Jesus Journey To The Cross | Pr Sandra Chin

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your tea this week. Many many churches, like the Anglican

Churches, the Catholic Church, this week is called the Holy Week. Okay,

all for us who are born again, who are in the evangelical We

tend to forget a lot of these traditions, which is said because it helps

you to remember twenty one days you turn, helps us to remember Jesus and

what is done for us at the Cross. That's why we take time out

for twenty one days to really pray and draw near to God. More than

just asking for things to have to from the Lord. But just why we

have it at this season in time is to really come near to Jesus and

He will come near to us. And so church journey with a journey with

me, as I just share with you the first time actually preaching this message.

So I hope I remember everything. There's so much to glean from the

Gospels and also from the book of Exodus, but we have so little time.

However, I do want to bring us to a journey of reminder so

that we can give thanks. You know what God has given us. So

this is the Holy Week. And as Jesus came into Jerusalem. All right,

so we call it the Holy week, and we've got names for it.

We've got today Palm Sunday. Today, more than two thousand years ago,

Jesus came riding on a lowly donkey into Jerusalem. And as he came

in, the people were, you know, waving palm leaves and saying,

you know, saying to the Lord. They took branches of palm trees and

they went out to meet him, and they cried out, Hosanna, Hosanna,

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King

of Israel. All right, So that's why it's called Palm Sunday. So

now Jesus didn't just decide, oh, okay, this week is this week

is Holy Week. He was already preparing from the day he was born.

And as he walked on and there were you know, thirty three years,

thirty years when thirty years old he went out to do ministry. In three

years he turned. Eh, well he turned you know, the world sort

of right side up or is it upside down? Okay? Our defends which

you want to see it? Okay, which more ready color. So you

know, he had already known, if you read the gospels, if you

take time, if you're following any devotions, he knew, and he prophesied,

and he told his disciples three times, I am going to the cross,

I will die, and I will rise again on the third day.

They didn't know what he was talking about. Remember, the place called Jerusalem

or Israel at that time was under the dominion or the rule of the which

government, the Romans. They were under Roman rule, and they really didn't

like it. And because they used to have milangan. You know, they

were like our own kingdom. They were the victorious years and all had died

and gone, and they were they all dispora, a lot of Jews who

left too many many other countries after the last king back then, okay if

you read it in first king, second kings and uh, and so they

were left all, you know, scattered because Babylon had conquered the land.

So there were the Babylonians and then later the Greeks Alexander the Great, and

then now with the Roman rule. They were waiting for their deliverance. They

were waiting for a king to deliver them. And what they desired was to

say is Jesus going to deliver us? And so many people and even though

they had the word okay the Torah, they had all the Old Testament prophets,

but they never saw that means they had years, but they never heard.

And so they were waiting for a king to deliver them. And so

many perhaps followed Jesus, Yes, this is the one who will deliver us

and give us the Kingdom of God and uh. And then then he starts

talking about I'm gonna die. You know, I'm gonna die. I'm going

gonna die. I'm gonna be dieing. Now rise again on the third day.

What is this rising again? Nobody's seen this before? And then you

know, so that's why they you know, they they they although his name

is Jesus, amen, they know that interpretation of that name and and and

Christ Messiah, Jesus the one who saves, Yet they couldn't identify their hearts

well hardened. And so maybe that's why Judas, after he's listening to this

for the like what following this joker, and then he's telling me he's gonna

die. That's it. I'm gonna just tell him off, betray him thirty

thirty silver coins that's what that's what's what Jesus was worth to him. He

only took thirty pieces of silver, and he sold Jesus out, maybe thinking

this is not this is not happening. He's not going to deliver us.

So that's the background. CHURCHI gota. If you haven't been learning and study,

you gotta begin to read and study so that you appreciate the Bible and

the context of which Jesus was walking in and why and how radical he was.

