What's so good about Good Friday | Eld Rosalind Ang

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The title of the message this evening is what's so

good about Good Friday?

Lyleo, what's so good about good Friday?

Do you know we always just verish, happy, blessed good Friday?

But do we know what's so good about good Friday?

All right, so let me ask you two questions and

I will need your response.

Okay, just shut out from your seats now.

The first question I will ask you is so extually

you can help me with the slight. The next one,

when you look at the world today, what do you

see that is good?

Food?

Okay, yeah, food, definitely know today if y'all can breakfast,

eat everything we want, right, I'm like, wow, so good,

good man? What else is good about the world today?

Training? What Jimmy hey teller? Oh Jamie, Oh Jamie is good?

Who's Jamie?

Hahaha?

I thought only Jesus is good? Joking, joking. I'm sure

Jamie is good as well. Okay, okay, hey, come on,

you can only tell me two things are that is

good about the world today? Come on, come on, we

can do better than this. What is good about this

world that we live in? Sorry? My cat and dog? Okay,

I think we are training on dangerous waters here. Okay.

So I'm asking this group of matured believers what is

good about the world. You can tell me food okay, important,

Then you tell me Jamie.

Then you tell me your cat and dog better good,

very good? Nothing else? Are homie?

So bro.

Rocking there? Okay? Homies, homies.

Okay, Jesus, Jesus air Okay. Okay, that came a sa

An after thought, like, oh yeah, Jesus. Yeah, it is

too obvious. That's all you don't want to say. Okay, okay,

now okay, let me go to another question. Then, what

is so bad about the world today? I like light, come, come, come,

try oh Trump? Okay, okay, what else?

What else? Some people?

Not all people? Oh not some people are bad? Okay,

Leggy ell the Terrans give us very deep answer.

I hold it first.

You're never here, right, I I hold your answer first?

What else is bad about this world? Petrol price? Hey, diesel?

Even worse?

Bro, even driving a truck that you were really feel it?

Like Eldo ping hole so he's been losing slip over

his truck. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, petrol still not too bad.

Are subsidized, but diesel is bad. What else is so bad?

War? You forgot about the war?

Violence, innocent death, death, famine, tsunami are quick, right, There's

so much things when we look at the world that

is bad.

And of course now I will reveal to you what

Eldo Terans deep answer is.

He says, the bad thing about this world is the

world rejecting Jesus. Whoa someone give him a prize, guys,

deep answer?

Right, you'll never think this answer.

Okay, that's why you're must come study and understudy him,

like wow, this wisdom must be from God. So now

now the thing is when you know this whole point

about pain and suffering and death.

And injustice in this world, is this something that you'll

struggle with? It is right? And and this became very real.

Uh. Just this week I went on the call with

someone that I'm discipling, and she was very She is

very precious to me because two years ago, around my birthday,

she gave her life to Christ two years ago, two years.

Ago, and this is a very very precious salvation.

You know, hello, you know, And and I was like

rejoicing and and so I started to walk with her

every month. You know, we get into a call, read

the Bible. We don't meet physically because you know, it

was hard for her. But then so I I've been

texting her so recently, Hey, you know, how are you.

Then she's like, uh, Then she's she replied me. She's like,

other words, can I just be very honest with you.

I don't believe in prayer anymore? And she's like she

she she told me, I need to confess to you

that I don't believe anymore.

So in my heart, I'm thinking what's going on for her?

Right? Uh? And and so her typical answer, Her answer

was because God doesn't answer my prayer. I see some

of you smiling, nodding, shaking your hate. I don't know

shaking is like I can't believe it, or like yeah,

that's so hard. Yeah, you know, because I realized that

it's a struggle that we all have that when when

our prayers are unanswered, then our question automatically becomes God,

where are you God?

I thought you deliver me. God.

I thought you know you're with me for me, not

against me. And therefore, why is this simple prayer not answered? Right?

One another person that I'm walking with.

She she goes through very chronic pain and so she

the most that she can sleep every night is two hours. Yeah,

imagine going through this because she has some sickness and

and she wakes up every night in pain. And so

she says, I'm just asking God for sleep. Is that

too much to ask? Is it too much to ask?

It's a real, real problem, right, real struggle. Let let's

go on to the next thought.

Next thought.

