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Jesus didn't save himself on Good Friday and he didn't so that he could save us instead. Good Friday was a very good day for sinners like you and me. Let's see, number two, let's go to our third and final scene, this third and final season of Good Friday. I want us to see together is the scene where Jesus dead body is lying in the tomb again up front. This doesn't seem too good. It doesn't seem good because the light of the world was snuffed out by darkness.The one who said of himself, I am the way and the truth and the life is not alive anymore. He's dead. This doesn't seem good, but it's so good. This dark scene is so good because it set the stage for the greatest display of power and hope the world has ever seen this scene on Good Friday. Set the stage for the scene that would take place on Resurrection Sunday in only a matter of days.
Jesus wouldn't be dead any more. He died on Good Friday, but he was coming to life on Easter Sunday because Jesus died and was laid in the tomb. He was in a position where he could conquer death by resurrecting from it and walking out of the tomb. Death used to when it used to have the final say when people died, they had this habit of staying dead. Death is one of the consequences of sin, but Jesus is the champion of life.
Jesus dealt with the sin problem on the cross, and then he defeated the death problem when he rose from it, overpowering it and overcoming it, never to taste the sting of death again. But Jesus couldn't conquer death unless he died first, he had to enter the jaws of death in order to dismantle it and walk away from it victorious. And that's what's happened. That's what happened on Good Friday. The son of God died and was laid in a tomb.
And then on Sunday, he would rise forever. We're going to spend some time looking at Jesus resurrection in a couple of days on Easter Sunday, but for now, know this, any good that we see in Good Friday is only good because Jesus rose from the dead on Sunday.
None of the goodness we've looked at here in this message is good news if Jesus body is still rotting in the grave somewhere.
Christianity stands or falls on whether Jesus rose from the dead or not, and only because of the resurrection of sinners receive forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God as a gift, a gift that cost us nothing but a gift that cost God everything. That, my friends, is good news. That, my friends, is why we call Good Friday. Good. Good. A man. A man. When you pray with me. Let's pray, Father.
We worship you. We worship you for Good Friday. Are you so loved the world that you gave your one and only begotten son that whosoever should believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life? Good Friday is the good is day that we have ever known, because on it you made a way for sinners to receive mercy, sinners to receive forgiveness.
On Good Friday, you showed your love to the world in that one act, one that one display of grace. You died for us. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Right now I pray for my brothers and sisters, Lord, for Christians around the world. I pray, Lord, that this reality of Good Friday would not be a doctrine that we ever simplify or think is elementary or think that we graduate from and go to deeper, deeper doctrines and deeper dives into theology.
Lord, I pray that you let the cross of Christ be emblazoned on our minds and in our hearts. Let us never think that we've mastered the glory and the majesty of the Cross. But in it, Lord, we meditate upon the cross and your love that was poured out there in that we have for us the root of all of our joy, the root of all of our satisfaction, the root of all of our piece, the root of all of our power in the proclamation of the Gospel is found in the cross is found in the Gospel.
Lord, let your people preach the Gospel to ourselves over and over and over, that we would be built up in our most holy faith.
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He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now if he desires him for, he said, I am the son of God.
And the robbers who are crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.
Now, for the record, Jesus could have easily done what they were taunting him to do. They were telling him to save himself, and Jesus could have saved himself that day if he chose to.
There is absolutely, absolutely no doubt that he could have.
If we flash back from the scene to only a few hours before this to the scene in the Garden of Gethsemane that took place on the very night before Good Friday when Jesus was being arrested and Peter tried to defend him. Jesus said these words to Peter in Matthew, chapter 26, verse 53. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my father? And he will at once send me more than 12 legions of angels? Jesus was basically saying this to Peter, Peter, none of these things is happening against my will.
I am choosing to let these things happen to me. I am letting them arrest me. My angels will come the instant I summon them, and all this mess would be cleaned up real quick.
All of it could have been over at any moment that Jesus decided it was enough, Jesus could have ended it all in the garden on the night before, and Jesus could have easily come off that cross on Good Friday when he was taunted to do it. But he didn't he didn't summon the legions of angels that were at his disposal. He didn't obliterate everyone that opposed him. He let them mock him. He let them spit in his face. He let them torture him.