He's even more radical than us. I can't. I can't. I

don't know, I really, I think if I were living in that tire,

I'm like, whoa If you thought Pason Canna's was radical in the way

he does funny things? Right, yeah, I know, So how are

you and anything? Why is he doing this? Jesus was one hundred times

more radical. Nobody understood. The Pharisees, the Elders, the Sadducees,

they couldn't understand what he was saying, what he was doing. They just

had to kill him. They had to plant plan plot and get rid of

Jesus because he was rocking the boat of their time. And so when we

come this week, as we ourselves are preparing for Friday and for Resurrection Sunday

or what we know better as Easter. Remembering helps us to appreciate what Christ

has gone through for us. And sometimes we take it flippantly, Yeah it's

good Friday. Yeah yeah, oh yes, you turned sometime were Our life

is so busy, and that's why it's good to take time for the twenty

one days to read again. I read for the last how many years I've

been reading over and over and over again every year at least one time the

Gospels with regards to Jesus going to the cross, and it helps me remember

the price that Jesus paid, And like the song says, I'll never know

how much it costs him. I will never know. I will never carry

the pain. I can feel it, but I will never ever know how

much you will never know his emotions, his calling. And today that's what

I want to bring us through. So we have this Holy Week. So

if you go through the screen and you got to kind of like like piece

together through the four Gospels, a lot of it is in Matthew, Mark,

Luke, and then John, and you've got to kind of like sew

it all together, stitch it together. It's hard because you have to read

everything first and then start putting things into order. So there's the Palm Sunday,

which we actually get a record of that. And in John two of

thirteen, in Matthew and Mark, and you know, he comes in.

Everybody's cheering him. Ooo, this is the King of Israel's now mine.

He's going to deliver us or we will watchp him Azana alazana blessed is he

comes in the name of the Lord. That's on Palm Sunday. What happens

on Friday, Crucify him, crucify him, crucify him. So I tell

you what, if Jesus went through that, don't think you and I won't

go through it. Today you might say I'm the best pastor five days time

you say lousy buster leaving your church. All right, So if Jesus went

through it, I cannot think that I won't go through it. And I

have been through it. People will come to pass you on the best right

now, like chank you, But no, chank you. All right.

I don't need to be told on the best past because I know you're gonna

stab me, all right. So Jesus had the cheers, and then on

Friday, crucify him for the because the whole week six days before the passover,

which was on Thursday, Passover Thursday night to Friday, the Good Friday,

he was at his best friend's home, Martha, Mary and the risen

Lazarus. What was Jesus doing, I ever thought, what was he doing

before the week? The Holy week? Well, six days before the passover,

he was probably for the last time, sort of meet his friends,

the other three young adults who were single. Don't forget any single people in

the house power, all right, yeah, yeah, don't despise your singlehood.

So he went a visit the three single people his friends said. He

loved, he loved less Mary and Martha, and he ate with them,

and he maca macan and they had you know who knows sent Peter's fish and

all that, you know, and they were having their food in Bethany,

and then, you know, having all the emotions. You must remember he

was all men, although he was all God, but he never called on

his kingship in a heavenly power. He walked as a man, so that

he will understand your pain and my pain, your shame, my you know

my shame. He will know our our our traumas, our fears, our

trials. He went through it how we feel. And so that's Jesus.

And along the way he was healing the blind, the two blind men calling

out to him. Jesus healers, and and is he going along? He's

healing the woman that was bent over. He's still healing. And these are

the same people who said Hosanna, Hosanna, and then on Friday crucify him.

So it had to happen, but he knew it and it was so

painful. He's like, hey day, you're ready, right because you know

what happened at the Garden of Cadzemani. So you've got Palm Sunday, Holy

Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday, Monday, Thursday. What is Monday,

Well, the word Monday means washing of feet, and that's where Jesus

washed the feet of his disciples on that Passover meal that he had. And

on Friday they judged him, and then they call it Holy Saturday because that's

when they rolled the stone and put gods there, and then resurrection Sunday.

So I'm only going to bring you through to Monday Thursday because I'll see you

on Good Friday. Amen. So on Palm Sunday, On Palm Sunday,

they raised the palms and they put palms, and some Catholic homes you'll see

the palm leaves and all that. So it just reflects reflected from the scripture.

People were waving and people are looking forward to see this king that came

into Jerusalem, all right, and here they are praising and blessing the Lord.

And then it goes on the whole week. Now, if you read

scripture, it doesn't tell you Holy Monday. It doesn't. But by just

through the research, I said, you study through, you'll figure it out.

Why so I take you back quickly, quickly to Exodus. Why did

we have the Exodus? God was delivering his people from man Egypt under the

slavery of Pharaoh. And because when Moses said, God said let my people

go, Pharaoh said, no, nine plagues to warn him. But he

said, no, no, you lazy for us. You're gonna work for

me, and I make it even worse. No straw for making breaks.