You see, the thing about problem and pain and suffering

is something that even the Bible talks about. You know,

in the last three days of our you turn right

as we read the book habakok. Yeah, I hope that

you'll be following the reading because this one really.

Stood out to me.

It really struck me, all right, So haak one two

to four says this, and I think for some of

you are you'll.

Really resonate with this very well.

He is crying, and he's a prophet, a man of God,

a man of God in the Bible, in the very

Bible that we have. And he says this, Oh Lord,

how long shall I cry? And you will not hear

even cry out to you violence? And you will not

safe Why do you show me inequity and cause me

to see trouble? Do you know it was hard for your,

hard for your to say good things about the world,

right that it was to think about the bad stuff?

That was what I was trying to draw. It's so

hard for us to find good in this world.

See trouble, for plundering and violence are before me. There

is strife, and contention arises. Therefore the law is powerless,

and justice never goes forth for the wicked surround the righteous.

Therefore perverse judgment proceeds. Wow, does this sound like today

as well?

Very much so?

Right who says the Bible is all school? The Bible

is super relevant, super current.

Because that's exactly what we're facing.

Today, especially since the walls started right even before that lie,

you know, but even more it became even more real.

Now you're feeling the pinks.

You know.

The newspaper says that a lot of the restaurants will

up their prices by at least thirty to fifty percent.

You think eating out is expensive, now better start learning

how to cook, right, and it's your salary going up

by that much. By the way, you got three percent

in criminal hallelujah. Right, but this is what it is,

you know, and and I like that this is in

the Bible. You know why, because the Bible is very real.

The people in God are very real. We don't sugarcoat

everything and just say everything is gonna be fine. No,

and this is an honest cry from a man, a

man of God. An honest craz is really wrestling, you know, wrestling. Now,

what do most people do when they wrestle with God

and then they continue to see an unswer pressed?

What is a typical response? Angry? Yes, I love this

Jimmy is it? Lisa? Oh? Nissa? Answer? Then give you

five points? Hey, give some.

Energy, like yo, there is anyone, anyone, anyone can beat

her or not. Her energy level is up the roof

and again angry show angry one right somehow?

What else?

What else would you respond when you see things like

that and you have unanswerpreted? All you're going through pain

and suffering, all broken relationships, frustrated, bitter, disappointed? Hey oh

this brother, come on, well done, well done, I am

getting some life here.

Yeah. Yeah, we get disappointed and that's when we turn away.

Yeah, very normal, right, turn away when something bad happens

in church, you leave church normal normal, Right, we turn

away from something that we feel has hurt us. Right,

that's our human thinking, right. But you know, I think

there's something that we can learn from this prophet. What

did he choose to respond? Let's go to his actual

response in Habakook two, verse one, he says this, instead

of turning away, you know, he was really complaining. Just now,

did you see that haboc one? He was he was

really complaining, God, what you so bad? I translated today.

God, why you so bad? Basically like that's a sum

of what he was saying.

But then he says, but I will stand my watch

and set myself on the rampart and watch to see

what he will say to me and what I will

answer when I am corrected.

Can what can you get from this positioning of Habercook?

Right?

So firstly he says, I'm not going to give up

on you yet. God. Do you see that?

Because he says, I'm going to be watching. I'm going

to be the watchman right and believe us Christians? Do

you know that we're called watchmen for God?

Yeah?

Can you know always shares this with us? He says,

if you want which Israel. You will see God. I know,

I don't know what your position is with this land

or with this current leadership, but do you know that

these people have got This land of.

God is special to God.

And no matter what people try to do, and you

see it in the Bible, trying to wipe away this

entire nation, they have never succeeded.

Never.

No, the more you know the Egyptians oppressed, the israelized,

the more they grew.

What is this? Huh? You grow under pressure or not? Oh,

there's a good one.

Hey.

Do you guys grow under pressure or not? Yesla? So

pressure is heavy.

But I think it's a reframing of our mindset to

say God, when I'm under this intense pressure, just like

Jerdy Sarah, intense pressure, God is expending us. Pressure extends

us our capacity to believe more, to pray more, to

trust in Him more.

Amen.