He let them put a scarlet robe upon his tattered body. He let them put a crown of thorns on his head. He let them drive the nails into his hands and into his feet. He let them crucify him. And Jesus waited until the very end. While hanging on the cross with some of his final breaths, he uttered the words, It is finished.
He let them do everything they did to him until it was all done.
Jesus didn't save himself like he was mockingly told to do, even though he could have. But what if he did? Have you ever thought about that? What if Jesus responded to the taunts he received that day when they said to him, save yourself, what if Jesus was like.
OK. And then he did it, what if he came off the cross and walked away that day and he didn't die there on Good Friday? I'll tell you, that would have done if Jesus saved himself from the cross that day. That would mean that heaven would never have any human beings in it ever. You and I would never get to be in heaven. Nobody would be. We'd all be lost forever.
If Jesus didn't die on the cross for our sins, then at the end of our lives, we would have only one option available to us. Our only option would be to stand before the judgment seat of God given account for our sins and then pay for our sins forever in hell. That would be our only option if Jesus didn't die on the cross that day, but because Jesus died for our sins on the cross, we have another option now. Now we have a choice.
Now we can choose to have Jesus be the one to pay for our sins on our behalf.
That's the choice that God has made available to a sinful humanity. And if you choose to place your faith in Jesus, then you will have your sins forgiven.
And now the only thing that would have kept you out of heaven is gone from your life. Your sins are gone and paid for.
Like the lyrics of the old hymn say Jesus paid at all. If Jesus saved himself that day and didn't die on the cross, everyone would be in big, big trouble. But he chose not to save himself so that we could have the option of being saved, and that is good, good news.
Jesus didn't save himself on Good Friday and he didn't so that he could save us instead. Good Friday was a very good day for sinners like you and me. Let's see, number two, let's go to our third and final scene, this third and final season of Good Friday.
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To everyone's surprise.
Perhaps is that you shouldn't, you be in prison or dead by now, Barabas would be like, yeah, that's the way it was shaping up and it wasn't looking too good for me. But then get this pilot gave the people a choice who they wanted to see set free. And it was between me and this guy named Jesus that some people thought was the Messiah. And those idiots chose me.
Can you believe it? I can hardly believe it. I'm still pinching myself. This is the best day of my life. I was going to die, but now I'm alive. Barabas was supposed to die, but he got to live instead, and why did he get set free that day? Because someone else was chosen to die instead of him. Barabas got to live and Jesus went on to die. This scene. Gives us a picture of the gospel that is a picture of the good news, if there ever was one.
Now, if you look back on this scene and placed yourself in the story, who do you think you are?
When we look at the scene that took place on Good Friday, we have to realize that we are Barabas in the story, all of us. We are the ones who are guilty and who deserve to die, we deserve to die because of our sins, the apostle Paul says this in Romans Chapter three. Twenty three for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And he goes on to say this. Paul in Roman six verse twenty three for the wages of sin is death.
You see, Barabas stood guilty before a human court. We all stand guilty before a heavenly court. We've all sinned against God. And if we all got the justice that we deserved, we would all pay for our sins and hell forever.
But just like Barabas did we to have received the opportunity to walk away free. Well, someone who didn't deserve to die ends up dying instead of us in our place. Jesus died instead of Barabas that day, and on the cross, Jesus died instead of all of us. The Bible tells us that while on the cross, the perfect sinless son of God hung there while the sins of the entire world were placed upon him.
And when the sin of the world was on him, the father crushed Jesus in place of us. In place of us, for us, we can escape the judgment that we deserve from God, we can live forever, and instead of dying forever, we can do this by turning from our sins and trusting in what Jesus did for us on the cross. We do this by believing in Christ and then what he did.
We have a way out.
And if you choose to believe in Christ and turn your life over to him, you two will escape the justice you deserve. You can experience for yourself what Barabas experienced on Good Friday. Good Friday was a good day for Barabas because of what happened to Jesus. And Good Friday is a good day for everyone who has ever lived because of what happened to Jesus that seen no one. You see no to the second scene from Good Friday that I want you to imagine in your mind is the scene where we see Jesus hanging on the cross.