I don't know how you're gonna make I don't even know how they made bricks

without the straw, but they made breaks. So they made and they did

what they did, and nine plagues. I can't go through all the nine

plagues. And then the last straw, the last point when Moses said,

let my people go, God says, let me say. No, let's

it, Pharaoh. You will lose your first spond, Every first spond from

the human to the animal will die. Now you can think, are you

oh my God so bad? You gotta read the whole picture, not just

what I'm saying today, but timey shot. So just telling you the story

of when it all happened. So God said, all right, I'll spare

my people, but this is what you need to do. You need to

take a lamb that is unblemish, no marks on it, pure. Like

any other religion, when they sacrifice, they give the best to their gods.

They go to Hindu temple, they will bring the best to the Buddhist

temple, they bring their best offerings. They will sacrifice their best child,

the first born, maybe the clever one, not the one with the chachatnas.

No sorry for they word, but they will never give a lame child.

They will never give if they were to sacrifice their child to or even

to serve in the temple. They will only give the best. If someone

who is not even No, they are not knowing God. They know how

to give the best. Come on, Church, we should be giving the

best to the Lord. And so God asks for the lamb. Every family,

one lamb, one lamb. If the family cannot afford it, and

share the lamb, they say, and worst cannot. And later on they

made other rules. They had different things. But the lamb an unblemish lamb,

and the lamb was taken on the tenth day of the month because on

the fourth day they would have to sacrifice it. So the children will get

to play with a little lamb, an unblemish lamb, and become friends with

the lamb. And on the fourth day, bye bye, Oh mommy,

you're making stew. I'm now eating butter cup. If they named the lamb

but a cup, okay, she said, for a cowlar all right?

And now yeah, so wow, you know. But the significance is Jesus

came in on the tenth day of the month into Jerusalem. He was the

ultimate sinless lamb of God. And in the Store of Exodus they would have

to clean out the house of all eleven. Now they made unleven bread,

no yeast bread, because were going to run and disappear from Pharaoh, no

time for the bread to rise, so they made unleaven bread flat bread.

Nowadays we eat flat bread totia whatever they all call flat bread. No need

yeas, why because you need to run. But also at the same time

they will clean up even up to today if the if they celebrate the passover,

they will clean out their house from all the years and anything. Why

because yeas or eleven is like sin. Clean out the sin, clean out

the dirt, clean out the years, clear up the whole house. So

they have a game for the children to go and pick up crumbs, you

know, and do that. And so even for Jesus in the week from

from the Monday too. If you read, you'll see that the Pharisees and

the law the teachers were interrogating him to find sin in him so that they

could accuse him. But they found none nothing, even up to the point

when they took him to see Kiaphas high priests and pilot. They tried to

bring witnesses. Nothing could stand. The only thing was only two people saying

that he said he's going to put down the temple and then you were gone,

and then he would raise it up in three days, and they took

up that as a case. But there was no sin found in Jesus.

Same with how they searched out all the years in the house. They were

interrogating to find sin, but there was no sin found in Jesus. Hallelujah.

He was the sinless Lamb of God to take our sin. Amazing,

isn't it. The picture was done in the Old Testament, a foreshadow for

what will happen in the New Testament. Wow. And there's so much,

so much more detail. I don't have time, but I just want you

to know that Jesus was that lamb, and he came into Jerusalem on the

tenth day, and on the fourth day, Thursday, he was going to

be sacrificed. He was the very passover lamb. That night he was taken.

But you also know what happened at the garden of Gathsemane. That's why

he wasn't just one week that he was. He's probably in well. We

cause application and prayer and the session already months and days and years ahead.

But oh, Jesus knew his calling and he knew his purpose. I want

us to reflect. I'm not talking to you like I'm not talking to myself,

so I'm also speaking in my own heart to reflect and think. Wow,

Jesus knew his calling. He came to the point where he said,

Father, if this cup can be removed, do remove it. But if

not, let your will be done. Because that cup of suffering, none

of us will ever be able to carry it. And that's why he prayed

until like blood came out like sweat. That was like blood, like he

already anticipated, anticipated the brokenness that he will have to go through. Wow,

that happened, you know. Throughout so the whole week until Thursday,

there was interrogation. He was teaching his disciples, he was healing people.

In the midst of all that work was in his mind, I'm going to

the cross. I'm going to the cross. Back out now, Jesus,

back out now, No, come on, you can run. You're the

son of God. Just back out. Laay alla, No you aren't.