So he says, I will stand my watch and set

myself on the ramper and watch what he will say

to me and what I will answer when I'm corrected. So, okay,

can you see that there is this humility to say,

maybe I'm wrong, lay maybe what I'm thinking about. Because

we're saying God when you never answer my prayer means

you're not good. Right, So this is what I had

to drill. I mean, talk about with that person who

says I don't believe.

In God anymore. I say it.

Friend, you know, when your daughter wants everything, do you

say yes to her all the time or not?

Then she kept quitla because not everything is good.

Right in our mind if someone doesn't give us something,

I like children, children, children, You know I remember my

own godess one one, I don'kay. I don't want to

embarrass anyone when you don't give us something.

I just you don't love me, because because if you

love me, you give me everything.

Right, do you know there's something wrong with that statement?

If you love me you give me everything? Firstly, it

means especially in our relationship with God, actually in relationship

with others. So when we say to God that if

you love me, you answer my prayers, you're trying to

tell him that actually my ways are better than your ways.

Because you have to abide to my wilma.

Right, But then you are not acknowledging that God is

sovereign and he can say yes or no.

We like it when you say yes when he say no.

How then we go through this whole emotional turmoil and

anguish and anger. Right, and I understand you see the

prophet habital exactly Clea says that. And you know how

it ends in habakok tree, right, he says, And yet

even if the fig tree does not blossom, I will

still yet praise the Lord because he is the God

of my salvation.

That's what it's about.

Even if nothing changes in your life and things grow worse.

Friends, I'm telling you, what is your positioning?

Well, you still say I will cling to you God

no matter what, because this is not the end.

Do you know the name Habako? I just learned it.

It means to cling.

You know, we'll talk about clinging personna. This is a

good kind of cling, Okay, cling to the Lord no

matter what, right Haboco cling to the Lord no matter what,

never let him go.

Amen. So this is an honest cry.

Now, I know that one of the greatest wrestle for

us as human is this, wrestled with death?

True or not? Wrestle with death? How many of you

willing to go meet Jesus today? Oh?

Some?

Erin? Yes, sir, erin whah you not married yet? War?

You don't wanna get.

Married for a spare uh right, now he's pointing like, yeah,

maybe I need to think about this.

Ah, so father, but yes, death is real.

It's real to us, right, and sometimes I think in

our journey of fab we will wrestle with this. We

fear death or we fear that it's you know, we

we we don't have enough time to do everything that

we want to do.

Okay, so let's go on. Let's go on.

The second thought, is this the wrestle with that? The

humanity's great struggle with pain, suffering and death. Now, let's

go on to this story, and which I know you'll

know the story, so I'm gonna reache through it quickly.

This is the Storylory of Mary and Marta, right and Jesus. Okay,

so let's read.

Now.

A certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town

of Mary and her sister Marta.

It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil.

And wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus

was sick. Therefore, the sisters said to him, saying, Lord, behold,

he whom you love is sick, very sick. You know,

tell me not you know, last time I don't have

phone one, okay, cannot straight away as a mass or

call it. Hey, hello, Jesus, are you in the way, then,

Jesus is not on the ways they send word and

those days sending word takes a long time, okay. When

Jesus heard that, immediately he went to Lazarus through or not. Hey, no, man,

your friend whom you love is sick. What do you

do when your friend is sick? You drop everything and

you go right, even even it's two right now, you

will go because you're a good friend, I thought, Jesus,

good friend.

War What did Jesus do when Jesus heard that?

He said, this sickness is not unto that, but for

the glory of God, that the Son of God may

be glorified through it.

Let's go on to the next one. Now, Jesus, look

at this ah.

He stated that Now Jesus loved Marta and his sister

and Lazraus. So when he heard that he was sick,

he stayed two more days, two more days la where

he was in the place where he was. And after

this he said to his disciples, let us go to

Judea again.

What is Thesa? What kind of delay. Is this that

shows that you love someone? Is delay better?

Hey? Of course you'll give me the theoretical correct antela.

But when God delays your prayers, Dan, how sometimes it's

two days, you know, sometimes it's two years. Some it

could be twenty years. Do you know sometimes when you

read the Bible, right, I just realized this, you know,

because the Bible is so succinct, meaning is very accurate.

They just capture the details.

He says, you know, as Abraham prayed and then he

had a child, do you know that he had to

wait like seventeen years before he had a child.

