1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,920 Crossing family, it is so good to be with you as we've been 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,880 going through this sermon series, Decisions in the Desert, 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,840 because the decisions you make in the desert will define you. 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,000 They will determine your destiny. 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,800 And I want to welcome those of you joining at all of our 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,840 different locations, those of you watching online, and those 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,160 of you who are part of our Crossing Inside family. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,000 And to those of you who are here for the first time or the first 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,440 time in a long time, we are so incredibly glad that you are 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,280 here. I'm excited about this weekend 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,280 because we have one of the, in our movement, I believe one of 12 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,040 the most gifted thinkers and communicators come in to preach 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:40,840 to us. So crossing family, you've seen 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,360 it before. Would you put your hands 15 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:48,920 together, Tyler McKenzie? You're too kind. 16 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,800 Too kind. All right, all right. 17 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,120 Well, hey. Cross and fan welcome. 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,360 I would like to say. Welcome today to. 19 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,080 Those of you who are here. Welcome to all the campuses, 20 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,360 Welcome to those online, welcome to those watching in the future 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:07,800 on playback. I listen to my sermons. 22 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,520 I'm preaching on Sundays. I listen to my sermons on 23 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,760 podcast in the car on playback. So welcome to y'all in the 24 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,560 future. It's always weird to think about 25 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,640 how is the future. Are kids still wearing Crocs? 26 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,440 Who won the election? You know, like, I'm just 27 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:23,920 kidding. Why are you watching in the 28 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,360 future rather than here in person at a crossing campus on 29 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:29,120 the weekend? All right. 30 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:31,080 But we'll ask those questions and answer those questions 31 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:32,120 later. Welcome, everybody. 32 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:33,320 Welcome to all the places, the people. 33 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,080 Again, my name is Tyler. I'm at Northeast Christian 34 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,360 Church in Louisville, KY, and this is my third year last year. 35 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,560 It's my third year in a row coming back to the crossing. 36 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,240 I hope to not screw. That up. 37 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,440 Tonight I would like. For it to be a fourth year 38 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:48,760 because I love this church I have. 39 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,840 Not met all of you. But for the. 40 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,040 People that I have met 100% of the crossing people I've met are 41 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,280 awesome. Now about. 30% of y'all weird 42 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,040 but 100%? Of y'all are awesome and. 43 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,240 The person who? I love the most in your 44 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,600 congregation and I love everybody because. 45 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,840 Jesus says it has to, but I love your pastor. 46 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,200 Clayton, I mean. This guy can preach First off, 47 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,720 so he is a great. Preacher, and you know him as 48 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,880 Clayton the preacher. You, you may know him as Clayton 49 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,440 the leader. I get an opportunity to know him 50 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,560 as Clayton the friend though, and he is an incredible ministry 51 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,480 friend and in ministry. Especially. 52 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,040 It's good to have some friends you could lean on so. 53 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,400 As the kids do it. Heart hands love you, Clayton 54 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,800 and bromance aside, let's get to the sermon. 55 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,480 Right? Decisions in the desert I love. 56 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,560 This. I love that. 57 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,160 Y'all are tracking Moses story? It is an epic story. 58 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,680 You started in Egypt, you've worked through the wilderness. 59 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,040 You're eventually going to get to the edge of the promised land 60 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:41,240 in the. You know, leadership. 61 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,240 Transition and all that. But Moses's story is. 62 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,440 About as epic as it. Gets in the scriptures like he's 63 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,760 Egyptian royalty but also comes from scrappy roots he met so 64 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,920 closely. With God, his face glowed, but 65 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:56,440 also he killed the. Guy once. 66 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:02,120 CEO level leadership gift. But also had a speech. 67 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,920 Impediment loved his people. So much that he. 68 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:08,640 Told God I'm willing. To have my legacy removed from 69 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,320 the history books. But also got sowed annoyed with 70 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:15,640 his people once he ground up a gold idol into dust, put it in 71 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:17,120 their water and made them drink it. 72 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:18,720 You think your? Boss is hard on you. 73 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,720 This is Moses now when I looked at the grand. 74 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,960 Scope of your series. Right now you're actually in a 75 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:28,960 little mini series within the series. 76 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,920 Because the last two weeks, this will be the third week. 77 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,080 Y'all have been looking at the old covenant system of 78 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,440 atonement. That's what we'd call it in 79 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,240 theological terms. And the reason why y'all are 80 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,360 looking at that is because it's one of the most important things 81 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:46,360 that Moses received from God and 15. 100 years early, it 82 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:50,080 prefigures Jesus. Like perhaps nothing else in the 83 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,760 Old Covenant or the Old Old Testament. 84 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,520 Maybe the most important thing, Moses. 85 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,800 Received from God is this. System of atonement and the 86 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,160 Israelites people needed it. I don't. 87 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,200 Know if you. Ever thought about this? 88 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,680 But when they came out of Egypt, this was a baby nation. 89 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,680 They had lived in slavery for for many generations. 90 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:10,760 They didn't know how to run themselves as a people. 91 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,240 So when they get out into into the wilderness, you're a widow 92 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:14,680 baby and like if. You ever had babies here? 93 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,320 Had young kids? You got to guide them. 94 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:17,320 You got to give them some guidelines. 95 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,279 You got to give them some rules. If you don't give them rules, 96 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:20,600 they're eating ice cream every night for dinner. 97 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,280 You know what I'm saying? So they need some rules, and 98 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,760 that's what they get in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and 99 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,360 Deuteronomy. They get the guidelines, the 100 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,800 covenant, the will and the way. Of God. 101 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,120 And a part of that. Law is this. 102 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,520 System of atonement, that. Instructed the people how to fix 103 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:37,640 their relationship. With God when they sinned and 104 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,880 that's important now it. Had three parts. 