Remembering Calvary | Pr Sandra Chin

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I want to remember Calvary. Now another word for Calvary,

uh and and this you can read the word Calvary.

Actually it actually appears in the book of John. Yeah,

where Jesus carried the cross to Calvary. Now, another word

that you would have come across in other gospels would

be goll Gotha, g Gotha. This is the hill, the

hill of Calvary. The hill of Golgotha, which is the

place of the skull. Looks like a skull. So if

you actually go to Jerusalem, now you and you look

up the hills, because Jesus couldn't die in Jerusalem, he

had to die outside of Jerusalem. And if you look

up the hills, you will see this mountain sculptures of

it really looks like a skull. It does. And so

they think, after so many days, I think that's that's

goldta they say, so, I don't know, so many years already.

So we just want to I just want to encourage

us to remember Calvary. And the question I'm asking is

what was it like to have been there on Good Friday,

more than two thousand years ago? What would it have

been like if we were there? What would we have felt?

What would we have been like part of the crowd

where we have agreed with the rest, where we have

stood aside? Would we be at the cross, at the

feet of the cross, where we have run away, where

we have denied Christ? What would we have done? And

how would we have felt? More than two thousand years

ago good Friday? It wasn't called good Friday then it

was a bad day because they thought, man, this man

who said he would save us, is now going to

be hung on the cross, the most humiliating way to die.

This is the worst way to die by Roman standards.

The means you are the worst criminal. Only the worst

criminal will be hung on the cross. And that's what

they did to my lord and your lord. He was

made the worst criminal to be hung on the cross.

So what would have been like? How? How? And so

as you go through your one week of prayer, praying, fasting,

reading the word, maybe read that the portion. As you

are reading the book of John, you should be coming

towards the road to Calvary, and you think about how,

how does it you know what does it mean for you.

I've picked up a few people in the Bible, not

so much at the garden of Gadsemani, But I looked

from a different point of view from the cross when

Jesus went to the cross, and there are these few

people that we want to look at. Perhaps you want

to place yourself in that person's shoe, or maybe your

name could be in another bubble albin, all right, But

at the cross and towards the cross, what were the

things that happen? All right? So I journey with you

as we look at these few people, and let's look

at the names that we see. Now the first ones

was at least it would have to be. If we

go through the ooh baby, all right, As we go

through the scripture, you will see the sequence. So after

they had judged Jesus, the judgment was given, and they

were going to flog him, and so they they scourged him.

If you ever watched the movie with a movie called

The Passion of the Christ, I think what's his name?

Mel Gibson tried to depict as horrifying as it could be.

I think any one of us who watched that account

would have teared. I cried because that kind of torture

none of us could go through. I think I would

just died. And so here he is Jesus being judged,

and then these are the people that he encounters, Simon

of Sireni. Now who is this Simon of Sireni. We

don't know him. And Sireni is actually today more day

a city or rather a place in Libya, so you

know where Libya is North Africa. But Simon was probably

a Jew of Ju descendant. I don't know if he

was dark or was he a Jew that you know,

in the dispersion they moved out and went to different countries,

but he probably came because the passover was happening. And

so here he was Simon of Sireni walking my name

is own business with his two sons, Alexander and Rufus.

You never hear of them again, we don't know who

they are. They never mentioned. And they're walking and Jesus

is carrying his cross after being flogged. And you know, right,

even if you cut a small worn and you touch it, its pain, right.

His whole body was wounded, his whole face was mad,

everything was broken in his body, and he was carrying

his cross and at that moment he fell and then

the so just just caught hold of Simon and said

you carry the cross. Now you could have said why

should I carry across? Mind? Nobody dead, because they were

afraid of Roman soldiers. So Simon and Sireni picked up

the cross and followed as Jesus walke because Jesus couldn't

already it was so bad. What was going through his mind?

He's probably like, why am I? I'm just minding my

own business. Why are you asking me to carry the cross?

And he had to help carry the cross. What do

you think went through his mind? I don't know. You

reflect and you think about it. He had to carry

the cross for Jesus, his sons. Why would they even

mention and the only person who mentioned and names I

think was Mark in the Book of Mark that mentions

Alexander Rufus. All the other gospels just say Simon. Right.

