1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:04,840 You've tuned in to a mega church. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,080 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,600 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,760 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or to 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,960 find out more about Omega, get to our website or Facebook page 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:29,600 through the links below. So far this morning meditation 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:35,120 we have from the book of Isaiah just three verses I put there I 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,200 will read for you. Surely this is from Isaiah 53 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,560 verse 4. Surely He took up our pain and 12 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:48,080 bore our suffering, Yet we considered him punished by God, 13 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,560 stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our 14 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,600 translation. He was crushed for iniquities. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,920 The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his 16 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,800 wounds we are healed. We all like sheep have gone 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,520 astray. Each of us has turned our own 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,720 way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 19 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:16,400 I was just thinking what is the best scripture to meditate on 20 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,120 Good Friday? And I said Isaiah 53. 21 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,040 We haven't done in a many long, long time. 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,000 So I read the read through the whole of the chapter. 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,480 I said there are 12 verses there and is there anything I can 24 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:36,560 skip? But unfortunately I found that 25 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,360 nothing can be skipped. But can I really preach on the 26 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,800 whole of it? Can't because our time is a 27 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,600 constraint. So I thought I will just mate it 28 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:50,280 on few verses from Isaiah 53. You know, it is to understand 29 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:56,160 the whole of Isaiah 53, you have to imagine an artist who is, 30 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,200 let's say he has got a big table spread out and there are lots of 31 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,040 pieces of mosaic. You know, all kinds of small, 32 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,240 tiny, tiny stones and you are watching one of them who was 33 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,120 standing up around the table. People are gathered and looking 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,720 at what is this guy trying to do? 35 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:16,360 And you have no clue, no clue because the picture is not 36 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,400 finished. And until every, every single of 37 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,440 the mosaic pieces go into its place, which is the images in 38 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:27,200 the mind of the person who is the artist. 39 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,080 He has the picture in his mind. You have to wait for the picture 40 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,040 is until it is finished before you can say, wow, what a 41 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,880 beautiful work of art. Isaiah 53 is like that. 42 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:45,040 Every aspect of the of the life of Christ is portrayed in that 43 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:49,360 once chapter. That is 700 years before Christ 44 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,920 came into the world. He has painted a picture so 45 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,840 grand nobody can ever replicate it. 46 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,520 If you read as a 53 now when you go home and sit down and read, 47 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,600 you will feel How did he know? How did he know these things? 48 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:08,640 How did he write these things? Because he as a prophet has seen 49 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:13,720 the Saviour, many people try to interpret in different ways. 50 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,600 They say servant here stands for Israel. 51 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,800 No Israel it may stand for Israel. 52 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,840 I am not trying to say completely no, but more than 53 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,920 that Israel has not suffered a kind of a vicarious suffering, 54 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,160 The Israeli not suffering for the whole world. 55 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,400 They are a kind of a people like you can learn some things from 56 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,560 their life, the wilderness experience, how they affect this 57 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,480 manner, how the stone was broken to give them water. 58 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,400 The spiritual truths you can learn from their life, but it 59 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:50,960 cannot substitute for Jesus. Jesus stands alone as a savior 60 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,520 and that picture comes out when you read as a 53 he was buried, 61 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,960 he was raised from the dead and is ascended to the Father and 62 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,040 who has counted his descendants. That's the next chapter says who 63 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,880 has to count counted his descendants because just cut 64 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,080 off. There are no more children born 65 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,240 to Jesus because he did not marry, did not have children. 66 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,560 I tell you, it's a grand picture that this man of God has 67 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:20,480 painted, which you have to sit down and understand it, digest 68 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:21,920 it. And I'm telling your 69 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,360 appreciation to worship Jesus. Gross. 70 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:28,320 Because you understand the painting that he has given. 71 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,360 That's beautiful. I'm telling it's very, very 72 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,320 beautiful. And I was thinking about how I 73 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,400 can really give a very good example of what Jesus did 74 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:44,440 because we are people, we, we sometimes do not want only the 75 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,120 original story to inspire us. We want some other story to that 76 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,560 will amplify this or make it more meaningful. 