You glad that he didn't back out because we couldn't pay the price for the

death of our sin, the sin that came because of Adam and Eve.

I'll tell you that story on Friday, okay, And so we go through

that, and then on Holy Monday, Jesus went into the temple. So

he came in writing on the donkey, a very lowly donkey. This is

a prophecy from the book of Zachariah, right, and you can read that

in book of Zacharia, come in a lowly donkey. So already there was

a prophecy. There was a proof, but they couldn't see it. Then

on Monday he enters the temple and then he kum fused the old place.

Right. He's angry, why he saw, because they're preparing her for the

past over your people all coming into Jerusalem. And then he starts flipping tables.

Phantoya cantonese. We say, fantoya, like you're showing everybody away.

And then the Pharise is like, what are you doing? Why did he

cleanse the temple? Like I told you you take away the yeast, take

away the sin. Right, he was cleansing the temple, remember the temple.

He was the living temple, but he had to clean the representative of

that temple of God number one. The cleansing. He was so angry because

you know what he said, right, why do you take my house of

my father as a den of thieves? Because it is supposed to be the

house of prayer for the nations. What does that mean? If you haven't

already heard the Temple of Solomon, that was left or whatever was left the

outer courts was meant for the gentiles, for the sinner, not for the

jew for the nations, for anyone who was not Jew too, because he

cannot come into the inner arm to the outer court. Jews are not allowed.

So all non Jews. God, you see, God was thinking about

us already. We're not Jews, all right, at least at least in

the flesh. And he opened the outer court so that the gentile could come

and pray and see God's forgiveness. But what did they do? What did

they do? They allowed to do business, taking up the space that was

meant for the non Jews to come and pray to God. Read your Bible,

and it's not just simply Jesus. When to go through the whole place.

And why you say the house of prayer for the nations, What it

meant was the nations were supposed to come and pray. You read the story

between the Pharisee and the publican. The publican came in and beat his chest

and say I'm not worthy. I'm a sinner. He was standing at the

outer court, whereas a pharisee went in and said, wow, I am

holy and I have done all things. The guy was at the outer court.

So Jesus cleansed the temple because there was not men to be selling a

quay. No, they were selling more lambs and cows and all the stuff

there to make it easier for people. But we were meant to bring our

sacrifices from our home to search for the lamb that was not blemish, not

Judy, okay, not little John. Oh yes it's butter cup. So

to take time your worship this morning, the worship team, the member partners,

you took time. You chose. I had to choose what I wanted

to wear. And when thinking already waking up early, you were praying where

you know, thinking we want to dress my kids up in you know,

I want to feed my kids. I gonna be here early, not late,

because we want to bring a sacrifice of praise today. There's no lambs

to bring, but we bring our sacrifice of praise and our worship. We

took time and God wanted that worship that is already. So your worship friends,

started when you woke up, not when you came in. So their

worship would have started one day on the tenth day, looking for that lamb,

the unblemish lamb. And they took that way from the people to make

it easier, so that they didn't have to pull but the cup whatever I

mean, this would be the sacrifice for finally the past over and all that.

But the later on there'll be other festivals up when they had to sell

the cow and everything. So but they took that away. They took away

the space that was ment for you and I to stand on the outer court,

because we couldn't go to stand on the outside of the outer court,

because we couldn't enter outer court. This is the outer of the outer court.

So really this is the corridor. God did think about us, but

he wanted it left for us. So on that Holy Monday Matthew twenty one,

two half thirteen, he went into the temple. He drove out all

those who bought and sold, and overturned the tables of the money changers and

the seats of those who sold doves. You reading John, He made a

whip out of reeds, and he started, you're not whacking the animals,

but chasing the animals out, move, get out of here. And he

said, it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer,

but you have made it a den of thieves. They they they they

they were like thieves. Lot you read the place love, okay. And

in this version it says house of prayer. But he read it in Isaiah,

where the prophecy was my house shall be called a house of prayer for

the nations. God was thinking about that all may know a long time ago

Heaven rules. Amen. That was Monday, and then came Tuesday, Tuesday

for a hamburgerl okay, John twelve, twenty three. But so this was

another scene in John twelve and the Greeks came to visit Jesus reading John chapter

twelve. So the Greeks came and say, hey, we want to see

this Jesus love, I want to see this now you and I would think

that if I say I'm looking for Joe Edward, I would go, this

is Joe Edward, this is doctor Daniel Kong. This is possible. We

know who she is. Can you believe it that nobody knew who Jesus was?