Hello? And sometimes we think that's God works immediately.

He has to work immediately, or else he does not

love me. Right, So this two days is an illustration.

Now let's go on, let's move on, okay. So then

now it goes on then Jesus okay, so this is

after all that Jesus says, let us go to Judith

after two days.

Ah, let's rest.

Died already, Okay, after todays, let us go, He told

his disciples. But you know what in between, right, the

disciples say, hey, Jesus, are you sure you want to go?

The Jews? After you? They want to kill you. Jesus says,

let's go. Okay, let's go.

And Jesus told them plainly, oh, because before that the

exchange was, you know, Jesus told them Lazarus is sleeping,

and I will I need to go and wake him up.

And then they say, if he's sleeping, then he will

get well, no more, right, you're have fever. I just

take my the door and sleep. Blah, she'll get one, right.

But they didn't know that he was talking about lazarus death.

Okay.

So that's why Jesus had to say to them plainly,

Lazarus is dead, friends, and I'm glad for your sakes

that I was not there.

That you may believe. Do you know what Jesus is

trying to tackle?

Your belief or your unbelief. It's always this, it's whether

we believe or we not believe. Nevertheless, let us go

to it. Okay, so let's go, let's go. So when

Jesus came, he found that he had already been in

the tomb how many days? What a great perfume, tomb

number four, and you want to wear that tob number four,

chanel cook number five, Canna.

But to number four. The one right, because it stings, okay,

a rotting body.

Then Marta as soon as she heard that Jesus was

coming when and met him. But Mary was sitting in

the house. Now, Martha said to Jesus' law, okay, look

at the human response.

Okay, uh, very typical of us.

This is what Martha the sister said, Lord, if you

had been here, my brother would not have died.

What does that sound like to you? Blaming law? God?

What you never come earlier? Why not? But then she'd

cover life? You know what a cover line is. But

even now.

I know that whatever you ask of God, God will

give you what at least got cover liner. You're got

cover liner on or you're just say ah yah, you

know God, why you solely that's why this thing happened.

Why I say, blue color changed the orange color? Hello?

Right?

But you see Mary had faith, right. She She's like, yeah, yeah,

I know, I believe that. You know. Okay, let's move

on to the next one. And this is what she said.

And Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.

Martha said to him, I know that he will rise

again in the resurrection at the last day.

And Jesus said to her and think this. This is

in red. Red means Jesus' word. Okay. He says, I

am the Resurrection and the life. He who believes in me,

though he may die, he shall live. Amen.

Friends, this is the good news for you, you that

even though we die on this earth, we will live.

Amen. You believe it. Amen.

Amen, we will live. And whoever lives and believes in

MI shall never die. He's talking about an eternity now here? Right?

Do you believe this? Can you see what Jesus trying

to get it? Do you believe or not?

Church?

Do you believe? Everything comes down to do you believe

or not this Jesus? Amen?

She said to him, Yes, Lord, I believe that you

are the Christ, the Son of God.

Who is to come into the world. Amen.

She got this right. Hey, Martha, you got this right.

Praise Godda. We can learn something from her. Okay, So

let's move on now. So after that, Martha went around

being busy again. Right, So she had the encounter with

the Lord and she's like, oh, find now and she

quickly going to tell her sister Mary, Jesus is here

that so this is what that encounter is. Now. Then

when Mary came where Jesus was and saw him. She

fell down at his feet and saying to him, hey,

can you say these are twins? Or what? No?

Look at well?

Her response exact response, Lord, if you had been here,

my brother would not have that same response or not

so much, some very typical human responser.

Same thing. But she got no cover line. Martha got

cover line. Huh. He stopped there right. But you see

what happener was this that she she just wept. She

didn't have to have cover line. She just opened up

her soul and her emotions to God at his feet.

Do you know that this was the same Mary that

wiped Jesus feet with her hair. And what was she

doing there? She was weeping? Right, So maybe she'll be

imola she but it's okay. You know, God can think

of emornas. Is that okay? I'd rather a cry at

the feet of Jesus.

If the best place you can ren your heart out

and weep your tears out is at the.

Feet of Jesus, he can take it. Your friend maybe,

or Psychi threest or whatever. They don't know what to say.

But in this case, right, Jesus understood her pain, her anguish.