105 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,520 First, there was the person. Which is the priest you looked 106 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,600 at that last week? Second, there was the place 107 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:48,920 which was the temple you looked at. 108 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,160 That two weeks ago today. We're going to look. 109 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,080 At the last aspect. Of this system, that's the. 110 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,440 Sacrifice. All of which, as you know, were 111 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,680 fulfilled in Jesus. He's the highest of high 112 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,480 priests. His body was. 113 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,000 The temple torn down and. Raised back up. 114 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,120 And John the Baptist. Calls Jesus. 115 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,800 The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, and 116 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,480 that'll all. Preach so today. 117 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,120 To complete this little mini series on atonement. 118 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:18,240 We need to talk about sacrifice and I believe. 119 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,280 This topic is monumental. You will not understand the 120 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,440 Bible if you don't understand the theme of sacrifice. 121 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:26,360 It's a central theme in Scripture. 122 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,560 It's the foundation of many of the key. 123 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,560 Stories. It's the. 124 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,200 Solution to the human problem. If you don't understand 125 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,520 sacrifice, you won't understand crucifixion, you won't 126 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:36,880 understand Christian love, you won't understand forgiveness, 127 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,920 you won't understand justice and so much more. 128 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:41,600 So today I want to help you understand. 129 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,720 So here's where we're going. OK, there's going to be 3 130 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,120 questions that I'm going to answer today. 131 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,160 All right, this is the outline for those of y'all who are note 132 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,560 takers. All right, one, we're going to 133 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,920 talk about the problem that requires the sacrifice 134 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,280 throughout the biblical Canon. 2 We're going to talk. 135 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:57,200 About the result. Of that sacrifice and then to 136 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,040 end, we're going to talk about the method, the method. 137 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,880 Of the sacrifice you ready, ready cross. 138 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,680 And fam, let's get down to it. First, the problem. 139 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,000 The problem that requires. Sacrifice Quick sidebar if you 140 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,680 read Leviticus. There are several different 141 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,440 kinds of sacrifices and so I want to be clear not. 142 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,640 All the types of sacrifices. Were an answer. 143 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:19,000 To the problems that they had, I would say that there are two 144 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,360 categories of sacrifices for the Israelites. 145 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,680 There were what I call thank you sacrifices. 146 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,440 And I'm sorry, sacrifices. The thank you sacrifices there 147 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,280 was no problem. These were the. 148 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:30,000 Peace offerings, the grain offerings and basically. 149 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,840 They were offered to God. Just out of Thanksgiving and. 150 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:33,560 Gratitude for who he is. And. 151 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,240 What they what He called. Them. 152 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,000 His people. Now, on the flip side though, 153 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,200 there were the, I'm sorry, sacrifices. 154 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,600 Which we're going. To focus on today and the I'm 155 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,240 sorry sacrifices. Dealt with a very specific. 156 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:47,000 Thing. What did it deal? 157 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,560 With church. There's sin, there's sin, and 158 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,600 that's the problem. That's. 159 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:57,160 The problem that requires sacrifice, the sin that breaks 160 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:58,720 the. People's relationship with God 161 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,080 it's interesting if you open your. 162 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,720 Bibles to Leviticus chapter one verse one it talks about Moses 163 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:07,280 meeting with God and in that verse. 164 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,320 It says that. God spoke to Moses from the 165 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,080 tent, but Moses did not go in the tent. 166 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,520 Now you know why Moses didn't go in the tent. 167 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,320 It's because if you read Exodus, the Israelite people were full 168 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:18,960 of. Sin. 169 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:21,000 Tragic. Sin. 170 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:24,080 And so throughout the book of Leviticus. 171 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,120 It lays out for Moses. This sacrificial. 172 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,920 System and he institute's it. And here's what's crazy. 173 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,320 Moved from Leviticus 11 to Numbers 11, and you know what 174 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,360 Numbers 11 says? It says that God spoke to Moses 175 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,520 in the tent. See, once he instituted the 176 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:43,480 system of sacrifice, and it took care of the sin of the people. 177 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,640 The. Relationship between he, the 178 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,400 people of God, and God was reconciled. 179 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,560 It's fascinating. Now, if you've done any reading 180 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:52,920 at all on the Old Testament sacrificial system, you know 181 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,840 it's crazy. Like, it's kind of crazy. 182 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,360 Now it wasn't crazy if you were an ancient person. 183 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,440 In fact, in the ancient world, it would have been crazy for you 184 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,200 and your people not to. Have a sacrificial. 185 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,280 System to manage your relationship. 186 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,480 With the gods, but for us. Today in the enlightened States 187 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,640 of America, anything that seems old we automatically call 188 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,840 regressive and outdated. So the whole sacrificial. 189 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:15,800 System just seems a bit much to us. 190 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:17,480 Let me try and explain it to you all right. 191 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:23,160 For the I'm sorry sacrifices, they followed a certain order 192 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,040 of. Operations first, the Sinner 193 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,160 would. Bring a sacrifice to the temple 194 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,240 next. They would lay a. 195 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,520 Hand on the sacrifice. Do you know what the laying of 196 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:35,640 hand on the sacrifice symbolized? 197 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,919 The transferral of sin onto the animal Third. 198 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,840 The Sinner, the worshipper would. 199 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,400 Be the one who? Slaughtered the sacrifice. 200 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:46,680 There, it wasn't a priest. Y'all. 201 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:47,760 Thought it was the priest, didn't you? 202 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,360 Could you imagine the? Experience of having to 203 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:55,080 slaughter. An animal for your sin, then 204 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,760 forth. The priest would then proceed. 205 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,640 To collect the blood. Of the animal, sprinkle it on 206 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,560 the altar and then butcher the animal and take pieces of the 207 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:08,160 meat and fat and burn it there. Now sorry for those of you. 208 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:09,760 With weak stomachs in the room, but. 209 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:12,080 Unless. You're a butcher, or maybe a 210 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,080 hunter. That's. 211 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,680 Kind of a lot slaughter. Little fluffy sprinkle his 212 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:20,400 blood. Then burn them like it feels 213 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,800 extreme. So I want to acknowledge today. 214 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:26,400 That if you think the sacrificial. 215 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,480 System was extreme it's because. You're right, it was. 216 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,560 Extreme. And it was dealing with an even 217 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:38,560 more extreme problem. Our sin now pet. 218 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:40,240 Peeve. Alert to hear Tyler's going to 219 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:41,800 go off on one of his. Pet peeves for a second. 