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Wednesday PM Service | Mark 12:1 | April 1, 2026

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  1. We're actually going to be 1214 and 15 as we go through.

  2. We're going to go through just the last week Jesus was here

  3. before, before the cross or before the tomb.

  4. But we're going to start off in Psalm 22 and we're just going to

  5. read a little bit of it starting in verse 6.

  6. But I am warm and no man. A reproach of men and despised

  7. by the people. All those who see me ridicule

  8. me. Those who shoot out the lip,

  9. they shake the head, shake the head, saying he trusted in the

  10. Lord, let him rescue him, let him deliver him, since he

  11. delights in him. But you are he who took me out

  12. of the womb. You made me trust while on my

  13. mother's breast. I was cast upon you from birth.

  14. From my mother's womb you have been my God.

  15. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to

  16. help me. Many bowls have surrounded me.

  17. Strong bowls of Bashan have encircled me.

  18. They they gape at me with their mouths like raging and roaring

  19. lions. I am poured out like water and

  20. all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, It has

  21. melted within me. My strength is dried up like a

  22. pot. Sure, sure.

  23. And my tongue clings to my jaws. You have brought me to the dust

  24. of death. For dogs have surrounded me.

  25. The congregation of the wicked hasn't closed me.

  26. They pierced my hands and my feet.

  27. I can count all my bones. They look and stare at me.

  28. They divide my garments among them.

  29. And for my clothes they cast lots.

  30. And Lord, I just once again just come before you Lord, and just

  31. be here tonight, be here with each and every one of us.

  32. Lord, fill us with your spirit. Speak to us.

  33. Lord, if I don't, if I don't have the words to explain, Lord,

  34. you can explain. Lord, mold my words.

  35. Teach me, Lord, speak to everybody here.

  36. And I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.

  37. So Psalm 22 was written between 10,000, so basically 10 thousand

  38. 1040 and 1000 BC. So during David's lifetime and

  39. the Romans perfected the torture of crucifixion by the time Jesus

  40. was around. But it it's something the

  41. Persians had used back in 519 BC.

  42. But that's still 500 years after Psalm 22 was written and the

  43. point of me reading that to begin with was the shadow of the

  44. cross has been from the beginning, right.

  45. It's something it's not something that God that Adam and

  46. Eve sinned and God went well. Now here's my fix.

  47. He is this has been the plan from the beginning because he

  48. knew that we were going to sin. Not he didn't plan for us to

  49. sin, but he knew we were going to it.

  50. The my simple illustration for that is that when I, when I was

  51. 43 years old, I crushed my right foot because I'm an idiot.

  52. I tried to jump on a on a moving truck.

  53. I slipped and got my foot under the tire and God had had us sell

  54. our house to get ready to go to Uganda.

  55. And I kind of argued with him while we were selling it because

  56. I'm like, it was 2013. We weren't moving to Uganda

  57. until 2018. And he really was pressure.

  58. I mean, there was I had verses and and he wanted me to sell the

  59. house. So we put it on the market and

  60. we sold the house and then we got it all done, you know, ready

  61. to sell. And then you don't want to sell

  62. it because it's like really nice to live in because it's

  63. finished. And I'm like, but we could just

  64. stay here. It's OK and and fine.

  65. And then, you know, but we were, we, we listened and sold the

  66. house and it, it finalized in June.

  67. And on July 5th, I crushed my foot.

  68. So I always say God didn't tell me to sell the house because we

  69. were in Uganda told me to sold the house because Nick's an

  70. idiot. And he knew that I wasn't going

  71. to be able to take care of the house or afford the house or do

  72. any of that stuff because I was going to be laid up for the

  73. better part of three months. And so God that that all to say

  74. that the cross was from the beginning, but that's because he

  75. knew we were going to sin, not because he planned for us to

  76. sin, if that makes sense. If you go to first Peter 119

  77. Jesus shares a little bit or Peter shares a little bit about

  78. this and it says but with the precious blood of Christ as of

  79. the lamb without blemish and without spot.

  80. He indeed was foreord named before the foundations of the

  81. world, but manifested to these last times for you and and that

  82. is from the foundations of the world from the moment God

  83. created the beginning. He knew Jesus was going to the

  84. cross. And so that that being said all

  85. through the Old Testament, there are those places, right?