Therefore when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who

came with her also weeping.

He'd grown in the spirit. He didn't say it much,

you know, he just felt it in the spirit.

This is the God that we serve, A man, a

man who can identify your brokenness, your pain, your.

Suffering, your sleeplessness. God identifies with them. He grown within

his spirit.

He was not some high and mighty God sitting up

there in heaven enjoying his tea.

He's down on earth with Mary.

And he says that. And he said, where have you

laid him? They said, Lord, come and see and verse

thirty five, Jesus wet. What kind of God would weep

with us.

In our pain and suffering? Do you know?

Sometimes for us, if you want to talk about empathy

or empathy is a skill, I teach that, okay, in

my leadership classes or whatever. We're talking about empathy. The

greatest man who empathized was Jesus.

Oh, God knows what we are going through.

He wept shot this verse in the Bible, but really

profound God, you know, this is God weeping with Mary.

And the Jews said, see how he loved him. God

really love every single one of you right here, right now.

And if you are secretly in your own space.

Crying out to the Lord, he's there with you. He

has never left you, not forsaken you. He knows why

because he created you, He created you in your mother's womb.

He knows every single thing, every single pain, every single.

Thought that you go through, because he's God. Amen. Amen,

let's move on.

So of course you know the story. This is how

the story airs. This is what Jesus said. Jesus lifted

his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you

have hurt me, and I know that you always hear me.

But because of the people who are standing by, I

say this, that they may believe.

That you said to me. So Jesus is teaching Nawa.

He's showing an example that he is there doing this

very act, that the Son of God may be glorified.

You see.

So the reason was not he was trying to put

Mary and Martha through grief for no reason. There's a

reason when you know in everything God must be glorified.

And so even in your pain, can God be glorified?

Can or not?

Can?

It is true broken lives that God is glorified. It

is not in your life.

It's so perfect. Oh, everything is perfect her that you

don't eat God. It is in all brokenness and pain

that God is glorified. You say, and yet even though

I'm going through this, and yet I will praise him.

People will go on, you say all longa are you crazy?

Yes, I'm crazy for the Lord. Ah. Yeah, do you dare? Say?

Yeah?

You know I'm limping a bit. You know I cannot

bend my knees. I still praise the Lord. Amen.

And of course he says verse forty three. Now, when

he say these things, he cried with a loud voice,

leisures come forth. And he who had died come out

bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face

was wrapped with a clothes. And Jesus said to him,

lose him and let him go. I speak that in

the name of Jesus. If there's any thing, any death

over us, lose it and let us go in Jesus' name.

Amen, receive that.

Received that there's something that's oppressing you. Jesus says, I'm

losing it. Let it go, Let it go from your lives.

Don't hold on to it, friends, Our lives are not

men to hold onto These kind of things.

Right, let it go.

Amen, Jesus overcame death. Hallelujah, Amen, praise God.

Right. You know when we hear this, you're like, wow, God,

you overcame death.

But do you know, ah, after this incident, right, less

than one month, less than one month, it was his turn.

Just less than a month, he.

Can perform this amazing miracle, This Jesus, our Lord. And

in less than a month's time we find him at

the garden of get Semony.

Let's go on at the garden.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called get

Semony and say to the dec piples, sit here while

I go and pray over there. And he took with

him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and he

began to be sorrowful and deeply distress. Then he said

to them, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to that,

stay here and watch me. He went a little father

and fell on his face and prayed, saying, Oh, my father,

if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless,

not as I will, but as you will. Do you

know that there are many different accounts that says Jesus

was sweating blood, sweats of blood, and actually that's a

real psychological case in recent modern medicine. He says that

when a person is under servius stress you think you're

stressor severe stress, the body releases blood through your sweat pores.

That's how much deeply in English, Jesus was right. Do

you know what you know?

When I was thinking about this message, right, Actually we

all look forward to go Friday, right, you do or not,

especially when you've been fast day.

All lot of friends, especially.

My husband and I also we've been doing this fast

and the whole way we're thinking about Friday, good Friday,

because that's why we can eat food so good.

And then a thought struck me.

If there was one day in the entire life of

Jesus that he dreaded the most, I'm just thinking, Ah,

this is just my perspective. If there's one day in

Jesus' life that he dreaded the most, it was this Friday.

