I am responsible
to live a present future life. I
am presently wonderful
because of the cross. I love the way Graham Cook says it.
I'm not everything I'm supposed to be yet, but when he
died, I died.
When he died, I died.
Most of us has Spirit our entire lives living past,
present and not present
future. The work of the cross,
the gospel of Jesus is not about improving your life
or learning to be kind to your neighbor. The
gospel is not, I used to do drugs, and now I don't.
The gospel is not, I used to be mean to my wife, and
now I'm kind to her. That's you can find that any
other place. You can find that in other
religions. You can find that at AA meetings. You can find that in a number
of places in the world. And I'll and the world will tell you, you can
sometimes you can even find that in yourself. You've all known
people that have gotten sober or got older and and stopped being
so mean and crass. That's not what the
gospel is about. The gospel was about and the cross was
restoring mankind back to the family of God.
He restored us back into the family of
God, a place we could not go
before the cross. We are
all of Adam, and therefore, we all have the same problem.
And Jesus is the solution for the problem.
Jesus said in John 14, I am
the way, the truth, and the life. That phrase, I am, is the
exact same phrase that he used later when he when they asked,
are are you Jesus? He says, I'm him. It's the same phrase. It's
in Exodus when they said, who are we gonna say send us? And God said,
I am. Jesus reveals that he is God and he
is the way, the truth, and the life. He is the only way to have
a relationship with the father, and he did it through the means
of the cross.
From the beginning, all God has wanted is a
family with us included in
it. And everything that has happened
along the way has separated us from that,
separated us from that.
And there have been things that have been good enough
over the centuries, Atonement,
sacrifices, but it was never good enough.
None of it was ever good enough.
So god said, I'll do it myself.
Every other religion, you have to find your way to God.
But in Christianity, God says, I'll find my way to you.
I'll find my way to you.
If the focus is healing and life change and active service,
then the gospel's not any different. But when we
understand that Jesus is restoring us back into the family of God, then we have
a relationship with the father through the Holy Spirit. So how
much more precious is the blood of Jesus
when I know that I can be relieved of
that overwhelming feeling I've carried my whole life
and I can walk free understanding that it
was bigger than that. It's so much bigger than I can
understand. I'll never get it. I don't even know if I'll get it when I
cross over Jordan. But for now, the cross has become
even more powerful when I see exactly what Jesus has done in my
place. He has given me back the authority that
I abdicated. He's restored me back into a relationship with the
father. He has empowered me with the Holy Spirit
for spiritual warfare. And that spiritual warfare is making
disciples of all nations, telling of the gospel
that Jesus came and died in my pray. And when he died, I
died. And now I'm restored back into relationship with the father.
How precious is the blood of Jesus? Worship team, you come out, and I'll pick
my jacket up. How
precious is the blood of Jesus to you? How
small have we made the cross?
The blood of Jesus will never lose its power to love.
It will never lose its power to forgive. It will never lose its power
to restore. It will never lose its power to a point. It
will never lose its power to redeem. It will
never lose its power to redeem.
It will never lose its power to transcend our thinking.
It will never lose its power to accomplish everything
that God has set out to do. He could have gotten to a to b,
a 1000000 different ways and this is the way he chose to do it.
This is the way he chose to do it.
How precious is the blood? It's for this reason I
shout. When y'all see me acting stupid down
here.
When you see me with my earbuds in singing and you don't wanna hear
it. When
you see me on my face. When you see me
crying in that corner. When you see me praying over another brother.
This is why. It's
always been Jesus. It's always going to be Jesus. It's
never gonna stop being Jesus. And the power of his
death and the beauty of his resurrection.
Forgotten the power of the cross and the work that God has accomplished.
But now, in this season, in this
moment, at this time in history, I repent and I
look to the beauty of the cross, and I see the blood that was shed,
and I understand that this is bigger than me. God
is restoring all of mankind back into his family.
And we when he died we died with him. And I don't have
to live back here. I don't have to carry that weight.
This is the reason we shout. This is the reason we celebrate.
This is the reason we proclaim his death until he comes
again. This is the reason why
we worship. So stand with me.
If you made the cross too small,
this is a moment for you too As we
worship our risen king. See, he's not dead anymore.
He's not dead. Come on.
Because if he if he just died, then what good
was that? But when he rose, I rose too.
So we celebrate that this morning. That
he didn't die, and it was brutal and beautiful.
That was horrible and holy.
But when he died, we died and now we live in newness of
life as sons and daughters of the risen king king, and for that reason we
worship. If you need to pray with somebody this morning for any need, I'm
gonna ask brothers and sisters to come down here, and you can come down here
and pray. But I just I would just like for us to just worship this
king. How precious is the blood?
It will never lose its power and I I get to
celebrate with you for all of eternity.
Let's worship.