So maybe some people commentaries say because the Bible is

by witnesses, there are these two witnesses that witnessed their

father helping Jesus or force to help Jesus, compel to

help Jesus carry the cross until they reached wherever or

halfway and then Jesus had to take back the cross

and carry it up the heel of Calvary. So there's Simon,

what was he thinking? What would he have thought? It's

good to reflect a little bit, because good Friday will

come and go, Easter will come and go. We'll carry

on with our lives. But every twenty one days, every

time there is what we call the Catholic Church Lent

or Anglican Church Lent, they do a forty day fast.

We do to anyone because we know that it's hard

to do forty days sometimes, and we have another forty

day fast in August, so we split it up. Lent

is just a rememory again, good to remember. Actually, some

traditions are good. As I grow older, I realized some

traditions are good. It helps remind us. So Lent is

what happens earlier. We are now in April, so it

probably started in March and they come through, but not

so that we make anything an idol. It's just a memory,

a reflection, So Simon of sirenim. Then there's Alexander Rufus

his sons, and then comes the soldiers who get hold

of Jesus. They put a crown of thorns, his body

already broken gun. They removed his clothes, They put on

a robe, a purple robe. They slap him, they spit

at him, They bow in mockery and say, you are

the king of the Jews. You know you can't even

save yourself. You talked about saving They mocked him, and

then they put back his clothes after they removed his cloak.

So there were just things going on. What was in

their minds. There's such evil, such cruelty to just, you know,

slap somebody and already a normal facer. Remember Isaiah fifty

three says he was marred beyond recognition. You really, mel

Gibson did a very good job. It could not see

all the way the flagellum that they just wreck you.

It was this way. So the little the little nails

or whatever bones will just pull off the skin. All

of his skin was already pulled out. And then they

put this cloak on him, ouch and then they pull

it off and make him carry the cross or whatever.

You know, they wake him. So there's a lot of pain,

there's a lot of blood. But Jesus takes it like

a lamb, you know, like the sheep going without the

sound so the soldiers are there, what were they thinking?

Then there's there's this this you know, Mary, the mother

of Jesus. Yeah, she was there at the cross at

the time when when he was being hung. And mind

your artists only put the impression of a little little

clock cloth to cover the privates, but in actual fact

he was hung naked. What shame? What humiliation? And a

mom to look at her son in that condition. And

and then just before he wasn't thinking of himself. He

still has time the breath, every breath he takes. He says, John,

this is your mother. Tell was Mary, this is your son,

meaning please you need to take care of my mom.

His earthly mother still have time to care for people

while hanging and you know, losing breath already. What was

her thoughts my son or such? Am? I don't know

what as a mother, what would you feel? What would

John have felt? The youngest of all the disciples, John

who wrote Revelation, who wrote the Book of John. And

he calls himself the beloved of the Lord. All right,

he was leaning on the breast of Jesus at the

at the Last Supper, and he says, the one that

the Lord loved the most and and and how would

he have felt he was there? That means as they

hung him, as he hung there at the cross, they

were there, nearer could see him because he could speak

to them. Wow, what was John going through? He he

actually witnessed it. This was the closest at the cross.

This is at the cross. And then the two criminals,

one on his left, one on his right. You see

the three crosses all the time. The one, you know,

whichever one of them, mocked him and said are you again,

saying you talked about you know, raising this, raising that.

Now save yourself. But then there was another criminal who said, hey,

you don't simply talk la. If he was Malaitian, don't

simply talk la. So now remember the other two were

just nailed. Jesus was whipped and scourched, two different kinds

of that. They were not whipped. And I don't think

they were as bad as Jesus, like okay, I don't know.

They just nailed them. And he say, hey, don't simply talklar.

You know, we all did something, we're supposed to die.

This man has done nothing. So this criminal may have

heard of Jesus, seen his works, and and he's saying

he's done no wrong. But yet he's hanging here at

the cross, and he says to Jesus, Jesus, remember me

when you enter your kingdom. And what does Jesus say?