You think about it.

He lived his life starting his ministry, sent to earth,

received the mission for this day.

It was the day that he dreaded the most. And

now it's time let's move on.

He knows that God is good, right, He's oh, no way,

he's got himself right. But the road ahead is one

of suffering and pain. So, friends, I don't know what's

so good about go right here. It's the one mark

with pain and suffering. All that's what Jesus did for us. Right,

let's move on, let's go now. So there's this thing

called trust. How much do you trust?

Trust? Believe?

They are very interlinked. And it says that trust is

not proven when life makes sense. Right, we always want

to make sense of things, right, God gave us common sense,

although we found out that common sense is not common law. Hey, ha, right,

I thought you should know this. Ah, I don't know,

never mind things like that. Oh, certainly? What example canto

my mind? Like? You know, if someone offers to fetch

you in the car, don't sit behindla, Like this person

is your grap driver, a campus student. I am helping

in your campus ministry. Hey, hello, sit in, friend, LA,

don't treat the person like a grab driver. Common sense

are not friends? Not common okay? Common sense is not

common okay? So trust is not proven when life makes sense,

is proven when it doesn't. So it didn't make sense, right,

It does not make sense for.

God to die. Let's move on. Trust is submission to

God's will. That's it saying God, not nevertheless, not as

I will, but as you will.

If Lord you say that I'm going to carry this cross,

this pain, this suffering with me, I.

Will submit and I will carry it with grace. Do

you know that?

That's how we deal with pain. We carry it with

grace and we say, God, your grace is sufficient for me.

Your strength is made perfect in my weakness.

Amen. Amen. Okay, So let's move on. So I'm not

gonna go through this.

You know that the crucifixion happened, right, and you know

Jesus was brought to the cross. He was nailed at

nine am in the morning of today. He breathed his

last at three pm. That's six hours of being nailed

at the cross. Okay, now let's move on. Let's move

on to the next one. Yeah, let's move on to

the next one. Now, see the crosser. Some people like

to wear a cross, right, what does it mean?

Actually? What does it mean?

Like that? To the Roman Empire's perspective, the cross was

a tool of terror and punishment.

Correct, that's what it was.

So you're actually wearing a tool of punishment, you know, Hello,

You're like, we so probably hang out our cross, right,

But actually the Romans used it to terrorize people and

put them to death. The human perspective, the cross looks

like at that time, betrayal, in justice, suffering, death, failure,

failure or not. The Jews thought Jesus was a failure.

He was supposed to be king, but he died. Oh okay, kings,

I thought he's supposed to save us. You can't even

save yourself, right, Remember the two prisoners and say, hey,

you hello, you can't even save yourself. The other one says, hello,

we are here because we deserve it. He's an innocent man.

And the prisoner said to him, remember me, and Jesus says,

what tonight you'll be with.

Me partying in paradise.

All right, Now, let's go to the most important perspective,

God's perspective.

God's perspective.

With what the world saw as an execution, a finality,

a sad ending, God saw it as an intermediate step

into an empty tomb, a reason savior. Hello, hello, what

we think of as a full stop finish leout gone case.

God says, this is a comma Hello. Comma Comma means

the story is not done yet. Friends, if you're alive today,

God's not done with you yet. Amen, He's not done yet.

It's a comma pause a bit, because the end.

Is gonna come. Let's go to the next thought. This

is the good thing. Okay, let's move on, let's move on.

Cross is not God losing control, ya, it is God

revealing his character. WHOA, So now you wear back the

crosser confidently? Just now do of terror right now? It's like, hey,

this is God's splend Hey, that's why. All right, let's

move on now.

Okay.

First, corentins One says this for Jews request a sign

and Greeks sick after wisdom.

But we preach Christ crucified.

So friends, when you go and tell your friends others

about Jesus, don't just.

Say God is good. Just say Jesus was crucified. You

gotta ever tell your friends that or not Jesus crucified.

This is the gospel. This is what we preach. To

the Jews are something blocked and to the Greek's foolishness.

Your afraid your friend will say, hey, this is celila,

your God died crucified.

But to the Jews, who are called both Jews and Greeks.

Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God,

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and

the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Amen. Let's move on Romans.