  86. Exodus 12/21. We talked about this a couple

  87. weeks ago. Moses called for all the elders

  88. of Israel and said to them, Pick out and take lambs for yourself

  89. according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.

  90. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in blood that is

  91. in the basin, and strike the lentil and the two doorposts

  92. with that in the basin, with the blood with with the blood that

  93. is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of

  94. the door of his house until morning.

  95. So the key to the Passover lamb sacrifice was to apply the

  96. blood. Choosing the lamb was important.

  97. Sacrificing the lamb was important.

  98. Collecting the blood was important.

  99. Gathering the hyssop was important.

  100. But none of it mattered until you applied it to the door and

  101. submitted to the power of it to save you.

  102. And, and like we talked about the last time we showed you is

  103. and it says strike the doorpost, right?

  104. So it's we, you can see different analogies and in there

  105. and they're like painting, painting on the, they're

  106. painting blood on the doorpost. That is what it says.

  107. It's a strike, which means dip it in the blood and hit the

  108. doorpost and hit the doorpost and hit the doorpost and what

  109. what does that make? That's a cross back in forget

  110. how many years before Christ. But because I don't have it in

  111. my notes. I don't want to say and be

  112. wrong, but but then but they actually had to apply that blood

  113. right? And that's for us.

  114. That is that submission to Jesus, right?

  115. That isn't when I when I started going to church, that's Steve

  116. was going through revelation and and I believed Jesus was a real

  117. person that really lived. I believed Jesus died.

  118. I even believed Jesus rose on the third day.

  119. I just didn't believe he was my Lord, right?

  120. I wouldn't have told you that when I started going to church.

  121. I'm like, I can, I can believe all those things.

  122. So I'm good. And then then I started going

  123. and Steve's teaching and I'm like, well, I'm glad that's not

  124. me, that's bad. And then I forget what he, what

  125. he was teaching in, in revelation that I went, well,

  126. that's bad, that's me, that's bad.

  127. And and that's when it, when I stood up and gave my life to the

  128. Lord, that's when I applied the blood to my life, right.

  129. So that's what's important about about the cross, right?

  130. We can read about it, we can know about it.

  131. We can be all kinds of intellectual knowledge, but if

  132. we haven't applied it to our lives, then it does no good,

  133. right? We'll jump.

  134. We're we're going to go through the that last week.

  135. We're going to go pretty quick, but Mark 11 first verse 12,

  136. starting verse 12. Now the next day when they had

  137. come from Bethany, he was hungry and seeing from afar A fig tree

  138. having leaves, he went to see it.

  139. Perhaps he would find something on it, see if perhaps he would

  140. find something on it. When he came to to it, he found

  141. nothing but leaves for it was not the season for figs.

  142. In response, Jesus said to it, Let no one eat fruit from you

  143. ever again. And his disciples heard it.

  144. So they came to Jerusalem. And then Jesus went into the

  145. temple and began to drive out those who brought, bought and

  146. sold in the temple, and overturned tables of the money

  147. changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

  148. And he would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.

  149. Then he taught to to them, saying, Is it not written?

  150. My house shall be called the House of prayer for all nations?

  151. But you have made it a din of thieves, and the scribes and the

  152. chiefs priests heard it and sought how they might destroy

  153. him, for they feared him because all the people were astonished

  154. by his teachings. When evening had come, he went

  155. out of the city. So kind of funny story, right?

  156. He, he condemns a a fig tree with leaves on it.

  157. So Jesus, Jesus does contemn A contemn a tree that looks like

  158. it should bear fruit. And then he goes to a temple, a

  159. place people would assume was about God's work, and he and he

  160. condemned the false appearance. So you know, God is supposed to

  161. be or sorry, God's house is supposed to be a place of

  162. prayer, a place of meeting with God, not a box to be checked and

  163. look religious. Looking good and being bad is

  164. worse than being bad or than looking bad and being bad.

  165. I, I will, I will. I don't normally get political,

  166. but I will do this just for I have this conversation with

  167. friends. And the difference between a

  168. Donald Trump or a Ronald Reagan and A and a Joe Biden or a, or a

  169. Barack Obama is that and, and Trump says things that can drive

  170. me nuts, right? He says he, he can say things

  171. that are just obnoxious, but his policies are good, right?

