1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,100 We should hold also in our hands and people who have been rescued 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,800 from the greatest evil. There is they hope that 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,300 suffering and evil and sin and death will not have the last 4 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:24,300 word. all right, so There's a lot of suffering in our world 5 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:29,600 today so much pain and anguish our cause and our world today, 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,700 like this week, I don't know if you've been on social media or 7 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:35,900 you've seen the news, but we're reminded again of the suffering 8 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:39,200 that goes on in our world with the shooting that happened at 9 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,800 Covenant School in Nashville. Now, I'm not here that I don't 10 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,800 want to give any gun reform laws or any talking points or 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,300 anything like that's nice. That's not what I'm here to do. 12 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:55,500 Nor do I bring that up? Up to Simply trigger and to grab 13 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:58,100 your attention. I share this with you because 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,000 the Easter Sunday, the coming of Easter Sunday, and this season 15 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,700 of lent, it demands, we ask the question. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,600 Why is there so much sin and suffering in the world? 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:14,000 Why the heartache year after year after year and more 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,100 importantly, what we have to consider during this season and 19 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:21,200 given the sufferings that we have and we've seen as is there 20 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,300 a God in heaven who sees the hell that we go through and 21 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:28,500 doesn't care? This season of Lent, is it 22 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:32,200 forces us to ask these questions and a macro level, right? 23 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,100 But it also forces us to ask these questions at a micro level 24 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:41,000 as well, like is there, like I know that there is sin and 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,100 suffering out there in the world but what about the sin and 26 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:46,200 suffering that I go through and here? 27 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,900 What about the sin and suffering? 28 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:51,500 I experienced at the hands of others God. 29 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:55,200 Do you care about the slander and the gossip that others throw 30 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,000 it at me? Do you care about my loneliness? 31 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,100 And my forgotten? This is there. 32 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:03,600 A guy who sees my abuse and my manipulation at the hands of 33 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,700 others. And as we asked those questions, 34 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:09,199 we must also. Ask is there a God who would 35 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,700 Deliver us from our sin in the wrong that we commit? 36 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:16,600 His there, any hope for my lust is there any hope for my pride? 37 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,700 Is there any hope for my Her or my jealousy. 38 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,900 As I seek to follow Christ in this broken world. 39 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:28,300 Do I have hope? A family. 40 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,100 If you came this morning with these questions, I got good news 41 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:36,000 for you. I got really good news for you. 42 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,100 If you are way down by the burden of sin and suffering, if 43 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,600 that heavy yoke of iniquity Hanks have to lie around your 44 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,600 neck. If the overwhelming poundage of 45 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,300 your enslavement is dragging you down, I believe that God through 46 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:53,100 his word today has something he wants to tell you. 47 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:57,100 I believe that there is good news for us this morning. 48 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:03,800 Amen. I will bow before then let stand 49 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,400 for the Reno guys were let's go Jay we're going to be in Isaiah 50 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,700 53. We're going to be in the whole 51 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:13,300 chapter. It's a lot in this text. 52 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,000 So the way that will navigate this is our tests kind of Bounce 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,900 Around, it'll make sense hopefully. 54 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:22,400 All right, Isaiah 53, I'm reading from the csb version is 55 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,100 pretty similar to the ESV. This is the word of the Lord, 56 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,000 who has believed, what we heard and to whom has the arm of the 57 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,700 Lord been revealed. Everybody, say arm of the Lord, 58 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:39,000 he grew up before him like a young plant, like a root out of 59 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,600 dry ground. He didn't have any impressive 60 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,900 for my Majesty that we should look at him. 61 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:46,400 No appearance that we should desire him. 62 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,200 He was despised and rejected by men. 63 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:55,400 A man of suffering who knew what sickness was. 64 00:03:57,300 --> 00:04:00,600 Oh, that's good news. He was like someone people 65 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,400 turned away from, he was despised and we didn't value him 66 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:06,900 yet. Despite all that. 67 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:14,300 He himself bore our sickness, and he carried our pains, but we 68 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:18,200 in turn regarded him stricken struck down by God and 69 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,100 Afflicted, but he was pierced because of our Rebellion. 