There's so much good to see in the scene, picture it with me, Jesus had been mocked, tortured and crucified and now the son of God hung on the cross. It was a physically, emotionally, mentally brutal way to die. The cross all by itself was unbearable. But I want to draw your attention to what was said to Jesus while he hung on the cross.
While Jesus was on the cross that day, people continued to hurl insults at him and they continued to mock him. They did this by suggesting that he should save himself if he actually could.
Let me read Verse is 39- to 44 from our text for you one more time. And it says and those who passed by derided him wagging their heads and saying you who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself if you are the son of God, come down from the cross.
So also, the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him, saying he saved others. He cannot save himself. He is the king of Israel. Let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in him.
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Did you jolt awake when your face was shot off? I once knew I was dreaming so I jumped off a cliff and woke up before I hit the ground.What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Some of the crowd who was there that day on Good Friday probably had a story of their own where Jesus either healed them or someone they knew.Jesus had healed that many people. He spent his life ministering to his people.
And at the end of it all, they returned the favor by crying out with one voice. Crucify him. Crucify him. Not a good way to respond to the messiah who has come to save you. That doesn't seem good. That seems bad. On Good Friday, we see pilots hand Jesus over to die so that pilot could save his own life. I hope you know, that's why pilot did what he did. He wasn't being noble with the whole washing of the hands thing.
He was saving his own skin. At this point, there was a riot brewing, and if pilot couldn't keep the peace in this part of the Roman Empire that was under his jurisdiction, then he'd have to answer to Caesar. And that would not have turned out well for pilot if there was a riot under his watch. If pilot released Jesus, there would have almost been a riot for sure, but if pilot handed Jesus over to be killed, he would prevent that riot from starting and thus save himself from having to answer to Caesar so to preserve his own well-being.
Pilot handed an innocent man over to death to keep a potential riot at bay. Pilot reason to himself that there was no other way around it. There's nothing good about that. It's not good to choose to do the wrong thing, to benefit yourself is good to do the right thing, regardless of what it might cost you personally.
But pilot thought he could simply wash his hands of Jesus. It wasn't good what pilot did that day, but we still call that the good. On Good Friday, we see Jesus mocked and tortured at the hands of a Roman battalion, and then they crucified him. And on Good Friday we are told that while he hung on the cross, the son of God was forsaken by the father. All of these things happened on one day and after we finish reading what happened on that day, we decided to call this day good.
It doesn't seem all that good when I put it that way, does it? And herein lies the rub. That Friday was good. It was so, so good. It's probably the single best Friday that has ever happened. And so how do we look at these events that happens and reconcile them with the idea to call this Friday, Good Friday, what is good about Good Friday? That's the question I want to answer for you.
Now, I'm going to draw your attention to three different scenes that took place on Good Friday. And when we see these three scenes, the way that God would have us see them, I think then we will be able to understand how good Good Friday it really is.
I see no one. I want you to imagine in your mind, if you will, the scene where a pilot presents Jesus before the crowds and gives them an opportunity to have Jesus released. Picture that scene in your mind. And what happened? Did the crowd choose to have Jesus released to them? No. They chose to have a notorious prisoner named Barabas released to them instead.
It was Barabas who walked away that day, a free man, and it was Jesus who walked up the hill to Golgotha where he was crucified on that day, a man who deserved to die was set free and a man who didn't deserve to die was killed. And we look at the scene where Bravas was set free instead of Jesus. We realized that a gross injustice was done that day.
What happened that day was wrong. It wasn't right. It was bad. It wasn't good at all. Or was it? I think that the goodness that we can see in this scene depends on what perspective you or I use when we look back on it. There was one person who would have looked back on that scene that day and said, you know what? Yeah, that was a really good day, a really good day for me anyway. Who would have said something like that about this day?
Barabas, Barabas, Good Friday was a really, really good day, if you were Barabas, can you imagine the response Barabas got when he showed up at home that day?