You will be there with me in paradise today. So

there's a lot of us for us to make away.

So did he go to heaven now? When?

So?

So this is not I'm not talking about that today

another day. So there was the criminals. So we know

what one criminal thought of. He thought of saying, wow,

this this is a righteous man. And if you preach

what you preached, and remember me, lord, remember me, lord,

when you go into your kingdom. Wow, you know what

he thought. The other one was like, forget you men, liar,

you know, and he is a criminal. He's hanging there.

Remember that that person hanging for us who was supposed

to be Barrabbas, but he took not Barabbas place. He

took all of us our place. What were the criminals thinking?

And the last one I chose was the Roman centurion

who stood by the cross, because you always had to

have a centurion the captain to Jagga. And from twelve

to three o'clock it was just dark, right, the sun

was no more. It was just dark. And as Jesus

breathed his last he breathed his lass and say it

is finished. I think nobody was going to clap and cheer,

but the rocks cried out. There was an earthquake. The

wind was blowing the trees or clapping their hands because

Jesus took the final blow for us, and the rocks

cried out. The Roman centurion who stood there, said, man,

this is surely the son of God. Another version said, wow,

this is surely a righteous man. What was he thinking?

Did he embrace the faith and to believe in Jesus?

I don't know if he could say that, it could

mean he believed. And last of all, I chose Joseph

of Arimathea. Joseph was part of the council, member with

the Pharisees. Okay, but he was also one who was

seeking for the coming of the Lord. And he recognized

that this has to be the Messiah. And he boldly

and no, well not quite boldly. Actually it reads in

the scripture if you read through Luke or Matthew. He

went courageously, took courage and asked pilot, could I take

the body of Jesus, and you know, Pilot was like, oh,

is he dead? Usually they have to break the legs

to kill them, like to get them dead. But they

couldn't touch him because he already laid his life down.

The devil didn't take him down. It wasn't the Roman

soldiers who took him down. He said, it is finished,

and so it was done. And Joseph took his body.

What was he thinking as he carried this body, bloody broken? Ah?

He carried that body to a new tomb, a cave,

wrapped him up, put the spices, and Mummy fighted him

and laid him in the tomb. Some other people came. Nicodemus,

remember Nicodemus in John chapter three. He came quietly at

night to seek Jesus, to find out what what who

are you and what are you preaching? And Nicodemus, Nicodemus,

was there, all of these men, women, one woman and

other women. There was Mary Magdalene. There was Mary, the

sister of the Mother, Mary the mother of Jesus. They

were there afar off the wait looking. They were also

there wondering what's going on. He said he would raise

this temple. He said he was the king of king

what happened? Everybody was thrown into confusion. But at the cross,

different ones experience a different you know, they had a

different experience of Christ. What would you have experienced? What

would I what would I have experienced if I were

there at the feet of Jesus, at the feet of

the cross, as we stand and we look, and people

were like beating their breast and when you know, when

he finally gave up the gold, when his own spirit

he gave it up, people beat their breaths and wow,

gnashing their teeth, and then they walked away. Clouds darkened, earthquaked,

the veil in the temple, taught drama mama. But what

would you have felt? Now? I bring you through so

that as you come through this week we would appreciate

so much. I hope what our Christ, our Messiah has

done for us, our Master, our Lord, who are just

a good remembrance and to continue to celebrate his resurrection,

his death and his resurrection. So I bring you through

some thoughts here our Jesus was scirched and whipped next

light in Matthew twenty seven and verse twenty six. Just

to bring you through Matthew twenty seven and verse twenty six.

So when they exchange Pilot exchanged Barabbas to that he

will be released. So he gets to go scot free.

He was the scoundrel, he was the nonsense person. He

was the criminal. Jesus took his place too. And I

think I spoke this before, I'm not sure. In pj

Abbas he was the son of the father Abba. God

took his place, and they scourged ges, and they delivered

him to be crucified. Wow, scourged him. And then there

he goes to be crucified. All right, one already the

whole body broken. Number two. Another thing he here, yeah,

is humiliation and shame. The next slight is humiliation and shame.

