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john chapter 19 and i'll read the
odd-numbered verses you read out loud
and the even-numbered verses out of the
new king james
and it's the event it's the account of
this evening in history john 19. i begin
verse 17
and he burying his cross went out to a
place called
the place of a skull which is called in
hebrew
golgotha
now pilate wrote a title and put it on
the cross and the writing was
jesus of nazareth the king of the jews
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therefore the chief priest of the jews
said to pilate do not write
the king of the jews but he said
i am the king of the jews
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then the soldiers when they had
crucified jesus took his garments
and made four parts to each soldier
apart and also the tunic now the tunic
was without seam woven from the top in
one piece
now there stood by the cross jesus his
mother
and his mother's sister
mary the wife of cleopas and mary
magdalene
then he said to the disciple and by the
way that's john we're talking about the
author of this gospel
behold your mother and from that hour
that disciple took her
to his own home
now a vessel full of sour wine was
sitting there and they filled the sponge
with sour wine and put it on hyssop and
put it to his mouth
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because it was the preparation day of
of the bi that the body should be not
remain on the cross on the sabbath for
that sabbath was a high day
the jews asked pilate that their legs
might be broken and that they might be
taken down
verse 33 but when they came to jesus and
saw that he was already dead they did
not break his legs
and he who has seen has testified and
his testimony is true and he knows that
he is telling the truth so that you may
believe and again another scripture says
they shall look upon him whom they have
pierced
and nicodemus who at first came to jesus
by night also came we can bring in a
mixture of myrrh and alloys about a
hundred pounds
now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden
and in the garden a new tomb in which no
one had yet
been laid
father we thank you for your
account that you've announced to the
entire world
and father we ask of you this evening
god that you would illuminate to our
hearts the reality of the cost and of
the great expense
of this day in history we have all
people should be the most joyous
the most
grateful the most empowered people in
all of the world
father god i pray we pray together for
one another and for those beyond the
walls of this church that the reality
that jesus christ has been crucified for
the sins of the world
would be our very very motive for living
and the power
for us living this life we ask it in
jesus name and all god's people said
amen you can be seated tonight and
we're grateful that you're here with
your family and all and
it is an awesome time earlier this week
we recounted we first of all looked at
palm sunday and
most recently together as a church we
looked at wednesday night and the events
that transpired on this
passion week in history
and if you remember we talked about the
passover lamb the great significance
in fact in israel today
you know today by the way march 30th is
the first day of passover today all
around the world
and some of my friends that i know in
israel i gave them a portion of
scripture out of exodus chapter 12
talking about how they
at the passover to offer up a
sacrificial lamb
and i said that to them in love because
i love them dearly and i i said that to
them though because i've given them the
gospel more times than you can imagine
but i said that to them again today
because it's passover
and it's an announcement to the entire
world
in fact i don't know if you saw the news
today and guys i don't know if you have
it queued up or not but did you see what
happened today in the white house did
you see what happened
do we have it you guys
turn your eyes to the screens my fellow
americans at this holy time of the year
families across our nation gather in
homes churches and synagogues to light
candles and to praise god
during the sacred holiday of passover
jewish families around the world give
thanks to god for liberating the jewish
people from bondage in egypt and
delivering them to the promised land of
israel for christians we remember the
suffering and death of god's only son
and his glorious resurrection on the
third day
on easter sunday we proclaim with joy
christ is risen
both of these sacred celebrations remind
us that god's love redeems the world
almost three 000 years ago the prophet
isaiah wrote darkness covers the earth
but the lord rises upon you and his
glory appears over you
for the lord will be your everlasting
light in america we look to the light of
god to guide our steps we trust in the
power of the almighty for wisdom and
strength and we praise our heavenly
father for the blessings of freedom and
the gift of eternal life happy passover
happy easter thank you god bless you and
god bless america
i want you to know i uh
i'm a real ronald reagan fan i just want
you to know that and as much as i love
reagan i've never heard something like
that coming
from a sitting president in my life and
you may not ever hear that again
but that was my point to talking to my
friends today in israel and sending them
in in their in the text go to exodus
chapter 12 because
to celebrate passover in israel if
you're jewish
as president trump i mentioned a moment
ago you need a lamb tonight
you need a lamb
you need a temple
there is no temple in jerusalem
there is no lamb tonight in jerusalem
they don't know why