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There were also many women there looking on from a distance would follow Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. When was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. He went to pilot and asked for the body of Jesus. Then pilot ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock and roll the great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.
All of that happened on Good Friday. Now, do you see what I mean when I say that this this day doesn't seem all that good? At first glance, it's not super obvious why we call this particular Friday good.
On Good Friday, we see that the day got started with an innocent man who was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death by the religious leaders. That innocent man was Jesus. And that doesn't seem good. Isn't it bad when innocent people are sentenced to die? On Good Friday, we see a man who was so overwhelmed with guilt that he committed suicide. That's what happened to Judas Iscariot on Good Friday. Suicide is devastating whenever it happens, whoever it happens to.
It's not good. It's bad. Most of us know a little bit about Judas, a story. He wasn't a very good guy. He betrayed Jesus and delivered Jesus over to die. And he did it for 30 pieces of silver. But Jesus tells us to love everyone, even our enemies. That means we shouldn't wish harm on anyone or rejoiced when bad things happen to them. We should even sympathize with their struggles. Can you imagine for a second, though, the weight of the guilt and the shame that gnawed away at Judas to the point that he couldn't take it anymore?
It was so bad that it drove him to take his own life. And have you ever thought about Judith's family, his mom, dad, any brothers or sisters he may have had? Have you ever thought about how Judases suicide would have affected them? However, which way you slice it, Good Friday wasn't a good day for Judith or for the people that he left behind. On Good Friday, we see that a woman suffered terribly because of a dream in Verse 8 19, pilot's wife said this to him, have nothing to do with that righteous man.
Speaking of Jesus, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream, suffering much because of a dream. That doesn't sound pleasant, but that suffering happened on Good Friday. On Good Friday, we see a wicked and guilty man released to the crowds instead of Jesus, and I'm referring to Barnabas. Do you want and what do you want to know why Barnabas was in prison in the first place?
Luke tells us in his gospel in Luke, chapter 23, verse 19, we are told that Barnabas was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. Barnabas was a convicted murderer, and if we have any sense of justice inside of us, we cry out against the idea we're guilty, murderers are released and innocent people suffer instead. But that's exactly what we see happen on Good Friday when we see Barnabas being released to the crowd instead of Jesus.
It should have been Jesus who has released Jesus should have been free to go, Barnabas was the guilty one, but Barnabas was spared and Jesus was killed. That doesn't seem good. That seems bad. On Good Friday, we see the people who Jesus came to save cry out for him to be crucified. Jesus spent three years going all over Israel, teaching from town to town, village to village, healing thousands of people and telling them the good news about the kingdom of heaven.
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I agree , what a shame you don’t follow your own advice.
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No i'Il leave that to you.Let me know if she said something clearly untrue.
For me its enough that people get to hear both sides.
I know you don't like that a lot but there is still a little shred of democracy left
in our western society. Sorry.
RE: You Can't Make This Sh*t Up
You're probably right lol, though I think she is pretty well mentally checked out at this point in the game. He would do it though, no question
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Fox is an entertainment tv channel, it broadcasts lies and misinformation that get a large audience which pays for the shareholders dividends.Did you fact check Tulsi? Of course not, as you take her word as the gospel truth lol
RE: Submissive man
Why not go to a web site that actually caters to your preferences?...not much here but people who blog or who post in the forums...lol...
You Can't Make This Sh*t Up
Either that or get Melania to pose for the only fans site... I think his 'toadstool' might be a turn off...
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So when they had gathered, pilot said to them, Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabas or Jesus, who is called Christ for? He knew that it was out of envy, that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.Now the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabas and destroy Jesus. The governor again said to them, Which of the two do you want me to release for you? And they said, Barabas pilot said to them, Then what shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?
They all said, Let him be crucified. And he said, Why? What evil has he done? But they shouted all the more, let him be crucified.
So when pilots saw that he was gaining nothing but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd saying, I am innocent of this man's blood. See to it yourselves. And all the people answered his blood. Be on us and on and on our children. Then he released for them Barabas and having scourged, scourged, Jesus delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters and they gathered the whole battalion before him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him and twisted together a crown of thorns.
They put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail king of the Jews.