In Matthew twenty seven, verse twenty eight to thirty one,

he says here in verse twenty seven, and the soldiers

of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and the square,

and gathered to the whole garrison around him. They stripped him,

and they put a scarlet robe on him. And when

they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it

on his head, and a reed in his right hand.

They bowed the knee before him they, you know, said

all these things, Hail King Jesus. They mocked him, they

spat on him, and they took the reed. They struck

him on the head. I don't know, you will get

a headache or your skull would have cracked. I'm not sure.

Then they mocked him, and they took the rope off,

put the rope on, took the rope off, put his

own clothes on, led him away to be crucified. The

humiliation and the shame because he was stripped with his

own clothes. They whipped him and scourged him. And then

they take off and his clothes is ther humiliating, right,

And then and then they put on this robe. Then

they take off the rope. The pain, the I don't

know a little cut ready. I'm crying right. But here

our Lord just took it for us. If you ever

felt broken, if you ever felt shame, if you ever

felt humiliated, know that your Christ has taken it for you.

You don't have to pay whatever. Jesuz was humiliated for us.

And remember in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse one to two,

I says, looking unto Jesus, the authored finisher of our faith. Yeah,

the cross was before him. He said he was the joy.

He endured the cross because of the joy that was

awaiting him. He did not despise the shame, meaning, okayila shame, shameler,

I'm not despising it. I will take the shame. Sometimes

we despise the shame. But he did not despise the shame.

He took the shame for us. No other gods have

done this, None other have died nor be resurrected. So Jesus,

either this story is a lie or it's the truth.

So if you choose to believe that Jesus is the truth,

then follow him, then worship him. Because it did happen.

It is recorded. The humiliation and the shame was taken

for all of us, for all who would ever come

through on blended earth, will ever be born. He took

it for each and every one of us. Amen. Wow,

he was scourged, he was he bled for us. That

blood that was shed would heal us. Amen. So, if

you ever felt humiliation, if you ever felt any kind

of shame and you have to face people, hide behind

the cross, Hide behind the cross. Don't ever feel that

you have to be offended or anything like that. If

we can follow through the footsteps of Jesus. It's okay

because he was humiliated. He was offended for us, So

don't come to us and say I'm offended. Jesus was

first to be offended, and he could have called his

legion of angels, but he didn't. He took it. He

knew he had to take it. Remember he prayed at gatsemone, Lord,

if this cup could go remove, please remove it, because

he knew what he was going to face. But he said, Lord,

not my will, but your will be done, an obedient

son to the father. And then as he took his

cross and walked, they call it the Via dolorosa. There's

a song down the Via dolarosa. And you know how

Jesus would go down the Via delarosa, the road of sorrow.

If you go today to Jerusalem, there are people who

will do I think it's twelve stations, but they say

it's fourteen stations where they will carry their cross physically

trying to take the pain. But remember, Jesus done it all.

We never have to take it again. But to recall

and to reflect how he had to walk through the

old road in Jerusalem with everyone hearing at him. He's

the one who healed them. He said he would raise

up the templar, save yourself. People were just was bustling,

you know, those who said he healed them. Also, they

condemned him. Everyone who you know, somewhat afraid of the Pharisees.

They didn't know. Maybe I just condemned himlo just a

few days before, Oh Sana, Hosanna, blessed be the name

of the Lord, hallelujah. And then next three days later,

you good for nothing, you the loser. You said this,

you said that, and they didn't. Nobody took Jesus side,

not even his disciples. They were so scared because they came.

The word was they came and took Jesus. The way

they pulled Jesus, that was such fear. They all fled.

They didn't want to be caught, including some nobody guy

walking down the road with a little piece of loincloth.

Why don't ask why why was he without a shirt?

Why did he have a little salam And then he

walked there and then they were just catching everyone, right,

and they snatched him, and he like ah, he ran,

dropped his white cloth and he ran naked into the forest.

So the commentary says, don't ask why they can't explain,

but perhaps to explain the terror, the fright that the

disciples had the same word, the same word of snatching Jesus,

the same word is the same thing, to explain to

us how terrifying it was to be caught by the Romans,

that this guy just fled. I don't care, rather not.