220 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:43,760 OK, I just. Let this is one of my pet 221 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,480 peeves. Y'all the reason why this sermon 222 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,920 on the severity of sin and the sacrificial system. 223 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,200 Is so vital for us is because I believe. 224 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,760 That one of the generational. Schemes of the Devil look up 225 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,920 here. One of the generational schemes. 226 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:07,120 Of the devil is to. Trivialize and erase sin from 227 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,640 our conversations and he's quite successful. 228 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,800 At it. He has many. 229 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,760 Strategies, perhaps his most. Prominent strategy today is to 230 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,280 convince US1 that sin is just too emotionally harmful for us 231 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:22,640 to talk about anymore. Especially with our kids. 232 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,520 I believe it is the evil one who has convinced an entire 233 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,800 generation of parents it is. It's just too emotionally 234 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,560 harmful that we live in a cultural moment right now that 235 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:35,680 says that. Young people are so fragile. 236 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,280 It'll crush them to say, hey, there's such a thing as evil in 237 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,280 the world. It's what's destroying the 238 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,720 world. It's in you, it's in me, and 239 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,120 something needs to be done about it. 240 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,480 So let's just protect them. Let's tell them they're special 241 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,360 and that they can accomplish anything they set their mind to. 242 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,760 Now I'll tell you like this. This parenting approach is a 243 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,160 little. Bit of a different approach than 244 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,640 the way I was. Raised 30 years ago. 245 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,000 If I had to explain how my parents and my daddy. 246 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,120 Was a preacher. So I explained how my parents 247 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,680 approached the topic of my sinfulness. 248 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,640 I could do it in a picture. Can you throw it up there? 249 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:16,320 The spoon. And who is having a trauma 250 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,440 response right now? Are you OK? 251 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:27,320 You see? Kids, back in the 1900s, wooden 252 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,720 spoons weren't actually used for stirring chili. 253 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:32,280 That was just a way to disguise. Them from the cops. 254 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,880 They were actually used for beating the devil out your kids. 255 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:37,840 I. Grew up in a town where anybody 256 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:39,680 could whip you. Your Mama could whip you. 257 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:40,800 Your friend's Mama could. Whip you. 258 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,920 Your teacher could give you a whip and your coach could give 259 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:44,680 you a whip. The old man who you didn't know 260 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:46,800 and aisle 3 at the food line could say come here boy, I'm 261 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,560 about to teach you some respect. It's just. 262 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,880 It was a different time, and that was probably a bit much, 263 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,800 but young people today listen. Apparently any message at all 264 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,240 about your personal evil is just too offensive. 265 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,680 For your delicate egos. Don't tell the teenagers they're 266 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:07,120 sinners. It might hurt them and so no one 267 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,880 talks about it anymore. Which is tragic because. 268 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,760 Sin is the problem that Jesus came to to. 269 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,360 Defeat. So look, I respect. 270 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,200 Y'all too much emerging generation and I know y'all are 271 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,080 way tougher than people give you credit. 272 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,520 For so I drove 7 hours from. Kentucky to tell you today that 273 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,040 I'm a Sinner, you're a Sinner, and we need a. 274 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,600 Sacrifice and I got good. News. 275 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:35,040 We have one and I'll tell. You if you have pastors that 276 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,440 talk regularly with you about your. 277 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:43,680 Sin both gently yet honestly. Then you should be grateful for 278 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,320 that. Today there are many ministries. 279 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,320 That preach what I would. Call self esteemism, and that's 280 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,800 only half the gospel. God accepts you just the way you 281 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:55,280 are. Well, true, but he doesn't leave 282 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,040 you that way. You don't have. 283 00:12:58,040 --> 00:12:59,560 To hate yourself. Well, true. 284 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:01,840 But you also have to deny yourself, take up your cross, 285 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,720 and follow Him. We're all children of God. 286 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,000 OK, that's totally not true. Did you know that we're not all 287 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,080 children of God? It's interesting. 288 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,840 Today we like to confuse the doctrine of the image of God 289 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,000 with the doctrine of adoption. And they're two different 290 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,280 things. The doctrine of the image. 291 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,400 Of God says everybody is. Inherently. 292 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,720 Valuable because God has. Stamped his image on every human 293 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,520 being but the doctrine of adoption and these are. 294 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,360 The words of Jesus. John 112 says to all who believe 295 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:34,160 and accept him, Jesus gives the right to become children of God, 296 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,840 so even. Jesus had a theology of. 297 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,880 Sin and he talked about it he didn't think he. 298 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,040 Of us were too soft. To hear about our sin. 299 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,840 And yet this is one of the strategies of the devil to 300 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,360 convince us that it's just too emotionally harmful. 301 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,440 He has other strategies he tries. 302 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,320 To get us to change the language around sin. 303 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,600 Oh, it's just a mistake. It was a little white lie. 304 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:58,880 No big. Deal. 305 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:05,120 What's the HR terminology? It's a growth opportunity, and 306 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,960 all that serves to do is trivialize what's. 307 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,360 Killing us. Another one of his strategies is 308 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:11,640 to convince us. Just deny it. 309 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,120 Deny the unpopular. Stuff. 310 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:15,440 There are some popular. Sins that everybody calls sins, 311 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,720 right? Racism is bad and. 312 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,600 Racism is terrible. I hate racism. 313 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,760 It is a sin, but it's not. Hard to say that today. 314 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,000 But then there are some sins that it is. 315 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,400 Hard to say you. Know you're not supposed to 316 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,000 bring that into. Popular discussion. 317 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,240 So what a lot of people do is they just don't talk about it, 318 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,480 or they're even convinced themselves that the Bible 319 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:33,800 doesn't actually. Say that like if. 320 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,160 You turn the Bible upside down and read it like this and watch 321 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,000 this one minute TikTok theology video. 322 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,240 Then what you'll see is that 2000 years of Christian history 323 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,400 got it wrong. Another strategy is to blame it 324 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:45,800 all. Away we are. 325 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,120 Living in the most victimized. Culture, everyone. 