70 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:25,900 He was crushed because of our iniquities, the punishment 71 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:28,300 punishment. For our peace was on him. 72 00:04:28,500 --> 00:04:37,500 And we are healed by his wounds. We all everyone of us went away. 73 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:42,000 Went astray like sheep. We all have turned to our own 74 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,500 way and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us. 75 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:49,300 All he was oppressed and Afflicted. 76 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:51,900 Yet, he did not open his mouth like a lamb led to the 77 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:54,900 slaughter, like a sheep silent before her Shearer's. 78 00:04:55,200 --> 00:05:00,300 He did not open his mouth, he was taken away because of 79 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:04,200 Oppression and judgment and who considered his fate for. 80 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,000 He was cut off from the land of the living. 81 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:08,900 He was struck because of my peoples Rebellion, he was 82 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,700 assigned a grave If with the wicked, but he was a rich man at 83 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:17,600 his death because he had done no violence had not spoken to see 84 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,400 fully yet and this is good news, y'all yet. 85 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,200 The Lord was pleased to crush him severely. 86 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,900 When you make him a guilt offering, he will see his seed, 87 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:32,700 he will prolong his days. And by his hand, the Lord's 88 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:38,400 pleasure will be accomplished. After his anguish, he will see 89 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,800 light and be satisfied. By his knowledge. 90 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,000 My righteous servant will justify many and He will carry 91 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,500 their iniquities. Therefore, I will give him the 92 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,300 many as a portion and he will receive the mightiest spoil. 93 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,400 Because he willingly submitted to death. 94 00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,700 And was counted among the rebels, yet. 95 00:05:59,700 --> 00:06:02,500 He bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels. 96 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:05,500 This is the Lord, the word of the Lord. 97 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:06,800 It is good. It is true. 98 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:21,000 You maybe see that One of the first things that we 99 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,200 learn about God in the opening pages of Genesis. 100 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:30,000 Is that he is a God, who is active and not Passive by the 101 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,500 very breath of his word. Everything that you see and 102 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:37,900 experience they came into being God is active. 103 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:41,600 That's just in the first chapter of Genesis in the very next 104 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:43,400 chapter. We see uttered for the first 105 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:47,100 time words, not good. When the God had looks at Adam 106 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,900 sees his loneliness. God says, it's not good for him 107 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:53,000 to be alone. I will make him a helper that is 108 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,800 suitable for him. God moves toward Adam and 109 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,900 Fashions, him, a wife, God is active. 110 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:04,500 And as we turn over to the next chapter in Genesis 3, what we 111 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:07,200 see is that guy's not the only one getting busy. 112 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:12,000 Mankind is active to yeah. How does mankind use their 113 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,100 activity. They use it to declare their 114 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:17,600 independence and self rule yet. What is God's response to their 115 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,200 sin and subsequent separation from God? 116 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:25,000 He moves toward them in Genesis 3 Guys says, where are you? 117 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,300 He goes out toward them. God is active. 118 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,400 You see what we learn from the very opening pages of This Book. 119 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,100 Is that God has always been active and not passive. 120 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,500 He is always actively moved toward the sin and suffering of 121 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:46,700 his people to deliver them from it. 122 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:50,000 God's answer to sin and suffering is to take 123 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:53,100 responsibility for that, not in a way that would suggest that 124 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:57,600 he's the cause of it. Now we know that God is good and 125 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,500 in him, there is no unrighteousness. 126 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,000 No God takes responsibility for it in the fact that he sees it 127 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,400 and does something about it. Let's look back at verse 1 and 128 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,900 Isaiah 53. Who has believed, what we have 129 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:15,800 heard and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed, 130 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:20,600 everybody, say arm of the Lord, If you have a pencil or pen, 131 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:24,200 this is you should Circle that just circle that in your Bible 132 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,300 because I believe that is the door that opens up their beauty 133 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:30,500 of this. Entire passage when Isaiah uses 134 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,400 the term arm of the Lord. They should clue Us in to the 135 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,700 fact that God is at work or he's about to get to work. 136 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:40,799 Isaiah is pulling language used in reference by Moses. 