And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.
As they went out, they found a man of Cairene, Simon, by name, they compelled this man to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means place of a skull, they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. Then they sat down and kept watch over him there and over his head.
They put the charge against him, which read, This is Jesus, the king of the Jews. Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him wagging their heads and saying you who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself if you are the son of God, come down from the cross. So also, the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him, saying he saved others, you cannot save himself.
He's the king of Israel. Let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now if he desires him for he said, I am the son of God. And the robbers who were crucified with them also reviled him in the same way. Now, from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour and about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli, Lema, Sabattini, that is my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
And some of the bystanders hearing it said, this man is calling Elijah and one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him. And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook and the rocks were split.
The tombs also were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs.
After his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many when the Sun Cherian and those who were with him keeping watch over Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place. They were filled with awe and said, truly, this was the son of God:
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Good Friday is GoodDate:4/2/21
Series: Matthew
Passage: Matthew 27:1-61
Speaker: BJ Chursinoff
A lot of bad things happened on Good Friday. But we don’t call it "Bad Friday" - we call it "Good Friday". In this message, we'll examine both the bad and the good that took place on the very first Good Friday and we will see why we ended up calling this Friday “good” instead of “bad.
Today is the day that Christians all over the world celebrate the anniversary of one very particular Friday that took place a little over two thousand years ago, today is the day we remember and reflect on one of the best days in the history of the entire world.
Today is the day that we celebrate Good Friday. But I have a question for you. Have you ever really considered why we call this Friday good, or do you just assume it's good?
Because everybody has been calling it good for the past 20 years?
The reason I'm asking this question is because I don't think it's as obvious as you might expect if you were to simply take a look at what happened on Good Friday.
I don't think good would be the automatic conclusion that we would come to in the gospel of Matthew in Matthew Chapter twenty seven Verse is one to sixty one. We have a detailed description of some of the events that took place on the original Good Friday. And a lot of what we see there doesn't appear to be all that good. Let me try to show you what I mean by simply reading for you the account of Good Friday that we have in Matthew's Gospel because it's such a long passage.
I'm also going to show the words on the screen as I read to help you keep your attention all the way through. And when I'm done reading, we're going to take a look together at what makes Good Friday so good, even though so much bad stuff happened on that day, too. So let me read our text. Here's what took place on Good Friday. When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death, and they bound him and let him away and delivered him over to the governor.
Then when Judas, his betrayal, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, I've sinned by betraying innocent blood, they said, what does that to us see to it yourself and throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple. He departed and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests taking the pieces of silver said it is not lawful to put them into the Treasury since it is blood money.
So they took counsel and brought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.
Therefore, that field has been called the field of blood to this day then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah sane. And they took the 30 pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field as the Lord directed me. Now, Jesus stood before the governor and the governor asked them, are you the king of the Jews? Jesus said, you've said so.
But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer. Then pilot said to him, Do you not hear how many things they testify against you? But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed. Now, at the feast, the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted, and they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabas.
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Jesus, I believe in the blood, Jesus, I believe in the resurrection. Jesus. I turn for my whole life, my life of sin. And I trust you now for eternal life. Forgive me and bless me. Do that in the life of a person. Right now we pray, Lord, in all these things, praying for the saints and praying for unbelievers. We pray, Lord, that you're glorified. And we pray that our deepest joy is found in you.In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.
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Well, what wine is he talking about here? Well, he's referring to the fourth cup of wine that he didn't end up drinking with his disciples that night. He's saving the experience of drinking the last cup for a future time with all of his disciples.And when is Jesus going to drink? This fourth cup will in verses twenty nine. It says when his kingdom comes. When the kingdom comes. When the kingdom has fully come, when Jesus comes back, then Jesus will drink the wine that he mentions in verse twenty nine. And so when Christians take communion, we're doing two things at the same time.
Number one, we're looking back at the cross.
But number two, we're also looking ahead to the day when we will celebrate the marriage supper of the lamb in the Kingdom of God when it has fully come. I'm going to begin to wrap up right here. I think there are times that we can read Jesus words so much that we become numb to the shocking nature of what Jesus is actually saying.