326 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,920 Wants to blame sin off on their childhood, or on their parents, 327 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,480 or on their government, or on the church. 328 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,840 It's anybody's fault but mine. But in the. 329 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,280 Words of the great prophet Doctor Phil. 330 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,160 You got. One finger pointed at them. 331 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,160 But three pointed. Right back at you. 332 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:06,760 All right, so. We can't just be blaming. 333 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:13,920 It away. And then, of course, another 334 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:15,560 strategy. If all else fails, just. 335 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,400 Threaten God I. Hear people say say this. 336 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,560 All the time they'll say, well, I couldn't believe in a God. 337 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:26,200 Who would say or who would require this or that? 338 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,080 So here's the thing. You know, when we accept these 339 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,240 depersonalized explanations of sin, guess what? 340 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:39,240 Sin never gets dealt with. Sin never gets healed. 341 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,360 It locks us into bad actions, and those bad actions turn into 342 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,680 bad habits, and those bad habits turn into bad. 343 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,680 Lives we got to deal. With our sin. 344 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,320 I once heard a theologian say this. 345 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,240 He said sin is an unwillingness to trust God's vision. 346 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,240 For what's best for us. He's the designer, after all. 347 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,400 Or or let me secularize. That for you, for those. 348 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,760 Of you who are not Christian, let me secularize this into a 349 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,560 universal law, because this is a universal. 350 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,680 Law, Christian or not? I think you would agree with me 351 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,240 when you. Violate the way. 352 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,640 Things are designed, chaos ensues is what Christians will 353 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:16,560 call sin. I'll give you an example. 354 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,360 Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what this is right here? 355 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,880 This is is what This is a toaster. 356 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,360 Very good. And do you know what? 357 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,280 Toasters. Are designed to do toast. 358 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,680 It's a toaster. I think I got this toaster from 359 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,400 the staff lounge backstage. The Black and Decker toaster. 360 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,240 It's not in good. Shape you should take better 361 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:45,640 care of your staff. Anyhow, all right, let me ask 362 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:46,880 you a question if I were to take. 363 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,240 A piece of of raw. Hamburger meat and put it 364 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,480 together in a Patty and put it in this toaster and turn it on. 365 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,560 How would that toaster? Do at cooking burgers, not. 366 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:58,600 Good. We'd pull it out. 367 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,400 It'd be baked a little bit half baked, but the. 368 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,080 Burger would still be moving and some of y'all. 369 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,760 Like your burgers like that? Which is disgusting, but that's 370 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,720 your your own choice. Let me ask you this question. 371 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,720 And this toaster is live, so. Let's just let's just see what 372 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 how would the toaster? Respond If we turned it into a 373 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,599 water filtration system, I'm just kidding. 374 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,160 It's not plugged in, but. How would how would it respond? 375 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,040 Not good. It would destroy me. 376 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,319 Probably catch a couple people in the front row complete, 377 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:29,400 create complete and total destruction around us. 378 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,520 Now listen to me preach here for a second. 379 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,760 Listen to me preach. You. 380 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,280 Are a cosmic toaster and. No wonder. 381 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,080 No wonder your. Life feels half baked. 382 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,280 You're a toaster. Trying to cook burgers? 383 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:46,560 That ain't what you're made to do. 384 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:50,160 No wonder your life is. Short. 385 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,560 Circuiting and it's destroying you and everyone. 386 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,160 Around you, you're a toaster. Trying to filter water? 387 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,680 That ain't what you. Were created to do. 388 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:57,680 Do you see? Do you see? 389 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,680 This is the concept of sin. So the the Christian obsession 390 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,880 with naming sin it it isn't about making. 391 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:05,640 People feel bad. Why you? 392 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,680 Got to talk about sin all the time. 393 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,400 Makes me feel it's. Not about that it's. 394 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,680 About making the most of your life, whatever your problems are 395 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,040 sins underneath it. And that's the problem that God 396 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,120 gave us the method of. Sacrifice to deal with. 397 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,680 And it's an extreme problem. Now that brings us to the second 398 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,400 point about sacrifice. We've established the problem. 399 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,720 It's sin. God gave us the method. 400 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,680 It's sacrifice. What's the result? 401 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,520 Second, what's the result of the sacrifice? 402 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,840 Well, it's what we would. Call forgiveness or 403 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,760 reconciliation in our relationship. 404 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,160 With God or? Atonement. 405 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,760 A restored relationship now for those of you. 406 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,400 Who are skeptics? Like me, you may be thinking to 407 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,000 yourself. OK, but how to sacrifice? 408 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,080 How does put my hand on an animal or whatever like forgive 409 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,000 me or maybe you might even say. Like why? 410 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:55,960 Why does God? Even need a. 411 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,840 Sacrifice. Why can't God just. 412 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,800 Sort of, I don't know, forgive. Snap his fingers and forgive us? 413 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,320 Why do we have to slaughter an animal? 414 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,200 Well, let me give you another law of the universe here and 415 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,280 again, Christian or not. You just have to agree with this 416 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,280 because this is the way things are. 417 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:16,480 Another law of the universe. I have I have observed that. 418 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:20,000 Every wrong done must be paid for by someone. 419 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,320 Have you observed this everyone? And the bigger the wrong done. 420 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,040 The costlier, the priced, It's just how life. 421 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,480 Works. There's no such thing as just 422 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,120 snapping your fingers and forgiving. 423 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:31,520 OK. I'll give you a couple examples. 424 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,360 Again, let's do. Let's do an economic one, let's 425 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:37,040 say. You know, next week. 426 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,920 You have some friends over for a football game and your buddy's 427 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:41,600 watching his team and your buddy's got a little bit of a 428 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:43,600 fiery temper and his team is getting their rear ends kicked. 429 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,320 All over the field so. So in a moment. 430 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,320 Of rage your buddy grabs. Your remote control. 431 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,560 I would never do this by the way, because I'm a Bengals fan 432 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,960 and they always win so. He grabs your remote control. 433 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,840 And he spikes it on the floor. And it just explodes everywhere. 