I'm not gonna die for Jesus. I'm gonna run take

my clothes, man. And so you know, this whole thing

that Jesus has been through is so much to bear.

But he bare boy for us. Amen. Then he is crucified,

and he's hung right, hung by crucifixion. John chapter nineteen

and verse eighteen. Go to John chapter nineteen and verse eighteen.

You will see here as we walk through, and then

the words actually say, as as he bearing his cross,

they crucified him. They crucified him a nail on both

hands and one nail on both feet. So it's three nails.

It took three nails for our salvation, friends, three nails

equals our salvation. Three nails equals the love of God

for a broken world. Three nails they crucified him, and

together two others, one on each side, so he was

crucified and he had to hang right your body weight,

you're hanging. Any doctors in the house, can you explain

how did he breathe? He's already probably got fever already, right,

if we cut ours many times, how we get fever?

And no? Right, not only that, I probably had a

migraine because they hit his head with a red how

many times they hit we don't know. They slapped him

face already broken, normal skit, they still slapped him. They

spat at it. He's not breathing well, fever. Body is

in pain. Mine is going everywhere. But he's keeping his

eyes focused on the Father and the call. I've been

sent for this purpose. I've been sent for this purpose.

I've been sent for this purpose, and I will bear

this for the joy that is before me. So he

takes it. He hangs, and then got time to say

this on my mother and this on your mother all

the one. Then after you know, you know, he says, Father,

forgive them, for they know not what they do. And

he's not talking like me. I'm not hanging on the cross.

Every breath he had to take because you can't breathe,

you're hanging your lungs are hanging everything. I'm not a doctor.

I have no idea how this works. It must have

been excruciating. He was crucified, he was hung. Then he

bore our sin, and he was separated from the Father.

The only time that Jesus was ever separated from Father

God was at the cross, when Jesus took all of

that beatings, the pain, and hung on that cross. At

that moment, the Father, our heaveny Father turned. He could

not except the sin, because the sin of the world

separates us. So he was separated from the Father because

he was taking the sin of the whole world on himself.

Matthew twenty seven forty six. Matthew twenty seven forty six.

It was the six hour and verse forty five until

the nine hour, and there was darkness all over the land.

It was just dark, dark clouds. And then the nine

hour Jesus cried out with a loud boice, saying, Eli

Lama sabahtani, that is my God, my God, Why have

you for sake me? Why did Jesus say that? The

very reason was that the Father had to forsake him,

had turned from the sin of the world that was

on his son. That was the only time that Jesus

was ever separated from the Father. Even while he walked

on earth, he communicated with above Father God, would even

you know, turn up and say, this is my beloved son,

follow him, you know. But this was the one time

he was separated from his father. The only reason because

he carried the weights of sin for the world, for us,

for us who were not yet born, for us who

was there. They were there. He bore us sin and

then next he laid his life down. Look twenty three,

verse forty six. Look twenty three, verse forty six.

States that his last words, he says, and Jesus cried

out with a loud voice, Father, into your hands, I

commit my spirit.

And having said this, he breathed his last Better remember,

no one took him down. It took himself out by

laying his life down for us. The soldiers didn't really

well they can't blame the soldiers. Yes, the soldiers their

own Jews to him. But he knew why he came.

The devil Satan just wanted to defeat Jesus, but he didn't.

He wasn't defeated by like, you know, piercing him. He said, Father,

I commit my spirit. He laid his life down, and

then he breathed his last. He was in control because

he held up all the way. Wow, he laid his

life down for all of us. Amen. And as he

laid down his life for all of us, we now

have victory over sin and death. Victory over sin and death. Hallelujah. Amen.

This is our Easter. But we had to have a

good Friday. Amen. So First Corinthians, chapter fifteen and verse

fifty six to fifty seven reads this, the sting of

death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God who gives us the victory

through our Lord Jesus Christ. He gives us the victory

to our Lord Jesus Christ, victory. We now stand in victory. Amen, hallelujah.