  172. He, he, he aligns with, with, with good values in his

  173. policies. Now, Obama and Biden knew how to

  174. say all the right things, but their policies drove me nuts.

  175. If I'm going to get driven nuts by something, I would rather get

  176. driven nuts by what's coming out of your mouth then then what is

  177. actually affecting policy, right?

  178. And that's really the point here Jesus is making is if you're

  179. going to look good, then you had better be good.

  180. If you're going to look like you have leaves on you, then you had

  181. better have fruit. But if you're just looking good,

  182. then then you're full of dead men's bones, right?

  183. That's and at no point do we want to be.

  184. I mean, I say it all the time, but we never want to be playing

  185. church, right? It is the funniest thing in the

  186. world that that it's something that exists.

  187. It existed in Jesus's day. It exists to this day.

  188. Now is that people play church now playing Muslim, OK, playing

  189. Buddhist OK, playing Hindu OK playing Christian is stupid

  190. because the only one you're trying to impress knows if

  191. you're serious or not. Impressing me does not get you

  192. into heaven, right? Impressing everybody in the room

  193. does not get you into heaven. If I stand up here Sunday after

  194. Sunday and I I have the best, I can speak the best and I can

  195. teach the best and I don't. But if I did, but I don't have a

  196. relationship with the Lord, that doesn't do me any good.

  197. There's not, there is nothing there, right?

  198. Having leaves and no fruit is the worst place you ever want to

  199. be. You would rather be a Charlie

  200. Brown Christmas tree with one piece of fruit on you then, then

  201. a, then a, then a tree full of leaves with 0 fruit, right?

  202. And, and Jesus here is for this, this week, right here guys,

  203. Jesus comes in like a storm, right?

  204. He he comes in to clear up any confusion and frustrate and and

  205. really bring to conclusion that his time here and he he's going

  206. to make it very clear of his position as the Son of God,

  207. whether they like it or not, that that is who he says he is

  208. and that is what he is and he's going to prove it to him over

  209. and over again. The day before this this scene,

  210. they were rebuked. They were telling him he needed

  211. to rebuke the people because they were calling him God.

  212. And he said and he answered them and said, if I tell you that if

  213. these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out

  214. right. This is they were calling him

  215. Hosanna God Withers God. And whenever anybody says that

  216. Jesus never called himself God, it's because they haven't ever

  217. actually read the Bible right. And he is very blunt and very

  218. direct throughout the process. Many the next day he comes back

  219. to the temple and, and the they're, they're feisty.

  220. They're feeling like they got something to say to him.

  221. You know, the night, the day before, they were taught they

  222. were trying to figure out how to destroy him.

  223. So they confront him when he gets there, starting in verse 27

  224. of Chapter 11. Then they came again to

  225. Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the

  226. temple, the chief priest describes the and the elders

  227. came to him and they said to him, by what authority are you

  228. doing these things? And who gave you the authority

  229. to do these things? But Jesus answered and said to

  230. them, I also will ask you one question, then answer me and I

  231. will tell you by what authority I do these things.

  232. The baptism of John was it from heaven or from man?

  233. Answer me. And they responded or they

  234. reasoned among themselves saying, if we say from heaven,

  235. he will say, why then did you not believe?

  236. Now can you picture this real quick?

  237. It's, it's these guys all confront him and then he asked

  238. him a question. And now the, the gaggle, it's

  239. what I call a bunch of guys all stand around the gaggle all kind

  240. of walked over here to talk to themselves, right?

  241. There's we got to go, we got to go figure out our, our way of

  242. doing this. And they, they go on and say,

  243. but if we say it's from men, they fear the people for all

  244. count John to have been a prophet indeed.

  245. So they answered and said to Jesus, we do not know.

  246. And Jesus answered and said to them, neither will I tell you by

  247. what authority I do these things.

  248. And I'm sure that I've used this illustration before.

  249. It is truly one of my favorite interactions with religious

  250. people and how Jesus did not come against them, right?