If we do become numb, we'll miss out on some of the awesomeness of what our God has to say to us.
The four verse is that we looked at tonight are a great example of this. Jesus makes Passover all about him. It's both shocking and awesome. But here's the kicker, though, is just it's not just Passover that Jesus does this with. Jesus has made everything about him. Let me read a passage for you from Colossians. Chapter one is me, Verse is, 15 to 20 as we wrap up our time here. The apostle Paul says this He Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation four by him, all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities.
All things were created through him and for him, all things were created for him. And he Christ is before all things, and in him all things whole together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the first born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent for in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of the cross.
Everything in the universe is about Jesus, not just Passover, that is also shocking. And awesome. Let's pray. Lord, do whatever you have to do in our hearts right now in the hearts of people watching this message right now, do whatever you have to do to open the eyes of our hearts, remove any spiritual blindness, any darkness that would keep us from perceiving the reality that you alone are the center of everything that exists. You are the I am Jesus, you are creator God, you are the sole purpose for the universe existing.
Help us to see that not in a grand, just a grand general way.
Help us to see how you're the center of our lives, every single one of us, without exception, help us to see that and how glorious that is that you actually invite your people into a relationship where you could be placed at the center and all of our the sum total of our lives revolve around you.
They serve you. It points to you. Our hope is in. You are longing is for you. Our strength is in you. Everything is from you. Everything is about you, for you or through you. You gave us a taste of that at that Passover meal with your disciples, Lord, but I pray that you expand that into our hearts now as we head into this new year of twenty, twenty one and beyond. Jesus, you're the center.
Get glory for yourself in the lives of your people individually and get glory for yourself in the life of your church, locally and abroad. I pray, Lord, that this message has built up the faith of your saints, and I pray, Lord, that if anyone's watching this message tonight, who is not a Christian, who doesn't know you, Lord, that by the power of your Holy Spirit, you would bring them into a relationship with themselves, were they to say, I want God's wrath to pass over me?
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
It's a great meme. If you're one on one Mammalogy, you'll know the Captain Phillips meme. But Jesus, Jesus in the scene in our text is doing something very similar. He's holding the unleavened bread with all his disciples and he's looking at them and he says, look at me, I'm the unleavened bread now. I'm the unleavened bread. Now I'm the bread of the Passover. Now. It's shocking and is awesome, but Jesus doesn't stop there.Look at Verse is, twenty seven and twenty eight again. And he took a cup and when he'd given thanks he said you gave it to them. Same drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. We've already seen that there were four times during the Passover meal where one of four cups was of wine was drunk and each cup of wine corresponded to one of the four promises God made those people in the exodus.
The cup that Jesus has given to his disciples in Arsène is the third cup which corresponded to the third promise God promised back in Exodus Chapter six.
I will redeem you with an outstretched arm. I will redeem you means I will purchase you for myself. And that is what God did during the Passover. In the Exodus, God purchased His people out of Egypt for himself.
And now Jesus is saying this wine of redemption is about me. It's about me. This wine is a picture of my blood which was poured out on the cross the very next day. Jesus, blood was the price that had to be paid if God were to purchase a people for himself in the exodus, the blood of the lamb, which was which stained the doorpost of each house, saved people from physical death.
On Good Friday, the blood of the Lamb of God, which stained the cross, saves his people from spiritual death.
In the exodus, people were saved from a physical death, but they would still end up dying one day in the future. But in the gospel, people are saved from an eternal spiritual death. So we are all going to physically die one day unless we're raptured or we're alive when Jesus comes back. But the blood of Jesus applied to our lives by faith ensures that when we stand before God in the final judgment, spiritual death will pass over us.
To why? Because Jesus died for us. You shed his blood for us. And that was enough to pay for our sins because Jesus paid for our sins. We don't have to pay for our sins anymore.
The bread and the wine of Passover used to point God's people to a past event, and it did for hundreds of years. Don't miss that.
It was a centuries old tradition given to them by God himself. But now Jesus is saying that the bread and the wine are pointing to a new event.