77 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,280 So I was thinking about what is the best example, and the best 78 00:04:55,280 --> 00:05:00,160 example is from a fire firefighter. 79 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:07,280 You know, even before you're recruited as a fireman, you have 80 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:11,000 to go through very strict rules, very strict standards. 81 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,160 You need to have a very good character. 82 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,480 You must be empathetic. You must be more compost in your 83 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,960 mind. You must have your head in the 84 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,120 right place. When you see the house is 85 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,640 burning down, you don't shout and they're right. 86 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,480 Stand there and cry. You can't be fit to do the job. 87 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,440 You need to have the heart, strong heart and strength. 88 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,960 If you have to carry a man on your shoulder from the first 89 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,960 floor down the ladder, you must be strong enough to do it from 90 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,520 the fire. You are rescuing somebody. 91 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,360 So you need to be somebody who is strong, somebody who has 92 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,160 character, somebody who is empathetic, somebody who is 93 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,400 kind. Somebody's heart goes out for 94 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,520 people who are being burned down in a house to rescue the people. 95 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,480 I tell its a big, big call. There is no such strict 96 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,720 requirements to become a doctor, to become any other kind of a 97 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,400 profession. But this profession is unique. 98 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,520 And there was one man by named Daniel. 99 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:15,000 He was not in a big city, he was in a small place, but he was a 100 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,240 good man. He was there to help somebody. 101 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,120 Sometimes he's standing in the grocery store to pay his bills 102 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,360 and there's somebody who is not able to pay the bills. 103 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:27,400 He pays for them quietly. No one knows the good he does, 104 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,240 and there was a call one day that the house was caught on 105 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,920 fire, so the team arrives there. But before the horses were 106 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:40,320 fixed, this man immediately decided, I can't wait until the 107 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,320 horses start operating and try to put down the fire. 108 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,680 He jumps into the fire and he came to know that there's a 109 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,400 there's a lady there in the house and two children. 110 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,320 So he took off his coat, put it around the children and he 111 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,520 hugged them and he carried them and he brought them out. 112 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,120 And then he went back again to bring the mother out. 113 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,560 And he saw that she was really in a very bad situation. 114 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,720 And he pushed her through the window so that she can be saved. 115 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:10,320 But as the whole thing was going on the roof and it fell on him 116 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,320 and he somehow managed to come out, but after he recovered he 117 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:20,640 had to limp because of the injury he suffered and his face 118 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,440 was burnt. And it was all in a misshapen 119 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,800 kind of a face. And when he walked down the 120 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,160 street, the children who did not know what happened to him were 121 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:35,080 making fun of him. There's a price to pay, to save 122 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:40,440 somebody is a price to pay. It changes the person. 123 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,280 And I tell you, the eternal God has gone through a thorough 124 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,360 change. He became man and he just not 125 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,120 become a man, but he went through on the cross. 126 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,440 And those nail prints are not gone away. 127 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,280 Today you walk into heaven, you will see those nail prints and 128 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,160 you can again get an invitation like he did to Thomas. 129 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,440 Come and see. Put your finger here. 130 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,000 It is real. I suffered for you. 131 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,920 I saved you because I loved you with an eternal love. 132 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,600 That firefighter people have now might have forgotten. 133 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,200 But this Jesus, no one can forget. 134 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,480 More than 2000 years ago He died for you. 135 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,120 He rose again. So for your justification, He 136 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,400 ascended to the Father so that you can be in Him and you can 137 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,760 become like Him. He became like you, so you can 138 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,200 become like Him. And that's the gospel. 139 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,080 That's the gospel. So what did Jesus do for you? 140 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,679 There's so much to talk. We can never exhaust. 141 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,520 All that He did on the cross we can never, never exhaust. 142 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:57,160 So I just thought I'll just fix some few thoughts from the 143 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,920 Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 onwards. 144 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,720 What does it say? Surely He took up our 145 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,640 infirmities and carried our sorrows. 146 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,840 When you look up the Hebrew word for infirmities and sorrows, it 147 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,400 is the word, I think macabre. I wrote it somewhere. 