  251. What he did was ask them a question that their mob rule was

  252. not going to defend. And what I mean by that is Jesus

  253. showed them their hearts. Each one of them that night or

  254. the next week or after the crucifixion or years later at

  255. some point was going to come to this question and go, why could

  256. we not answer that question not as a group, but as an

  257. individual. Why could I not if if he if

  258. Jesus, if Jesus is false, then John was false.

  259. And I should be able to just say that we're going to we're going

  260. to stand against Jesus. I should be able to just say

  261. John is false. It wasn't from God.

  262. But if John was from God, then Jesus was from God.

  263. And this is that point of Jesus is not looking to and this is

  264. guys, I want you to hear this because Facebook or the

  265. megaphone of Satan, is that what it was Telegraph, Satan's

  266. Telegraph. There we go another Marcism.

  267. It's a good one. But the thing in the thing on

  268. Facebook, guys, is we like zingers.

  269. We like we like I got I got AI can I can beat that act?

  270. I can beat that argument. I need to say this, you know, I

  271. call it, I call it popping off, right?

  272. I can, I can respond to that. I can get I can win that because

  273. that doesn't that doesn't do good that that is, that is not

  274. Jesus doing that right. Jesus's plan always is to seek

  275. their heart. Now that doesn't mean that at

  276. any point he he folded on what was true, but his goal was their

  277. salvation, right. So that brings us to a little

  278. story tucked in the most important week of all history.

  279. And and really this is this is where we're going to camp.

  280. And it's one of those that you look at a lot went on in in that

  281. last week. Jesus talked about the most

  282. important commandments. He talked about who we're

  283. supposed to pay taxes to. He he talked about resurrection,

  284. all kinds of really big issues and then kind of random off to

  285. the side, but right within that week.

  286. And you'll always find that Jesus reason for when and where

  287. he shares truth is, is usually on purpose.

  288. Mark 1241 Now Jesus said opposite the treasury, and saw

  289. how many people put money into the treasury, and many who were

  290. rich put in much. Then one poor widow came and

  291. threw into mites, which make a which make a quadrant.

  292. So he called the disciples and to himself, and said, assuredly,

  293. I say to you, that this poor widow has put in more.

  294. Than all those who have given to the treasury for they all put in

  295. out of their abundance. But she out of her poverty put

  296. in all that she had for her whole livelihood and sacrifice

  297. by definition cost us something right It it's something about

  298. the Christian life and I guess I'm just getting this way

  299. tonight. But if you go back to COVID, you

  300. will find churches that that shut down some of them never

  301. reopened people that had to go to different churches, people

  302. that never walked back into a church again because suddenly

  303. being a Christian cost them something.

  304. And in America and I and this is a western world thing.

  305. It's it's just the way that that the enemy works.

  306. He's about overcorrecting on one side or the other.

  307. But America it is for decades it has been a blessing to your

  308. financial health to be a Christian.

  309. It's a good place to network. It's, you know, you can do all

  310. kinds of stuff in the church, whether or not the church is

  311. doing the church just covered in leaves, no fruit, but but full

  312. of a full of a whole lot of leaves.

  313. And, and you watched COVID clean that out, right?

  314. And not it was a, it was a time that you just got to watch

  315. people decide whether it was a social club or it's where they

  316. got the words of life, right. And that's that's something that

  317. as you look it at the the widow, but then you get into in in

  318. first Chronicles 21, verse 23, and this is David.

    1 Chronicles 21:23

  319. So King David called for a census, which was a sin, right?

  320. He was, he wanted to know, he wanted to know how powerful he

  321. was, how, how powerful Judah was or Israel was.

  322. And so he called for a count of all the people, which Joab, who

  323. was definitely nobody I would look up to, even tried to talk

  324. him out of and say don't do this, Please don't do this.

  325. Well, he did it and God prophet came and said, you know, you're

  326. in trouble. Went through the whole thing and

  327. P and basically in the end, you know, people were dying of a

  328. plague. And David said, Lord, please

  329. don't let don't don't count this against them.

  330. Counted against me. I did this.

  331. They didn't do this, you know, and he threw himself at the

  332. mercy of the Lord and the Lord said, if you go and sacrifice,

  333. do you know, go buy this red, go, go to this threshing floor.

  334. Go sacrifice there. I will I'll relay it.

  335. So verse 23 but Oren said to David, and this is David up

  336. going to get the threshing floor.