137 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,400 When Moses describes to Israel, their Exodus from Egyptian 138 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,500 slavery, this language, the arm of the Lord is littered all 139 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:51,800 throughout. Deuteronomy Deuteronomy 5 15 140 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:55,400 Moses says, remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the 141 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,900 Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an 142 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:03,900 outstretched arm. Deuteronomy 7 19 you saw with 143 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:08,600 your own eyes the great trials and signs and wonders the mighty 144 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,400 hand of the outstretched arm. Excuse me, the Mighty hand 145 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,900 outstretched arm with which the Lord your God brought you out. 146 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:21,300 Deuteronomy 9:26. He says, I prayed to the Lord 147 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:24,700 and said, Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people, your own 148 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,300 inheritance that you have Redeemed by what your great 149 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:31,100 power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 150 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:37,200 And we also see in Psalm 136, the psalmist is caught up in 151 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:41,000 praise and he's praising. God for God's enduring love and 152 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,800 as he sings And he as he meditates on all the ways in 153 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,300 which God has shown his love and To his people. 154 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:49,200 The psalmist says this. This is amazing. 155 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,800 He says, give thanks to God to whom to him who struck down the 156 00:09:53,808 --> 00:09:57,600 firstborn of Egypt. His love endures forever and 157 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,800 brought Israel out among them. His love endures forever with a 158 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,300 mighty hand and outstretched arm his love endures forever. 159 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,400 What I'm trying to say is this family when we begin to read our 160 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,900 text this morning and we see Isaiah used the phrase, the arm 161 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:20,200 of the lord, we know that God is about to get active things about 162 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:25,600 to get Poppin. We can assume that God is about 163 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,400 to move mightily on behalf of his people in the South Pacific 164 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,800 and rescuing way. And if that doesn't get you a, 165 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,200 hallelujah, amen than one or two things are wrong, right? 166 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:39,200 You either zoned out phase, I was reading all those passages 167 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:48,300 which makes sense or or, or you haven't suffered under the under 168 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,800 the tyrannical slavery of sin or experience the suffering that 169 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,300 comes with living in a sinful world. 170 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,900 And I'm just going to assume that the first option is your 171 00:10:56,900 --> 00:11:01,700 reality because if you've experienced the suffering of sin 172 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:05,500 and death and destruction as I have, then when Isaiah says and 173 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:08,500 to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed, your hand should 174 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:12,500 go up in the air and your mouth should begin to praise God. 175 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,700 You should be prepared for things to get on and Poppin 176 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:19,400 because God is about to move, he's about to move. 177 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,600 So how so how is God going to move then? 178 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,100 Is he going to send plagues to terrorize? 179 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,100 Is he going to drown the enemies of God in the sea? 180 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,600 As we continue to read our text, we find something completely 181 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:38,100 different. We find that God's plan to end 182 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:40,200 sin. And suffering is humble. 183 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:43,300 It's unassuming and it's humiliating. 184 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:51,100 Let's reread verses 2 through 5. It says he grew up before him 185 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:54,400 like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. 186 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,600 He didn't have an impressive form imagines. 187 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:00,800 Excuse me. Majesty, that we should look at 188 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,400 him. No appearance that we should 189 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,000 desire him. He was despised and rejected by 190 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,400 men. A man of suffering who knew what 191 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,900 sickness was. He was like someone people 192 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:12,900 turned away from. He was despised. 193 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 We didn't value him yet. He himself. 194 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,100 He bore our sicknesses and carried our pains, but in turn 195 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,700 we regard him stricken struck down by God Afflicted but he was 196 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:27,800 pierced because As of our Rebellion crushed, because of 197 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,100 our iniquities punished the punishment. 198 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:33,300 Scuse me for our peace was on him and we are healed by his 199 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:37,600 wounds. Many of you here today. 200 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:42,200 Have believed and wrestle with the fact that God seems to say 201 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,600 silent in the midst of great suffering. but what we learn as 202 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,900 we continue to read Isaiah is that God enters into our 203 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:56,700 suffering and he bleeds with us, he bleeds with us and no family. 204 00:12:56,700 --> 00:13:00,400 This is good news that we have a God that bleeds and suffers with 205 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,500 us that we have in this picture of the suffering. 206 00:13:04,500 --> 00:13:08,200 Servant, what we have is this picture of God, who is so moved 207 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,200 into action, for the sake of his people that he himself subjects 208 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,700 himself to suffering. He does this by becoming a man, 209 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:19,500 taking on flesh in the God, man. Jesus Christ. 210 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,400 Spoiler alert Jesus is the suffering servant. 211 00:13:22,500 --> 00:13:24,800 Don't know if you knew that, but it's Jesus. 