148 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,600 Yeah, macabre. That includes consequences of 149 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,640 sin, consequence of sin. Sometimes we commit a sin and it 150 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:32,720 just effects you. Or sometimes we commit a sin 151 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,600 that affects others as well. And sometimes it affects affects 152 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:41,640 the whole community. A murder is never an individual 153 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:44,480 kind of a soul sin that only affects the man who is 154 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,120 committing it. There is one more person who is 155 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,240 dying and there's a family that is grieving because that man is 156 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,680 dead and there's a whole community being affected because 157 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:56,160 of the man's deed. So the Mac of that Hebrew word 158 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:01,000 is stands for your infirmities and your sorrows. 159 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,760 Both have similar kind of a root. 160 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,360 Both have the same kind of a root. 161 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,200 And that is what He did, surely took up our infirmities, carried 162 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,880 our sorrows, all the consequences of sin. 163 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:19,040 And then when you see the word carried, it is the word that you 164 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,640 have some translation may say, He bore our sins, He bore our 165 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,040 sicknesses, He carried he. Basically it's like a carrying a 166 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,000 burden. You can never stand straight and 167 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,800 carry a 500 kilos of weight on your shoulder. 168 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,680 And when Jesus died upon the cross, he carried the sin of the 169 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:41,760 whole world, People, whoever were born before and the people 170 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,520 who were alive at the time and who are yet to be born. 171 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,160 He carried the sin of the whole world and that must have 172 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:54,080 definitely bowed Him down. He cannot be standing straight 173 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,000 and he had to cry out from the cross. 174 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,160 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 175 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,200 Because that sin has separated Him from the Father. 176 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,840 That is what hell is all about, separation from God. 177 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,960 And he went through that so that you can be free, you can be 178 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,360 forgiven, you can be accepted by the Father. 179 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,880 All of us are in the same place of ability to receive it. 180 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,120 We all need it. Yet we considered him stricken 181 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,000 by God. People looked at him and said, 182 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,840 made fun of him on the cross. Hey, if you can save yourself, 183 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:31,960 then you can come down and save yourself and save us. 184 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,680 You are saying you are a Savior, you are the Messiah. 185 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,640 But I am telling you, the people looked at him and said you can't 186 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,800 be Messiah, come down from the cross. 187 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:45,160 They made fun of him, but coming down from the cross is not the 188 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,680 answer. Because if we came down from the 189 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:49,800 cross, we are going to remain sinners. 190 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:56,640 So he had to let go that insult and then he had to let go the 191 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,360 taunt of the enemy. He when he was being tempted at 192 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,000 the beginning of his ministry, he gave him, he showed him a 193 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,440 piece of stone and said, turn this into bread and eat it 194 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,520 because you're hungry. You didn't eat for 40 days. 195 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:09,800 It is the same thing he's saying on the cross. 196 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,800 Get down from the cross. Prove that you are the Son of 197 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,200 God. Prove to the world that you are 198 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,080 Son of God by coming down from the cross. 199 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,080 You know, devil is always a devil. 200 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:28,160 He never changes, but Jesus, he overcame him. 201 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,760 He overcame him as he overcame first time. 202 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,000 He said it is written, man shall not leave a bread alone. 203 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,200 And on the cross he again shouted from there it's written 204 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,080 and he didn't say it is written, but he said, my God, my God, why 205 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,720 have you forsaken me? He was crying out from the book 206 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:51,080 of Psalms and he said I thirst from the book of Psalms. 207 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,480 So his scripture is what was he breathing and eating and living 208 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,080 and fulfilling in his life? And there's no other who can do 209 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,080 it for you and me. No one has done it. 210 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,160 No one will ever do it. He is the word of God. 211 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:14,000 That's why he could do all that. We considered him stricken by 212 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,120 God, smitten by him, afflicted. Basically what we are trying to 213 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:23,800 say is that he is weak. As a 10 year old, when I was 214 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,880 going to school, there was a Catholic Church behind the 215 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,840 school. Sometimes I would pass by the 216 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,520 church and they had a statue on the entrance of a Christ 217 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,080 crucified. And as a Hindu boy, when I 218 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:39,120 looked at the cross and said he can't be God, he can't be God. 219 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,640 If he is God, how he will allow people to allow him to crucify 220 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,440 him? And after 10 more or years, 221 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,640 almost after 10 more years, I heard the gospel fully explained 222 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:53,440 to me. And I hear that he just not 223 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,080 there on the cross anymore, but he's a living 1. 