  337. He said, said to David, take it to yourself and let my Lord the

  338. king do what is good in his eyes.

  339. Look, I also give you the oxen and the burn off for the burnt

  340. offering and the threshing floor implement for wood and the wheat

  341. for grain offerings. I give it all.

  342. Well, that sounds like a deal, right?

  343. So now David's going to go up and do all this sacrifice and

  344. ain't going to cost him anything.

  345. Verse 24 The king, then King David said to Oran, no, but I

  346. will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what

  347. is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings with that which

  348. cost me nothing. So as believers, our

  349. relationship with the Lord at minimum, at minimum should cost

  350. me all that I am. And I say that all the time, but

  351. that's really what it costs. It's a free gift.

  352. It just cost me everything that I think I get out of the deal

  353. that my eyes need to be on on Jesus and his plan for my

  354. future, whatever that is, right that that that old my, my line.

  355. Embrace the suck, right guys? Serving Jesus doesn't suck at

  356. any point at any level. It is it is the most joy, the

  357. most fun that I have ever had doing anything.

  358. My flesh can get a little whiny about it there.

  359. There are moments that it wants to do what it wants to do.

  360. And my job is to tell my flesh that it isn't in charge anymore.

  361. And it isn't that I suddenly became in charge.

  362. It is reminding my flesh that Jesus sits on that throne now.

  363. I don't and I and I do what he says, and that's what it costs

  364. me. So if, if sacrifice cost me

  365. nothing, it's pointless, right? The the whole idea of the

  366. sacrificial system was that it had to be something of real

  367. value to the giver it. It couldn't be something I was

  368. throwing away. Anybody been to a donation yard

  369. sale? Anybody had a donation yard

  370. sale? I have hauled more junk to my

  371. house because somebody was donating stuff for a yard sale

  372. and I used to say I could just take it straight to the dump.

  373. It would be quicker. But, and, and you can ask Faye

  374. that I, I don't like yard sales. Like I don't like going to a

  375. yard sale. I having yard sales gives me

  376. hives. Like I don't like to do yard

  377. sales for that reason. Because when I when, when, when

  378. I'm selling something at a yard sale, look, I guarantee you if

  379. you touch it, you can go home with it because it is garbage to

  380. me, right? The reason that I am getting rid

  381. of it is because I don't want it anymore.

  382. And if you take it, then I don't have to haul it to the dump.

  383. So there's no reason you don't leave with it, you know, and

  384. that isn't the sacrifice Jesus is looking for, you know, he

  385. isn't looking for my, he isn't looking for my extra, He's

  386. looking for my awe. And So what does that have to do

  387. with with why did Jesus share about the widow in that moment?

  388. What is it about that? So remember that Jesus was

  389. headed to the cross and we get to see in the garden of this

  390. Gethsemane, which we were talking about earlier.

  391. We get to see and remember Jesus is a man 100% man, 100% God.

  392. And we will all understand that completely right after we get

  393. there. But Jesus didn't come down with

  394. a stacked deck and say, I mean, my exam a good, good example

  395. that Jesus didn't pop out of Mary speaking right?

  396. He had to learn how to speak. He had to learn how to walk, He

  397. had to learn how to be a Carpenter.

  398. Well, when he got to the cross, when he gets to this point and

  399. he knows what's coming, God is outside of time.

  400. Jesus at this moment is not and and he was going to get to

  401. really suffer and he will really lay his life down as a

  402. sacrifice. And Jesus unlike I think we can

  403. understand, He understood what it was going to cost for Mark

  404. 1432. Then they came to the place

  405. which was named Yosemite and he said to his disciples, sit here

  406. a while, sit here while I pray. And he took Peter, James, and

  407. John with him, and he began to be troubled and deeply

  408. distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is

  409. exceedingly sorrowful even to death, Stay here and watch.

  410. And he went a little further and fell on the ground and prayed

  411. that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

  412. And he said, ABBA, father, all things are possible for you.

  413. Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will,

  414. but what you will. So this is Jesus from the

  415. foundations of the earth. This moment was coming and at

  416. this moment His desire was to not do it.

  417. Now His stronger was desire was to submit and to and to be

  418. willing to be that sacrifice. So you guys got to remember that

  419. Jesus was around 33 years old at this point, but he had been here

  420. since before the foundations of the earth and him and the Father

  421. had been together. Now I don't want to get weird.