212 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,400 Jesus is the arm of the Lord stretch to give to get active on 213 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,500 behalf of his people. Isaiah tells us that he bore our 214 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:38,900 sicknesses. We see that. 215 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:42,600 He carried our pain. He was pierced because of our 216 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,500 Rebellion. He was crushed because of our 217 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:49,400 iniquities. And this is the part where I got 218 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,900 to look you in the eye this morning and tell you the really 219 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:57,400 hard thing. The hard truth that it is your 220 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,100 sin. It is my sin. 221 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:03,900 It is our sin that has caused his great suffering. 222 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:12,200 We all young and old are the cause and we know this because 223 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,000 in our text Isaiah tells us that we all went astray. 224 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,000 Like she we all have turned our own way. 225 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,300 We have all turned our own way. What we see play out in Genesis 226 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:29,700 3 when Adam and Eve fell to live life inside the will of God and 227 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:33,400 the statues to live life. Autonomously apart from God, 228 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,000 runs in our veins, as well. Their choice to turn their own 229 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,600 way. Has now been passed down to us. 230 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:48,000 We all turn our own way. And this is what the Bible means 231 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,400 when it talks about Sin. It's true that right Sands are 232 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,600 the things we do, like, lying cheating murder, adultery lust, 233 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:57,600 but they all stem from the same root. 234 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:00,900 We all have this with. The Bible says, the sinful 235 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:05,700 nature a nature that seeks every opportunity to, as Isaiah says, 236 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:13,500 turn our own way. And we know this is true. 237 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,100 I mean we got so many little kids in here. 238 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:21,700 We got so many litters in here running around and you don't, 239 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:23,800 you don't have to, you don't have to guess that. 240 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,200 Like naturally we just, we know, we don't have to be taught to do 241 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,300 wrong, right? Kids, just naturally do that 242 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:33,700 they naturally do their own thing and just straight up. 243 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:38,000 Ignore you. That's the notion that that 244 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,600 we're talking about with the sinful Nature's, it's not 245 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,000 taught. It's just inherited nature, 246 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,700 that's passed down from our First parents, Adam and Eve. 247 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:49,400 We all just want to do what we want to do. 248 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:53,300 We want to live life apart from God, we want to live life on our 249 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:56,600 own terms. And this root of sin, has 250 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,300 permeated every nook and crevice of our world. 251 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:03,800 And it goes out, it goes out, like streams of death and 252 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,400 destruction, and it suffocates everything, and it suffocates 253 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:13,100 everyone so much, so that small little white lies mature into 254 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:15,700 full-blown adultery. That ravishes and pulls families 255 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:19,700 apart. Sin has permeated every nook and 256 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:23,400 crevice of our world so much. So that what was, once the small 257 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,500 distrust of a neighbor turns into walls and borders of 258 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:30,500 distrust and hate that cuts off those in need from the resources 259 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:35,400 they deserve. Saint has permeated every nook 260 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,100 and crevice of our world so much. 261 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:41,800 So, So much. So that at times we are silent 262 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,300 when we should speak because our reputations and images are more 263 00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:48,100 important than being faithful and standing up for what is 264 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:50,800 right? So, this is why this is just an 265 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,900 example. This is why I sometimes churches 266 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:56,900 are sometimes allowed its own theological talking points, 267 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,700 right? But quietest and say, we try to 268 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:04,000 say face when it comes to matters of Injustice, like, you 269 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,700 know, the protection of The Unborn or the eradication of 270 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:08,800 systemic racism, just to name a few You. 271 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:16,800 Sin has permeated every nook and crevice of our world so much. 272 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,300 So that almost like an alarm clock every year. 273 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:25,800 People walk into schools and gunned down children, sin has 274 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:31,000 destroyed everything. and while all those things are wrong and 275 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:42,400 terrible and worth weeping over and Being distressed about all 276 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,900 those things. All those things are hard and 277 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:47,300 while they're terrible in themselves, the real dilemma. 278 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:49,600 And the greatest horror that we are faced with that. 279 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,500 You were faced with in this world is the problem of your 280 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:56,600 sin. Arsenide only ravages and 281 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,500 destroys God's good creation, but it makes us enemies before 282 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,700 God. We are enemies before God, 283 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:08,700 because God is good, right? And completely good with no 284 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:12,600 caveat, which means that his pure goodness, demands Justice 285 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:17,600 for evil, our sin separates us, more and more from the presence 286 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:22,000 of God, where there is life. Goodness, truth and Grace. 