224 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,360 And I just said to him, I hear that you're a living God. 225 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,280 If you are living God, prove yourself, living God in my life. 226 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,800 And that one sentence that I prayed, he is answering it. 227 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:11,640 Even today. Every day we pray for people. 228 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:15,520 We see people healed, we pray see people being delivered, and 229 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,600 we see God doing miracle signs and wonders. 230 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,920 He gives the direction, He speaks to us. 231 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 He is the Good Shepherd. He shows the way, and He is a 232 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,520 living one. All of us need to have that 233 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:30,440 encounter with this living Jesus. 234 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,560 We need that encounter. So there was the time I made fun 235 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:41,360 of Jesus, and I'm sorry for it because it was ignorance. 236 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,520 It is a sinful nature in which I was born, was rebelling against 237 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:52,520 the cross, and we all do it. But we can always say I'm sorry, 238 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:58,280 Lord, I didn't understand it. I was innocent and he forgives 239 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,720 and push that nail Pierce hand on your heart and heals the 240 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,880 heart. Nothing else we can do receive 241 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:12,560 from him grace upon grace and verse 5 again it begins the word 242 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:17,040 but OK, all these things are over there. 243 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:21,000 But but what he was pierced for our transgressions. 244 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,440 He was crushed for our iniquities. 245 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,080 The punishment that brought us peace was upon Him. 246 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,560 There's so many things that are written, these 3 verses, so many 247 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,440 things. First thing is that it says He 248 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:38,200 took up our infirmities, who say did not die for himself but for 249 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,960 us. He took our sins upon Him, our 250 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,200 infirmities. He carried our sorrows. 251 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,200 You may think, Oh, I'm suffering so much in my life and you're 252 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,560 crying and wetting your pillow in the night, but he says I have 253 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:56,440 taken up your sorrow. Whatever is troubling you, that 254 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,080 heart is being crushed. But before it crushed you, it 255 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,200 crushed me on the cross. I have gone through that pain 256 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,360 for you. So we turn to him. 257 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:11,080 Then He is going to touch you and turn that sorrow into joy. 258 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,440 He will do it. I am not telling you something. 259 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,200 Pie in the sky kind of a thing. No, I know it by experience. 260 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,040 And you sincerely say you alone can do it. 261 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:27,000 He will do it for you. He will do it for you. 262 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:32,240 He will turn the sorrow into joy and he, he will give you, put a 263 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,240 spirit in you so 2 can dance in that place. 264 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,000 There was only one guy known in all of the history among the 265 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,560 evangelist and preachers. There was one guy called Billy 266 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:48,400 Sunday who he should dance. All that he did was dance and 267 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,880 preach the gospel and one of the time she was away preaching the 268 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,040 gospel, somebody brought the news, your wife died. 269 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,600 He danced. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord 270 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:02,120 for taking her to be with you. People can look at him and say 271 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:09,040 crazy guy, but he knows what it means that Jesus took the sorrow 272 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,319 of his heart and he really understood it. 273 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,200 That's why he was able to dance. Even he hears the news. 274 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,920 It's not that wife was a very bad lady, so he feeling good 275 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:25,520 about it. Don't misunderstand me, don't 276 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:31,080 misunderstand me. But He was pierced for our 277 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,320 transgressions, His crush for our inequities. 278 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,160 Punishment that brought us peace was upon Him. 279 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,480 Its too much what He went for us, what He went through on the 280 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:44,320 cross for us is too much. By His wounds we are healed. 281 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,720 What more you want from that? We all, like sheep, are gone 282 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,360 astray. Each of us has turned his own 283 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:53,360 way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of all. 284 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,520 He had laid our sin upon Him. Our iniquity upon iniquity has 285 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,560 more than sin, it includes the consequences of our sin. 286 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,200 There was one guy in Africa who was in jail because of he 287 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,600 committed murder. And then he was in the jail. 288 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,320 He heard the gospel and he used to listen to some radio 289 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,320 broadcasts and things like that. And then he said, have you 290 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,920 really taken away the consequences of my sin then 291 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:27,040 bring me out of this jail and his every every year the 292 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,800 president pardoned some people. There's a list of people is 293 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,760 announced. His name is not on the list, but 294 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,800 he said, God, you have told me you are going to set me free 295 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,120 from this prison. I believe you. 296 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,000 My name is not on the list, but I believe you. 297 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,520 But a very day, on the day when presidents gives pardon, they 298 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:50,720 said there's some mistake in the making of the list. 299 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,400 Actually, your name should be there. 