back to indexSunday 01-18-15 James Lee - The Love That Compels
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A lot of you from CCM and I have good friends also here attending this church. 00:00:05.760 |
So it's really great that I'm able to minister the Word of God to you. 00:00:11.800 |
Let me begin with the word of prayer and we'll get right into it. 00:00:17.120 |
God, we come here this morning because we love you. 00:00:26.200 |
We come together this morning as a church, as a group of believers, as a people who have 00:00:31.720 |
been redeemed by your blood and brought into your body, adopted into the family. 00:00:37.840 |
We come here to recognize your goodness, to worship you for your grace and for your mercy 00:00:43.440 |
and just to sit at your feet as you teach us your Word. 00:00:49.280 |
And so I pray that as the truth goes forth that Lord, Holy Spirit, would you work in 00:00:55.120 |
each of our hearts, take that truth, convict us with it. 00:01:00.240 |
And Lord, this week and the week after and our entire life, may we just live worshipfully 00:01:09.400 |
Alright so this past weekend what we've been doing is talking about the Great Commission 00:01:12.360 |
and for you Collegians, you guys should remember, we set our eyes on the glory of God. 00:01:20.560 |
We set our eyes on the glory of God and why we evangelize. 00:01:24.080 |
We evangelize ultimately for the glory of God and then Saturday morning we kind of brought 00:01:29.760 |
In order for us to go forward and to proclaim the Gospel effectively, unashamedly, we have 00:01:35.800 |
Because the world can't do anything to dead people and the world hates God, the world 00:01:38.960 |
hates Christianity, the world hates the Gospel. 00:01:43.000 |
In order for you to go into the world effectively, unashamedly, willing to endure the pain, you 00:01:50.680 |
And then last night we talked about the peril of hell. 00:01:53.000 |
We brought the focus from the Lord and we kind of understood the Gospel with respect 00:01:59.720 |
Then we try to understand it with regards to other people. 00:02:01.720 |
The peril of hell, people are going to be damned because they don't hear the Gospel. 00:02:07.000 |
So Collegians, we are believers who believe in the reality of heaven and hell so that 00:02:13.240 |
people who do not hear the Gospel will be damned. 00:02:18.960 |
And if we fervently believe in that truth, then we will go out and proclaim the truth 00:02:28.560 |
Today what I want to do is to bring the focus back to God. 00:02:31.920 |
And to talk about the very motivation that pushes us and compels us to share the Gospel. 00:02:43.120 |
So take your Bibles and turn with me to Isaiah chapter 6. 00:03:18.120 |
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted 00:03:28.120 |
With two He covered His face and with two He covered His feet. 00:03:33.040 |
And one called to another and said, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. 00:03:38.280 |
The foundations of the threshold shook at the voice of Him who called and the house 00:03:44.320 |
And I said, "Woe is me, for I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in 00:03:50.240 |
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts." 00:03:53.560 |
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken 00:04:01.280 |
And he touched my mouth and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips. 00:04:04.920 |
Your guilt has taken away your sins atoned for." 00:04:08.360 |
I mean, this is an amazing vision that the prophet Isaiah goes through. 00:04:12.400 |
He, I don't know how it happened, just opens his eyes and he's before the throne of God. 00:04:18.320 |
He's before the throne of God, before the presence of God and he is watching and he 00:04:22.360 |
is beholding the outpouring of the very essence of God's fearsome glory. 00:04:27.640 |
And he hears the seraphim praising the Lord for His holiness with their angelic voices. 00:04:30.960 |
They're filling the chambers of God with the melody of worship. 00:04:33.840 |
He sees them veiling their faces because even the angels cannot directly look upon the glory 00:04:40.200 |
All the while he hears a divine voice thunder through the hall of God's holy throne and 00:04:43.480 |
he feels the foundations of the threshold shake. 00:04:46.560 |
When you're in the presence of God, you're not nonchalant. 00:04:49.640 |
Undoubtedly, he fell down and he worshiped and he says, "Woe is me. 00:04:56.520 |
For I'm a man of unclean lips who live among men of unclean lips and I have beheld God 00:05:02.280 |
almighty but God, when He looks upon this man, this sinful, depraved man, He doesn't 00:05:11.200 |