So I like the verse. Anyone has a New Living

Translation here? Anybody reading the New Living Translation I'm trying

to find. I want to read that version to you,

New Living Translation. Okay, all right, and this is First Corinthians.

I'm sorry. First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, verse fifty six. It

writes in a much more simpler way. It says, for

sin is the sting that results in death. So when

that sin, we will die, we will be forever separated

from God. And then the law gives sin its power

because we have broken the law from the sin of Adam.

It says, yeah, but thank God, he gives us victory

over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. Simple English,

easier to understand. Amen. All right, So that's where you

can see the word. He gives us victory over sin

and death. Whoever is in Christ, Jesus has eternal life

because Jesus has overcome death, because death is the result

of sin. But Jesus took our sin. Amen. Hallelujah. Do

I hear an? Amen? Yeah? Amen, So we have victory

over sin and death. A leelujah. Amen. God is ever

ever so good to have you know, planned all this

for us to redeem us from our from ourselves. We

could not have saved ourselves. As we walk through this week,

as you go through scripture in the Book of John,

and these will highlight up to you as you come

through chapter nineteen, chapter eighteen, nineteen twenty, you will see

this explanation, this story, this you know, just sequence of

his journey and how would it, I mean allow it

to marry Nate in your heart allow it to speak

to us louder than just reading words. Read into the emotion,

the pain, the commitment of Christ to finish the whole

journey and not give up while it was so so horrible.

He knew it would be horrible, he knew it would

be very painful, but he went through it. So my

thought for us is take this final week to Good Friday,

during your prey and your past, and reflect the fresh

on the finished work of the Cross. It is a

finished work of the cross. Amen, it's not half finished work.

We don't just hang across on our necks. If you are,

do you? And do you remember? Do you know how

much it costs? And I like that song we sing.

I forget who's a singer. I'm in somebody there that

you get like, I'll never know how much it costs

to see my sin upon that cross. I'll never know

how much it costs to see my sin upon that cross.

We worship at the feet of Jesus, at the feet

of the cross, once again, coming to the feet of

the Cross, at the feet of the Cross, at the

keel of Calvary, and two wow, taking not only the

sacrifice but the love of God for us. Amen. Amen,

And it's not a sad story because Friday looked Friday

looked like a very sad day, dark clouds and all.

But you know where there's a Friday that's going to

be a Sunday. Where there's going to be a Friday

that's going to be a Sunday. So sometimes in our

lives it looks like a Friday where the clouds are dark,

where your exam results are just nonsense, when your finances

have drained out, when your favor is not there. It

looks like a Friday, Jessica. But there's a Sunday. Amen.

There will always be a Sunday. If there is a death,

that will be a resurrection. So you say to yourself,

if it's a Friday, you say with some attitude, But

a Sunday is a coming, all right. A Sunday is

a coming. There is a Sunday. Sometimes our marriage looks

like it's in a dark cloud. But hey, don't just

throw in the towel. Look at what Jesus did for us,

for our marriage, for our relationships, for our friendships, for

the relationship between parents and children. The misunderstanding, and many

times it is a misunderstanding. Many times is it's read wrongly.

You and I read into things which should not have

been read into. But we fall into the hands of

just manipulation that this is why, this is why. And

then you walk away from that friendship, you walk away

from that relationship. Yet behind you lies so much goodness,

so much That's a Friday, and sometimes we go through

our Fridays. But we must hold on that Jesus didn't

remain in the two, wasn't in the grave forever. What

did he do between Friday and Sunday? Well, they say

you went down a hell and he took back the keys,

took back the keys from the devil keys of eighties death.

I'm sorry. There was this card called grace. Thank God

for this grace, grace of God to forgive us. There

will be a Sunday. So in life, some days will

look like a Friday where you're you know, I know

that there are some people who cannot no job, are

any really no job? You know in a year? Just wife,

lost job, husband, no business coming in. It looks like

a Friday. It's dark. We didn't remain dark forever. So

our timing in the Lord is just cry out to

a savior. Went all the way for us to make

a way for us. Amen, hallelujah. God's grace is always

there for us. I'm grateful every day for my salvation.