The Gospel, the bread and the wine now point to the slain body of the Lamb of God given for the sins of the world hanging on the cross where his blood was poured out in order that whoever is covered by the blood is saved forever.
Shocking, awesome words and great news. If you are new to the Bible and new to the Christian faith, this is what Christians do when we observe communion together, we are doing what Jesus told his disciples to do during the Last Supper. When we eat the bread of communion and drink the cup of communion, we are doing what Jesus disciples did during the Last Supper. We don't remember Egypt. We remember the cross Jesus body hung on it and Jesus blood spilled out on it so that we can remember the wrath of God has passed over us.
Wow. Wow. Final, the final words in our text verse, twenty nine, Jesus goes on, I tell you, I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you and my father's kingdom. Remember, it was the third cup of wine that Jesus held up when he spoke. The words found in verses twenty seven and twenty eight. But then he goes on to say here in verse twenty nine that he won't drink the Passover wine until a future date.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
Gee thanks for that uplifting comment. Think you've done the same many times on blogs .We have the same issues over here or haven't you noticed but then again I'm not colour prejudiced .
World War 3 would surely be down to your other pal Putin and nothing is written in stone so yes it could happen especially as Trump has done yet another U turn with regards getting rid of N.A.T.O.
P.S. I'm far from bored.
Submissive man
A men who is in disposal of her woman can be dominant too...bdsm can be vice and versa..RE: Submissive man
We wouldn’t work because I like dominant men in both cases but I want you to clarify for other women that might be interested. Look at me I’m acting dominant aren’t I? I usually am dominant in life which is why I want a dominant partner. I want to relinquish that role to a man I trust.Submissive man
But love if i find some one who believe in BDSMSubmissive man
In general with light dominance over me..RE: Submissive man
You mean in general or in BDSM?RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
God Bless the USA!Cheering for mr. Trump unfairly being ill treated here
when so many of the citizens of the world needs him
to help get the world onto a better path.
This stuff is much larger than who gets a high ranking job,
it's about what direction the world is supposed to go next.
Nothing less.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
What exacty is it that is boring to you here. The prospect of ww3?America losing it's identity as the land of the free?
All the illegals taking jobs from the working class
who mostly consist of Blacks and Latino?
Those things or... do you happen to get tired
with the never ending back n forth here maybe? I guess it's that.
Well... there is a solution: you can walk away.
Nobody asked you to butt into this pro Trump blog.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
It's all terribly ,terribly boring quite frankly. I don't think Biden is good for America either but then neither is Trump.His treatment of the Scots over his golf course was appalling .Are you actually aware of how he treated home owners.?Here's just one example of his lack of care of others and how he treated those who refused to comply with his demands.
David and Moira Milne had already been threatened with legal action by Mr. Trump’s lawyers, who claimed that a corner of their garage belonged to him, when they came home from work one day to find his staff building a fence around their garden. Two rows of grown trees went up next, blocking the view. Their water and electricity lines were temporarily cut. And then a bill for about $3,500 arrived in the mail, which, Mr. Milne said, went straight into the trash.
The Scottish people flushed him down the drain years ago.
Like the New Yorker's did decades ago.
Seems like the rest of you have a lot of catching up to do.Your choice though.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
That's your new blood by the way. You like it?
THE HOLY GRAIL
For over 1000 years it would appear that Mary Magdalene had been confused with another Mary. Mary of Bethany. A pope around that time implied that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, but he really meant Mary of Bethany.Mary Magdalene apparently came from a wealthy background, and helped finance Jesus's exploits. She was linked to either the fishing industry or weaving materials.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
Ok, so don't listen to her then.But for anybody else who might be interested,
Tulsi speaking some sense as always:
Tulsi Gabbard: They think Americans are stupid enough to believe the lies
Six and a half minute clip from Fox news.