But if you read Isaiah fifty three. He had nothing that man a

woman would desire. He looks so common that they didn't know who each one

was Jesus. He looked like your everyday a coal okay or ramasami. I

don't know, because they had to say, you have to point us out

who is Jesus? And even when he healed them, they would go who

healed you? And he said, we don't know, but I heard that

his name is Jesus. And so when the Pharisees wanted the soldiers wanted to

catch Jesus, Judas had to say, I will sell him out. The

one I kiss, he's the one. He had to go to Jesus and

betray him with a kiss. Have you been betrayed by a kiss? Don't

go there? All the songs you sing is so he didn't look like like

the picture draws. You said, they're handsome right in the Bible. No,

the word handsome is not dead. He said. His face, it

was like someone that we will not desire. There was no desirableness in Jesus

that we would desire to follow him. So the fact that they followed Jesus

and he looked like just like any other aka Amazami motungula, and I don't

know. Okay, it must have been his person, right, the authority

that says Edward, follow me, and he will. You would leave all

your fishing nets and your sales business, and you follow Jesus. So friends

in this in this passage, the Greeks came to say, can you tell

us who's Jesus? We want to see Jesus. Philip comes and says,

Jesus, somebody wants to see you. Not who's there? Oh, there's

a Greek. People want to see you. And then Jesus then answered,

look at the way he answers. He doesn't even say hold on, wait

or not? He says, the hour has come that the son of man

should be glorified. Most so surely, I say to you. Unless a

grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But

if it dies, it produces much grain. He who loves his life will

lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it for

eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me, And where

I am there my servant will be. Also if anyone serves me him,

my father will honor. Totally different conversation, right, I so read,

and Jesus is so rudeler at least say sorry, I cannot meet you.

No, he's what is it? It tells me he was just focused,

not that I don't want to meet you Greeks. I just need to go

to Jerusalem. He talks about the weak dying. His life was going to

die for many and it had to die and then resurrect again. Right,

and he talks. Then he goes on to talk about before about people serving.

If you serve my father, you know, and anyone serves me him,

my father will honor if you serve me, let him follow me.

Wow. Then he's challenging the fact that you're going to follow me. We

have to read and read in between the lines. We need to imagine closing

eyes and say, if I were there and this man is saying he's going

to die, do I want to follow him. I don't know if we

would follow him, friends, I don't know, because we are waiting for

the kingdom to be taken over by Jesus. But he's talking about dying,

so people would have left, and that's why you just thought this man is

local. I'm not going to follow him, right, I want kingdom back

then comes John twelve, twenty seven, twenty eight. Already this is him

saying, my soul is troubled. What shall I say? Father? Save

me from this hour? So in the flesh, Father saved me. But

for this purpose. Everybody, purpose, say purpose? Come on, people

say purpose. I came to this hour for all these thirty three years,

for this purpose. I came to this hour, Father, glorify your name.

And the voice from heaven said, I have both glorified it and will

glorify it again. The voice from heaven came. Nobody knew where, what

what? Like thunder like that I don't know, like earthqait, I don't

know. But the Lord affirmed Jesus that you need to carry on, and

you are focused. Amen, Because when you read this particular verse called Luke

in Luke, chapter nine, verse fifty one, verse fifty three, this

is way ahead of time before the Holy Week. Jesus. It says,

now it came to pass when the time had come for him to be received

up, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. He set

his face to go to Jerusalem. He was no turning back. I have

decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back. Can you

and I sing this song in the days when it's tough, I don't know.

I cannot. I can't say. We need to prepare ourselves. Jesus

prepared himself and said, I'm heading to Jerusalem. But Father, my soul

is trouble. Would you take this cup for me? So he's steadfastly set

his face. From a long time, from months and months, he already

wanted to go to Jerusalem. God's timing, Amen comes to Wednesday. Wednesday.

I just chose this scripture. There's so many parts on He doesn't say

Wednesday, love, so the in the when you do the research, he

says Tuesday and Wednesday. So I break it down to Wednesday. And I

chose one portion of scripture which says in John thirteen one now before the feast

of the Passover, when Jesus knew again look at that, he knew that

his hour had come, that he should depart from this world to the Father.