300 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,560 You're free now. They set him free. 301 00:18:56,120 --> 00:19:01,120 Consequences also are covered by his death upon the cross. 302 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,320 Every every curse that is coming down by our sin is going to be 303 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,520 abolished and turn into a blessing. 304 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,720 If you believe every curse can be turned into a blessing, if 305 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,040 you believe that is the power of the cross, that's the power of 306 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,880 the cross. There's power in that blood. 307 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,120 There's power in that blood. There's power in the blood. 308 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:23,440 These days, whenever I am praying, I am always thinking of 309 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,320 one thing, that Jesus, when he was crucified, that blood from 310 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,200 his hands, from his brow and from his feet, everything fell 311 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:36,640 upon the ground there when that, that the rock was drenched with 312 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,360 his blood. He paid for your freedom and my 313 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,520 freedom. Everything in the earth is going 314 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:46,600 to be blessed by that blood. He redeemed the whole earth, all 315 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,120 that lives on it. And I said that's too much for 316 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:52,520 me to understand. That's too much for me to 317 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,320 understand. And that's the reason why you 318 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,120 can worthily worship when it goes beyond your understanding, 319 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,000 when the understanding goes beyond your ability, that's the 320 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,800 time you are humbled and you bow down and worship because you 321 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,840 accept what He's showing you. He is worthy of worship. 322 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,560 What you can understand you can't worship. 323 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,240 When it cannot understand, you understand and do not 324 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,840 understand. That is the time you say, ah, I 325 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,800 understand, but I still do not understand. 326 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,160 I do not understand and that is the time you say my Lord my God 327 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:35,240 and worship Him. Cross will never become insipid, 328 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,840 tasteless, unchallenging thing for you as long as you focus on 329 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,520 it and experience the benefit of the cross, the benefits of the 330 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:51,920 cross, healing, forgiveness to most topmost, every kind of 331 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,800 healing is included in it. All relationships, all your 332 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,920 consequences, everything is taken care. 333 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,640 So he says by his terms, we've been healed and that is there's 334 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:08,560 something he already did 700 years before Jesus died. 335 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,400 This prophet saw that healing comes through the cross. 336 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,560 Amazing insight, amazing prophecy and accuracy is so 337 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,800 accurate. There is no man, whoever lived 338 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:28,760 before after to be able to fulfill that picture, to be able 339 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,520 to fulfill that picture, it is just amazing. 340 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,840 You go through it, Everything is taken care, including 341 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:40,280 restoration of the kingdoms to this, this Jesus is exalted to 342 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,760 the right hand of the Father, and His resurrection is talked 343 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:45,840 up. Everything is there in this one 344 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,520 chapter. You have eyes to see. 345 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,440 You have everything there, and the mosaic becomes more 346 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,960 beautiful. It's very, very beautiful. 347 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,120 But I don't want to go on and on and about all these things. 348 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:00,880 There's so much in the Scripture that I can talk another one hour 349 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,400 I can easily do because I made it on it so much. 350 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,480 But I want to give you another illustration to drive home the 351 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:11,280 truth of what Jesus did for us. We are all aware of how the 352 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,040 Jewish people were persecuted, thrown into the gas chamber and 353 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,960 killed during World War 26 million Jews were incarcerated. 354 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,200 So the people, sometimes this happened in Poland and in the in 355 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:31,680 Poland, people were initially they will be interrogated, taken 356 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,600 to the police station, released. It happens for your 5 or 6 times 357 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,680 and the 7th time you go and never come back because you're 358 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,000 taken to the concentration camp where you will die. 359 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:47,880 So they visited a monastery and there was a Friar and his name 360 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:53,840 was Maxmillan Cope Colby. And Colby was arrested along 361 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,920 with four other Friars and they were all waiting to die and they 362 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,160 were in the concentration camp. And there are so many other 363 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,360 Jewish people who one guy escaped from the prison. 364 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,560 He ran away somehow successfully. 365 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,200 So the the commander became very angry that one guy escaped. 366 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,760 He said pick up 10 people at random and put them in there. 367 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,720 Let's stall them to death because one man escaped. 