434 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:03,280 In that moment, a wrong has been done and you have two choices. 1 435 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:08,240 You can make him pay. $20.00 please I'm going to need to get 436 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,640 a new remote bro. Then mow me or two. 437 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,480 Two. You can forgive him, but if you 438 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,560 forgive him, who has to pay? You pay you. 439 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:21,560 Either got to fork out the 20 bucks for a new remote. 440 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,600 Or you have to suffer. From living without a functional 441 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:29,160 remote on your television. But either way, someone has to 442 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:30,680 pay. Are you following me? 443 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,880 Let me give you another example. I'll give you a social example. 444 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,200 Let's say in your community there's a serial murderer. 445 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:41,880 Serious. And they get caught and. 446 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,560 Drug before the judge and the judge. 447 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,440 Looks at him and says we know. Yeah, I look sorry. 448 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,040 To me. Is that how it works? 449 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:54,680 You're forgiven. Forgiven, you can go free. 450 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,400 Now, if a judge did. That to a serial murderer. 451 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,040 There would be total communal. Outrage. 452 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,200 And the reason why is because the community understands that 453 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,800 if he doesn't pay, then we all pay. 454 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:13,200 The victims must pay because they receive no justice. 455 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,800 The community will pay because this psychopath. 456 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,320 Has been let loose on the streets and there's no 457 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,520 meaningful deterrence in your law or justice system to keep 458 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,720 others from doing the exact same thing. 459 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,360 So you see. At the end of the day. 460 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,800 Somebody's got to pay. You see how this works? 461 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,000 This is the law of the universe y'all Every. 462 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,760 Wrong done must be paid for by someone, and the bigger the 463 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:39,440 wrong. The costlier, the price. 464 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,560 You can't just snap your fingers and forgive. 465 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,960 Forgiveness is. Never without a price. 466 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,840 When you choose to forgive someone, you know what you're 467 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,440 choosing. You're choosing voluntary 468 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,720 suffering. You're choosing to. 469 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,240 Step in and substitute yourself and pay for their debt. 470 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,560 Which brings us to. The third aspect of sacrifice. 471 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,000 And scripture the method. You know what? 472 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,480 The method. Of the sacrifice is. 473 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,120 Substitution. Voluntary substitution. 474 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,520 Voluntary suffering. This method was established. 475 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:20,840 On Passover during the 10th plague, when we see the blood of 476 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,240 the lamb spread on the doorposts, the lamb was 477 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,960 substituted for the first born. Of Israel, we see this. 478 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,640 This method codified into the law in. 479 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,840 Leviticus through the sacrificial. 480 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,600 System and we see this method exemplified for us by. 481 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,600 Jesus. On the cross, John the Baptist 482 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,160 calls Jesus the Lamb of. God, why? 483 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,880 The Lamb of God who takes. Away the sins of the world. 484 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,600 Because he is our substitute. So the idea here is that we're 485 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:51,880 rebels. You and I are rebels. 486 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,640 We're guilty. We're. 487 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,840 Standing in the divine courtroom of God and we have no. 488 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,760 Way to justify our. Sin No. 489 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,720 Way to pay our debt. The debt is too big. 490 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,560 There's too many of us. We're in trouble and right. 491 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,520 About as we're about. To be sentenced. 492 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,760 Jesus stands and he says, you know what? 493 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:12,320 I'll. Pay. 494 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,120 I'll pay the debt. And only I can afford it 495 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:18,560 anyways. An eternal life for an eternal 496 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,800 debt. An innocent God for a sinful 497 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,160 humanity. All. 498 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:27,320 Pay for their sins. Is it starting to make sense? 499 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,240 For you. OK, so the theologian who I feel 500 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,360 like. Explained this best in history 501 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,000 was an 11th century Italian named Anselm. 502 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,320 Have you heard of Anselm? He argued. 503 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,120 That when you add up the sin debt of all of humankind. 504 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,160 The price to be paid is so. Large that no man or woman can 505 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,520 pay it, only God himself has the infinite resources to. 506 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,200 Pay a debt so big. But on the flip side. 507 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,640 He also argued that while God is. 508 00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:01,320 The only one who can afford it, humanity is the only one who. 509 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,000 Ought to pay it. Because it's our sin. 510 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:09,560 So if only God can afford it, but if only we. 511 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,320 Ought to pay it. The logic is. 512 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:17,280 We need someone. A substitute who is. 513 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,640 God enough to have the infinite resources, but also human 514 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,360 enough. To. 515 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,240 Pay for our sin and stand in our stead. 516 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,720 And that is exactly. How the scriptures describe 517 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:34,040 Jesus the God man, Hebrews. Chapter 10 verse one says this. 518 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:39,000 The author of Hebrews writes. The old system under the Law of 519 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,520 Moses. That's the Leviticus sacrificial 520 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,760 system. It was only a shadow, a dim 521 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,800 preview of the good things to come. 522 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,560 But it was not the good things themselves, the sacrifices under 523 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,280 that system. Were repeated. 524 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,640 Again and again, year after year. 525 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,400 But they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for 526 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,280 those who came to worship. If they could have provided. 527 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,680 Perfect cleansing. The sacrifices would have 528 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,680 stopped for. The worshippers would have been 529 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,280 purified once for all time and their feelings of. 530 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,720 Guilt would have disappeared. But instead, those sacrifices 531 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,080 actually reminded them of their sins year after year. 532 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,920 For it is not. Possible for the blood of. 533 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,800 Bulls and goats to take away sins, so you see. 534 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:20,920 The text here actually highlights. 535 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:24,640 The perpetual insufficiency of the Old Covenant sacrificial 536 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,120 system. For some reason there was 537 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,560 something. About those sacrifices. 538 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,280 That couldn't quite make the. Sinner Perfect. 