Having loved his own who were in the world. He loved them to

the end. God loved the people that God gave to him, Father God

gave to him. He loved them to the end, including Judas. Remember

Judas eight at the Last Supper the passover meal, and Judas was given the

place of honor. No time to teach you again. He was sitting not

the da Vinci's picture with the long table and everybody seated letter let it,

let it no wrong. I don't know why da Vinci did that. It

actually was a lyricum, which is a U shaped table with with with two,

one, two, three or four, and then the other people say

here, so the first person here would be the one wod god from the

enemy, and anyone want to kill the Hosa, he will be dead.

It should have been Peter, but Peter was very nonsense that day because Jesus

gave then Peter supposed I have said it. But then John the Beloved sat

here, and then Jesus the host, and then the place of honor was

Judas. And Peter was like, what, I would die for you.

I would die for you. Have you heard that song Arina grande and we

can right, oh, die for you. You have to hear the song.

Do you know what you're singing? People? Baby, I will die

for you. That's what Peter said. I will die for you. I

will not leave you. And then he says Judas he was sulking and sulking

and sulking, and he said at the last, and he was supposed to

carry the water to wash the feed, he refused on the other side of

the u ship. So he was at the end sulking. And Peter liked

he was older than Jesus, yet so gave Judas the best place. He

loved him to the end. Forgiveness was already shown, so Judas didn't have

to hang himself. He could have remembered and repented and go back to the

brethren. Didn't happened. So all the emotions, all the but yet knowing

this is the hour I have come for this then Monday Thursday, not Monday

Thursday, but Monday Thursday. The lamb is getting ready. And as so

this is so if they had prepared the passover. Jesus was the host,

as I said. He said, and gave Judahs the best place. Beloved

John, the youngest of the disciples, was the god sitting at the first.

If he died, I I died first thing. And then as Jesus

took bread blessed and he broke it, he instituted the act of remembrance of

breaking bread, that this is my body that in just an hours a couple

hours time is going to be broken for you. Take eat. This is

my body to eat. Someone's body is sacredigious thing them is. God never

allowed for this, But yet it was an inference. It was to say

that this body that you're eating, not Jesus body, but the representation of

what Jesus was gonna do. Take eat, because my body's gonna be broken

for you. Take this cup, give thanks and the cup. Later in

the early days Exodus, there was no cup to drink. There was just

a stew, the bitter hebs, the lamb stew, the bitter herbs,

the boiled eggs, the baked eggs. But in the New Testament, as

Jesus was that time, he never had the bitter herbs. Guess why,

I think because he was taking the bitterness for us, the big eggs he

was baked for us. So you and I had a bake. He took

it for us. But the cup was introduced because the wine always represented joy

muh celebration, the cup, and so when they take that cup, it

represented the blood of Jesus that would wash us clean, would give us victory

and never again to live in sin. Forgiveness. It's so beautiful that there's

nobody else who has ever died and given his life for anyone. Jesus,

and no one else, no other gods, no other follow whatever has resurrected,

whether you believe it or not. I've been to the tomb. There

ain't no bones in there. And that cup was the blood celebration of the

joy that we will receive in being forgiven of our sin. Amen. And

then the next a few scenes happened. He also washed the feet of the

disciples down. Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his

hands and that he had come from God, was going to God. He

came from God. You came from heaven to earth to show the way from

the earth to the cross, my dead to pay, from the cross to

the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I left your

name on Hi. So he knew he came from heaven and he was going

back to Heaven. But the process, my friends, is where he said,

Father, if this cup could be passed, but if it can't,

your will be done. And so he took he laid aside his garments,

he took the towel. Jesus took a towel, not a title. He

took a towel, So we who lead, we're just taking towels, not

leadership, because leadership is over people. Leadership is servanthood. Jesus was a

servant king, and he pot water and he washed the disciples feet. He

wiped them with the towel, which he had good at himself. This was

what Peter was supposed to have done, but he didn't. Jesus therefore demonstrated

service, the servant king, the king who served, okay, And and

then they all went panicked. Oh no, no, no, please,

don't wash me. And Peter's like no, no, no, no,

because you guilty. I know I should have done it, but no,

it's like no, no, no, no, no, like because He's

like no, no, no, no. Watch And Jesus, if I

don't watch, then you won't be counted as a clean, cleansed one.