He doesn't destroy him but He commissions an angel and the angel goes and takes the 00:05:17.120 |
coal, takes it and presses it upon the mouth of Isaiah and the lips of this prophet is 00:05:30.320 |
And then it says in verse 8, "I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send 00:05:53.360 |
I will go for you who has atoned for my sins.'" 00:06:01.280 |
And Isaiah is commissioned and he goes, "Do you know why we go out and evangelize? 00:06:11.000 |
It's to magnify and to proclaim the glory of the one who has cleansed us of our sins. 00:06:16.440 |
As our Lord God has taken the hot coal of the gospel of Jesus Christ and touched our 00:06:20.640 |
mouth and He has forgiven us, He has cleansed our soul. 00:06:24.200 |
And with the authority of heaven and earth, the Lord Jesus Christ commissioned everybody 00:06:31.120 |
"He has commissioned every single person who has been redeemed from their sins and delivered 00:06:37.240 |
He has commissioned you as the Lord of the heavens and the earth, go and make disciples 00:06:43.340 |
At this point you either defy that command or you submit in worship." 00:06:48.620 |
But unlike Isaiah who was commissioned to proclaim judgment, we are commissioned to 00:06:57.540 |
If you tell people of the very love that has saved us, we are a people who have been forgiven 00:07:08.500 |
We are the people whose lips have been cleansed by the coal of the gospel. 00:07:13.880 |
And because we have been redeemed, the love that you have for God, the joy of forgiveness, 00:07:22.100 |
the relationship you have with the Lord should be what propels you to move forward to proclaim 00:07:29.660 |
And that message is the message of the joy of salvation in Christ. 00:07:35.460 |
And today what I basically want to do is to kind of, I just want to bring us back to the 00:07:42.700 |
Bring us back to what Jesus Christ went through. 00:07:46.820 |
And that we would be affected and impressed by it. 00:07:50.340 |
So that we too, like Isaiah would say, "Here I am, send me." 00:07:56.060 |
Turn your Bibles to Matthew chapter 27 and we'll get into the text. 00:08:36.140 |
And this is very personal to every single one of you. 00:08:43.740 |
"And the soldiers of the governors took Jesus into the governor's headquarters." 00:08:48.700 |
Soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters. 00:08:51.540 |
You have to remember our Lord, before He was taken by the Roman soldiers, He was abused. 00:09:03.460 |
He had lacerations across His back because of the discouraging He received by the Romans. 00:09:08.580 |
He was in a condition where He was bleeding and He was hurt. 00:09:11.540 |
And it was in that condition that the Roman soldiers took the Lord Jesus Christ and just 00:09:14.940 |
threw Him into the praetorium, into the governor's household. 00:09:18.940 |
And it says here, "And they gathered the whole battalion before Him." 00:09:24.420 |
Sometimes we think just a few soldiers came around Jesus Christ to kind of have fun with 00:09:28.460 |
But it says here, an entire battalion, the whole battalion came before Him. 00:09:33.740 |
A battalion consisted of approximately 600 Roman soldiers. 00:09:40.800 |
Approximately 600 Roman soldiers heard about this man, the King of the Jews, Jesus the 00:09:51.540 |
And it says in verse 28 to 30, "And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. 00:09:57.740 |
And twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and put a reed in His right 00:10:02.140 |
And kneeling before Him, they mocked Him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews!' 00:10:05.020 |
They spit on Him and took the reed and struck Him on the head. 00:10:08.820 |
They took the Lord Jesus Christ, they took off His clothes, and they exposed Himself 00:10:16.220 |
Probably something, one of the robes that the soldiers were wearing, because that's 00:10:20.860 |
"They put it upon Him to make Him look like a king. 00:10:24.260 |
The soldiers twisted thorns together to give the King a crown that is worthy of His title. 00:10:29.820 |
They took a reed, something that they used to flog their victim. 00:10:34.180 |
They took a reed and put it in His right hand, His glorious scepter." 00:10:37.980 |
What you see is a pathetic, pitiful picture of our Lord Jesus Christ, bruised, beaten, 00:10:48.900 |
There's a robe across Him and a stupid stick in His hand. 00:10:57.820 |
"They looked upon this man and they bowed down. 00:11:00.540 |
They bowed down and they gave Him the same praise that they will give Caesar. 00:11:12.140 |
That's what the text says, "They, they spat on them." 00:11:19.500 |
Everyone who was within the proximity of Jesus Christ, oh, they showered Him, but not with 00:11:26.540 |