  422. The Trinity is never separated, they are always together.

  423. But Jesus understood there was going to become a moment that he

  424. was going to experience something that no other being

  425. had ever experienced. All the sin of all time of the

  426. whole world all at once. And we, I know the guilt of my

  427. sin, but all the sin, that's that's all the sin, guys, that's

  428. the grossest stuff you can come up with to the, the

  429. concentration camps, all the sin.

  430. And I would love to say that we've gotten more bloody than

  431. they were back in the in these days.

  432. But all the sin and he understood what what that was

  433. going to take. And Jesus was going to feel the

  434. forsakenness because of dirt sin.

  435. And Even so, if you look at the widow and David, this cost him

  436. something. If you look at the principle of

  437. that, that this cost Jesus, this isn't if, if it didn't cost

  438. Jesus, then it was just a game, right?

  439. It's just, it's just moving pieces on a board and it, and it

  440. doesn't really matter. And God's just just making

  441. things up. But this really mattered and

  442. this really hurt. And, and The thing is, is after

  443. Jesus is at Gethsemane and he's, he's now getting crucified, he's

  444. on the cross and he's still knowing that's coming.

  445. Jesus says in, in Luke 2334, Father, forgive them for they do

  446. not know what they're doing as they divided his garments and

  447. cast law. And if you remember, I read

  448. about, I read about them doing that back in Psalm 22.

  449. He understood what they could not.

  450. He was about to win what what they were all meaning for evil.

  451. What the enemy was meaning for evil will cause the biggest

  452. victory for grace, but it will cost more than any can pay.

  453. Only Jesus has the ability to to sacrifice what was necessary.

  454. Guys I just praying today and and talking to this really hurt

  455. guys. This wasn't, this wasn't I got

  456. back youth group time. We have one of the guys who goes

  457. So what? God died for three days, but

  458. he's God, so who cares? I mean, and that, I mean, he

  459. said it a little more reverently than that, but if that's all it

  460. was, a God outside of time skips 3 days, who cares?

  461. A day is like 1000 years, 1000 years like a day, who cares.

  462. That's why it is so important that Jesus is 100% man because

  463. he took it like we would take it, but he took all of it.

  464. And God did not shield his Son from the penalty of sin because

  465. if he had, he would not be considered just.

  466. And God is just. And Jesus agreed to the Father's

  467. plan, or they agreed together, but at the end of the day, he

  468. agreed because of the reward. And the reward was you and I.

  469. So the sacrifice was worth it because of what he was going to

  470. get. And what he was going to get was

  471. each and every one of us, right, John?

  472. And that's the John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave

  473. his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should

  474. not perish, but have everlasting life.

  475. The world, whoever believes in him, right?

  476. That's who Jesus gets. And Isaiah 53 he shall see the

  477. labor of his soul and be satisfied by his knowledge.

  478. My righteous servant shall justify many, for He shall bear

  479. their iniquities. And this is if you guys haven't

  480. ever read Isaiah 53. It's another one of those that

  481. just proof of who Jesus was that was foretold 700 years before

  482. Jesus. Jesus completes his task and I

  483. was just actually talking to somebody today about this.

  484. So when I first got saved, something that that I used to

  485. that they probably still say it. Dying for Jesus would be easy.

  486. It's living for him that's hard, right?

  487. It's dying for him is an instant.

  488. It's a moment, right? You know, gunman comes in, you

  489. dive in front of the bullet. You know, somebody want that.

  490. Those are moments living for him.

  491. So this him on the cross is him living for us.

  492. This is this is that moment that he paid for all the garbage that

  493. I've all the garbage that I've ever done, all the garbage I'm

  494. doing and all the garbage I will ever do, he paid for in that

  495. instant. And it says in, in Mark 15.

  496. Now when the 6th hour had come, there was darkness over the

  497. whole land until the 9th hour. And at the 9th hour, Jesus cried

  498. out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli Lama Savathnia, which

  499. translated My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

  500. And that is the first lines of Psalm 22.

  501. And the the thing about that is all the Israelites, all those

  502. rulers and elders and all those people that would be standing

  503. around would know what that meant because they, they

  504. memorized Scripture and catalogued their Scriptures by

  505. the first line of the verse or of the passage.