539 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,280 There was something incomplete, temporary, about this 540 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,480 sacrificial system. Or basically the author of. 541 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,360 Hebrews is saying you needed a better lamb and Jesus the God 542 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:45,160 man is the better lamb, Hebrews 10 verse 10 goes on it says. 543 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,440 For God's will. Pay attention to this. 544 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,640 This is so important. For God's will for us. 545 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,680 To be made holy excuse. Me for God's will. 546 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,040 Was for us to be made holy. By the sacrifice of the body of 547 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,720 Jesus. Christ once for all time. 548 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,520 Once once for all time. Under the Old Covenant, the 549 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,160 priest stands and ministers. Before the altar, day after day. 550 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,600 Offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never 551 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,160 take away sins. But. 552 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,160 Our high priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for 553 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,280 sins good for all time, and then he sat down in the place of 554 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,880 honor at God's right hand. There he waits until his enemies 555 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,320 are humbled and made a footstool under. 556 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,560 His feet for by that. One offering he forever made. 557 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,920 Perfect those. Who are being made holy? 558 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,280 Beautiful. Now I want you to notice in this 559 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,240 passage. That the scriptures go out their 560 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,240 way to. Explain that Jesus did not go to 561 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:42,080 the cross in weakness. Being sacrificed feels weak, 562 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,600 doesn't it? But the scriptures go out their 563 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,360 way to say that Jesus. Was not arrested against his own 564 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:49,880 goodwill. He was not cuffed and drugged to 565 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,000 the cross, kicking and screaming in fact. 566 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,320 If you watch the last 24 hours of his life. 567 00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:00,280 As he's sacrificing himself. You see the life of Jesus spark 568 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,640 with. Tremors of supernatural fury and 569 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,800 glory and power in the Garden of Gethsemane. 570 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,520 He's praying and Judas brings. What could be? 571 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,360 Hundreds of Roman soldiers armed to the hilt to arrest him. 572 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,280 They ask the disciples. Where is Jesus? 573 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,840 And do you know what Jesus says back to them? 574 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,240 According to the Gospel of John, He says the name. 575 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,480 Of God, he says I. AM. 576 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,480 And when those words explode in the air, the Gospel of John says 577 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,200 that Judas and all the soldiers fall on their backs. 578 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,960 They just fall over. It's incredible. 579 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,040 And it's to show us that Jesus. Has the power. 580 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:37,120 He has the power. So what? 581 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,120 Does he do next with his enemies on their back? 582 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,840 He gives them his hands and they cuff him. 583 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,360 As they're about to drag. Him away. 584 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,040 Peter says it's it's go. Time and he pulls out his sword 585 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:58,040 and draws first blood. In that same scene in Matthew, 586 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,920 Jesus actually says. Did you know that just out of 587 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,280 your sight? Right now there are legions of 588 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,120 angels that I could call upon, and they would. 589 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:10,320 Wreck these fools. But what does Jesus do in this 590 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,720 moment where he could win the fight? 591 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,560 He picks Malchus. 'S ear up. 592 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,840 Off the ground, heals him and then continues. 593 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,520 To walk towards the. Voluntary sacrifice the. 594 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:28,640 Voluntary substitution later at his trial with Pilate a Pilate. 595 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,200 Looks at him, he's. Trying to get Jesus to. 596 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,360 Give him anything so that he can let him go. 597 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,400 It's interesting that Jesus has this moment with with. 598 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,320 Pilate where he says look. The only reason you have any 599 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,560 authority over me at all. Is because it was. 600 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,360 Given to you from above. What Pilate doesn't know is that 601 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,040 Jesus is the king of the above. This is like the worst. 602 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,440 Episode of Undercover Boss ever. Because what Jesus knows. 603 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,880 Is that Pilate is like. 100 rungs removed from him on the 604 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,720 org. Chart his under servant. 605 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:01,240 And yet. What does Jesus do? 606 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,840 He. Allows his under servant to 607 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:04,680 sentence him. He goes to the. 608 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,680 Cross in power. Even on the cross he adjudicates 609 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,760 a soul offers. Eternal salvation. 610 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,240 You remember the criminal next to him on the cross looks to him 611 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,480 and he says, I think you're the dude, man. 612 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,000 Will you forgive me and like? Jesus looks at me, he says. 613 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,040 You me paradise. Today. 614 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,960 Wow. Think about that. 615 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,440 He's the adjudicator. Of souls and in a. 616 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,320 Breath, he sets this soul. Free and then in his last. 617 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,920 Breath. He sets us all free. 618 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,960 Praise God in Matthew. 'S gospel, he tells. 619 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,960 That when Jesus died, at that moment the curtain in the temple 620 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,160 was torn from top to bottom, signifying that the temple 621 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,760 system was done, a better lamb had been sacrificed once, and. 622 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:51,280 For all. Now I want you to understand. 623 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,360 This whole idea of of God. Being crucified, sacrificed, 624 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,560 this was unthinkable. For the Israelites, God was holy 625 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,600 other the idea that he would. Come down and become our sin and 626 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,960 pay our debt. The crucifixion was was totally 627 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,560 unexpected. And I'll tell you what. 628 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,080 If you think that animal. Sacrifice was brutal. 629 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,640 Let me tell you about. Crucifixion. 630 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,120 It was brutal. It's fascinating how crosses has 631 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,520 they've become ornamentation for us. 632 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,800 Every time I see a cross anymore, it's pretty sunlit in 633 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:31,080 stained glass, backlit on a stage, candlelit at an altar. 634 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,200 We've turned them into tattoos and jewelry and wall hangings, 635 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,160 and I believe too much of this actually anesthetizes the cross. 636 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,040 It makes it. Difficult to be shocked by the 637 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,000 cruelty. Of the nails in the flesh, and 638 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,840 the blood, and the wood, and the death. 639 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,560 First they flogged Jesus. You know what flogging was? 640 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,040 Basically they would take a a. Whip with 9 leather strands on 641 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,840 it that had rock and animal bone and glass and pottery Shard 642 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,240 embedded into the leather. And then they would take the 643 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,480 criminal who was Jesus in this situation. 644 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,760 They would tie his arms to a post so that the skin on the 645 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,600 back was. Tight. 