And they took the reed and it says, "The reed," referring to the reed in Jesus' hand, and 00:11:33.300 |
You know, these guys could have taken anything to beat the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:11:37.500 |
They could have beat Him with some other weapon. 00:11:38.980 |
They could have taken another reed and started beating the Lord Jesus, but they took the 00:11:41.980 |
reed in His right hand, the scepter, and started beating Him across the head. 00:11:48.460 |
The scepter of a king represented his regal power and authority. 00:11:53.620 |
For them to take the scepter to beat Christ was to beat Him with his own authority. 00:11:57.380 |
It's kind of like a bully who grabs the wrist of a little child and starts slapping him 00:12:02.100 |
Not only makes him look weak, but also makes him look like an incompetent fool, unable 00:12:13.220 |
They took the wrist of Jesus' power and authority and began slapping Him across the face. 00:12:16.380 |
Here's the king of the Jews, unable to control his very own authority and power. 00:12:22.180 |
And that verb "struck," in the Greek, it's, we say, in the imperfect tense meaning. 00:12:28.900 |
And the reason why I bring that out is because that imperfect tense portrays an ongoing action 00:12:35.100 |
They constantly beat Him over and over again. 00:12:40.500 |
And they beat Him, and they beat Him, and they beat Him. 00:12:43.060 |
They drove the thorns that were on His head deeper and deeper into a skull. 00:12:51.020 |
Six, approximately 600 grown men, just mocking this man. 00:13:08.380 |
When they had mocked Him, when they had mocked Him, they stripped Him of the robe and put 00:13:12.540 |
His own clothes on Him and led Him away to crucify Him. 00:13:19.660 |
They took the robe off and put His own clothes back on Him. 00:13:30.940 |
And took the cross upon His shoulders and He began to walk. 00:13:37.580 |
But when He made it to the outside of the gates, He could not hold it anymore. 00:13:40.300 |
And it says in verse 32, "And they went out and they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. 00:13:46.500 |
The Lord unable to carry the cross upon which he will die, the soldiers got a man to carry 00:13:55.060 |
It was a Roman soldiers, Simon of Cyrene, and Lord Jesus Christ. 00:14:04.220 |
Verse 33, 34 it says, "And when they came to a place called Golgotha, which means place 00:14:07.940 |
of a skull, they offered Him wine to drink mixed with gall. 00:14:11.380 |
But when He tasted it, He would not drink it." 00:14:14.380 |
Now the word Calvary is where we get the word Calvary from the reference here. 00:14:22.500 |
And we don't know exactly why it's referred to in this way, but a traditional site is 00:14:28.300 |
called Gordon's Calvary, which is north of the city walls of Jerusalem, which kind of 00:14:33.540 |
And the word Calvary is taken from the Latin word for skull, it's calvaria, which is where 00:14:39.980 |
So Calvary is in reference to the hill, Golgotha, the place of the skull. 00:14:47.540 |
So when Jesus came to Calvary, the soldiers gave Him a drink. 00:14:54.300 |
Now gall is just a general term referring to something that is bitter. 00:14:58.520 |
The book of Mark tells us that this gall is myrrh. 00:15:01.860 |
And what myrrh does is heightens the strength of a drink so as to deaden the pain. 00:15:07.300 |
So they gave this to Jesus Christ, but they didn't give it to the Lord because they wanted 00:15:15.300 |
The reason why they gave Him this drink is because they didn't want Him to squirm when 00:15:26.300 |
He spat it out because He wanted to, He didn't want any of the senses to be dulled. 00:15:30.380 |
He wanted to make sure that He felt the fullness of God's wrath when it came upon Him. 00:15:38.020 |
That He will feel every ounce of pain and torment. 00:15:41.900 |
He made sure He was sober so that He will understand the horrors of hell. 00:15:55.500 |
When they had crucified Him, they divided His garment among them by casting lots. 00:15:59.980 |
Then they sat down and kept watch over Him there. 00:16:05.620 |
This is the only place where Matthew really talks about the crucifixion. 00:16:12.300 |
He doesn't talk about how victims die by suffocating to death. 00:16:16.940 |
The word crucify is not even the main verb of the sentence. 00:16:23.620 |
Matthew's focus is not so much on the pain that Jesus Christ had to endure, but the shame 00:16:30.140 |
The book of Mark tells us that He was crucified at the third hour, which is nine o'clock in 00:16:37.140 |
When the soldiers crucified Jesus at that time, they divided up His garment among themselves 00:16:44.860 |