368 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,320 He was crazy. And when the commander has given 369 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,600 that order, they picked up 10 people and one of them was 370 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,280 crying out, oh, I am never going to see my wife and my wife and 371 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,960 my two children. I am going to be dead in 10 or 372 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,560 10 or 20 days. Whatever time he takes to stop 373 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,800 when he heard the cry, Colby said, don't worry, I'll take 374 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:49,320 your place. Don't worry, I will take your 375 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,840 place. So he goes to the commandment 376 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,240 commander and says let that man go free, I will starve to death 377 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:00,480 in his place. He said that's not possible. 378 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,880 He convinced that man and let that man go free. 379 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,880 His name was the man was sent free, Set free. 380 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,480 His name, I think the Polish name, I may not be able to 381 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,800 pronounce it clearly. Francis Zic, Gazoni Zic. 382 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:21,520 OK, I could be right or wrong about the name, but that man, he 383 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,880 was allowed to go free, not really set free from the prison. 384 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,480 He was not put to death. He was in the prison. 385 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,360 And this man, Maximilian Colby, went out with other nine people. 386 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:38,040 And eyewitnesses said Colby would comfort people. 387 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,480 Colby would be by them, pray with them, talk to them, 388 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,480 encourage them. He himself was not down. 389 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,800 He was not cursing his captive captors. 390 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,320 He was not cursing the people who were troubling him. 391 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,200 No, he wasn't doing any of those things. 392 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,480 He comforted others, prayed with them, encouraged them, never 393 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,160 complained, never cursed the captors, never begged for mercy. 394 00:24:59,880 --> 00:25:01,680 He did not say OK, OK, I'm sorry. 395 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:05,240 I in the heat of a movement emotionally I volunteered. 396 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,480 Now I want to regret about it. I have a regret, so please let 397 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,520 me go. He never begged for mercy. 398 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,480 He never. So the last person alive was 399 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,400 Colby. All the other names died by 400 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,440 starvation. But this man was still alive. 401 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,760 So they had to inject poison and kill him. 402 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,800 After nearly 3040 years, the Roman Catholic Church made him a 403 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,840 St. It takes long time in the olden 404 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,480 days for the Catholic Church to declare somebody a St. 405 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,480 So they took their own time, 40-50 years, and they said ah 406 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,560 St. Maxwell and Colby. 407 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:47,120 But this man who who was substituting for the other 408 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:53,200 Polish man, he lived and he said the man's he saved, Francis 409 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,720 Zeke, survived the war, lived to old age up to 95 years of age 410 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,560 and spend the rest of his life telling the world he died so I 411 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,000 could live. That was his testimony. 412 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:11,160 He died so I could live. I tell you, we do not have any 413 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:18,240 less testimony than that man. Jesus died so that we can. 414 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,520 Shall we say it? Jesus died so we can live. 415 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,600 Shall we border on heads in prayer? 416 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:32,920 Father God, we thank you. What you have done for us is 417 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,600 beyond our understanding. The more I meditate upon the 418 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:42,400 cross, the more it baffles me how the infinite God can share 419 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:48,000 in the human body like me, and how sinless Son of God can 420 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,840 suffer for the world and carry the burdens of the whole world. 421 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:57,720 How his death substitutes for my death, how he he died in my 422 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,280 place. It is beyond my understanding, 423 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,360 but I know, my Lord, you loved me enough to come into the world 424 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:09,560 and die for me, and I worship you Jesus, I bless your name. 425 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,040 I magnify your name, ask the dominion, authority, power, 426 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,320 glory unto your name. I thank You because you died for 427 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,360 me so I can live. And I pray for the children now. 428 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,360 Touch their heart, touch their mind. 429 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,000 Touch their heart. Touch their mind. 430 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,440 Touch their heart as their mind. So they will resolve to live for 431 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,920 you. Only you and no one else. 432 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,600 Please you and no one else. Serve you, no one else. 433 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,760 Proclaim your name. No one else. 434 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,520 In the name of Jesus, I pray for the visitation of the Holy 435 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,760 Spirit now upon your children. Shastre Saranubo Baste. 436 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,880 Sandra no Rabareni. Manestro. 437 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:49,920 Shakare. Rabareni Manasto. 438 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,280 Sam Manasestro. Horrible. 439 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,440 In the name of Jesus I declare there's no savior like Jesus, 440 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,480 There's no one my Lord, there's no savior like you. 441 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,000 I worship in my Father. I give you glory, honor and 442 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,560 praise. Bless your children to the glory 443 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,880 of your name. In Jesus mighty name we have 444 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:16,800 asked and everybody says Amen. 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