So let me wash you, I think Jesus Peters just crying there because he

was supposed to be the one who was washing the feet, not the boss

of the host, not his master. But the master demonstrated servanthood and he

washed the feet. So on Thursday in the past of a meal, all

the families were think he was the lamb that would be, that would be

sacrificed. Came he introduced communion. What we remember, he came to show

us the way of servanthood. He spoke so much with them. He even

told them who is going to betray? And nobody believed. Nobody even knew

what he was talking about. The one I DipEd, the break, that

one, that one and Peter's like Peter's sitting across looking at John go because

they used to lean like this Roman Eastern South. They all lean and so

lightly. John Jesus was leaning on his breast and John's breast and then said,

you ask, I think I'm like a Peters. Yeah, And then

there's which one? Which one? Then Jesus said, I did, that's

the one that will be Jamie. So I think they all knew. I

don't know, just just thinking out loud. And so, friends, the

one thing that you and I may catch is the obedience of Christ. We

might say he did it for love, he did this is he? However,

But one thing that denotes the faith of a Christian is a walk of

obedience, not just sacrifice. Not I am sacrificed, because obedience is better

than sacrifice. So you can sacrifice, but if you cannot obey what God

is saying to us, that's not what God is demanding of our not to

demand asking from us. Jesus really was the Lamb of God to be sacrificed

for the sins of the world, and he was not blemished. Amen.

So really the story in Exodus, what happened the real The reality that happened

in Exodus was a foreshadow of what Jesus would come into the world. God

had already planned salvation. He tried so many ways, but the people of

God refused to do the work that they asked him to. They didn't want

to shine for him, they didn't want to, you know, share God

with others. And so he had to buy his own hand, raise up

a savior. He gave his own life, He gave his son more on

Friday. Do you know who's going to preach you London? You might you

might decide not to come, gay or come. So the mercy of God

was really brought through this shedding of the blood of his only son, which

would have happened with the real lamb. The Lamb's blood was wiped on the

door posts so that the spirit of death would pass by pass over the homes

of every believer of follower you today, the blood of Jesus washes us,

forgives us. Amen. And what Jesus did was to close the gap between

God and man. There was a gap sin crept into the world. If

you've been following our Spotify messages podcasts. Sin crept into the world because Adam

and Eve sinned, and that's how sin was introduced to the world and it's

been there since uti today. But when you accept Christ, you are forgiven

from sin and from the penalty of sin. But sin still remains until Jesus

comes again. But the blood of the Lamb washes us. And that's why

you and I can constantly come to Jesus because what he sees is not me.

Sees the blood Godfather, God the Father sees the blood of Jesus.

He doesn't see me. He sees his son, the blood of Jesus.

That's why we can come. Jesus closed the gap by becoming the bridge that

bridged us to God the Father. Amen. And so my thought for us

is obedience was high on the list. And so the question for us,

as I close slowly, slowly, do we live with such obedience because we

long for a world in desperate need to hear the voice of God. I

have to asked myself, do I live with such obedience because I long or

my relatives who are in desperate need to hear the voice of God? That's

obedience. God has not called us to do it any other thing, but

to shine, to be light and salt, and to live separate, separate

your life from darkness. You walk in the light, you cannot mix.

Obedience is to bring that light and shine for him. Do I live like

that? Do we live like that? And you know when Jesus, if

you read in the book of John or Mark, he went all the way

so that he could do this for us. He said that our joy will

be full. I have to go so that your joy may be full.

But number two Mark eleven twenty four. Mark eleven twenty four says, therefore,

I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe

that you receive them, and you will have them. And we calle this

verse to say that whatever you ask from the Lord God will do it for

you, that you will have it. It's a great promise. He asked

Jesus, and ask ask, and Godfather will do it for you, because

god Father loves you. But I've never thought about this. This is in

preparation of this message. Therefore, if all we prayed for today was given

to us everything we ask for, how many people would know Jesus as Savior

as a result. Because we aren't asking, so I'm not seeing the number

of people at least to hear good, the good news luck. I cannot

save anyone, but I can bring the good news, So I'm not We're

not. God is not. I don't think the world is thing. Don't

pray for what you need. He does know what we need. But if

all we prayed for really was daily praying for the salvation of my father,

my mother, my sister, my best friend, or whatever, then we

would at some point see a result, which again ties into the message that

all may know because we're praying for a lot of things. We want a

lot of things, and God wants to give you every good thing from heaven.