It implies they stripped Jesus of His clothes. 00:16:47.780 |
It implies that they stripped Jesus of His clothes. 00:16:51.300 |
The Romans, when they crucified the criminals, they crucified them naked. 00:16:54.620 |
Now it's possible for Jews they left loincloth so that they wouldn't violate some kind of 00:17:00.120 |
Jewish stipulation that we find later on in the Mishnah. 00:17:04.300 |
But when you think about Jesus, when you think about Jesus' condemnation, the religious leaders 00:17:09.340 |
were willing to make an exception to their traditions and to their rules and to their 00:17:14.060 |
When it came to Jesus, when it came to mocking Him, condemning Him, they were willing to 00:17:20.380 |
So it's very possible when our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified upon that cross, He was 00:17:27.420 |
He was lifted up for the entire world to see His glory. 00:17:36.580 |
And above His head was His crime and over His head they put the charge against Him which 00:17:44.440 |
And what king would exercise His royal power without His right and left hand man, right? 00:17:50.860 |
"Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left." 00:18:02.040 |
See the King with His right and left hand man. 00:18:11.840 |
Our Lord was lifted up on the cross and shamed and mocked for everyone, by everyone, for 00:18:26.960 |
And those who passed by derided Him, wagging their heads and saying, "You who would destroy 00:18:30.520 |
the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. 00:18:32.320 |
If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross." 00:18:34.280 |
He was lifted up on the cross and people began to pass by and they looked upon this man and 00:18:40.840 |
It was time of the Passover so there were a lot of Jewish pilgrims going into Jerusalem. 00:18:45.440 |
But because the city could not hold every guest, they had to station themselves outside 00:18:50.740 |
There was a lot of foot traffic going in and outside of Jerusalem. 00:18:54.160 |
And as they were going by, as they were walking by, they look and here's the man. 00:18:58.860 |
He was the man, the guy who claimed to be the King of the Jews. 00:19:03.120 |
The one who said he would destroy the temple, rebuild it in three days. 00:19:06.640 |
The one who deceived the masses into thinking that he was the Son of God. 00:19:09.520 |
They look upon this man, "Here, this was the King of the Jews." 00:19:15.240 |
"You who are going to destroy the temple, rebuild it in three days, why don't you save 00:19:20.240 |
Save yourself, the Son of God, why don't you come down from that cross?" 00:19:25.440 |
They didn't just say it once, but that word saying again in perfect tense, saying that 00:19:29.880 |
they kept on saying this, "You who are about to, you who can destroy the temple and rebuild 00:19:35.080 |
it in three days, save yourself if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross." 00:19:49.280 |
They didn't know about the betrayal, they didn't know about the abandonment, they didn't 00:19:52.200 |
know about the kangaroo trial, they didn't know about the unjust condemnation, they didn't 00:19:59.320 |
They were just walking by, passing by, passerby. 00:20:15.880 |
So also the chief priests and the scribes and the elders mocked him, saying, "See, he 00:20:21.080 |
He is the King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross and we will believe in 00:20:25.280 |
He trusts in God, let God deliver him now if he desires him, for he says, 'I am the 00:20:31.720 |
Unlike those who were passing by, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders, man, 00:20:43.040 |
They were religious, they were holy, they were righteous. 00:20:46.000 |
They would not dare desecrate themselves by talking with a criminal hanging upon a cross. 00:20:55.960 |
But ensuring the fact that Jesus Christ heard every word of it. 00:20:59.560 |
He saved others, he saved others, he cannot save himself. 00:21:02.740 |
He fed the hungry, he healed the crippled, he healed the sick, he made the blind see, 00:21:07.200 |
he made the deaf hear, he made the mute speak, he healed the leper, he resurrected men from 00:21:14.480 |
And this is the king, that's what it says, right? 00:21:21.040 |
The one we have been waiting for since the days of the exile. 00:21:23.440 |
The one who was going to usher in the kingdom of God. 00:21:25.840 |
The one who was going to eradicate the Romans. 00:21:27.680 |
The one who was going to usher in glory and power. 00:21:29.720 |
The one who was going to rule with a rod of iron. 00:21:34.240 |
Let him come down, then we will believe in him. 00:21:39.480 |
If you want to seriously hurt somebody, you never attack the individual alone. 00:21:44.280 |