we know why
god's lamb has come into the world
jesus christ came and the bible tells us
in second corinthians
5 19
god was in christ reconciling the world
to himself no longer
imputing that is no longer listen no
longer counting making or keeping
account
of our trespasses of our sins
jesus went to the cross on this
celebration in history christ 21
centuries ago
and subjected himself to the cruelty of
the cross listen uh according to history
the cross crucifixion in its most basic
form was invented by the persians and
then it was uh taken by
those in carthage
and those in carthage perfected the
persian form of crucifixion
but when rome took over the world rome
considered the persian form of
crucifixion
to humane and the carthaginian form of
crucifixion to humane and rome perfected
the torture of the cross
in fact the
act of crucifixion by roman law was so
grotesque and so gruesome
most though most of those crucified by
the way uh remained on the cross alive
uh losing their eyes to vultures that
would take out their eyes losing their
feet to wandering dogs because they were
crucified so close to the ground but
many of not
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die available asphyxiation or they would
die of blood loss not from the
crucifixion the guards crucified them in
such a way that they wouldn't bleed very
little blood
but they died because of
partial dismemberment by wild animals
and they would bleed out and some
historians record that crucified victims
would be three four days in that state
of crucifixion it was so grotesque that
rome said they'll never be crucifixions
in the land of
of rome in the land of italy
in their homeland it would never happen
they said it would defile the land
god
rome would only do such executions
outside of the land jesus was crucified
according to the scriptures
all week our theme has been regarding
our awesome god and i love proclaiming
the fact that this day represents the
fact that my your awesome god died on
the cross my god is so great and so
awesome
that he's eternal but he subjected
himself to a human body
that he might die
my god died on the cross
and he rose again from the grave
and somebody might say how can god die
why why how could the universe stay
together if your god died because the
bible teaches god the father god the son
god the holy spirit and though listen
christ died let's remember this his
physical body died
your physical body is going to die
someday but the spirit of who you are
your consciousness your alertness
your true awareness will never die
jesus left this body at the point of
death his body died
god is awesome the word awesome means to
be in awe of the word means to be in
fear of
it means to be completely undone
to be overcome by a sense of smallness
when you're in awe or the sense of
awesome that words reserve when you feel
a sense of smallness or a sense of being
very insignificant
noah webster defines the word awesome as
the experience of being overcome with a
great fear and admiration simultaneously
it is the becoming of reverential awe
awestruck fearful
noah webster cites psalm
chapter 4 when he says quoting it is to
stand in awe of god resulting in a
departure of sin to be in awe of god
jesus was hanging on the cross 21
centuries ago on this night that we
celebrate
and i want to go over quickly tonight
our time is limited to seven statements
from the cross
listen uh a lot of people will say that
these are the last seven words of jesus
that's not exactly true church
you can buy books by the way they have
wrongly titled some books the last words
of jesus and they give these seven words
that i'm going to give you in a moment
but they're wrong
because the book of revelation jesus
speaks again doesn't he
he speaks to the churches the seven
churches
that's the last words of jesus he said
yeah but jesus died after these seven
words he died oh yes but listen that was
only for the weekend my friend sunday
morning jesus christ rose from the dead
to speak again to live again to talk
again
to teach again
his first pronouncement is found in luke
chapter 23 verse 34 luke 23 34 and jesus
from the cross said father forgive them
for they do not know what they do
now i just want to submit to you that i
believe only god could say such a thing
after being beaten shred
open his body mutilated by roman uh
flogging
then to be uh crucified as he was and
what's the first words out of his mouth
he didn't say
father these are a bunch of jerks fry
them throw them
no jesus on the cross a display of deity
father forgive them in his crucifixion
he's interceding for them
by the way that answers to deuteronomy
chapter 18.
the word of god is on the cross but the
word of god was in deuteronomy 18 and
the bible there says that the lord
himself said moses will raise up to you
a prophet and jesus is speaking from the
cross intercession father forgive them
they know not what they do
the second word of jesus from the cross
is luke 23 43
and jesus said truly i say to you today
you will be with me in paradise of
course he said that to the thief on the
cross
and that's a record found in isaiah 49
where the bible tells us there that they
who put their trust in him shall not be
ashamed
think about that that thief on the cross
wicked
godless sinful
filthy man
a male factor that's a very dirty word
that means that guy was involved in all
kinds of crimes
had a change of mind and he said jesus
remember remember me when you come into
your kingdom and jesus said today in
this second pronouncement you'll be with
me in paradise
wow
what an awesome wonderful
god we have
the third pronouncement
from the cross is found in john 19.