646 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,800 And then a soldier would stand on each side of the criminal and 647 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,960 from shoulder down to opposite calf. 648 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,200 They would. Take turns whipping, creating an 649 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,960 X on the back, filleting the skin so that often times the 650 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,960 criminal's. Body would just fall apart 651 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:26,480 after. They flogged him. 652 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,080 They mocked him. The Roman soldiers were only 653 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,320 asked to do 2 things to Jesus, flog him and crucify him. 654 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,840 Mocking was not what Pilot asked, but they went above and 655 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,760 beyond the calling in Matthew chapter 27. 656 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,080 It says that Pilate. Released Barabbas to them and 657 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,000 then he ordered Jesus. Flogged with a lead tipped. 658 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,720 Whip then turned over to the Roman. 659 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:49,520 Soldiers to be crucified and. Check this out. 660 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,520 It says some of the governor's soldiers took Jesus into their 661 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,400 headquarters. They. 662 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,800 Didn't have to do this. They called out the entire 663 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,840 regiment. They stripped him, put a scarlet 664 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,160 robe on him. Think of the cruelty of this. 665 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,920 Then they wove a a crown of thorn put it on his head. 666 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,920 Placed a Reed. Stick in his hand. 667 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,720 As a scepter. And then they knelt before him 668 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:20,640 in mockery and taunted Hail King of the Jews, and then they spit 669 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:31,950 on him, and they grabbed the stick and struck him on the head 670 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:36,630 with it. And then they were finally tired 671 00:32:36,630 --> 00:32:37,510 of mocking him. They took. 672 00:32:37,510 --> 00:32:40,600 Off the robe put. His own clothes on him again and 673 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,160 took him away. To be crucified. 674 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,760 And crucify him they did. After the flogging Jesus body 675 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,480 would have been in shock from a night without sleep, food and 676 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,960 water. All the pain and. 677 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,280 Blood he's already lost. No wonder he only. 678 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,680 Lasts 6 hours up there. Many people believe that 679 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,600 crucifixion was the most cruel method of execution, because it 680 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:03,760 was. Death by torture. 681 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,680 They would literally draw. Out the dying process as long as 682 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:13,200 they could, and as Jesus is up. There being tortured I want. 683 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,000 You to imagine what is Jesus thinking? 684 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,680 What is he seeing as he hangs there on the cross? 685 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,560 Well, one artist imagined it for us. 686 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,000 I want to show you a painting. It's a favorite painting of 687 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,120 mine. It was done by a 17th century 688 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,920 Dutch artist known as Rembrandt. The piece is called. 689 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,680 Raising the cross. And if you look at the whole 690 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,240 picture at. First glance, the painting looks 691 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,160 like many works done from the Renaissance period. 692 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,880 The cross is being lifted. The scene's. 693 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,440 Dark, the faces are lost. In the dimness of the shadows. 694 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,120 But what makes Rembrandt's painting stand out? 695 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:47,720 Is if you look. Closely, right there in the 696 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:48,880 middle, there's a man at the foot. 697 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,400 Of the cross. Clearly dressed in 17th century. 698 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,200 Clothing with his little little. Hat and what? 699 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,400 Light blue pinstripes and what's? 700 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,560 He doing? What's he doing? 701 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,120 He's pulling the cross. With the the the soldiers. 702 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,520 Into place. He's crucifying Jesus. 703 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:11,400 Or in other words, Rembrandt. Painted himself into the cross, 704 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,280 right? There at the feet of Jesus, 705 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,400 where there could be no. Doubt of his guilt and 706 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,199 complicity, Rembrandt painted himself into the cross. 707 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,320 Right there at the feet of Jesus, where there could be no 708 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,040 doubt that he received the grace. 709 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:25,800 And forgiveness of it. Rembrandt painted himself in To 710 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,920 the cross. And I might. 711 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:33,239 Ask you today, have you? You see, you know what I think 712 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,159 Jesus saw as he hung there? What he didn't see. 713 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,360 Were angels or the Father my God? 714 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,040 My God, why have you abandoned me? 715 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:42,159 What he didn't see was any rescue insight. 716 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,840 He saw his mother weeping. He saw the soldiers gambling. 717 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,080 He saw the religious leaders. Taunting him. 718 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:51,080 And perhaps, just perhaps. I believe he saw you. 719 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,560 And he saw me, Hebrews 12/1 tells us. 720 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,160 After all it. Says let us run with endurance 721 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,520 the race. That is set before us. 722 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,320 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfector of faith. 723 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:08,360 Who for the joy set before him for the what for the joy set? 724 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,720 Before him endured the cross, despising the shame for the. 725 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,480 Sake of the joy set before him. He endured the cross. 726 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:22,960 What was the Joy set? Before him, your forgiveness, my 727 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,960 forgiveness, it was you and me, our freedom. 728 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,240 The Apostle Paul. Writes this in Colossians 213. 729 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:31,280 He. Says you were dead. 730 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,480 Because of your sins, and because your sinful nature was 731 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,360 not yet cut away, then God made you alive. 732 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,360 With Christ, for he forgave. All our sins he cancelled the 733 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,920 record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it 734 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:46,640 to. The Cross. 735 00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:48,400 Fascinating. Or in other words. 736 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,160 Through the eyes of. Scripture we see between Jesus's 737 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:56,200 hand and the wood of the. Cross a list? 738 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:00,800 A list. Longer than we'd like to admit. 739 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,360 A list that perhaps? We'd all like to hide, but it's 740 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,080 a record of. Our sins, and we see them 741 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,280 disappearing, fading away as they're covered. 742 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,440 By the blood, so look. You have a great problem. 743 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,040 It's your sin. You need a great solution. 744 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,640 Need forgiveness and I have good news today. 745 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,920 You have a great substitute. It's Jesus. 746 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,120 Behold the Lamb of God who takes away. 747 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,560 The sins of the world. So I don't know what. 748 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,960 The debt is. You've been unable to pay. 749 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,520 I don't know what the regret or the shame is that you've been 750 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,200 unable to shake. I don't know what the. 751 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,440 Guilt is. That you've been unable to 752 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,040 forget. I don't know what the addiction 753 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,160 is that you've been unable to kick. 754 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,960 I don't know what the emptiness is that you've been unable to 755 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,720 feel. I don't know what the wrong is 756 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:56,320 that you've been unable to make right. 757 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,720 I don't know your sin. I don't need to know your sin 758 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:03,360 because I know your Savior. Do you know Him? 759 00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:10,120 I pray today that you would. I pray today. 