Every good and perfect gift from heaven is from the Lord. But could

we remember why we follow Jesus and when we pray, do we include the

loss? Because the first thing you can do you and I can do is

to pray. But the second thing we would do is to go. So

after we pray for the auntie or the uncle or the friend, the next

step is the boldness and the courage to invite them, for me to be

friends with them because we haven't been in touch with them forever, and to

keep building friendships because genuinely, God loves people, just like how he loved

me, and I didn't know him until I got to know him. So

as we approach Good Friday, and if you haven't had the chance, spend

the next few days today's Sunday's looking at these chapters towards the end of most

of the Gospels twenty five, twenty six, of Matthew and the and Journey

with Jesus. It's a miracle that we see a Friday, and everybody was

so sad. But like one black preacher said, two day is a Friday,

but Sunday is a coming. Sundays are coming in our lives. We

will always have Fridays. We always have Fridays. Which person, you don't

have a Friday. It's good Friday, but it was a black Friday.

You're not the sale Black Tuesday or Black Friday, right, Okays it felt

like this was all for a loss. So we all have a Friday in

our lives. But praise Bean to God, there will come a Sunday and

that situation for us will resurrect because our Christ resurrected. Amen. So it's

not all lost. But it was not at the expectation of the people that

was it. They just thought, that's it gone. Jesus died, done,

rolled the stones some over, that's it bye. So we want to

say to us, remembering Christ and what he'd gone all the way is really

an act of obedience. Thank you Jesus. Then how about us, what

is it that we need to be obeying God to do that we may please

God? The Son please the Father all the time. You read that in

the Gospels, the Son pleases the Father. You and I are sons and

daughters of the Most High Father God. Are we? Yeah? Are we

obedient law? Just to what He has told us to do. So we

can do everything and all kinds of things. And I do a lot of

things. But if I'm not doing what he called me to do, I

have not done what he called us to do, which is to be sold

and like to be his feet, to be his hands, to be his

voice. And then when you get the glory and hopefully Saint Peter's they're welcoming

you, welcome, and Jesus saying welcome, my good and faithful servant.

And then he says, thank you for clothing me. And that's when you

say, when did I do that? Jesus, I didn't see you.

He said, every time you did it for the least of this you did

it unto me. The least could be the little children ministry. The least

could be your dad, your mom, the least. When that person was

in need, you clothed that person. When that person who needed support,

you were there, right you went prison ministry. That's how prison ministry started

because of this verse that the people who are in prison also have a chance

to receive the good News before their lives are You know, some might be

but some might be executed. I don't know. But they also deserve.

The murderer deserve to hear the gospel at least one time. Will he receive

Christ? Well, Saint Paul was a murderer and he had an encounter with

God with Jesus. So a murderer turned apostle, would we accept Paul if

he was in our midst and we knew he just murdered our parents or our

friends. So it's a picture of what we're saying is friends, you hold

in your life, in your heart salvation, live it to the full,

enjoy the blessed saying, but please don't forget to be a blessing. Be

obedient when God calls you to talk to somebody or even just being in the

presence of your friends, and just be a light or sault to preserve the

condition of the situation right. And then speak when you have to. Otherwise

your actions speak brighter and bigger than your words. And I really it's just

my own heart also convicted to say that if I really prayed, then how

many people would know Jesus as the result of my prayer. Maybe I haven't

been praying. The word is not about enough. Its just have I prayed?

Did I have a name in my mind? Did I look at my

colleague? That's really frustrating me as a person that also God died for.

You know, it keeps you thinking if this is what God wants for us,

that Heaven rules so that all may know, then we have a part

to play. Amen. And the encouragement is Jesus went all the way and

be glad for that. A good reflection for us who are believers to know

this. And if you are a seeker and you're seeking, I want you

to know that God opens the door for all to come. The House of

God is a house of prayer for the nations for all to know Christ.

He doesn't count our color, our status, who we are, he says,

all may know. It's up to us to receive. And if that

opportunity has been given, then we have to make a choice. So you

either choose Jesus or we don't. Then you'll be an eternity without Jesus.

I want to have itternity with Jesus. So I'm grateful for the grace of

God that has saved me, and I will want to also share disgrace with

other people. So it's really sometimes we've just got to remember, in the

midst of our busy lives, who is Jesus asking you to share the good

news with Amen. We hope you've been blessed by this message. For more

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good week ahead for you, God bless