Speed dating
You know FULL WELL what I mean
Picture it, you've been dating 3 months, and he leaves a note one day in wonky capitals saying 'theirs a dellivery cumming at 11' and you think uhoh -
Speed dating
and 5 minutes ain't long, you're going to want to compare notes ('didja notice number 4 snorts like a pig when he laughs?' or, 'that's odd, he told ME he was the youngest of 3, told you he's an only child, LIAR ALERT.)Talking of liar, a joke doing the FB rounds, if a liar's pants really did go on fire, watching the news would be a lot more fun
Speed dating
Even scarier that the mods have asked the political nutters to cut out the politics but by the time they did the loons were pretty much running the nuthouse and ignored them, and most of the sane - or bonkers-but-fun-with-it - had gone. But there are a few non-politicals left Meeting in Spain - yup real meetings. Spain has a LOT of expats because the climate is reliably good, the cost of living better than most other European countries, standard of living much higher. It's also a seriously popular tourist destination, edging the US into 3rd spot, so anyone travelling from inside AND outside Europe gets a holiday and, if it works out, a new friend to show them round? No brainer.
Okay half my tally was bloggers meeting up where 3 lived here within an hour or two drive of Salobreña and 2 were on holiday, and a second trip featured an American blogger and his Malaysian wife, who met on CS, and chose southern Spain for a holiday for the same reason. There were 3 active popular and funny bloggers back then in Spain who have all given up in the face of the humourless dreary blogs which everyone now seems to prefer. Spain is still sunny and still the second most popular holiday destination in the world.
As for the other meets, expats will drive further to meet someone halfway than perhaps the average Joe would. Catch me, when I still lived in Scotland, driving more than half an hour for coffee??? but here it's a chance to see more of my new country, speak English, and if it works out (that giant if) weekends spent back and forth. Got a good buddy here who is in a longterm relationship, 2 years so far, with a woman who lives nearly an hour's drive away, that works out REALLY well for mature couples delighted to have together time but also used to lots of private time and keeping up with their local friends. In fact that's the dream, for many of us. Well, me. I like my down time. They'll end up fulltime together in the long run but for now are both very happy with the deal.
I am NOT a homewrecker.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
@ GrandWhy do you assume that I am uneducated and that I read M.S.M. The internet is full of sites all with varying information .
I am fully aware of what goes on behind closed doors and to be honest in front of them too.
You are obsessed with Trump as you are with Putin whereas I weigh up the pro's and con's .Do you honestly believe that the American courts have totally concocted ALL the charges against him? Had that been the case there would surely have been no charges to answer for.
Any idiot that brings the Bible into his promotional rants is a sandwich short of a picnic.Does he think he is the new Messiah? If so he too could end up being crucified .
As for You Tube it's a mixed bag and sometimes full of unreliable information.
No disrespect Grand but just because I disagree with you and others on here does not make me ill informed just not swayed by others opinions.
America needs to shape up ,get rid of the clingons and rejuvenate some young blood into their politics as they are going down hill fast in many ways.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Remembering how much you love us, but let your people or be built up in their most holy faith with this gospel, with Good Friday emblazoned on our hearts and our minds, so that we were prepared and equipped to go into a lost, dark, sinful and broken world and tell everyone this news that God loves them so much that he died for them. Mobilize Your Church. To that end, we pray God because of Good Friday.And Lord, right now, as the church, we pray if we have any friends among us right now watching this message, hearing this message of the goodness of Good Friday, and they still haven't received forgiveness of sins they haven't trusted in a they haven't believed in you. There may be hearing this for the first time. They may be hearing this for the 10000 time. If it's the first or the millionth time.
Father, we pray right now as the church that you would save sinners right now, Lord, that you would let their sin crush them under the weight of them, that they realize how hopeless they are to save themselves, that they would see what they deserve.
But Lord, open the eyes of their heart, that they can see you and see what you did on the cross and see you beckoning them to come and lay down their sinful life and take up your life instead. Lead them, Lord, to to reject their life and trust you for forgiveness of sins and everlasting life. Let them simply come to you and ask you, Lord, for forgiveness, and you will grant them forgiveness and everlasting life saved sinners.
Right now we pray, Lord, do that this Good Friday. We we pray. And if anyone says yes to that invitation, Lord, your word tells us that the angels in heaven are rejoicing when one sinner turns in repentance. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We pray all these things. Jesus, Lord Jesus in your sweet and Your powerful. In your most amazing name. Amen. Amen. Amen.