760 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,040 That you would nail. That list to the cross as we 761 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,680 hand it over to our campus pastors for a time of decision. 762 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,840 And I just want to be very, very clear in this moment. 763 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,120 I want to lay it out as clear as, as as possible. 764 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:37,840 Every single one of us in this room, including myself, 765 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:43,960 including those who are watching online, we have a problem that 766 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:50,080 requires a sacrifice, we have a problem that requires a 767 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,480 cleansing, and we have a problem that requires a substitution. 768 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,200 Romans is very clear that all have sinned and fall short of 769 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,360 the glory of God, and that includes me. 770 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:05,560 Listen, and that includes you. And if you are living your life 771 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:11,360 right now in this current moment without trusting Jesus as your 772 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,880 personal Lord and Savior, you have no coverage. 773 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,920 You have no sacrifice that covers you. 774 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,680 You have no substitution. When you come face to face with 775 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,760 God, which every single one of us, we're going to face it when 776 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,720 this life is up or when He comes and He encounters us before 777 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,520 that. You will come face to face and 778 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,200 you will be judged by your own merit. 779 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,680 I don't know about you, but that's scary for me. 780 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,880 Your imperfections, what you have accomplished and it's not 781 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,640 going to matter. I mean how good you are, how 782 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,000 good a dad you are, what family you came from, how much money 783 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,880 you have, how much time you you, you use to serve others and be 784 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:03,520 this great citizen. It won't be sufficient. 785 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:10,560 Your sacrifice will not cover the bill when you trust in the 786 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:17,120 name of Jesus and you believe in his work on the cross and His 787 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:22,080 power over the grave and in his resurrection, and you trust Him 788 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:23,680 as your personal Lord and Savior. 789 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,560 His sacrifice on the cross is what we will be judged upon. 790 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,840 No longer will the Father see your merit, your sin. 791 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:36,480 He will see his perfect Son, His perfection, his perfect 792 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,880 sacrifice. And so if you've never started 793 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:44,800 it, if you never heard before how loved you are and cared for 794 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,800 you are, that you are created in the image of God, but you want 795 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,200 to claim, hey, I want to be his son. 796 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,400 I want to be his daughter. You want to walk inside that 797 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,200 relationship with him in just a little bit. 798 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,520 We're going to stand, every single one of us in this room. 799 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,960 We're going to stand and we're going to worship our great high 800 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,760 priest. We're going to praise him for 801 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,400 all that he's done and all that he is and his love that endures 802 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,320 forever. And if that's you, you've never 803 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,880 started a relationship, but you want to today. 804 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,680 You can walk out of here in freedom as a new child of God. 805 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,440 I'm going to be right over there by the baptistry if you're like, 806 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,040 I have questions. I don't have this all figured 807 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,480 out. Some of this doesn't make sense 808 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,880 to me. All this sacrificial system was 809 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,520 was confusing and but now I'm starting to understand it and I 810 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,160 want to walk in the freedom of Jesus. 811 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,560 Tonight is a night you can walk out in freedom and if you're 812 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,200 online right now, there's a chat host that would love to do the 813 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,640 same thing with you. They would walk with you and and 814 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,240 help you take that next step in Jesus Christ. 815 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,480 I would encourage you. That is the very best thing you 816 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,240 can do before you leave this moment. 817 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,880 You're a follower of Jesus if you've been walking with him for 818 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:57,040 a while. One of the things I heard as a 819 00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,040 Christian tonight through this message, through the passage in 820 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:05,600 Hebrews, is that we have been made holy once and for all time 821 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,360 through Christ, through Jesus. And you walked in this room 822 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,760 tonight and you're like, I don't feel holy. 823 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,160 I don't feel set apart. Maybe you're entangled in some 824 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,240 sin. Maybe you're walking, oh, like 825 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:23,480 he was talking about with some shame and some guilt and some 826 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,960 fear. And you're just like, I don't 827 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:31,160 feel it. I want you to be reminded that 828 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,320 because of Christ, you were made holy once and for all time 829 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,480 through His sacrifice and during this time of worship for us as 830 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,560 Christians. If you feel like you've just 831 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,640 walked away, come back to Him tonight. 832 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,200 Get on your knees and cry out and humble yourself before the 833 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,120 Lord. Thank Him for His sacrifice, for 834 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,320 His covering, for His blood shed on that cross. 835 00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:00,160 I don't know about you, but when we were walked through what 836 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:05,800 Jesus endured for US1. I feel sadness, but on the other 837 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,720 hand, I feel, I feel victory. I feel, I feel excitement 838 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,920 because my Savior laid His life down for me. 839 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,480 And maybe tonight as we worship, maybe we just give Him all 840 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,840 praise, all glory. King Jesus, you, my friends, 841 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:26,400 have been redeemed. You, my friends, have been 842 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:30,080 forgiven, and you, my friends, are loved. 843 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,520 So let's encounter this Savior. Let's come to Him with an 844 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,840 attitude of just thankfulness for all that He has given us and 845 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,960 all that He offers us through His sacrifice. 846 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,680 Would you stand with me? Let's respond in this moment of 847 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,000 worship. Heavenly Father, thank you so 848 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,040 much for the opportunity to give you glory, to give you praise. 849 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,480 Thank you, Jesus, for being the perfect sacrifice. 850 00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,600 We couldn't do it. We don't do it. 851 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:03,640 We don't measure up our merit could never pay the penalty, 852 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,080 could never cover what we have done, but it's only through the 853 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,800 power and the blood of Jesus that we are covered. 854 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:16,720 God, I pray right now if we feel far from you, we don't feel set 855 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,800 apart, that we would run right back to you in your arms and we 856 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,680 would humble ourself. And in your word, it says when 857 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,680 we come close to you, you come close to us. 858 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,200 So God, I pray that we draw near to you in this moment of 859 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,560 response, this moment of worship. 860 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:34,640 We pray all this in the name of Jesus, Amen.