in verses 26 to 27 i'll paraphrase it
there
you read it a moment ago jesus said to
his mother that is mary woman this is
your son
and then he said to john the disciple
this is your mother
and that's an answer to habakkuk chapter
2.
what was jesus saying in relationship to
habakkuk 2 and regarding marian the
disciple john
the bible tells us that the just shall
live by faith
jesus was saying
mary this is john they knew each other
already john this is mary they knew each
other already
jesus was introduced in a family of god
family of faith
and from that moment you read it a
moment ago john took mary and we know
from church history by the way john
lived a great old age
he outlived mary according to church
history
and
his days ended
her days quite possibly with john
and what is asia minor today in the area
of turkey
the family of faith are you in the
family of faith does this good friday
celebration is it something that's
religious for you or do you understand
that jesus was on the cross for your
sins
you personally he listen you cannot
experience eternal life and have
forgiveness unless you understand that
jesus died for you not corporately
he didn't die for you in some mass
groupon
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type of collective way he didn't do that
isn't that amazing he said well
jack doesn't say the bible say announce
no said he died for the sins of the
world yes he died for the sins of the
world but he's your personal savior
you've got to receive christ personally
and we know from
biblical writing we know nicodemus being
one of them you heard about him a moment
ago that nicodemus was there at the
cross
we have no account of nicodemus except
three years earlier at the ministry of
jesus he comes to jesus by night and
then all of a sudden there's silence and
then on the scene we have nicodemus
risking everything as a priest of israel
he goes to the cross he sees jesus he
brings down the body with joseph of
arimathea both of them together with
embalming spices they think they're
going to have the time to wrap him with
spices they lay him in a tomb
risking everything
risking their job risking their income
risking their status
they had everything to lose
and it's remarkable to me nicodemus
faith is awesome he throws it all off
and he understands that he's joined the
family of god
the just shall live by faith you're not
going to go to heaven on your own works
the bible says god condemns our good
works
he condemns them
the bible says all of our good deeds are
like filthy rags
you can't go to heaven by being good
enough
god will have none of it no the just
shall live by faith and church
faith in who
jesus
he's god's gift that's why god displayed
christ on the cross
on this day in history
the fourth pronouncement from the cross
is found in matthew 27 and in mark 15.
jesus cries out iloilo
we know it as my god my god why is thou
forsaken me
now with that pronouncement everyone
has their attention focused upon christ
and i'll tell you the reason why without
any hesitation or without any doubt
that's a statement right out of the 22nd
psalm every jew had the 22nd psalm
for a thousand years that psalm was
known to the jewish people
it's a psalm of david but it's a
prophetic psalm speaking about the
messiah how will you ever recognize the
messiah well one of the ways is that
he's going to cry out
my god my god why is thou forsaken me
why is jesus saying this how can god
forsake god
only if god becomes a man can god
forsake god when god becomes a man are
you with me do you understand that
god the father god the holy spirit and
their awesome purity looked upon christ
jesus and the bible tells us in ii
corinthians all of our sin was weighted
upon him thrown upon him
that great conveyance a great
transaction god placed upon jesus your
lust and your anger and your pride
and mine
was waited upon jesus
and the bible tells us again in habakkuk
chapter one behold the eyes of the lord
are too pure to behold evil jesus was
the recipient of all jack's evil
all of jack's sin all of jack's
wickedness
jesus took that upon him personally
for me
and so he answers to psalm 22 and the
people in the crowd would have known it
jews today when they read the old
testament ought to know it
the fifth pronouncement is
john 19 verse 28 awesome statement
powerful statement jesus says i thirst
that's now that's remarkable church
two words jesus said i thirst
and um what's interesting you've read in
your biblical account that at one point
they took
a sponge on a stick
and they dipped it in a certain type of
solution and they brought it up to
jesus's mouth and do you remember what
the bible says it says he refused it
remember that
and you read your bible carefully and
the word used for that
uh
sponge that he refused was a a type of
medical
um
novocaine
it was designed listen it was designed
to deaden the pain
so the victim would endure longer on the
cross
and jesus was not goofing around and nor
was he falling for
the antics of man jesus refused to
receive any
sedative for the pain took it straight
on
and also
jesus received no help from man
he took it full
but the bible tells us when he cried out
i thirst now that's a different thing
they dipped a sponge in sour wine it's
just it's vinegar
and they dipped it in this rotten wine
which turns to vinegar and they held it
up and they put it to his lips
why is that important
this had to happen church