287 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,500 This is the bad news family. This is the bad news that we all 288 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,900 participate in. But that's just one part of the 289 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:36,700 story and man. That's just one part of the 290 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:38,900 story. I said that there's more to the 291 00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:43,400 story like God walking toward Adam and Eve in the cool of the 292 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,300 day. And just like the arm of the 293 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:48,100 Lord, rescuing his people from Egyptian slavery. 294 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:52,500 Our God looks Upon Our helpless situation and our enslavement to 295 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:56,400 sin and Crosses eternity to get active on your behalf. 296 00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:00,600 Let's get back to our text Isaiah 5. 297 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:03,500 He says, but he was pierced because of our Rebellion. 298 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:05,400 He was crushed because of our iniquities. 299 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,400 Punishment for our peace was on him, and we are healed by his 300 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,500 wounds. Here's our reality, this 301 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:17,400 morning, when we read in our scripture about the suffering 302 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,400 servant, who is ultimately and completely fulfilled. 303 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,000 In the person of Jesus, we are not just simply looking toward 304 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,500 the death of a man who's just nailed to a tree like that's 305 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:31,200 happening, but that's not the only thing that were looking at. 306 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,800 You are simply just looking at this public execution, we're not 307 00:19:34,900 --> 00:19:38,100 just simply marveling and reading a story about this man. 308 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,500 Back in the day, he was sentenced to death. 309 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,000 All those things are true. What we are looking at as we 310 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 read the words of Isaiah and look through them to their true 311 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,400 fulfillment. In Jesus. 312 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,000 We are looking what we are looking at as we read and 313 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,600 witnessed, Jesus being nailed to a cross as we see him bloody and 314 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:59,200 beaten as we see him humiliated, and ridiculed, as we see him, 315 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,900 stripped naked and beaten as we witness all these things. 316 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,400 What we are really witnessing is the arm of the Lord stretching 317 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,400 through the Heavens to substitute himself for you. 318 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,500 That's what's happening. God is reaching through the 319 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:17,300 Heavens to save you. Jesus suffers not just the 320 00:20:17,300 --> 00:20:21,700 physical pain but he suffers in reserves are punishment for sin. 321 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,500 Family, God is active. He's not passing from your sin 322 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:28,600 and suffering. He's not. 323 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,600 But this is always been his plan, he's always planned to 324 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,200 substitute himself. And we see this really clearly 325 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,900 that he's been pairing, he's been preparing this for his 326 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,400 people for a minute. I'm not going to read this to 327 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,800 you because I know that when you guys get to Leviticus and your 328 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,000 Bible reading plan, it kind of check out. 329 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,400 I do too. It's okay, but in Leviticus 16, 330 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,600 if you haven't read it, it's this. 331 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,500 It's this story of Aaron, Israel's priest, being given 332 00:20:59,500 --> 00:21:02,700 these instructions by Moses on how God is going to deal with 333 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:06,900 the sin of his people. It's been God's plan to always 334 00:21:06,900 --> 00:21:10,200 live among his people and complete relationship, but he 335 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,700 can't do that because the people are saying was saying, I just 336 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:15,500 talked about that, right? And because God is perfectly, 337 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:18,200 holy, he can't be around saying just talked about that as well. 338 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:21,900 So God in his kindness, what he does is he institute's has this 339 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:23,500 thing called the day of atonement. 340 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,500 This is day when the high priest would go before God in the holy 341 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:30,800 of holies, he would confess the sin and guilt of the people, he 342 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,600 will Slaughter an animal, he would pay for the punishment of 343 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,500 his people of these. Four cents and during their see 344 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:39,800 what offer up two goals, one of the goals he would die, they 345 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,200 said of the people dying and then one goat would be set off 346 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,500 into the Wilderness to symbolize. 347 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:47,700 I said, sin will no longer touch the people. 348 00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:51,200 And their, their, their guilt has been taken away now, it's a 349 00:21:51,208 --> 00:21:54,700 lot. Now, this was extremely tedious, 350 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:58,100 and painstaking process that happened year after year after 351 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:00,300 year, and the reason why we're so painstaking. 