Fife says this, but God demonstrated his own love towards

us in that well, we will still sinners.

Christ died for us.

This is our whole purpose of the Cross, that our

sin that we are inborn with our nature, which we

cannot do anything about. Christ did it for us only Jesus,

the perfect man without any sin, and he had to

pay the price.

With his own life. Amen.

For God so loved the world that he gave his

only begodden son, that whoever believes in him believe again,

do you believe Church shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

But God did not send his son into the world

to condemn the world, but that through the world might

be safe a man a man.

Let's move on.

First Cointance five. Okay, this is my last tew slights Radia,

he says. Moreover, Brethren, I declared to you whish gospel

which I preach to you, which also you receive, and

which you stand by which also you are safe if.

You hold fast. So, friends, what do we need to do?

Hold fast? Cling about coke? Same thing, eh, cling on

to God? Hold fast it means the same thing. Where

is it.

Hold fast to the word that I preach to you

unless you believed in vain? And then these three says this,

For I delivered to you first of all that which

I also received, that Christ died.

For our sins.

Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and

that he was buried, and that he rose again.

The good in the Good Friday is because.

It's a comma, because Sunday is coming in man, Sunday

is coming, hallelujah. And that he was seen by surfers.

And then by the twelve let's move on. The message

of the cross is the power of God.

It is that.

You might think it's like full stop right, but it's

just demonstrating God's power, it says, for the message of

the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but

to us who are being safe, it is the power

of God. That's what we believe in. Friends, that's gone. Now,

Good Friday is good. Remember my first question, what's so

good about good Friday.

Sacrifice.

Jesus gave his life on the cross as an ultimate

act of love and sacrifice for all humanity.

Only he could have done it, and he did it forgiveness.

Through the cross, our sins are washed away.

And therefore Christians, hellelujah, we can be free because we

have received God's forgiveness of our sins. You know, all

your dad's hutang utang utang right.

Cancel because Jesus paid it for us.

Amen, receive not half, you know, not the three person,

not nineteen nine or nine percent, he says, oh, complete

one hundred percent forgiveness and reconciliation with God and a

new life.

And that's why he says, uh.

Even though those who those who believe you may live

and you will never die.

This is the one the open door to new life.

We are born again in hope.

Amen, And that's why our belief is even if we

die now, when Jesus returns, we will be resurrected again

in a new body.

Who wants a new body?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, h those battling CHOLESTERO and order, Yeah,

I know, we want a new body.

Okay, let's let's gone.

Okay, now I say this bredn that flesh and blood

cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Okay, So if we

don't believe in God, we are not in the Kingdom

of God. Nor that's corruption inherit in corruption, we know

that our body is corrupted. The world is corrupted.

Before I tell you, behold, I tell your mystery.

We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be

changed in a moment in the think dwinkling of an

eye at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound

and the dad will be raised incorruptible, and we shall

be changed. Anyone looking forward to that change, Yeah, I'm

definitely looking forward to that.

And that gives me hope. Amen. It says this, and

this is what it says. Is written.

Death is swallowed up in victory. Death is swallowed up

in victory. Oh death, where is your sting? Oh haydes,

where is your victory? So death does not have the

last say over your life. Friends, Jesus Us only Jesus Us,

not death. Imen all right, but thanks be to God

who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, therefore, my beloved brethren, be staed fast. Hello. Is

there a message there immovable doa'n't lose hope.

Friends, be steadfast in your faith, always abounding in the

work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not

in vain in the Lord.

Do you know what is this labor? It's not doing

more things. The labor of believing, labor of trusting. It takes.

It takes labor, you know. It takes effort to believe

and continue believing.

Trusting and continue trusting despite everything.

That's the labor that we have to put in. Amen.

And he says it.

So we have come to the end. And so now

there's a choice for you. Friends, This is the message

of Good Friday. Good Friday is a message of sacrifice

of Jesus or forgiveness of our sins, of a new

life in Him.

You might be standing at.

The threshold on my right. Your life is darkness. Do

you want to continue living in this darkness? Or are

you going to say, I'm going to take the step

of faith and I'm going to walk into the kingdom

of lights where Jesus is my Lord and my savior.

Amen, Amen, hallelujah. I want you, I want to let

you meditate on that for all. What is your choice? Tonight?

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