i was
studying this and reading isaiah 53
today and i just wanted to just jump
i know this isn't a pentecostal church
but maybe we ought to jump
in isaiah 53 the bible says
my tongue cleaves to my jaw
and the only way that you can get your
tongue loose from our jaw we none of us
have ever experienced that type of
dehydration where your tongue is welded
to your mouth to the cheek of your mouth
on the inside it's all dry and the bible
says that the messiah in isaiah 53
will will have there have his tongue
stuck to his
inside cheek of his mouth meaning he
couldn't speak anymore unless he took
fluid
jesus said i thirst
and they held up that sponge
what for
for the most perhaps
important statement number six to my
life anyway
in john chapter 19 verse 30 there
jesus it says when he had received the
sour wine he said in one word by the way
in one word in the ancient coin a greek
koine greek is street greek you know how
we americans we don't speak english we
speak american
we don't speak english we people in
england speak english
we speak american you know american is
slang we say what's up we say yo dude we
say
you know we whatever we it's not english
it's american
jesus spoke one word in coin a or street
greek for for everybody to understand
one word
and that word was totally
he cried out that word
it's remarkable in english it it is
finished by the way that the word total
is reserved for a joyous
uh
declaration it's finished
uh when a contractor finished his house
or
some part of the city they shouted it's
finished when a
carpenter finished the project he would
announce it's finished to tell us die
it's like yes
so tell us that yes
jesus cries out think of it for a moment
he's dying there for you and your sins
and mine
that if you had put your trust in jesus
and jesus looks beyond the suffering
have you ever been uh now i've never
i've never been in pain
like my wife was in pain giving birth to
our kids that's insane i am so glad i'm
not a woman why somebody today people
would want to become a woman i think if
i think if you'd i think if you could
give birth you would not want to make
that decision
because i've watched it ladies and
gentlemen and it's something that nobody
would sign up for women are amazing
uh
but i'm telling you right now it's like
what's going on here
and uh
at one point she needed me for this
whole thing to happen but not long after
that
for nine months it's all about her and
what's happening and then it comes down
to the minute and it doesn't matter if i
go take a walk or fall off the end of
the pier
she's focused you know what i'm saying
focused focused uh there's a point
somewhere in the room and mom is looking
at that dot
and everything else is gone and there's
a focus
and then how does a mother
weeping crying in great pain
a friend of mine was uh at chuck's
hospital the baby was being born the
mother was doing all the work the baby
started to come out and he passed out
but
she goes from crying and in the next
second she goes with tears of joy and a
smile on her face and she's talking
about when we're going to do this again
it is finished
it's a joyous announcement
jesus said it's done think of the relief
he had when he said that it's done
it's over
oh
what a glorious moment
and that answers to exodus chapter 12
so when the passover is offered the
people shall be freed from their guilt
the great passover lamb
the seventh and final pronouncement from
the cross was in luke 23 46 when jesus
cried out with a loud voice
now this was probably his favorite
moments
and by the way i submit this to you only
god can make this next statement
father
into your hands
i commend
my spirit
what does that mean
jesus said
i'm done it's finished
work is complete
father
i now
am going to excuse my spirit from this
body ladies and gentlemen you and i are
going to die when god says you and i die
you will never say
father into your hands i commit my
spirit
jesus was done doing the job salvation
was complete
the atonement was
and jesus no pun intended and i mean
this reverently he didn't hang around
one minute longer it was out of there
and he dismissed his spirit because he
was done only god can do that the price
had been paid every sin everything that
i've ever done in my life and shall do
christ paid for that and for you as well
jesus did that this is the gospel of god
this is the gospel of christ
he did this
and that answers to the thirty first
psalm psalm 31
it's in psalm 31 that the prophetic
psalm says i commit my spirit
into your care oh god
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some mathematician so claims anyway that
looking at the research of these
prophecies fulfilled
and 280 also other prophecies fulfilled
regarding jesus during his earthly life
crucifixion resurrection
they did a mathematical equation and
said that it comes out to one person
fulfilling 300 prophecies
is
one to the 84th with 100 zeros behind it
mathematically is the probability of it
being fulfilled by one person and jesus
did it all if you want if you want
empirical proof that christ is the
messiah then why don't you try
mathematics and look into that equation
and find out and you'll have to become a
believer but listen there's a greater
witness than that and that's the witness
of you needing a priest to remove sin
from your life see jesus as my priest
and the bible talks about in the old
testament that god would call forth a an