352 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:03,500 And the reason why it happened year after year after years, 353 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:05,700 because of two things. The first Is that sin is 354 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:08,500 serious, and its effects are strong and we just talked about 355 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:13,000 that and you guys live here on Earth in 2023, you know that 356 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,900 that's that our world is good, but it's also a lot going on 357 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:19,200 there. So I don't have to beat that 358 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,900 horse. but the second reason why it's so painstaking and it 359 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:28,500 happened year after year, after year, is that the weight of the 360 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:31,200 punishment of sin could never be satisfied by the blood of bulls 361 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:37,200 and goats This was a picture because our offense is eternal 362 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:39,200 in God's eyes. The only thing that could 363 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,400 possibly satisfy it as something of equal measure. 364 00:22:43,900 --> 00:22:46,700 And the suffering servant, that Isaiah is talking about a lord. 365 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:48,700 Jesus Christ. He's our true and better 366 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,200 sacrifice. He's a true and better day of 367 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,500 atonement. You should say. 368 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:58,600 I sacrifice it only needed to be done once a sacrifice that is 369 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,100 sufficient for God's Eternal requirements because he's 100% 370 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:06,600 God and thus fulfills. The god size requirement that 371 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:11,100 sin demands but he's also the perfect sacrifice in the fact 372 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:12,800 that he's also a hundred percent man. 373 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,700 Did I say God or man? The first time anyway. 374 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:20,900 The this medicines. Give me kind of loopy up here. 375 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:26,700 So he's 100% God, he satisfied gods. 376 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,900 God size requirement for saint, but he's also a hundred percent 377 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:32,900 man. And so that that's qualifies him 378 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:36,900 to stand in our place to represent us before God, And as 379 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:40,600 our representative, he stands completely perfect without guilt 380 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,400 or staying. He is a sacrifice that God looks 381 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:50,700 at and is pleased with verse 10 says, says, this is look back at 382 00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:54,300 our text yet, the Lord was pleased to crush him severely 383 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,300 When you make a, will you make him a guilt offering? 384 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:02,100 He will see his seed, and he will prolong his days. 385 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,300 And by his hand, the Lord's pleasure will be accomplished. 386 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,900 God isn't pleasing. It like this weird sick way that 387 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:14,800 was suggest that he loves to see his son like murdered. 388 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,900 That's not what's going on here? He's pleased in the sense that 389 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:21,500 that God has looked on. Jesus, sacrifice and he's 390 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:24,700 accepted it and he's seen it as sufficient to pay the price in 391 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:27,300 the penalty of sin for the world. 392 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:32,200 He takes our place, God takes our place, Jesus Takes our 393 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,500 place. And what is more is that Jesus 394 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,600 looks at you this morning in the II. 395 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:42,800 With a smile on his face. and he says that I willingly do this, 396 00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:49,500 Where Jesus isn't dragging his feet to the cross for you, he's 397 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:53,100 running. He's sprinting, he's sprinting 398 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:58,900 to the cross for us. He willingly lays his life down 399 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:04,000 at verse 12 says, right verse 12 says because he willingly 400 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,100 submitted to death and was counted among the rebels. 401 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:13,500 The flood of God, the father's just wrath because of our sin, 402 00:25:13,500 --> 00:25:17,900 which was reserved for us, comes crashing down, and on the cross, 403 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:21,800 Jesus willingly steps in front of it and absorbs it, his body 404 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,600 and soul for you now know about you. 405 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:33,000 But that part, that part right there has been such a grounding 406 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,100 and anchoring for me this week. Excuse me. 407 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:40,900 Hey, Jesus. Willingly suffers on my behalf 408 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:48,300 for my wrongs that I did. And still do it feels like It 409 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:51,200 feels like my couch after a really hard crossfit workout. 410 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,000 It feels like my couch after really hard crossfit workout. 411 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,700 I find myself both at rest. And in all, when I read the 412 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:04,600 truth, that Jesus willingly goes to the cross for me, I'm at rest 413 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,600 because what that means for me is that there's nothing I have 414 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,200 to do to earn God's favor and forgiveness. 415 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:14,500 I don't have to do backflips. I don't, I can't do a backflip. 416 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,900 I don't have to do cartwheels. I don't have to say, twelve 417 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:21,800 thousand prayers. Like Jesus has already willingly 418 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:27,100 decided to go to the Shirley. I don't have to convince God to 419 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:30,300 love me. I don't have to convince God to 420 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:33,300 save me. He has already chosen to do so. 421 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:37,300 It's already done because what Jesus did, I can simply enjoy 422 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:42,300 God's good gift of salvation. I'm at rest that make sense. 