  506. So we started off with Psalm 22 and them casting lots and

  507. piercing, piercing him. And now we're here and the

  508. Israelites get to hear this and then they get to look at what

  509. look at the look at the scene in front of them and see prophecy

  510. and see what's happening. And then in John 19, it says

  511. after this Jesus, knowing all things were accomplished, that

  512. Scripture might be fulfilled, saying, I thirst.

  513. And now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they

  514. filled the sponge with sour wine, put it on a hyssop and put

  515. it to his mouth. So when Jesus had received the

  516. sour wine, he said, it is finished.

  517. And bowing his head, he gave up his spirit.

  518. And this was, this was not a show, right?

  519. I this was eternally costly. When we see Jesus on the other

  520. side of the tomb, He still has scars.

  521. Put your Thomas, put your fingers in the holes, put your

  522. hand in my side. I mean, this is not like Jesus

  523. is still on the cross or still paying.

  524. He paid it all past, present and future at that moment, and it

  525. was finished. And Mark, Mark 1538 says, then

  526. the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

  527. So in the centurion who stood opposite him saw that he cried

  528. out like this and breathed his last.

  529. He said truly, this man was the Son of God.

  530. And that was that was the world looking on in astonishment

  531. right. And the the fun in this moment

  532. guys is it is finished at that moment the payment had been

  533. made. The proof of payment will show

  534. up in a couple of days. Like the story of the paralyzed

  535. man. The work was done because Jesus

  536. said then it was proven. And if you look at that's Mark

  537. 23 or 523, and this is when Jesus says your sins are

  538. forgiven. And everybody starts, well, you

  539. can't say his sins are forgiven. And he's and Jesus comes back

  540. and says, which is easier to say your sins are forgiven you or to

  541. say rise up and walk. But that you may know that the

  542. Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins.

  543. He said to the man who was paralyzed, I say to you, arise,

  544. take up your bed and go to your house.

  545. And immediately he arose up before them.

  546. And that is when Jesus said it is finished, it was finished, it

  547. was done. You can count on it.

  548. And the question is, what are we going to do with it, right?

  549. Are we going to be, are we going to be leafy trees or are we

  550. going to be fruit bearing, right?

  551. Are we going to apply Jesus to our lives?

  552. Are we going to say Jesus, I can't and you have to.

  553. And that's. That is that understanding that

  554. Jesus paid the price for all of it, right?

  555. For my sin, for your sin for the guy that's making me mad sin for

  556. my enemy, sin for my all of it. What it cost him?

  557. You were worth it. Do we believe he is worth

  558. sacrificing all of us for fellowship with him?

  559. And that that really what it always comes down to is do we

  560. trust him? Do we trust that when I say,

  561. when I, when I say I don't matter that he that he's going

  562. to come along and take care of me?

  563. Or do I have to defend myself? Do I have to take care of

  564. myself? And this the, the verse that I

  565. use all the time and you guys hear it over and over and over

  566. again is Galatians 220 is I've been crucified with Christ.

  567. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

  568. And this life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in

  569. the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.

  570. This life that I now live in the flesh.

  571. I live by faith in the Son of God because of what he did.

  572. He already paid for it all guys, I got, I got nothing but gravy

  573. this side of heaven and I get more gravy on that side because

  574. it's his problem, all of it. You know it.

  575. It's this is not how how do you how do you just exchange this

  576. world for his plan, believe that he is able to do what he says

  577. and then watch him do it? And does that mean that your

  578. life is sunshine and rainbows? I would tell you the apostles

  579. would probably tell you no. But is he worth it?

  580. And is his plan better than mine?

  581. Absolutely. So I encourage you that we have

  582. the cross up here tonight and I and on Sunday.

  583. He's awesome and he proves it. Not just don't just say it, he

  584. proves it. So Lord, I just lift up this

  585. time and I lift up everybody here, everybody at home.

  586. And Lord, that you would just come in and take over.

  587. Lord that we would just lean in and rely on you, Lord, and that

  588. you would do amazing things through through our submitted

  589. lives to your plan. And I pray all this in Jesus

  590. name, Amen.