unblemished lamb a perfect lamb and that
the priest would take the sins of the
nation and sacrifice that lamb and that
lamb would be sacrificed and he would
pronounce judgment upon that lamb and
then he would take the blood from that
lamb and he would walk over to a what's
called the scapegoat you ever heard that
before a scapegoat and they would put
the blood on the forehead of the
scapegoat and they would send the
scapegoat out in the wilderness
your sins were forgiven and your sins
were driven from you in christ jesus is
the lamb of god that takes away the sins
of the world
i'm going to ask for don't you want to
see a little lamb
i told you the other day we're going to
have a little lamb out here we're going
to see what happens this thing was
running around my backyard the
earlier today
and uh now if we drop this thing
if we drop it people be
there he is yeah
can you see him
now he's very nervous look at him
i got to tell you something
when this
when this little lamb was loose in my
backyard an hour and a half ago you we
we couldn't it was hard to catch
but once it was caught
this is how it's been now i hope he
doesn't make me out to be a liar right
now but this is how he has been
and the bible tells us that
in the old testament for thousands of
years since coming out of egypt you were
to take a little lamb
and you were to bring this little lamb
into your home
and even tonight with just a few moments
of that little lamb
the kids in the backyard were getting
very close to even feeding it he didn't
take any food but he was letting them
get close enough strangers
and yet approaching him and you were to
take this little lamb into your home and
you were to love on it and take care of
it we talked about that on wednesday
nights and then at the end of that week
of having this lamb you were to take it
on this night in history
tonight's a full moon when you go
outside look
that's how the jews knew this is time
now
it's passover time
and they were to take this innocent male
young
one-year-old lamb and they were to
sacrifice it for the sins of their
household
the bible says that the blood of this
innocent lamb would listen carefully the
blood of the innocent lamb presented
in sacrifice to god would cover the sins
of the people cover i said that's what
the bible says cover
jesus didn't cover your sins
he wasn't an earthly lamb
the bible says as far as the east is
from the west so far has god removed
your sins from you your sins have been
removed not covered
and this is an act of conveyance by the
priest
imagine for a moment
you coming to me and saying pastor i've
i confess my sins
and i pick up your lamb that you've
presented to me
and as your priest
i would be the witness of your
conveyance
you would transfer
your sin upon this innocence
and i would be the witness to that
god would then
have me sacrifice this lamb
and declare you forgiven
jesus is the lamb of god that takes away
the sins of the world so listen i want
to ask you this
do you understand that first corinthians
5 verse 7 tells us for indeed christ
jesus is our passover
who is sacrificed for us
upon the lamb would go your acts of evil
upon the lamb would go your idolatry
your lustful imaginations
your emotional burdens
your self-pride your anxieties
all these are sins
insecurities self-reliance but upon this
lamb also would
be placed your hope
and the bible tells us
that all those who put their faith their
hope in christ
will never be put to shame
i was told today that if
i were to set this lamb down
with its legs
in my hands and turn him on his back
he won't leave he won't move
imagine if i took a blade
and you would cringe at that thought
look at him
looks like he's almost going to sleep
docile submissive
and i was reminded this week of someone
who told me
on the campus of cal poly
regarding
our jesus as christians he said i could
never believe
in jesus being
my god and savior because jesus was
beaten
scourged crucified never defended
himself never fought back
he said i would never have a god like
that that
wouldn't fight back i want a god that
fights back
that guy missed the whole argument jesus
fought
the forces of
hell by his submission to the will of
the father and by his innocence he
destroyed this
night in history 21 centuries ago he
destroyed jesus broke the grave he broke
hell by his own sacrifice
so say say goodbye to
him i called what did i call i called
him lambert
so uh
say goodbye to him
but imagine aren't you glad listen
aren't you glad that we've got jesus
and we don't have to do this anymore
brought to us by tom musser
thank you tom thank you jack
um
think of that
how precious
and that was the whole point to
familiarize yourself with this sacrifice
to become very familiar with
the sacrifice
is there anything in
my list that i might have missed that
should be laid upon
the lamb
oh wait maybe it could be you
isn't it amazing that god right now who
is here
he can look down upon this congregation
and he knows you he knows right now in
this room those that are his and those
that are not his
and what makes those that are his and
not his separate from one another is not
anything that they've ever done
or haven't done
it's all regarding
where have you placed
yourself
is it in your own hands are you the
captain of your own ship
are you the keeper of your own castle
or have you come to that place of
understanding i need
this lamb
but lord we come to you now
in jesus name amen