423 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:47,500 But I'm also in awe because what that means is that there is a 424 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:52,400 God, who rules over everything sustains everything, who sees 425 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,900 everything, who is in control of everything and is looked down 426 00:26:55,900 --> 00:26:59,200 from his throne and saw my sufferings because of sin. 427 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,300 And even though it wasn't his fault, he takes the burden of 428 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:04,800 responsibility by dying on a cross for me. 429 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:10,100 Why God does that? Like I wasn't going to say this 430 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,700 but I guess I it's full of spirit saying Christianity is 431 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,400 not like every other religion. I don't know if you guys know 432 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:23,100 that every other religion Islam, Buddha Hinduism, they all give 433 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:26,100 you steps on how to get to God. Christianity is the only 434 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:28,900 religion that looks at the suffering of its people. 435 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,800 Is this the only religion that God looks at the suffering of 436 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,800 his people and instead of giving them rules on how to get to him. 437 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,700 He he they This is thrown and comes to us. 438 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,300 This is this is this is we should Marvel at the fact that 439 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:45,800 there is a God who sustains your very breath who loves you so 440 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,600 much to come down to you to save you. 441 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:55,700 You this is good news y'all. This is good news, and if that's 442 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:57,600 not love that, I don't know what love is. 443 00:27:58,700 --> 00:28:00,800 To see Jesus suffering in my place. 444 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:07,500 I don't know what caring is if that's not caring. so as we 445 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:13,100 close, There's so much more I could have said this morning, 446 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,500 but I just pray that this is helpful as we close. 447 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:22,200 I just want to give kind of to handle bars, like things to hold 448 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,000 onto. As we as we, as we think, about 449 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:28,400 Sin and suffering, two points of encouragement. 450 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,000 You can say, when we think about Christ's suffering in our place, 451 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,800 how should that cause us to respond to sin and suffering 452 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,100 that we see in the world? At a macro level, right? 453 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:42,500 But also how does it make us respond to the sin and suffering 454 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:45,000 that we see at a micro level with that within our own cells 455 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:51,000 as have two suggestions? These are exhaustive but I think 456 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,400 that they'll be helpful. So at a macro level, I think 457 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,500 what this means for us. As we look at sin and suffering 458 00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:03,900 in the world, it can encourage us to walk in step with our God 459 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:07,300 who sees tragedy and he weeps and laments. 460 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:09,500 And it's move and compassion toward it. 461 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:13,400 That makes sense. Now, I know that this is may be 462 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,200 new for a lot of us, but I just think that it's biblical and 463 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,700 right and instead with the Lord to weep and lament and to, and 464 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:26,500 to cry out and anger because of the sin and suffering that you 465 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:30,200 see in the world, like, this is, this is good for the people of 466 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,800 God to look at Injustice and evil and cry out. 467 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:39,200 Lord, come make this new make this right, that's good for us. 468 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,900 For example, I think it's okay if we are to see those shootings 469 00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:48,700 that happened at Covenant School this last week and for us to 470 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:50,600 reap our guts out for those victims. 471 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,100 To plead our guts out before the Lord that it's not right. 472 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,200 That children are just gunned down that it seems like 473 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,100 politicians don't do anything but just its view that as a 474 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:09,300 talking point to gain favor and and status that, that they You 475 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:15,100 should be okay to weep and lament and ask God to make it 476 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:21,600 right. I even think that it's okay. 477 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,100 I'ma say it, I even think it's okay that if you take the social 478 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:30,200 media without raising demand for justice, that's a that's a 479 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,000 career. I just think that like caring 480 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:38,800 for evil caring, that evil is happening in your world. 481 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,000 That think it's good and godly, it's good and godly to ask God 482 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,600 to do something about it. So at a macro level, that's what 483 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,500 I think. We should be moved by sin and 484 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:53,800 evil. But as we do that, right? 485 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:59,000 As we care about evil, as we as we ask God to come as we as we 486 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,200 Take to the streets or whatever that looks like for you. 487 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,600 We should also hold in our other hand, the hope that we have that 488 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,600 we do. So as a people who don't have by 489 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:17,400 as we do, so as sorry, we do that as a people who have hope. 490 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,800 The suffering, certainly Christ dying on the cross. 