You go after the relationship that they cherish, right? 00:21:49.140 |
You don't just go after the man, you just don't go after the woman. 00:21:51.560 |
You go after the relationship that they treasure. 00:21:53.880 |
You want to mess with the mind of a husband, you convince him that his wife committed adultery. 00:21:57.600 |
You want to mess with the mind of a parent, you tell them that the kid got into an accident. 00:22:01.400 |
You want to mess with the mind of a kid, you tell them that the parents abandoned him. 00:22:03.960 |
If you want to hurt somebody, you don't just simply go after the person, you go after the 00:22:11.240 |
It was Jesus Christ, the one who spoke the words of God, the one who always did the work 00:22:16.880 |
of the Father, the one who said that he was one with God. 00:22:26.080 |
If he delights in him, for he says, "I am the son of God." 00:22:31.040 |
Then let God rescue him, let God deliver him, lest God does not want to, lest God's favor 00:22:40.720 |
The moment you think that everyone possible could have mocked Jesus Christ and shamed 00:22:43.720 |
him, two robbers join in on the fun, verse 44. 00:22:48.320 |
The robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way. 00:22:55.680 |
The two criminals were mocking Jesus in the same way as those passing by and the religious 00:22:59.400 |
leaders, but their insults and abuse were more shameful, simply because they were criminals. 00:23:04.200 |
The degree of an insult doesn't depend upon the content of the insult, but also on the 00:23:12.080 |
For example, my professor can insult me, and I would be offended. 00:23:18.520 |
And he can insult my intelligence, and I'd be offended. 00:23:21.000 |
But a high school student can insult my intelligence, and I'd be even more offended, because he's 00:23:28.200 |
Brings my intellect below his high school education. 00:23:30.840 |
Here are these criminals next to Jesus Christ, rejects, moral delinquents, socially unacceptable, 00:23:43.640 |
And they took Jesus Christ, the glorious God of the heavens and the earth, and brought 00:23:48.400 |
him below to make him the object of their insults. 00:23:52.260 |
They brought the status and the prominence of the great king below their death-deserving 00:23:56.760 |
In Luke chapter 27, verse 44, Luke tells us that one of the criminals said this, "Are 00:24:03.280 |
This fool makes a demand upon the king of kings as if he's in a position to make such 00:24:12.000 |
In perfect tense, they continually hurled insults at him. 00:24:16.280 |
You who are the king, you who are the Messiah, you who are the anointed one, the Christ, 00:24:27.040 |
All throughout the account of the crucifixion, Matthew records and takes note of the shame 00:24:35.680 |
He was despised by the criminals on his right and his left. 00:24:41.800 |
But up until now, none of those things really mattered compared to what was going to happen. 00:24:47.440 |
As terrible and shameful as that was, it didn't matter compared to what was going to happen. 00:24:57.480 |
"Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 00:25:02.600 |
About the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani, 00:25:06.120 |
that is my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'" 00:25:09.280 |
The first hour of the day begins at six o'clock in the morning. 00:25:13.800 |
And so, as we remember, Mark tells us that he was crucified at the third hour, that is 00:25:18.720 |
Twelve o'clock in the afternoon, a supernatural darkness falls upon the land. 00:25:23.320 |
A darkness that lasts until the ninth hour, that is three o'clock. 00:25:25.840 |
Between twelve to three o'clock, there is a supernatural darkness upon the earth. 00:25:31.320 |
And this darkness is no other than the manifestation of the fierce presence of God Almighty. 00:25:38.080 |
It is the manifestation of the presence of God Almighty. 00:25:45.120 |
It says, "These words of the Lord spoke to all the assembly at the mountain out of the 00:25:50.520 |
The cloud and the thick darkness with a loud voice and he added, 'No more.' 00:25:54.920 |
And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. 00:25:57.720 |
And as soon as you heard the voice out of the mist of the darkness, while the mountains 00:26:02.080 |
was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders." 00:26:07.000 |
Second Samuel chapter 22, verse 8 to 14 says, "Then the earth reeled and rocked the foundations 00:26:12.320 |
of heaven and trembled and quaked because he was angry. 00:26:16.000 |
Smoke went up from his nostrils and devouring fire from his mouth, glowing coals flamed 00:26:32.880 |