I'm grateful every day I tell Jesus, Lord, thank you

for saving me. I am such a sainful person. I

really don't know how to live some days and fail,

but I thank you Lord for your grace and mercy

that I can still have a chance to serve. You

still have a chance to make it right, to say

sorry to someone, to be better because of the cross.

It's at the cross that we bow our knee and

we surrender our pain, our shame. Are you a shame?

Are you going through a terrible time? You feel that

this is too shameful? Jesus took the shame for us.

Are you in pain? Jesus also took out pain to

give us joy. If you have shame, he took out

shame to give us dignity. If we are poor, He

became poor to make us rich. In Him. We have

all that I need. Truly, when we sing the song

like You're all I want, You're all I ever needed?

Do you really mean it? Is He really Christ is

enough for me? Is Christ really enough? Or you need

that other ivy cup? Do you need that vyd Or?

Christ is enough for me. You know, I really want

to get married. I don't be single. Whoever, Christ is

enough for me. Thank you for the cross, the mighty cross.

Are you Jesus, please remove this person, my boss. That's

what that's the truth. Wasn't in such a pain, but

yet he took the pain.

And you're the cross for the joy that was set

before you. Despising the shame. You take it. The shame

was nothing. I will do it for you. I will

take the shame for you. I will take the shame

for you when he did it. And so when we sing,

christis enough, I asked myself. But yesterday Jesus, I wanted

the local Save pod because the Zebra pod wasn't good enough.

If you understand pots and brands, is Christ truly enough

for us? Here's a question you must ask yourself. We

have to ask this ourselves today now every season now

as we come and go, it's God really enough? Can

we lay down? I mean, can we say thank you Lord?

What I have is enough? And you know what I need?

You know whether I need I need a new car,

You know if I need new clothes. You know if

I need, I need you know if I need you

know what you know what you need? You need water,

you'd need food, you need love. A baby born if

you never touch it, if you never carry that baby,

you never you need that baby will never know the

love of a mom. In government hospitals, the more mom

when you give birth, they put the baby on the

mom's chest. The baby's help. We need love? Is that enough?

Is Christ enough? As you worship the Lord Sunday in

Sunday out, just a good reminder that he is enough.

He's all I need. And you know what, He also

will give you your all eye won love one the new

shoe you got that really the mind one more place.

He also knows that he can give you your once.

But are you able to say thank you for what

I already have? This is my family, thank you? Thank you.

This is my wife, this is my husband, thank you.

We're not perfect, we're not there yet, Lord, but thank you.

And so this heart of gratefulness, thankfulness should come off

in our lives as regular as possible.

Because the work at the Cross was not by silver

or gold.

Jesus stated by it by bribing and puts some other

man that looks like him at the cross.

But he was one Jewish man that took three nails

to give us our selfish one nail or so nail outdoors.

Oh we cry Jesus took three nails and we hang

on the cross. Hallelujah. Amen. God is so good. So

as we come to the Cross this Friday, as we

celebrate Good Friday, so important. Actually, you know, this season

more than Christmas on Good Friday is powerful. Easter is

actually very powerful. Rather, the resurrection Sudday is powerful more

than I know. If the birth of Christ is important,

but just as important as his birth, his death and

resurrection is why we are alive today. And so if

there's anything you can be thankful for, you know, we

could have made a million mistakes, you just say, Lord,

thank you that you took my mistakes, my shape, and

you give me a new day today. Let's day. Halleluis,

Thank you Jesus. Amen. Where there's a Friday, folks, there's

going to be a Sunday. If you felt that you

made a big boo boo in life, well that's your Friday.

Sunday is a coming. You have a chance at the

cross to you turn AMD twenty days we get twenty

one days, we get a U turn. I'm not the

most eloquent speaker of friends, but the Holy Spirit is

the one who speaks to your heart. Don't look at me.

I'm just a message and I'm not perfect. But you

have a U turn. And if you haven't started praying

and you haven't done any fasting, hey one more week.

It's good. Also you even one day you fast, or

one day you would just focus and pray and just

look at the cross. The beauty of the cross is

not a shapeful cross. It is a beautiful wow work

of redemption of something.

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