491 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,000 For our sins is proof that God cares about your suffering and 492 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:41,500 sin and evil and that he will not let it go on forever. so, we 493 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:46,900 weep as people who have hope we lament as people who have hope, 494 00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:51,800 It will end in a real way, and there will be no more tears. 495 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:56,400 No more heartache, no more to spare, no more disease. 496 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,300 We have a God in the person of Jesus Christ who has 497 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:04,100 demonstrated to us on the cross, and in his sufferings that he 498 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:07,300 hates such things and he will advocate for his people. 499 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:11,600 Macro level. That was macro level micro 500 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,300 level. What about the stuff? 501 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:17,800 What what the sufferings of Christ means for us? 502 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:24,800 And a personal level. Is that you are no longer 503 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,100 enslaved to sin. If you have trusted Christ as 504 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:32,900 your lord and savior, you see if he is the yes, the amen of your 505 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:35,600 soul, you are not enslaved to your sin. 506 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,500 Your chains are broken. You can't say no to your sin. 507 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,000 Now that you don't struggle. Not that you won't fall, but you 508 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:56,800 are not enslaved anymore. You should slay your sin, you 509 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,400 should put it to death. You could, you should confess it 510 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,800 to your brothers and sisters, you should do all that. 511 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,600 But please remember that they are nailed to the cross. 512 00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:09,100 It is a response to what Jesus has already done, right? 513 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:13,700 You're not earning your way. Isaiah tells us write the 514 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,200 punishment for our sins was on Christ and now we have peace by 515 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,800 his stripes. We are healed. 516 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,300 So at a micro level, why not live into that? 517 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,600 Right? Why not love your neighbor as 518 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,400 yourself? Why not do good works, why not 519 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,400 stay sexually pure why not say no to sin and yes to Jesus. 520 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:40,500 Here's the reality. And here's the last thing. 521 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:48,500 I'll say maybe because thus if the sufferings of Christ, 522 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,000 because of the sufferings of Christ you are Justified before 523 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,800 God, Oh my God. Looks at you. 524 00:33:56,700 --> 00:33:59,800 He doesn't see your sin. He doesn't see your past. 525 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,400 He doesn't see the things that you're doing going to do in the 526 00:34:02,408 --> 00:34:06,100 future. He sees the Spotless perfect 527 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:13,100 image of his son Jesus. He sees the record of Jesus and 528 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,600 though you battle with sin and suffering and evil, and even 529 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,900 death here on Earth. Now know that you are more than 530 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:23,300 a conqueror because he has conquered for you. 531 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:27,800 And this is the good news of we're going to celebrate next 532 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:28,500 week. Amen. 533 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,000 That death has died. There's sin and sickness 534 00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:41,900 ultimately will be no more. But I let Cole tell that story 535 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,300 next week. Let's pray. 536 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,000 Jesus. I thank you that you have. 537 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,800 Hmm, hello. Did you have died for us that 538 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,500 you have suffered for us that you are not silent in the midst 539 00:34:59,500 --> 00:35:09,600 of Our sufferings and sin and I think right now, Lord, I just 540 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:17,000 feel you pressing me too. To call people to respond to 541 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,400 this message, Lord, to call people not to the message. 542 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,900 But to the message of the cross, that been there, if there's 543 00:35:24,900 --> 00:35:28,600 anyone in the sound of my voice right now who have, who is not 544 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,500 known this to be a reality in their lives. 545 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:40,000 Who doesn't know that you have dealt with our sin. 546 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:46,500 That you have suffered for our sin and that you have made us 547 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:48,900 new as we respond to that. I pray that they would give 548 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:52,100 their life to you right now. Lord that's you this morning. 549 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:53,700 I would just love to talk with you. 550 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,400 I know that's that's weird and we don't really do that here at 551 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:02,100 Frontier, but I just feel like God pressing on my heart and 552 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:06,300 Lord, I Thank you for the cross. We pray for the the students, 553 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:12,600 the families of Covenant School. And now Asheville Lord, we ask 554 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,300 that your Justice and your mercy Would Rain Down. 555 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,800 Lord, we pray for our nation, and just the ways in which sin 556 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,900 our world really, not just our nation, the, what the ways in 557 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:26,400 which sin. And suffering has seemed to 558 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,200 almost just freaking devour it. And we ask Lord Jesus. 559 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:37,400 That you would, she would come soon that you would make all 560 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:43,000 things new? Well we we just we were at a 561 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,100 loss for words but we know as we look to the Cross we know that 562 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:50,700 you care for the world and so we trust you and we actually will 563 00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:53,400 be done in Jesus name amen?