Thick clouds, a gathering of water out of the brightness before him, coals of fire flamed 00:26:38.000 |
The Lord thundered from heaven and the Most High uttered his voice. 00:26:42.160 |
Upon the land, God Almighty made his presence manifest and darkness encompassed the sacred 00:26:49.840 |
The earth was enveloped in fierce and terrible canopy of God's judgment. 00:26:52.720 |
And at the ninth hour, out from that darkness, out from that horrific blackness, a terrifying 00:26:59.120 |
voice pierced the air, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 00:27:07.200 |
In the words of Sproul, it was the cry of the damned. 00:27:15.040 |
Implications of the question along with the answer is obvious. 00:27:21.000 |
That's why Jesus Christ didn't say, "My Father, my Father," but he said, "My God, my God." 00:27:24.840 |
He said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" 00:27:30.280 |
The reason why the Father forsook the Son is because God cannot look upon sin. 00:27:35.920 |
Habakkuk chapter 1 verse 13 says, "You who are pure eyes and to see evil and cannot look 00:27:49.340 |
And upon that cross, Jesus, who knew no sin, was being made sin on our behalf. 00:27:55.520 |
Upon this cross, he was being made a curse because curse is one who hangs upon a tree. 00:28:00.660 |
Upon that cross, he was bearing upon himself that which God hated with the deepest hate. 00:28:05.800 |
Every shameful sin, every sin that you have committed, the sins you have entertained in 00:28:12.720 |
your mind, the sins that you are too afraid to share with others, the sin that you harbor 00:28:17.320 |
and keep secret, the sin that weighs you down with guilt and burdens you, that shameful 00:28:22.960 |
sin was placed upon the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and fully exposed in his nakedness 00:28:32.880 |
And for the first time ever, the Father looked upon his beloved Son. 00:28:36.860 |
He looked upon the Son whom he has loved for all of eternity and he turned away in disgust. 00:28:48.280 |
The insults of those passing by didn't matter. 00:28:50.280 |
The insults of those of the religious leaders didn't matter. 00:28:52.600 |
The insults of the criminals on the right and the left didn't matter. 00:28:54.920 |
The only thing that mattered was the intimacy with the Father. 00:28:58.240 |
The only thing that mattered was the relationship that they had for all of eternity. 00:29:02.080 |
The only thing that mattered was the Father's affection for him. 00:29:06.040 |
The only thing that mattered was that relationship. 00:29:09.400 |
And so when sin was poured out upon Jesus Christ, he looked to the heavens and he said, 00:29:26.600 |
It's so that God would not have to forsake you. 00:29:33.200 |
And so that he would not have to forsake you. 00:29:36.280 |
And you, and you, and you, and all of us here. 00:29:55.040 |
For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son to experience the shame 00:29:59.960 |
of this world, to bear our sins, and to go to the cross and to die on our behalf. 00:30:07.560 |
And to resurrect from the dead so that he may take the coal of the gospel and touch 00:30:12.240 |
your lips and cleanse you from all your sins. 00:30:19.280 |
Our God, our Lord Jesus Christ died a shameful death so that you can live. 00:30:29.400 |
Now will you go and proclaim the gospel to bring him glory? 00:30:41.600 |
Let all those who have tasted the goodness of God's grace, who have tasted his mercy, 00:30:45.280 |
who have tasted his love and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, with one voice say, 00:31:14.360 |
Because we know that everything that Jesus Christ went through, Matthew chapter 27, it 00:31:19.200 |
was done for the sake of our salvation, ultimately for your glory. 00:31:33.560 |
And I pray for us as Christians, I pray for Berean. 00:31:38.040 |
I pray for this church that, God, this truth of the gospel would impact our hearts day 00:31:44.880 |
to day, that we would be moved by it, that we would be gripped by it. 00:31:48.080 |
I know there are so many things that we're busy with, so many things that distract us, 00:31:54.400 |
And we know that they're not necessarily bad things. 00:31:57.040 |
But Lord, I pray that these things would not blind us from what we are ultimately called 00:32:02.600 |
And that is to glorify you through the gospel. 00:32:11.680 |
And Lord, with their life, be one that gives you great pleasure. 00:32:18.720 |
God, you have redeemed us by the blood of the Son. 00:32:23.640 |
We pray for the grace, pray for the mercy and strength that we would be able to go out 00:32:30.040 |
and make known to the world of the one who has lifted us up from damnation.